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I didn't experience this, but another new homeowner did. A guy who just moved into an old house in upstate NY found a sealed 50 gallon drum in the attic or basement (I can't remember). It was extremely heavy and he was only able to get it out with the help of a couple of friends. When they got it out, they noticed it had a horrible smell so they called police. The police opened it and discovered the corpse of a pregnant woman preserved in formaldeyde, who was murdered 40 years before
I've seen the episode of "Forensic Files" that had the pregnant lady in the barrel. So sad for that poor woman.
As for my house, I found an electric razor and a box full of cheap costume jewelry in the vanity beneath the bathroom sink. And when I remodeled the kitchen there were several pictures and a baby's bib that were found under/behind the old cabinets. Nothing super exciting.
If anyone had bought the house I lived in with my family until I was 12, they would have found about a hundred old romance novels that were my mom's. But it just became one of the old abandoned farm houses that are all over the Plains States. New owners of the land tore down the house a few years ago.
It wasn't "in" my house but outside. I found a coax cable laying on the ground going up to a tree. I could see an antenna in it. What they did was get on a extension ladder and climb as high as they can go, then extended two 8 foot boards nailed together and metal antenna connected to the top to push it in the branches to get the antenna as high as it can go. It must be a good 50 or 60 feet high. I put an new end on the coax cable, and I tried connecting a TV to it, but I couldn't get any channels, the line must be damaged somewhere along it's path. I was really curious to see how many channels I could get with a 60 high foot antenna, I have Cable, but it was a good idea, must have been really dangerous to accomplish.
It wasn't "in" my house but outside. I found a coax cable laying on the ground going up to a tree. I could see an antenna in it. What they did was get on a extension ladder and climb as high as they can go, then extended two 8 foot boards nailed together and metal antenna connected to the top to push it in the branches to get the antenna as high as it can go. It must be a good 50 or 60 feet high. I put an new end on the coax cable, and I tried connecting a TV to it, but I couldn't get any channels, the line must be damaged somewhere along it's path. I was really curious to see how many channels I could get with a 60 high foot antenna, I have Cable, but it was a good idea, must have been really dangerous to accomplish.
If you tried in the last 5 years or so an old antenna wouldn't work. Since Over the air TV converted from analog to dgital signals a few years back none of the old antennas (like rabbit ears) will work. Digital signals are also designed not to carry as far so some areas that used to be able to pull in weak signals from distant stations could not get digital signals from those same stations. The 'tree antenna' may have been abandoned when the changeover happened.
If you tried in the last 5 years or so an old antenna wouldn't work. Since Over the air TV converted from analog to dgital signals a few years back none of the old antennas (like rabbit ears) will work. Digital signals are also designed not to carry as far so some areas that used to be able to pull in weak signals from distant stations could not get digital signals from those same stations. The 'tree antenna' may have been abandoned when the changeover happened.
That simply isn't true.
I still have my old outdoor antenna hooked up and use it when the satellite goes out during severe storms.
Since my antenna is about 50' high, I can pick up a lot of stations, just as many as before the changeover, and the picture is PERFECT.
I have rabbit ears in my house only about 8' up and I get a 100 channels. Granted, 89 of them are in another language and not watchable, but I do get them.
The house I grew up in has the washer in the kitchen. Still does--my parents still own it as a rental. We hung clothes on the turning clothes hanger out in the back yard. That was fun, you could hold onto one of the metal arms and have your brother turn the clothes hanger around like a hanging merry-go-round. *Just do not get caught...bad!*
That house is in So CA, built 1950's. Every house on the block is that way.
Yep. It's so common in So Cal I was shocked someone found it odd.
If you tried in the last 5 years or so an old antenna wouldn't work. Since Over the air TV converted from analog to dgital signals a few years back none of the old antennas (like rabbit ears) will work. Digital signals are also designed not to carry as far so some areas that used to be able to pull in weak signals from distant stations could not get digital signals from those same stations. The 'tree antenna' may have been abandoned when the changeover happened.
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That simply isn't true.
I still have my old outdoor antenna hooked up and use it when the satellite goes out during severe storms.
Since my antenna is about 50' high, I can pick up a lot of stations, just as many as before the changeover, and the picture is PERFECT.
The antenna will still function but you need a digital box for an older TV to be able to use the signal.
Gallon glass jars full of urine from a homeless and mentally ill person squatting in the cellar. Or maybe a disconnected sewage vent pipe that the inspector failed to notice. Or the dead rat under the fridge. Hmm. Probably the squatter. Yeah.
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Or maybe a disconnected sewage vent pipe that the inspector failed to notice. Or the dead rat under the fridge. Hmm. Probably the squatter. Yeah. 
