A website has been launched in the US where householders and renters can check whether their home has a deadly history.

The site Diedinhouse.com allows residents to enter their home address and discover whether someone died inside and under what circumstances.

Users get a series of instant reports stating previous people associated with the property and whether they are dead or alive. If they are dead – if records are available – it will give details on how and when they died. Reports cost around £7 ($12) a time but are cheaper if more searches are performed.

Diedinhouse.com currently has more than 118 million public and private records and it is expected to grow even further in the next few years.

Some records date back to the 1800s and 1940s but the majority are from the 80s.

Roy Condrey, the website’s founder and president, told Daily News: ‘Before you bought a house, would you want them to disclose that there was a murder-suicide in that house?’

He explained the case of Catrina McGraw, a woman in Missouri who was watching a documentary about a serial Killer only to realise that she lived in his former torture dungeon.