Ever Found Anything Interesting Hidden In Your House?

[NotUrsula]

WTR to jewelry in odd places, my niece was renting an apt. just after college that had furnished appliances. The icemaker in the fridge wasn't working properly, and she decided to take a look at it to see if it was just stuck. It was -- the mechanism was jammed by a 4 carat ruby ring.

I also have one of those "creepy thing" stories. When I was renting an apartment in grad school, I found a bone-handled hunting knife on my kitchen counter one day when I got home from work. No clue how it got there, and nothing in the house appeared to be missing. I changed the locks that night without asking my landlord's permission.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Never found anything interesting in my house.
When we moved in, there were black cobwebs in the kitchen. We could literally take a rake and rake up the dog hair in what became my bedroom. When we pulled up the carpeting in the living room, there was a layer of industrial carpeting glued to the floor. When we finally go that up, we found old wet spots (presumably from the dogs) in the flooring.
In the refrigerator, there was rotting and molding food left.
And the people had just moved out that morning.
The worst part was, the woman was a housekeeper for a hotel near the airport.

A couple years later, my dad was digging under a tree in the backyard when he found a blanket buried. When he pulled it up, there was another blanket, then a large plastic trashbag. Not knowing if there was a body there, he had to come inside to get a drink. He went and talked to the neighbor and they said it was probably a large dog. When My dad finally opened the bag, he saw a dog which instantly started to disinigrate as soon as the air hit it.


My aunt though, inherited a house from a neighbor of hers. Apparently, the old wooden floors had cracks everywhere. When they looked under the flooring, they found tons of coins laying around everywhere. Evidently, the man who lived there didn't like carrying change, so he dropped it on the floor and it eventually went down the cracks.

 

[dawson5]

When my husband and I first moved out, we rented an old lake cottage. There was a hole in the roof and during the time it was being fixed, the ceiling had to come down. You could actually see outside through the hole in our living room for a few days. Anyways, the living room ceiling was ceiling tiled on top of a drywall ceiling. The drywall ceiling had a painted compass (as best as we could tell) on it. It wasn't a ornate but was nicely done, not sloppy or crude. We also found an old picture and recipe card there. These cottages were probably built around the 40's.

We eventually bought a turn of the century farmhouse. The only thing we found there was the previous owner's porn subscription renewal envelopes and some catalog offers. We never did venture up in the attic.

 

[tebi73]

Our house was built in the early 1900's by DH's great-grandfather. When we went to remodel the kitchen, we had to tear down a wall between the kitchen & the laundry room. As we removed the layer upon layer of horrible wallpaper, we finally got to the last layer. It was hung & glued to burlap sacks stretched between the 2x4's.

 

[lovesmurfs]

The worst part was, the woman was a housekeeper for a hotel near the airport.

The cobbler's children have no shoes. When we moved into our house (sold by someone who'd been there 19 years, as the 2nd owner), there were two things wrong, according to the final inspection: Heating and Air Conditioning.

Yep. He was (is, I guess) a heating and air conditioning contractor.

 

[AKL_Megs]

These are all GREAT stories! I loved reading them!

 

[TheBigBadWolf]

My last two homes have been fairly new, 3 & 6 years old, so I never found anything inside them. But in my yard I found numerous arrowheads and Indian artifacts. I loved finding the artifacts, and found one that is extremely old, like "caveman" prehistoric old. The others are more modern arrowheads and stone knives, probably 500 years old or less. We lived on a ridge in the foothills of the mountains, so it must have been a good spot for Native Americans to live, too. Our view was gorgeous and looked down upon a valley with a creek running through it.

Also in my driveway I found a complete fossil of a fish, minus the head, imbedded in the rock. I LOVED that fossil and wish I could've had that rock dug up and brought it with me to my new home. I still own that land, so hopefully some day I will spend the money and have it blasted out of the ground (HUGE rock). I would love to have it in the gardens at my new home.

When we moved my greenhouse to our new home, I did find a Mason jar buried in the pea gravel that had six $100 bills in it. Some crazy lady had buried it there and forgotten... ME!! I always wondered how people have money in safety deposit boxes and banks and forget about it, and now I know. Only I buried the money instead of putting it in the bank. I hope I didn't "forget" about any more of my stash spots.

 

[Tracy Savage]

No, but if in the future someone looks in our old, unused cistern, they will find a time capsule.

A couple years ago we replaced our wooden back porch. Underneath it was an old cistern. The new porch now totally covers it. But before we covered it, we put in a current newspaper, family photos, and a typed letter describing my family.

My house was built in 1890 and we are the third owners. The second family lived here since the 20s. We have a cistern that I haven't explored yet. I know back in the day they used to throw stuff in them. There is a spot on the property that stuff keeps coming to the surface, china bits, glass etc. In the barn I found a wax doll about 3 inches tall in the original box and a ribbon on her neck that says "My Papa will vote for McKinley" I thought that was cool because I am related to Mckinley!! Anyone wanna come over and dig? Oh and there is whats left of a once beautiful ornate iron bed frame in the woods, half buried in the dirt.

 

[doxdogy]

Okay I have to ask WTR=????

 

[lovesmurfs]

Okay I have to ask WTR=????

With regard to or with respect to.

 

[doxdogy]

WTR to jewelry in odd places; was posted a few posts back. Unless it was suppose to be WRT (with regard too). Be gentle it has been a rough week.

 

[DisMN]

We bought a 1930's house in the late '90s and fixed it up. At some point while we lived there, I found this weird old medal up on a high shelf I was painting. It was old and had a swastika and some writing on it. I can't remember what the writing said or even what language it was in. I pondered what to do with it, but in the end I threw it away because it just creeped me out. I didn't care if was valuable or not - I didn't want to give any honor to it.

The swastika was a symbol used around the world for many a millenium before it's use as a nazi symbol. The medal could easily have been something other than a nazi medal........would have been interesting to seek out more info on your cool find!
I have a beautiful Victorian 18k gold stick pin, a swastika with a sweet little ruby in the center of it that belonged to my husbands great grandmother.

Never found anything weird in our house. But when I was cleaning out my mother's house to sell, I found in a night table in her room one of those popsicle stick boxes (like you'd make at camp) with painted shells adorning the top...and bullets inside. Mom doesn't remember the story behind that. Must've been a rough camp.

Back in the days when school boys and boyscouts would go to school in the morning WITH their shotguns....with the purpose of going directly from school to either hunt or to boyscouts without first having to go home and get their *equipment*.
After school schedule:
#1 boyscout pledge and snacks
#2 make mom one of those awsome popsicle stick boxes
#3 go out and shoot guns

The only thing I ever found in my house just after I moved in was a Coke can sitting on my kitchen counter (still somewhat cool) that wasn't there when I left that morning.

I then found a small window that was unlocked and had no screen.

The next thing I found was a security system.

Creeeepy!!

 

[lovesmurfs]

WTR to jewelry in odd places; was posted a few posts back. Unless it was suppose to be WRT (with regard too). Be gentle it has been a rough week.

Sorry -- didn't notice the typo in the PP's post.

Happy Friday!

 

[WDWBarb]

Scary, Barb! I'm glad to see you posting. I hadn't "seen" you in quite a while and was hoping everything was ok.

Hey Liberty!! I've been lurking a bit - we just got back from Disney a week ago and I'm still catching up at work and at home. Also suffering great Disney withdrawl!

How's things with you??

 

[LaurenLC]

Nothing exciting in our house, but my husband grew up in a farm house that was built in 1770 (outside of Philadelphia). The home stayed in the original builder's family until his parents purchased it around 1979. Walking in the attic, cellar and outside buildings is like looking through an American History Museum. I keep telling my in-laws that they need to donate or sell some things.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Hey Liberty!! I've been lurking a bit - we just got back from Disney a week ago and I'm still catching up at work and at home. Also suffering great Disney withdrawl!

How's things with you??

Great, thanks! You're the third family from Lexington that I know who just got back from Disney. If you're suffering withdrawl, you must have had a good time. Glad to hear it!

 

[disneybound2010]

When I was little, my best friend and I would spend hours digging up her backyard...we were always playing pirates and treasure hunters. This area played a major part in the Civil War. Imagine the looks on our faces when we started finding "real treasures" Her yard was full of musket balls and a few other odds and ends that could be dated back to that time period. Nothing was of any worth(her Mom told my Mom they looked at the balls and then dropped them in a jar full of them) but to two little tomboys this was like hitting the jackpot!

 

[GingerJay]

Great stories!!! I would love to have a house with some history

Unfortunately, I rent a newer house so we have nothing cool....

 

[Liberty Belle]

When I was little, my best friend and I would spend hours digging up her backyard...we were always playing pirates and treasure hunters. This area played a major part in the Civil War. Imagine the looks on our faces when we started finding "real treasures" Her yard was full of musket balls and a few other odds and ends that could be dated back to that time period. Nothing was of any worth(her Mom told my Mom they looked at the balls and then dropped them in a jar full of them) but to two little tomboys this was like hitting the jackpot!

That reminds me. When I was in fifth grade, my parents let my friend and I dig in the backyard one day. Our house was, I'd say about a hundred years old. We dug up some small animal bones. We ran in to show my mom and she said they were chicken bones; that people used to bury their trash. She told us to put them back where we found them and put the dirt back on top. Now I'm thinking they were maybe someone's pet's bones.

 

[Tiana]

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