15.
A Burial Ground What happens when your home actually was built
over an ancient burial ground?
Helen Weisensel of Wisconsin found out while doing a remodeling project in her old home.
When she dug into the basement, she hit upon something hard.
That's when she made a most gruesome discovery: a child was buried there.
Don't worry, the finding didn't have a particularly heinous backstory.
But to come across this buried beneath the basement was certainly on the creepy side.
The child wasn't the only one beneath Helen's basement.
Archeologists found a centuries-old cemetery buried there.
Local historians said that it was likely one of the earliest cemeteries in Jefferson County.
We're talking 170+ years old.
This puts those buried there back in eras of unrest in America, so the house must have
been haunted, right?
"Everybody asks me ... 'Did you have weird things happen in your home?'"
Helen said.
"I say, 'No, my house is just fine.'"
Helen is a lucky lady.
She really came close to a terrifying haunting.
14.
The Ring Redditor Colintendo has come to terms with
something he dislikes about his home: the sinister well dug into his basement floor.
"I have The Ring in my basement," he writes and, with three photographs (https://imgur.com/a/e0y4y),
he provides proof of this haunting discovery: a cavernous hole beneath a hatch.
The thing seems to go on forever, reaching the deepest depths of darkness, into the great
and terrifying unknown.
I know it's just a film.
But the last thing I'd want to discover in my home was a creepy well in the basement.
No doubt in my mind that a tunnel into the darkness wouldn't lead to anything good.
Most of Reddit agrees, calling it a "gate to hell" and advising the OP to fill it
with cement.
13.
Old Lady Demon Doll Redditor socksandpants listed this doll as
one of the creepiest things the OP has ever found in a basement.
The old lady demon doll was uncovered in the basement of an estate sale, where it probably
should have been left to rot.
I mean, look at the thing – it's obviously possessed.
Absolutely no question about it.
What child picks out an old lady doll with brittle bones, pasty skin, rotting teeth,
vacant eyes, and broken fingers anyway?
Who wants this as a plaything?
Additional details by the OP include that a name was carved into the back of the doll's
neck, perhaps by the doll's owner or whoever made the nightmare toy.
One Redditor suggested to speak the name fast three times in front of a mirror.
Another Redditor joined in, saying that the doll only needed two additional souls to be
"fully restored."
Another "fun fact": the doll was discovered in a black box that had been secured shut
with some string.
If that doesn't say demon doll, right there, I don't know what does.
If only we knew who the doll's original owner was, we could finally unravel this mystery.
12.
The Secret Roommate Have you ever wondered if there was a stranger
living in your basement?
Probably not.
No one could pull that off without anyone noticing, right?
But in September 2013, some university students at Ohio State answered in the affirmative
to that very question, when they discovered a secret room in the basement of their shared
house…a secret room that showed every sign of having been occupied.
The house in question had three floors and a basement.
The first floor was leased to five roomies, while the upper floors were leased to ten
more.
That's fifteen people, total.
But, as it turns out, there were actually sixteen people living there.
The students had assumed the locked door in the basement led to a utility closet.
But when the door was knocked down by maintenance workers, they discovered a room with framed
photographs all over the walls and textbooks flung across the floor.
To put it simply, it looked like your average college dorm room.
Only, this roommate had been living there without anyone knowing.
At least one of the residents had encountered the secret roommate.
One student recalled heading downstairs into the basement when he crossed paths with the
guy, who avoided answering when questioned about whether he lived on the first floor
of the house.
The roomies changed the locks the night of the scary discovery and placed a note on their
door telling their secret roommate to give them a call.
Jeremy, a stranger to the home's other residents, did just that.
And when he was confronted about living there, rent-free, he was completely chill about it
and left without causing an uproar.
The residents blame the leasing company for this incident, with one of the residents,
Hartman, saying, "They hadn't changed the locks from the year before, and the keys
don't say 'do not duplicate.'
There could be hundreds of people with keys to the house."
Who knows?
Perhaps there are hundreds of other secret roommates living in hidden chambers in basements
across the world.
11.
Meat Hooks A Redditor by the name of anthropology_nerd
shared a story about the scariest thing his family had ever found in their basement.
The OP's family had bought a century-old house in upstate New Hampshire and describes
the basement as already creepy, dark, dingy, with a dirt floor, and half stone-lined.
There were few lightbulbs down there and large spaces in between, so that when you turned
the lights off to head upstairs, you'd probably run for your life, out of fear for what might
try and reach out at you from the darkness.
Anthropology_nerd paints a rather awful picture of the rest: "Combine this part of the basement
with the other half (tucked around a corner under a newer addition to the house) built
to sanitation code with white plastic walls, concrete floor, temperature control, a walk-in
freezer (for some reason with no door handle if you were locked inside), and meat hooks
hanging from the ceiling."
Come to find out, the home's last owner was a German man who loved sausage.
In fact, he used to make it and sell it out of his home.
So the old house's basement was a sausage factory and its front parlor served as the
"shop."
Needless to say, after the OP and his brother had explored the frightening meat-hooked basement
once, they never went back down there.
With meat hooks hanging in the ceiling, I wouldn't either.
I'd probably always wonder if a more human type of meat had hung there…
10.
The Duffel Bag Redditor dailydishabille can top those meat
hooks.
When the OP was sharing a house with friends, one night, they all decided to go investigate
the basement, as they hadn't been down there much yet.
It was a half-finished basement with a dirt crawlspace that wound its way out under the
home's porch.
And what the group was about to find out in that crawlspace will send chills down your
spine.
As the OP tells it: "My roommate scurries under there with a flashlight and takes a
look around.
We hear him yell that he's found something, and [a] minute or so later, he emerges with
a black canvas duffel bag clutched in his hand."
What was in the duffel bag?
You don't want to know…
But we'll tell you anyway.
The duffel bag contained a 4.5 inch hunting knife, two black ski masks, and one black
leather glove.
The group called police detectives to see if they should bring the shady duffel bag
in to authorities, they said they weren't interested.
So, together, the group burned up all the contents of the duffel bag…except, of course,
the knife, which the OP claims is in his possession to this day.
9.
A Live Artillery Shell While most of the things on this list are
scary, but aren't particularly dangerous, this entry definitely counts as both.
Linda DeForest, a resident of Indiana, was rummaging through her basement's contents,
when she came upon a heavy green foot-long object that looked just like a bomb…because
that's exactly what it was.
She told her husband that she'd found a torpedo in the basement and, when he went
to check it out, he saw that she wasn't at all joking.
Instead of leaving the bomb to specialists to handle with care, Mr. DeForest manhandled
the device, observing, "I knew it was official, because it was so heavy."
The couple went to their army vet friend, Joshua Blankenship, for advice.
He told the DeForests that it was one of two things: an anti-tank weapon or a round for
a mortar.
He also told them that it didn't appear to be disarmed or disassembled, and they probably
shouldn't touch it, for obvious reasons.
Once the DeForests called upon the proper authorities, they were soon free and clear
of the device.
That is, after the unit had evacuated the whole street.
The real question is why was this even in a basement in Indiana in the first place?
8.
Tank When the authorities suspected that a wealthy
German man owned illegal possessions, police were sent to search his villa.
What they found there was a full arsenal, including a torpedo, much like what was found
in the DeForests' home and, best of all, a massive WWII tank in the basement.
The tank in question was a 1943 Panther.
The Panther was a German medium tank deployed on Europe's Eastern and Western Fronts.
At 22 feet and 45 tons, as you can imagine, this massive tank in the basement was problematic
for authorities when it came to removal.
Police ended up employing another tank that was specifically designed to lug disabled
tanks from the battlefield.
So what happens when you get caught with this in your basement?
Well, in this man's case, his lawyer argued that the client's possession of the tank
wasn't breaking any laws, as it is no longer able to fire.
This argument may not hold up though, unless it's in a museum or for academic purposes.
7.
200-Pound Alligator If you think a tank is bad, why don't you
make your way down into the basement of Charles Price, a crazy man who lives in Michigan,
and the proud owner of an illegal pet alligator.
Price had been keeping a six-foot alligator in his basement for more than twenty years
– that's most of the 26-year-old alligator's life.
The exotic pet was kept in a cage in the basement, presumably to get rid of the house's mouse
infestation.
That's what pet alligator's do, right?
According to Sgt.
Bill Shannon, the owner "put it out periodically in his back yard," although no one had ever
seen it.
An appliance repairman alerted authorities to the matter, when he discovered the scary
creature lurking in the basement during some home repair work.
He said he'd seen something moving in a container that was covered in a dark corner
of the basement.
When he pulled the cover off, he found the great alligator.
Most people would have run for their lives, but not this repairman.
He stuck around, photographed the illegal pet, and called animal control.
An alligator specialist was called in, as was the conservation police officer, Roberto
Macias, and the 200-pound alligator was rescued from his basement dwelling.
Hopefully, reunited with his long lost family in a swamp somewhere.
"In 25 years, I've never had anything like it," Police Chief Dennis Murrin Jr. said.
Neither have we, Dennis.
Neither have we.
6.
Demon Statue This scary demon statue was discovered by
Redditor probably_a_wizard in the basement of a relative.
The demon statue is holding a cord that seems to be leading right to its brain.
Perhaps it turns the demon's mind on for possession.
Or perhaps it makes the statue come alive.
The resulting Reddit discussion of the demon statue revolved around what, in the heck,
the thing was, with some suggesting it was a kewpie doll, a Halloween decoration, a lamp,
or even art.
Fellow Redditors urged the OP to plug the demon in, but others, like cyclefreaksix,
thought better of it, saying, "That's a warning to stay out of the basement."
5.
Dolls Last Supper Perhaps dolls are the creepiest things to
find in basements, because like so many doll entries, this one certainly quickens the pulse.
This scene was discovered in the basement of a restaurant where the OP, gravityboi,
had dinner.
The OP said the restaurant was Hanny's in downtown Phoenix.
According to him, the place seemed upscale, but when he saw the spiral staircase leading
downstairs, he just had to see what the basement had in store.
He probably wished he'd never gone, because this one will most certainly haunt his dreams.
The photo shows a group of a dozen dolls sitting along a table with loads of coins scattered
before them.
And judging by the thread of comments from Reddit users, dolls are about as scary as
clowns to most people.
Some called the dolls "angry."
Some claimed they wouldn't be able to sleep at night, while others warned gravityboi that
his soul was in danger.
Mostly everyone found the scene more than a little creepy.
4.
A Leg What is scarier than finding a whole person
in your basement?
Finding just one limb.
Blogger, Karen, was cleaning out her basement before the centipede exterminator came to
visit, when she came upon something she'd long forgotten was down there: a vintage prosthetic
leg.
The leg is fitted with a sock and shoe and, although it's not as creepy as finding an
actual human body part in your basement, it is creepy to think someone has lost their
artificial one.
Most of Karen's followers find the discovery to be rather strange and unsettling.
Other followers suggest that Karen adapt the prosthetic or donate it to be reused by someone
who needs it.
3.
A Spine Now, for real parts discovered in basements:
Redditor Haplessru tells about a girl he once knew that discovered a spine in the ceiling
of the basement of an old rental home.
What would you do if you found something so spine-tingling – pardon the pun – in your
basement?
This girl called up her landlord, who claimed the spine belonged to a dog.
He confiscated the scary discovery and split.
On another occasion, the girl heard a noise in the attic and, upon opening the attic hatch,
was showered with crayons.
Are the two somehow related?
Most Redditors following the thread thought the girl should have called the police.
They suspected the landlord may have had something to do with that spine…and no one believed
for a minute that it was a dog spine.
Let's all hope that the demonic spirit of Fido didn't haunt this young girl.
Not sure what a dog haunting would entail, but the image of Kujo comes to mind.
2.
Toxic Chemicals Redditor JimDixon knows a thing or two about
scary things found in basements.
His mother was part of an evacuation, because something was discovered in the basement of
an area resident…something absolutely toxic.
According to JimDixon, the police cleared his mother's neighborhood for evacuation
for several hours, with city buses loading residents and taking them to safety.
All because a would-be chemist had stored loads of toxic chemicals in his basement up
the street.
When the chemist passed away, the treasure trove of unstable chemicals was discovered.
With the potential for leakage or explosion imminent, the police quickly cleared the area,
and a truck loaded up the chemicals and hauled them off.
The evacuation was just a safety precaution, but the idea of a possible explosion or poisoning
at any moment was scary nonetheless.
Another Redditor on the thread, Trudor, says this is not as unusual an incident as we may
think.
He said one of his high school classmates passed from a chemical explosion and "nearly
took out his whole family with him," he writes.
"He was a self-taught, self-proclaimed genius chemist, specializing in making fireworks
and other nasty stuff and was regularly [taking] chemicals from our school's stash."
According to Trudor, the poor kid had been so interested in chemicals that he decided
to fill a tube with nitric acid, which ended up leaking in his backpack at one point.
This isn't what took him out.
Rather, a water main busted at his house one night, flooding the flat, and disturbing his
chemical trove.
The result was an explosion, a fire, and an entire house burned to the ground.
His family and neighbors escaped, but the kid did not.
One of the many reasons not to keep toxic chemicals in an unsafe environment without
protection.
Better yet, if you're not a chemistry genius, don't mess with them in the first place.
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1.
Strange and Otherworldly Specimens One of the coolest and creepiest discoveries
on this list is that of an eccentric Crypto-naturalist, Xenoarcheologist, and Fringe Zoologist called
Thomas Theodore Merrylin.
He was born in 1782 in England, and as a wealthy aristocrat and biologist, he turned to studying
his abominable specimens, which are likely fake…at least, we hope.
Merrylin left behind a freakish array of cryptic items in the sealed basement of an old orphanage
in London.
The items were rediscovered in 2006, when hundreds of big crates were unearthed, having
been buried in the basement.
What was inside them?
You really don't want to know.
But you're about to.
Numerous diaries detailing strange and unnatural entities.
Specimens of creatures that are not of this world and thousands of chilling artifacts
were boxed up for the unfortunate archeologists to find.
I say "unfortunate," because these things surely made their stomach turn.
The collection is now called the Merrylin Cryptid Collection.
Officials still don't know what this collection means, why it was contrived, and what we should
make of it.
Are these things real?
Do we want them to be?
But all we do know is, once you've taken a look at Merrylin's collection, it's
something you'll never forget…no matter how hard you try.
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