A Baffling List Of The Weird Stuff Folks Have Found In Their Accommodation

There’s always something weirdly luxe about walking into a fancy hotel room like you own the damn place, but let’s be real – more often than not, we’re traipsing in at odd hours of the morning, more than likely a little under the weather and craving a kebab.

Imagine, if you will, wandering back to your room in that frame of mind only to stumble upon… something weird. Something more than you bargained for. We’re not talking about “Oh the cleaners didn’t make the bed with hospital corners, oh no” kinda weird. We’re talking bafflingly bizarre, “might actually be cursed so who knows” kinda weird.

And to be honest, most of us are pretty lucky in that regard. Maybe you’ve only ever stumbled across a woman’s stray sock, but there are some hidden extras you just don’t wanna mess with. We asked around the strangest things people have found so you can make damn sure you research your accommodation properly, people.

Because seriously, it gets weird.

1. A whole lot of photos around the studio apartment of the owner naked. Like proper framed photos with him fishing and holding the fresh catch over his own barramundi. Standing on top of a mountain with his boulders swinging. To be fair he had a reason to be proud. – Tom

2. Along with a mini poker machine, black lights and a personal massager, there was a ‘fashion shopping dispenser’ that stocked ladies underwear in a cupboard at a love retreat in JapanMyles

3. Painted on the walls in my hostel in Portugal were princesses (Sleeping Beauty, Snow White etc.) doing beer bongs. – Louise

4. I was in Nashville, Tennessee and although she was a lovely Airbnb host, she was also a quirky Burning Man type of person. The toilet backed up so she messaged me to say that the plunger was in the basement. I had to go down and it was creepy as f*ck. Turned on the light to be faced with a bunch of old carnival stuff, including clown heads and mannequins with broken, disjointed limbs. Nearly shat myself. – Marty

5. I found a cleaner asleep in my room in Vegas. We asked if our room could be made up after we had pre’s in there. So it would have been 10/11pm. We came back blind at 6am the next morning and there was a cleaner asleep on the lounge in the room with the TV on. Clearly had not much to do and just sat down and dozed off. I’ve never seen anyone more shocked to wake up from a sleep and see four guys blind drunk asking why he was in our room. – Blake

6. A gigantic wall-sized portrait of Debbie Harry and a vintage flintlock pistol in the same room. – James

7. My hotel in Glastonbury had a black magic cupboard filled with human skulls and voodoo dolls, sitting right next to a goddess altar. The cupboard had a locked glass door and the owners warned me about it when I checked in. The room also had an actual hat worn by someone during a nearby witch trial back in the day, plus a bunch of skulls and taxidermy animals. – Nicole

Just a casual skull, NBD. Image: Nicole Archer

8. I found a ‘how to save a marriage’ book once. It was nice to know the last people that were here were trying to save a relationship. I like to think she was reading it in bed while he was in the shower. – Rosie

9. There was a full on wedding in the backyard of the shared hostel I was in. I didn’t know any of them at all. – Emerson

10. South Africa in 1995. There was a genuine shrunken head hanging in the bathroom of the place we stayed at. The owners said it was from Central Africa and was meant to bring luck, just apparently not for the guy whose head was shrunk. – Tony

11. In a hostel just outside of Prague I walked into the room and found a dead snake. I sh*t you not, a dead snake and a broken air conditioning vent above the bed where it had clearly came from. I did not stay there that night. – Dean

12. A photo album full of pictures of Prince William and photos of the person who I presume owned the album. No photos of them together. – John

13. I always used to find stockings in the kettle when I was cabin crew. Some weird ass crew wash their stockings in the kettle of hotel rooms instead of bringing another pair for the flight home. So off. I also found a man in my room when I got out of the shower. I did not know him so that was frightening to say the least. – Annie

14. I pulled out the sofa bed in an Airbnb and there was 2-3 day old puke in the bed. Someone chundered and then casually folded up the sofa bed and checked out. – Jim

So yeah, no thanks. We’re not remotely on board with any of this nonsense and have now got a blanket rule against shrunken heads that we didn’t even know we needed to have – so that’s great.

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