What is the weirdest thing you have found when you moved into your flat/house?

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ManofLeisure wrote: »

My son moved into a house and found a very sombre cleric in the attic, or at least, his portrait . We actually had the painting valued and were told that it was a very good 'print' lol. The Bishop was identified and returned to his rightful family.

Did the image of the person in the painting get older as time went on?

LeeBalders

Our house was absolutely disgusting when we bought it, but weird? That would be the false teeth in the boiler cupboard.

melanzana

The house itself was immaculate on moving in day. BUT when I checked out the garage I found an enormous bag containing about 200 small yellow rubber duckies!

Found out later that they were used by the owner for charity duck races on the little river in the park out back. My little nieces and nephews adored them, and made lines of them up and down the garden for weeks until the owner collected them. That was so sweet.

I also found a wrought iron grave marker EEEEK. It was a temporary marker for a relative of the previous owner. Mucho apologies made, but no harm done, and returned on the same day as the ducks!

Runders

I am refurbing my house at the mo, it's old Victorian terrace. Finds so far have included a very random Love Letter behind one of the fireplaces and an old letter under the floorboards. The floorboard letter has instructions to go and look under a certain roof tile for priceless riches, it then goes on to state that greedy people DIE!

wymondham

the creative use of kitchen foil - around lots of things in the consumer unit and most fuses.....

Owain_Moneysaver

A contraceptive (unused, in wrapper), one sock, and a bank card, in one of the sofas in the lounge.

paddy's_mum

Not exactly us moving but we once helped some elderly neighbours to move and found a carrier bag full to the brim with some fawn coloured, short tubes.

Only later did we discover that the householders were hoarders extrordinaire and the tubes were the means by which the wife fed her husband his daily dose of rectal ointment!!!!!

Ken68

Not in a house, but in the car I was inspecting to buy. Found condoms in the door pocket. The man seemed at first puzzled then angry then really angry. Might have been his wife's car he was selling. oops.

kingfisherblue

Our house was a repossession and the previous owner had done something to the earth wires in every socket and switch, leaving it a fire hazard. We had to have a complete rewire.

Once in, we found a safe built into the middle of the dining room floor. The house had been owned by a local shopkeeper when I was a child (I live in the same area and remember the corner shop and the family very well). Presumably it was where he kept his takings until he could go to the bank.

We also found a bin bag full of brand new toys in the loft. We donated them to charity.

My daughter and her partner bought a repossession last year, and it was a mess inside. Someone had bagged up some of the rubbish (and believe me, it was rubbish!). Items that were not bagged included sanitary towels (not in a pack, but on the floor in several rooms, but thankfully not used), pet ashes, probation papers, website details and passwords (including online banking), various kitchen appliances including a slow cooker and a sandwich toaster, a wardrobe without doors, a double bed and two manly double mattresses, and a large elephant ornament (the type you put a pot plant on).

Paperwork was shredded, usable items donated to charity, and the rest was taken to the tip over a period of about a week.

Ben84

Decorating archaeology has revealed that every single room in my house (1920s era) was at some point painted pepto bismol pink.