Most Interesting Things Previous Occupants Have Left Behind

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Mar 27, 2020 10:00 PM EDT

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to discuss the most interesting things that they've left behind. As it turns out, some people leave behind some real gems. There's that, and then more sinister things that you'd probably wish you never crossed paths with in the first place. 

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    Text - neonboogerz • 13h 1 Award when i was eight, we rented a victorian house for a while and found a love letter from 1912 in the banister of the stairs.
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    Text - Kayahx • 14h Mini vials of very tiny fish in the backyard. I live near a college, so l'm hoping it was some biology project leftovers, and not anything crazier. It was weird though, they were completely intact even though being in some sort of liquid, half buried in the dirt for an obviously long time.
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    Text - tugeracesullivan • 15h 1 Award Found out that theres a spot where you can get under the cabinets in the kitchen. My cat hid there a lot the first couple of days, and after that I noticed a mysterious increase in dusty cat toys. Eventually he dragged all of the previous tenants' cats' toys out from under there.
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  • 04
    Text - alisleaves • 15h crammed under a built in drawer below a bedroom closet was a police report from the late 60s delineating a missing person/kidnapping case involving the prior, now deceased owner who at the time was teenager. It also mentions my next door neighbor who was a person of interest in the case. Haven't talked to him about it, and not sure I want to bring it up....
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  • 05
    Text - JessicaBrittany93 • 13h We found a box of old notes from middle school girls flirting with the guy. Also found a couple yearbooks and other random pictures. Dude was quite the player in middle school.
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  • 06
    Text - ladyalot • 15h The yellow-orange goo dripping from our walls as the cigarette tar seeps out when the humidity gets too high while I shower. After three full washes their little gift left.
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  • 07
    Text - Lockshala • 15h As a kid, my parents moved into a former Minnesota Vikings lineman's house and he left a PS1 with a bunch of games. Great dude, imo
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  • 08
    Text - kkeepp_to_myself • 16h Dishes still in the dishwasher. After closing we were at the house celebrating and they showed up asking for them.
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  • 09
    Text - IcelandicFajitas • 16h Pennies. Me and my homies found like,,, 6 dollars worth of pennies and nickels under the carpets from 1980 and before
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  • 10
    Text - Impulse618 • 13h My uncle bought a house from people whose mother had passed away. They left a good amount of stuff in the house, mostly worthless. Christmas decorations, cutlery, etc. In the back of one closet we found a trash bag full of lottery scratch offs. We started going through them and they were all winners. Turned out to be about 12k in winning tickets. We took a few to the convenience store to check them and they were all past the cash by date amd the state lottery would no lon
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    Text - Jugmentor • 13h 3 Awards Way back on January 1, 1976, my family moved into an apartment. I was 10 years old at the time. We had just come to Canada in June. While we were cleaning my room before painting it, we took off the radiator cover to clean the inside. Under the radiator cover was a compleat, hand-made game of Monopoly. I didn't really know English at the time and didn't know what Monopoly was. Later I found out that the two boys living in that room had been a couple of years older
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  • 12
    Text - TannedCroissant • 15h Not me but there was this post a while back where a guy took down a wall so he could put in a shower, then found a hidden shower behind the wall!
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  • 13
    Text - Croesus90 • 10h I am the first occupant in my current apartment, but I did find the lid of a paint bucket with a message on it ontop of a wardrobe reading "Hope you like your new apartment //The painter".
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    Text - Amesly • 15h A Saturday Night Live script with handwritten notes in it. This was in a Brooklyn apartment at the base of a shelf above the closet. It appeared to be pretty old. I looked up the name of the writer on the script and he was active at SNL about 10 years ago. Occasionally l'd get mail with the same name on it.
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    Text - AnarchistBusinessMan • 16h Back in the day I rented the upstairs of an old brick house in the small town I grew up in. It was the first brick building to be built and served as a liquor store around the time of prohibition (In Canada on the border of the US). In the attic I found some old liquor bottles in the rafters. The house down the street was owned by Al Capone. It has secret passage ways in the walls and even a jail cell in the basement. My father's childhood home had a hidden cell
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