“My current apartment was left with all sorts of freaky [stuff]. When I started renting the place, the previous tenant [passed] after living there for 90 years. I was told by my landlord that upon cleaning out the basement, he came across three casks of prohibition whiskey. Pretty [cool] stuff.
Once we moved in, my roommate and I continued to explore the place to find other relics of a past era. The main floor was fairly empty, however when we found our way into the attic, we encountered all sorts of bizarre stuff. The attic itself has no electricity. It is dark, cold, and the walls are messes of remnants of peeled paint and mysterious stains from ages ago. One room … consists of a pair of four-foot-long wire bed frames, an old sewing machine, and what looks like a noose made from pantyhose. In the corner is a dresser with four empty drawers, and one drawer that clearly has something in it, but the knobs have been removed and despite our efforts, we have been unable to pry it open.
The other room in the attic is a little more on the fun end. Other than a pair of disgusting 1940s couches, there is an old Victrola, newspapers from the 1940s (hilarious) as well as an oddly placed dream catcher hanging from a small, 1.5×3 ft ‘closet.’
All in all, there was a lot of bizarre and interesting things left in the house. The most unexplainable however, showed up a year and a half into my residency. I woke one day only to find scribbled in red on the wall of my bedroom, the word ‘Miaau.’ Nobody has been able to explain what it means or where it came from. Pretty weird stuff.”
Meat Hooks In The Basement
anthropology_nerd shared this story:
“My family purchased a 100-year-old house in upstate New Hampshire. The previous owner was a German guy who made his own sausage in the basement and sold it out of the front parlor of the house.
Imagine, if you will, half a basement that is stone-lined, dark, with a dirt floor and perfectly creepy in its own way. There were massive gaps between hanging light bulbs so you frequently walked/ran in the dark after turning off the lights to go upstairs. Combine this part of the basement with the other half (tucked around a corner under a newer addition to the house) built to sanitation code with white plastic walls, concrete floor, temperature control, a walk in freezer (for some reason with no door handle if you were locked inside), and meat hooks hanging from the ceiling. After the initial exploration, my brother and I never went in the basement.”
The Secret Room
Redditor otherself commented:
“I lived in this big, but really crappy party house for a year, and after we all left, a bunch of our friends moved in. It was an old house, and our landlord sucked – would put up plexiglass for the windows instead of actual glass, when we complained of the drafts moving through, he tried to board up the windows with plywood… Anyway, our friends who moved in afterward rearranged the kitchen, and thus, found a random square cut in the wall where some shelves were.
So they popped it out to see what was behind it – ends up, there’s practically another room between the kitchen and the dining room. A skinny room, more like a random strip of space. But then there was a ledge, which I guess we assumed was what the attic crawl space was supposed to be from upstairs, and on that ledge, they discovered a sleeping bag, a pillow, and other random things – all of which weren’t that old and looked fairly used.”
Is It An Exorcism Kit?
From YouveBeenDuplicated:
“Not my house, but my grandmother’s … She [passed] early last year, and I was given the task of clearing out her house for sale. Among a lot of valuable but mundane antiques there was a really worn-out picture of Jesus in a wooden frame, a few inches thick, which I found in her room. Just by chance, I noticed there was a rusty latch on the side. The picture actually opened from the back and revealed a very odd assortment of items: I remember a large wooden cross, vial, rosary, cloth, and spoon (?). The stuff really looked ancient. I knew my grandmother was very religious (went to church every day, house and car filled with religious paraphernalia) so it didn’t surprise me. When I showed it to my mother though she had no idea what it was, she’d seen the picture before but never knew it opened up. Personally I like to think it was an exorcism kit or something of the like.”
A Dangerous Kit In The Crawlspace
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