People Share What Disturbing Things They Discovered After Moving Into A New Home (40 Pics)
Imagine the sheer joy of the day you finally move into your new, dream home. And the cold-shower realization that you may have gotten yourself a haunted house. Okay, let’s not jump to conclusions before scrolling below through this collection of some of the creepiest, weirdest and most unexpected findings people came across upon arrival.
From an eerie-looking old baby stroller found in the far corner of the attic to a spine-chilling monkey doll that looks like straight from a horror movie, and a hidden bunker you had no clue existed, it makes you wonder how little homeowners truly know about the places they are ready to call home.
Arm yourself with a bucket of popcorn, and better bring that duvet to hide under because it’s about to get chilly.
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The New House My Parents Bought Has A Secret Room Hidden Under The Stairs
I’m A Contractor. Bought An Abandoned/Foreclosed Home To Renovate. This Was In The Basement Bathroom. What. The. Hell
Found A Creepy Room In A Hidden Crawl Space In My New Home
A crawl space behind the door contained a safe, briefcase (with money of various countries and origins, silver ingots, jewelry), a stack of mysterious videotapes (one of them was labeled "No no no no"), and a note that said “save yourself”
While some of the creepy discoveries in this list may indeed look unsettling and raise some doubts whether the place you just moved into is really fine, some people encounter way more serious issues. Think of hard-to-explain sightings, sounds, or smells… How do you know your new home is not haunted?
Well, to find out, Bored Panda reached out to Greg Newkirk, full-time paranormal investigator and founder of the world’s only mobile museum of the unexplained. For the last two and a half decades, Newkirk has been tracking down and investigating cases of high strangeness ranging from flying saucer crashes to cursed artifacts and everything in between.
So I Found This Monkey In The Attic
Just Bought An Old House (1913) And Working On Putting In A Patio. Just About Done Digging And Found This Along With Some Scattered Bones
Local police notified and waiting to hear back if they’re human or animal
Just Rented A New Place. Previous Tenant Left The Wall Mirror - And A Dirty Secret
“If you just moved into a house and it doesn't feel quite right, remember that anything but a brand new home has spent years soaking up the experiences, actions, and emotions of the people who have lived inside it,” Newkirk explained. It turns out that many paranormal researchers—including himself—believe that intense emotional states can create some kind of lingering bond with a location, which most people can pick up on unconsciously, the investigator explained.
“My advice, as silly as it might sound, is to talk to your new home, introduce yourself, explain why you're there and that you plan to care for the space. This kind of introduction can make a big difference, because even if you don't believe in ghosts or the paranormal, it can act as a kind of positive affirmation that will help you settle in.”
My Friend Just Bought A New House And Showed Me Where The Ex-Owner Was Found
That's The Eye That Can See Into Your Soul
There's A Room In The Attic Where I Just Moved. Pretty Sure Nothing Good Happened Here
There are no neighbors near enough to hear someone yelling if they were in here...
Hard to tell, but the door is only 4 feet tall and 1.5 feet across (lamp for scale). It's got a light built into it and is painted light green. Metal grate on inside and outside of the door. Ceiling at its highest is a little over 4 feet. I'm hunched down to take these pics.
This is a creepy room upstairs at the far end of the attic at the house I just moved into. This house is overall about 60 years old, and apparently, the previous owner was the head of a church (don't know if that means priest or what)
that looks more like a prison cell, that would be playing in my mind all the time, of what realy happened there.
If you're looking for signs that your new home might be haunted, Newkirk said that you won't have to look too hard. “In my experience, hauntings in residential homes exist primarily to draw the residents' attention to something—whatever is causing the haunting *wants* you to see, hear, or feel it.”
Moreover, “common experiences in haunted homes range from the subtle feeling of being watched all the way up to visual manifestations of what we'd call ghosts. I've found that the longer you go without acknowledging these kinds of anomalies, the more pronounced they'll get until they're basically demanding your attention,” he explained.
So My Parents Just Moved Into A New House And Found This On The Ceiling In One Of The Bedrooms. I Know Which Room I Won't Be Staying In
It says: "I'm under the bed"
Found In The Basement At An Estate Sale
I Should Never Have Opened The Attic
If you're worried that you might be moving into a haunted house, the professional investigator urges you to choose curiosity instead of fear. “Parapsychologists have long believed that there is a strong link between the unconscious mind and ghostly experiences, so when it comes to hauntings, consider that maybe it's *you* with the 'unfinished business,' and not the ghost.”
NYC Woman Felt A Mysterious Airflow Coming From Her Bathroom Mirror, Only To Find A Hidden Apartment Behind It
Just Moved Into My New House. This Is Not A Deep-Pit BBQ
Just Moved Into A New Apartment And Happened Upon What I Thought Was A Piece Of Painted Over Tape Stuck To A Bookshelf
Peeled it up to find it was concealing a mystery
However, “if you remain open to the experience and explore the possibility that a haunting may very well be a product of your own powerful subconscious attempting to communicate important information, you'll find that these experiences are far less scary than they are enlightening. Sure, maybe your ghost is the lingering construct of a dead person, but those are easy to deal with—they just want to talk,” Newkirk explained.
I Just Helped A Friend Move Into Their Apartment. The Next Day They Found 37 Clowns Under Their Porch
Well, it's less disturbing than finding 37 people under a clown's house
Found Out The House We Are Living In Has A Bunker Below. I Managed To Squeeze My Phone In One Of The Cracks Of The Door To Take This Creepy Picture
nope, nope give me a haunted doll any day, just not that many spiders
Recently Moved Into A New Apartment. This Morning I Went Into My Storage Cabinet To Put Things Away And Found Her
The professional investigator reminded us that “if you are seeing things, hearing things, or feeling things that are scary—especially if they're instructing you to do things that are out of character—it's always a good idea to speak with a medical professional before calling in a ghost hunter.” He concluded that “you'd be surprised how many paranormal experiences are cleared up with a visit with a doctor!”
I Just Moved Into A New Apartment And Made A Big Discovery. There Is A Door In The Floor That Leads To A Secret Dungeon
There is a proper 19th century layout of corridors and hatches beneath
Friend Moved Into A New Home And This Is Their Toilet
Renovating A Bathroom In The House We Just Bought, Found A Peephole
Was behind the wall, looking for a place to route a wire, when I saw light and thought I was in luck. Hey, a ready-drilled hole! Unfortunately, it wasn't behind the closet, where I'd needed it to be. It allows a prime view of the shower stall.
This is from the room that was the previous owner's workroom, into the guest bath.
I am officially creeped out.
Block it from both sides immediately, and never ever tell your guests about it.
My Buddy Bought A House Found Some X-Rays In An Old Box
Moved Into A New House. Any Idea Why This Would Be In The Backyard?
So We Opened The Closet Above The Stairs In The House We'd Just Bought
Just Rented A House. It Comes With Our Very Own Knife Room
omg!!! i've always wanted a knife room!! Its super awesome and totally not absolutely terrifying!!
New House. Previous Owners Left This Behind Basement Bathroom Curtain
Man Finds A Secret Room In His New House That Contains Tons Of Ammunition, Guns, And Grenades
Just moved into my first house about 2 weeks ago. Just starting to get settled in. Bought the house for a very cheap price. The previous owner was very old and passed away. The house is very old, but for the price, it was perfect for a first house.
When I first toured the house the basement was way worse than it is now. The previous owner hadn't moved anything out yet. The basement was pretty full with junk. They cleaned most of the stuff in the basement out, so I had to clear some stuff out. But here it is now with some stuff that I don't really need and will probably get rid of soon.
While sorting things out in the basement I noticed this sheet of plywood that oddly fit in. I have had the house for 2 weeks and never noticed it. I decided that I didn't want to keep it down there so I tried to move it. It is pinched pretty hard against the stairs so it was pretty hard to get out.
When I finally got it to move I noticed there was something behind. At this point is when I got my phone and started taking pictures
how old where they..?? it could be a bunker from ww2 depending where u live
Friends And I Moved Into A New House. Found A Closet Full Of Doll Cutouts. Thought That Was Creepy Enough On Its Own But When You See It
Found This On My New Apartments Toilet
My Friend Just Moved To Texas And Found This In Her House
Just Moved House And This Was Sitting In The Kitchen In An Envelope Titled "Dads 2 Sharp Teeth + Photo"
There's A Multi-Room Dungeon/Cave In The Backyard Of The House I Rented
I rented this cool house in the hills of a Los Angeles suburb and there is a lot of DIY stonework on the property - little walls, an archway, steps and this dungeon built into the hill right behind the house. The history I've gathered is that a stonemason lived here for decades until he passed away from old age in the 90s, when the current owner purchased the property and began renting it. No one I've talked to knows what the dungeon was used for
Rent to Hollywood for bucks....Some horror flick just waiting to be made there...
Just Bought A House. Found This In The Basement. Sealed Tight
Found This In The Attic Of My Vacation Home
Found This Bottle In The Basement Of My New House. Wonder What's In It
Previous Owner Of New House Blocked This Hidden Basement Room Off With A Shelf (Door Does Not Lead Outside)
Helped My Friend Move. Found This In His New-Old Creepy Shed. Said I Could Have It
Moved Into A New House And These Were In The Freezer
Woman Finds Creepy "Hidden Room" In Her New House
aww man thats most likely where a lil girl hid all her loved toys
Renting A House For The Summer. Just Found This In The Backyard. Do I Dare?
and then it turns out its a load of nappies or something equally as anticlimactic
I Found This Painting Tucked Away Behind The Washer/Dryer In The Laundry Room Of My New House
Today We Found All Of This Stuff In An Old Power Box In My House - It Turns Out The Previous Owner Tapped The Phone Line To Listen To His Wife’s Calls
All of the cassettes are filled with phone conversations called from my houses landline ~20 years ago
Found This Secret Door In My Room Today
Moved Into A New Flat Today And This Was In The Attic
Found This Old Tape In The Deceased Estate House We Just Bought. The Handwritten Note Inside Saying "Testing Evil Spirits, 1973"
Just Moved Into A New Rental, Previous Tenant Left This Very Big, Very Heavy, Double Padlocked Box, Over 5 Years Ago
What would be so important to padlock but useless enough to leave in a vacant house?
Just Moved Into A New Apartment. Found This In The Basement
This Was Hanging In My Basement When We Moved In
Just Moved Into My New House, Found This In The Backyard
This Room In An Old House I Bought That's Entirely Covered In 1970's Magazine Clippings
Found A Small Room Under Our House Containing This Letter And Some Candle
I discovered the room in the house we are renting in. The room is approx 1.5m tall and 4x3 wide, the floor is just dirt but there was a blanket in the corner surrounded by candles, paper and then this letter. We were walking around the house and I was peeling vine off the walls (we are new at the house and it's relatively overgrown) and pulled down a section of vine and saw this hole in the side of the house and went investigating!
Found A Second Secret Door At The House We Just Bought
There Is A Door Bolted Closed In The Basement Of The House My Friend Is Renting
Found Seven Of These Concrete "Sculptures" In The Garden Of The House We Just Bought
Had To Go To The Attic To Check For Moisture In A House I'm Renting. This Is The Only Thing Stored There And It Sits Directly Above My Bed
My Sis And BIL Moved Into A New House Today, Found This Safe In The Floor And Can't Open It. Yet
Woman Finds Creepy Crawl Places In Brand-New Home
That Is A Scary Gnome
My Friend Just Moved Into A New Apartment And Guess What He Found
Boyfriend And I Move Into A House And Discover This Engraved Above His Bedroom Door. "It Never Stops"
This could be either terrifying or sad. Someone with depression or something similar or someone creepy, take your pick..
So, We Found This In The Basement Of Our New House
Just Bought A House And Was Re-Checking Appliances. The Food Disposer Was Making Grinding Noises So I Looked Inside And Found This
Found Some Old Photos Of The 100-Year-Old House That I Just Bought. Saw Something Creepy In One Of The Windows
My Mom's New House Has A Secret Room
Just Turned On The Light For The First Time In My New House To Find This. What Does It Go To?
Better Leave That Wallpaper Lest You Want Some Angry Children Ghosts Roaming About
Moved Into A New House. The Kids Found Dozens Of Fake Teeth Under A Crumbling Paving Stone
Just Moved Into A New Apartment And Had Issues With The Shower Draining
My Friend Moved Into A Flat In Paris With This On The Wall
Just Moved Into Our New House In June, Found This In Our Son's Bedroom On The Windowsill
It says: "I don't care how blue your eyes are you'll never get away"
We Bought A Fixer Upper And Found These Under The Stairs. The Doorknob Locked From The Outside And Walls Were Covered In Cork (For Sound Dampening, I Assume)
My Sister Just Moved Into Her First Flat. She Found These Engravings On The Doors Throughout The Place
She told me there's another one which reads "no Oliver don't" but can't take a proper photo of it! We shall be investigating
A Deer Skull Was Lodged In A Tree When We First Bought Our House. I Brought It Inside And I Still Keep It On My Dresser
Weird Clay Mask I Found In A Pot Of Rocks In My New Backyard After I Moved
While Dismantling A Wardrobe, Left By The Previous Owners, I Found This Weird But Well-Drawn Sketch
I Discovered A Bunker In The Basement Of The House I Live In
I Walked Into The Bathroom Of My New House, To Find This
The Attic Door In My New Home Constantly Opens On Its Own
Found This Letter On The Back Of A Picture (Which Looks Like A Duvet In The Middle Of A Forest) In Our First Rented House
Couldn't help but get creepy vibes from it.
Sorry, I couldn't fit it all in originally: "....to come back to our small house, I love it and I love to share it with you. Thanks a lot. Love You. Silvia"
I suspect a lot of this stuff is inspired by the Blair Witch/Paranormal Activity craze
Just Bought A House. Thought The Note Was Cute Until We Uncovered This
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooope. I'll f*ck with just about anything else on this list -- but someone else's Ouija, nope. Call the realtor, call the priest, call your mom, and call the head of the next country we're moving to. Nope. Hard pass, nopenopenopenope
This Monstrosity Was Found In A Cabinet In The House We Just Moved Into
Finally Got Around To Checking Out My New Apartment's Basement. I'll Be Using The Laundromat
Found This And Some Chicken Bones In An Old Chimney Hatch In Our New House
So I Took The Old Carpets Up In My New House Today, I Think It's Time To Move
What do the last two say? I can only read 'you have now entered mind insanity'
Just Bought A House, Cleaning Out The Crawlspace - Found This
Just Found This Under My Mattress. I've Been Living Here For 3 Months Now And Found It By Chance When Fixing The Sheets
My Sister Found This In The Backyard Of Their New House. The Back Says 1999, So She’s Been Laying In The Yard For At Most 21 Years
Y'all Better Run
Found A Painting Of Belsnickel In The Basement Of My New House
My Grandmother Recently Moved Into A New House. Some Pipes Were Blocked. Found This After The Pipes Were Removed
Turns out there was a whole colony of ants in the pipe
Just Bought My First House And Found A Hidden Safe When I Was Ripping Out The Old Carpet
Found This Hanging In A Friends Barn That He Just Started Renting
Subject: "I don't care how much you paid the artist, it looks nothing like me and you're not hanging it in the house"
Found A New Room In My Apartment's Basement. No Clue What A Newd Spit Is Though
I Moved Into A Flatshare With Two Women. This Is What I Found In The Kitchen
I Just Moved Into A New Apartment, And When I Walked Into The Bathroom I Saw This
Moving Into A New House Built Circa 1940 And We Found This Painted On The Top Of The Basement Stairs
It helps you not trip when you get down and you expect a new step but there is not.
Just Moved Into A New House. What Is This Creepy Thing On My Basement Wall?
I Thought I Was The Only One Whose Flatmates Were Growing Potato Monsters. This One Was Growing For A Year And I Discovered It The Weekend I Moved In
Friend Moved To A New Apartment. This Is What Is Inside One Of The Drawers. Wtf?
Looks like either dead roaches or rat poop, or a nasty mixture of both.
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If you made it this far then the curse is unleashed😱😱😱😱
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We fuond that the previous owners never had the ductwork cleaned. You want horror? That bill.
I found a bunch of baby teeth individually wrapped in tissue paper, in a keepsake tin, figured the previous occupants--an elderly couple who had moved into an assisted living place--had simply forgotten them. I guessed that they had kept their kids'/grandkids' teeth as part of the "tooth fairy" thing. Got their new address from the landlord and mailed the box to them. Proud of my good deed, I mentioned it to Holly, my neighbor. "That's funny," she said. "They didn't have children."
Sooo, it's possible you just freaked out a lovely elderly couple by mailing them an unsolicited box of teeth? 🤨😀
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We might have written cryptic messages on the wall before laying out the acoustic insulation, I wonder if it'd ever make one of those lists when we sell the house!
This gives me so many good ideas of what to do in our crawl space and attic before we ever move out! Love it!
I learned from this that people like to leave teeth and dolls behind when moving.
We rent a converted storefront on the main street of "TrekTown." Building's about 100 years old. Thought there was a closet in the back corner of the living room when we first moved in... Turns out to be a stairwell that goes down to a brick-walled basement that's chronically damp and leaking. But the scary part is that there's this little closet-like room (no door) with a concrete slab bed (about 12" clearance beneath it, built straight into the wall) occupying most of the floor space. Whole room is about the size of a jail cell.
I should not have looked at this. I should not have looked at this. I SHOULD NOT HAVE LOOKED AT THIS! I don't believe in supernatural stuff, but I still get super creeped out by it. Now, I'm off to go find a post about cats.
Does anyone, the realtor or buyer, even go into these houses before they buy them?
The superstitious credulity expressed in these posts is what scares me, because it's a constant reminder that even in this supposed age of science and reason, vast swaths of humanity have intellectually barely advanced beyond cave dwellers. Let me try and help... Here's a list of things you should be wary of in life: Large carnivores and wild animals. People... Here's an incomplete list of things that are harmless and should not cause any kind of rational fear: Clowns. Dolls. Ouija boards (see following list). Rocking chairs. Attics. Basements. The dark. Old hospitals. Unidentified creaking sounds in an old house at night... Here's a list of things that do not exist, and so shouldn't ever worry you: Ghosts. Evil spirits. Demons. Witches. Curses. Aliens. (I would add other items to this last list, but I'm probably already going to be downvoted into oblivion).
Unidentified creaking sounds in an old house at night *could* be people or wild animals, so that one should be allowed to cause rational fear.
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My hairdresser hides his practice mannequin heads in random places, just to ensure future heart attacks
Every time I leave a place I love to leave words of wisdom behind . . . behind mirrors, under a carpet, inside a cabinet. Not mean things, thoughts about life. New owners have something to talk about . . .
Here! Basket's full of puppies for everybody.... 0x0-6194e9...55968f.jpg
If you made it this far then the curse is unleashed😱😱😱😱
Load More Replies... We fuond that the previous owners never had the ductwork cleaned. You want horror? That bill.
I found a bunch of baby teeth individually wrapped in tissue paper, in a keepsake tin, figured the previous occupants--an elderly couple who had moved into an assisted living place--had simply forgotten them. I guessed that they had kept their kids'/grandkids' teeth as part of the "tooth fairy" thing. Got their new address from the landlord and mailed the box to them. Proud of my good deed, I mentioned it to Holly, my neighbor. "That's funny," she said. "They didn't have children."
Sooo, it's possible you just freaked out a lovely elderly couple by mailing them an unsolicited box of teeth? 🤨😀
Load More Replies... We might have written cryptic messages on the wall before laying out the acoustic insulation, I wonder if it'd ever make one of those lists when we sell the house!
This gives me so many good ideas of what to do in our crawl space and attic before we ever move out! Love it!
I learned from this that people like to leave teeth and dolls behind when moving.
We rent a converted storefront on the main street of "TrekTown." Building's about 100 years old. Thought there was a closet in the back corner of the living room when we first moved in... Turns out to be a stairwell that goes down to a brick-walled basement that's chronically damp and leaking. But the scary part is that there's this little closet-like room (no door) with a concrete slab bed (about 12" clearance beneath it, built straight into the wall) occupying most of the floor space. Whole room is about the size of a jail cell.
I should not have looked at this. I should not have looked at this. I SHOULD NOT HAVE LOOKED AT THIS! I don't believe in supernatural stuff, but I still get super creeped out by it. Now, I'm off to go find a post about cats.
Does anyone, the realtor or buyer, even go into these houses before they buy them?
The superstitious credulity expressed in these posts is what scares me, because it's a constant reminder that even in this supposed age of science and reason, vast swaths of humanity have intellectually barely advanced beyond cave dwellers. Let me try and help... Here's a list of things you should be wary of in life: Large carnivores and wild animals. People... Here's an incomplete list of things that are harmless and should not cause any kind of rational fear: Clowns. Dolls. Ouija boards (see following list). Rocking chairs. Attics. Basements. The dark. Old hospitals. Unidentified creaking sounds in an old house at night... Here's a list of things that do not exist, and so shouldn't ever worry you: Ghosts. Evil spirits. Demons. Witches. Curses. Aliens. (I would add other items to this last list, but I'm probably already going to be downvoted into oblivion).
Unidentified creaking sounds in an old house at night *could* be people or wild animals, so that one should be allowed to cause rational fear.
Load More Replies... My hairdresser hides his practice mannequin heads in random places, just to ensure future heart attacks
Every time I leave a place I love to leave words of wisdom behind . . . behind mirrors, under a carpet, inside a cabinet. Not mean things, thoughts about life. New owners have something to talk about . . .
