weird things left in your house by previous occupants

Not in the house but a whole selection of mole and gin traps in the shed, plus when using a minidigger in the garden to dig a soakaway we unearthed the remains of 3 big dogs wrapped in plastic sheeting, the smelly goo that dripped out stank to high heaven

Dog poo.
In our previous house the folk we bought from couldn’t be arsed to clean up about 2weeks of dog eggs from the back.
We knew where they had moved to, so we bagged up thelot and dropped it off with a polite note saying they had left “this”behind. 🙂

we unearthed the remains of 3 big dogs wrapped in plastic sheeting, the smelly goo that dripped out stank to high heaven

In one of the many rented houses I lived in in Cardiff, a bubble started to form in the living room ceiling…

went upstairs to the bathroom to try and find the leak, lifted the carpet and a section of the floor behind the sink came up with it, revealing several syringes and a burnt spoon. Picked up one of the syringes and squirted the contents down the loo, but managed to prick my thumb in the process.

Was very relieved when the doctor told me AIDs only lasts for a short time outside of the body…

FACK- nevermind that Hep B/C – but they only live for so long. So a family member was a secret addict..

The PO left us a ladies ‘massager’ and a male enhancement ring :), as well as a load of baby pics, kids scrapbooks and the like.

We did debate dropping the personal items off where she (the PO) worked (a school), but we were buying after her marriage failed, she obviously hadn’t cleaned since her ex moved out and she’d been 3 sheets to the wind every time we’d been round for a viewing, we figured it might push her over the edge.

Do still wonder if she’ll regret leaving the kid’s stuff one day though.

Not something that was left but something that arrived. We moved into a house in woodhouse, leeds which had subscriptions to fairly militant fundamentalist islamic materials and very extreme sex toy catalogues. In the same name.

A walled up wardrobe, with various 70’s children’s clothing. They’d just hung the plaster board on top of the wardrobe doors

That actually sounds like it could have been for very sad reasons 🙁

Anyway

First house – a dingy and foot pump (still have that foot pump now and it often comes in useful).

Second house – nothing as it had been derelict for 50 years.

Present house – about 20 rolls of insulation tape in various colours, a pair of secateurs, an old butter knife and a Philips screwdriver.

In the attic in our house in France was a collection of school exercise books, and a false arm. The house had been unoccupied for many years and the story was that the son of the house had lost his arm in an accident and then been killed in another a few months later. The parents had kept all his school books and the false arm as mementos, very sad.

Various garden tools and a flymo lawnmower. As back garden alone is 35 mtrs by 10mtrs, I used it once then gave it away and bought a petrol one.

Hand grenade kindly buries in garden, whcih was then dug up by my daughter with a rake when whe was about 7. 3 police cars and an army bomb disposal trucj later, it was a dud. Have pics somewhere!

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?

*holds head and groans*

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…

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!