How much would it take for you to politely leave someone's home? Would a funny smell be enough to trigger your flight response, or do you need reality-show-level hoarding to set off your alarm bells? Regardless of your level of tolerance for the weird and unexplained, some people have come across something weird enough to make them run and never look back.
A viral thread asked people to trauma dump about the things that they saw in someone's house that went way past a little extra dust or an unmade bed. These discoveries are trauma-inducing, to say the least, and we are grateful for the brave souls who shared these cautionary tales with us.
#21

One time I visited a lady that just had a baby to give her some clothes that my baby grew out of. I go inside and it is just filth from floor to ceiling. Brown walls from hand smears and carpet caked in god knows what. So I go into her room and I ask to see the baby and she pulls the baby out of a hole in her dirty mattress. I almost cried
A few months later the house was torn down. I don’t know what happened to any of them I was 20 at the time.
A few months later the house was torn down. I don’t know what happened to any of them I was 20 at the time.
10points
#22

I was in Australia, matched with someone on tinder. My d*****s went along. It was 2/3 in the morning. He showed me around his house, I asked about a room we walked past and didn’t enter. I joked if that’s wear he hides the bodies. His face changed immediately. I made an excuse to leave, put my shoes on and ran for the nearest set of streetlights. I blocked him before I even made it to the front gate.
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9points
#23

When I was 5 I was supposed to stay overnight at a family friend’s house. The house was later featured on an episode of Hoarders: Buried Alive it was an episode that was so bad the pest control guy literally was crying — full tears — to the camera I called my grandma to pick me up within an hour. Like ladyyyy you better get your a*s back over here cause there’s no way I’m not having a meltdown here.
8points
#24

I was friends with a girl in the neighborhood, I was about 3-4 years old. Had no clue she had passed away. Her parents were outside and asked if I’d like to come inside and play as that’s what I used to do. They did my hair like they did hers made me play with her dolls and force fed me croutons??? Croutons!!!!! Whole time I’m like where is my friend this isn’t what we usually do after I literally escaped out the back door and cried to my parents they broke the news she passed It was so creepy.
8points
#25

I was crushing hard on a pastry chef and was invited back to her house ( yeah, me!). We walk in and her boyfriend is at the kitchen table with bags of d***s and handg*ns everywhere. Like, whut?!?! Couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
8points
#26

Man I’ve been waiting for this.
A girl asked me to take her home from the bar we were both at, I said sure and drove her 15 minutes. She invited me in because some others were about to show. I went. Swingers. They were swingers. She brought me home to her boyfriend. I got out of there so fast.
A girl asked me to take her home from the bar we were both at, I said sure and drove her 15 minutes. She invited me in because some others were about to show. I went. Swingers. They were swingers. She brought me home to her boyfriend. I got out of there so fast.
8points
#27

When I was 5 I had an overnight play date with a kid from school. What my parents and I didn’t know was that his parents were nudists. I called my mom the minute clothes started coming off and they encouraged me to join.
7points
#28

I delivered a range to a house, whilst they were actively gutting a deer on the kitchen table; which was also a ping pong table.
6points
#29
I’m use to cluttered houses so when a old co worker said her house was messy I’m like it’s cool x man floor to ceiling in some rooms. And it was trash. Old diapers hygiene products and used tampons, shavers all of it. c**doms in the sink. Old food. The fridge was oozing. Thankfully the ex had the kid full time I tried to help her get it cleaned but she would go right back to throwing trash on the floors. it’s sad like we tried to get her professional help as well.
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6points
#30

Walked into this guy's house to buy w**d about 12 years ago. Noticed it smelled HEAVY of fribreeze but didn't think anything of it. Had to go to the bathroom and the smell was strongest there. Peed, turned around, and there was a dude in his bathtub with his chest blown out. Went back, paid the man and left a lot quicker than I had arrived.
5points
#31

Watched them put the cat litter scoop into the dishwasher with their dishes.
5points
#32
I met my friends grandma and the first thing she asked me was if I was German as she is from Germany. Then my friend wanted to introduce me to his d**d grandfather I was brought to the fridge where they had a picture of him in his N**i uniform. There were 1000 red flags prior to this point. Not me literally knowing his mother is from Germany and him talking about his grandpa fighting in the war… talking about his Grampa was the best Grampa ever.
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5points
#33
Yeah, a girl I dated was a hoarder. Every single surface was covered in something. There was a pile of garbage and recycling in the middle of the room. She slept in the living room because her bedroom was “storage”. She wouldn’t let me see it but I know it must have been bad. Her two rabbits just roamed free among all this.
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5points
#34
I was 8, rode the school bus home with a friend to hang out; to this day, the dirtiest house I’ve ever seen. Her mom offered to make food & I was like, “NO THANK YOU NOT HUNGRY!” Piles of trash & dust & dirt & roaches everywhere. I went to pee & there was a STACK of dirty dishes on the back of the TOILET!!?!!! Like are y’all eating WHILE ON THE CAN??!?? When my mom picked me up, they asked if I could sleep over & I tugged at her arm going, “Please say no!” She did, phew.
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5points
#35

My ex's dad was the sweetest guy ever, but his shower had mildew three feet high on the shower walls and on the shower floor. I had to shower in that filth. I feel sick just thinking about it and it happened over 15 years ago.
4points
#36

Was in my adolescence hooking up with random man from Craigslist. Went to one gentlemen’s house and it smells strongly of cat p**s. He then takes me to a room with random clutter to proceed to hook up. I told him I needed to grab something from my car. He asked if “I was coming back?” I said totally while proceeding to run to my car and speed off not looking back once.
2points
#37
The towel was to use after the mold shower and I REALLY needed a shower so I managed to do it on my tippy toes and didn’t touch the mold on everything. I couldn’t even fathom using that towel on my body so I used toilet paper to dry my body off.
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1point
#38
Went to a man's house for a smoke sesh/date night. Pulled up and he locked the door behind me. His friend was sitting on the couch(it was supposed to be just us) and there was 20+ s*x toys laid out next to where he told me to sit. Red flags everywhere so I'm nervous. THEN he pulled out a and loaded it bc he "heard a noise" and proceeded to offer me kpins... needless to say my best friend called me for and "emergency" and I gtfo.
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0points
#39
cockroaches at a friends house when i was like 14 or 15. i made my mom come pick me up at midnight lmao.
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0points
#40
A friend lived in a run doen tudor manor house. We all went there after a party. I walked in and immediately felt utterly terrified.
I made a friend accompany me to thr bathroom, (to wash beer from my hair ). She left me bent over the bath rinsing, and went downstairs.
When i went to follow her, the bathroom door was bolted from the inside with a 6 inch cast iron draw bolt.
I refused to stay after that.
I made a friend accompany me to thr bathroom, (to wash beer from my hair ). She left me bent over the bath rinsing, and went downstairs.
When i went to follow her, the bathroom door was bolted from the inside with a 6 inch cast iron draw bolt.
I refused to stay after that.
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