What's the grimmest/ weirdest thing you've found when you've moved into a house?

[ItsLeviooosar]

One house we were in (rented) had a double ended dildo in the wardrobe and tenants came and asked for it back! They also washed things for their rabbit in the dishwasher and there was sawdust in the filter 🤢.

Most recently we moved into a lovely house (bought) it's our first house so we didn't really know what to expect. However we definitely didn't want the previous owners washing machine and made that clear, they put it on the fixtures and fittings form at £500 and we declined.

Moved in and it's fucking there ! It was wedged right in and we had to store our washing machine in the basement for a bit whilst we worked out how to rip it out. I used it a couple of times but didn't like it, it sounded like it was taking off and all the washing was tingly when I went to empty it

It was German, and according to google 28 years old! Anyway we finally worked out how to rip the bastard out without killing the kitchen and found out it was a real health hazard.

It was a German plug, into a travel adapter, into an extension lead wired into the mains, worth the water pipe from the washing machine dripping onto the plug 😱 I'm
Surprised it didn't catch fire! But the guy who removed it said the reason the washing felt tingly was because the washing machine was live!

They had to pay to have it removed as we went through their solicitor.

An absolute biblical plague of fleas, from the previous owner’s three dogs, two cats and two giant house rabbits. We were ankle deep in them.

The previous owners of our house had several pets - a dog, some rabbits and some guinea pigs. The dog was allowed to pee freely around the house. We had to pull up all the existing laminate flooring because it was sodden. The rabbits and guinea pigs were kept loose in one of the bedrooms and there were droppings all over the floor. We knew from viewings that it wasn't in the best state but she had obviously given it a good clean before the viewings and didn't bother before we moved in. There was also a skip load of rubbish left in the front drive and back garden.

@honeylulu

Under a loose floorboard in my son's room we found a Polish porn mag from the 1990s. It was quite tame with a feature on naked ladies with strategically placed fruit. We stared in wonder and then looked up at each other and had an awful moment of realisation "OMG I am looking at a porn mag with my son/mum". He broke the silence by quipping "someone ought to tell them that's not how you get your five a day".

In the same house we also found a set of golf clubs and motorised trolley (must ebay those) and one of those "Quilty Pleasures" patchwork suits (Christmas themed one). Plus a brand new tv set still in its box - sadly an old analogue one which went to the tip.

I hate tell you that the analogue tv would be worth £££ on eBay!

We bought a filthy house last year. It was a couple in their 60s and their adult children who lived here before us. It stank of smoke and dog and it was obvious that it hadn’t been properly cleaned for years. (We LOVE it now and got it pretty cheap).

Anyhoo, we prepared ourselves in advance for some nasty surprises. In their son’s old room, we found a porn DVD stashed inside the built-in wardrobe. In the parents room, we found a very well-hidden XXX porn mag and a tube of KY Jelly.

Worse, we also found an old chequebook with stubs for a motel in Scotland, along with some dirty letters. Pretty solid evidence that the guy had been having an affair some years ago!

Just RTFT and noticed comments about wiring too.

The guy who lived here before us was apparently an electrical engineer of sorts. The house was a complete death trap, our electrician showed us a very singed fuse that definitely could’ve started a fire. We had plug sockets hanging off the walls and all sorts, along with lots of things wired up where they shouldn’t have been.

I’ve blocked it all out now, but I still remember the porn, apparently

When my DS bought his first house a few years ago, there was something in every room.
Dead plants and half filled wine bottles of ? In lounge
In kitchen - half used herbs and kitchen rolls.
In the bathroom, lots of half used bathroom products, plus a 'deposit' in the toilet.
In the bedrooms, there were items left in the wardrobes, wire hangers, ties, etc.
In the loft, was an entire dilapidated suitcase, full of rubbish, that did not belong to the previous owners.
My DS filled several black bin bags of stuff.
Not sure why the vendor could not be bothered to flush the toilet, tho

We bought a house with no garden, but rather a 10ft x 10ft square concrete yard at the back. When we moved in, it was completely covered in the owner's dog's shit.

It was a renovation project and when we came to rip up the wooden flooring to replace it, we found several massive dead rats in between the joists.

So utterly grim.

A pair of massive ladies pants behind the radiator. We bought from an elderly gentleman who's wife had died some years previously so they'd been there a while. Obviously had slipped down when she put them on there to dry.

Some newspapers that were older than me!

Knife marks through two of the bedroom doors ....

Blood spatters on the front window and along the wall of the landing ....

An old friend of mine found 20 pairs of fireman boots in the shed if her new place!
The last owners were not in the brigade so it was a mystery..

”Next house - they'd removed ALL the lightbulbs and ALL the doorhandles. The entire basement electricity was 'live' with hanging wires. One room was decorated with pentangles. The neighbours told me: 'ooh, no one ever stays there for long'. Smashing”

Sounds like the opening scene of a horror movie, @OldLace. Did you stay there or were you driven out/gorilla murdered (delete as appropriate) by the ghosts/demons/serial killer living in the loft (ditto)?

Argh - gorily murdered - though gorilla murdered would make an interesting plot too!

A used blue condom.under the bedroom carpet. We rent from.a company so dh worked with the last tenant.

Embarrassing.

Have viewed some hideous empty houses to. One was a ex knocking shop with dried pike on the bedroom wall. Another looked like a family had just done a runner and left everything! Kids coats still by the door, dead hamster in a cage in the bedroom. So so grim...

Dried puke - not pike!

Not me but my neighbour, when she moved into her house the previous owner left five black bags of rabbit shit in the garden for her to deal with.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

Not murdered by Gorillas, no! [laugh]

but we were NOT happy there at all.
I later found it HAD been advertised a s 'haunted house' in a specialist Paranormal magazine. One of the cellar rooms has a icy cold corner (rest of room and cellar is fine, no obvious reason). I don't find it frightening as such, but I have never felt that the house is okay about us being in it, although i realise that sounds very woo.
I even went so far as to ask the local Vicar to come and bless it, but she declined (perhaps she thought i was joking, as I didnt think they could decline, but I did ask twice so I surely meant it?) Anyways,
we have not been able to sell it, despite trying twice over the last 10 years and being very very unhappy there.We are stuck with it I think!

our first house - all the doors had been replaced by them plastic concertina type ones, and they had all been shredded, we pulled 28 sewing needles (with thread still in them) out of the wallpaper, and there was 38 yards of coaxial cable in the floorboards, go to and from nowhere

our second house - nothing sinister, but the Aunt of the old lady who owned it before we bought it told all the neighbours that we'd nicked the curtains, knowing full well she wanted them as we knew she had the matching bedspread!!

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Our current house has an upside down coat hook on the back of the front door. We haven't been able to figure out the purpose.

Undoing a drysuit with a shoulder zip.

When I got my first house, it was so bad the first day my dad & partner stripped the entire kitchen out, the walls & floor were thick with chip fat & nicotine, my mum used a scraper to scrape layers of fat off the walls & floor, then boiling water & sugar soap, it took a month to clear it out of the whole house before we could start painting & install the new kitchen. Every room was dark purple, the last owner had installed the bathroom himself & must have used off cuts of copper pipe, the plumber found over 100 connections in the bathroom, I had to use industrial cleaner to get both of the toilets clean & boiling water, every night I filled them with lime scale cleaner & boiling water before we left for the night. It was no wonder we got the house so cheap.

OldLace

A gun cupboard, with ammo in, left by a Policeman.

I assume you reported this to the police?

Nothing weird (what is a Quilty Pleasure suit?) but the grim fucker at our first house had chosen that morning to shave off his massive beard and left the whiskers all over the bathroom. Blocked the loo with the most of it.

Antihop

Yes, I handed the ammo in (not the cupboard, that ended up staying as it was wedged in awkwardly but we declared it to the next buyer!).
There was no firearm in there but I think it was noted as he came round, with a senior officer, a couple of days later and was made to apologise. I hadn't particularly wanted to 'drop him in it' (though I was surprised about the contents, I assumed it was a simple mistake). I'd been annoyed about all the food waste which had stuck me as snidey but the cupboard contents seemed a pure error on his part so I'd not especially wanted to drop him in it but I had no forwarding address other than his lawyers and I couldn't post bullets to them or dump them in a wheelie bin, so I wasn't sure quite what else to do and I had moved in with my infant son, as he knew.
Looking back I've no idea why I didn't call the Police to come and take them away instead of driving round to the station with them in a carrier bag - what was I thinking? I just wanted rid of them I guess.

Funnily enough, I bumped into his wife in a playpark about 5 years later (very very rural Scotland, twas me and my kids and her and hers and a friend of hers). I didn't recognise her but she did me and went off on one all in front of the kids. I was stunned. Apparently, I was ' a bitch' for causing her husband trouble at work. Her friend was hugely embarrassed and intervened and told her to apologise for her language in front of the 6 kids present.

Very weird people, both of them!

Internal walls constructed with bricks lying on their sides.

A mish-mash of wiring which was the result of 25 years of DIY.

Behind a flimsy wooden panel in the attic, a gap in the brickwork into next door's (completely empty) attic, like in the Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis; although I have been told that this was not unusual for the 1930s.

Dead pigeon in the fireplace!

"Behind a flimsy wooden panel in the attic, a gap in the brickwork into next door's (completely empty) attic"

That reminds me of a house we bought years ago, old terrace in Yorkshire and we couldn't get a mortgage without the condition that we put party walls in the attic within 28 days of moving- which we were glad to do as it was entirely open along the whole terrace of 12 houses.

The day after we started the work we had an irate neighbour demanding to know what we were doing, that we had no right etc...

They didn't even live next door, but three doors down! They thought they had a right to use the entire row of attics for some unknown reason!