Movers Describe Weirdest Things Found In Houses

From Redditor /u/No_penguinsinalaska:

I moved for a few summers in college. The worst move involved a family of four moving between units in the same complex. My boss said it should be easy; the items were close, and there were no stairs.

We entered the apartment and found a total mess. Dark brown carpet showed stains. Paint peeled from the walls. Crayon drawings covered the walls. It smelled...

We got everything out. Then the dad said there was one more room to move. He led us to a locked door. He opened it. Inside sat giant, intricately designed dollhouses. Every tiny detail was perfect. This room had clean carpet. It did not smell bad.

From Redditor /u/GorditoCat:

I moved a university chancellor out of his official residence when his term ended. I asked the mover about anything strange. He said there was a room with tiny mannequin heads wearing hoods made from fox and coyote pelts.

He said there were about 15 of these. Nothing else filled the room.

From Redditor /u/McVeeth:

One woman wrote "Jesus" on everything with permanent marker. The walls, the furniture, all the decor had the word Jesus on it.

I could not leave that house quickly enough.

From a former Redditor:

A huge empty house had Bible verses written all over the walls.

I looked forward to seeing a rich person's lake house. I found out they lived in a cult instead.

From Redditor /u/Achilles702:

I helped a friend of a friend’s relative move for extra cash. I was a poor college student then. The moving truck arrived, carrying all this stuff. We opened it. Half the truck held dozens of mannequins.

It felt like some Twilight Zonestuff because he was a single, middle-aged man surrounded by all those mannequins.

From Redditor /u/Crane_Train:

I found bullets in a baby's crib. They were unused. It was startling. I told the owner because those items are dangerous in hot moving vans.

She showed no reaction.

From Redditor /u/BernieSander:

I did this for a summer many years ago. One house always stood out.

A family of four moved into a two-story single-family home with no basement. I thought, "Thank God, an easy job today." I was very wrong. We walked in. Lots of items were already boxed. We were told to go to the children's rooms first.

A twelve-year-old obsesses over rocks. Rocks exist everywhere in his room: big ones, small ones, gravel, sandstone, clay bits, seashells, concrete scraps, asphalt, and bone fragments. Mom calls him a rock collector.

So many rocks filled the room that you could only see narrow paths between the door, the bed, and the closet, which held rocks. That day, they loaded several hundred pounds of rocks into our truck.

From Redditor /u/izakk133:

My sisters moved this big, expensive house out to the country one day.

They entered the garage. The owner used a bright orange Lamborghini Aventador as a shoe rack.

From Redditor /u/lemonedpenguin:

A mummified pet chameleon.

My friend's chameleon died a few years before the move. He put the body in a box, forgot to bury it, and stored it away.

From Redditor /u/Bealy_bear:

A house was filled with hippo statues. Hundreds of different hippo statues existed.

From a former Redditor:

Moving one summer, we pulled out a guy's whole life from a huge mansion. One item was the glass top of a dining room table, maybe fifteen feet long. They crated it, moved it outside, and it leaned against the truck. It fell over somehow. We thought we were doomed; we knew it would shatter when we opened it. The guy acted furious until we unloaded it at the spot and yelled for us to open it before moving it inside.

Cracking the crate, he started laughing. This dining room table used a pane of bulletproof glass from a bank's drive-thru window, which he bought when the branch shut. It remained fine! But a fifteen-by-four-foot piece of bulletproof glass is odd.

From Redditor /u/fr33lefty:

I worked one summer for a guy who bought up foreclosed McMansions in my area after the 2008 recession. The guy paid me cash under the table to clear them out.

Most houses showed the families had actually left (plates on the kitchen table, closets ripped open while packing frantically).

One got me. It had a fully furnished basement playroom. This space was a dream for a six- to twelve-year-old: a huge TV, gaming systems, Nerf toys, and detailed Hot Wheels tracks.

All the toy cabinets were emptied and torn apart. A couple of bags of packed toys remained.

The idea of an eight-year-old kid, no matter how rich, having to grab the toys from that insane playroom he would never see again bothered me.

From Redditor /u/inside__job:

I moved a home the next day. The bottom floor held three huge curio cabinets. They contained only hummingbird statues. Hummingbirds filled every space, from life-size down to penny-sized.

The upstairs contained dollhouses and dollhouse pieces. It was totally packed.

Redditor /u/frenchybrown:

The craziest item was a printing press piece from the late 1800s. It was all metal. It weighed a ton. It was too wide for a door without tipping. It had many moving parts that shifted when tipped, plus sharp edges for grabbing.

That job involved some close calls.

Redditor /u/Dysan27:

I worked as a mover for a couple of summers. The amount of IKEA stuff people owned surprised me. Not every house was all IKEA. But everyone had some items. For one month, I moved the same end table every day.

Redditor /u/Darryl_Lict:

My company worked with a man developing a modern player piano before Sony mastered the tech. His house held antique music-playing machines.

One machine was a player violin. I do not recall its exact function, but it used solenoids for finger positions and a complex mechanism for the bow. That house held many strange things.

Redditor /u/Dysan27:

The architecture firm was most peculiar. The basement held blueprints. I mean a forest worth of paper. They had dozens of bankers' boxes of files and hundreds of blueprint rolls.

I asked clients why. Apparently, there is no time limit for design flaws in buildings. They needed those copies to prove they designed the building correctly if anything happened.