# Odd things found in the rafters of the house.

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**Created:** [March 23, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-found-in-the-rafters-of-the-house/349534 "2006-03-23T02:33:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-found-in-the-rafters-of-the-house/349534/41 "2006-03-24T16:32:45Z")

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Well besides the $200 worth of junk that I had to have hauled off, I found an opened but then resealed Video Recorder. There was also a Mercedes Benz mag wheel. Just one, and it was made in West Germany. Don’t know what to do with either one.

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**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-things-found-in-the-rafters-of-the-house/349534/42 "2006-03-24T17:04:30Z")

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The house that my parents bought and remodled was built about 125 years ago. It had pretty much every Saturday Evening Post used for insulation in the kitchen. The man that lived there before was metally off, and he used to watch television through a mirror so that they couldn’t steal his “brain waves.” We found a bunch of his journals and what not, and his drivers license. On his drivers license, he put being allergic to gamma rays and x rays. His journals talked about his neighbors trying to kill him and how aliens were coming.

This guy put strips of aluminum foil in a lattuce design inside of the attic. There were also mummified cats under the house (we are guessing that is what they were, because dead cat bodies wrapped up in gauze… hmmm…) There was also a bee hive in the chimney, but I guess that happened after Old Man Parker finally kicked off.

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