40 Creepy Home Finds That Might Make You Want To Move Out Immediately

Buying or renting a new home is supposed to be exciting. Fresh walls, fresh start, maybe a garden if you’re lucky. But sometimes, what you discover after moving in makes you question every decision that led you there. From creepy crawlspaces to messages from previous owners that scream “GET OUT,” these stories from homeowners and tenants reveal the eerie, the weird, and the downright terrifying things they found after settling in.

#1 The Jar Room

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When we bought our house, the basement had (and still has) the remains of a project belonging to local artist Tim Gallagher. The room contains 320 jars lining the walls, containing odd items collected from around the property/town.

#2 Psa: Check Your Walls With A UV Light

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#3 I Was Looking For Something In The Attic When I Found This

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#4 Dinosaur Bone Found In The Basement Of My Friend’s 15th Century House In North-Eastern France

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#5 Realtor Was Just As Shocked As Me

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Think I’m gonna name it Calcifer, there’s even a complimentary coal room!

#6 Found This Inside The Wall In My Hallway. I’ve Lived In This House For All Of My 46 Years

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#7 Went Into My Attic Looking For A Water Leak Coming Into My Living Room And It Appears That I’m Also In Quarantine With This Whatever Monstrosity Left This Behind. Its Soft To The Touch

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#8 Found A Hidden Room In Our Attic From WW2!

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#9 Found A Darkroom In A Sealed Off Section Of My 1890s Home

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#10 What’s The Weirdest Thing You’ve Found In A Crawl Space? I’ll Go First:

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#11 Found This In My Friends Old House. Actual Tattoo Removed From Man’s Arm In In 1926, Placed On A Sheet Of Cotton And Cataloged In An Envelope

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#12 70 Lbs Of Beehive Hidden In The Ceiling Of An Urban Home

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#13 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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#14 While Renovating My Grandmas House, I Found The Prosthetic Leg Of My Great Grandfather In The Attic

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#15 Found This Old Voodoo Statue In My Crawlspace

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#16 Just Moved In To A New Apartment. Found This In The Basement

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#17 Toilet Seat In Basement Of Recently Purchased House

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#18 Hair Cuttings

We found this in an old desk left in the basement of a rental we own. They seem to all be from the same person but why…?!

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#19 Footprint Found On Wall

My house is a poor man’s Victorian, it was built in 1893 and once or twice a year for the last 6 years I’ve lived here I magic erase the door frames, switches, windowsills during a seasonal deep clean.
Last October I was deep cleaning my home and noticed a footprint about 8’ up the wall under the attic. I remembered my partner had been doing some attic work in spring and figured it must’ve been left over from that. When he came home I asked him to wipe it up, since it was pretty inconsiderate to leave for 6+ months without offering as he’s usually pretty meticulous.
“Hey can you wipe that footprint off the wall above your office?”
He looked at me confused, “What footprint?”
I walked him up the stairs and pointed it out and he looked at it and back at me and flatly said “Why would I have been in the attic without shoes?” Which is a very him response, as he’s very stoic and exceptionally more prepared for anything that I am.
He goes “Are you pranking me?”
I wasn’t. We have no clue where the footprint came from or why it would be bare 7’ up.

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#20 My House Has Portraits In The Crawl Space From The Original Owners In 1960 That Have Never Been Moved

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#21 These Scratches On The Inside Of The Door To My Basement. It’s An Old House Too

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#22 Was Gonna Fix A Cable To An Accesspoint On The Top Floor In My Old House And Found This Behind The Wall???

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#23 The Brother-In-Law Of A Friend Of Mine Is Remodeling A House To Sell

My husband and I went to look at it a few weeks back. There’s an old dilapidated barn on the property. My friend found this in a corner, under some boards and dust.

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#24 Painting Found In The Bathroom Of A House We Rented

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#25 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

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#26 Found In A House I Was Cleaning Out

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#27 Just Rented A House. It Comes With Our Very Own Knife Room

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#28 Renovating A 100 Year Old House, Found What Looks Like A Samurai Sword Under A Section Of The House That Had A Dirt Floor. The Sheath Is Metal On The Outside And Wood Inside

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#29 After An Earthquake, Saw This In An Old Attic

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#30 What The Heck Is This?

Family moved into an old house and found this hairball??? thing in the attic. it appears to be multiple hair colors and might be wrapped around something more solid on the inside but we are afraid of messing with it anymore than we already have. is this witchcraft or something?

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#31 The Outside Of The Bathroom Door To The Apartment I Just Moved Into. Looks Like Left Handed Knife Strikes And They Do Go Through. They Did Give Me A Deal On The Place

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#32 Tally Marks In An Old Attic Of An 1800’s New England Home

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#33 Found This In The Attic Of Our New House. Not Sure Why It’s There

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#34 Found This In The Closet Of Our New House

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#35 This Was Found Under The Kitchen Sink At My Brother’s House

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#36 My Bestie Recently Bought A House, And When She Checked Out The Attic This Was The Only Thing In There

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#37 Strange Spoon Found In My GF’s Abandoned House

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#38 Found In The Creek Behind My House

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#39 Found Some Nice Rocks Holding Up Our 1840s Farmhouse While Investigating Water Leaks In The Crawl Spaces

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#40 We Hired A Chimney Specialist Today And They Found This. They Said “Well, This Is A First”

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