What is the Oddest Thing That Has Turned Up Around Your Home?

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

I was cleaning my room last month, and I found a book.

Also found, a ziplock bag of broken safety glass, two engine parts, a fork that had doubled over itself, and two olives left in the bottom of slightly open jar for ten years. In case you wonder, the effect on the olives was blackening, then petrification. Fascinating.

The weirdest thing though? A fork, different from the one above, with tines wrapped in spirals around a small branch of the large ash tree in our back yard. It wasn't our fork, and it certainly hadn't been there the day before. We had to cut the twig to remove it, and have you ever tried to bend the tines of fork?

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

Two days ago, I woke up to a weird sound. I got up and went into the kitchen, where I found before me my 4 cats, laying around being lazy, and a mother-f*cking CHICKEN eating their food. My cats looked at me like, "We don't know how he got here but we sure aren't gonna chase him."

So I chased a random chicken out of my house. It won't leave my yard, tried to get in the house again whenever I leave the back door open, and sleeps in the old Volvo with the broken window. I still have no idea whose it is, since all of the chicken-having people around here won't claim it. Maybe we will have an extra special supper some time this week.


I've just had to get used to the fact that my cats bring home friends every so often. I don't blink twice anymore when I see a strange cat snuggled up to my cats in the kitty bed or eating the food.

Dude. Pet chicken. Do it. Name it Jemima Puddle-Duck. Yes.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Not my house specifically (there aren't many surprises in Western sydney) be when I was on holiday in the US I stayed in a lodge in Yellowstone National Park. I woke up one morning and went outside to get some air, fucking Bison standing in the car park.

You really don't understand the size of those things when you're standing less than 20 meters away from one.

 

[G3]

OK we were standing on a sandbar about 50 yards offshore. This neighbor kid, a girl about 15, was out there with some tourists around. A pair of fins surface, big ones, dorsal and tail, one large fish-- she goes, "hey, look at the huge dolphin!" And I said very calmly, "That is not a dolphin, let's all walk in closer to shore now."

 

[R4ptur3]

The oddest thing that turned up for me was a pheasant. I open the curtains in the morning, stare out the window and boom, there's a relatively large pheasant staring at me. It stood there staring at me for about 5 minutes before it walked off, and obviously at some point flew away. Where I live it just wasn't expected.

A bat also once flew in through my house window when I was young once and it was awesome.

 

[Headsprouter]

We had a Bandicoot that our cat killed in our back yard.

It actually took me a good 20 minutes to work out what the hell it was.

It's the only bandicoot I have ever seen and my cat killed it! =(

Don't worry. I hear they have extra lives. I hope I need not explain that joke.

The oddest thing for me was my own sports bag, and 2 £5 notes.

Yeah, we were robbed. They must have left in a hurry. They just took money and a TV.

Um...other than that, 3 dead baby birds. Kind of mysterious considering how far they were from any sort of high tree or hedge. And we saw bats flying around one night. And a bird survived a full head-on collision with my window. And in another house we found a wee bird lying on it's side on the patio, alive. We put it somewhere safe till it flew off.

My garden(s) and birds. Seriously.

 

[Linakrbcs]

Well, we found some coffins in our garden shed, along with some beautiful, very sharp old-fashioned razors and three sets of glass eyes.

The explanation, unfortunately, is somewhat mundane. My great-grandfather was an untertaker and used the shed as storage space. And then, when he closed his shop, all his stuff just got left behind and buried under the next two generations' stuff

 

[Something Amyss]

I'd say Cthulhu, but since he found out I have an HDTV I can't get rid of him.

...A dog was scratching at my door this one time. I lived on the third floor of a locked building that didn't allow pets at the time.

This technically happened twice, but the other time was a drug dog who was there responding to a complaint against one of my neighbours. No, I didn't have drugs and I didn't make the complaint.

 

[flarty]

My grandma, he telly had broke and she wanted to watch heartbeat

 

[lechat]

once felt a tickling on my arm as i was watching TV on the couch and looked down to find a funnel web contemplating murdering me, that in itself isn't too amazing but what is wierd is having the exact same thing happen the next day with another funnel web after i had squished his brother


also obligatory
sometimes you feel like you are missing out by living in the suburbs

 

[Ix Rebound]

A small frog that was swimming merrily around in our swimming pool
ok so we live right next to a creek so i guess its not that odd

A red belly black snake in our backyard
though i live in Australia so i also guess its not that odd

Although there was this time a pigeon smacked right into our front door and we ended up nursing it for a couple hours until is parents literally walked up to us and just kept squawking until it flew away with them

 

[ChaplainOrion]

When my dad's girlfriend had to move in she ended up fnding a shotgun and a flintlock pistol from the 1800's. That was cool I guess. However, I wasn't allowed to become a pirate of the high highways and plunder the wal-mart trucker fleets.

 

[dfphetteplace]

When I was a kid, I found a baby turtle in my front yard. It was one of those really small ones, the size of a large coin or so. I do not have a pond within a mile of my house, no close rivers or anything like that. This was a real small guy, so he could not have traveled very far. I live in a small town in a rural area, so while possible, I didn't see how it could be someone's pet either.

Being a small kid when I found it, I decided to save it, and put it in a small aquarium that we had. I had both water and land for it, since I had no idea what it wanted. Unfortunately it died after a few days, but I still remember all of this and I still can't figure out where the hell it came from or how it was in my yard.

 

[cojo965]

once felt a tickling on my arm as i was watching TV on the couch and looked down to find a funnel web contemplating murdering me, that in itself isn't too amazing but what is wierd is having the exact same thing happen the next day with another funnel web after i had squished his brother


also obligatory
sometimes you feel like you are missing out by living in the suburbs

Now that is damn cute.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Lets see... At night we have bats that fly over the lake in the backyard and a possum that hangs out. During the day there are ducks (normal), herons (also normal), a flock of ibis (normal too), and an otter... Wait! An otter? I honestly never knew otters live in Florida, but then I lived in the southern half of the state for most of my life then moved up to the central portion more recently. Its amazing the change in ecology that 200 miles can bring.
Also we get American Bald Eagles that come by once a year... FUCK YEA!

 

[Tanner The Monotone]

I had a huge flock of starlings (or crows, don't really remember) fly over my house. The damn flock was so large that it took a few minutes for the last one to pass over. I thought some natural disaster had occurred or something.

 

[Raevan]

Not very interesting or anything, but a few years back I accidentally tipped over an outdoor planter at my grandmother's. It shattered, and buried halfway into the soil, amidst the roots, was a fully functioning copy of Pokemon Blue, with an old save. I've since lost it again, though. Pity.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I moved about a year ago. So far the most unusual thing that turned up was a small paper bag with 16 bullets in it, clearly from the previous owners. Still don't know what to do with them.