Weirdest thing (or things!) you found when moving house

Box of teeth and hair. We were like 19 so we both absolutely freaked out, I called my dad and showed him. He said they’re baby teeth and we should call the previous owners and tell them because they might be precious to them. The lady was very happy to have her box of teeth returned and told us we will get it when we have kids.

We have three kids now and I do have a box of teeth and hair but it’s much cuter and aesthetically pleasing than an old Tupperware.

Mirrors everywhere - even in the garden shed - why? No back fence onto a public footpath - first thing we did obviously. Building a shoe rack but not fitting the new carpet underneath it so the old brown carpet was there when we took it out. The new carpet they fitted to sell the place was green. Totally bizarre.

We moved into an Edwardian terraced house and when I popped my head through the hatch into the attic I found it empty apart from a statue of the Virgin Mary staring at me...

In the first house we bought, we opened the oven to find 3 burnt sausages on a grill pan.

In the 3rd house we bought, we found a remote controlled butler on wheels carrying a tray in the roof, with a supply of rubber pants to fit an adult! (We think they held sex parties and the remote controlled butler was directed round with condoms on the tray).

My brother found a revolver in his attic when he moved in and had to call the police.

In the first house we bought, dh was looking around in the loft and found explicit letters and photos of the previous owner's husband with another man. The letters were from this other man to the husband and he must have hidden them up there, so Dh destroyed them all. The previous owner's best friend lived next door and she called round there nearly every day, then my child started at the same school as hers and I used to see her all the time. She completely blanked me and she'd been horrible to us during the buying process, we'd even let them stay an extra night after the house was ours as she was heavily pregnant and said she wasn't ready to leave (our solicitor strongly advised against this but we were young and still "wet behind the ears"). Then the day they finally moved out, they took absolutely everything, light bulbs, fixed toilet roll holder etc and then scraped all the wallpaper off the landing wall when moving furniture. However, I still felt very sorry for her when I saw her, knowing her husband was living some kind of double life with this other man.

It wasn’t there when we moved in!

When people on the street I grew up on did some renovations in the basement they found a body! Turns out the previous owner murdered his business partner and literally bricked him up! That caused some excitement I tell you.
When we were looking at a house on this street, my mother opened the door to the downstairs loo and there was a live leopard inside. She practically jumped out of her skin. A pet apparently (this was back in the 1970s so guess it was allowed)?

29 alarm sensors.

Friend found a beautiful wedding dress, phoned the previous owners but it wasn't there and thy didn't even know it was there.

She sold it for a very nice profit!

An eagle in the pantry, and chickens in the outbuilding!! Previous owner kept birds of prey, and forgot these ones 😂. Came back for the eagle but left the chickens. We kept them and subsequently rescued lots of ex-battery hens over the years...

When I brought my first house we decided to decorate the front room (lounge). Found the names of the previous tenants written on the wall.... from the very early 1900's!

When removing wallpaper in the bedroom of my new house, a giant c**k and balls was revealed which had been painted on the wall by a previous owner. My Mum was helping me and remarked ‘Aww look someone painted a rocket on the wall.’ To be fair to her the balls resembled the smoke from a rocket lift off but I hadn’t the heart to tell her what it actually was 😂

Not in our current house but a house we moved into years ago we found a ladies hairbrush, mirror and wedding veil in an old box we found under the loft insulation when replacing it. It was still up there on a shelf when we left, it had long grey hair on it. It was obviously very cherished by someone. There was also a box of puppets in the attic hidden under the eaves, some were like the old Punch and Judy puppets, (the ones with the big noses) and there was a lot of string puppets too. We spent ages untangling them then gifted them to a local historical society as the previous owners denied all knowledge of them.

When we stripped the wallpaper in the hall we found borders at the top and bottom of the walls that were beautiful flowers, they looked like they’d been hand painted, like watercolour. Sadly they couldn’t be used as it would been too difficult to refresh the paint around them.

A live corn snake slithering around the living room and a half eaten Christmas cake under the kitchen sink 🤷🏼‍♀️

Another dodgy video one.

This was in the 90s with fat back tellys. Ours was stored in this big wooden cabinet with folding doors.

I was sitting on the floor against the cabinet, shifted position and out popped a hidden drawer, stuffed with said dodgy videos.

Didn't even know the drawer was there, let alone the videos!

An open can of cat food in one of the kitchen drawers and a Victorian school desk with an inkwell in the loft.

Grins, your story sounds fishy!

(good old autocorrect eh?!).

She didn't speak much English so we told her son and changed the locks 😀

I found an SD card of the seller with another woman , I actually made a friend view it first as it was obviously hidden (inside boiler) and I really was scared it would be prawn or something

My first flat after moving out from my parents’ house was in a block where we all had an internal “shed” for storage. The keys for the shed had been long lost and it was only when new doors were put on every flat in the block that I got access to the shed.

I honestly think they had moved around who owned which one as what I got was a hoarder’s paradise (and one of the neighbouring flats had previously had a hoarder in it so I think I “inherited” his stuff).

Some of what we found was a rabbit skull in a jar, lots of mouldy books that were mainly bodice-ripper type things, a huge box of porn magazines and page 3 cuttings, half a dozen demijohns, and random bits of wood and rope that honestly looked like he had scavenged from a local scrapyard.

When we moved to our current house I guess the people before us had dropped a bag of red lentils when packing up and they’d got into absolutely every tiny space in the cupboard. I was finding random lentils for weeks even after giving all the cupboards a good clean out. We also found lots of huge light up outside Christmas decorations, an oil radiator and a kids’ ride on quad bike thing in the loft.

Partner moved into the new house today (needs doing up) and am thankful that the huge, American edition very old bible has been removed before completion by someone. The house was empty on viewings, no furniture, just this massive bible in the upstairs bedroom.

I've seen too many Hammer movies in my youth to want this hanging around!

@Gliblet my mum got pillowcases in an airing cupboard too. They were covered in old vomit 🤢. Instead of just throwing them away, they’d screwed shut the cupboard 🤷🏻‍♀️

The first house my ex-husband and I moved into - a horrid little terrace that was falling apart - we found all sorts of things. False teeth in the built-in wardrobe, which was a bit weird as the previous owners were a young couple. A garden full of broken window panes and trash. That sort of thing.

Some years later, after my divorce, I moved into a tiny little house that I loved. The previous owner had been an elderly lady. There was a little cupboard in the side porch that the people who emptied the house must have failed to notice, because it was full of bits and pieces. Including a really nice vintage pair of shoes and leather gloves, both of which fitted me perfectly. But I decided it was too weird to wear them. There was also a calendar where she'd written down little bits of conversation that she needed to have with someone... along the lines of "When you say XXX, I feel under pressure to XXX..." bless her. That too was just like me back then, always on the back foot and feeling I had to justify myself to people.

Wishing you much happiness in your new home, OP!

Clearing out the loft, several boxes came down. One was full of study notes, etc of a young woman’s nursing training from the 1960s. I had my first child in late 70s. She was the midwife who visited me after I came home with my baby. Not only that, when she was little, I took a part time job at the local doctor’s surgery, and we worked together for several years.

Not hugely weird but a 1970s asymmetrical wall mirror - I've seen several similar ones on old 70s TV programmes, so it must once have been a decor must-have.

Once got left a cupboard full of pint glasses - very useful! I wouldn't be surprised if one of two of them are still amongst our general collection of glasses, several houses later.