Here are some absolute horror stories told by Edinburgh students after moving into their new homes

Disgusting


It can be hard to prepare yourself for moving in to your student flat. It's likely that you only saw the flat for a couple of minutes at the viewing before signing away your year to it, and the pressure added by your parents being there makes things far more intense.

Here are some of the shocking stories we've been told about from current students in their uni houses:

'The Dead Lizard', told by Holly Bird

Basically the head of my bed is next to the window/windowsill and one morning I woke up with a big daddy long legs beside my head on the windowsill, but I thought it was dead. Later on, when I went to get rid of him, it turned out that it actually was alive and ran over my pillow and down into the cracks of my bed.

I lifted up my mattress to try and find where it'd gone, and saw a squished, dried out, dead lizard. That night when we were drunk, my friend removed the corpse by throwing it out the window. It actually landed just on the other side of the windowsill, so it's still haunting me really.

'The Bucket of Piss', told by Aidan Sutherland

Thankfully I lived on the top floor of my halls so I never actually experienced this first hand, I'd heard the stories though. I'd heard all about the rich smell of ammonia, the drips coming through the ceiling.

Then, it all 'leaked' – some guy on one of the upper floors had kept BUCKETS of pee in his room. In his hurry to hide them when a flat inspection occurred, he'd knocked a few of them over, where they soaked into the carpet and the sheer volume meant it leaked into the floor below. I thought the location was bad enough, but an en-suite bathroom didn't make up for some of the company you had down there. Stick to Pollock.

'That Bloody Wall', told by Ed Campbell

I did a year abroad so had literally never seen our flat before I moved in. I walked up the stairs and was greeted with a warm and friendly welcome. Outside our flat there is a message saying "DETH IS COMEING VERY SOON" and it could well be written in blood. I'm mildly convinced I lived in a flat with an ancient curse and am dreading deth's eventual arrival.

'It Looked Like Poo', told by Lorna Welsh

We just moved in and everything was a bit stained. The walls were really dirty and on our arrival there was this stuff in the freezer which could have been diarrhoea. There were seven of us in the flat, and when we moved out at the end of the year we paid for it to be professionally cleaned, still getting charged £741.80 after that.

'My Mud Bath', told by Kristjan Hermannsson

When we got here, the bathroom was full of dirt and mud, our roof had water damage, and on top of that our postbox had no lock. Security hazard much?

'Peekaboob', told by Sophia Miller

I found some interesting things in the desk drawer in my new room – a mouldy apple, one tiny sock, and last but not least an uncomfortable-looking sex costume. Seems you can tell a person by the contents of their desk.