We’ve all heard the stories—someone buys a house, starts some innocent renovations, and BAM! They find something creepy hiding within. From hidden rooms that no one knew existed to bizarre things tucked away in the walls, these discoveries are equal parts eerie and fascinating. Whether it’s an unsettling message left behind or an object you’d swear was cursed, the folks who found these creepy things in their houses probably had one thought: “Time to move.”
Get ready to see the creepiest, weirdest, and most unsettling things found in houses. Fair warning: you might want to check your own attic after this.
1. “Was gonna fix a cable to an accesspoint on the top floor in my old house and found this behind the wall???”
2. “I woke up to a black glove in my foyer.”
3. “Found this inside the wall in my hallway. I’ve lived in this house for all of my 46 years.”
4. “This was found under the kitchen sink at my brother’s house….”
5. “Just moved into a new apt. only thing on the wall was this mirror… and the camera behind it.”
6. “I recently moved out for the first time and have began finding daily tiny plastic ducks outside my door”
7. “I Should Never Have Opened The Attic”
8. “Found a hospital syringe in my room, and none of us have been near a hospital in years. It just showed up overnight—super creepy.”
9. “Strange Spoon found in my gf’s abandoned house”
10. “I had to go into the basement yesterday and the dirt looked like it had large footprints in it. There’s only one entrance and it’s inside the house.”
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12. “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)”
13. “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”
14. “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”
15. “we found a radiation mask in the basement of my boyfriend’s new house”
16. “I found 93 copies of Forrest Gump in a closet at the inspection for a house I’m looking to buy”
17. “This was leaning against my recycling bin when I got home.”
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19. “Woke up to see this in my kitchen, I live in the middle of the mountains like 500 km from the nearest beach.”
20. “My friend just bought a new house and showed me where the ex owner was found.”
21. “While gutting my new home, I found hidden hard drives with random names, leaving me creeped out and unsure about calling the police.”
22. “Sausage on my windshield this morning”
23. “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’”
24. “Found in my sock drawer. I do not have children.”
25. “I just helped a friend move into their apartment. The next day they found 37 clowns under their porch.”
26. “Found in the attic of my new house, should we find a new house?”
27. “A random dead frog appeared in my house”
28. “Found this in the attic of our new house. Not sure why it’s there.”
29. “Recently moved into a new house and I found this drawing on the walls in the garage. Anyone know what it means?”
30. “Found this in a house we’re renovating.”
31. “Found in a house I was cleaning out”
32. “I found this symbol in a basement of a house we were looking to buy. Any idea what it means?”
33. “I found this picture in the attic of the house I bought, can anyone tell me what’s going on in it?”
34. “I turned on the heat for the first time this season and a condom wrapper popped out of the duct. We’ve been in this house since 2011.”
35. “Just noticed this buried window on my house”
h/t: r/Weird