What's The Weirdest Thing You've Seen In Someone's House? (r/AskReddit Top Stories)

serious people who enter other people's homes as a part of your job maintenance workers etc what's the weirdest thing you've seen inside some homes home I used to install smoke alarms for the hearing impaired 50% elderly and 50% deaf all over the state of Oklahoma I would get addresses for the installations the week before and plan routes accordingly meaning I would just put the addresses into Google and check out the earth slash map views this place in thinking of was in the middle of nowhere which is saying something considering that the entire state of Oklahoma is in the middle of nowhere when my ASL interpreter and I made the trip we had to ram bomb an even over a nearly washed out bridge bounced down a forest road and choose which of three broken-down trailers these people were using as shelter looking back we really should have just called it before amping the bridge once there we met the people and they explained in ASL through my interpreter that they had a tornado ripped through their home that ended up sparking a fire somehow that explanation never made it through translation since then they had decided to be more fire safety conscious which I applaud but their home had holes in the roof the size of people one wall was just a tapestry of duct tape trash bags I didn't feel right just installing fancy smoke alarms when they clearly needed much more help but they asked anything I could do so I'm doing the only thing I can do installing smoke alarms explaining basic fire safety teaching them to use their bed shaking devices these folks were death and when I start to explain that they should exit the home without stopping to grab anything including pets they stopped me and explained that their pet is very valuable as an it had a monetary value I'm not one to pry so I took this at face value and reiterated the importance of leaving the home immediately if it is on fire especially because it's a trailer home they had a long silent conversation with my interpreter during which she looked more and more concerned the occupants go into a room I hadn't yet entered and emerge with a freaking bald eagle on a leash shit's illegal yo this lady had seven huge birds parrots etc all without cages and shooting directly onto the floor it only had the pad that goes under carpet and everything had seeped through it was horrible she just got a German Shepherd puppy also and then proceeded to show me her machete collection I had a dope as classic airstream in the backyard though my coworker called animal control on her but we ended up closing her case shortly after so not sure what ever happened so this isn't weird but it was the most shocking I was working with adults with intellectual disabilities that lived in residential homes it was one of my first weeks and the job and a co-worker was taking me out to a home to show me what she did when she did home reviews we get to the house open the door and a we are instantly hit with a wall of air smelling like fesses two steps in and it was apparent there was diarrhea on a chair on the carpeted random splotches all over the whole house was in shambles the fridge was full of moldy foods and I'll never forget picking up the shredded cheese shaking the bag and seeing green mold flakes go up and down food was splattered all over the cabinets the beds were stained with urine and fesses and expired canned food was found everywhere the staff there had been neglecting those guys for a long time and no one had bothered to check up on them I do construction sales so Hindman homes a lot for me it's the sheer number of Preppers that exist today walk into a suburban America basement and bam two dozen buckets full of survival food or ammo stuffed into every alcove a drafter it's definitely not just the ones you expect I worked as a delivery driver for a deliver anything company in the early 2000s at the time it was a very novel but ultimately unsustainable idea for a business back th we had a lot of regular widows one night one of these weirdos ordered about $30 worth of candles from the dollar store this job really brought to the forefront the disconnects that exist in us as consumers so of course initially I had gotten the wrong kind of candles for the weirdo he showed me what he wanted at his door luckily the store was literally a couple blocks away so I didn't have to waste much time because I wasn't being paid hourly coming was what I was greeted with when I returned which is never something him particularly happy about as a delivery person I see what my rational brain tells me is a pile of laundry on a coffee table in front of a filthy couch but it's not that it's a three-foot-tall wax pile I had bought candles in jars the first time and I could definitely see why those would not work for our gentle um he needed freestanding candles so he could just glop one down and light it to continue building his wax mountain which was starting to spill onto the floor a less weird but more awkward experience i had with this man was him literally falling asleep mid signature for his burger king i had a neighbor who offered me money to clean her apartment she had mental health issues and got some kind of subsidy from the county for home assistance which she didn't like that she had an inspection coming up for continuing her other benefits so i walked in and there were dishes everywhere glasses with dried stuff in the bottom pizza boxes that smelled of old cheese and stacks ashtrays piled so high they were pyramids of bats beer cans and bottles scattered went into the kitchen and both sinks are piled up past the faucet one side has water in it fats covered in a white film the kitchen trash can had overflowed to the floor and has flies buzzing around it gross but I needed the money so I rolled up my sleeves and got to work after I got the dishes under control I moved onto the stove /off when I opened the door the engine bottom of the oven was crawling with maggots the wave of smell was enough to about knock me on my ass and I ran out gagging went home got a mask went back and finished cleaning up I still cannot figure out what she did to that off there was no food inside and looked like it had never been used I don't know if I could really peg one thing as the weirdest but collectively had sure as hell was the entire main floor had drains in every room because they though it would be easier to hose their house down to clean it the bathroom had a shower that you had to hold the button on the down for water to come out there was no insight instead the master bedroom had the tub and toilet right in it with the toilet facing the bed the tub was a massive jacuzzi but with a kitchen tap for a faucet so it cold and fill up quickly enough to stay warm oh and the house was filled with naked picture of the homey Awana on one occasion we were demolishing a kitchen for a remodel and found sealed inside the wall five empty beers and one full wine service plumber here at the house of an elderly lady at least 75 years old and there's naked pictures of her on all the walls and several dildos all about it was interesting as a maintenance guide a large apartment complex I've seen some chute naked people really gross people but thank God no dead people I remember doing an emergency water repair and had to go into an occupied unit it's was the strangest thing it was pretty much empty dirty but empty like no one lives there no furniture not even a bed just a shooty mattress on the floor and some clothes scattered around and at least 30 pairs of night shoes all sorts of weird colors like this guy had no TV or couch but had a collection of expensive shoes all the same size from what I could tell idk it wasn't as bad as a few hoarder units we had yeah this is a thing I've known a few people who I'm sure live this way nothing to do so they are always out in town no apparent income no hobbies but they look fresh as hell every time they go out doesn't seem like something I'd want to do but I guess there are worse things to do with your time the dressing nice and having social interactions I was on a ride-along with a fire department we responded to smell of smoke in an apartment building we found the apartment fast enough because the fire alarm was going off inside we walk in to find this guy naked as the day he was born passed out on the floor in front of the TV with pronoun on way louder than it should be and the remnants of a pizza in the oven it thanks for the silver guys okay to answer some questions the gentleman I questioned was very drunk there would be a candle over the kitchen and a bottle of liquor on the floor next to him to wake him up we actually left and the fire chief woke him in his daily uniform so he didn't think he was being abducted lastly this was in Fargo North Dakota about 14 years ago checking fire alarms / testing emergency bedside buttons in a nursing home that are like individual little apartments opened the door to stench of death and sure enough 80 dead on the bed been there about two days so I wasn't expecting so many responses but to answer some questions yes the bedside button worked fine no nobody was in trouble for her not being found for two days this specific place is very independent they have their own cars and are free to come and go as they please and the only time someone comes by is for any sort of maintenance or if they have visitors stop by worked as a furniture delivery guy for a rent-to-own place in Iowa for a couple of years and I saw some absolutely crazy shoes we were delivering a couch to someone and when we arrived there was no answer to our knocking we called our manager back at the store and explained that no one was home he tells us to hang out for a minute while he tries getting in touch with the customer while we are waiting we start hearing this weird sort of screeching sound coming from a detached garage we decided to investigate the noise we turned the corner to the front of the garage and came face-to-face with the meanest scariest-looking monkey I've ever seen it was in the garage but they had like this wire fence keeping it inside the entire garage was its cage in the middle of B Fe I I have no idea what type of monkey it was it was large and very angry years ago I used to deliver and set up furniture of all sorts not that weird that I used to find vibrators and dildos under mattresses all the friggin time I would stand the mattress up against the wall and they'd be laid out there I'd simply tell the homie I wanna I gotta grab some tools from the truck if there's anything you need to clean up no W is the time to do it I'd come back and the six toys would be gone every time and they would never say a word about it it wasn't a big deal I just didn't want to handle them if the home er when it was home they would be a little m Buress said no eye contact red cheeks et Cie but I'd like to think I handled it as professionally as possible given the fact I was 17 to 20 years old cleaning a huge condo for a wealthy book publisher the owner felt that caps were sacred so they had suspended walkways through the entire six K square foot condo for the two cats to walk on so they could move through every room without having to touch the floor additionally every 12 feet or so in each row they had a cat balcony the cats could sit on made out of real crystal we weren't allowed to touch them as they were valued at $10,000 apiece I know someone who did something like this but not to that extreme they were building their dream house which included in the floor ducts and vents for the AK system since they were going to be doing that already they had the Builder install a completely separate set of ducts and vents just for the cats so that could move from room to room and inside / outside as they pleased apparently the cats had a habit of falling asleep in hidden areas of rooms waking up to find the door closed then whining till someone let them out this solved that issue though I will say it was kind of disconcerting to be in a room where you knew there were no cats only to have one suddenly pop up out of the floor to say hi including in the bathroom edit if it makes anyone feel any better the house had about a 5 to 7 foot crawl space underneath it was built on a rigid line they lived in the desert so it stayed dry and he likes and crawlspaces and each of the segments and junctions of the cat ducts had access doors a fake they never had any issues with the cats vomiting or crapping in the ducts but they did have one instance where their big orange Tomcat killed a jackrabbit dragged it into his favorite hangout junction box proceeded to eat the entire thing and then was too fat to fit out through any of the room vents that time they did have to go under the house and use the access door to rescue him used to work for a concrete company and our mix the trucks would sometimes damage property typically my partner and I did maintenance on the plants but we'd get sent to job sites to one frig whatever the drivers did so while at one house we had to tear out the driveway replace the culvert and wrap at the end of the driveway the first day we were there all the old Snoopy neighbors were standing around watching us and I had to piss pretty bad so I asked the homie awana if I could use his bathroom he said sure and led me through his house past a bathroom into the bathroom in the master bedroom already creeped out by that also I noticed cameras all over the place some pointed out windows some pointed into the roads creep factor leveled up so he leads me to the bathroom opens the door and holds it for me like you would at a store when someone is behind you I say thanks he still stands there I had to walk past him and yank the door closed while leaving I notice a bedroom decked out in kids stuff this would normally not toss up any flags grandkids room probably right but with all the added creepiness it just didn't seem normal at all told my partner he laughed and pointed out there was probably cameras in the bathroom if either of us had to piss after that we drove down to the gas station Edit time for clarification so this was around 15 years ago we are talking camcorders on tripods not you're cute had seen a knee cams old guy was single and this wasn't a very kid-friendly setup as far as foster homes go the part about him holding the door for the bathroom imagine going to a restaurant and there's a group of people with you and hold the door open for them this was what I was talking about except he didn't seem to have any intentions on closing it hence me snatching it from him I was an estate agent real - for rental properties and I had a few wild moments top two were when I had been okd by a member of male couple to let myself in for a flat viewing one Saturday morning but he must have forgotten to tell his boyfriend / husband because when I opened the door to the bedroom with my n /f middle-aged couple we found one of the tenants having a vigorous affair against the wall without a stitch on them and only five feet away still no idea how we didn't hear them before we opened the door the other one was similar that I was there to take photos in the tenant and elderly and overweight woman forgot I was coming so guess I found in the bath similar I was tasked with entering every room in a small hotel to verify dimensions for an architectural project one room two men who looked like they're from the eighth is clearly doing some sort of business computers printers filing cabinets but there was also some serious pronoun on the TV like hardcore penetration and it was just background noise so weird back in the early 90s I worked for a company that removed old electric water heaters and replaced them with propane powered water heaters because propane water heaters can possibly spew carbon monoxide there are state regulations as to where the water heaters can and can be placed so it was my job to inspect the water heater room and draw up plans for ventilation if necessary I showed up at a client's home to inspect the area where he had his water heater to see if we needed to install any vents when I asked to see his current water heater he seemed a little uncomfortable and said I have something in the room that I forgot to clean up I followed him to the room and when he opened the door the smell of weed hit me in the water heater room he had fishing lines strung up with trimmed plants being dried if I were to guess there must have been a couple pounds of weed drying in there he said oops sorry about that I smiled and told him no problem I don't even know what that is I knew exactly what it was but I didn't want the guy to get worried about me telling someone he offered me some but I told him no thanks I don't know what that is as I was leaving he asked me you weren't going to tell anyone about the plants are you I asked what plants the guy smiled then said you sure you don't want some I definitely wanted some that I was still pretty new at my job so I didn't want to take the chance that accepting weed from him would blow up in my face before I left I told him make sure you clear that closet before our guys arrive they might not be happy about the plants I didn't see in the bathroom thought I saw a giant pink dildo closer look revealed it was penis shaped soap wasn't inside their home but outside I was on hurricane relief in the mountains of New York we had to go and supply water to this guy whose house was deep in the woods his property was surrounded by trees and hanging from those trees were a bunch of black baby dolls from nooses there was a wooden archway as you approached his house that said Arbeit macht frei which means work sets you free that was on the entrance to auschwitz years ago I drove a tow truck at nights putting myself through college got a call to go get this woman's car I pull up and she's in the car and won't get out I asked her ma'am to please get out so I can safely tow your vehicle without you in it she said that's never going to happen I said it's an insurance violation for me to let you ride in your car it's late so I said screw it ma'am please move to the passenger seat so I can put your car in neutral and steer it up on the flatbed she complies I get in the car and she says I can't leave them alone in here I'm like ooh I turned around and there is no joke 30-plus cats in the back of this old station wagon every single one of them in some sort of Halloween costume the car smelled worse than anything I've ever encountered in my life edited I guess this counts as a home since the crazy cat lady was living in her car in the home er winner in this story had my bachelorette party my friends got my a blow-up sex doll and put my fiance's face on it they then handcuffed it to me and put a bunch of fake tattoos on it after the party I threw it in my basement electrician came and saw it I'm not sure if he wanted to laugh or if he thought I was a giant weirdo oh and my husband was the one who was home who had to look him in the eyes I used to work at a junk hauling company just out of high school think 1800 got junk from the hoarders show we got a call for a catch disposal and showed up at the house lady that answered the door was a little strange we went inside to a gloomy apartment with no lights on and floor-to-ceiling rabbit cages there must have been 20 plus cages in her front room alone all the floors were covered with sawdust and rabbits were everywhere the whole place as you would expect smelled horrible and flies were everywhere we walked to the backroom saw the couch just covered in rabid shootin some lady sitting in a chair in the corner who never said a word to us we stepped outside calls our boss and said we were and going back and without hazmat suits and got the hell out of there I was a firefighter for 15 years one time the code enforcement department called us to assist with condemning a house the smell was so strong from the street that they knew we needed air packs to enter the owners were moved to the nursing home and left their dogs behind instead of doing anything about it their daughter just kept throwing bags of dog food in the door periodically there were four generations of inbred dogs in that house ranging from still nursing puppies to 40 pound adults I think the final count was in the low twenties when Animal Control got them all rounded up there was a decomposing cat body the fesses was literally inches thick on the floor and splattered me high up the walls you could see the fleas crawling on one guy's khaki pants when he came out the daughter ended up getting well-deserved animal neglect charges out of it I think the house got torn down the weirdest part was the family portraits and knickknacks still on the walls and furniture like they had just left some people's basement buzz blow my mind one eighty year old had a bar in his basement that looked straight out to 1958 Western Cantina I loved it my father is a firefighter they have regular calls to a man's apartment for disturbances suspected medical distress cries for help the works his name is ironically norm and he's a regular call for them norm is clearly mentally ill but that doesn't change the fact that he has a freakin weird apartment my dad says that norms apartment walls are covered floor to ceiling in egg cartons that are hot glued on you cannot see an inch of wall in any room each night he seals doors and windows in his unit with toothpaste and my dad says that the dried toothpaste around the doors and windows is easily four inches thick norm says these are protective measures to keep evil spirits out the last call my dad responded to us that norm had lit his TV on fire and threw it out the window of his fifth floor unit I suppose this was before his nightly toothpaste ritual there was a cardboard box with a TV drawn on it sitting on the entertainment unit when they arrived my dad also says that every time they've been there there is a single beat boiling in a pot on the stove I really don't know how this man is allowed to live on his own or how he hasn't been evicted dicks dicks everywhere sculptures and artwork of decks literally about a thousand like a horror type situation I was doing their cable and you really cold and to avoid contact with a deck or two it was darkened there from the skyscraper stacks of C CK s blocking out the light I had to work in a government housing block at Main and Hastings in Vancouver I was cutting a hole in a ceiling while someone was laying on a dirty mattress might beside the ladder inject heroine the person was so freaked up that he didn't even notice all the drywall dust I was spilling on him I was a plumber going through college while in training I went to an abandoned home that was being bought by a homie awana they was trying to use their home warranty system we entered the house to find that it had been used by squatters until a few weeks previous the sink was literally overflowing with garbage and mold the bathroom was also quit literally overflowing with shoot they didn't have any water but apparently kept taking dumps in the toilet to the point where it was all over the floor around the toilet the bathtub and the wall next to the bathtub was covered in mold and shoot needles all over the place we took one look at all of it and left other than that I've seen all the stuff you'd normally expect orders weed houses hot moms who want their pipes fixed with a big wrench but the squatters house was the worst and weirdest I do property management for multimillionaires one of which has a plaque in her house from when she sold her shares in a company in excess of 50 million dollars it's not a stranger's a lot of the comments here but it always creeped me out our house is extremely nice right on the beach but it's a pretty old house inside everything is pretty old from the furniture to the wallpaper she has an abundance of creepy ass pictures dating back to the 1800s on her walls on her tables even cup holders have creepy looking people on the bottom where you'd put your cup I imagine it's all old pictures of her family but it's really bizarre she also has really old dolls that look creepier shoot some of them resembling Annabelle from the movie she has probably 3 to 4 in every room in her 5,000 plus square feet house I hate going in there [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sat May 16 2020