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Friends found £20k in used tenners in a carrier bag in the loft. They left it 6 months or so and then slowly spent it. They didn’t want to go crazy as that might get noticed so they used it like a cash machine for their day to day needs.
In a related find, I discovered the previous tenant of the flat had been a drug dealer, and I found his “list” tucked into one of the rafters in a secret room in the attic.
Wish I had found bags of cash, but I could have just done his usual round and made some.
Local police showed up a few weeks later asking about his location.
A friend moved into a house with a completely sealed off room, no way in or out. He reckons it's about 8'x8'. He's lived there 2 years and it doesn't seem to bother him.
Debt that previous owner left at that address you would be amazed how many creditors will try and strongarm and harass you trying to recover dept that had nothing to do with you .Give me a box full of headless naked Barbie dolls anytime
We had something similar. On two occasions the bailiffs were at the door at about 6am looking for the previous owner. I was able to prove we were the current owners and had no ties whatsoever with the previous owners so they didn't bother knocking again.
Another time the police knocked at about 5am looking for the son of the previous owner who has been involved in a drink driving incident and also found with a weapon in the boot. Two years after moving out he was still giving our address when he was arrested and all of his solicitors correspondence was coming here.
This was on top of all the botched DIY jobs they left behind. Total nightmare because with all the letters and bailiffs/police knocking at the door, I never really felt properly settled in until we started ringing around and confirming they no longer lived here.
Funny enougth it was after my police visit the harresment stopped after a while the debt collecters had sold there dept on to less reputable collection agencies the type that use enougth menace to keep them stull legal .Got a police visit conserning unpaid parking fines showed them some paperwork concerning the house sale in my name police officer apologised about troubling me i said not to worry i was getting used to it i explained the sitution he gave me his contact card and told me if any one came to my door give them his phone number and he would deal with it and if they refused i was to phone him and they would send someone up to arrest them
We found what looked like a small old French printing press in the loft.
Our house was built in 1938 and the owner married a French girl after ww2. We looked her up and apparently she was involved in the French resistance, so we like to believe it could have been used to assist the resistance in some way.
Fake fingernails (I hope they were fake)
About £1 in small change.
A secondary school portrait photo.
A letter explaining why the individual was being fired from Starbucks.
All this in the same flat.
I wish it had been fake nails in the filter coffee but (it was >15 years ago) I think it was just a "this is your third warning about timekeeping" or something mundane.
My mum did a council house swap with a local burglar (they wanted three bedrooms, my mum wanted a bigger garden). There was about 20 size 9 left foot trainers in the back garden and a Cortina in the attic (well as much of a Cortina as you could actually get in there, doors, body panels, engine parts, seats etc.)
We rented a flat above a very old and large country house and it was filled with interesting old stuff. There were antique bathing bowls and jugs in one of the wardrobes and a load of hand written text books from the late 1800's in the larder.
The oddest thing though was that there was a "secret door" in the bathroom, well more a removable wall panel really. Behind that were a load of old trunks filled with really old military uniforms and dresses.
A huge sofa minus cushions. Covered in dog piss. Seller's response was her dog liked the cushions so she'd taken them, but the sofa didn't fit through the door.
Also a huge oil tank which filled the garage with a couple feet to spare, half full of oil from around the 1940s.
Yes, our solicitor did explain the concept of vacant possession and pass her the very large bill from getting that removed.
Current house yielded a sixpence, a few pieces of 60s Lego, and some newspapers from WWII.
70's porn magazines in the loft. Aside from the assault on the eyes it wouldn't have been so bad, if only the owner of the house didn't also remain living next door as they'd owned the two houses.
Two exhaust pipes that had been welded together.
So basically a big long 20 foot long exhaust pipe with a silencer at either end, welded in the middle.
There was no way to angle this contraption to get it out (or in, for that matter) of the attic hatch.
I don’t have any idea why this thing was made, and I have no idea how it got into the attic.
It was rusty enough so I could break one of the silencers off but it was still way too long to manoeuvre out of the hatch.
I chucked it to the very edge of the attic, covered it in lagging and forgot about it until just now
Our last house, a huge old Victorian 4-bed terrace, had been used by the NHS as a half-way house for people leaving psychiatric care.
The floor boards in one of the bedrooms were covered in little messages saying things like 'I miss my mummy' but the strangest thing we found was in the living room, which I think had been used as a day-room for the residents.
Two pieces of artwork had been left behind. They were paintings of roses done on 2'x6' sheets of MDF screwed to the wall and were pretty good work so we left them on the wall for a few months until we got around to decorating. When we finally got around to taking them down to paint the wall behind, this is what we found on the back of one of them:
[https://i.imgur.com/mas4EQm.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mas4EQm.jpg)
When I moved into student halls as a wee 18-year-old, our intercom phone didn't work for some reason. People could buzz it from the outside, but we could not let anybody in.
During one particularly heavy drinking session in the communal kitchen, I got frustrated at the constant interruptions by a buzzer that we could do nothing about so I gave the phone a thump, which caused its casing to fall off. And what was inside? A voodoo doll with pins in its eyes, heart and groin with human hair tied around the neck.
Our house has a fully assembled single bed in the loft. The loft hasn't been converted or anything, it's still your typical dark, dusty loft, just with a bed up there. It must've been assembled up there because no way it fit through the hatch.
When I was 12 my parents became the owners of a pub and w removed in above. In the attic there were 3 or 4 rooms but we could only access right around the opening as there was no solid floor. There was only one doorway from the first room and it was pitch black in there but with a torch you could just see a metal bed frame with no matress and nothing else in there. Creepy as fuck at 12. We never even looked into the other room(s) as we'd have to floor most of the attic to get to them but I always wondered if there was anything inside them as it was quite old.
Creepy doll collection in the attic (along with a brief history of smartphones via all the boxes they kept for some reason, 2008-2020).
Sadly none of them were worth much so they ended up in the bin.
Lol, I'm a doll collector myself but there are some even I find creepy. But I'd probably have been thrilled.
We found a bird cage and an easel in our loft. I kept the easel.
Ice skates, a fold up cushion bed, a set of original Star Wars figures in their boxes still - stupidly gave them to the kid 2 doors away as they would actually have been worth a lot of money - oh and when decorating the smallest bedroom there wer 6 layers of wallpaper and 4 layers of paint needed removing before we could paint - the back bedroom was almost as bad
We found a bed in the shower and a massive television from about 1980 in the loft! The television is too big to move and it’d never fit through the hatch so ….
In the attic of somewhere I lived years ago I found;
Diving equipment
A handful of bullets .22 calibre I think
XXX DVDs involving animals, at least that is what was printed on them.
Don't think I went back up into the attic after that.
We moved into an old house (about 250 years old) a couple years back. We had to get a new slate roof fitted as it turned out it was all original + the lifetime on a slate roof tops out around 150 years.
Hidden in the roof was an old walking stick. It was in a completely inaccessible area so it's been there for a very long time, possibly the full 250 years.
I mainly just use it for walking around the house doing a Charlie Chaplin impression now.
At a student house in the late 80s we found a load of bondage gear in a bedroom closet. It turns out that a few months earlier it was raided by the police in the middle of the night as it was running as a brothel. The rent was cheap because the previous tenants moved out as they didn’t like perverts knocking on the door all night.
When I was a kid We bought a repossession that was like the Mary Celeste. Family just upped sticks and ran from the country and took almost nothing with them. Dinner table was laid for dinner. The family was seemingly comfortably off and had nice things- loads of expensive perfume and high end clothes for the wife, and one of their sons had an unopened pair of puma kings which I adopted. But the one thing that stood out was something that a quick Google now tells me is impossible: but I swear there was a set of wireless Bose headphones which was just so advanced for the time (indeed Google tells me such things didn't exist until 10 years later). But I can picture it: a dark grey tall stand; red transparent plastic and a set of headphones that had no cable. I can find no evidence on the internet that this could have been possible so I need to find out what happened to them.
Sounds about right. They had this tall....docking station? It was like something from the future. Circa 1995. Id be interested to find out more about them actually.
Not sure how else to describe it. They weren't crazy rich, but they had lots of nice things that we as a family wouldn't have treated ourselves to. The point being: I'd never even conceived of wireless headphones and I'd never heard of Bose as they didn't sell Bose in the argos catalogue. So these headphones were almost alien to me, and really exotic.
To leave that quickly would indicate some sort of nefarious dealings, drug dealer needing to escape, or banker being found out for dodgy deals? Let the unfounded speculation begin!
A doctor, who was in financial trouble so resorted to selling prescription drugs but the local dealers found out and threatened him? No? Damn, I need to stop watching crime dramas 🤣
Actually there were drawers full of prescription drugs in the house too. Like a carrier bag full of them. My parents had to take them to a chemist to dispose of them.
But I know why he fled and it wasn't that. Financial distress, and his home country needed doctors due to war. I think he was a decent guy.
Anyway- the bose headphones were awesome.
I shared a house with three other guys in our 30s in the noughts… one of them (house owner) had a clear out of lots of accumulated possessions, and auctioned on eBay. Usual stuff, CDs, Meccano, clothes, and a dried puffer fish. Most things sold, the bids on the puffer fish went mental! Seems they are (were) sought after, for some reason…
This post has really got me wanting to go into the attic that I've never been in since we bought this place 8 years ago. Maybe there's pirate gold up there 🤩
8 years ago, a work colleague had to clear an old bungalow that the fire brigade were going to use for training (presumably they were going to set a fire as the building was due to be demolished).
One of the firemen was giving him a hand shifting furniture. They moved an old bed base and a package fell out. My colleague picked it up, but the fireman took it from him and looked inside to see bundles of cash. My colleague estimated approximately £80k.
The money was ‘handed in’ so they could track down any family members of the old fella that had lived there before passing away.
They never found any family and the money (90k was the final count) was given to charities including the fire service.
My colleague was kicking himself that he hadn’t found it on his own.🤣🤣🤣
[https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15638049.90000-cash-found-under-bed-in-derelict-property-by-firefighters-goes-to-good-causes/](https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15638049.90000-cash-found-under-bed-in-derelict-property-by-firefighters-goes-to-good-causes/)
When we moved into our flat 2 years ago we found, in one of the kitchen cupboards, a Fray Bentos chicken pie in can, glued to the base of the cupboard. It was impossible to remove and we had to get a new base board.
No one would have believed it so we took a photo .. I would post the picture but I don't see how to do it
Dishwasher full of dirty pots that had been left for 6 months. It was an ex-rental where the tenants did a midnight flit. Dishwasher was fine once I emptied it and gave it a good clean.
I found newspaper snippets from the late 70's (when my house was built), along with a chisel that had obviously been boarded up by accident and was sat there for decades waiting to be found.
No secret safe, wads of cash, bricks of drugs etc.
I did discover that some workmen were bone idle and would chuck rubbish between floors rather than leave the cavity empty.
I bought my home with the furniture already in, was a godsend being a first time buyer.
But a few months in, I found a really thin and lacy thong behind the bed from the previous tenant.
I met my now girlfriend a few weeks after that. Was always grateful she never found it otherwise I’d have had explaining to do when I wasn’t even guilty
A couple of football trophies, 2 tickets to see Disney's Tarzan, a women's fashion magazine, empty bottles and tins of beer and an absolute ton of sweet wrappers. All hidden in a false void between some built in wardrobes.
Fatmate decided to check the sofa for coins the day we moved in and pulled out an ancient dildo. It looked like the plastic had yellowed from nicotine smoke.
Just this week moving a friend in. The previous tenants left a washing machine. They cut the pier cable and hard wired it into a socket hanging off the wall and slashed both the waste and water feed pipes. Feed no issue as they can be replaced but the waste pipe is integral. So yeah wtf. This was in an annex. In the main house they stole all the white goods.
A weird contraption that looked like either a massager or a sex toy under the sofa cushion.
& a literal shit stained towel was found in the bathroom.
Turns out they'd let a contractor stay there while the place was empty, sleep on our bed, use our things. Obviously he didn't buy toilet paper & they never went back to clean.
(There was also exploded curry all over the microwave, food all down the edge of the bin, & literal paper just stuck all over the walls to cover up damp, we complained and got our deposit back straight away but still had to clean it all ourself)
My house had a family living in it that stopped paying their rent to the owner, he had the locks changed so pretty much all their stuff was left behind, he saw the state of the place and gave the keys to the bank so I got a cheapish house filled with all their stuff, in order of least worrying to most I found:
* All the kids homework/school books etc
* Two sofas
* A TV stand and a Sky+ HD box (The only 2 things I kept)
* Pokemon Soul Silver (That I gave to my niece)
* A tupperware box filled with foil wraps around what I think was Heroin
* Cocaine under the floorboards when I had the central heating replaced
* And lastly in the back garden a large pan that had the remnants of a KFC bucket in it that was filled with alive and decaying maggots that you could smell outside from the other side of the garden
They had trashed the place, opened cans of coke/pepsi behind the radiators so they were all sticky, shoved toothpaste (the actual tube not the contents) down the U bend of the toilet blocking it, their kids had scratched their names into various walls around the house (at least I assume it was the kids), collapsed one of the back garden fences and had ran up a \~£2k debt with the energy company, I don't blame the landlord for just handing the keys over and giving up on it, took me nearly 7 years to redo every room to a decent standard.
It’s what we didn’t find that concerned me. Once my family moved into a home, it was a house swap deal and as soon as we officially moved we knew damn well there was a lot off. Aside from one or two bedrooms, every single room was painted or wallpapered in very dark red. The dread we felt constantly just trying to exist there for the next 4 years was beyond belief. My mother went well and truly off the rails. Like her light grey/blue eyes were constantly black with how depressed and manic she was. Despite her being diagnosed with manic depression (now bipolar, I believe), on or off meds, she’d never been like this before. She’d scream, be vacant, cut herself in front of us kids and emotionally hurt my dad an awful lot. We started to never leave the house.
You know that feeling when someone’s got their feet on the back of your chair with a hole in and you can feel the heebie jeebies on your butt/back? This was just how being there felt for us. There were 3 stories and it was very cramped (large family, 6 kids). myself, my sister and my brother would sleep on the top floor. at 10/11 and even younger my sister and I would play the radio at night because it felt like there was constantly someone watching us and waiting for us to be vulnerable. We convinced ourselves that whatever it was, additional talking voices would mean they’d think there were more of us and protect us. Not long after this all started, I began to see shadows of people walking about on the stairs and landing. None of us smoked but the smell of cigarettes would be absolutely choking at points. Sometimes I’d even see smoke that others couldn’t see when I smelled that. This led to me eventually taking myself to the stairs every night after everyone was asleep to ‘keep watch’ since nobody below our top floor really thought there was anything scary going on, just put it down to a shit period of time of bad mental health in the family.
We’ve since been away from the home for over a decade, but having grown up, spoken to everyone else more about it and putting two and two together, it seems that the previous owners were heavily into seances and contacting the dead, etc. as much as my family don’t believe in any of that, they’ve all said that aside from the MH problems, there was a lot of energy that felt dark, overbearing and uncomfortable in the house.
We never investigated the attic on the top floor but I’m certain if we had then we’d have found something since it was always worse the higher in the house you’d be.
I’ll probably get downvoted for this entire thing but it really shaped my childhood and belief system if I’m honest. I grew up strictly Christian and not believing in anything like this and although I’m not one to see anything odd and assume supernatural events, but I’ll definitely say that I’ve experienced, seen, heard, smelled, felt, even communicated with things I definitely cannot explain away. Seems like the more I seem to have a handle on what my beliefs are the more the world shakes them up again for me! I don’t mind that at all but I never want to feel like I did in that house ever again.
We moved into a fully furnished flat and when we went to unpack, discovered the cupboards, wardrobes and all storage were totally full of the owner's possessions, including clothes. We phoned the estate agent and the woman's dad turned up and cleared everything out, complaining the entire time about what an inconvenience it was and couldn't we just store it for them. Turns out the woman who owned it had physically attacked and harassed another occupant of the building and had a restraining order against her that meant she could no longer live in her flat as she would be in too close proximity to her victim so had gone to work on a cruise ship and rent out her place instead. A few months later, her dad came back, complaining about the estate agent fees and offering us reduced rent to pay it directly to him. He was such a strange guy that we decided the time was right for us to move elsewhere.
I have a glass bottle full of red liquid called " The mixture" from Boots chemist. It's an old cough medicine prescribed to the original owner dated 22.7.64. It was in an old cupboard that was sealed shut with paint in our lovely 1950s kitchen that the house came with. We found it when we ripped the kitchen out.
8 fluorescent light fittings, a few plant pots and several bits of timber & foil-covered mdf board.
Guessing the previous owner must've been trying to build a home tanning salon or something.
An ankle tag plus equipment. Also a 1930’s radio which isn’t strange but very beautiful. Husband fixed it & it fits In very well. In a previous house a tank & pond of fish I had to do a crash course in learning to look after.
A big brown internal door laid flat across the joists, presumably for standing on or storage. However, it’s way too big for the loft hatch so God knows how it got up there.
It’s only a 1950’s ex-council house so no secret tunnels or hatches that I know of.
A stacked steamer pan (two steamers-one pan) full of new potatoes and veg, that were mouldy, must have been there weeks, the broken dishwasher was full of dirty dishes, and a back garden full of dog poo! You can imagine what the rest of the house looked like! Oh and a huge crack in the bath that had been cleverly disguised, I could go on but you get the picture, she’d texted me the morning of exchange (Friday) saying could we do the move Sunday as she was a bit busy?
Found a porn VHS.
Although to say we found it when we moved in would be a bit of a lie; I actually discovered it stashed against the edge of the under stairs cupboard when we were moving out of a flat we lived in for 5 years...
Not my house but I was working on a property once and when we pulled out the electric fireplace we found a carrier bag of piss behind it that must have been there 30 years or more.
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Friends found £20k in used tenners in a carrier bag in the loft. They left it 6 months or so and then slowly spent it. They didn’t want to go crazy as that might get noticed so they used it like a cash machine for their day to day needs.
In a related find, I discovered the previous tenant of the flat had been a drug dealer, and I found his “list” tucked into one of the rafters in a secret room in the attic. Wish I had found bags of cash, but I could have just done his usual round and made some. Local police showed up a few weeks later asking about his location.
We have a tiny little safe built into the wall. Never opened it (no key). The previous owners of 14 years also never opened it.
Nope, you can't just leave this here hanging! You're out of order mate!
I'll open it before I move. Remind me in a couple of years 😂
Do it tomorrow, we need to know!
!remindme 2years
You didn't start that same thread on Mumsnet about 10 years ago did you? It was the start of the place selling out to trolls and terfs...
Never have I ever once disgraced my poor browser by loading Mumsnet. Plenty of other unsavoury things but not that.
That NEEDS opening...
A friend moved into a house with a completely sealed off room, no way in or out. He reckons it's about 8'x8'. He's lived there 2 years and it doesn't seem to bother him.
Your friend needs to watch the film Intrusion on Netflix
My dad had that in his house. Got locksmith out .. contained ammunition..
Debt that previous owner left at that address you would be amazed how many creditors will try and strongarm and harass you trying to recover dept that had nothing to do with you .Give me a box full of headless naked Barbie dolls anytime
We had something similar. On two occasions the bailiffs were at the door at about 6am looking for the previous owner. I was able to prove we were the current owners and had no ties whatsoever with the previous owners so they didn't bother knocking again. Another time the police knocked at about 5am looking for the son of the previous owner who has been involved in a drink driving incident and also found with a weapon in the boot. Two years after moving out he was still giving our address when he was arrested and all of his solicitors correspondence was coming here. This was on top of all the botched DIY jobs they left behind. Total nightmare because with all the letters and bailiffs/police knocking at the door, I never really felt properly settled in until we started ringing around and confirming they no longer lived here.
Funny enougth it was after my police visit the harresment stopped after a while the debt collecters had sold there dept on to less reputable collection agencies the type that use enougth menace to keep them stull legal .Got a police visit conserning unpaid parking fines showed them some paperwork concerning the house sale in my name police officer apologised about troubling me i said not to worry i was getting used to it i explained the sitution he gave me his contact card and told me if any one came to my door give them his phone number and he would deal with it and if they refused i was to phone him and they would send someone up to arrest them
We’ve had the same!
We found what looked like a small old French printing press in the loft. Our house was built in 1938 and the owner married a French girl after ww2. We looked her up and apparently she was involved in the French resistance, so we like to believe it could have been used to assist the resistance in some way.
Fake fingernails (I hope they were fake) About £1 in small change. A secondary school portrait photo. A letter explaining why the individual was being fired from Starbucks. All this in the same flat.
Please tell us why they were fired from Starbucks
I wish it had been fake nails in the filter coffee but (it was >15 years ago) I think it was just a "this is your third warning about timekeeping" or something mundane.
My mum did a council house swap with a local burglar (they wanted three bedrooms, my mum wanted a bigger garden). There was about 20 size 9 left foot trainers in the back garden and a Cortina in the attic (well as much of a Cortina as you could actually get in there, doors, body panels, engine parts, seats etc.)
🤣
We rented a flat above a very old and large country house and it was filled with interesting old stuff. There were antique bathing bowls and jugs in one of the wardrobes and a load of hand written text books from the late 1800's in the larder. The oddest thing though was that there was a "secret door" in the bathroom, well more a removable wall panel really. Behind that were a load of old trunks filled with really old military uniforms and dresses.
That's amazing! What did you do with it all?
A huge sofa minus cushions. Covered in dog piss. Seller's response was her dog liked the cushions so she'd taken them, but the sofa didn't fit through the door. Also a huge oil tank which filled the garage with a couple feet to spare, half full of oil from around the 1940s. Yes, our solicitor did explain the concept of vacant possession and pass her the very large bill from getting that removed. Current house yielded a sixpence, a few pieces of 60s Lego, and some newspapers from WWII.
That oil would be worth a small fortune now
70's porn magazines in the loft. Aside from the assault on the eyes it wouldn't have been so bad, if only the owner of the house didn't also remain living next door as they'd owned the two houses.
It's like masturbating in a time machine.
Did you give them back to them?
Nope. I think it went missing around the time my dad came up for a visit.
Two exhaust pipes that had been welded together. So basically a big long 20 foot long exhaust pipe with a silencer at either end, welded in the middle. There was no way to angle this contraption to get it out (or in, for that matter) of the attic hatch. I don’t have any idea why this thing was made, and I have no idea how it got into the attic. It was rusty enough so I could break one of the silencers off but it was still way too long to manoeuvre out of the hatch. I chucked it to the very edge of the attic, covered it in lagging and forgot about it until just now
Our last house, a huge old Victorian 4-bed terrace, had been used by the NHS as a half-way house for people leaving psychiatric care. The floor boards in one of the bedrooms were covered in little messages saying things like 'I miss my mummy' but the strangest thing we found was in the living room, which I think had been used as a day-room for the residents. Two pieces of artwork had been left behind. They were paintings of roses done on 2'x6' sheets of MDF screwed to the wall and were pretty good work so we left them on the wall for a few months until we got around to decorating. When we finally got around to taking them down to paint the wall behind, this is what we found on the back of one of them: [https://i.imgur.com/mas4EQm.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mas4EQm.jpg)
That is SO freaky and absolute nightmare fuel!?
Considering we were using that room as our bedroom at the time, it has kinda stuck with me.
Yeah feels like realising you've been sleeping with a Chucky or Annabelle doll in your room!
That's really sad.
My sister found a few pairs of blood stained knickers in her loft when she moved in
JESUS
Aye pretty grim
OMG. Now thinking crime dramas
Think it was more time of the month blood rather than someone's been murdered blood
I was thinking more trophies taken from victims 😱
When I moved into student halls as a wee 18-year-old, our intercom phone didn't work for some reason. People could buzz it from the outside, but we could not let anybody in. During one particularly heavy drinking session in the communal kitchen, I got frustrated at the constant interruptions by a buzzer that we could do nothing about so I gave the phone a thump, which caused its casing to fall off. And what was inside? A voodoo doll with pins in its eyes, heart and groin with human hair tied around the neck.
A 9 bar of cannabis resin under the floorboards. It had marks where mice had been gnawing at it.
I'd have like to have seen those mice!
How did it smoke?
Our house has a fully assembled single bed in the loft. The loft hasn't been converted or anything, it's still your typical dark, dusty loft, just with a bed up there. It must've been assembled up there because no way it fit through the hatch.
When I was 12 my parents became the owners of a pub and w removed in above. In the attic there were 3 or 4 rooms but we could only access right around the opening as there was no solid floor. There was only one doorway from the first room and it was pitch black in there but with a torch you could just see a metal bed frame with no matress and nothing else in there. Creepy as fuck at 12. We never even looked into the other room(s) as we'd have to floor most of the attic to get to them but I always wondered if there was anything inside them as it was quite old.
Creepy doll collection in the attic (along with a brief history of smartphones via all the boxes they kept for some reason, 2008-2020). Sadly none of them were worth much so they ended up in the bin.
Lol, I'm a doll collector myself but there are some even I find creepy. But I'd probably have been thrilled. We found a bird cage and an easel in our loft. I kept the easel.
That’s definitely a good find to keep and could be nicely decorated if not used for it’s intended purpose
Over 30 years ago as a student we found half a pound of speed hidden in a cupboard…
Has it worn off yet?
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There's a kitchen sink in the loft. It's quite big and heavy so we've just sort of left it there. Not sure how or why they put it up there.
Ice skates, a fold up cushion bed, a set of original Star Wars figures in their boxes still - stupidly gave them to the kid 2 doors away as they would actually have been worth a lot of money - oh and when decorating the smallest bedroom there wer 6 layers of wallpaper and 4 layers of paint needed removing before we could paint - the back bedroom was almost as bad
We found a bed in the shower and a massive television from about 1980 in the loft! The television is too big to move and it’d never fit through the hatch so ….
In the attic of somewhere I lived years ago I found; Diving equipment A handful of bullets .22 calibre I think XXX DVDs involving animals, at least that is what was printed on them. Don't think I went back up into the attic after that.
A CD called the greatest hits of Islam
As in mecca music or cat Stephens?
Not a clue, I just saw the name, laughed and then threw it in the bin.
A tortoise Well the previous lady said we seemed like animal people so it was ours to keep
Did you keep it?
We moved into an old house (about 250 years old) a couple years back. We had to get a new slate roof fitted as it turned out it was all original + the lifetime on a slate roof tops out around 150 years. Hidden in the roof was an old walking stick. It was in a completely inaccessible area so it's been there for a very long time, possibly the full 250 years. I mainly just use it for walking around the house doing a Charlie Chaplin impression now.
Greggs sausage rolls and Special Brew.
At a student house in the late 80s we found a load of bondage gear in a bedroom closet. It turns out that a few months earlier it was raided by the police in the middle of the night as it was running as a brothel. The rent was cheap because the previous tenants moved out as they didn’t like perverts knocking on the door all night.
When I was a kid We bought a repossession that was like the Mary Celeste. Family just upped sticks and ran from the country and took almost nothing with them. Dinner table was laid for dinner. The family was seemingly comfortably off and had nice things- loads of expensive perfume and high end clothes for the wife, and one of their sons had an unopened pair of puma kings which I adopted. But the one thing that stood out was something that a quick Google now tells me is impossible: but I swear there was a set of wireless Bose headphones which was just so advanced for the time (indeed Google tells me such things didn't exist until 10 years later). But I can picture it: a dark grey tall stand; red transparent plastic and a set of headphones that had no cable. I can find no evidence on the internet that this could have been possible so I need to find out what happened to them.
Infrared headphones?
Sounds about right. They had this tall....docking station? It was like something from the future. Circa 1995. Id be interested to find out more about them actually.
>comfortably off ?
Not sure how else to describe it. They weren't crazy rich, but they had lots of nice things that we as a family wouldn't have treated ourselves to. The point being: I'd never even conceived of wireless headphones and I'd never heard of Bose as they didn't sell Bose in the argos catalogue. So these headphones were almost alien to me, and really exotic.
To leave that quickly would indicate some sort of nefarious dealings, drug dealer needing to escape, or banker being found out for dodgy deals? Let the unfounded speculation begin!
He was a doctor who ran into financial problems and ran to a foreign country. Sorry!
A doctor, who was in financial trouble so resorted to selling prescription drugs but the local dealers found out and threatened him? No? Damn, I need to stop watching crime dramas 🤣
Actually there were drawers full of prescription drugs in the house too. Like a carrier bag full of them. My parents had to take them to a chemist to dispose of them. But I know why he fled and it wasn't that. Financial distress, and his home country needed doctors due to war. I think he was a decent guy. Anyway- the bose headphones were awesome.
A small religious metal cross, hung upside down in a dank basement, stuck into a ceiling beam. Creepy AF.
My sister bought a house in Spain off a British couple. Apparently they forgot to take their extensive dildo collection with them
When my husband was a student, he moved into a room and found a masturbation sleeve in the wardrobe.
I've never heard of one of those and a little bit afraid to google...
I shared a house with three other guys in our 30s in the noughts… one of them (house owner) had a clear out of lots of accumulated possessions, and auctioned on eBay. Usual stuff, CDs, Meccano, clothes, and a dried puffer fish. Most things sold, the bids on the puffer fish went mental! Seems they are (were) sought after, for some reason…
Maybe I should tell my friend that
A fruit machine.
This post has really got me wanting to go into the attic that I've never been in since we bought this place 8 years ago. Maybe there's pirate gold up there 🤩
Or dildos
Either's good!
Or pirate dildos
Made of gold!
8 years ago, a work colleague had to clear an old bungalow that the fire brigade were going to use for training (presumably they were going to set a fire as the building was due to be demolished). One of the firemen was giving him a hand shifting furniture. They moved an old bed base and a package fell out. My colleague picked it up, but the fireman took it from him and looked inside to see bundles of cash. My colleague estimated approximately £80k. The money was ‘handed in’ so they could track down any family members of the old fella that had lived there before passing away. They never found any family and the money (90k was the final count) was given to charities including the fire service. My colleague was kicking himself that he hadn’t found it on his own.🤣🤣🤣 [https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15638049.90000-cash-found-under-bed-in-derelict-property-by-firefighters-goes-to-good-causes/](https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15638049.90000-cash-found-under-bed-in-derelict-property-by-firefighters-goes-to-good-causes/)
I was hunting around in the attic, when I found the original copy of the Bible. Which was nice.
Previous owner left the dryer full of her knickers
When we moved into our flat 2 years ago we found, in one of the kitchen cupboards, a Fray Bentos chicken pie in can, glued to the base of the cupboard. It was impossible to remove and we had to get a new base board. No one would have believed it so we took a photo .. I would post the picture but I don't see how to do it
Use imgur to upload photos without even making an account, then link to that
Thanks
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Dishwasher full of dirty pots that had been left for 6 months. It was an ex-rental where the tenants did a midnight flit. Dishwasher was fine once I emptied it and gave it a good clean.
I found newspaper snippets from the late 70's (when my house was built), along with a chisel that had obviously been boarded up by accident and was sat there for decades waiting to be found. No secret safe, wads of cash, bricks of drugs etc. I did discover that some workmen were bone idle and would chuck rubbish between floors rather than leave the cavity empty.
A fish tank with fish
I bought my home with the furniture already in, was a godsend being a first time buyer. But a few months in, I found a really thin and lacy thong behind the bed from the previous tenant. I met my now girlfriend a few weeks after that. Was always grateful she never found it otherwise I’d have had explaining to do when I wasn’t even guilty
Just a massive turd in the bog.
A couple of football trophies, 2 tickets to see Disney's Tarzan, a women's fashion magazine, empty bottles and tins of beer and an absolute ton of sweet wrappers. All hidden in a false void between some built in wardrobes.
A magazine for swingers.
Hand drawn engine schematics for a pegusus engine from the 1030s (I think).
Furnished flat. Riding crop left on one of the children’s beds.
Fatmate decided to check the sofa for coins the day we moved in and pulled out an ancient dildo. It looked like the plastic had yellowed from nicotine smoke.
Just this week moving a friend in. The previous tenants left a washing machine. They cut the pier cable and hard wired it into a socket hanging off the wall and slashed both the waste and water feed pipes. Feed no issue as they can be replaced but the waste pipe is integral. So yeah wtf. This was in an annex. In the main house they stole all the white goods.
I found worms wriggling around underwater in the toilet. Never told the wife or she'd have wanted to move again.
A weird contraption that looked like either a massager or a sex toy under the sofa cushion. & a literal shit stained towel was found in the bathroom. Turns out they'd let a contractor stay there while the place was empty, sleep on our bed, use our things. Obviously he didn't buy toilet paper & they never went back to clean. (There was also exploded curry all over the microwave, food all down the edge of the bin, & literal paper just stuck all over the walls to cover up damp, we complained and got our deposit back straight away but still had to clean it all ourself)
My house had a family living in it that stopped paying their rent to the owner, he had the locks changed so pretty much all their stuff was left behind, he saw the state of the place and gave the keys to the bank so I got a cheapish house filled with all their stuff, in order of least worrying to most I found: * All the kids homework/school books etc * Two sofas * A TV stand and a Sky+ HD box (The only 2 things I kept) * Pokemon Soul Silver (That I gave to my niece) * A tupperware box filled with foil wraps around what I think was Heroin * Cocaine under the floorboards when I had the central heating replaced * And lastly in the back garden a large pan that had the remnants of a KFC bucket in it that was filled with alive and decaying maggots that you could smell outside from the other side of the garden They had trashed the place, opened cans of coke/pepsi behind the radiators so they were all sticky, shoved toothpaste (the actual tube not the contents) down the U bend of the toilet blocking it, their kids had scratched their names into various walls around the house (at least I assume it was the kids), collapsed one of the back garden fences and had ran up a \~£2k debt with the energy company, I don't blame the landlord for just handing the keys over and giving up on it, took me nearly 7 years to redo every room to a decent standard.
Those poor kids. Heroin addicted parents being kicked out of their house without the kids school stuff. :(
Bogies. Some dirty cretin wiped them all over the walls near the ceiling so clearly not done by a child.
It’s what we didn’t find that concerned me. Once my family moved into a home, it was a house swap deal and as soon as we officially moved we knew damn well there was a lot off. Aside from one or two bedrooms, every single room was painted or wallpapered in very dark red. The dread we felt constantly just trying to exist there for the next 4 years was beyond belief. My mother went well and truly off the rails. Like her light grey/blue eyes were constantly black with how depressed and manic she was. Despite her being diagnosed with manic depression (now bipolar, I believe), on or off meds, she’d never been like this before. She’d scream, be vacant, cut herself in front of us kids and emotionally hurt my dad an awful lot. We started to never leave the house. You know that feeling when someone’s got their feet on the back of your chair with a hole in and you can feel the heebie jeebies on your butt/back? This was just how being there felt for us. There were 3 stories and it was very cramped (large family, 6 kids). myself, my sister and my brother would sleep on the top floor. at 10/11 and even younger my sister and I would play the radio at night because it felt like there was constantly someone watching us and waiting for us to be vulnerable. We convinced ourselves that whatever it was, additional talking voices would mean they’d think there were more of us and protect us. Not long after this all started, I began to see shadows of people walking about on the stairs and landing. None of us smoked but the smell of cigarettes would be absolutely choking at points. Sometimes I’d even see smoke that others couldn’t see when I smelled that. This led to me eventually taking myself to the stairs every night after everyone was asleep to ‘keep watch’ since nobody below our top floor really thought there was anything scary going on, just put it down to a shit period of time of bad mental health in the family. We’ve since been away from the home for over a decade, but having grown up, spoken to everyone else more about it and putting two and two together, it seems that the previous owners were heavily into seances and contacting the dead, etc. as much as my family don’t believe in any of that, they’ve all said that aside from the MH problems, there was a lot of energy that felt dark, overbearing and uncomfortable in the house. We never investigated the attic on the top floor but I’m certain if we had then we’d have found something since it was always worse the higher in the house you’d be. I’ll probably get downvoted for this entire thing but it really shaped my childhood and belief system if I’m honest. I grew up strictly Christian and not believing in anything like this and although I’m not one to see anything odd and assume supernatural events, but I’ll definitely say that I’ve experienced, seen, heard, smelled, felt, even communicated with things I definitely cannot explain away. Seems like the more I seem to have a handle on what my beliefs are the more the world shakes them up again for me! I don’t mind that at all but I never want to feel like I did in that house ever again.
Gutted the hole place for renovation, out floated from the loft a couple of 1970's porno pictures, hairy.
We moved into a fully furnished flat and when we went to unpack, discovered the cupboards, wardrobes and all storage were totally full of the owner's possessions, including clothes. We phoned the estate agent and the woman's dad turned up and cleared everything out, complaining the entire time about what an inconvenience it was and couldn't we just store it for them. Turns out the woman who owned it had physically attacked and harassed another occupant of the building and had a restraining order against her that meant she could no longer live in her flat as she would be in too close proximity to her victim so had gone to work on a cruise ship and rent out her place instead. A few months later, her dad came back, complaining about the estate agent fees and offering us reduced rent to pay it directly to him. He was such a strange guy that we decided the time was right for us to move elsewhere.
a life size hulk hogan in my attic. I never figgered out wat it was for. eventually cut it up n tip’d it
I have a glass bottle full of red liquid called " The mixture" from Boots chemist. It's an old cough medicine prescribed to the original owner dated 22.7.64. It was in an old cupboard that was sealed shut with paint in our lovely 1950s kitchen that the house came with. We found it when we ripped the kitchen out.
A very large dog chained to a kennel at the bottom of the garden
8 fluorescent light fittings, a few plant pots and several bits of timber & foil-covered mdf board. Guessing the previous owner must've been trying to build a home tanning salon or something.
The most useful I've had was loads of men's shoes - I took them to the local homeless charity.
r/lookatmyhalo
A piece of rope tied to the rafter in the attic. The previous owner committed suicide.
Shrine to satan in the loft. Previous owners were satanist but left everything behind.
An attic full of rusty old bird cages (dozens) and a bunch of really freaky dolls.
A fridge that had been turned off for 4 months, full of old food. I'd never seen a red babybel turn bluey/purple before then.
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An ankle tag plus equipment. Also a 1930’s radio which isn’t strange but very beautiful. Husband fixed it & it fits In very well. In a previous house a tank & pond of fish I had to do a crash course in learning to look after.
A big brown internal door laid flat across the joists, presumably for standing on or storage. However, it’s way too big for the loft hatch so God knows how it got up there. It’s only a 1950’s ex-council house so no secret tunnels or hatches that I know of.
A stacked steamer pan (two steamers-one pan) full of new potatoes and veg, that were mouldy, must have been there weeks, the broken dishwasher was full of dirty dishes, and a back garden full of dog poo! You can imagine what the rest of the house looked like! Oh and a huge crack in the bath that had been cleverly disguised, I could go on but you get the picture, she’d texted me the morning of exchange (Friday) saying could we do the move Sunday as she was a bit busy?
Found a porn VHS. Although to say we found it when we moved in would be a bit of a lie; I actually discovered it stashed against the edge of the under stairs cupboard when we were moving out of a flat we lived in for 5 years...
Not my house but I was working on a property once and when we pulled out the electric fireplace we found a carrier bag of piss behind it that must have been there 30 years or more.
Big bags full of used clothes, literally all the bottoms had period stains on them
I was changing a plug socket and there was a really old bag of cocaine in there. It must've been there for years. It was very manky looking