Lofts and the weird stuff people put in them

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ThatFragranceGuy

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In my old house in Stockton there was quite a decent boarded loft, with a light fitting and no trusses in the way (it had them but they were steeply angled and lot of open space) despite being a 2 bed terrace I feel like the loft was bigger than what we have now 😂

I hated it though as it was creepy - not sure what the previous owners used it for but there was a home made doll nailed to the top beam and a kids dart board, and two plastic bins with crayons in. I can only presume that, for some reason, they let their kids play up there? It was definitely a loft - not a converted bedroom type job, so quite weird, but the doll was straight out of a horror film and I was never ever touching that looking at its face 😂

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Today we are having our loft part boarded and topping the insulation up, so over the weekend we are emptying out all the rubbish that was left up there, we'd seen some flat pack boxes, and general tat when we moved in but never bothered with it

Anyway turns out it was an unused kitchen, no good to us as old fashioned looking and probably not perfect Nick after being stored in a loft, but full carcasses, 2 work tops, drawer fronts etc. absolutely knackered carrying it all down.

And then this hand made leaving card from 1977 (house built in 1999)

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Like why store that in the loft? Not in a box or anything - just laid on top of the insulation.
 
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MichaelDebeve said:
That first pic with the kids doll and dartboard would freak me out! haha - I would never go back up! 😲

"Sorry love the Christmas tree has to be stored in the kitchen now"
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Like I've no idea what was going on there, it was definitely some kind of kids play area but in a loft? Dusty, cobwebs, cold, a water tank up there, no fixed ladder... not the sort of place you'd want kids to be playing, and yet dart board, crayons, the doll and a few toy cars. Mad
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
In my old house in Stockton there was quite a decent boarded loft, with a light fitting and no trusses in the way (it had them but they were steeply angled and lot of open space) despite being a 2 bed terrace I feel like the loft was bigger than what we have now 😂

I hated it though as it was creepy - not sure what the previous owners used it for but there was a home made doll nailed to the top beam and a kids dart board, and two plastic bins with crayons in. I can only presume that, for some reason, they let their kids play up there? It was definitely a loft - not a converted bedroom type job, so quite weird, but the doll was straight out of a horror film and I was never ever touching that looking at its face 😂

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Today we are having our loft part boarded and topping the insulation up, so over the weekend we are emptying out all the rubbish that was left up there, we'd seen some flat pack boxes, and general tat when we moved in but never bothered with it

Anyway turns out it was an unused kitchen, no good to us as old fashioned looking and probably not perfect Nick after being stored in a loft, but full carcasses, 2 work tops, drawer fronts etc. absolutely knackered carrying it all down.

And then this hand made leaving card from 1977 (house built in 1999)

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Like why store that in the loft? Morning inbox or anything - just laid on top of the insulation.
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That is incredibly creepy.

Like you would expect a haunting version of 'ring a ring of roses' to start playing from nowhere.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Like I've no idea what was going on there, it was definitely some kind of kids play area but in a loft? Dusty, cobwebs, cold, a water tank up there, no fixed ladder... not the sort of place you'd want kids to be playing, and yet dart board, crayons, the doll and a few toy cars. Mad
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Not a bad idea though - stick the kids up there, close the hatch, .... social services come around, "Its a play room"
 
My son found half a car in his loft, amongst all sorts of sh1te. It was chocka.
The council "forgot" to check it was empty before he moved in.
Took 3 men a full day to empty it.
They had to use an angle grinder to break down the half-car so it would fit through the hatch. They must have built the loft around it.
A few other unusual things they found:
- A binbag full of doll parts. No heads.
- A box containing about 50 photos of the same tree.
- A trumpet and a claw hammer taped together to make some sort of musical weapon.
- Black shiny dungarees.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
In my old house in Stockton there was quite a decent boarded loft, with a light fitting and no trusses in the way (it had them but they were steeply angled and lot of open space) despite being a 2 bed terrace I feel like the loft was bigger than what we have now 😂

I hated it though as it was creepy - not sure what the previous owners used it for but there was a home made doll nailed to the top beam and a kids dart board, and two plastic bins with crayons in. I can only presume that, for some reason, they let their kids play up there? It was definitely a loft - not a converted bedroom type job, so quite weird, but the doll was straight out of a horror film and I was never ever touching that looking at its face 😂

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Today we are having our loft part boarded and topping the insulation up, so over the weekend we are emptying out all the rubbish that was left up there, we'd seen some flat pack boxes, and general tat when we moved in but never bothered with it

Anyway turns out it was an unused kitchen, no good to us as old fashioned looking and probably not perfect Nick after being stored in a loft, but full carcasses, 2 work tops, drawer fronts etc. absolutely knackered carrying it all down.

And then this hand made leaving card from 1977 (house built in 1999)

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Like why store that in the loft? Morning inbox or anything - just laid on top of the insulation.
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😬 It looks like that Michael Jackson character in the Scary Movie 'The Others' spoof.
 
I had that "dartboard" as a kid!

I've lived in 4 different houses as an adult and in two of them i've found homemade pornography in the loft. Luckily I never saw the previous owners in the flesh...ahem
 
Juninhoburger said:
I had that "dartboard" as a kid!

I've lived in 4 different houses as an adult and in two of them i've found homemade pornography in the loft. Luckily I never saw the previous owners in the flesh...ahem
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My mate went on holiday with his Mrs when they were in their 20's and made a load of home made porn on a digital camera for some reason. When they moved house they realised they had left it on top of a wardrobe with the pics still on a memory card 😂
 
My grandad used to tell me how he was robbed of 2 classic shot guns he found in his loft in hardwick..
He reported them to the police who said he could claim them if they came back clean..
When he asked a year later, they had no record of them..😱
This was back in the early 60s and the house was fairly new..
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
In my old house in Stockton there was quite a decent boarded loft, with a light fitting and no trusses in the way (it had them but they were steeply angled and lot of open space) despite being a 2 bed terrace I feel like the loft was bigger than what we have now 😂

I hated it though as it was creepy - not sure what the previous owners used it for but there was a home made doll nailed to the top beam and a kids dart board, and two plastic bins with crayons in. I can only presume that, for some reason, they let their kids play up there? It was definitely a loft - not a converted bedroom type job, so quite weird, but the doll was straight out of a horror film and I was never ever touching that looking at its face 😂

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Today we are having our loft part boarded and topping the insulation up, so over the weekend we are emptying out all the rubbish that was left up there, we'd seen some flat pack boxes, and general tat when we moved in but never bothered with it

Anyway turns out it was an unused kitchen, no good to us as old fashioned looking and probably not perfect Nick after being stored in a loft, but full carcasses, 2 work tops, drawer fronts etc. absolutely knackered carrying it all down.

And then this hand made leaving card from 1977 (house built in 1999)

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Like why store that in the loft? Not in a box or anything - just laid on top of the insulation.
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It might not have been an innocent child playing in the loft.
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Just sayin'
 
We moved into a rented house straight after uni and had some weird stuff in the loft.

I poked my head up there one day and 5hit myself when I saw movement out of the corner of my eye.

Grabbed a torch and looked back up there and there was a wall with shelves on filled with those Chinese cats with the waving paw.

The cats all moved one after the other so it looked like a wave moving along the wall.

Then there was some pagan looking sun and moon masks and some other bits.

Shut the hatch after that and never went in there again.
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Like I've no idea what was going on there, it was definitely some kind of kids play area but in a loft? Dusty, cobwebs, cold, a water tank up there, no fixed ladder... not the sort of place you'd want kids to be playing, and yet dart board, crayons, the doll and a few toy cars. Mad
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Obviously they had a mutant kid that they kept chained up there. See if there are any teeth marks on the beams.
 
Rofesleg said:
My son found half a car in his loft, amongst all sorts of sh1te. It was chocka.
The council "forgot" to check it was empty before he moved in.
Took 3 men a full day to empty it.
They had to use an angle grinder to break down the half-car so it would fit through the hatch. They must have built the loft around it.
A few other unusual things they found:
- A binbag full of doll parts. No heads.
- A box containing about 50 photos of the same tree.
- A trumpet and a claw hammer taped together to make some sort of musical weapon.
- Black shiny dungarees.
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Another loft mutant. Maybes there are more of them than we think.
 
When I first popped my head in my ‘new‘ loft, I found what I thought was a shrine. Just saw it at the back of the loft as I peered upwards, then dived back down. It wasn’t til a few days later I went back up and investigated.
Holy water, a Burj Khalifa replica, and an envelope containing something I can’t remember now.

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