What is your best horror story

[Lawrence R.]

My best horror story I can't post here, as I have come to think that my boss may lurk here, LOL.

 

[Mztk1]

I was pulling a tape once, not watching what was behind me, paying more attention to the eaves and siding as I walked somewhat backwards, when I heard a hiss sound, real loud. I stopped, look down toward my feet, and no more than 4 feet away was a cotton mouth coiled up, neck part of the body standing erect, and his mouth wide open pointing up towards the sky showing off his fangs.

Not as scarey so much as cool.

I stooped down to get a closer look and he began to uncoil and go very slowly towards the wooded pond to my right. He was not in the least bit fearful of me, that's for sure.

 

[RSW]

Take your pick...

1. Mentally retarded family (5 of them). House so filthy mold was growing every where. Found a dead dog in the basement shower with 4 dead puppies. They never took out the trash...just threw it down the basement steps.

2. A refinance...in the main bedroom where two coffins used as beds.

3. REO...freezer full of elk meat. Electricity off for about three months in the middle of summer.

4. Python crawled into heating duct work and died. Whew!

5. House filled from floor to ceiling with boxes of stuff. Little narrow passage ways between the boxes. You know, that mental thing where you can't throw anything away.

6. Rural property with five cars buried on the lot.

7. Cat house, about 50 of them. Had to tear out all the interior and start over, worst smell ever.

#7 sounds interesting. When you say cat house, do you mean the feline kind or do you mean "Cat House"?

 

[lizhorvath]

The poor kids (well late 20's) who were inheriting their mom's old house in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Mom had moved out to a nursing home before she died and told her friend from church that her kids could stay there. When we got there, the Squatters came out on the porch and told us and the kids that we couldn't be there, and couldn't come in. The kids asked me what could we do, and I said "Call your attorney and then call me when you're ready for us to come back." I wasn't about to force my way into this house. There was also the St. Bernard chained up next to the slanty garage next to a (literally) 3 foot tall pile of dog poop.
When we eventually got in, the living room didn't have any flooring (it was open to the basement - except the rafters) and the bathrooms just had that funk in them, like "How can you leave this room feeling clean?"

That's the best I can do - Squatters threatening us from the front porch.

 

[Lobo Fan]

I've got a couple, one was a pet house with feces and debris covering the entire floor. I could smell it from the driveway. Hardwood floors too. I estimated the C2C at $15,000.

Another was a REO MH where it had been stripped clean, down to pulling the romex through the drywall. When they left, they left the water running until it was filled to the windows. The mold was about an inch thick and the floors were warped and rotten.

Another one was a weird shaped house with 36 bay windows and an angle change with each one, plus a huge oddly shaped addition. Plus there was snow drifted about 3 feet high around much of the house, and the rest was icy and treacherous. It took me two hours to measure that house. Of course no blueprints to cheat from. The topper was that it was a POS eappraiseit order for a smooth $165.00. I learned my lesson on that one. I resigned from eappraiseit very shortly thereafter.

 

[Mike Boyd]

I guess I've had a sheltered appraisal career. I've seen some funny things but none as wild and weird as I have read here. Maybe the funniest when I was appraising a vacant lot...which was next to a lot with a water tank on it. Cylendrical tank had maybe a 12 foot diameter and was 12-15 feet high. I was standing in front of the non discript lot taking photos when a young man---maybe in his 20s screeched to a stop. Mistaking me for a real estate agent, he said he wanted to buy the lot with the water tank on it to convert it to a vacation home. I told him it had water damage inside and he said, "oh!" then drove off.

 

[LA Woman]

Off the top of my head .....The attacked by Python house, the attacked by Monkeys( Oops Chimps) house, the no plumbing below the main floor into the basement house ( everything just hit the basement floor from the upper 2 floors of baths and kitchen), the "is that sofa moving" in a dark house ( not a sofa, a sofa completely covered with cats), the foreclosure house where a double murder took place in the middle of summer and had to get the detective to open the door ( he said "you will never forget this smell" and stood outside, he was right!), the I'll kill anyone who comes in my room house, the tenant who didn't want to let me, the owner and realtor in and called the police (because he didn't want the owner to sell ) and stated he was the owner so the police said get off his property house, the retired school teacher who was tearing up her hardwood floors in all the bedrooms to burn the wood to heat the dwelling house, the "do you bring your Doberman with you on all your appraisals? thats not my Doberman I thought it was your dog " house, the piles and piles of clothes in a 2 story farm house that kept moving and moving house( don't want to know), the "I told you to only play with the dead ones " grandma talking to the diaper wearing child on the floor with roaches house, the "vacant" home with the Gold Jacket wearing RE agent when we walked in on 4 dealers cutting drugs and money in a basement room house, the " thats an interesting rug, oh thats not a rug thats my sons dead dog he just died there 4 yrs ago and we never did move it" house, and finally the woman who was worried what I might tell the bank when I saw her state of the art basement S&M chamber house.:laugh:

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DO WE HAVE A PRIZE FOR THE MOST HORRIBLE STORIES? CAUSE THIS GUY WINS FOR SURE!

 

[lizhorvath]

The one with the addicts in the basement room creeps me out - kind of like "I am Legend".

 

[Indiana Jones]

This is one of the worst I've ever seen:

 

[Indiana Jones]

More squalor: