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It would have to be awful rare, since stud walls all have a bottom plate sitting on the subfloor. So somehow there would have to be a gap between the bottom plate and the inside face of the wall material, that just happened to be located directly above a similar gap in the subfloor, and then a razor blade would have to magically fall just through that little gap. Since most older houses have subfloors of planks, usually tongue and groove, set at a 45 degree angle to the walls, it's hard for me to imagine how this could happen except that once in a lifetime occurrence.
Except bathrooms have plumbing and electrical that may or may not have been original, which often comes up and goes down through holes in the floor...
Old houses have lots of gaps and holes from settlement and fixtures that have been moved around or replaced over years. I can easily see this happening.
I know! Weird, huh! Seems bizarre. A realtor posted it on a facebook group all freaked out because they had no idea why they would be there and assumed it was something really creepy! Scared her to death I think. Once I'd read the thread there, I wondered why we hadn't seen or heard of it before and decided to post it here! It must be pretty common!
Must be young and watched too many Scary movies. Anyone who grew up in a house in the 50's with a medicine cabinet knows what they were for. I don't know if they were used that frequently, I don't recall that my dad did as I think he bought them in the container where you return one and get one and then throw out the container. A few might have ended up in the wall.
It would have to be awful rare, since stud walls all have a bottom plate sitting on the subfloor. So somehow there would have to be a gap between the bottom plate and the inside face of the wall material, that just happened to be located directly above a similar gap in the subfloor, and then a razor blade would have to magically fall just through that little gap. Since most older houses have subfloors of planks, usually tongue and groove, set at a 45 degree angle to the walls, it's hard for me to imagine how this could happen except that once in a lifetime occurrence.
You’d be surprised how many older houses have a chase wall between the bathroom and whatever is behind it and there’s a gap in the subfloor there.
this story just gives me the creeps. Shaving is such an intimate thing and to have a zillion razors of unknown people behind your wall is quite unsettling. like ghosts of the past.
this story just gives me the creeps. Shaving is such an intimate thing and to have a zillion razors of unknown people behind your wall is quite unsettling. like ghosts of the past.
There's more. Those razor blades undoubtedly have whiskers as well as specks of blood and tiny pieces of human flesh. Voodoo practitioners routinely use these items in their diabolical rites. Further, the spirits of the dead will use these items as guideposts when they return to the land of the living to work their mischief. Do you have beacons for evil spirits behind your walls?
This existed in my first house, a 1950's ranch house, and we found the pile of blades when we remodeled the bathroom. I knew we would because the original medicine cabinet was still there with the razor slot and I'd seen plenty of them in my childhood.
Finding things in walls can be fun. My dad did some minor remodeling to the house I grew up in, including tearing down and moving some interior walls. Someday people are going to find the Barrel of Monkeys game I put in one of them!
In the old days, there was a slot in the medicine cabinet to drop the used razors behind the wall.
I guess I've been in some "old" houses, because I can definitely remember some I've stayed in and some that family members lived in that had this feature.
Looking at those treacherous double edged blades in those pictures it is no wonder people did not want them in the trash stream, those things can literally open up an artery by accident. I cannot beleive that hipsters are wanting to go back to using those things. Sometimes there was a good reason old things fell by the wayside, and no longer should be used.
Someday people are going to find the Barrel of Monkeys game I put in one of them!
I've opened up a few walls in my house, and a ritual we have done with the kids is to seal up something in the wall when I close it back up. Might be a coffee can with some coins, trinkets, candy bar, etc, and then I put a cheap bottle of wine in the wall and close it up.
I've found many items in walls when doing work around the house. My grandmother's home was built in the 1890's and I can't even remember all the things I've found in that house. Coolest thing we have preserved are some timbers in the back corners where kids have written their initial with dates going back to the 1910's and through the 50's.
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