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 can't get over someone leaving bowels behind in the kitchen. Did the previous owners disembowel themselves or something like that?

Kurrikurri - that’s so sad, how kind of your sister to nurse him back to health.

I found a fish tank hidden in the shed with only an inch of dirty water in it. Someone had left it with a fish i. so we put it in the new pond and it survived.

When removing built in wardrobe found a stash of 80’s porn mags with a bunch of lacy knickers “stuck” together.

A pair of dirty knickers down the back of the bathroom unit drawers. It was my fil who found them doing work on our bathroom. We hadn't moved in so he knew they weren't mine!!! Grim!

Also a solid concrete semi circle about 1m in diameter in the garden. We've still no idea what it was and can't actually move it to get rid of it 3 years on!! I've no idea how they put it there in the first place?

Love this type of thread.
We only found a library card. Boring.
A lady I know though, moved into a new build. Sometime later she needed to take the bath panel off to do some work and found builders waste including old sandwich packets etc stuffed under the bath.

A box of ammunition under the bedroom floorboards in my previous house. The vendor's ex-husband had been a policeman, but he'd left a number of years before....

A nice surprise in this house was that what I thought was a very low (crawl space) loft was actually much bigger than I thought and fully boarded. There was only a tiny hatch, so I had it made bigger and put in a drop down ladder and now have much needed storage space.

Rubber pants (male) and a mask similar to the ones used in pulp fiction 😳 they were behind a radiator in the bedroom

Oh and in a friends house when we helped her move in, a box of glass eyes in the loft

A chest buried in the garden full of dress up Viking outfits

Some used big pants behind a radiator, hair bobbles randomly everywhere, 3 year out of date Pom Bears and 2 dirty loo brushes. I’m sure previous owner is on mumsnet somewhere 😉 so thanks for the disgusting oven and mouldy fridge and freezer you filthy mare.

Sounds like it could have been much worse...

I had some contact with an animal sanctuary. A neighbour from a few streets away was moving and she wasn't allowed to take all her pets (cats/dogs/rabbits/rodents etc) to the new house. I was trying to help re-home some of the pets but she kept pulling out of the arrangements so in the end everyone gave up.

She eventually moved but was going back to the old house regularly. She'd left some of the dogs and cats and her kittens behind. I have no idea how it ended, I think the RSPCA got involved and she tried to get the animal sanctuary to help and borrowed cat baskets from them and didn't return them. She was then evicted from the new house.

We didn't find anything gruesome, but there were a couple of very old milk bottles from a one-time local dairy in the loft, and under a floorboard, two painted wooden letters, one DP's initial, the other mine!

Unused thick sanitary pads stuffed behind every upstairs radiator, and in the attic we found glass table, an in date passport and pornographic magazines hidden in the rafters, with pages stuck together.... we had to burn them in the end as didn’t want to put them in recycling bin as neighbours may have gotten the wrong idea!!!!!!

We found a lot of shoes size 10 mans high heels some dresses including a very bizarre wedding dress type thing complete with veil and odd underwear with stuffing plus photos of owners (the dh) wearing them, turns he was a a cross dresser and had paraded round on the street wearing them on a drunken evening, the wife was mortified and made them move! He was a bank manager by day the neighbours couldn't wait to tell me! We've moved since but that loft and clothing still makes me laugh

Some of these are so grim, I've not found anything more than old newspapers in the loft and, after sanding down the skirting boards, that previous owners had painted the skirting boards a variety of colours including blue, purple and yellow over the years. I hate to think what the rooms used to look like.

Several years worth of nail clippings down the back of a cabin bed they had left. Also a tray of bacon in the (manky) oven.

It was filthy, the oven had the equivalent of several packets of lard on the bottom and the whole house had a layer of grease. We had random furniture left but that was useful. Dog toys less so, didn't have a dog. Leaving the debts registered to the house wasn't nice either - bailiffs were regular visitors the first year.

(Thanks mum and dad who turned up the next day with marigolds despite a 3 hour drive, then again the next weekend to install a new stove as ours was too disgusting to contemplate using!)

A tiny chair in the loft. Creepy.

Some very hungry goldfish in a murky pond. Poor little buggers. We’ve still got them (minus one casualty).

Year into living in our first house we found a void, actually a well, under the floor of the kitchen 'extension'. Not really supported or dealt with properly. Previous owner had done all the building work himself. It is a miracle we didn't fall through it. Cost fortune to excavate and make good. Taught us a huge lesson about surveys etc.

Second house i kept hearing a scratching and sort of scrabbling noise, I began to think I wouldn't be able to settle as no one else had heard it. BIL was in bathroom, heard the noise, took off the bath panel and found a hamster living in there all very cosy and established. Belonged to previous owner but went to live with the children next door.

Previous owner took not just the lightbulbs, but some of the fittings. Maybe they were cross because we wouldn't allow them to leave their pony in a shed at the bottom of the garden. They were planning to come and feed it (allegedly) until they were able to collect it.

A German WW1 leather flying helmet. Sold it on eBay for nearly £300. That covered the cost of the 3 flatbed truck loads of rubbish left behind in the garden, garage and loft.

Roll of Christmas paper in cupboard. Pool table and bookcase.
I think the pool table was too heavy to lift so they just left it.

A German WW2 field radio, of sorts. Once we established it wasn't an Enigma machine(!) it was sold on Ebay for £250.

We found that the previous owner had taken the central square of the floor- it was carpet surrounded by wood laminate- so we just had the wooden "frame" surrounding a bare concrete square!

He had also left a pile of black bin bags filled with household waste in the middle of the square!!!!

Twat.