Couple renovating their 1850s home make a chilling discovery
A couple renovating their 175-year-old Victorian house were left on edge after finding bones, teeth and a pigeon carcass in their walls.
Millie Molloy, 24, and Brad Worth, 23, from Plymouth, bought what they thought was an ordinary £175,000 two-bedroom home in July 2023.
But when they started to find animal bones wrapped in muslin, a hammer and even a woman’s heeled show, concern started to grow.
‘It puts you on edge,’ Millie said.
‘We could see teeth – it was still very odd. The pigeon made me jump – it was in the chimney breast.’
The couple feel slightly more at ease now after being told by a local historian that the animal bones were put in the wall to ward off evil spirits.
The hammer had been left because of a previous renovation, while the woman’s heeled shoe was left because it protects fertility.
Both Millie and Brad have decided to keep the shoe back because they plan on having children one day.
They also found a postcard dating back to 1952 which helped them find out that the home was once a butchers in the 1920s.
The couple are taking the eerie discoveries in their stride and are spending £30,000 to £40,000 incorporating some of the Victorian elements back into the home which they aim to finish this summer.
Millie added: ‘We fell in love with Victorian elements.
‘Now we are creating a mixture of soft modern and Victorian elements.’
In March, a human skeleton was found inside a home in Ancaster, north east of Grantham.
Police said they were unsure how old the remains were and no formal identification has taken place.
Pictures from the scene showed a blue tent set up in the garden of a home in the village, with entrances taped off.
In 2018, a couple made a gruesome discovery after finding the remains of their previous homeowner inside their wall.
The new tenants found the remains of Mary Stewart Cerruti, 61, in Texas, more than a year after she went missing.
Police believe she got wedged in the wall space after falling through her attic floor.
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