Scary things lurking in attics

So, what scary things are hiding in your attic or the darkened corners of your basement?

Skeletons? Bombs? Photos of the ex?

Just Junk shares some dark tales about some of the creepy items they’ve unearthed during clean-ups at homes across the country.

Here’s a sampling of some of the weird things crews have come across during recent junk removal jobs from Just Junk president, Mike Thorne:

• A human skeleton: We call him Boney. We picked him up from a doctor’s office. Over 200 years old, the skeleton originated from India and was prepared for medical schools, shipped over to the U.K. before it made it to Canada and we picked it up.

• The Meow-mmy. Imagine the fright — you’re clearing out an attic when you suddenly find a mummified cat. How did that get there? To this day, this ranks as one of the strangest things that our team has found.

• Dolls: So many dolls. If you’ve seen enough movies, rooms full of old dolls can be extremely creepy. Now imagine all those dolls were from 1894, there are 400 of them, and they’re all made with real human hair. Our team had the courage to go in and remove them, despite feeling like they were in a horror movie.

• Bombs: Old bombs may not be as scary in the Halloween sense, but they’re just as terrifying if you don’t know just how active they are. We’ve found a few old Second World War shells in the past, each time ensuring with the bomb squad that things were A-okay, but that didn’t help the fear that even a nudge might set things off.

• Animals: Not live, of course, but finding animals like a prickly blowfish that have had a date with the taxidermist can be terrifying if you don’t expect it. An interesting hobby, for sure. No one our team was ready for when they saw it.

Just Junk removes unwanted materials/items from residential and commercial properties including furniture, appliances, garden refuse and construction and demolition debris, ensuring as much of the material they collect as possible is recycled or donated to charitable organizations for re-use, helping to divert waste from landfills.

BRENDAN MILLER/POSTMEDIA Mike Darbyshire, Owner of Just Junk, found thousands of fossilized bones and imprints and pieces petrified wood. The discovery was made in several boxes and bags in the basement and shed of home while cleaning-up.