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Our last house was purchased as an estate sale after the previous owners had died with no living relatives so lots of random stuff including a "massager" hidden on the shelf in the top of a closet. There was also a chest of drawers with a secret compartment that contained several antique watches and some old coins that are currently worth well over ten times what I paid for the house. 🙂
A 2000m (yep, 2km) roll of cling film.
This is my favourite so far 😆
Maybe the previous owner was a rapper?
[i]*holds head and groans*[/i]
He tried to be but you could see through his act.
There was also a chest of drawers with a secret compartment that contained several antique watches and some old coins that are currently worth well over ten times what I paid for the house
WOW! Really? 😀
Hand grenade kindly buries in garden, whcih was then dug up by my daughter with a rake when whe was about 7
FACK - pics please, Worsecase- that'd been really hard to get over wouldn't it? If the worse had happened. Doesnt bare thinking about.
FACK - pics please
Of his daughter now, or when she was 7?
Grannies ashes in the loft......
Dessicated frogs behind the cooker, presumably brought in by the previous owners cats from the pond in the garden.
The one and only time I have heard MrsMC scream in fright in the 20 years I've known her.
You're just not trying hard enough.
In the garage of the house we bought a few years back. Empty, thankfully...
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It was a very anonymous '50s(?) set that I used in the garage for a few years after we moved in. We were going to throw them out so I figured I had better check to see if anything was stored in there.
First house our son and his wife bought in the states had a cupboard full of live ammunition. Police called in to do a clear up. Turns out the previous was special forces of some sort.
My house came with a military-looking box left in the shed, wooden, painted green and with rope handles.
But I've never opened it.
johnners - Member
My house came with a military-looking box left in the shed, wooden, painted green and with rope handles.But I've never opened it.
Wuss
Windscreen from a Humber Sceptre motorcar, tucked up at the edge of the loft space!
something hidden in every room, so far old pennies under the fireplace, a purple plastic doll, a squeezy pig, a bay city rollers pencil (12 inch), lots of football cards from the 70's stuffed in the walls of the leaking dormer, and a copy of carpenter and joiner magazine stuffed into the floor of the worst built dormer in the world. most telling was a 1970's court summons for non payment of a bill from the local builders merchants. we bought the house from a man whose father had killed himself and his mother had lived in two rooms because one side of the roof where the dormer was built leaked right through two floors...
Dispute with builder drove a man over the edge?
Mummified cat in one of the walls of our farm house. At the time we thought it must have got trapped during the building of the house, however I have since learned cats were bricked up in walls, many years ago, to ward off evil spirits!