Dawn Of The Dead Neighbors: Real Estate Site Shows Where They Lie

NEW YORK – It's not just sky-high rents, noisy neighbors and safety violations that are spooking New Yorkers entering the city's terrifying housing market. There's also the high chance that your neighbors are dead.

Just in time for Halloween, the real estate data website Localize.city has rolled out a new category in its entries - it now tells users if their potential new home is near a cemetery.

"In a city as densely populated as NYC, living near a cemetery is going to be inevitable for some of us," a spokesperson for the website said.

"Some cemeteries such as Green-Wood in Brooklyn can be easily spotted (and confused with a park), but others like the Second Cemetery of Shearith Israel are easily missed, tucked in between apartment buildings on 11th Street near Sixth Avenue."

Now anybody using Localize.city to find a home will be told if the address is close to a burial ground. Listings will also tell searchers if their homes have a spooky history, such as entries for Edgar Allan Poe’s old residences and the Chelsea Hotel.

“Some people think paranormal is a joke, but others swear by it," said Steve Kalifowitz, Localize.city's president.

Apparently the chances of living next to a cemetery are pretty high – Queens has more dead bodies than living, according to Localize.city. And many of the graveyards are in small, ancient plots that aren't marked.

Washington Square Park, for example, was once the site of public hangings and has 20,000 bodies buried there.