Most days, a home is just a home. Walls, bricks, doors, windows, and whatever we’ve filled it with. But sometimes, there’s more to it than meets the eye.

In the Facebook group A House With History, curious people share strange things they’ve come across in their own homes or while exploring old, forgotten places. Think secret rooms, hidden tunnels, odd objects left behind—anything that makes you stop and wonder what really happened there.

Here are some of the most surprising finds.

Boot scraper

Window openers, sometimes they were used to open the transom above the old doors

You can sit down and take your shoes and boots off, after hanging up your coat and hat Those were the days

People put them in for their cats to be able to get to the cat box and other areas of the house without th

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