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?

Graffiti of "TRUDY IS A SLAG" in the cupboard

In a thread packed with golden details, this one really made me laugh, for some reason.

I love the lurcher story too

Just writing on the walls when we were stripping the paper telling us "they" were buried under the floorboards.... I'm sure this is a common joke. I hope haha

not ours but house across the street?after a nasty divorce and house went up for sale.
husband
turned tiles on roof(for contrast) and "wrote"brenda is a cunt.
lasted a week before any one snapped to it. the street had lots of giggles though

We were left a creepy as fuck looking clown hanging from one of the doors, and after we moved in and started sorting out the front garden we realised there's a grave shaped patch in the front garden where the grass never grows properly.

I'm still working on the theory that the creepy clown came to life one night and killed one of the previous owners and buried them out front.

A few years after we moved in we decided to replace the old DIY built-in wardrobe that was in one of the bedrooms.

On dismantling it we found a photograph album full of pornographic photos of the previous owners (mostly the woman) behind the back of some of the panelling. Really weird to see her in various poses in the garden and kitchen - yuk!! (but very funny!)

Mouse poison and a Christmas bauble in the airing cupboard.

Random pieces of coal and lots of rubbish in the garden.

A sickle blade in the disused fireplace when we knocked it back out.

And later upon layer of damp, dirt, mould and grease.

A very old roast dinner plated in the oven !

A big stash of gay porn.

The young couple who had the flat before me were the least stereotypical gay couple youd imagine. The flat was filthy. They had a chinchilla that was allowed to run free so there was chinchilla shit everywhere. And they'd left dirty pants behind the bathroom door along with LOADS of furniture they couldn't be bothered moving including to ropey armchairs and a weights bench. I imagine the two 25 year old who lived there did no prep for their move and time caught them out. Was a total pest to move into.

I bought my house about a year and a half ago and I found not one, not two but THREE hidden safes within the house. They were all empty.

In this house we found dusty knickers behind every single radiator, and a samurai sword on the loft. Last house we found an enormous stash of 70s porn mags hidden in the panelling under the open staircase when we started decorating!

We found several tins of paint and rolls of wallpaper that matched the current decor. I guess they'd left it all behind in case we needed it for patching.

Shame it was all horrible

Oh, and by the way, if anyone living in Stevenage ever takes the floorboards up in their bathroom and finds a child-size heart-shaped signet ring, it is mine and I would love to have it back.

First house: old shoe repairing stuff, lasts, leather etc. and a pretty crucifix on the wall.

Second house: a selection of furniture, some of which turned out to be antique and very nice, a really old trunk in the loft and porn delivered in plain brown envelopes which I discovered was being collected by an ex tenant letting himself in with a key. Locks changed and post forwarded to his new address stopped that.

Third house: A lonely teapot, a line around the bath and mice.

Fourth house: A bag of old white socks and the dearest little cat. Dumped the socks and kept the little cat.

Fifth house: Wasps. Lots of them. And the biggest icicle I had ever seen.

a pool table in the cellar!!

We were very relieved when they called a few days later and said they'd forgotten it and would it be OK to send a couple of men and a van round to collect it... we had plans for the cellar and they did not involve lugging a very heavy and cumbersome pool table up a flight narrow stone steps!

How the the hell do you forget a pool table? (they were rather odd all the way through the process)

Oh and in a student house what appeared to be an entire bondage kit in a built in wardrobe - chains, padlocks, strange looking clips and clamps, a leather paddle type thingy and a gag plus a couple of things we won't dwell on but did use rubber gloves to remove double bagged to the bins - we didn't like to think exactly where they'd been - the padlocks came in handy but most of the rest we left outside someone elses house for the scrap metal people

The rusty axle of a small truck (in the garden).

First house with my husband, none of the contents had been moved. So sofa, cabinet, old beds, whole kitchen contents all left. The seller said he didn't know he had to empty the house when we completed??? We had to move in 24 hours late so he could empty it. Luckily we were very poor and were moving ourselves out of rented so we stayed an extra day. I did cry though.

A bag of teeth!

I think we found the tooth fairy's hidey hole.

My new neighbour at the time found a gun in the attick!

@KitKat1985 the bottom of that clown looks like the cuddly toys they give to premature babies to help stop them pulling their tubes out etc

This is one of the most interesting threads I've seen on here. Nothing much when we moved in- a garage full of loads of stuff and old wood and half a crap motorbike, loads of tins of paint etc. (absolutely chocker it was)Took a few phone calls to ea to get them to collect. Then followed loads of bailiffs letters etc so loads of phone calls about that. We had a switch in one of the rooms which we still dont know what its for-its not for the electricity in the garage- theres a fuse box but we dont know where the switch is and there arent any lights anywhere! In my other house- 6 months after moving in a man knocked on the door and asked if we had found any reels of cinema tape in the garden shed that his dad might've left ( we hadnt). About 6 months after that he knocked in our front door late at night a bit worse for wear after a few beers saying ' my dad used to live her ya know' .Bit sad really. We had bought it from a builder who had refurbished it.

lumps did you not ever contact the new owners to ask?

A selection of takeaway menus, annotated with recommendations and reviews of different dishes.

In the garage, 8-10 jars filled with paint. Each jar labelled with the corresponding room in the house.

When buying our first house and selling our apartment, our buyer pissed is about endlessly. My husband kept giggling to himself when we drove off. He left a giant turd in the toilet without flushing.

Absolutely filthy. They also took every single light bulb and batteries from the smoke detectors!

My current house was left in a disgusting, squalid state. It was utterly revolting. And they left a double garage full of rubbish. And bare wires where light fittings should have been. But the piece de resistance was the small bin full of shitty loo paper........ Which had been there so long that it had started to grow mould....... I didn’t know whether to gag or burst into tears so I did both.

A disgusting oven with a takeaway in the top grill bit that we didn't discover for about a week when it had gone black and furry