11 Times People Uncovered Chilling Mysteries in Their Homes

Imagine moving into your dream home... only to discover something that sends a chill down your spine. From hidden rooms behind bookshelves to strange items buried under floorboards, these real-life discoveries turned everyday people into accidental detectives. Whether spooky, shocking, or just plain bizarre, here are 11 times ordinary folks stumbled upon jaw-dropping secrets hidden right where they lived.

• My parents bought a home that used to be a funeral parlor almost 100 years ago. Dad had never questioned why there was a second wall that went nowhere, and when there was a bust pipe they finally had to cut it open.
  Inside we found a small walled off room that had hundreds of old bottles, odd equipment, chemicals / perfumed salts, stained-glass windows from the original building and a few old ledgers and accounting books. Parents had no use for it, and a local antique shop owner/town historian happily took it when offered.
  We had received some cool old copies of photos of how the house originally looked a few years later. © KnittyViki / Reddit
• We found a stack of acrylic paintings in the basement, all very amateurish. Subjects ranged from creepy little girls to 70s ladies. The realtor told the owners to pick them up, or they would end up in the trash. They showed up a year later asking for them! © soulie12 / Reddit
• The previous owner’s wife had passed away not long before we purchased the house. About a week after we took possession, the realtor called us and asked if we’d found the owner’s wife’s wedding ring in the master bedroom closet. We had not.
  A few years later, we were cleaning on top of the kitchen cabinets and found the ring. Why it was on top of the kitchen cabinets we will never know. We were able to track down the owner and return it, however. © sentient*** / Reddit

• My kids found a crawl space up in a bedroom. They found Ken dolls with their hands melted and razors embedded. I did my best to lighten the freakishness and joked that Sid must have lived there. © rackfocus / Reddit
• A USB drive belonging to the previous owner. It held thirty photos of his car and one of his wife and baby. © I_throw_socks_at_cat / Reddit
• When I was young, and we were moving, I didn’t feel like cleaning my room, so I stuffed a bunch of knick-knacks and some mildly dirty underwear into a hole in the wall before we patched it up.
  I hope someone finds my treasure one day. © suchafart / Reddit

• The people I work for just bought a new house, and I immediately got a strange feeling. It was unusually cold and rooms had a musty smell.
  One day, as I was cleaning, I saw something I hadn’t noticed before. The tiles in the kitchen looked weird. I started peeling them and found a hidden wooden panel underneath. Opened it and found an old metal box inside.
  There were a bunch of old newspapers, medals, and a stack of vintage baseball cards. Long story short, one of the cards turned out to be a 1952 Mickey Mantle.
• A child-sized WWE belt. Despite purchasing my first home and now being several years worth of salary in debt for the first time, I was most interested in how I could possibly wear such a fine article of clothing to work the next day. © arindale / Reddit
• My cousin found an honest to gosh hidden room. A bookshelf swung forward and revealed an unfinished place under the stairs. It had a water glass and some Star Wars books from 1996 in it. © Its_Curse / Reddit

• My sister worked night shift. She came home to find the homeless guy who lived in the neighbor’s yard asleep in her bed. Her dogs were sleeping with him. © cucowgirl / Reddit
• I went to get the mail, which takes all of 2 minutes, so I didn’t lock my door. I come back and 2 girls and 1 guy are sitting around my table chatting and drinking my stuff from the fridge. They looked at me and asked if I was another friend of Steve.
  I don’t remember my exact response, but I find out they were going to their buddy Steve’s place, but they got the wrong building and wound up at my place. They let themselves in.
  Nice enough people, and I actually hung out with them a few times after that, but I definitely make sure to lock my door these days. © Unknown author / Reddit

If you thought these home discoveries were unsettling, wait until you see what people uncovered that was never meant to be found. These 17 dark secrets were hidden for a reason, and the truth is more disturbing than you’d expect.