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It’s not really weird but I think it’s kind of a nice storyOne of the kids' rooms has a shelf going all around the top edge, and when my kid was putting stuff up there they found a letter from the previous kid. The letter welcomed them to the room etc and asked them to take special care of a rose bush in the front yard that was their special rose bush. My kid thought it was really cool to have that connection with the previous kid.
Not weird but sort of touching.The house was about 100 years old. After moving in I went up to the attic which was a bit difficult to access. I wasn’t sure what I would find.All that was there was a shoebox. An old brand; anyone else here remember Red Goose shoes?In it was “stuff,” a couple of old Army patches, a scout knife, some rock n roll buttons and a couple of letters.From the letter I got a name and looked him up. He lived a town over. I called him and told him if he’d like it to come and get it.So a 60ish guy showed up. He was really appreciative. The patches and the letter were from his older brother. He said he was about 12 and used to hang out in the attic and hide his stuff.It was nice to reunite the box with it’s owner.
Before I met her, my wife got a call from someone she worked with saying they’d just bought an old house and in the city, and in it was a steamer trunk with her family name (not a common one) carved into the woodwork on one end.As it turns out, it was the trunk that her great grandfather used when he came over from Germany, and it made the trip to my wife’s hometown when he met her great grandmother on a visit, and subsequently moved to her city to marry her. We now have it and it’s full of family portraits and albums.
Lived here 3 years, slowly renovating it since it seemly hadn’t been touched since the 80s.Got a new kitten this year and she was trouble. Always getting places she shouldn’t.She got in a closet under the stairs, and behind a piece of drywall. Couldn’t coax her out, so I just pulled the drywall down, and found her standing on a few old boxes.Pulled them out, and it ended up being around $10k of silver and old coins that it seems were put there in the 90s and forgotten about.
My ex wife found ( behind a drawer in a built in cupboard) a lovely lock box contains several nice pocket watches and family heirlooms- the great part was that with a little sleuthing, we found the son of the man who originally built that house and re-United these items to the family - it was a wonderful experience from start to finish
Not really weird but they left a typed out and printed note about the house and how to take care of it. Detailing all the plant life in the backyard and how to prep for the winter. Described how to take care of the hot tub and gave random tid bits about the electrical.They were good people lol
Not my house, but the school my friend worked at.A pipe had leaked and ruined a wall in the building, one of the oldest schools in the city. It was a beautiful property. Anyways the pipe leaked so they pulled down the ruined wall and behind the wall found a door.A fully furnished apartment was there. Had a coal burning stove to heat it. Early 1900s appliances and decor. It was for the caretaker of the school.
The acerage my wife and I moved to 3 years ago had a bucket full of wrapped dinosaur bones. Took them to our local museum where they confirmed they are roughly 68 million years old. Hadrosaur. Pretty cool.
A glass bowl. It was kind of pretty, with horizontal blue stripes.We kept fruit in it. We thought about dropping it off at the local charity shop, but never got around to it.Then one day I was at an antique fair and I saw for sale glass bowls that looked almost identical to ours. I went home to get my bowl and brought it to be assessed.Turns out it was a vintage Orrefors crystal bowl. The assessor valued it at around $800.We no longer keep fruit in it.
$1200 in cash above the door on the inside the closet. I found it while painting.
we bought the house from the CEO of the company which we franchise from. It was her childhood home where her mother lived til the day she died. In true rich person fashion, they didn’t care to clean out the house before selling it. Just told us we can do whatever we want with the old lady stuff that was there.We found a hidden box of spicy letters, from the old lady to her affair partner spanning many years. That was fun to give to the CEO.
First time I took a hot shower in our new home. The steam covered the mirror, only to reveal the phrase “HELLO, I SEE YOU” in large finger drawn writing.It freaked me out for a second, but made me laugh soon after that.It was such an inconspicuous yet obvious thing to leave for the new homeowner (me).
Tucked away in a crawl space under the kitchen, the previous owner placed a dummy with a horrifying Halloween mask on it. Went in to replace a pipe and had to replace my undies.
My wife and I bought a house shortly after we were married in the early 80s. Cleaning before we moved in we found a WW2 inflatable life raft with a water desalination drinking kit; rolls of green grave grass (the stuff they put around open graves in cemeteries so your feet don’t get muddy); bins of beads to make rosaries; amateur paintings of Jesus that were nailed to the wall in the attic (nailed not hung); a grenade casually forgotten behind tools on a shelf in the back shed; an old broken cedar hope chest filled with the cut off bottoms of hundreds of denim jean legs; a child’s potty chair (filled with old poop) hidden under a built in bench in the dining room.These are only the things that came to mind first. As you can imagine, we got a pretty good deal on the house. It was worth the small cost of renting the dumpster, calling the police bomb squad and the hassle of selling some of the artifacts.Oh! When we pulled up the carpet in the living room a few years later we discovered the floor beneath it was custom linoleum tile inlaid with geometric shapes depicting soccer players and soccer balls. 🤷🏻♂️
A diary of an American soldier in WW-II, South Pacific Theater. Found it above a door when remodeling 20+ years ago. My wife and I tried everything we could think of to find a descendant, but to no avail.
4 original Disney animation cels from Snow White (1937) the first full length animated movie. The most valuable one being an oversized master cel used as a background for the smaller cels to be photographed over. While the overall price at auction for original Disney cels has for some reason dropped over the past 40 years at one time about 25 years ago the 4 I bought with my house were worth around $60K. I display them in my new house after selling the one I found them in. I love them and will leave them to my kids who should really appreciate them during and after their 2037 centennial when their value should skyrocket.
An entire tribe of raccoons living in the attic.
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Wasn’t a purchase, but I was showing a house to a couple and we couldn’t believe the reported square footage. It looked like a nice 1700 sq ft house in a semi rural community, but the square footage on the listing said about 4,500. I was sure it was a typo. Turns out most of it was basement. Think Buffalo Bill’s basement that just goes on and on with random rooms. Place was vacant, lighting wasn’t great, and we get to a dead end room down there and turn on the lights and there is this porcelain doll just chilling in the middle of the room. Only thing left in the house. Husband yells, “f**k this” and we all run out. We ruled out that whole neighborhood as an option, for reasons.
We bought a house being foreclosed on. We gave him an extra month after closing and 2k to help with his move. Still had to have the sheriff come remove him. Any who, was doing some cleanup and remodeling before we moved in. Whole house was carpeted. When I started ripping it out there was a giant blood stain that started in a downstairs spare bedroom that then trailed up to the master bath where there was another stain. His wife had left him so I had to call the realtor to find out if anyone knew where she was. Turns out he had shot a deer in the yard and gutted it in the house. What a hassle. Had to rip up and install new subfloors. My vegan ex wife was not thrilled.
We bought a house that has scrabble tiles in the most weird places.In the gutter, redoing the garden, they’re buried and scattered there, they’re embedded into the skirting boards, under the kitchen units, and even behind the bath panel when I replaced it. I’ve yet to go in the attic, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I found a few there. It has become a little joke between me and my partner when we will next find some scrabble tiles.Its probably not the most weird, but it did give us a chuckle as to why there were so many scrabble tiles hidden about the place.
Probably buried at this point… but I chopped off the tip of my thumb w an axe, and kept the tip of it in a small plastic jar (think urinalysis jar) that the hospital gave me. I put it in my freezer and kept it there for about 4 years.When I moved out I got three states away in a U-Haul when I went 😳We left the fingerI can only imagine the new owners surprise
Wasn’t me but a buddy of mine found an unlocked safe full of gold coins worth $6k in the floor of his garage. It was like a Reddit wet dream.Worst part about it was that he was already well off after inheriting his wife’s family business and my wife and I were super broke, struggling to save for our own home. He was like…“Yeah we blew it all on new furniture.” Not that we expected any of the money, but man sometimes it feels like the universe just throws money at rich people.
A basement room that was fully decked out as a “dungeon.” Faux stone walls, a stocks (like where you lock your head and hands in ala ye olde England), candle scones on the walls, a metal-barred cage in the corner from floor to ceiling. Oh and the closet had a load of toys, some normal, some….not so typical.
We had our air ducts cleaned before we moved in. They also inspected them with a camera. Someone wrote “F**k You” deep inside one of the ducts. We thought it was hilarious.
Some 1937 children’s gas masks in boxes. Including one with my name written on it!!
My parents house. A previous owner fancied himself a DIY guy we think. First week we’re in the house we call an electrician to get Economy 7 installed. He shuts off all the breakers, questions why the house hasn’t burned down, and wonders how the hell the house passed inspection. So, two weeks into our new house they have to get the whole place rewired for a small fortune. Over the last 40 years it seems every time they renovate something new and interesting thing shows up. Recently the kitchen sink kept clogging. After a brief search we found the drain was routed under the kitchen floor and concreted over. It had finally cracked under the weight and was leaking into the foundations.
- The previous owners had cut the main beam holding up the second floor in order to run a heating duct. “What’s this big block of wood? No idea, hand me the reciprocating saw.” Surprise!* The walls were insulated with black paper and newspapers from 1922, and included an article on the church down the road - was it the priest’s job to be entertaining and put bums in seats, or was it people’s moral duty to show up even if the sermon was boring? The church turned into a daycare, and was then torn down to make way for townhouses, so I guess we know how that one turned out.
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A friend bought a house that had a zig zag tunnel leading to a bomb shelter. Empty with some rust, it was otherwise just a dirty room. The only thing cool about it is was that it was built under a pond so it had a skylight to let in light. She boarded it up when she divided the house into apartments.
Found a manuscript about an uncle who takes his young niece in after her parents die. Then they fall in love. It was so so so so badly written and disturbing. We also found a giant dildo, a photo of an all man thruple glamor shot style and a love letter written on college letterhead to a thirteen year old girl. All in the same attic! East Nashville.
The house we moved into in the 70s was one where it had been added on to a couple times and the exterior remodeled to look consistent. But the original part dated to the mid 1700s. Deep in the basement crawl space under the old part there was a short bricked up protuberance attached to the wall with the letters RIP chiseled into the top. We used to joke about it until we found out it had been a place where midwives delivered babies at one point. Then the jokes got a little macabre.
Not weird but behind the hot water tank was a hand written I love you from the husband to wife. :)
A 90s AM/FM radio with a Backstreet Boys cassette tape in it. I felt like I found an ancient relic when I came across that thing. I still have it.
Phone sockets EVERYWHERE. It was a 2 up 2 down house with a truly excessive number of phone sockets and some in weird places like above the kitchen door or in the attic, which was not even not finished as rooms but had no ladder and wasn’t even boarded, just rafters. Why? The house had no alarm system or anything like that that might need phone sockets. There was absolutely no logical reason we could see for some of those placements. Like the one above the kitchen door wouldn’t have made any sense at all to plug into a phone or other device with what was surrounding it.Was someone making secret landline calls perched on a rafter in the attic….?(I also found multiple packets of corn and bunion treatments behind the kick boards in the kitchen.)
4" screws and nails used to secure everything. It’s as though they bought a bucket of them and just had to use them everywhere. Big or small projects, everything was screwed or nailed together with 4" screws and nails.
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