Most random find in a new house?

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So we picked up our keys for our new house today. The sellers have been so nice. The house is super clean and they've left thoughtful things like a hedge clipper and lawnmower. All good.

However... on the back of one of the bedroom doors there is a sheep's skull!!!! 😱

Utterly random! So what's the most random thing your found when you moved in to a new house?

I did forget to pick up the old loo brush and sling it in the bin when we left though. Sorry new owners.

In my defence it was really, really hot.

Earrings and tampon wrappers all over the place. Even found earrings in the dishwasher trap, when I cleaned out what appeared to be a disintegrated fat ball.

Viagra hidden on top of the kitchen cupboards.

If you ever find VHS videos behind the kickboards of your kitchen units 18 months after moving in, DON'T play them!!

Graffiti of "TRUDY IS A SLAG" in the cupboard

A full shed of tools and crap. So 50/50 good and bad.

A kitchen cupboard full of baking trays. Good!

We packed it all up and the seller didn’t get back in touch.

6m later she did. Jog on love!

Fleas.

Filth, utter filth. Two weeks of scrubbing and we only got the worst of it. They had also taken the radiator covers, the bathroom cabinets and the coat hooks in the hall!

One of the those Victorian dolls with the ceramic heads. Left at the back of the airing cupboard. Scared the shite out of me.

A massive gas bbq.

A wishing well.

Huge flat screen tv.

Inside the airing cupboard door they used to measure their three dc. Two got taller and taller. One stopped, aged about 8. It was a very sad realisation. They were lovely people.

Well it's what I didn't find that scared the hell out of me.
When I went to view the house initially the bedroom was all dark green woodchip with a home artexed interesting ceiling, but not as interesting as his wife's collection of creepy victorian dolls on pine shelving around the entire bedroom.
There were hundreds of them.
When I moved in I was too scared to go into the cellar or the loft in case one of those damned things was hiding in there.

An absolutely filthy bathroom which I initially thought was past saving. It came up a treat after a few dousings in cillit bang! And a pair of manky pants left in the washing machine.
The previous owner was a single guy who’d lived there alone for 10 years and you could tell!

A huge old suitcase in the cellar which was locked and so heavy it was hard to move. It was opened with great trepidation and a fast beating heart as I was half expecting a dead body.
It was full of books..

There were more books in the attic which had a hatch with access to all the other houses in the terrace row. I had a lock fitted pronto.

An obe.

And half the lounge floor missing. - was covered by a rug when we looked round.

A very old top hat in a posh hat box.

Huge Gurkha Kukri behind some pipes in an old cloakroom. Wasn’t even a ‘new’ house, we’d been there years, gawd knows how long it had been there.

We found these gems down the back of the radiators when we moved in along with some very old photographic developing chemicals from the army!

Naked photos of the prevoius owner!!

Rabbit skull in a jar and a huge box of porn magazines and page 3 clippings.

A pair.of.knickers down the back of the fitted wardrobe in our first flat. We're moving to a rather old and uncared for cottage next week, I'll report back!

Some large, laminated diagrams of forceps and ventouse deliveries (previous owner was an NCT antenatal tutor)!

A well used porn mag behind the toilet tank

Ditto! Pornographic polaroids of the previous tenants, under the bed. Embarrassingly enough my dad found them as we moved in and thought they were hilarious. We were only 23 or so and mortified.

Rather sweetly I found some vintage sewing patterns when we moved into this house, which went straight into my collection. Also a humungous TV aerial in the loft which looks far too big to have got through the hatch!

A dog in the bathroom. The vendor called for it two days later. He said it was easier to move without it, I’m sure it was.

Collection of teapots in the shape of cottages in the garage.

Also next to it was a big tub of something like slug pellets thing that simply stated on its lid "IF YOU EAT THIS YOU WILL DIE. DO NOT EAT THIS DAVID!"