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

We had this too! (200 year old house) Under the stairs but within the wall (behind the end of the understairs cupboard), a childs shoe and a coin. I think it was a kind of lucky charm?

As a boy a friend and his family moved to a house that needed a lot of work. Us kids helped. One bedroom had 157 empty milk bottles under the floorboards, resting on the ceiling of the room below

Porn films in the loft.😂

A baseball bat. After 15 years I sold it on eBay and got £475. It was signed Yogi Berra.
It had a new York Yankee emblem on it.

A huge metal ring, probably the iron rim from a cartwheel, tucked behind the shed. And - discovered many years later - an unexpected manhole, deep and fully brick lined, under a big slab out the front of the house. It had been covered with about 6 inches of soil and an apple tree was planted immediately next to it.

My nephew and family moved into a beautiful old house with thick beams in the loft.
They were up there one day checking the beams for woodworm when a velvet bag fell from a shelf.It was full of diamond rings and necklaces.Obviously forgotten about.

A mummified furry body - probably a cat - in a plastic carrier bag.

We moved into a house that used to be a shop in rural Ireland in 2008. It was halfway between two towns and served a large rural area for farming provisions up to the 1980s. We renovated the house and shop into one house. Whilst renovating we pulled out a fitted cupboard that had a false bottom. Inside the false bottom were two big brown envelopes stuffed full of something soft and taped closed. For the time it took to get a knife to open it all we could think off was it had to be cash from the shop hidden from the tax man. Just the denomination of the notes was the only question.
We opened them and didn't get instantly rich, but we did inherit some nice knitting patterns😂

I had a good look through it to see if the couple we had bought off were in it ( quite normal looking, couple of under 5 kids ) - there were lots of pictures - but couldn’t see them

I found these and an invitation to an event in a handbag from 36 yrs ago

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Hahaha I thought your original message was a joke! This is kind of sweet - what did he do? I think internally I would be uncomfortable with having a random stranger popping into my house, but my politeness would mean I'd offer her a cup of tea 😂

I did a mutual exchange a few years ago, the house was left in a mess and the grass in the front garden was quite long.. a few days after moving in the local window cleaners came round asking if I’d like them to clean the windows.. so me, my mum and nan(they were helping decorate) were stood in the front talking away to my new neighbour, when the window cleaner tripped on something in the grass. Which turned out to be a vibrator, poor lass must have been gutted when she realised she’d left it behind!

We found they had had a recent bonfire in the garden. In the ashes were the burnt broken remains of glass jars and lots of £1 coins totalling at least £100. Bizarre !

The previous owners pet snake and a spare room door with 6 machetes embedded in it.

We moved a year to the day later!

Different sized screws in every hinge.

A leak from the pipe in the wall to the shower that had been going for many, many years.

Painted emulsion on top of gloss, really badly, on all window frames.

Any painting was one very thin badly applied coat only. I've never before or since seen such appalling walls.

Discovered the "metal" pole holding up a corner of a worktop in the kitchen was a broom handle painted silver.

There were a pair of louvre doors in one room, but one door was upside down so the slats were pointing in a different direction from the other door. Immediately jarring and took DH 15.mins to put right. I doubt they'd even noticed......

On viewing I asked them how often the shower trap needed clearing - they were mystified what I was talking about.

The previous owners pet snake and a spare room with 6 machetes embedded in it.

We moved a year to the day later!

In clearing out under the stairs, about five years after we moved in, a small faded packet of soap powder from between the wars.

A huge pile of dead wood lice, a dolls head in a glass, and a family tree from someone’s funeral, all in the same house

I’ve told this story before…a human jawbone, with teeth & a piece of long bone. Found in two of those really sturdy small cardboard boxes that were used for electrical components. They were in the corner of the otherwise empty under stairs cupboard. The previous owner definitely knew they were left.

It was only days after we moved in and I was looking for the fuse board as everything had tripped.

Long story short police were informed & collected the boxes a few weeks(!) later. Coroner concluded that they were archaeological specimens.
Found out a long time after that the ex husband of the owner worked in a related area. But why leave human remains behind when you left??

As well as old furniture, our loft was full of stuff, including a bag full of childhood teddies, and a bridesmaid dress. There was also glass serving bowls in a cupboard, one I still have, over twenty five years later.

Previous owner of our cottage sold costume jewellery for a living. Our quirky and much extended property has 2 lofts. The little loft had a bag of 80s necklaces. Didn't want them sent on.

There was a Beano and a Jacky annual providing some sort of wall to radiator buffer.

My fave is how a previous owner modernised the Victorian door to the bathroom. It had a fake panel and was painted badly. Our decorator stripped it and discovered that the door furniture had been removed and the gap covered by part of a ruler.

Our neighbours took on a total renovation. One of the outbuildings - small brick shed - had loads of wage packets full of old money. Only surviving relatives lived in Australia, so they said keep it.

On Facebook there's an American woman who does reels of a house she bought with everything in it for 97 thousand dollars. Well worth watching

Flimsy mirrors shaped like saxophonists stuck all around the kitchen. So odd.

There was a guitar left behind in my student house. We told the landlord but nobody ever came back for it. I took it with me when we moved out, and still have it 14 years later!

Oops posted without the explanation. She collected her grandchildren from the school in the next street and still had a key so would pop in for a sit down if she was too early. We were going in after work to decorate and only realised when DP took a few days off work and she kept turning up.

When we stripped the wallpaper we found signatures of the family who lived here in 1889!

Oh and a ceramic toilet behind the shed!

Very old house. Fascinating!