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30 Times People Stepped Into Someone Else’s House And Just Had To Share The Weird Things That They Saw
When you’re writing a mystery or horror story, you more or less have to follow certain narrative rules and guidelines. For instance, characters have to have motivations, show complex feelings, and have to act more or less logically so that they appear more than cardboard cutouts. In short—things have to make sense to the reader. Real life, however, can be far more chaotic than fiction. And far from everyone behaves like a rational human being ‘ought to.’
Welcome to the world of the utterly bizarre, Pandas! Redditors from all around the globe shared the strangest and weirdest things that they’ve ever seen in someone else’s home in a viral r/AskReddit thread. And their experiences are bound to take you far outside your comfort zone.
What they saw ranged from creepy and terrifying to confusing and inexplicably awesome. Check out their stories below, and upvote the ones that really left their mark on you. What’s the most peculiar thing you’ve seen as a house guest? Be sure to share your own stories in the comment section at the bottom of this post.
We got in touch with Connor, the founder of the massively successful @con_spiracy TikTok account, to get his opinion about how modern entertainment that deals with the strange and the bizarre shapes our expectations. He also shared his thoughts about distinguishing between fact and fiction on the internet. Connor shares stories about true crime, weird facts, morbid events, and conspiracies with his 4.4 million followers. Check out Bored Panda's full interview with the content creator below, Pandas!
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#1
When I was in high school, my Mom came home from a garage sale with a coffin. It was a wooden antique from England. It was from the 19th century. It had screw holes in the top which lifted all the way off. The couple who sold it to her were getting rid of it because they disagreed about what purpose it should serve. The wife wanted to keep using it as a coffee table w/blanket storage and the husband wanted to turn it into a gun rack. My Mom thought it was great as a coffee table so my siblings and I spent the next few years asking our friends, “Would you like a blanket from the coffin?” while we watched TV. So yeah, high school was fun.
Marie Bland 3 years ago
My friend, a funeral director, has a couple of coffins as drinks cabinets, they're also painted in his native Scottish flag
Marilyn Russell 3 years ago
I just hope it wasn’t pre-used. That’s a little too creepy. And gross.
Fact really can be stranger than fiction. Connor and I definitely agree on that!
"I’ve read countless true stories that Stephen King himself couldn’t have concocted in years of brainstorming. The natures of the world and people are far more complex and unpredictable than we’ll ever be able to depict through media. For this, modern entertainment will never fully prepare us for some of the crazier and bizarre real-life experiences," the founder of the @con_spiracy brand gave Bored Panda his perspective.
"If anything, it will only skew our expectations and jeopardize our abilities to mentally grasp these incalculable situations that occur with no budgets, no time limits, no agendas, no frame of reference," he noted that the entertainment that we consume in our spare time won't necessarily help us deal with strange situations in real-life because the latter is on a different wavelength entirely.
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#2
I went to my friend Brian's house once for dinner and his mom set 4 places. One for me, one for brian, one for her self and the last one was for a doll with a cut out picture of Brian's dead grandmothers face taped to the dolls face.
Very creepy.
Manny_Flawz 3 years ago
Grief turned me into a testy a-hole for about 6 months. Glad to finally be passed that.
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Paulo Freitas 3 years ago
Hmmmm isn't there a movie about this??? Lol i forgot the doll's name....
Karen Tyas 3 years ago
Brian come on, if Mom won’t put Grandmom doll away for new guests at least warn them!
#3
When I was little, I had two friends who had a trapeze in their living room.
I loved playing at their houses.
Carter Allen 3 years ago
one of my old friends has 3 swings in their basement, loved playing on those things.
delicious 3 years ago
ive been to a house with a wooden swing attached to the ceiling, its so fun
JMC5003 3 years ago
We had a swing in the living room for years, when the kids were little. Hoping to get one in the in-law suite my daughter is building for me. There's just something so relaxing about reading a good book while gently swinging back and forth. : )
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Virginie Michaud 3 years ago
I had a trapeze in my bedroom. It was very popular with friends. We would swing so hard we'd push off the ceiling with our feet. Wasn't as fun when I had to paint the ceiling with years of toe smudges on it.. 😝
Paulo Freitas 3 years ago
Well today you're an adult and eventually you'l end up meating some One with a stripper pole in their livingroom....
Heather Talma 3 years ago
Wait, two friends in DIFFERENT houses who EACH had a trapeze? Where do you live??
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 years ago
My mom once hosed down the backyard for 4 days straight so we could ice skate as the lake wasn't frozen yet. We also sock skated in the house after mom waxed the floors. All the neighborhood kids came. We had fun and she didn't have to buff the floors
"As someone who has seen my fair share of bizarre and even unexplainable circumstances, they can certainly be life-changing, for better or worse. They can open you to up to ideas that you once thought to be impossible and make you more understanding of people who feel alone in their own unique experiences," Connor said.
"But at the same time, they can make you feel isolated from people who are fixated on the only reality they’ve ever experienced themselves. While you can’t blame these people most of the time, this can be very frustrating and often forces us to bury these bizarre memories that we often wish we didn’t possess."
#4
I went to this guys house, they had a pet beaver. Now when I say beaver, I'm talking they had a little pond and rocks and cage thing with a happy little beaver inside in the middle of their living room. The beaver came right up to the edge of the cage and let me pet it and all. It was awesome.
ThisIsMyDisplayName 3 years ago
Beavers are wild animals - they look adorable, but it's cruel and unfair on them to treat them as house pets.
Gemma Cadd 3 years ago
It could have been raised in captivity and/or unable to survive in the wild
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Kingsloth262 3 years ago
Ok, to all the people saying it’s cruel (and I’m not saying a disagree completely so don’t be cruel), but we don’t know the full situation. What if the beaver couldn’t be in the wild because it was sick or had a north defect? What if they rescued it when it’s natural habitat was destroyed to make way for housing? What if this person was a zoologist and the beaver was bred in captivity? Let’s not say these people were veil when we don’t know the whole situation, that’s all I’m saying.
Rebecca O’Donnell 3 years ago
No, Kingsloth262, we don’t know the whole story and your examples are valid. But a living room is not a place for a beaver habitat.
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Headless Roach 3 years ago
this statement can be terribly misunderstood..... and it's beautiful
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Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
This is serious abuse. Beavers are intensely social animals, need huge amounts of room and enrichment, and must have constant access to wood & other materials they use to construct dams in the wild.
CrazyCatLady 3 years ago
It could have been raised in captivity and/or unable to survive in the wild (Comment above from Gemma Cadd)
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lisa thomas 3 years ago
I wonder what it smelled like?? How would the water be changed or cleaned!
RajunCajun 3 years ago
#name that move "Nice beaver" "thanks I just had it stuffed" the first correct answer gets my +1
#5
My girlfriend in college had many odd things on shelves, I think the strangest were 3 bearded dragon fetuses suspended in alcohol in small glass vials.
I married her, so I guess I should say our shelf now...
AffenpinscherMom 3 years ago
My now husband was pretty creeped out by the jar of alcohol that contained a full monocal king cobra holding a black scorpion in its mouth. My brother brought it back from his visit to Cambodia as a gift for me because he knew I would love it. Of course the alcoholic "ingredients" had something to do with increasing sexual energy or whatever they often obsess about in some parts of Asia.
Luna Crow 3 years ago
Yeah I'm not sold on the idea that this is weird. I know a handful of people who keep this kind of thing
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smugdruggler 3 years ago
I would love to have this. It'd be good to have a few more so you could see the development over time.
#6
I cat-sat for my neighbor once.
Some Kitty's medication was kept cold. When I opened the fridge to grab it, I noticed tub after tub of jello. Everything in the fridge was jello. Like 40 tubs of it. Nothing else besides the medicine.
Tom Murphy 3 years ago
They might have been scheduled for digestive surgery. I had colon surgery as a child and couldn't eat anything but jello to get cleaned out.
robin aldrich 3 years ago
Yeah when you have to go through that, you're lust for jello is diminished...
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Jessica Sage 3 years ago
Sounds like an eating disorder. I knew someone with anorexia whos only "safe food" was Jello
RagDollLali 3 years ago
That's the first thing that popped into my head too when I read that
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Bryan W. 3 years ago
TBF, many a YA will have nothing in their fridge except random condiments and biology experiments, so this would be an improvement.
Jo L. 2 years ago
Truth. In college I mostly ate instant noodles because they were the cheapest food you could buy, but occasionally I ate vegetables and used an ancient Kraft salad dressing in there a previous tenant had left behind. 😂
Load More Replies...We also touched on the topic of separating the truth of what happened from exaggeration. According to the founder of @con_spiracy, "distinguishing between fact and fiction on the unrestricted library of the internet can be very muddy."
"In my opinion, there’s no clear-cut way to discern whether a story is true or not. There are sources that can definitely increase our confidence in the truthfulness of a story (ie. research papers, government sources, Wikipedia), but we can never be fully certain," he pointed out.
"Even the sources I just mentioned above have (rarely) skewed data and manipulated information in the past to achieve a specific desired effect on the reader. At the end of the day, it is the user’s responsibility to use their best judgment in discerning whether to accept a story as fact or fiction. But hell let’s be honest, it’s way more fun to simply accept every crazy story, encounter, and conspiracy theory as absolute truth, am I wrong?" Connor said that these stories (true or not) can be wildly entertaining.
#7
Just met our new upstairs neighbor and she invited us inside her apartment. It's two units in an old house for reference. She asked us if the last lady that lived in her unit had a daycare or something and I said I didn't think so. She showed me how all the doors/door frames had locks on the outside of the doors... it was freaky.
E 3 years ago
Was the previous owner from India by any chance? Just asking because I used to work for some families from India and they all locked all the internal doors of the house at night, except the bedroom they were in and the bathroom. Like the Dad would literally go around with a set of keys and lock multiple doors between the front door and the stairs. I think because it's common to have a lot of gold jewellery and stuff stored at home?
S S 3 years ago
I am Indian and I have never heard or seen someone do that! I don’t think that’s an Indian thing to do and am afraid that’s how stereotypes are created.
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Old Roadie 3 years ago
Century old house in neighboring village, 3 stories, original wallpaper, original wood stoves, formal parlor, original wood floors, stunning carved winding staircase. Bedrooms on upper levels all bolted from outside, with hasps and padlocks. It was a whorehouse. Locks were to keep the women from running away.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
This is just depressing... Like a lot of history...
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alwaysMispelled 3 years ago
Yeah, saw this in a house rented by a friend once. Creeped me the f**k out. But I watch a lot of murder shows...
Heather Talma 3 years ago
Why exactly does she see that and her first thought is "daycare"? :\
Jo L. 2 years ago
Keeping children out of certain rooms in the era before safety was invented would pretty much require childproofing with existing materials. Bit of a stretch to go to the extent described here, but I can sort of imagine it.
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Bananananananana 3 years ago
My mom has turned around some of my brothers’ doors, is it actually that creepy? I’m not being sarcastic or rhetorical, genuine question.
Dee 2 years ago
I think it really depends upon the circumstances, I’ve known children with extreme behaviours that posed a safety risk to themselves and their family.
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Ohhhh boy ok. This happened a couple years ago. Hopefully I can remember all the details. So my mom and I stopped at, what was advertised as, a garage sale in my neighborhood. They had a bunch of kids stuff in the front yard and we were looking for stuff for my son so we decide to check it out, but when we got close it was all in really bad shape. No big deal, we think, let’s go inside. As we’re walking in we’re greeted by a person we assume to be the owner of the house. He’s wearing black pants and a tiny leather vest with no shirt underneath. I see this now for the red flag that it was. He welcomes us and tells us everything in the house is for sale. Everything. Look anywhere you want, he says. Open all the drawers. Look in all the closets. Ok cool. Definitely DOESN’T say anything about there being anything weird in the house. First things first the house is kind of s****y/trashed, but still looks relatively normal. Only obviously weird thing is that they have a giant tv playing a crazy looking horror movie. Super scary and gory. He says the tv is for sale too so maybe they’re just playing whatever is on to show it works. We look around and don’t find anything good and decide to go upstairs. Once upstairs we proceed into the first bedroom. Looks pretty normal. Kind of small and furnished for a kid. Nothing we want? Ok move on. The next bedroom looks like someone is sleeping in the bed. Oops - sorry! But no, it is a full sized human horror prop of a very realistic zombie woman and oh f**k in the corner is a very realistic prop of half a human crawling across the floor. These things looked so real guys. We’re like, “Jesus, what the f**k. These people are serious about Halloween.” We go to the next room and it is set up like a full-on dungeon with torture equipment and fake humans and piles of Barbie heads for some reason (??). We are seriously freaked out and decide to leave as quickly and quietly as possible. As we’re walking out of the dungeon room a woman comes out of the other creepy room. We look at each other, wide eyed and silent, and all proceed out the front door to separately process our trauma.
Jessica Sage 3 years ago
Am I the only one that would've dropped everything and bought the zombie props?
KING ILLEGAL FOREST 3 years ago
My guess would be they filmed a horror movie in the house. Or the owners were professionals at special effects. Friend of mine does special effects and makeup for horror and scifi and she has THE WEIRDEST stuff laying around her house.
Jo L. 2 years ago
THAT would be the tie-in of the horror movie on the TV, I'll bet. That actually really makes a lot of sense to me, that they had bought the house for this movie and now were selling it and all the props.
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Guy's clothes and horror movie would have noped me from stepping a foot in that house, let alone with my kid.
#9
They had a large moose head with amber glass eyes mounted high above their fireplace mantle.
There were electric bulbs behind the amber glass eyes that lit up - making the moose look like it was agitated and about to charge.
LoneTomato 3 years ago
It kind of sounds like it would be a funny prank to make the eyes light up if people didn't know
Upstaged75 3 years ago
As a kid my piano teacher had a huge taxidermy moose head above the piano in her studio. That thing freaked me the hell out! I was only 5 when I started lessons with her. (I continued until I was 18.) If it's eyes had lit up I probably would have never learned to play! :)
What Connor told us partly echoes the opinion of award-winning writer and editor Doug Murano, the founder of Bad Hand Books. "My professional expertise is limited to fiction, but I'll say this: I've seen enough real magic and wonder in the world to make me think twice about whether the supernatural is real—and I think that's a healthy thing. It's perhaps less important to believe any given tale than it is to remain open to experiences while leaving room in your head and in your heart for belief,” he told Bored Panda earlier.
"Great horror stories thread a precarious needle: They maintain a sense of the truly inexplicable while creating a world and a narrative that provides enough answers to ground the story. Over-explanation kills most horror, which is why the shark is scariest when you only see the fin; the alien is most terrifying when it's lurking in the shadows; the killer is most monstrous when he's masked," he shared some advice for aspiring horror writers.
“I suspect that most of us—regardless of our spiritual beliefs—have a longing for something beyond this life. Human beings seem to be pre-programmed with this urge. So much of horror and speculative fiction grapples with death and what happens after we die that I can't help but believe much of our interest in such stories is an expression of a longing for experiences and existences beyond our perceptions."
#10
A functioning toilet against the wall in a bedroom.
To be clear, there was no sink. Which makes it way more disturbing imo.
April 3 years ago
I came to find this comment, glad I'm not the only one!
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Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
It's clearly for hangover puking then. Or someone potty trained the cat.
assdog 3 years ago
I rented out my spare room to a friend for a while. The only wall separating my butt cheeks and the head board of his bed was about 1/6th of the length of a banana for scale. For the first week or so i forgot he, and sometimes, his girlfriend were here so who knows what they heard!!!! Bonus fact...i have a fireplace too but.....well they decided to block it up and put the toilet in front of it!! It's like M.C Escher designed this place
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
It most likely had been set up for a person with severe incontinence issues, perhaps from a gastro-intestinal disease of some sort.
Mykidsartrocks 3 years ago
This must have been the same "house" I looked at for rent.... $300 a month but no thanks.
#11
I went over to my friends house once and she had a small like pet play area and they don't have a pet so I though she must have like a little sister because there were baby toys in it and I asked she she said it was for Abigail. When I asked who Abigail was her eyes got all glassy and she said "me" and went back to normal like nothing happened. Her name was Katherine.
Marleinah Smith 3 years ago
Sounds like your unfortunate friend may have DID, needs some serious help.
Another Fool on the Hill 3 years ago
Maybe she has already all the help she needs. My GF has DID and is in therapy for five years now and yeah, we've a small play area for some of her younger personalities. 🤷
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Florence O'Grady 3 years ago
This usually happens if there has been trauma in someone's past. Trauma means deeply distressing or disturbing experience. It can include emotional and/ or physical hurt.
Another Fool on the Hill 3 years ago
Dissociative identity disorder, to be precise...
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Miriam L 3 years ago
I'm not going to downvote you since I think that's become the equivalent of reporting a comment on this site. But that's not funny, and it's not cool. If you don't understand the issue, I'll try to explain. Please don't reference SPLIT when you think someone might be discussing mental health issues, especially in the PTSD/dissociative disorder category. It's terribly inaccurate and hurtful to many people. From the story above, I wouldn't try to guess whether this is DID or a related condition, a k!nk, or something else entirely. But if it is DID, that means she's survived more trauma than most people can endure. She's at more risk to herself than she ever will be to anyone else, and my heart goes out to her.
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#12
I was invited to record a Podcast at this friend of a friend's house and as soon as I stepped in I knew this was a mistake.
I felt like I walked into a voodoo shop in New Orleans. This girl had shrunken heads, jars of REAL human teeth. Strange black and white photos of random families on her wall. I was 90% sure I was going to get sacrificed that night.
As for checking the reliability of information, as we've covered on Bored Panda before, it can be utterly exhausting to double-check every tiny fact. Few people have that kind of spare time to be so thorough. Instead, you should do your best to figure out what sources are (un)reliable, what to read and what to avoid. Just because multiple sources repeat a claim over and over again doesn't automatically make it true.
Try to look for companies and organizations that do quality investigative journalism, cite multiple sources, and are transparent when it comes to conflicts of interest. That won't eradicate all potential errors and biases (some will always slip through). However, it's a far better alternative than thinking that all sources are equally truthful or good.
#13
Hundreds of those automatic febreeze sprays. Like actual hundreds. I couldn't breathe inside the house.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
What was the house owner trying to cover up? *check the basement freezer*
Marilyn Russell 3 years ago
I can’t stand those sprays now though I have bought them in the past. Now I just have essential oil diffusers or use incense when the air gets a bit stale in the house during winter and you can’t open the windows or when cooking smells seem to take over.
#14
A storage room with hooks on the ceiling and floor.
ThatOneWriter 3 years ago
Yeah... that wasn't so much a /storage room/ as a "grown up fun time" room. Someone either liked being tied up or handling rope
AffenpinscherMom 3 years ago
I would like to see that set up and what kind of hooks they were. Probably can get a better idea of what they were there for. Maybe they had been there since the house was built? Maybe they had been recently installed? Was someone hanging meat to cure..ha? Could it be for a lovely swing used for child's play or maybe adult play? Many possibilities. I'm intrigued 🤔
firecrackershrimp 3 years ago
If they were hunters they would need somewhere to hang the carcass to dress it
That emo Girl 2 years ago
No, that's clearly a butchering room for the person to butcher their murder victims.
#15
My friend's main bathroom had a mirror with scratched in names and words covering the *entirety* of it. Also in that bathroom was a doorway, separated only by a sliding sheet, that led to a pitch black basement. All you could see from the top of the stairs...was the stairs. I asked if I could use another bathroom.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
you should have listened for a faint "help me" from down below before leaving
Many of us are drawn to strange and inexplicable things, both in real life and in the entertainment we consume. People are fascinated by things that cross social boundaries and explore some of the less-than-savory aspects of the human condition.
Everyone has their quirks, no doubt. There are degrees of weirdness, it’s an entire spectrum. And it’s only by interacting with others that we truly begin to understand just how unorthodox or predictably we (or they) actually behave.
There might be a completely rational reason to have a fridge full of jello… but this little revelation can truly shock someone who’s taking care of your cat.
Meanwhile, it’s natural to miss your loved ones who have passed away. Sticking photos of their faces on dolls and seating them at the dinner table, however, is bound to set off most people’s inner alarms.
#16
A framed picture of an egg
#17
A horse, yes my parents friends kept their horse inside and when they came to our house they brought the horse inside too.
Rune Rosen (they/them) 3 years ago
Depending on the size of the house, and the size/breed of horse (Fallabella, Miniature Horses, Shetland Pony, Fjord Horse, Halfinger Horse) as well as age (matured or foal), the horse-or pony, as both are often confused with each other-could fit in the house with plentiful room to spare.
foofoofloofy 3 years ago
We definitely need more information. A mini in the house? Kind of eccentric but okay. A goddamn 17 hand Thoroughbred? Not quite as okay.
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Upstaged75 3 years ago
Was it a mini horse? Some of them can be trained as service animals. Anything else is just weird. Most horses are too big to fit in a house and will likely destroy things. And poop everywhere.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I suppose you could rig up a diaper for a mini horse? Or teach it to ring a bell like a dog?
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I dated a girl whose grandfather once demolished an old medical building. The first time I went to a Sunday dinner at her grandparents' place he just had a f*****g human skull chilling on a shelf in his living room.
Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 3 years ago
Why? There are human skulls around anytime you eat. One for sure, anyway.
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The Dentist 3 years ago
My best friend found an old human head on the ground once. It was missing the eyes and a bunch of skin. He took it home, and plopped it somewhere in his room and forgot about it. About a year later his mom went through his room, deep cleaning it, and found this half skull, half head under his bed. The scream could be heard all around the neighborhood.
DKS 001 3 years ago
interesting. There are some people who can appreciate bones for decoration or a statement
Luna Crow 3 years ago
Yep! And some of us like to make art out of them. You do have to be careful about what bones you use though, as some species are illegal to possess. Humans are definitely one of those.
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A while back, Bored Panda analyzed this human desire to watch and read disturbing stories. Part of the reason why they fascinate us so much is down to our evolutionary instincts. We used to be extremely aware of any and all potential threats to our safety. We are drawn to information that improves our odds of survival, though we’re far safer in modern times.
What we have now is the ability to take a peek at the dark and uncomfortable aspects of human life from the comfort of our homes. We can explore fear, evil, and morbidity while staying completely safe. Meanwhile, there’s also a deep satisfaction in seeing mysteries being solved. We enjoy closure and having our curiosity satisfied.
#19
My last boss was a 42 year old white, southern, wealthy business man. He had a framed picture in his living room of Antoine Dodson, the "hide yo kids hide yo wife" dude.
Genericist 3 years ago
This dude. His interview went viral and got autotuned. Happily, the money he made of the short-lived internet phenomenon meant he was able to move his family out of the Projects :) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520]
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I have a couple. I used to install internet, telephone and tv at residential homes. Hoarders are common and never had a bad one I couldn’t walk through.
1.Everything in the house was white. EVERYTHING. Walls, carpet, pictures, paintings, statues, plates, furniture, EVERYTHING. It was beyond odd and very weird.
2.Cat and dog poop everywhere. God the smell was so bad. I had to work upstairs in the closet at the smart panel and 2 cats were hiding out up there staring at me. Dried cat puke all over the place. It was so nasty.
3.This one house had a smell I couldn’t even describe. It hit me as I crossed the threshold and I noticed 2 old people in there. Something died or they hadn’t changed the diapers in forever. The smell was HEAVY.
4.One old guy, very nice, but man he smelled like death. I have never seen someone so pale in my life. No blood in his arms, face, anywhere. My sixth sense was going crazy with this one here.
5.Dolls. I’ve never seen so many dolls in one place ever. This lady could have opened a doll store and had stock left over for the back. They went as high as the ceiling, multiple rooms, all over the place. Special shelves were built for them. Come to think of it, it was clean. No idea how she kept the dust off them. Husband was super cool, but the lady had this obsession with dolls.
Emmanuelle Mimieux 3 years ago
Ok. Why do I not know anyone of these types of ppl from ANY of these BP or Reddit articles. I do not know one weird person. Or am I the….
Henry Russell 3 years ago
i once met a child like that it was so pale and i thought he was ghost after i left him. i am also insanely scared of dools
Chris Cristo 3 years ago
I'm a handyman and I've seen a lot of homes. Usually, I take off my shoes because I don't know these guys' customs but there was one house that was so gross, I didn't even bother doing it. One lady in her 40s, two teen girls, one girl about 9-10-ish (she was the most considerate and reasonable person), and three cats. What can I say; clothes were everywhere, everything is dirty (or filthy I would say), unbearable cat smell, and the floor was sticky like you walk on spilled honey or something. I had to wash my shoes after that.
Mykidsartrocks 3 years ago
#4 is awful. I hope he had a caretaker or someone who checked on him so he didn't just get left there when he died.
Steve Robert 3 years ago
When I sold encyclopedias door to door one summer in college, I was invited in to do my sales presentation. Nice young couple, with a couple of young kids. I swear the place smelled so bad, I asked to smoke a cigarette because that was the only way I could stop gagging. Spend an hour there because they decided to buy the books. But, to this day, I've never smelled anything worse!
#21
My friend and his family bred and raised cockatiels. For some reason, when one would die, they would put it in Saran Wrap and store it in their freezer. I found this out by randomly discovering a half dozen of them one day when I was digging for ice cream. He thought it was the most rational thing in the world, and as a person that doesn't raise or breed specific animals, I didn't second guess him. Only in hindsight did I start to truly think it was f*****g weird.
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
Cockatiels can live 15+ years if well taken care of, and I'm really hoping this friend was just really old and not that all those birds died young because the family kept repeatedly failing.
Poppy 3 years ago
I'm not gonna lie, this isn't anything that I haven't done. I had pet fancy rats for a while but I couldn't afford to cremate them when they passed away and I couldn't bear to just bury them somewhere as I don't own my own home and I knew I'd have to move away from them eventually. So I wrapped them in muslin cloths and put them in the freezer until I could save up enough. I eventually had all my 10 rats cremated all together and had their ashes returned to me in a lovely wooden box with 'My Mischief' on the name panel. There is a pet cemetery near me so it was easy enough to arrange. I now no longer have pet rats due to not being physically able to clean them out any more and it was hearbreaking to have to do that but I wouldn't want their welfare to suffer because of me.
Gwyn 3 years ago
When I was a kid our elderly neighbor loved animals, she had probably 20 cats and two dogs and a bunch of birds. Her house wasn't the cleanest- I remember a lot of pet hair- but floors were clear and she wasn't a hoarder or anything. She took good care of her pets from what I remember. One day my Mom went to check on her after she had a health problem or something to ask if she needed any help. She showed my Mom a bunch of dead cats she had in her freezer- apparently when they died she didn't have any way to take care of the bodies given her age/abilities. My Mom was shocked but, I guess it was understandable in a way? Mom buried them in her backyard for her.
Shyla Bouche 3 years ago
So a guy buys a parrot, guaranteed talker. He takes the bird home and takes it out of the carrier. The parrot curses, flies at the man, and bites his nose. The guy grabs the bird, puts it in the trash can, and puts the lid on. Bird's in the can fussing and fuming. The guy tells the parrot that he'll let it out when it behaves. A minute or two later, the bird calms down, and the man opens the lid. The bird flies straight at the guy's face, pecking him hard enough to draw blood. The guy shoves the bird into a cabinet, and slams the door. The bird's in the cabinet raising heck. The guy says when the parrot calms down, he'll let it out. A minute or two go by, and the parrot settles, so the guy opens the door. The bird flies up and scratches the man. So the guy grabs the bird, shoves it into the freezer, and slams the door. The bird is raising a ruckus, but before the guy can say calm down and he'll let it out, the parrot goes completely silent. The guy is scared he's killed the parrot, opens the freezer door. The parrot carefully steps onto the guy's arm, walks up to the guy's shoulder, and gives him a kiss. The parrot apologizes for being naughty, and promises to behave from now on. "I just have one question, Sir," the parrot said. "What did the chicken do?"
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
My mother, who's in the regional nature protection group, regularly had (maybe still has, I don't know) random dead birds in her freezer (wrapped up, of course) because she's friends with a taxidermist. Most of those birds unfortunately die when they fly into windows, but look perfect, except for not being alive. Of course, she doesn't just pick up any birds with unknown cause of death, especially because of the bird flu. She once had an Eurasian Jay in the freezer that flew into our neighbours window. It was quite beautiful, still.
Debby Keir 3 years ago
Well, I buried our budgie in the back garden - several times, as the cat kept digging it up. Freezer might have been better..?
Debbie 3 years ago
It's not that weird if they want to have it stuffed - like bring it to a taxidermist (is that the word?) later. My mom put a little bird in the freezer once for this, it was a kinda rare bird and had flown against the window and died. She figured it was a waste to just bury it, so she froze it to give it to a taxitermist later. (She didn't want it back).
Valerie G. 3 years ago
I once put the two back legs of my cat in the freezer. A coyote had taken the rest of him. RIP Edipuss.
#22
I did a window replacement on a big house in an expensive old area of town. It was lived in by an elderly lady until she passed. It was recent because all her things were still there, this place was a perfect time capsule of the 1960's each room had a different theme/vibe and there were manniquens set up all wearing 60's clothing in every room in different scenarios. It was really bizzarre. Kinda seemed like the lady was lonely or something.
Demongrrrrl 3 years ago
This sounds like a house on Zillow that I saw on FB. Mannequins everywhere, in all kinds of poses. Totally creepy.
Tracy Butler 3 years ago
What?! Old ladies can be lonely and focus their energy on a time from their past when they lived and had fun. Weird how people can want to live in good memories, especially when their cognitive abilities start to go. You’ll get old, too…if you’re lucky. Try not to be a butthead.
#23
My great-grandma on my dads side has two walls of furbies. I went over there when I was around 7, and started hysterically crying about those creepy f*****s. Never went back.
Gwyn 3 years ago
In the 80s one of my friends had floating shelves all around the top of her room covered in those little trolls with the bright colored hair... It always weirded me out.
Historyharlot93 3 years ago
My cousin bought 2 of them for her kids who loved them. She was alone in the house one day and she heard voices upstairs. She said she nearly peed herself from fear before she realized the furbies were talking to each other. I’m not sure why that wasn’t more frightening than thinking someone was in your house.
Marie Dahme 3 years ago
Somewhere I read that either Homeland security or the CIA doesn’t allow furbies because they either “listen” to conversations or have the ability to record conversations??? Does anyone remember reading about this or was that an urban legend??? Lol
Jessisaur 3 years ago
Definitely an urban legend. It turns out the Furby isn't actually advanced enough to record and store audio. The sound sensor just hears it as a noise and responds to the incoming sound wave. It can't understand or process the actual words you're saying.
Load More Replies... Jessisaur 3 years ago
I collect a couple and they can be quite expensive if you want any working and in good condition or limited edition. My highest cost me $60 but that's not anywhere near what you'd find if you want rarer Furbs.
Load More Replies... oddly_informed_raven 3 years ago
she knows of the true Lord and Savior, Long John the long furby
#24
A trash hat. Instead of a trash can lid my friends use a sombrero to cover their kitchen trash can.
#25
Slept with a girl a few times, she had a wall of tarantulas and small snakes. Horror memorabilia everywhere including stick on bloody feet making a trail thru her kitchen.
Bedroom was wall to wall mirrors...
Oktogal 3 years ago
I avoid looking in mirrors at all costs when it’s dark, so that bedroom is a no for me.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
That's just bad Feng Shui AND could trap your soul if you sneeze!
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censorshipsucks 3 years ago
a few times? I'd have left before it went anywhere, nevermind gone back for more.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
The things we do for... well, hopefully love...?
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That emo Girl 2 years ago
No, unfortunately they were dead😢😢 would've been cool if they were alive
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#26
Hard to pin that one down. - At a friend's birthday party at her friend's house. That friend collects 1800s era medical quackery. Like a huge box with dials and tubes that, when working, deliver mild shocks to probes the patient holds onto. - A friend that collected "bad taxedermy," which was less bad than tacky. One was a masterpiece in a huge glass jar the size of a beer keg: a sewer rat in a small cowboy costume riding saddle on a rattlesnake like a rodeo. Complete with three mice "kids" on a split rail fence looking up in awe. Sadly, her house burned down, and she lost everything. - A full sized replica of the throne of Mary, Queen of Scotts. He had it at the head of his dining room table, but said it was uncomfortable to sit in for any length of time.
Marie Dahme 3 years ago
Where can I get a rodeo mouse riding a snake? That sounds whimsical! Lol
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
You should train one yourself! Much more humane!
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#27
I cleaned houses for a while. One client was an elderly funeral home owner who lived alone in a big place. His master bathroom was carpeted (gross) and had a urinal. Directly above the urinal at eye level was an oil painting portrait of a man staring back at you.
Tamra 3 years ago (edited)
Lol! Why in god's name would you take an apple in the crapper? 😂 Now I'm laughing harder...a crapper apple! 🤣
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LapCat 3 years ago (edited)
When I was about 17-18 I was at a get together with my then-boyfriend and friends at one of their houses. Circa 1999-2000. His friend Matt’s house. A small apartment in El Granada, California to be exact. Anyway I went into the bathroom to pee and above the toilet was a framed picture of Jeff Goldblum, with a serious, death-like stare, and the quote “Jeff Goldblum is watching you poop.” I just finished sharing a bowl and laughed ridiculously hard at this unexpected discovery. I just turned 40 this past September. I don’t remember a whole lot of my younger years but I think that will stick with me until the day I die.
#28
my aunt has a framed photo of meryl streep in her computer room. i was very perplexed and asked my cousin if she noticed the rogue meryl and she casually said, “oh yeah, i told mom that her and meryl streep looked alike and then i guess she printed that out!”
you go, aunt yvonne.
Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago
I have a friend whose aunt has a Barbra Streisand shrine in her living room
ThreeAngryLlamas 3 years ago
I have photos of loads of actors and comedians on my walls, but they are all either signed or photos of me with the actor/comedian. Or both.
#29
One of my old best friends is a bit on the eccentric side. Instead of a dining table and chairs, he has a full corner booth and table recovered from an Applebee's that was either closing down or remodeling. It takes up the entire dining side of his kitchen.
John Barber 3 years ago
John Swarzwelder, a writer from The Simpsons did that with a Denny's booth when they changed the smoking laws.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
He's the reason why Animal Crossing gives you diner tables for your home...
Telepathetic 3 years ago
I worked an applebee's once--never imagined the crud built up under the tables
#30
A man in a hospital bed without a nose. I was around 9 when we were invited to the backyard - everyone was running through the house and I was trying to keep up. The sight of that poor man stopped me in my tracks.
SpookyPanda 3 years ago
When I was a little girl, there was an older woman just down the road from me that I would visit from time to time, and she had no nose; she kept it covered with gauze. She was the sweetest woman, and would give me cookies and tell me stories. She told me when she was my age, a giant picked her up and bit her nose off!
JMC5003 3 years ago
I actually scrolled past this and came back to say that this person probably had cancer or suffered a horrible accident and that I find the jokes posted to be cruel, childish and distasteful. I knew a man whose wife refused treatment for her cancer because she was so fearful of this type of response. From what he said, with surgery she stood a good chance of surviving, but she was dead in 6 months without it. It's never funny to make jokes about someone who is suffering.
Steve Robert 3 years ago
Looks like someone took his nose when he was little and never gave it back
Jp@nda 3 years ago
I'm lost, you were in a backyard but were running through a house and then there was a man in a hospital bed? How?
toxxic 3 years ago
i saw a man on tv who had been in some sort of fire and he didn't have a nose. it traumatized me as a small child. i now wonder how much of his appearance has been exaggerated in my memory. the thought still kind of freaks me out, but i can blame trypophobia for that one.
Elizabeth Molloy 3 years ago
Was it Simon Weston? His ship caught fire in the Falklands war and he was badly burned.
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Trenton House 3 years ago
Was it like born without a nose, or it got chopped off or something?
#31
A water powered rotisserie, that was turning a turkey that was being cooked over charcoal. It was incredibly delicious.
#32
House sat for a family that had a zebra carpet in the living room. The head was still in tact with the eyes wide open & the rest of the body was flattened out into a carpet. They shot it themselves on a safari in Africa. Strange.
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
we have these a lot in south africa but usually not the head, usually just the skin.
#33
Wifes grandmother has a 11x16 framed holographic pic of crucified jesus complete with blood and crown of thorns. Creepiest part, its in the bathroom and the eyes follow you.
#34
Went over a friend's house once, his entire house was pretty normal probably even tidier than most peoples house's, kitchen was clean and tidy, living room was clean etc Except his bathroom where there was literally hundreds of empty/ half drunk McDonald cups, they were everywhere, around the sink, around the bathtub, on the windowsill, on the towel rack, on the shelving, on the toilet cistern, on the floor. It was weird seeing as besides the cups the rest of the bathroom was perfectly clean the toilet was clean the sink was clean and it smelled fresh. Still wonder about this to this very day.
#35
When I was a kid there was a lady in the neighborhood that had her entire home religiously decorated. I'm talking crosses and placards in every room, plus religious themed light switch covers, rugs, mats, towels, cutting boards, cups, plates, tablecloths, sheets, pillowcase, clocks, shower curtain, just EVERYTHING.
It didn't weird me out too much, but it did a lot of others
JoJo Anisko 3 years ago
The plastic plate that screws over/around the actual switch on the wall.
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Wax figures, and A LOT of them. Humans, animals, even a horse carriage. Like a damn wax museum. I noped outta there and basically ran to my car
Dan Bexell 3 years ago
We knew a guy whose whole living room was full of porn tapes. We used to call his place the house of whacks.
#37
Dead tomato plants. Apparently he didn't want his garden to end and thought he could keep them alive in the living room. They were dead though.
What do you think ?
Tjoori Vids 2 years ago (edited)
My dad brought back all manner of stuff from Africa. It was all over our apartment. My friends would come and be greeted by 5 tribal masks in the hallway. Not tiny ones, but about 2 feet tall. Enter the living room, and there were instructions like "Don't touch the arrow heads. They are poisoned and the poison will kill you. Don't touch the knives / daggers / machetes, some of those are too." We're not talking 1 or 2. More like 30+. All of my friends were like "EEK". Sahara desert sand in a jar (it's pink btw), painted Ostrich Eggs. Carved Egyptian scarabs. Egyptian bead jewelry. The tiniest Quran you've ever seen. A stuffed baby crocodile. A goat skin drum. Several African spears mounted on the wall. I don't even remember all of it. This was nothing unusual for me, but my friends were freaked out the first time they came to visit. P.S. All this stuff was gifted to him by people he met. He was going across Africa on foot, for about 3 years, and would just send the stuff home. (late 50's)
Tjoori Vids 2 years ago (edited)
My dad brought back all manner of stuff from Africa. It was all over our apartment. My friends would come and be greeted by 5 tribal masks in the hallway. Not tiny ones, but about 2 feet tall. Enter the living room, and there were instructions like "Don't touch the arrow heads. They are poisoned and the poison will kill you. Don't touch the knives / daggers / machetes, some of those are too." We're not talking 1 or 2. More like 30+. All of my friends were like "EEK". Sahara desert sand in a jar (it's pink btw), painted Ostrich Eggs. Carved Egyptian scarabs. Egyptian bead jewelry. The tiniest Quran you've ever seen. A stuffed baby crocodile. A goat skin drum. Several African spears mounted on the wall. I don't even remember all of it. This was nothing unusual for me, but my friends were freaked out the first time they came to visit. P.S. All this stuff was gifted to him by people he met. He was going across Africa on foot, for about 3 years, and would just send the stuff home. (late 50's)
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