Weird things home buyers have found when they moved in

Here is a story about buying a property that will make your toes curl.

“First time I took a hot shower in our new home. The steam covered the mirror, only to reveal the phrase “HELLO, I SEE YOU” in large finger drawn writing,” the property owner candidly shared online.

This is one of the jaw-dropping experiences shared by home buyers who answered the Reddit question: “People who bought a house. What is the weirdest thing you have found left by the previous owner?”

The shock shower find freaked the new owner out at first, but they said they later saw the funny side.

Another said their wife received a phone call that would connect her to her past.

“Before I met her, my wife got a call from someone she worked with saying they’d just bought an old house and in the city, and in it was a steamer trunk with her family name (not a common one) carved into the woodwork on one end,” they wrote.

“As it turns out, it was the trunk that her great grandfather used when he came over from Germany, and it made the trip to my wife’s hometown when he met her great grandmother on a visit, and subsequently moved to her city to marry her.

“We now have it and it’s full of family portraits and albums.”

One story was not so much weird as it was heartwarming.

“One of the kids’ rooms has a shelf going all around the top edge, and when my kid was putting stuff up there they found a letter from the previous kid. The letter welcomed them to the room etc and asked them to take special care of a rose bush in the front yard that was their special rose bush. My kid thought it was really cool to have that connection with the previous kid.”

A lucky buyer said they discovered a blue-and-white striped bowl which they used to keep fruit in. At one stage, they considered donating it to a charity shop. And then…

“…one day I was at an antique fair and I saw for sale glass bowls that looked almost identical to ours. I went home to get my bowl and brought it to be assessed,” they said.

“Turns out it was a vintage Orrefors crystal bowl. The assessor valued it at around $800.

“We no longer keep fruit in it.”