# Weirdest thing found in home you bought (apt. you rented) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541 "2021-11-17T23:42:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541/101 "2021-11-28T20:14:08Z")
The house I’m in how had a wedding dress and an old disassembled toddler bed in the attic crawlspace. I’d assume from the fairly young married couple I bought the house from who also had two young, but school-aged, children. Not super mysterious but I did find it strange that the dress was abandoned and I can’t believe they didn’t store/remove anything else from up there when packing up. I didn’t have a forwarding address and was never contacted about it. Years later, when I was getting married, my wife took it and cut it up to make decorations for the flower girl and her basket. Beats the trash, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541/102 "2021-11-28T20:35:37Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Oh, and possibly the oddest thing we found on move-in last year was the industrial-sized carton of aluminum foil in the kitchen. Something like this: > > [https://www.cleanitsupply.com/p-54561/reynolds-wrap-heavy-duty-aluminum-foil-roll-24-x-1000ft-silver-rfp627.aspx](https://www.cleanitsupply.com/p-54561/reynolds-wrap-heavy-duty-aluminum-foil-roll-24-x-1000ft-silver-rfp627.aspx) > > We’ll probably still be using it years from now. Many more observant Jewish people will use aluminum foil to wrap their kitchens during Passover. [https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach\_cdo/aid/374918/jewish/Aluminum-Foil.htm](https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/374918/jewish/Aluminum-Foil.htm) Could be what it was used for by previous inhabitants. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541/103 "2021-11-28T21:56:24Z")
Interesting theory, but the last few owners all appear to have been Christians or unbelievers, if names are any guide. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541/104 "2021-11-29T01:21:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Totally innocent. Everyone has a machete. Someone probably just put it there after using it. When I was a kid in West Texas, the local discount store was selling machetes cheap. I’d seen them in jungle movies and thought they were cool as hell, so I bought one. But then I didn’t know what to do with it, jungles not being plentiful in West Texas. Might still be stashed somewhere in the house I grew up in. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541/105 "2021-12-08T22:33:12Z")
Not a bad day’s work: > **[Plumber who discovered money in wall of Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church gets...](https://www.aol.com/finance/plumber-discovered-money-wall-joel-145808703.html)** > > Police said the recovered checks appear to be connected to a March 2014 theft of $600,000 in cash and checks from a church safe. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541/106 "2021-12-09T05:14:26Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Pretty boring here: At one apartment, there were two bottles of “Dante’s Down the Hatch (dans le Underground)” wine. I later found out that there’s a place in Atlanta called the Underground, that has restaurants, and Dante’s was likely a restaurant there. It was! We visited friends in Atlanta, who’d said they were going to take us… well, _someplace…_ and first we were blown away by going down under Atlanta, to a city under a city (covered up post-Civil War, but the stores down below became speakeasys during Prohibition). But then, to find out we were going to eat and drink on board part of a three-masted schooner docked twenty feet underneath Atlanta… sigh … It was “Dante’s Down the Hatch", and for anyone who was enamored of pirate ships as a kid, it was SO cool. The Underground, but not much of a shot of the ship: [![](https://www.wolkis.com/img-get2/I00005yhhrZV7aPw/fit=1000x750/g=G0000r7Nxg6gEX9g/Panorama-13x19-poster-ed-wolkis.jpg) ](https://www.wolkis.com/img-get2/I00005yhhrZV7aPw/fit=1000x750/g=G0000r7Nxg6gEX9g/Panorama-13x19-poster-ed-wolkis.jpg) Here’s a shot of the stern… [![](https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/012/377/800/8f04fa1158c53fa68358117bccce002b_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&crop=faces&w=1552&h=873&fit=crop&v=1463757869&auto=format&frame=1&q=92&s=60e221c2d999480445f2ad5d04b59bcc) ](https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/012/377/800/8f04fa1158c53fa68358117bccce002b_original.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.0.2&crop=faces&w=1552&h=873&fit=crop&v=1463757869&auto=format&frame=1&q=92&s=60e221c2d999480445f2ad5d04b59bcc) ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541/107 "2021-12-09T19:58:46Z")
Alas, the weirdest thing I ever found was a bar of Lifebuoy soap in the original red and yellow box. So I’ll have to share some other finds… Try a web search for “movie posters found in walls”. And, one day, someone is going to have a real surprise: > **[Another Guy with a Real Train In His Basement](http://cprailmmsub.blogspot.com/2013/01/another-guy-with-real-train-in-his.html)** > > It turns out Jason Shron of Rapido Trains isn't the only guy with a real train in his basement . Dr. Nick Muff h... ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541/108 "2021-12-09T20:20:53Z")
> [@digs](#): > > It was! We visited friends in Atlanta, who’d said they were going to take us… well, _someplace…_ and first we were blown away by going down under Atlanta, to a city under a city (covered up post-Civil War, but the stores down below became speakeasys during Prohibition). Cool! I remember being amused by the “dans le” fanciness on the bottle label 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541/109 "2021-12-09T23:06:36Z")
A couple years after moving into our house (which we lived in for about 20 years before selling a few months ago), I was cleaning off some shelves in a pantry in our basement and found a small glass bottle that was hidden (not purposefully, I don’t think) behind some trim work of the shelves. It was a bottle for some OTC medicine (I can’t remember what it was, but the label was for something old-timey like bromo-seltzer). The bottle and label looked to be at least a hundred years old, and whatever liquid (it was most definitely liquid, not a powder or pills) then in the bottle was very heavy – the bottle was about the size of a 50-count plastic bottle of aspirin, but it probably weighed close to a pound. I think it was a repurposed container that now held mercury (which weighs a little less than a pound per ounce), but I was never brave enough to open it. I left it out on a bookshelf for a number of years, and it’s someone else’s problem now: it sold during an estate sale while we were away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-thing-found-in-home-you-bought-apt-you-rented/954541.md?page=5)