In hindsight, I'm floored that I was stupid enough to post it here among the perfect people who always know exactly what to do in every situation. You'd think I would have learned by now.
I think we can all agree the home you bought wasn't a common listing. Most homes don't come with food & clothes.
Every home we've ever looked at included a stove, microwave, refrigerator in the kitchen, washer & dryer. Those are fairly basic. If those weren't included, I'd expect the seller or realtor to mention that. OTOH, I wouldn't assume anything else was included, unless they specifically said it was.
My dad and brother are flippers and I have seen many, many weird things. Most houses they buy are short-sale or foreclosure and some people just up and leave without taking anything with them. The strangest, or creepiest one I should say, was a house that the owner died in at the age of 97. She had no living relatives so the house went into an estate sale. When we were touring it, all the rooms were still furnished in period pieces dating back to the early 1900's. It really felt like I was stepping onto a movie set. However, there was one room on the 2nd floor that totally freaked me out. It was a spare bedroom and contained thousands of porcelain dolls. There were shelves from the floor to the ceiling filled with these dolls that were so creepy looking. She even had some hung from the ceiling by their feet or necks. There were some that were missing heads or feet and some that were just heads! My dad was fascinated and kept saying how much they were worth...but I felt like every single one was watching me and I couldn't get out of there fast enough!
We had a bedroom like that, when I was growing up. My handicapped grandmother moved in with us. She wasn't able to get into a regular bathroom with her wheelchair, so my Dad had someone put a toilet w/rails in her room. It was the biggest bedroom in the house, so it wasn't like the toilet was on top of the bed. In our case, it was out of necessity, but it didn't really seem odd to me.
I wouldn't even consider buying a house, where the owners had snakes. It wouldn't matter to me what kind of snake it was.
The strangest bedroom I've been in? .....My own.
It sounds like she either made the dolls herself or was repairing/restoring older dolls. The dolls that were hanging from the ceiling had likely been recently painted. They had been hung up while the paint dried.
I've creeped a few people out by having a My Little Pony head propped up on a paint brush while the paint dried.
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