The most surprising thing I found in my home....

bbbbb33333
bbbbb33333 Posts: 1,107 Member
edited October 6 in Chit-Chat
Bats in the atti and, a skunk's nose and beady little eyes poking out under my air conditioner. Surely, you have something much more interesting..... post away

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  • Galletakek
    Galletakek Posts: 285
    Bats in the atti and, a skunk's nose and beady little eyes poking out under my air conditioner. Surely, you have something much more interesting..... post away
    lol.. nope, I think you beat me on this one...
  • wendyannie1976
    wendyannie1976 Posts: 205 Member
    I think you beat it but for my home the most surprising was a huge mouldy birds nest under the bath when we were putting new taps on the bath, i've lived here over five years and the previous owner must have known there was a nest and just sealed the outside of the house but left it in - yuck!
  • maddymama
    maddymama Posts: 1,183 Member
    How does an armadillo in the garage rank?
  • sjtreely
    sjtreely Posts: 1,014 Member
    So far, you win. Best I can offer is a chipmunk. I'd take that any day over the skunk.
  • yoshi91610
    yoshi91610 Posts: 177 Member
    When I lived in Michigan, we had bats come in through our heater system all the time. my cat was very skilled at catching bats though =/

    Once I found a Black Widow making a home between my headboard. (I am terrified of anything with 8 legs even arthropods) I cried for a few hours until my mom got home and killed it. But I know spiders in the home aren't that surprising.
  • SassyCalyGirl
    SassyCalyGirl Posts: 1,932 Member
    mines not so uncommon - a baby mouse was being tossed about by my cat until I realized it wasn't her toy and rescued it. Poor little thing was exhausted from being chased and caught for hours. And no, I did not kill it. I set it free.
  • jakejacobsen
    jakejacobsen Posts: 584 Member
    We breed rats for the local pet store, and them little buggers opened their lid, so my wife was heading down the basement stairs and I hear the scream, yup they are on the stairs coming up for a visit, she was not impressed.
  • Krohnie
    Krohnie Posts: 286 Member
    I had a bat in my running shoe once. I put it on and it felt like the insole was smashed in the toe. So I took it off to fix it, and it started to squeek. I thought it was a mouse, so I dumped it out outside and a bat flopped out and opened it's wings up. I was so creeped out that I had an excellent time on my run, in a different pair of shoes!!
  • alliecore
    alliecore Posts: 446 Member
    A mummified lizard under the chest of drawers when we moved. Damn cats!
  • leynak
    leynak Posts: 963 Member
    I used to live in a house that had flying squirrels in the attic. They were so cute, sometimes one would find it's way into our living room. They were really annoying at night though. I swear they were having races or something- you'd hear what sounded like multiple squirrels take off from one side of the room to the other over and over. :laugh:


    *Oh yeah, same house a bat got in one night and started flying around my bedroom while I was laying down. Bats don't usually freak out but that certainly startled me.
  • leomom72
    leomom72 Posts: 1,797 Member
    not too crazy, and not IN our house, but there are woods behind the back yard, and we have possums that come out sometimes, and a family of raccoons that come climb our acorn tree in the front..1 will come up and eat from our hands..she is so sweet and gentle
  • juliecat1
    juliecat1 Posts: 3,450 Member
    Yours still wins. Was sitting in the living room with the kiddies and a lizard fell from the ceiling and into the kids toy bins. I freaked. I saw it going down and it looked huge. Had to dig toys out one by one and shake them out. It, of course, had made its way to the very bottom of the bin. Aaaaaaand.... turns out it was just a tiny little skink. But whatever. :laugh:
  • Saruman_w
    Saruman_w Posts: 1,531 Member
    Hmm, nope. I can't top that. Just have your standard everyday things in an apartment.
  • yoshi91610
    yoshi91610 Posts: 177 Member
    Yours still wins. Was sitting in the living room with the kiddies and a lizard fell from the ceiling and into the kids toy bins. I freaked. I saw it going down and it looked huge. Had to dig toys out one by one and shake them out. It, of course, had made its way to the very bottom of the bin. Aaaaaaand.... turns out it was just a tiny little skink. But whatever. :laugh:
    One time I was staying the night with my best friend and I had a lizard crawl up my leg, well I wore contacts and she wore glasses, so I wasn't able to see it so I scream at her "WHAT IS IT?!?!" and she screamed back "ITS GREEN!! OH MY GOD ITS GREEN!!!" Her brother being all heroic saved us from the tiny lizard. Lol.
  • dlaplume2
    dlaplume2 Posts: 1,658 Member
    Ooooo I wanna play.

    I have 5 kids, 2 cats and a dog.

    I find all kinds of things.

    I have had said skunk and a bat. I have also found a flying squirrel, garden snake and my cat tried to bring in a live bunny rabit once.

    My son started a science project to see how much mold he could amass in an empty fish tank. Don't even know what was in there.

    :laugh:
  • MercenaryNoetic26
    MercenaryNoetic26 Posts: 2,747 Member
    Nothing more than the occasional field mouse or stray bird in my current home. My condo I lived in previously had a fat squirrel in the attic. Mind you it's 5 units and the thing chose the area over my bedroom to friggin' nest! I'd wake up to some bizarre scratching sounds and my association never did anything about it. I'm sure there were more critters living up there and the thought of all that animal **** blowing through the vents had me grossed out. I hope the person I'm renting to doesn't experience that.
  • p0stdramatic
    p0stdramatic Posts: 372
    I've had a tarantula, a scorpion, and a black snake in my house.

    But the most shocking thing I ever found was when my son was in the process of potty training, he had used his toy bench (the seat lifted up for toy storage) as a toilet. I lifted the lid to put some toys away and got a surprise. We've called him the "poop fairy" ever since.
  • DWilbanks
    DWilbanks Posts: 420 Member
    Well in my old house, I had a bird come in through the dryer vent while the dryer was running. All of a sudden I hear a clunk clunk clunk noise and then the dryer stopped. Ummm the bird didn't make it :sick: I had to have my brother come get it out of my dryer and I had to redo the clothes.

    And I also had another bird come through there but the dryer wasn't going and he lived. I kept hearing something hitting on the wall and when I opened the door to the laundry closet a bird came flying at me.:noway: I had to have the neighbor come over get the bird out and take him outside. Call a repairman to fix the vent so I wouldn't have any more unwelcome visitors.
  • Scarlettdawn764
    Scarlettdawn764 Posts: 856 Member
    Had a big, nasty possum in my closet one time! :noway:
  • DWilbanks
    DWilbanks Posts: 420 Member
    At least I wasn't like my sister who was sitting in her living room and looked up in the corner of the room at the ceiling and saw a snake crawling along the wall where the molding meets the ceiling. :huh:
  • 2Bgoddess
    2Bgoddess Posts: 1,096 Member
    a scary doll's head buried in my front garden! actually, there was no garden there, I was digging up the lawn to put it in. I found it nearly 12" deep!

    Sold it on ebay for $12.50 and won the "ugly item contest" in 2008...
  • juliecat1
    juliecat1 Posts: 3,450 Member
    oh! Bat in the car once. Had the windows down at a softball game and it flew in. A bunch of us girls loaded in and hit the highway and it started flying through the car. Ive never heard such screaming! Pulled over on the shoulder, doors flung open and we all started running these comical laps around the car screaming our faces off. lol. It flew out on its own accord thank goodness!
  • RBXChas
    RBXChas Posts: 2,708 Member
    I live in Charleston, SC, so we get a LOT of lizards who sometimes sneak in the house. They eat the palmetto bugs, so I'm ok with them, plus they're cute. We've also had a few tree frogs sneak in the house, but they are also cute and eat bad stuff :) The lizards and the frogs I do my best to catch and let out, since the dogs will try to hunt them down!

    Outside we get all sorts of fun stuff. Most recently my husband actually STEPPED ON a snake while wearing flip-flops. Thankfully it didn't bite him but moved slightly to the left, so to speak. He came inside and told me about it, so we went outside to check it out then shooed it into the wetlands. It turned out to be a red-bellied water snake, which are not poisonous and are quite tolerant of people (hence why he didn't get bitten). It was a lesson to be really careful, though, since here in SC we literally have all the poisonous snakes indigenous to the US, and they are far from uncommon in our neighborhood. (In fact, I think we are the only state that has all those species.)

    Here's the link to the snake, and the one we had looked just like the bottom picture. Very cool looking: http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/nerery.htm
  • MzBug
    MzBug Posts: 2,173 Member
    There is a suprising amount of wildlife around our home. We kind of live in an area kind of between urban and rural. Our development has some large open fields, and there are some wooded areas and water within a mile away. While across the street there are large apartment and condo complexes with no open space. We have had bunnies born under our deck, baby praying mantises running all over our deck, possums, squirrels, and racoons on the deck. We have had deer jump our fence, skunks around our fence and under our shed, baby robins born in our trees, and a pair of doves canoodling outside our glass door. I have opened the front storm door and had frogs hop into the house, and before we fixed the seal under the front door and put up the storm door we would occasionally get earth worms and slugs oozing into the house. Of course there are always bugs and spiders.
  • directorj
    directorj Posts: 537 Member
    I had a family of cats come into our backyard then I let my dogs outside and chased them away :laugh: . However the most the random thing I saw which happened at my relative's house was 2-3 white rabbits going around their backyard. At first I was like "whaatt?" Then they told me it was the neighbor's rabbit and it comes in daytime and comes back "home" a night

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  • keiracarbonara
    keiracarbonara Posts: 21
    a cat gave birth to 5 kittens in my closet. had to wash all my clothes 4 times. :laugh:
  • Jain
    Jain Posts: 861 Member
    We have rats in the walls in this house. But the oddest was the huge pile of porn we found when we moved into our first house. The one we had bought from a sweet little old lady!:noway:
  • mcrowe1016
    mcrowe1016 Posts: 647 Member
    A whole beehive was in my basement when I first moved in. My husband and I "claimed" our space that night. It was a massacre.
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