87 Entertaining Stories About Weird Roommates People Shared

I lived with a furry once, and his bedroom had a number of posters/prints of furry characters, some not dressed all too appropriately, some not dressed at all.

That didn't bug me at all, but I did find it pretty weird how he refused to take them down whenever he had company over, including his grandmother who didn't seem to approve of his taste in women or modesty.

OK. Never thought I'd tell this story but this is the perfect venue. When I was a sophomore in college (1983), I had this really odd roommate named Opie. He did a lot of weird stuff, but this one stands out.

I owned this knife that I guess was technically a switchblade. One day he borrows it and then proceeds to pull down his pants and stab himself in the sack with it. That knife got a thorough cleaning after that.

Lived with a guy in college who never washed his sheets. It was bizarre and utterly disgusting.

Former roommate of mine.

He used to come back late from work. Then proceeds to occupy the kitchen, takes out a bottle of vodka from the freezer. Downs a couple of shots. Then he puts on his running shoes, goes for jog for about an hour. Comes back to down more shots in the kitchen.

He also used to have this girlfriend who looked like a 25-year-old retired librarian. The type of school teacher that seems to have been born in the wrong decade by accident. Really mousy and shy. She was even too shy to greet me when I ran into her in the apartment.

But as soon as they closed the door to his room behind them, they had freakishly loud monkey intercourse. It sounded like two fully grown gorillas throwing themselves at each other. Full on "OWWWWW!", "AHHHHHH!" "YAAAAH!". It was completely absurd. One time they were having a go at each other early saturday morning, so my alarm clock was basically a woman's shrieks.

One time I also found a rotting pineapple in the kitchen while cleaning. I don't know how or why.

Ive posted about it before, but using an empty plastic vodka bottle as a makeshift bidet is by far the weirdest thing a roommate of mine has done.

My roommate last year would yell out the window "hi daddy! I wanna sleep with you!" to hot guys who were passing by. She also put her number on the window!

Left a cookie on the floor, clearly on their side of the room but in full view. The carpet hadn’t been cleaned in years; I wouldn’t advise anyone walk on it barefoot after a shower. Woke up in the middle of the night, went to the bathroom, and proceeded to eat the cookie off the floor upon return.

Current roommate.
He talks to himself. I once asked what he was doing and he described it as never giving up playing with toys, but the thing is there are no toys. He just paces around the living room with his hands clasped behind his back and if you walk in on him doing it, he just stops and stares at you until you leave.

He opened my door and walked into my bedroom, where I was under the blankets lying in bed, and said “are you sleeping?”

I mean, not anymore... was made weirder by the fact that I’m a girl, sharing a room with my boyfriend in the three person house. He never did anything like that when all three of us were home smh.

Genuinely good guy but zero concept of social behaviour.

I once had a roommate that left her, um, used feminine products on the floor of the bathroom. 🤢.

Dropped an iron on the floor, and left it there while it was still on...

He at half of a pumpkin pie. What made it weird was because it was February. And the reason that's weird is because the pie was from Thanksgiving.

The same roommate also used to get drunk and sneak into the iron skillet buffet and eat for free. But they hand out utensils whenever they seat you. So every time he went, he would have to eat with his hands. The day he finally got caught, he had both hands covered in mashed potatoes lol.

When it was time to move out, she insisted that things that were mine were hers, even though I had various forms of proof (for example, the item’s original box). She would simply adamantly insist that the item was hers without offering any other evidence beyond “it’s mine!”.

Doing a webcam show while I WAS IN THE BACKGROUND INNOCENTLY WORKING ON MY CHEMISTRY HOMEWORK.

He ran out into the intersection that's just outside his window, with a baseball bat, to yell "who's honking!?".

Had one roommate in college who spoke in his sleep. He was having a very vivid dream about having an almost too playful snowball fight with our calculus professor. It was...strange to say the least.

This one wasn't so much "caught", but I came home from work one night to find my roommates (two guys and a girl) sitting on the floor of our living room facing the front door, lights off, wearing hoodies with the hoods up, lit by apple scented candles, chanting "Criss. Cross. Apple. Sauce."

I believe I simply took this scene and went to my room, but I think I probably laughed.

I came out around 1 am to go to the bathroom and heard a weird rustling in the kitchen. I turned the corner and found my roommate sleeping in our sink.

My old "roommate" (he was technically the homeowner but lived in a shack in the backyard) would come into my room early in the morning and watch me sleep. I was a bartender at the time so I would get home about an hour or so before he would be leaving for work. I was always thoroughly passed out when he'd leave and I'm a heavy sleeper so I did not notice this was happening for MONTHS until a guy I was seeing stayed up and caught him opening my door.

There was also a second door to my room that I could not open (it was locked from the other side). I don't know what was going on in there but I'm fairly certain he was spying on me from that room as well. He was a complete crazy person.

Walked in on 5 of my roommates waterboarding the 6th. It was an ROTC house, and we had discussed the topic before, but I guess after a couple fifths they decided to actually go through with it.

The guy getting waterboarded was strapped to our beer pong table with a dishcloth over his head and a female friend and I walked in as my scariest looking roommate was about to pour a gallon of water on his face. On the upside, my female friend and I went straight upstairs.