In an effort(Herculean as it may be) to keep my abode neat and clean, I’m going through some oft forgotten drawers.
I found a metal band-aid box. It still had Band-Aids in it. You know, the ones with the red string to open them. Have no idea where it came from. I think when I was buying lots of Band-Aids they came in a cardboard box.
I found an old glass insulator like they used to have on telephone poles. I know where that came from. I dug up several dozen around the deer camp. We decided there must of been a power line through there a long time ago. But why is it in my cupboard?
I found an old medicine bottle for horse medicine. Have never had a horse out here. Hmmm?
What is the strangest thing you found in your house?
Glass Insulators are collectable. My dad had a box of them that he found in the woods. They list on eBay for $20 and up. Depends on the brand and rarity
I have a draw full of unneeded tools and parts. Many are for tv Coax. Splitters, crimpers, connectors etc. I have several 12 inch long bits for running cable inside walls. I haven’t installed a line for a tv in at least 20 years. Also have CAT5 cable, connectors, jack’s, crimper for networking PC’s. Wireless makes it unnecessary. Time to grab a bag and empty that drawer.
We didn’t find anything interesting when we moved into this house, though my wife is convinced that the ghost of one of the previous owners is here.
When I was a kid, my cousin and I had gotten ahold of a Penthouse magazine, which we hid in the crawlspace of my family’s house; we’d go into the crawlspace with a flashlight so we could look at the naughty pictures. However, when my family moved, my cousin and I decided to bury the magazine in the gravel floor of the crawlspace. I still wonder if anyone ever found it.
Not strange, but “interesting” was some old knob and wire electrical in the attic of the house I grew up in. I was up there helping Dad install a new light and found it. It was still hooked into the system somewhere, somehow and hot. Hired an electrician for that one since it wasn’t actually hooked into the circuit box.
The weirdest (and creepiest), not in any house I lived in, was a pair of panties wrapped around a Bohemian brand beer bottle in a crawlspace I was cleaning mold out of.
In my previous 100 year old house I moved a loose board in the cellar. Behind it in a niche was a very old 90 volt battery and several of the tall cylindrical 1 1/2 volt versions. They were still wired up to the non existent radio that must have been in the living room.
This was a cellar, not a basement. Rough walls made of various bricks and stones. One boulder must have weighed 500 pounds so they left it there. The washing machine and dryer were up on a poured concrete shelf to keep them dry. In a heavy rain water shot out of various cracks and squirted upwards a foot or so!
I was digging a garden in the back yard and found a long line of large rectangular stones laid end to end. They were sandstone with either glacial grooves or petrified wave patterns, very neat looking. I flipped one over and found it was a hand laid drainage system with the space for the water about 8" square. On the inside face of the now upturned rock were various lines and arrows and a few numbers written in some dark “ink”. Dimensions of part of the system I guess. The next day after sitting in the sunshine all evidence of the markings was gone.
When we moved into our house 31+ years ago we found about 6 months worth of used diapers under the sink. And the previous tenants (the children of the woman who owned the house) had apparently distributed a large amount of pins throughout the living room carpet.
On a lighter note, there was a 40’ short wave radio antenna erected in the side yard and another 30’er laying in the back yard.
