We found this in the attic of our new place..

[Dizzybrunette445]

Hi everyone, I'll keep it short but I'm a little freaked out. We have bought a new house and moved in on Thursday, it's been emptied as the elderly lady who lived there on her own (never been married,no kids) has gone into a care home. She owned it for 30yrs.

Anyway, we went into the attic to fill up with some storage of ours and found on the opposite side (we hadn't seen this before as we didn't really check) 2 ropes hanging with a noose on the end, but the rope was quite thin. My partner is freaking me out saying someone probably hung themselves, but I'm trying to think of other situations you would've needed this !
It's a 1940 build.. help!

Nightmares are brewing :-(

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could it have been used for hanging something up to dry? like a leg of ham?

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Would have thought unlikely as anyone who managed it would then have to be cut down and the place investigated by the police etc it’s hardly something you would leave up after such an event even if you then sold the house.

It will have been to hold something up.

Well if someone had hung themselves wouldn't they have cut the rope down when they removed the body? Not carefully worked it off over the head, then left it in place to mess with future owners.

I'm guessing it's something so boring and innocuous that nobody thought to remove it.

Could there have been a plank of wood resting in the "nooses" for a swing?

Thanks everyone I'll sleep easier tonight

If someone hung themselves they wouldn't leave the noose there would they.
Funnily enough I know people who moved into a house built in the 60's and they found one uo their loft aswell. Wonder if it was for something that we wouldn't know about/do now

We have a large attic which you can walk about in. There are lots of rafters and we have a rope hanging from one of them - the kids play on it. It does look like a noose now I think about it! Nothing sinister here.

We had similar in my parents loft - it was to hang random things from (rugs, skis, wallpaper) from the roof rather than on loft boards. Dunno why though...

How thin is thin for the rope? Sounds like fall protection devices. Really common. Left behind by the builders / roofers, they attach their harnesses to them.

Either that or mounting fixtures for a sex swing.

Sex swing 😬😂

My dad used to have a couple of thin ropes with nooses on the end not far from the loft hatch. He only had a short step ladder and the rope would dangle down out the hatch, he’d stick his foot in it and hitch up into the loft on that. Can see why it would look freaky though!!!

Hanging storage.

We had a rope in the loft that looks like a noose but was used to help haul heavy things up into the loft.

A young man hung himself in our coach house in 1990. His widowed mother never went in the building again and I removed the rope from around a beam a few years ago. It was roughly cut where the noose would have been. He scratched his name into the wood of the beam and that is still there. I kept the piece of rope. I’m not sentimental but it is a good reminder of the fragility of life.

@Thatsplentyjack

If someone hung themselves they wouldn't leave the noose there would they. Funnily enough I know people who moved into a house built in the 60's and they found one uo their loft aswell. Wonder if it was for something that we wouldn't know about/do now

I think it was a thing people did to freak out future occupants! We thought it was funny back then. I remember a schoolfriend of mine leaving one in his loft, exactly the same!

Those were adjustable loops where they hung up their artificial xmas tree/sun umbrella/tent/ mushroom drying rack, hung up from each end to stay dry /out of the way/ away from mice.

It’s probably for drying a ham. To keep it off the floor, in case of mice.