Moving into a new home with your family is always an exciting adventure. Regardless of when the walls were built, it's a whole new space for you and those you love most to make your very own.
When it comes to older houses, it can be impossible not to look around at the empty space and wonder what the prior tenants were like when they roamed the halls. If you're lucky, they might have left something behind to help paint a picture for you. They might have measured their youngsters' heights along a doorframe, or a photo might have slipped out of one of their albums.
Of course, you could also stumble upon some pretty shocking discoveries — especially when you start poking around the attic space. The folks below learned that firsthand when they climbed up to the top of their homes to find everything from heartwarming mementos to baffling mysteries.
Take a look below and be sure to let us know if you've ever unearthed something strange in your own home.
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"A girl I know went to check out a noise in the attic, and when she opened the attic door, a ton of crayons showered down on top of her." —Haplessru
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"Just full of machetes. Over 50 machetes. Hidden all over the place. Over ten years and occasionally we still turn one up. Just really creepy." —DrEnter
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"A friend's parents moved into a house and found 37 left shoes in the attic." —neitherjefnorjon
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"A chain letter from the early 20th century. Aside from the doom and gloom threat of not passing the letter along, it mentioned one lady unexpectedly receiving a free petticoat." —Rumbledeboop
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"I found an old empty trunk that was too large to fit through the attic hatch, or through any of the attic vents — which kind of puzzled me because I have yet to find any evidence of any prior hatch or access in which that trunk could have been brought into the attic." —lazlounderhill
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"A really big army type rucksack with nothing in it but false teeth. I don't know why but that was really creepy to me." —Melizathornberry
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"One drunken night my roommates and I checked out the attic and found a 4'x4' painting of a man looking into a mirror at you." —dysosmia
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"We found an old legit looking wooden Ouija board in our attic. We have not used or disturbed the Ouija board." —argonplatypus
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"The weirdest thing I found was a milk crate full of Crown Royal cloth bags with about 8 more stuffed inside each bag. Hundreds of purple cloth bags with no discernible use." —non-earthling
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"There's a back window to an '80s model Chevy/GMC truck still in the box up in my attic." —Nattylight_Murica
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"Found an old family Bible in the attic with a handwritten family history from the 1700s. Took it to the local 900-year-old church to see if there were any records. The vicar actually knew the descendants, who still lived in the village, and we gave them their Bible." —Aiku
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