homes & houses

I hadn't heard about this until reading an article in today's Guardian in praise of "15-Minute Cities". Based on Clarence Perry's early 1900s "Neighbourhood Unit" concept, in theory, it all sounds perfectly sensible and its supporters describe it thus "you should have your daily needs – work...

While on a trip into the Big City to visit the National Army Museum yesterday, my eagle eye fell upon a blue plaque en route to the attraction. Closer inspection revealed something that might be of interest to peripatetic Forteans: Image courtesy of National Heritage (as my iPhone shot was...

As the ongoing fascination with “true crime” entertainment continues, so too does the fascination with homes where insidious events went down. The owners of a home in Westfield, New Jersey, are currently dealing with an influx of visitors after Netflix’s “The Watcher” — which chronicles a series...

Nobody seems to know why this miniature house was placed atop a tall tree stump, but park management has instructed the staff to let it be. FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/06/24/miniature-house-mystery-Golden-Gate-Park-San-Francisco/7281656099574/

I've been looking at houses to buy over the last couple of months. Does anyone get the feeling that they can or can't live somewhere as soon as they enter a property. One of the houses I viewed which was a new build felt so horrible I made my excuses and left Mr Wombat thinks I've lost it he...

Millennium Manor A 1937 vintage stone house in Tennessee that was hand built to withstand the biblical apocalypse. https://www.wbir.com/article/entertainment/places/abandoned-places/tennessee-abandoned-places-millennium-manor/51-489a739a-2d0a-4911-906d-6cd3550713e4

UK's oldest fridge! https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/oldest-working-fridge-uk-takes-24579073?fbclid=IwAR1LDhzsQvdlac3caXm9Agd2HwBAR-ryKAIL0-NZmaWNEPDsr19s3e5cCH0

Late last night, when everyone in the house was asleep except me, some odd things began to happen. For convenience, I'll describe the layout of the house and where everyone was sleeping, hopefully it will give a better idea of what it was like: The bedrooms are on one side of the house, in an...

I couldn't find a news thread version on the Minor Strangeness thread in IHTM so please forgive me if this has already appeared somewhere... Just how is this bloke to sell his house if he doesn't want anyone to see inside (if it is on sale. It's all a bit odd)...

I just heard after something like 38 years of not hearing it that a long time ago in the house I grew up in my sister, who was around 3 at the time walked from the bathroom into my mother's bedroom one morning and said 'there's a man in the bathroom'. This was met with 'no there isn't, your...

I wanted to share a couple of what were to me at least inexplicable events. I live in a modern flat (about 15 years old). There is nothing odd or spooky about it, but around three years ago two strange things occurred. At about 3am on morning I found myself wide awake. Someone had turned...

Last weekend I visited my folks. While we were there we went to Poundbury. Poundbury is essentially a housing estate, but rather than being rows of Barrett homes all the houses are different. They follow a number of design styles right though the ages. What they have tried to do is to create a...

EH!!? WHAT? SORRY? PARDON? From the BBC: 'The wedding between jailed serial killer Rose West and Slade bass player Dave Glover has been called off - just days after it was announced. The pair have been writing to each other for a year, but Mr Glover is reported to have pulled out because...

When we moved into my house (I was 3 at the time) my parents came upon a box of rocks. I'm not sure where it was found... I think it just turned up. It was neither of my parents... but they never mentioned finding it hidden somewhere, each thought it was the others at first. Well, it wasn't a...

Ed & Lorraine Warren and the Amityville Horror After reading all the info about the Amityville Horror and it's hoax status in another thread, where does that put the Warrens, whose investigations were used in part to validate the Amityville haunting? One of the scariest books I'v ever read...

I am a proud owner of a white german shepherd dog and from what my wife tells me,they shed their fur during the summertime. I came home from work tonight and we noticed something strange....there was fur all over the place! Almost as if someone was repeatedly petting him but we know for a...

OK, I don't know if i'm making something out of nothing, but some strange things have been happening. These things aren't too major, but they just kinda give me a creepy feeling. Well, it all started about a week ago. I was lying in bed one morning, staring at my window blinds when I noticed...