We don’t ever really know what people get up to in their own homes. On one hand, that’s a good thing — privacy should be a two-way street. On the other hand, we might get all sorts of surprises when we enter somebody else’s house.
The strangest things people hide away are usually something like boxes full of ashes, Voodoo dolls, jewelry boxes filled with fingernails, and a chicken carcass under a pile of magazines. At least that’s what professional cleaners say they’ve spotted in their clients’ houses, according to one poll.
But none of those can beat the bizarre and cursed stories from one recent online thread where one netizen asked, “What is the weirdest thing you’ve seen inside someone’s house that instantly made you realize, ‘I need to get out of here right now?’” In fact, some of these are so creepy they sound like the beginning of the next indie horror darling.
#41
Nothing. Like, he said he'd live in his apt for a year. Yet, nothing on the walls. No indication that he had a personality at all. Everything was black, white or grey. 3 pairs of shoes lined up perfectly. ¼ of the closet being used(everything folded precisely). Nothing on the bathroom or kitchen counters. I told him it looked like a serial killer lived there. He just looked me in the eye and said nothing. I left within 5 mins.
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#42
I've been inside approx 7000 homes in my working life. (I estimate I've been to 30000 properties including factories, offices, farms, caravans and houses where I never needed to go inside) The creepiest one had no lighbulbs and plenty of mould. I also visited a house owned by a psychiatrist couple and there were bars on every window and door.
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#43
A man had too many doors and locks on the inside of his single dwelling home. Like parts of the hallways would have a door and a lock. It was beyond weird and felt as I were being fortified past a point of no return as we kept walking. I honestly didnt care about my life but grew highly uncomfortable when I walked in his room to see toys and dolls scattered about. I left then due to the internal alarms not being able to ignore the blocking of exits in a solo residence and the excessive amount of toys. He was arrested some point later for exactly like you think he would have been arrested for.
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#46
Ashland, WI in 1991 I was in college and a friend took me home for Thanksgiving. They took me out bow hunting but it started snowing hard enough to make visibility a problem.
They suggested we shelter at the neighbors hunting shack nearby. It was filled with hunting trophies but they were all small animals like squirrels and mounted on every wall.
They suggested we shelter at the neighbors hunting shack nearby. It was filled with hunting trophies but they were all small animals like squirrels and mounted on every wall.
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#47
I once walked to a guys house to hook up with him, upon entry he walked by a pile of eggshells stacked easily 100 tall on his stove. He didn’t even mention it, he then goes to walk to the bathroom and I’ve never run out of a house so fast in my life.
On the way there he said “my roommate is nice but doesn’t talk much” and I will always wonder what he meant, but am so glad I didn’t find out.
On the way there he said “my roommate is nice but doesn’t talk much” and I will always wonder what he meant, but am so glad I didn’t find out.
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#48
Steak knives stuck into the wall, and a whole wall of the room lined with gallon sized bottles of bleach.
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