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

[ron1n]

Had my bedroom window opened once (with the curtains still draped across) and a Kookaburra randomly decided to fly in pushing underneath the curtain to say hello. He did a lap of my room, laughed really loudly, then flew out when I pulled the curtain aside.

Also once had my best friend's dog over (Samoyed/retriever cross) and he was out playing in our garden. A fox came darting out and instead of immediately running away from the dog, they both played with each other (you know, dog stuff) before darting back off into the bushes.

Oh and I once found a huntsman spider inside my PC case. Not so much miraculous as it was terrifying.

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

I walked into a moose outside my front door once...
I guess that's what happen when you live near a forest.

Though the weirdest thing to have happen, must have been when a deer stood knocking at my window in the middle of the night.
Scared the crap out of me and I nearly pissed my pants when I drew the curtains and noticed a deer staring at me.

 

[dumbseizure]

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! =(

 

[SirDeadly]

Yesterday I was in the shower after I got back from the gym when I noticed something crawling along my foot. I looked down I freaked out when I saw massive black legs and kicked the thing off. Luckily it was only a giant freaking grasshopper and not one of the Devil's evil spider creatures that call Australia home. I nearly had a heart attack!

 

[Playful Pony]

The place I live now is pretty peaceful, and nothing really happens... But I used to live in an apartment in town, and I had some strange neighbours then. Not so much odd things as odd events I guess, but the guy that lived on the second floor across the street from me had an interesting way of getting his dog outside. I only saw this one time, but a lady was standing bellow the guys window, and the guy litterally lowered his dog down to her with a rope. Later the lady and the dog came back, and the dog was hoisted back up into the apartment. I have NO idea what that was about...

There also was a guy who's car was assaulted, I can only assume by his ex-girlfriend. Many nights went by with shouting (about child support and such things, so I guess he didn't want to pay up for their child) and arguing outside the mans apartment. One day on my way to work his car had countless brown splats all over it, and a used diaper on the roof... The car remained like that for almost a week, I can only imagine he gave up on it and took the bus...

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Attrative women, HIYO!
No, my house is completely average... no sexy ladies.

 

[DugMachine]

Once found an entire snake skeleton behind my AC unit on the side of the house. The odd thing was that it was in this perfect "strike" position. I keep it as a cool decoration.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

A herd of Alpaca's ran down our street once.

Considering the street was located in a suburb (admittedly backing out onto a dairy farm) it was a little surprising.

 

[MorphingDragon]

My parents live on a farm and we'd sometimes get cows in the garden etc.

But the weirdest thing I've found is one evening when I left the lights on and windows open, is that the ceiling was covered in HuHu beetles. Now I'd often see a lone beetle or rotting wood with their grubs, but never a massive group of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huhu_beetle

 

[The Funslinger]

I even once heard that they took someone slipper when that person accidently left it outside.

Those fox bastards!

OT: A deer hunting rifle round. Made strange by the fact nobody can remember owning a rifle that chambers such a round, and deer are very scarce round here.

When we first moved in, we were changing the old carpeting, and found a bloodstain on the stairs.

 

[The Funslinger]

Though the weirdest thing to have happen, must have been when a deer stood knocking at my window in the middle of the night.
Scared the crap out of me and I nearly pissed my pants when I drew the curtains and noticed a deer staring at me.

I don't know why, but that has me laughing so hard. I just have this mental image of you opening the curtains. You see only darkness. Then lightning strikes in the night sky, illuminating the face of the previously unseen deer.

I'mma fuckin cut you!​

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Let's see, now.

Found a fox on the front porch (been said, but it still happened).
Golden eagle sad on the gutters (I'm from Kansas, golden eagles aren't exactly common there).
Armadillo in the street trash can (again, Kansas. Not supposed to happen). We had to get him out. How the hell did he get in there?

Empty beer keg.
A shredded fur coat.
A car tire.

There's probably more.

 

[Icyheart]

Wasn't my house, but a long time ago at a friend's house I found a case of exactly 25 Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches (23 babies aprox and a full grown male and female). Turns out he was keeping them as pets. I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised after the praying mantis, which he used to watch eat each-other, or the various spiders and beetles, but still...

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

A couple things, actually...I live near an elementary and a high school, and mainly with the kids walking home from the elementary school, for some reason they always tend to accidentally drop things in our yard. For a PSP (I turned it on and found out whos it was and gave it back), a copy of Halo 3, an unopened container or birth control pills (obviously, or at least hopefully, not the kids), an entire backpack with school work in it (not sure how you manage to just drop it and "lose" it), and the only one I actually ever kept was a copy of Bioshock for the PS3 that was left in the rain. The case was obviously damaged, but the game worked fine.

This was all over a span of a few months. Eventually the elementary kids found another path to get to school that leads straight to the crossing guard, so I don't get much. Now I mainly find lighters and other small junk either in or near my yard since the new teenaged neighbors moved in.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

Two lost/stray poodle companions Those durn Californians! Always placing ugly fences everywhere. What is with you and the fences, huh?

And a ghost once. WOOOooooOOOooo

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I've had Hawk in our garden for awhile which are really rare to see at all in my area nevermind right on your doorstep. Quite interesting except the bastard kept leaving half eaten seagull remains behind.

 

[shadyh8er]

I found a fuck-mothering SCORPION in my kitchen once. Squished it with the nearest shoe without a second thought.

And whatever the hell this thing is:

Spoiler

 

[Nouw]

A stain. It wasn't there yesterday, but here it was today. No one knew where that stain came from, but we all agreed that it needed to go.

I found a fuck-mothering SCORPION in my kitchen once. Squished it with the nearest shoe without a second thought.

And whatever the hell this thing is:

Spoiler

Mate if I saw that in my room I would literally jump out the fucking window. Jesus that's terrifying.

 

[Remus]

A whole flock of black vultures, in my parking space by my house. I never knew they came in flocks. They're usually quite solitary creatures unless they're sharing a meal. When I pulled in to park, about half of them flew off only to land in an adjacent oak tree. The other half just kinda waddled in front of my car like I was only a minor nuisance.