WWYD - creepy box in attic

[LittleSausageFingers]

DH and I bought our first home, which is 100 or so years old, last year. It has a partially boarded attic, and in the attic is a fairly big metal box addressed to someone in New York. It looks really old, old fashioned handwriting on the address label, super dusty like it's been there a long time.

We're not particularly "woo", but we've seen our fair share of horror movies, including those involving boxes in attics (Sinister, anyone?) and we weren't really keen to open it. Plus, I was 9 months pregnant when we moved in and we had other things to do, like build a million boxes of Ikea furniture.

Our friends (mostly) think we're mad for not opening it. One of them researched the name on the box and came up with an old newspaper clipping saying that the person died in an asylum from a religious furvour! Obviously it's probably a coincidence, but date wise it would fit with when the house was first built.

I must admit that my main reason for not wanting to open it is that it's dirty as fuck and i don't want to have to clean up all the mess involved in getting it down! My DH doesn't want to open it because he is actually scared of ghosts (has been known to scare himself while telling a made up ghost story ).

The house doesn't feel haunted or anything like that, but it has a couple of weird quirks that freak us out a bit, e.g. the spare bedroom door (loft hatch is in this room) sticks for no obvious reason and you can get stuck in there. We've also both seen a shadow move under a door looking out into the hallway from the nursery.

So WWYD about the box? Open or leave it?

I can see a face on the main side. two weeping eyes and mark at top right looks like a bow in the girls hair.

Look at that screaming face, tongue hanging out.....I hope you've not unleashed it....👹

OP, is your house on an ancient Indian burial site?

Our house actually is on a burial site, well part of one, but it's Victorian, sadly. As of yet none of them have possessed our kids or brought a tree to life, which is massively disappointing.

sweet the face is burned into the wood.
Its all been a massive red herring I tell you. The box is evil!

Ah Wankers, that's a very sensible suggestion. I was thinking more along the lines of supernatural horrors being posted out of the country 😂

This also reminds me of the old Manor House over the road where I grew up.
New family moved in and they invited us over. They asked if we knew anything about the gravestone built into the wall. Turns out it was a list of all the people buried in the end of the garden.

Oh FFS why do I always read this shit alone at night?

No no don't read it just click off.

Ok then just the first few posts

Aw bless you for opening it op, you're braver than me!

It was posted to the USA, someone brought it back with them, unpacked it, slung it in the loft. That's it explained

Our house has always creeped me out, even though I'm a massive skeptic. It was empty for about 30 years before we bought it and the last person who owned it before us only lived there for 9 months before he killed himself.

When we bought it, there were locks on the outsides of all of the bedroom doors and when we were decorating one of the rooms we found a whole bloody room hidden behind a false part of the wall. There was nothing in it and we've never had any experiences but it was defnitely creepy.

Mind you we've been here nearly 18 years now and we're still sane, so it must've just been owned by an eccentric.

Open it!!! There is likely some fascinating pieces of history in there, let's see let's see!

How did a whole hidden room get missed by the survey Bowie?

Bloody hell Bowie! What did you do with the room?

It's been addressed but not posted? Post it?

Oooh. I want to see pictures of your hidden room BowieFan. What so you do with it now?

^ do not so.

I always have dreams about finding hidden rooms in my house, wonder what it actually means

This thread reminds me of the woman with the safe in New Zealand there was a thread about it and she was getting a locksmith to try and open it??? The thread went on for ages and ages I don't think she ever opened it! Somebody must remember!!!

Yes, BumWad, that was the Victorian Safe Thread.

KitKat1985, LittleSausageFingers

Luckily it wasn't a load bearing wall, so we knocked it down and opened up the room. I haven't told DS1 that it was his bedroom with the spooky hidden room!

DP did some research into our house and at some point it was a boarding house, so DP said it's probably a result of the owner trying to split the large bedrooms into even more space and the next owner just papered over the wall not realising.

I hope that's what it was anyway!

I want to know more about the secret room too!

" Who brought it back to the UK?"

That's what I'd be interested in.

And likelihood was that it would be empty if it was the only thing left in the attic.

DesolateWaist

Well we were first time buyers and it was nearly 20 years ago. Plus, it was such a steal that even if there had been huge problems we still could have sold it on for a profit.

It was just an amazing deal - a 5 bedroom detached with lots of land around it for the price of your average 2 bedroom terraced around here. They'd been trying to sell it for years but nobody wanted such a big house. My mum and dad moved just down the road as well before we looked at it, which helped things a little.