Haunted addresses on record in North Dakota
What North Dakota requires
North Dakota is described by real estate sources as a 'buyer beware' state when it comes to a home's history: a death, a crime, or a haunted reputation is not something a seller or agent is required to volunteer, and an agent generally can't bring it up at all without the seller's permission. That silence is not a license to lie — if you ask directly, the seller is still expected to answer honestly. No North Dakota-specific statute number for this exact rule could be verified, so treat this as consistent secondary-source guidance rather than a confirmed citation.
Multiple real estate disclosure guides describe North Dakota as a buyer-beware jurisdiction for stigmatized property: facts about deaths, crimes, or alleged hauntings on a property are not required to be disclosed to a buyer. The same sources note that a real estate agent or broker can only disclose that kind of information if the seller authorizes it — the agent has no independent duty (or right) to bring it up on their own.
No death-disclosure time window (like California's) turned up in these sources for North Dakota — there's no set number of years after which a death must be revealed. The pattern described is simple non-disclosure protection rather than a disclosure-after-X-years rule.
North Dakota's actual seller disclosure statute, N.D. Cent. Code § 47-10-02.1, requires sellers of most 1-4 unit residential properties to give buyers a written disclosure of material facts that could adversely affect an ordinary buyer's use and enjoyment of the property — but as verified from the statute's own text, it's framed around physical condition (latent defects, structural, mechanical, environmental issues), not psychological stigma. It doesn't appear to be a dedicated 'stigmatized property' statute; the buyer-beware treatment of hauntings/deaths described above seems to rest on the absence of any law requiring that disclosure, not on an explicit carve-out provision. Some general commentary on North Dakota home sales also notes that sellers still have to answer buyers' direct questions truthfully and can face misrepresentation exposure for knowingly lying about a known issue, though this wasn't confirmed specifically in the stigma/death context for North Dakota.
No North Dakota case comparable to New York's Stambovsky v. Ackley ('Ghostbusters ruling') turned up in this research.
General information, not legal advice. Laws change and turn on details — for a real decision, talk to a licensed professional in North Dakota.
The North Dakota record is waiting
No entries filed from North Dakota yet. If something happened at an address you know, write it down — you may be the reason the next resident feels less alone at 3 AM.