What's the weirdst thing you found when someone died?

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I was thinking of writing a diary. Something to help me figure out why i sabotage my weight loss success and why i tolerated the bad behaviour of my husband for so long.

I dont at all expect anything untoward happening to me but the idea of my inner most thoughts being read by whoever...

Anyway, have you ever found anything that you shouldnt have, but had to deal with because of the circumstances?

A joke of a newspaper.

Except for when they called out Stephen Lawrence's killers and invited them to sue. That was pretty fabulous.

Lost both of my gps recently and when sorting out there house, they had cleared everything personal out, knowing that they were both in the raf this saddened me more for I was looking for the photos. Afterwards we found out that my gf had been born out of wed lock and names had been changed, no idea on what it was, who his real dad was. Or anything cause we can’t trace anything back. My gf would have been 95 now ........

That my ex partner who died around ten years ago had been married more times than he admitted to and had more children than he acknowledged. It was truly a shock for a long time, especially that I thought I knew some one!

@QuackPorridgeBacon different times though & still birth wasn't allowed to be buried in a grave yard anyway 😢

@ny20005 I did not know that. In that case I could understand the burying in the garden, but to not tel her where? Was she even allowed to see the baby? I’ve heard of women not being allowed a long time ago. It’s awful though and so heartbreaking.

@QuackPorridgeBacon I'm not sure. I didn't know until after she'd died & she'd never talked about it. I guess my great aunt thought she was protecting my dg & felt it was better that she never knew. Feel for my poor dgd having to do it though & always knowing. He was a keen gardener so I hope there were some lovely rose trees planted there

I love this thread

A friend of mine discovered that her father had kept his Fascist Youth uniform pristine on a hanger in his wardrobe and had a Mussolini photo inside his bible - I think she'd always known he had some questionable views, but that was still quite shocking for her.

Ancient auntie died with tens of thousands of quid under her mattress. I like to think she was saving up for a motorbike.

Also I'd just like to say, "FUCK OFF DAILY MAIL"

parents' neighbour found a Nazi SA dagger in her husband's things when he died, which he must have picked up as a war trophy when he was in Germany in WW2.
A lot of soldiers would have come back from the war with trophies such as that. My father brought back two revolvers that he took off an officer that he'd taken prisoner.
He kept them for years but when the laws re gun licensing were tightened he threw them off a bridge into a river.

Parents love letters...very intimate, charting a long distance marriage over many years , secrets, deaths of children. Incredible story

ny20005 I cant say it would have been easy. Such sadness in what you type. Hopefully things weren’t as bad as I imagine. Like you say, a very different time.

When my grandmother died, my dad was organising the burial and discovered that the family grave which she'd paid for contained not just his dad, who died when my dad was 4, but a baby boy who would have been his older brother. Nobody in the family had any idea about the baby, who was born when grandma was very young and unmarried. It also solved the mystery of why his dad was buried in grandma's family grave, he was with his first son.

Nan died 20-odd years ago, and Grandad was too frail to clear out the house, so my aunt and Dad did it. Nan had a front room that she used as a store room. She was a very selfless woman, always doing sonething around the house, and was never idle until she got terminal cancer. She worked well into her 70s at a nearby potato farm. She didn't care much for stuff, she just wanted to ensure her family was ok. After she died, my dad and aunt discovered about 20 years-worth of Christmas and birthday presents, unopened, in that storage room. Some was some out of date soap and cosmetics, and were sadly thrown away, but other stuff was given to a local charity shop.

DM was sorting out DGM's things when she died a couple of years ago.

Amongst other things, DGM had kept a letter from me (aged 5) to her on Barbie paper telling her about our holiday and how i missed her and I wished she'd came with us we were on holiday in the US for a couple of months because my other set of GPs lived there at the time.

I love that she kept it all those years

Can we keep this thread going, reading everyone's finds is fascinating

50 odd perfectly wrapped poos under the stairs and a huge pile of rotting liver in the garden- my auntie was magnificently batshit crazy her whole life

"Sirrah*
That's fascinating. Were there burial records for the plot?
I remember my granny telling me still born babies were often buried with strangers when she was young.

Am loving this........don't let it stop

After my mum passed away I was given the family trunk, it's got old flags from when my granddad was in the navy, christening dresses from both set of grandparents, lots of old lovely memories.

What I didn't expect to find was a letter from my maternal grandmothers sister to my maternal grandfather warning him off marrying her younger sister as she was too frivolous and would never make a good wife. Sadly he left my grand mother when my mom was a pre teen, but I can't for the life of me figure out why he or my gran ever kept the letter

Ny and Quack - my dm had a stillborn baby around 1970 (so not that long ago). She didn’t see her although named her. The baby girl (who,would have been my sister) was buried in a mass grave in a public cemetery. . In those days, stillborn babies were almost considered as not real people, and it was quite common not to have anything to do,with them, and not to have a funeral etc. The cemetery office have records of her, and where she was buried.

My DH’s step father always told us he had been in the army for 3 years. He didn’t talk about it much or said why he left. When he died we found out he had never been in the army but he did go somewhere for 3 years!!! We have our suspicions where he’s been but dont know why he wouldn’t say!! I’d love to know the truth.

DP had never met DG on account of my grandparents living in a tiny house 450 miles away but DG had heard enough about him over the years.

When DG died after a long illness, on clearing out his things, we found £20 notes (about £2000 worth) everywhere in his bedroom. Everything we cleared out had to be thoroughly searched lest we miss a banknote.

Despite not leaving a will at all which involved me attending court to get everything put into my gran's name, he did leave a note under six whisky bottles 'for CCG's boy (DP) when that time comes'.

That generation eh?

It would also be fair to say that my grandad hated the Daily Mail. He voted Labour all his life, No and Remain in the referendums.

The crossword is the best bit of that paper...