My sister has just moved in to a house in Stocksbridge, and in the garden shed is a set of temporary traffic lights, a huge reel of cable to go with it, and loads of car batteries....and thats just what we can see!

Has anoyone ever found something odd left by the previous owner of thier house when they have moved in? :suspect:

Originally posted by Avalon
My sister has just moved in to a house in Stocksbridge, and in the garden shed is a set of temporary traffic lights, a huge reel of cable to go with it, and loads of car batteries....and thats just what we can see!

Has anoyone ever found something odd left by the previous owner of thier house when they have moved in? :suspect:

if it was an empty house before she moved in that might explain the cable.

someone in wales found a dead baby in a house he moved into in the attic - i think describing that as odd may be an understatement though

Originally posted by miniminch
if it was an empty house before she moved in that might explain the cable.

someone in wales found a dead baby in a house he moved into in the attic - i think describing that as odd may be an understatement though

Hmm...it could be that...it has been empty for a couple of days so someone with ERS might have found that hard?

My first house had:
half a scooter body
137 jam jars
an outside toilet jammed to the rafters with undelivered free newspapers
one window bracket for supporting planks (note, not a pair)

my latest house had:
8 balls ranging from golf to cricket dotted about the garden undergrowth
a box full of old love letters in the loft

Dont forget Avalon...Sufferers of ERS can alleviate the problem by adopting the method of ALC before they enter the room. This then allows you to conduct your tour of the property without worrying about ICP.

Originally posted by AJ sheffield
Dont forget Avalon...Sufferers of ERS can alleviate the problem by adopting the method of ALC before they enter the room. This then allows you to conduct your tour of the property without worrying about ICP.

.....yeah.....

My mate bought a house to renovate it had previously been occupied by students for years.

When the carpet was pulled back they was a Ouija board and satanic murals painted onto the floor!!

:o

Originally posted by shieshuk
My mate bought a house to renovate it had previously been occupied by students for years.

When the carpet was pulled back they was a Ouija board and satanic murals painted onto the floor!!

:o

Oh dear! I hope he was ok??? Id have died!!

Yeah he was rather shocked....creepy!!!

Originally posted by shieshuk
Yeah he was rather shocked....creepy!!!

Yeah *shudders*....not nice....

I think this also happened when Aunt Sallys on Clarkehouse Road was being converted into a pub. There were loads of pentangles and stuff drawn on the floors and walls. Nice!

well when we moved in2 our council house there was alsorts!

babies clothes behind radiators, porn mags and bongs in the garden!

must have been druggies who lived here before us, they'd left the place in a right state!
we had a green chinese bedroom and a bright orange and dark green kitchen! not to mention about a million mice!

everythings sorted now though :) n its a nice house now :clap:

Originally posted by x_LoUiSe_x
well when we moved in2 our council house there was alsorts!

babies clothes behind radiators, porn mags and bongs in the garden!

must have been druggies who lived here before us, they'd left the place in a right state!
we had a green chinese bedroom and a bright orange and dark green kitchen! not to mention about a million mice!

everythings sorted now though :) n its a nice house now :clap:

Nice....

Glad youve sorted it now tohu!!

Originally posted by x_LoUiSe_x
well when we moved in2 our council house there was alsorts!

babies clothes behind radiators, porn mags and bongs in the garden!

must have been druggies who lived here before us, they'd left the place in a right state!
we had a green chinese bedroom and a bright orange and dark green kitchen! not to mention about a million mice!

everythings sorted now though :) n its a nice house now :clap:
Sorry Louise :( I new I shoulda tidied the place up before I moved out ;) Any way I left them there so you didnt have to suffer the horror and degradation of ERS.

Originally posted by x_LoUiSe_x
porn mags in the garden!


Ah, that's where I left them. Can you send them on to me please? :thumbsup:

Andy would like to point out that he did not really leave porn mags in anyone's garden. They're all safely under his bed :heyhey:

My grandparents, when they moved into their brand new house on the gleadless valley, back in the 1950's found a wheelbarrow buried in their garden.

My parents, when they moved into their exchange council house, in 1979 found a red car, (A ford Escort, IIRC) and a shedload of windows, complete with frames and glass , buried in their garden.

PT

My first flat had a garden with a big compost heap, under which was most of a motorbike - in bits.

My next house had a box of greetings cards in the loft dating back to 'congratulations on your new baby' from the early '70s.
I did return these to the previous occupant whom I was able to track down.

Not found anything unusual in my current house; but then the previous owners were that tight fisted they'd have taken the paint off the walls if they could! :rolleyes:

i bought a house some years ago and after knocking a fireplace out in the bedroom found some old letters. they were from the 30s and obviously were connected to an affair someone was having at that time, strange hiding place tho ?.

Originally posted by brooksy
i bought a house some years ago and after knocking a fireplace out in the bedroom found some old letters. they were from the 30s and obviously were connected to an affair someone was having at that time, strange hiding place tho ?.

Hmmm...yeah...

Were any of them addressed to Fred West.

no john west, having said that my partner said there was something fishy about the whole thing .:heyhey:

LOL nice one :D

oh and apparently our next door neighbours saw the people who used to live here doing naughty things in the garden, u get my drift?

In the late eighties I bought my first home on a run down patch of scrub outside mancherster. The place was a mess. The floor boards were rotten and the wallpaper was dankand heavy and barely clung to the walls.
Birds had got in to the attic. So when i got up there, there was a panic of wings and feathers floated in the stench of the heavy air.
The house was dying.
I stumbled over a few bits of broken frames and boxes of plates and then i saw it. The fire place. I pulled of the front and as i did about one hunded beetles and millipeads spewed out of its loathsome jaws. I gagged feeling these creatures crawling all over me, I steadied my self and then (oh horror) I saw it... There upon parchment written in a hand I could not begin to imagine.. What did these words mean? who could have put them there? it said................

Originally posted by miniminch
In the late eighties I bought my first home on a run down patch of scrub outside mancherster. The place was a mess. The floor boards were rotten and the wallpaper was dankand heavy and barely clung to the walls.
Birds had got in to the attic. So when i got up there, there was a panic of wings and feathers floated in the stench of the heavy air.
The house was dying.
I stumbled over a few bits of broken frames and boxes of plates and then i saw it. The fire place. I pulled of the front and as i did about one hunded beetles and millipeads spewed out of its loathsome jaws. I gagged feeling these creatures crawling all over me, I steadied my self and then (oh horror) I saw it... There upon parchment written in a hand I could not begin to imagine.. What did these words mean? who could have put them there? it said................

Oh thats terrible! Who could ever write such things? I mean if it was just "..." theni could cope...but not "................ " Thats awful! :hihi:

We bought our house last year, in the loft were 2 bin bags full of baby boy clothes, some quite old - like the lovely 70's sheepskin waistcoat...bit musty, but some new too. A couple of almost new Next coats which went to my nephew.

Buried in the back garden we found a large B+W cooker, plus lots of carrier bags with crisp packets in - obviously far too lazy to use the dustbin. Now everytime i dig the garden, i always find more crisp packets, i think they're just scattered all over the place, its really weird.

I'd like to find old photos - of previous tennants & what the house used to look like. I like opening the cupboard + finding old wallpaper. Didn't find any tho :(

I was quite shocked to find after stripping the wallpaper in my bedroom that the previous occupants had some kinda devil mural painted on the wall :o You know the half man half goat type thing. Even stranger was they had painted it with a sombrero on!!

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
... the previous owners were that tight fisted they'd have taken the paint off the walls if they could! :rolleyes:

We moved into a house where all the light bulbs ahd been removed. it was dark. Our previous house had had pink bulbs in all the wall lights (which we had removed) so we put these in and moved in under cover of a soft pink glow :x

Originally posted by miniminch
In the late eighties I bought my first home on a run down patch of scrub outside mancherster. The place was a mess. The floor boards were rotten and the wallpaper was dankand heavy and barely clung to the walls.
Birds had got in to the attic. So when i got up there, there was a panic of wings and feathers floated in the stench of the heavy air.
The house was dying.
I stumbled over a few bits of broken frames and boxes of plates and then i saw it. The fire place. I pulled of the front and as i did about one hunded beetles and millipeads spewed out of its loathsome jaws. I gagged feeling these creatures crawling all over me, I steadied my self and then (oh horror) I saw it... There upon parchment written in a hand I could not begin to imagine.. What did these words mean? who could have put them there? it said................

what did it say?????????:|

2 pints of milk and half a dozen eggs please milkman!


........................... I thought you'd never ask!

Originally posted by miniminch
2 pints of milk and half a dozen eggs please milkman!


........................... I thought you'd never ask!

lol:clap: