50 Spooky Things People Discovered In Their New Homes After Moving In And It's Giving Us Horror Movie Chills
If there's one thing we can all learn from horror movies, it's to never explore creepy rooms or passages you just discovered.
Some house hunts end with a fresh coat of paint and a new mailbox, but these ones ended with secret doors, hidden rooms, and a few discoveries that look straight out of a horror movie.
From old basements and attics to backyards and crawl spaces, people who moved into new homes kept finding strange leftovers from the past, and some of them were a lot creepier than anyone expected. A few discoveries were harmless, others were unsettling, and a handful were downright nightmare fuel.
Here are 50 spooky things people found after moving in, and some of them are hard to unsee.
1. A secret door in a room
erikaatheistsen1822. "Just bought an old house (1913) and am working on putting in a patio. Just about done digging and found this along with some scattered bones. Local police have been notified and are waiting to hear back if they’re human or animal."
The local police have been notified, and they are waiting to hear back if the remains belong to a human or an animal.
kacheda443. A surprise
“Just moved into my first house about two weeks ago. I'm just starting to get settled in. I bought the house for a very cheap price. The previous owner was very old and passed away. The house is quite old, but for the price, it was perfect for a first home.
When I first toured the house, the basement was much worse than it is now. The previous owner hadn’t moved anything out yet. The basement was pretty full of junk. They cleaned most of the stuff out, so I had to clear some things out myself. But here it is now, with some items that I don’t really need and will probably get rid of soon.
While sorting things out in the basement, I noticed this sheet of plywood that oddly fit in. I have had the house for two weeks and never noticed it. I decided that I didn’t want to keep it down there, so I tried to move it. It was pinched pretty hard against the stairs, making it difficult to get out.
When I finally got it to move, I noticed there was something behind it. At this point, I grabbed my phone and started taking pictures.”
JerryTheC*nt , imgur
4. "Dad's two sharp teeth"
5. Just rented a new place. The previous tenant left the wall mirror...and a dirty secret!
What could it possibly contain?
scratchamaballs
Some of these finds are weird enough to make anyone check the walls twice.
6. An extra apartment behind a mirror
7. "Found seven of these concrete 'sculptures' in the garden of the house we just bought"
llihpda
8. Throw that thing into the fire
CarolOHYEAH
9. New owner found some old X-rays in the house. That looks painful.
Good_Apolllo
10. A baby titan
missjellinsky
11. It says: “I’m under the bed”
taymhaston
12. "I should never have opened the attic"
jkmayne
13. Basement blocked by a shelf on purpose
BlurghUsername
14. "Renting a house for the summer. Just found this in the backyard. Do I dare?"
cryptofrog
15. The new homeowner found a crawl space that contained a safe, a briefcase with money in various currencies, jewelry, and silver ingots inside, along with a stack of videotapes labeled with cryptic messages such as 'No no no no' and a note that says 'save yourself.'
That crawl space discovery is the kind of thing that changes the whole mood of a house.
16. Another discovered dungeon
“I rented this cool house in the hills of a Los Angeles suburb, and there is a lot of DIY stonework on the property—little walls, an archway, steps, and this dungeon built into the hill right behind the house. The history I’ve gathered is that a stonemason lived here for decades until he passed away from old age in the 90s, when the current owner purchased the property and began renting it. No one I’ve talked to knows what the dungeon was used for.”
17. Found a closet full of cutouts and...that
WonderLemming
18. And another one!
socksandpants
19. A secret dungeon. Cool!
demc7
This “don’t tell my sibling” tension is like the AITA about not disclosing a roommate moving in with your sibling.
20. A surprise in the attic
thatbluewoman
21. If there's one thing you need to do when you see this, it's RUN!
SirAntoniusBlock
22. "Helped my friend move. Found this in his new old creepy shed. He said I could have it."
couuch
23. A deep-pit barbecue or a prison cell?
den_of_thieves
24. What could it be?
Kuznetzov
25. “Peeled it up to find it was concealing a mystery”
OiMooi
26. Anything with this amount of spiders is sure to creep most of us out
Found out the house we are living in has a bunker below. I managed to squeeze my phone into one of the cracks of the door to take this creepy picture.
Colombianthunder
27. What even
Tommy27
28. Previous owner had some weird taste in bathroom furniture
bigworn
29. Do you?
AceFloresX
30. Hanging in the basement
thrusher
31. Left in the freezer
32. Weird
33. A friend moved to Texas, and this is the first thing they saw—yikes!
crimson_irises713
34. A safe on the floor
mitch359
35. This was found in a basement, still sealed tight
Brett_Kelman
36. "It Never Stops" engraved on a door
felhawke
37. Another creepy basement discovery
sckenken
38. A grave in the backyard?
gomara22
39. "My friend just bought a new house and showed me where the ex-owner was found."
Run!
OPwillownyou
40. "I’m a contractor. Bought an abandoned/foreclosed home to renovate. This was in the basement bathroom. What. The. Fuck."
spwhalenjr13
41. A double padlocked box left by the previous owner five years ago
corpsequeen96
42. The previous owner decided to have some fun before leaving the house to the new owner
funkytowne1
43. Woman finds a creepy room in a house she moved into
Looks like something out of American Horror Story.
rooney8900
44. The classic hidden room under the stairs IRL
Seems like there's no Harry Potter here!
Perspicuum
45. "So we opened the closet above the stairs in the house we'd just bought..."
AlcosaurusRex
46. An old tape with the note "Testing evil spirits"
CaseyThorntonArt
47. Found a knife room
Zer0323
48. Why the hell would this be in the backyard?
Borovy3488
49. Discovered cassettes that contain phone conversations from the house 20 years ago
wazowski_kachowski
50. "There's a messed-up room in the attic where I just moved. Pretty sure nothing good happened here."
NukeStorm
By the end, even the nosiest homeowner would probably want to leave a few doors unopened.
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