Home Owners Are Sharing Creepy Discoveries They've Made After Moving In (50+ Pics)

Buying a new house is a big deal. Unless you had it built yourself, there have likely been plenty of previous owners. Who knows what they got up to.

I live in an old apartment in Chicago, and every once in a while, I wonder who lived here before I did. I don’t think about it too much, though, because I don’t want to end up being creeped out.

These people got more than they bargained for when they moved into their new homes.

1. “I’m A Contractor. Bought An Abandoned/Foreclosed Home To Renovate. This Was In The Basement Bathroom. What. The. Hell”

2. “Just Rented A New Place. Previous Tenant Left The Wall Mirror – And A Dirty Secret”

3. “The New House My Parents Bought Has A Secret Room Hidden Under The Stairs”

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5. “My Friend Just Bought A New House And Showed Me Where The Ex-Owner Was Found”

6. “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'”

7. “I Should Never Have Opened The Attic”

8. “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”

9. “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”

10. “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”

11. “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)”

12. “Found Seven Of These Concrete ‘Sculptures’ In The Garden Of The House We Just Bought”

13. “Just Moved Into My New House. This Is Not A Deep-Pit BBQ”

14. “I Just Helped A Friend Move Into Their Apartment. The Next Day They Found 37 Clowns Under Their Porch”

15. “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”

16. “NYC Woman Felt A Mysterious Airflow Coming From Her Bathroom Mirror, Only To Find A Hidden Apartment Behind It”

17. “New House. Previous Owners Left This Behind Basement Bathroom Curtain”

18. “Recently Moved Into A New Apartment. This Morning I Went Into My Storage Cabinet To Put Things Away And Found Her”

19. “Friend Moved Into A New Home And This Is Their Toilet”

20. “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”

21. “Moved Into A New House. Any Idea Why This Would Be In The Backyard?”

22. “Found This On My New Apartments Toilet”

23. “My Buddy Bought A House Found Some X-Rays In An Old Box”

24. “Moved Into A New House And These Were In The Freezer”

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26. “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”

27. “Just Moved House And This Was Sitting In The Kitchen In An Envelope Titled ‘Dads 2 Sharp Teeth + Photo'”

28. “So We Opened The Closet Above The Stairs In The House We’d Just Bought”

29. “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”

30. “Just Rented A House. It Comes With Our Very Own Knife Room”

31. “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”

32. “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”