To be weirded out?

[Theanimalsoffarthingwood]

Moved into our house about 6 months ago.

Today dh was working in the loft and he found some kind of old porn magazine called Sun Lovers, looks like it could be from the 70s, tucked away under the insulation with an ancient Christmas tree fairy.

Pretty gross and went straight in the bin, it must have been up there years and years, before the previous owners.

What strange things have you found in your house when you've moved in?

Witches Mark

When we moved into our property, the landlord said if we wanted to use the loft space we could just bin anything we found up there as he hadn't been up in years. So we went up one day and it was mostly tat, old xmas decorations and the like. But also a big box of sex toys and a rubber gimp suit. It was funny but the gimp suit reminded me of American horror story and weirded me out a bit! I've barely been able to look landlord in the eye since. I'm glad we're moving soon

EinsteinsArousedSausagesHCB - Faceless Mary is terrifying! can we see a picture?

I have names changed for this as I may need to do my own post on it. I'm beyond freaked out. We're moving out of rented accommodation in 2 weeks and the landlord is renting again. It is stipulated in our tenancy agreement that in no circumstances are we to enter the loft first weird thing.

He got our notice to quit 2 weeks ago and decided to come back from Asia to check out the house. He was here yesterday, he went into the loft (after asking if we'd gone into the loft after we assured him no we hadn't). He went into the loft space and removed 9 urns.

9 urns containing his dead relatives. That is weird isn't it?

Einsteins

Is she faceless as in nothing drawn above her shoulders, or faceless as in there's just a blurry or empty face drawn? Not sure which one is creepier.

crispy she is faceless as in she has a head complete with head covering and golden halo, but she has no eyes, nose, mouth etc......just a skin coloured face shape. Considering the rest of the picture is intact 'tis rather creepy.

If you look closely it's almost as if someone has erased her face.

A shrine to the Virgin Mary in the cellar.. With a big picture and candle etc. Its still there because its apparently very bad luck to move things like that.... Freaks me out everytime I go in there.

A bunch of different ID cards (same photo, different names) under the carpet in the spare room. We gave them to the police. The house had had a high turnover of short term tenants before we moved in. We never did here what happened afterwards.

@EinsteinsArousedSausagesHCB I'm torn between wanting to see a picture and not!

6 months after moving into our previous house we started getting strange letters for the orevious tenants. We asked the landlord to pass them on but they had just disappeared. We opened them. Abiut 1 a week from friends in america. They were scientologists urging their friends to come back and if they oay they can reinstate tgeir status! We dont know what they did other than rhn away but the letters bever stopped until we left. 2 months straight we had scientologists come knock on the door asking fir the infamous couple. Demanding to know where they were and who we were. Proceeding to go round to our back garden to check and peering through the windows. I ended up telling them to fuck off or i will video them and call the police. We also found a safe with loads of scientology papers in there but we just chucked it out. I do wander about the couple sometimes and hope they are ok and didnt go back!

That was rubbish spelling.

I am liking this thread, but the child found in the suitcase is very sad.

I have nothing exciting to add. I had to remove umpteen sackfuls of sheer rubbish and built in storage left in my house. Only got the keys a couple of weeks ago and still working through it!
Thankfully, nothing creepy in the loft! (Apart from birds getting in)

Country house. Our first day there was a big ‘scrub out 60 years of not house proud ex-owners’ working bee. Early in the day, I sent DH up into the tiny attic/under roof space. He vacced and dusted, lots of sneezing.

He came down very wobbly and bleary-eyed. I thought he’d had a bit of an allergic reaction, so gave him an antihistamine and told him to nap.

I went up, and found the remains of a substantial marijuana drying operation, basically an organised network of strings over beams. Pot dust an inch thick everywhere. We both slept the rest of the day...

Potatolove19 Why did you chuck out the papers? They could have been important or at serious in some way. Both fascinating and terrifying. They are bullies them Scientology ones.

I am NEVER moving house again!

We found several empty tins of dog-food, with spoons in them, when ripping out the bathroom. The family we bought the house from did have a dog, but I don't imagine it ate its Winalot with a spoon while having a nice relaxing soak...

skittles did the antihistamine help him come down from the pot?

@landlirdisaweirdo who keeps the remains of his dead relatives in a loft full stop, never mind of a house he's not living in?! I think you should be relieved to be moving - after all, perhaps they aren't his relatives

They were just pamphlets. No personal info. And the people who left clearly didnt want to be found so why make it difficult for them! Also what would i do with them? Police wouldnt have been interested. was also pregnant and had a toddler and knew no one in the area so didnt fancy being followed and interrigated by scientologists. We lived in their home area if you will. Their main chirch was a 10 minute drive from our house. It was a fairly new house. The landlord didnt pay the mortgage in the end. Had baliffs and allsorts turn up and turns out the rent we paid covered the mortgage exactly but he didbt pay it. Had to prove i was a tenant and in the end we had to leave. But have a much better house now and no scientologists!

This thread is priceless!

Potatolove19 Sounds like a stressful stay. From footage I’ve seen of them they are scary and creepy and I wouldn’t want mixed up either. I didn’t realise you had looked at the papers I thought you just threw them out lol

Handsoffmysweets That’s awfully sad.

I found a box of live ammunition under the floorboards of my last house - the previous owner's ex-husband had been a policeman....

I also opened up the pantry which she'd partially boarded up and found a photo album belonging to the ex with photos of his military service in Hong Kong in the 1950s. I put them on eBay in small lots and was amazed to get over £1000 for them. That paid for a new shed

I know someone who was doing up a house he'd bought to sell on and found £4k in £50 notes under the carpet. That was a nice bonus!