#WeirdHouseVisits #UnusualHomeFinds #StrangeHomeDiscoveries
Have you ever walked into someone else’s home and been completely taken aback by what you saw? From quirky decor choices to downright bizarre belongings, people’s homes can be full of surprises. In this article, we’ll explore some of the most unusual things that people have encountered in other people’s homes. So buckle up and get ready for a wild ride through the weird and wacky world of home decor!
🏠 The Strangest Home Finds
1. Taxidermy Gone Wrong
– From stuffed animals to mounted heads, taxidermy is a common sight in some homes. However, things can take a creepy turn when it’s done poorly. Imagine walking into a living room and being greeted by a stuffed raccoon wearing a top hat – definitely not your average decor choice!
2. Dolls Everywhere
– Doll collections are a popular hobby for many people, but some take it to the extreme. Picture walls lined with hundreds of dolls staring blankly at you, their eyes following your every move. It’s enough to send shivers down your spine!
3. Strange Art Pieces
– Art is subjective, but some pieces can leave you scratching your head in confusion. Whether it’s a painting of a dog wearing sunglasses or a sculpture of a giant finger, art can be a real conversation starter in someone’s home.
4. Unconventional Pets
– While dogs and cats are common companions, some people prefer more exotic pets. Imagine walking into a house with a pet snake slithering around the living room or a tarantula crawling up the walls. It’s definitely not for the faint of heart!
🏠 How to React to Bizarre Home Discoveries
– Stay Calm and Open-Minded: Remember that everyone has their own unique tastes and preferences. While something may seem strange to you, it could be perfectly normal for the homeowner.
– Avoid Judging: It’s important to respect other people’s choices, even if they differ from your own. Avoid making negative comments or passing judgment on their belongings.
– Ask About the Story Behind It: If you come across something particularly unusual, don’t be afraid to ask the homeowner about it. They may have an interesting story or reasoning behind their choice of decor.
– Focus on the Positive: Instead of dwelling on the weird and wacky, try to find something positive or interesting about the home. Perhaps the owner has a fascinating hobby or collection that you can learn more about.
🏠 Conclusion
Exploring other people’s homes can be a fun and eye-opening experience, but it can also lead to some unexpected discoveries. From quirky decor choices to unusual pets, there’s never a dull moment when you step foot inside someone else’s abode. So the next time you find yourself in a strange home, remember to keep an open mind and embrace the weirdness – you never know what you might find!
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Their restroom had one of those unisex signs from a public restroom
Horse…just standing in one locked room… Alive i mean
Last supper with him in it instead of Jesus over the TV
A friend, who lived alone, had a large portrait of themselves (photograph), framed and on the wall. Like, are you concerned you might forget what you look like?
A toilet in the lounge – with a potted plant growing in it.
A shelf full of those plastic collectible toy containers full of switchblades. Some of them looked really pretty
Used to work for a cable company, watched bedbugs crawl out of a woman’s hair.
A taxidermy dog. Their family dog that they had for 15 years. It was my friends house and I hadn’t seen him in a couple years so I knew he had a dog. They had it sat on the couch and I thought it was alive and offered it a biscuit. “Cole has been dead for 2 years” is not what I expected to hear!
When I was a volunteer firefighter we responded to a fully involved house fire one afternoon when the owner was at work and after forcing entry and starting suppression we went to the basement to cut gas and power and we found a shrine of Nazi memorabilia and a steel bar prisoners cell.
Massive dildo with some funky oscillating action just sitting on the arm of the couch. I pointed it out and said it was impressive and they turned it on to show the way it wiggled.
My old friends dad had a life size armor set of Boba Fett in his gaming room real metal and everything I’m a huge Star Wars fan and seeing that in my childhood was amazing
My uncle also works at Disney and has a full custom armor set of a storm trooper and blaster and I got to wear it it was soooo cool
I went to an estate sale where the person had clearly been very into doll-making, so there were dolls and doll clothes and doll *heads*, but all the heads on (and off) all the dolls were the same, and they all looked vaguely like the Olsen twins. I’m not really one to be spooked by dolls, but. It was time to go.
A taxidermy cougar in the corner of my uncle’s best friend’s lounge room wearing a sombrero and aviator glasses.
A boar’s head. It was stuffed and hanging in the hall. Someone stuffed a cigar into its mouth, and a put a Boston Bruins hat on its head.
It was my house as a kid. The boar came from a museum. They were tossing it out.
Oh, the most bizarre thing I’ve seen in someone else’s home has to be a life-sized taxidermy of a mythical creature. It was this mix of a unicorn and a dragon – definitely an unexpected and unique choice of decor. It sparked quite the conversation during my visit!
Years ago my friend’s girlfriend’s family lived in an enormous old farm house. They pretty much just lived on the ground floor and it was nice, but the rest was Grapes of Wrath. We were in the basement a lot because there was all kinds of old neat stuff down there.
We moved a set of old stadium lights and found a door behind it that nobody knew about. We opened it, and behind it was a 1923 Rickenbacker automobile. Covered in dust, but it appeared to be in fine shape.
We told her parents and they didn’t believe us until we showed them. They called a local expert who came out and appraised it. Apparently it was one of fifty of that particular model made. He made a deal with them to fix it up and sell it and split the sale down the middle, and they agreed.
It went at auction for $225k, which was good money in the late 90s. They used the money to pay for their daughter’s college and fix up the rest of the house, and in doing so found tons of other weird stuff to sell, like OG pachinko machines, scrimshaw, and Japanese WWII army supplies.
When I was house shopping, I saw some interesting stuff.
One house had what felt like a maze in the basement, like a labyrinth of tiny rooms. In one of the rooms was an old school phone booth with a working phone. It looked more like the room had been built around the phone booth, than the other way around.
I ended up buying a different house down the street, and that home has since sold and been remodeled. I still wonder sometimes what they did with that weird ass basement.
A collection of carousel horses surrounded (protected??) by neon orange traffic barricades.
I will never understand the urge to fully carpet a bathroom.
I went to a party at a guy’s house when I was in college and he had shelves in the bathroom with tons of coffee cups sitting on them. Weird to have coffee cups in the bathroom
I made friends with a kid in eighth grade. We hung out a bunch but it was a year before I was ever invited into his house. Their basement had a dog shit corner. They had two large breed dogs that would just shit in the basement by design and they would scoop the shit and toss it into the corner with a snow shovel. This kid slept in that basement!
Jimmy and Tammy Faye Bakker’s home in Charlotte was for sale in the early 2000s. We looked at it. The massive, mirrored master bedroom was beyond bizarre. The room featured a large Jacuzzi tub on a raised platform (also surrounded by mirrors). Outside was a full-size pool, but it was only about 18-inches deep!
Went to a yard sale on my block and they had a life sized Han Solo in carbonite. Sadly it wasn’t for sale.
Did home staging for a min and there was this one house in a really nice area we had to stage. There was bright green carpet wall-to-wall in the finished basement level. Even in the bathroom. We were trying to figure out a way to minimize the impact of potential buyers seeing wall to wall kelly green carpet. But the owners who were an older, retired couple kept bragging about it like it was a selling point. “it’s brand new!” There was also nude women and nude men statues all over the property that were NOT Roman or Greek copies. They were clearly made by the people selling the house. We asked if they could be removed for the viewings and again very proud “these are our original artwork, I posed for my wife and she posed for me, aren’t they lovely!”
Ugg.
A poop ladle. I wish I was joking. Their septic tank wasn’t the best and to put less stress on it, they scooped their solid poops out of the toilet, put it into a plastic bag and took it to the outside bin. Toilet paper also went into the trashcan and pee was only to be flushed after it had been peed in multiple times.
I learned this after asking why there was a takeout soup container next to the toilet with a ladle inside
A (presumably) life size wooden carving of the occupants penis and scrotum sitting on a nic-nac shelf.
Slept in my buddy’s sister’s bed as a guest. Turned off the lights and she had stars on the ceiling. The name “Rachael” was clearly spelled out in the stars but mirrored like “leahcaR” as if you were looking through the back of the word. Her name was Katie.
During a Zoom meeting a coworker (divorced male) had a super-duper sized dildo standing up next to a lamp on a nightstand next to his bed. I didn’t even notice it until another coworker pointed it out and asked “Is that what I think it is?” He either owned a very tiny lamp or a huge fake dong.
A urinal. In a residence.
Bank vault door. Except it was on the outside of his house attached to his garage/shop. It was massive. My husband and I had driven like 3 hours to buy some fancy pheasants from the guy. Seemed like a normal farmhouse otherwise. He also had a huge pond in his backyard with turtles and carp that he was absolutely delighted to show off by throwing feed pellets in the pond and the fish and turtles frenzied. It was a fun afternoon.
Girl on a leash.
She was very nice. Excellent cook. Apparently they met in University.
Smart as a whip, she also kept sniffing me.
A crocheted swastika blanket
I don’t know where to begin. I know someone whose profession is a mortuary cosmetologist, and their hobbies include taxidermy.
Dead raccoons playing poker? Yep.
Anthropomorphic dolls that use real animal parts like paws, tails, and heads. Uh-huh.
Dead seagull that had more heads than usual that I think were… installed… during the taxidermy process.
“Art” of one taxidermy bird with its beak open way, way too wide, like, down the neck wide, and its body looking partially deflated because its skeleton was trying to escape from the joker beak.
I saw an enormous pig in someone’s living room when I was delivering pizza once. It was as big as a couch, just laying there.
An SS Officer uniform. In Minnesota.
Giant naked portrait of the homeowner’s wife on the living room mantel.
A black velvet painting of the trinity–John Wayne, Jesus, and Elvis. (Gotta admit, I almost want one because it was so garishly awful.)
My dad was a real estate broker back in the day. When someone is estranged from their family, sometimes the family that inherit their estate wants nothing to do with them. We’d sometimes get calls from families like this that just wanted my dad to get rid of the house and wanted none of the decedent’s property. My dad would offer to get rid of everything in the house for them at no cost. When this would happen, it was a full-on, privacy-invading pillage. It was just business to my dad, so he’d throw out all of the personal stuff (e.g., letters). Definitely sad at times. He’d load everything else into a huge trailer and take it to a local flea market on a Sunday morning when it was busiest. These people were like locusts, and my dad didn’t give a damn if few people stole small items here and there. I saw one old man with glasses walk up to the box that held all of this dead guy’s reading glasses. He took his glasses off, tried on one of the dead guy’s pairs of glasses, put his own glasses into the box, and walked off. I watched the whole thing. No harm no foul. It was usually pretty fun. Keep in mind, we’d go pillaging weeks after the person died usually.
One time, though, we got a call two days after this nice old lady had passed away. We got the keys from her neighbor that she left a spare with who didn’t want to hand them over at first until the lady’s kids called them. We walked in, and it immediately felt like we were doing something criminal. The AC was still on and none of the food in the fridge was rotten. I think we don’t realize how many small tasks we leave pending in our lives every day. These pending tasks are what stood out the most to me, though. There were cut-out coupons on the kitchen island. Dirty clothes in a basket in the laundry room that were next up for the washer. There were a lot of things like this that made me really feel like I was intruding into the life of another person. It made me think about what sorts of pending tasks my life would be defined by when I die and someone enters my house to go over my life and evaluate my worth at the end. The whole thing just tripped me out. We couldn’t do the flea-market thing with this old lady’s life, and we stopped offering to clean people’s places out for their families after that.
If something you know is wrong doesn’t make you feel dirty at first, it’s probably because you haven’t waded deep enough into the pool yet.