People Share The Weirdest Thing They Saw At A Friend's House

Everyone loves visiting their friends at their homes, be it sleepovers or even general visits. One thing we never account for however i what we will see or experience in other people’s personal space and often it is well…personal things. 

Read on as these people share stories of the weirdest things they have seen and experienced at their friends’ houses. Some of these might make you stay in your homes forever.

1. Copy Paste Family 

Went with a few friends to one of their family's houses for a birthday party when I was like 15 or 16. 

We smoked, swam, and had a great ole time.

After eating we settled in to watch a horror movie and at some point, I looked around me and everyone in that family was sitting in the same criss-cross-applesauce position and slowly rocking back and forth while watching TV.

Definitely not the weirdest thing on this thread by far, but something about it was extremely creepy. They were nice as hell, though.

Pollowollo

This happened 15 years ago. I went to visit a friend's house who lives in San Francisco around 3rd Street (a bad neighborhood area).

Upon entering the kitchen, their 4-plate gas stove flame was in full blast not cooking anything, and no vent. You could literally see a big burn hole in the ceiling through the 2nd-floor room.

His mom was upstairs in one of those rooms far away from the bottom floor kitchen, watching TV in full blast. Long story short. They are basically using their gas stove as a centralized heater for the whole house.

I'm a certified fire safety director at my workplace. This almost gives me a heart attack, because why would anyone do that

manks2016

Went to a sleepover at this girl's house and her mom was obsessively taking pictures of us all night. At one point, we were watching a movie and my friend passed out her mom.

I kid you not, pulled out a huge newscast-type heavy-duty camera and started recording her daughter sleeping for a solid 5 minutes.

I have trouble sleeping and so that night when we kids were in the bedroom to sleep, I was on the floor, just staring at the wall in the dark. I was facing away from the door, lying on my side.

I hear the door creak...some footsteps and then the darkness of the room lit with a sudden flash. I got up just in time to see the door close. I know it was her mom taking pics of us.

The weirdest part to me is that it was about 3 am when that happened...meaning the girl's mom either had an alarm or just stayed up that late in wait...

TraditionalEye4686

Not really weird I guess, but first time in my husband's parent's house (just a friend at the time), I got to see what a hoarder's house looked like.

It wasn't even a well-known term/condition back then so it just really shocked me seeing the giant mounds of stuff everywhere and having to navigate through it all. His room was clean, the rest of the house, not so much.

ArtsySAHM

I had a friend in HS. We're still friends today actually. His mom was a hoarder. There were little pathways throughout the house but it was filled, from floor to ceiling, with junk.

In the hallway to the bedrooms, she had stacked every newspaper she ever got in her adult life. 

They were tied up in bundles.

When you walked in that hallway he would caution you to not touch the papers because if a row fell, it would take a couple of hours to dig yourself out.

ferrariguy1970

My family was very comfortable and my mom always babysat lots of kids from around the neighborhood. Basically, her place was just where the kids hung out.

Once there was an emergency with my dad and my mom really needed somebody to watch me overnight and I wound up with one of the families that she babysat for.

They were really nice people and I was close friends with their kids obviously because they were at my house every day. It was a new experience though.

This was the first time I’d ever seen people living in real poverty. I was kind about it and I didn’t say anything, but parts of it were a real shock to me.

The toilet didn’t work, but they had just continued to use it to the point that it was piled up on the seat. We had to unscrew the lightbulb to turn off the lights because the switch would shock you if you touched it. I felt really bad for them.

It was just a real eye-opener for me as a kid and it gave me a much better understanding of exactly why my mom babysat and fed all those kids.

Armistice8175

Okay so here goes. My best friend walks around completely naked. We have been friends for 25 years and it doesn’t bother me.

I’m used to it, but it gets weird when she invites me, my husband, and toddlers over for dinner. I have to constantly give her a memo.

Me: “Hey girl, your house your rules. But since husband and kids are coming can you put some clothes on?”

Her: “Sure! No problem!”

I_am_dean

I babysat for a family on occasion and the kids would always ask for a "cool cup" and I had no clue what it was. They asked for them constantly but were too little to really describe them enough for me to understand.

I mentioned it to the mom in passing one day and she started laughing and cut the tops off of some bell peppers, took out the seeds, and then filled the peppers with tap water.

The kids went nuts over them like they were treats. It was really weird to me that drinking water out of bell peppers was a thing to beg for on the regular.

Kikabennet

Stayed at a friend’s house when I was probably 10 or 11, and we had a sleepover one night, and we were up really late playing games and just talking.

Around 3-4 am, his dad comes in, frantic, saying that he heard someone breaking in upstairs and that we needed to leave immediately.

Anyways, we walk out of the house, and he tells the neighbor that they need to leave too. The neighbor looked extremely worried and pulled her phone out.

We drive to a place and he gets us some food, and eventually, an ambulance comes, and so does the neighbor along with it, because apparently the father was schizophrenic and having an episode.

There was really no break-in. Obviously, my friend NOW knows this, but back then, we genuinely believed him.

mellowgang__

Had a friend whose family lived on a huge property and kept cows for the property tax exemption, not odd... he told me to come by and get some purple ringers he collected for me.

He invited me in to meet his parents and I swear to you, a full-size cow was chilling on one of their couches in the living room.

That sight was way more wild than any of the hallucinations later experienced. They were really nice people though lol…

Veg305

Growing up in rural East England, had a friend who lived on a working farm. They had the stereotypical big English farmhouse, a lovely old place, with no flat floors or straight walls anywhere.

Anyway, downstairs was an interesting layout, they had a room that was almost hidden away that you could easily miss unless you knew it was there or noticed it from outside.

So, in this room, I only ever went in once, maybe twice in many years of being friends and going over to their house quite a lot. It was their "Christmas room."

It has decorations up all year round, and during the year when they bought presents, they'd wrap them and just put them in the room and leave them there until Christmas.

It was awesome in a sense though, a whole room for this is great, often when it came to Christmastime they'd forgotten what something was that they got for another family member.

AnotherLostSouls

When I was younger I was best friends with 2 brothers from Jamaica, one of the days they asked me to stay over so we could play some Atari after we finished playing outside.

We came home 12 minutes after their curfew so their extremely calm dad told us to sit in the living room. I sat in there with my 2 friends and they were super quiet which was a bit weird until their dad walked in with a belt and beat the living crap out of them.

I crapped myself (not literally) because I thought I was in for a beating but he didn't hit me or even hint towards it which was a huge relief.

After the beating he (their dad) asked if I would like some carrot juice while my friends just went back to normal and set up their Atari like nothing happened... I was sitting on the sofa wondering what the heck had just gone on.

Shinzo19

Slept over at a friend’s when I was around 10. She was the only girl in her family and had five brothers (whose ages ranged from like 4 to 15).

Everything about my friend’s room/sleeping situation was normal. But her brothers’ room was bizarre. They shared one big room, with three bunk beds.

Each mattress had a fitted sheet, a pillow, and nothing else. No top sheets, no blankets, no comforters. Also, the boys didn’t have pajamas. They all just slept in the clothes they had worn that day - with their shirts tucked into their pants, and belts on, too.

Their room didn’t have a door, and neither did their connected bathroom or their closets. Turns out they were fundamentalist Christians, and the boys’ setup was meant to prevent immorality.

SSDGM24

My girlfriend and her little brother were staying at an absolutely filthy and sorta foster home. They knew it was, but weren't going to complain about it since it was still better than their last situation.

But the parents there had 2 little boys of their own, and it's their normal. 

I feel bad that those boys will one day realize their home is disgusting and never invite anyone over.

Or maybe they will have someone over who then embarrasses them or doesn't want to be their friend anymore because of it.

smallblueturtle

I'll be the weird family. My dad is a doctor and one day my friend came over who had a totally blackened toenail from getting stepped on by a baseball cleat.

No problem, my dad says, just some blood underneath the toenail. We can relieve the pain by puncturing a hole in the toenail and letting the blood flow out. Well, he proceeds to get out a Dremel (tiny drill), sterilize a new drill bit, and drill a small hole in my friend's toenail.

Blood shoots out of the hole into the air. My friend and I were screaming and laughing the entire time. It worked, he was instantly relieved of his pain.

My friend asked if this was a normal occurrence in the house. I told him that my dad has always been the go-to for caring for friends, neighbors, etc., but this did indeed take the cake for being the best "procedure" he's done in the house.

kwertyup

One of the first times I met my husband's family, I was over at their house and my husband gestured for me to sit down and be comfortable. Their house was really very cluttered.

Not quite hoarder cluttered, but close. They had a couple of couches facing each other and then some other chairs. Not knowing the 'rules,' I sat on one of the couches, which had a lot of stuffed teddy bears on it.

OMG, you would think I had sat down on live bears. There were probably 20-30 small - medium stuffed bears on this couch. 

My husband's mother and twin brother both visibly reacted as if I had damaged the bears. (Not antique bears either).

That was when I was told that the couch was for the bears, and only for the bears and that no one was allowed to sit on the bears' couch. Just the bears.

The bears all had little beaded necklaces with their names on them to tell them apart because they were all the same brand and style.

floridianreader

Kinda the opposite. Had a friend over when my dad when on a tirade screaming and yelling at my brother and me. We thought it was normal to have emotionally abusive parents.

After that, that friend never came over again, I went to his house.

And his parents seemed a bit more... interested? In me.

By the time we graduated high school, I got my diploma and walked over to hug his parents before my own at the ceremony. They were the best.

xxkoloblicinxx

When I was seven, I went over to play with a new friend and she asked if I wanted a snack. I said sure and we went into their playroom where there was a mini fridge just stacked with candy, full bars of everything, and she casually tossed me a pack of Rolos.

Now, the house was a manufactured home— not a trailer per se, but definitely not like the usual house either. I know this doesn’t indicate how much money the family had, but this was not in an upscale neighborhood or house.

I marveled at A.) the largest amount of candy I have still to this day ever seen and B.) the fact that she and her siblings all just had free access to it at such young ages.

She was surprised at my surprise and asked what did I keep in my snack fridge. I told her I didn’t have one of those, and then it was her turn to be absolutely gobsmacked at the idea that I didn’t have a mini fridge full of candy just at my disposal and whim.

RuyiJade

Back in high school, I had a friend whose mom seemed super chill. She would occasionally let us come over to smoke, drink, and hang out.

At one point though, things got super weird when one of the other guys in our friend group started being intimate with the friend's mom.

The guy who was hooking up with our friend's mom ended up getting super aggro and like bossing the kid around because he was screwing his mom.

It was definitely messed up and no one did anything about it. The other friends in the group would rag on the mom's son about it, but like left it at that.

Bkelling92

Went to this girl's house in primary school. I'm ashamed to say it was because I felt bad that she was getting mistreated at school, and in hindsight, she had a learning disability.

She was nice though, just sometimes said really uncomfortable things for an 11-year-old. Anyway, she had a 3-year-old brother and I saw her mum reading a book titled "How to be a good mum" or something similar.

She started screaming at this toddler for not vacuuming his room and referencing the book. I was like?? Ma'am? You expect this infant to vacuum his room?!

To be fair he did end up doing it but mind blown. Their family had a really weird dynamic and it made me understand that girl a little bit more.

MeDoTheFucking

When I was in junior high, I went over to a friend's house for the first time. His parents were hoarders and their basement was waist-deep in newspapers, magazines, junk mail, catalogs, phone books, and other loose papers.

You had to crawl over it to get to his room. He acted like it was no big deal that the papers were higher than the couch or that an avalanche happened every time he opened his bedroom door. That was the only time I went over.

Soylent_Milk2021

His dad was cooking illegal substances in the attic. According to him. he was a ‘scientist’ and these were his ‘science experiments’.

My friend and his older sibling thought nothing was strange about this. I was 13 and knew it was a drug lab right away from the smell (cat piss).

The funny thing is that they taught us that neat little fact in the DARE classes in school. Turns out it was put to good use in real life.

4fingertakedown

We were at my aunt's house for a birthday party and when it was time for cake and ice cream, this guy refused cake and said he'd just have ice cream.

He walked over to the table, popped the top off the ice cream carton, grabbed a handful of ice cream, and walked around with his handful of ice cream.

It was dripping all over the place and he was unbothered by it at all. To him, it was like it was totally normal. So freaking weird.

Lionel-Hutz-Esq

When I was in high school, a friend asked me and two other friends to his house for dinner. His mom served homemade bean soup, which was very good.

Toward the end of the main course, she brought out chocolate cake for dessert. She cut each of us a slice and plopped it into our bowls... in which we each still had about an inch of soup.

All of us guests, exchanged puzzled glances, but the family dug right in, so apparently chocolate cake soaked in bean soup was an ordinary thing for them.

President_Calhoun

This happened when I was like, 6 years old. I needed to use the bathroom at a friend’s house and he led me to his parent’s bathroom.

The place was filled with crap of all sorts. Boxes, magazines, an inflatable pool, lots of other stuff. You could barely get in there.

He pulled out a drawer from the installed cabinet by the entryway and said to pee in there. 

I thought he was joking until he went ahead and peed in there himself.

I couldn’t argue with that, so I too peed right in there. Then he shut the drawer and we went and played more ninja turtles. I have no idea what became of that drawer/house/family.

DoritoOnRepeatTho

I have the opposite one because I had the weird family. In high school, I had a sleepover and one friend went to the kitchen in the middle of the night and saw my dad inebriated.

He was in his underwear and stained shirt, on his knees in front of the fridge drinking mustard out of the bottle. 

Monday rolled around and the rumors had spread.

When I was asked about it, I was like “WAIT! All your dads don’t do that too?!” Lol Btw he did in fact have his own separate mustard bottle.

Thinefieldisempty

When I was 9 or 10 I stayed at this friend's house for the first time. So we were sitting at the kitchen table eating noodles and his mum said something and my friend was offended.

My friend immediately screamed back at her mom, "screw you, Sharon." She didn't even bat an eyelid, didn't even care. I was shocked, to say the least.

I couldn't help thinking what would happen if I tried that at home, it would've been at least a thorough whooping. I would never ever try that with my parents.

Bobswar

When I was staying at a friend’s house for the first time, she asked her parents to take us somewhere, and, when they said no. She proceeded to lose her mind.

She started screaming at the top of her lungs and crying, “You freaking jerks! I really hate you both! You’re super crappy parents!”

We were like 13–14. The weirdest part was they just sat there ignoring her and shaking their heads! If I ever spoke to one of my parents that way, I guarantee they would’ve kicked me out or beat me with a wooden spoon.

nopenonotatall

His mom was walking around topless barking a chore list while we just sat around the coffee table working on homework. She was a single Mom working multiple jobs.

They were latchkey kids. They didn't even bat an eyelash but the minute she saw a new face sitting on the rug boring a hole into the distant wall, she shifted on a dime.

She ducked into the mudroom, threw on her work shirt, and brought out a carton of Oreos from a secret stash and was pretty much shocked into silence.

I think she was terrified I'd misappropriate it to my parents, but all we cared about was cookies. We never said a word and the cookies kept coming.

Professional_March54

I had a friend when I was 13-14 whose family didn’t speak at all when they ate dinner. The first time I ate there I tried to make conversation and got a super weird glare and shake of the head from the mom.

After dinner was done, everyone would just go back to doing whatever. I remember thinking at the time while I ate in awkward silence “Why would anyone want to eat like this every day?

I come from a family of 8 where dinners were chaos so maybe I was conditioned too far the other way. The silence was uncomfortable to me.

Butwhytwo

I celebrated Christmas with my HS girlfriend's family one year. It was her mother's turn to open her presents and she opened one from her daughter, then one from her other daughter, then finally one from her husband.

Then her husband started pulling tiny hidden gifts for his wife from everywhere: earrings from the couch cushions, necklaces, bracelets, a bag of candy, and flowers.

He had at least a dozen presents hidden everywhere from behind the curtains, in a lampshade, behind the TV, in a closet...they just kept coming and he had the biggest grin on his face.

When he was done he wished her a merry Christmas, told her he loved her, and kissed her right on the mouth in front of me.

 It was wonderful but extremely weird to me.

It wasn't until that display of love and joy for his wife that I realized I had never once seen my own parents act the least bit affectionate towards each other.

I had never heard them say I love you to each other. That's when I realized it was my family that was weird. It wasn't until that display of love for his wife that I realized that it was manly to be romantic and to show love and affection.

Her parents were wonderful people and I will always regard them as role models. I hope they're doing well all these years later.

Lahk74

My friend's dad convinced the kids that the butt of each loaf of bread was the best. He also outlawed hitting, but placing your hand on your sibling's shoulders and punching your own hand was acceptable.

It was Noel's turn to get the end piece on the next loaf of bread, but he and I were playing when groceries came in. When Tony took the end piece Noel went ballistic, but by ballistic, he placed his hand on his brother and was punching it.

The father also collected Pipe organs. He had several electric and electronic consoles. One time I took a trip across the country, disassembled a full pipe organ and packed it home.

They bought a geodesic dome and rebuilt the organ inside it. You entered in pipes, there were pipes on the walls, great chests for the living room floor, the living room was a console and they literally lived inside a musical instrument.

DarrenEdwards

A friend and I went over to play the new Pokemon (fire red/leaf green) all night and eventually decided it was a sleepover/all-nighter kinda of vibe.

We wake up to his folks poking their heads in in the morning to let us know they were making breakfast and it'll be ready in a minute. 

We're stoked and walk our way into the kitchen, and they're serving up some extra "eggs and sausage."

I had never seen an adult naked before, and our friend was totally unfazed by it. Just ate and talked like it was the most normal crap ever. Super awkward and we dipped out ASAP.

TenorBanjer

I had a friend in middle school whose family was really into trophy hunting, something I didn’t know until I went to a sleepover at her house.

Animal heads were everywhere in their house, but the weirdest part was she didn’t have sheets on her bed, just animal fur.

She slept naked on the fur and had no idea it was weird because that was her normal feel. I faked a stomach ache and had my mom pick me up.

IAmSoUncomfortable

Back in high school, I was at a friend's house. We had 4-5 guys and a couple of girls over having some drinks. Eventually, the girls went upstairs to use the restroom, and we guys patiently waited.

The host opened up a closet door and pulled out this 5-gallon, piss-filled Poland Spring bottle, and said to have at it. We politely declined and left a short while later.

phishnutz3

I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness and my mom pushed me to be friends with people within the religion. One girl was only allowed to talk to people within the religion so she was homeschooled.

She was allowed to watch one movie or one TV show a day rated g-pg with approval. Three of us, aged 16, watched Lion King 2 then her parents made us go to bed at 730 in the summer.

She also wasn't allowed to have any posters on her wall as that was viewed as idol worship. Her parents came in to "approve" our prayers for the night. I left feeling super bad for her.

Lolztallestmidget

You want a fun one? I had a friend who was rich and everyone in their family had king-sized beds. One of the silliest things I've ever seen was my friend's little 3-year-old brother going to bed.

A king-sized frame is made for adults, so it took him about five minutes just to get into the thing. But then this little guy's bed was filled to the BRIM with stuffed animals.

It was like watching him climb Mount Everest and then the pile of stuffies consumed him. I can't even imagine sleeping in that kind of luxury at 3 years old.

SgtSilverLining

When I was a kid, i went with another friend of mine to go visit another friend’s house down the street. He had a chihuahua, and it had pooped in the living room.

The mess was there for a while, both the parents were in the kitchen just making conversation, and my friend is like “Hey check this out” and gets a tortilla chip, dips it into the poop.

They left the neighborhood soon after because the subprime mortgage crisis happened, and I don’t doubt that they had a less-than-subprime mortgage

co-dean

I was sleeping over at a friend's house. Her whole house was a mess and it smelled like the concentrated essence of an ashtray. We went upstairs to make the bed, and there was this sorta storage room, with a mattress with brown stains on it.

She said that I'd be sleeping on that. I thought she was joking, but she wasn't.

Also, she didn't give me any sheets or a pillow... and there were mouse feces on the ground.

I was so flabbergasted that I did not do or say anything but if that were to happen to me now I'd just go home. I can speak up now.

Also one time this same girl was complaining to me that her parents don't clean their kitchen very well and that her dad took the blender cup from the blender and there was a lot of nasty stuff underneath it.

Some time later she invited me over for dinner and I said I wasn't interested. she wanted to know the reason so I told her that what she had told me put me off.

She was very pissed at me, but I was like: you were complaining about this tho?? so you agree with me?? We stopped being friends eventually.

[deleted]

I spent a summer in Sweden once visiting a friend, and one weekend we stayed at his sister's house. She and her fiance lived pretty deep in the woods.

When I first walked in, I noticed that they had a small stack of round, empty butter containers in each room. And when I asked, "Oh, those are for the snakes."

Turns out they had two crazy cats who would bring in live snakes from outside and just drop them randomly in the house. 

The snakes were pretty small and non-venomous and were mostly just desperate to get the hell back outside.

During the day, if you saw a snake, you would just pick it up and put it outside, but at night it was easier just to drop a butter container over it and deal with it in the morning.

turtlestevenson

Went to a friend’s house in 6th grade. I found it odd that his parents weren’t there the entire weekend, I thought they were just in their room the whole time or something.

Nope, he didn’t have a mom, and his dad was working oil 20 days on 10 days off. Dudes still my best friend to this day, but I’ve only met his dad a handful of times. I can’t imagine having to grow up without parents.

ColtronTD

I was meeting my boyfriend’s parents for the very first time. He had told me they didn’t get along, but everything seemed okay enough until the morning of the second day.

We were all getting ready to go out somewhere outdoorsy in winter and his dad was already ready and waiting, fully dressed, in the foyer. I remember the Pom Pom on the top of his toque.

I was on the steps with my boyfriend and his mom and she was speaking to me warmly about something or other. Then the dad said something about leaving soon — a very mild comment, I didn’t even really hear it.

Suddenly the mom, who had been speaking to me in a normal tone of voice, turns to her husband and SHRIEKS at him at the TOP OF HER LUNGS!

I don’t even remember what she said, but he’d made her suddenly murderously angry, just by mentioning that we should probably leave soon.

Dude’s Pom Pom shakes a little, but he says nothing in response to her, zero, and she turns back to me and rolls her eyes, trying to get me to side with her over what a freaking jerk her husband clearly is ??? I kinda smiled nervously.

Here’s the thing. Everyone went back to normal as if Mom hadn’t just suddenly gone off like a grenade. That man’s life must have been pure hell.

marshmallowislands

Maybe more like what they didn’t do. I had a newer friend in grade 4 and we had hung out a few times at this point. But now it was the summer break, so we got the whole day to do fun girl stuff.

It comes to dinner time and we had already talked about having a sleepover so I assumed I was staying there for the rest of the evening to, you know, sleepover.

Anyway, it came to dinner time and her mom asked me to call my mom to pick me up. I was somewhat confused and asked my friend. She said that I would go home for dinner and then come back for the sleepover.

Obviously can’t judge, maybe they weren’t very financially stable but it felt off to just go home for an hour or two to eat dinner and then come back.

Maybe my family was more inviting as in every time I had friends over for a sleepover my parents would feed them dinner and breakfast and whatnot. It definitely was an uncomfortable feeling and no, I did not go back after dinner.

Sabelisabeth

I used to be friends with two sisters in middle school. Their stepdad ran the funeral home in a small town. They also lived in the funeral home.

I would go spend the night with them from time to time. Their stepdad had padlocks on everything. Especially the pantry and fridge. The kids weren’t allowed in any food or drinks unless he said okay.

The girl's bio dad gave them a cell phone to share so he could call them. They had to hide it or they would get in serious trouble for having it. This was in 2008-2009 so it was just a flip phone.

Having padlocks on the pantry and fridge was weird to me, but then one day one of the girls told me that he would lock the doors to rooms sometimes. I never went back after that.

PoundCurrent5261

I grew up in a lower mid-class family, scrimping for food and whatnot, living in small homes. When I was 16, I went to a friend’s house and it was HUGE to me.

The ceiling was maybe 15 feet, with a living room that could comfortably accommodate more than 10 people at once. It was astonishing.

Her dad bought her a motorcycle and a car, which blew my mind. Maybe this is a normal lifestyle but to me, she seemed very, very rich.

Spideyninja20