Most of us feel like our homes are sanctuaries, a castle or fort where we can be comfortable and do things our way. Naturally, one’s home is the perfect place to reveal all of your intricacies andidiosyncrasies. So exploring someone else’s home is a unique and interesting way to see who they truly are.Someone asked“People who go to others' homes for work, what is the weirdest thing you have seen?” and netizens shared their most bizarre discoveries. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to comment your own thoughts and experiences below.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Most of us feel like our homes are sanctuaries, a castle or fort where we can be comfortable and do things our way. Naturally, one’s home is the perfect place to reveal all of your intricacies andidiosyncrasies. So exploring someone else’s home is a unique and interesting way to see who they truly are.
Someone asked“People who go to others' homes for work, what is the weirdest thing you have seen?” and netizens shared their most bizarre discoveries. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to comment your own thoughts and experiences below.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Electrician here. Was wiring a new room when I stumbled upon a secret door. Behind it? A small, fully decked-out disco room—mirror ball, neon lights, the works, all crammed into a space no bigger than a closet. The homeowner just winked and said, ‘Every house needs a little secret party spot.’ I’ve seen a lot of odd things, but that secret disco takes the cake. Made me wish I brought my dancing shoes to work.
Large bee hive in a bedroom. It was inside the home and on the outside. Bedroom door was closed and owner said it’s the bee’s room now.
I used to do on-site tech support for an internet service provider. Both of my instances involved animals. One was a goat that was a “house pet” and chewed up the hem of my pants as I worked. The other was 2 pet chinchillas, which I was encouraged to interact with (they were so soft!). On the drive home, my eyes started pouring water and eventually swelled shut. I had to pull over, flush them with water, and wait it out. Turns out I’m extremely allergic to chinchillas.
A ladder outside leading up to a small window in the attic. That’s where his family of pet raccoons lived. The raccoons were using the ladder.
Went to an apartment building to do a structural assessment of the property. When it was completed we were asked to go to an apartment where a tenant was complaining of extreme humidity in every type of weather, even though nobody else on the floor, or the ones above or below complained of anything.So we get in there and are instantly punched in the face with humidity. We’re talking rainy season in the Amazon levels of humidity. I have never experienced anything like it before. There was water droplets on every surface of the apartment. She has been pretty diligent at trying to keep the walls and stuff dry, but she was like 80 years old and you’d walk through and the carpet was just like squish squish squish with water pooling around your shoes.She had this sliding door that opened up to her balcony and from all the water dripping down it onto that section of the carpet there was a mushroom forest. We’re talking like dozens and dozens of mushrooms ranging from 2" tall to 2' tall. Just insane to see.So we start looking around and pretty quickly see the problem. The lady was too elderly to go down to the bottom floor to do her laundry every time she needed to wash something, which apparently was multiple times a day. So she asked her son to install a washer and dryer in her apartment. First it was against the rules of the tenancy agreement, but he also did a horrible s**t job. There was no place for the dryer to vent out anywhere, so in his infinite wisdom he took a big bucket, filled it with water, and then put the hose for the dryer vent into the bucket for some reason. She would fill up this bucket with the drain water from the washer as the hot air bubbled through it throughout the day just unleashing buckets of humid water into the air. So you have this massive bucket, that was pretty much a trough, taking up 3/4 of her closet with this washer dryer setup taking up the remaining space.She created thousands and thousands of dollars in damage to the apartment. The whole flooring system had to be ripped out and removed. A lot of other things had to be ripped out too. I think all of her furniture was water damaged and swollen and started to get moldy after the washer and dryer were removed, same with a lot of her clothing and bedding/mattress as well. So she was out like $20,000 because her renters insurance does not cover willful ignorance that causes destruction of property and belongings.
Went to install a new furnace in a house. Found a sprinkler head attached to a live gas line.
When I did a home visit for a lady with dementia with her husband, I noted their bedroom door was very unusual. It was split in half horizontally so that you could shut the door fully, or just the bottom half on separate hinges. He explained that she would become more confused in the evenings (‘sundowning’). It was to stop her from wandering out of the house while he was making dinner, but she would still be able to see out and talk to the family, and he could keep an eye on her. It reminded me of a horse stable door, never knew what to think of it.
Deliverer of Pizza here, delivered probably 20 pizzas to a motel room, thing was it was just one dude there and a whole lot of sexual paraphernalia scattered around the room, he also answered the door wearing nothing but cheetah print undies, that image will forever be burnt into my retinas. 🫠.
A 15 foot wide, 10 ft high nude oil painting.Customer: “You like it?”Me: “Uh, yeah…it’s a nice painting.”Him: “That’s my wife. She’s on her way now, she’ll be here soon.”I then sat with the two of them for an hour, having a coffee right beside this massive nude painting, trying not to look at it or his wife.
A client naked; I was a dog walker. I actually thought she was a beautiful statue until she moved and screamed. The next day she apologized, but I told her it was okay and I thought they had bought a new statue. She was disabled, and myself being a woman, we had a nice laugh and I’m sure she appreciated the compliment.
Oddly large amount of blood, like suspiciously larger than a shaving nick or a nose bleed in and around a bathroom sink and floor, with a blood soaked swiffer pad in the trash.Empty crib except a Chucky plushie.Tons of empty syringes in the garbage can. Asked the client if he was sure he wanted them mixed in with the regular outside trash or if he had a container for them. I just assumed diabetic. Until he got all weird and muttered “nah, nah, just toss em, just get rid of em”.Fully carpeted home, bathrooms included, with extra mats in front of every toilet, tub, sink, fridge, microwave, stove, couch, chair, cabinet etc. Carpets on carpets on carpets.V******r next to a jar of mayonnaise on the kitchen counter.ETA: these are all different houses. Sorry, should’ve specified that lol.
Used to deliver furniture in college. Someone had us deliver a bunk bed to their basement … coitus dungeon.
I nannied for a family who was going through some serious s**t behind the scenes, and it got weird for me so often. They had 2 kids, a 1.5 year old girl and a 3 year old boy. The mom, a doctor, would come home from work and lock herself in her room for hours while the kids banged on the door and cried for her. The dad, also a doctor, also locked himself in his office a lot and would make me be the go-between for his wife and himself. There was one morning he asked her what was for dinner tonight, and she burst into tears, pulled him behind a door and furiously started whispering stuff, came back in the room, flung something out of the freezer, and stormed out. Nothing was normal in that house. The secret lives of rich people, eh?
I’m a window cleaner, it’s a luxury service so most of our clients are fairly well off. I don’t know if it is weird but people like to test us. I’ve seen a literal chest full of cash open on someones bed. They knew we were coming, it had to be intentional. I ignored it, but some might be tempted. I’ve seen some pipes and other d**g paraphernalia but nothing too crazy.
A pet Racoon but it wasn’t exactly a pet more like a wild animal they forced to live with them. They even said as much- he showed up on their porch and they let him in and decided he was cute enough to stay… it was mean and I wouldn’t go anywhere near it.
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Used to do construction sales and would be in a handful of houses every week. Weirdest for me was the number of preppers—we’re talking basements piled with emergency food in buckets, guns everywhere, stockpiles of wood and random supplies. At least one house a week would be like that. Still makes me look at people differently.
Summer 1997 working for a moving company for the summer. Old head mover guy says to me “the kinky st is always in the instrument cases.” We carried a bunch of stuff up to the master BR, he pops a trombone case….no trombone but cuffs, ds, v***s, VHS pn. That guy knew the way.
Honestly during my time I don’t recall seeing anything “weird” but I saw things that appalled me. Like a sweet cat being so obese he couldn’t even stand. And just crazy levels of filth. These were very wealthy people too with extremely nice homes.One home had gross black marks ALL OVER every single wall. I asked what it was and was told it was dog slobber from their dog shaking his head and slinging it everywhere. And they didn’t even require us to clean it, they just live with dog slobber on the walls. .
We are auctioneers. We went to a house once where there was no water. The back porch was filled with five gallon buckets that were what he used as a toilet. The house was going to be put on the market. I have no idea what they did with all those buckets. We did not do an auction.
Locked bedroom of wall-to-wall shelves and bins full of a large collection of dolls. Mainly the kind that they make horror movies about.
Oh man I delivered and installed artwork and many clients were mega wealthy. One guy had a huge property that would make Alex jones drool. It had an actual alter with two stone pillars covered in plastic and a huge pyramid built out of stones from the area. Either the guy thought it was funny or he was top tier Illuminati. Not making this up.
A jar full of bed bugs.
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I used to do white glove tech delivery. One guy, probably 50’s was super chill and nice. But I walk in and his living room set up was two industrial massage chairs like you used to see in malls, a massive tv, and two Santa mannequins, one white and one black. In his dinning room he had three old Fredrick’s Of Hollywood mannequins with giant fake b***s and wigs on, as well as two other random store mannequins. He told me he collects mannequins.
Couple years back we found a child coffin in an attic behind a kneewall that had no door leading to it. Same year another woman had the blanks for a child coffin in her deceased husbands workshop.
When I was a Poolman, I walked through a backyard to a pool once and saw the owner clapping his wife via my peripherals.I came at the same day of the week, same time for over a year, so I don’t think it was accidental.Got a great bonus that Christmas.
A sensory deprivation coffin-like thing. Florida is weird.
Interior designer - did a consult for a fine artist - every single wall was covered (12ft ceilings) with oil paintings of barely-legal girls with their legs open. Stacked against the walls - 4-5 deep. Every.single one. Had their legs spread. He had skills but damn….
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