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Old 11-05-2016, 10:22 PM
 
Location: Gulf Coast
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Wow, I'm glad I've never encountered what some of you have.

We just took back our formerly rented house. Found 5 1/2 years of dirt, I've been cleaning for 3 weeks. There are enough little spiders (the little tiny ones nobody cares about) and webs to make a haunted house. I keep looking for Mortitia. Last web I found was in the back of a very well-used shower stall. Did the spider get a shower every day?
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Old 11-06-2016, 05:05 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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When I moved into my condo I found the previous owner's social security card, check book, bank statements, and tax returns.
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Old 11-06-2016, 05:37 PM
 
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I found a few dirty stuffed animals that I threw out, and one new one that I donated to charity.

About 3 yrs later, I put the house up for sale and got an unexpected visit from the former owner's daughter, who had grown up there. She wanted to walk around the house and attic to see if there were any of her belongings. I said no, they are long gone, and it was only a few stuffed animals.

She got really insistent and would.not.take.no for an answer. I finally had to end the conversation with her still insisting she needed to come in and search the house.

She said she was going to show up at the next open house and search then! I had to alert the realtor not to allow her in.

I wondered if she had hidden drugs or money in the walls or something worse.
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Old 11-06-2016, 06:13 PM
 
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I found some strange stuff with the wiring.

The fuse box had things labeled with misspellings of a word a real electrician would presumably know how to spell: "pluq". LOL.

I went to change a light fixture and discovered they had used an outlet box instead of a light fixture box. It was only attached to the false ceiling tiles, not to a stud or anything stationary. It was over a stairwell. That was a beast to replace. omg.

There was something wrong with many outlets and the light fixtures kept burning out, so I had them all replaced--can't remember what the issue was, other than a completely incompetent electrician, or non-electrician.
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Old 11-06-2016, 07:04 PM
 
Location: State of Denial
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The extremely unhappy spirit of the previous occupant, who had died less than a week before we rented the place (a fact that the landlord didn't bother to tell us about).


I have never been a great believer in ghosts, but there's no other explanation for the stuff that went on in that house for the next few weeks. Slowly, the events slacked off and finally stopped altogether. I guess he was finally ready to leave.


I couldn't figure what was going on until I mentioned it to the next door neighbor that I finally met and she said, "Oh, that's probably Bob's ghost!" THAT's when I found out about the death.
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Old 11-07-2016, 02:15 AM
 
Location: Silicon Valley
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A bottle of this stuff:



It gets worse. It was my girlfriend (at the time, now my wife) who found it. And the bottle was left behind by my ex-wife. I was moving back into my own house after not having lived in it for a couple years.
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Old 11-07-2016, 07:25 AM
 
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A bottle of this stuff:



It gets worse. It was my girlfriend (at the time, now my wife) who found it. And the bottle was left behind by my ex-wife. I was moving back into my own house after not having lived in it for a couple years.
Well! You wouldn't want your latex to get dull, now would you?

I had no idea there was such a thing...
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Old 11-07-2016, 03:50 PM
 
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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I bought a brand new home, and when we went to dig around the backyard in order to plant a lawn and flowers and add soil amendment, we kept running into partial bags of cement, old work shoes, paint brushes, and the like. Lazy workers just tossed stuff around and covered up their messes.
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Old 11-08-2016, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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I bought a brand new home, and when we went to dig around the backyard in order to plant a lawn and flowers and add soil amendment, we kept running into partial bags of cement, old work shoes, paint brushes, and the like. Lazy workers just tossed stuff around and covered up their messes.
The shoes are odd. How did they get home if they left their shoes on site? were they in your size?
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Old 11-11-2016, 03:48 PM
 
Location: SoCal
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There has been a 10"x16" piece of granite in the dirt of my backyard planter wall.

I've been looking at it for 5 years since living here, and thought nothing of it.

A few weeks back we bury a pet finch that died in the planter. I figure I'll cover the hole so the dogs don't dig him up. I flip it over and it's a head stone with the following inscription:

Howard M. Smith
"Coors makes me Horny"


Howard is the previous owner (deceased) who I bought through a family trust.
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