What was the craziest things you’ve found above ceilings?

There was an ancient bottle of i think it was whiskey either in the attic space above or in a sheetmetal speaker enclosure and i think some ancient beer cans in the attic space above one of our auditoria that was built in the 50's. The speaker enclosure had a door and cam latches on it like a duct access door, clearly made by hvac people and not av people.

You asked...Loaded Firearms, knives and a machete, active rat's nests, hypodermics, naughty magazines, ancient, empty beer cans and bottles, forgotten tools 🔧, vagrants, feral cats, Dead and live Raccoons, shoe box with very old money, jewelry, soiled underwear, women's underwear, drugs, rat 🐀 skeletons and dessicated rat 🐀 carcasses, letters to home (prison), bottles of Liquor…and, of course, discarded pipe, valves, fittings, dirty rags, used Tyvek suits....Mad Dog

Depends. Mad Dog

how many of those things were dragged there by the rats and larger rodents?

Sometimes….

🤮🤮 - wow what a mess, good job tackling that headache!

The Big Apple 🍎.....Mad Dog

I was resisting posting this but @EBEBRATT-Ed pushed me over the edge.

I ask about the rodents and the underwear because I ride my bike through the student housing district on my way to work and about once a year i see a pair of almost always men's underwear in the middle of the sidewalk or street. At first i thought someone had some sort of alcohol related malfunction and just left them there. Then i realized it was people taking their laundry to their parents' house or laundromat or otherwise moving clothes that dropped them. Then i remembered something else i had figured out earlier, you see condoms in the middle of sidewalks and alleys and similar places not exactly conducive to condom use. i relaized that people had thrown them in the trash and rodens found them and dragged them around because of the smell. I think a similar thing happens with the underwear that people drop some animal dragged it in to the middle of the street. I think it is likely some critter was hoarding them in the attic, not that the owner placed them there.

Near the end of a bathroom remodel to make it a bit larger when my mom needed a accessible bathroom, someone was sitting on the toiler when there was a cell phone ring coming from the wall. Yep, one of the carpenters had drywalled his phone into the wall a few days earlier.

While remodeling my current house, behind the drywall was a photo of a high school aged young lady probably from the 1960s which must have been put there there during one of the many remodelings. Not knowing what else to do with her I put her back in the wall where she had spent the last 40 years.

And then there were the three holes under the second layer of subfloor, about 8" diameter and spaced at about three feet apart along one wall. I later learned from a long time neighbor the house had been cobbled together from parts of two buildings that had been surplused at a nearby military base around 1960. The head of my bed is above the former site of three stalls of a communal restroom.

Around 1997ish, AC installation in an unfinished basement for the first floor. I was pulling down insulation batts between the ceiling bays to run branch ducts, when I heard something hit the floor that wasn't an insulation batt. I got of the ladder and found a 1950 something Playboy magazine in pristine condition. Before I knew it, the younger guys had it and I haven't seen it since. I remember it wasn't anyone I knew on the cover, so I don't think it was valuable. The homeowners were new, and gay, so it wasn't their's.

I knew someone renovating a 1600s log house in New England. When they opened the ceiling, a stream of seashells crashed down to the floor. Insulation?

well, a copy of Titter mag from the 40’s, along with 6 Trojans in their individual metal containers and in the same spot Grandpas coin collection, which was really something. Gold double eagles, etc. no one was home. Temptation pops up when unexpected, but I came thru and gave it to them. Cat skeleton, 141 Remington & stuff

not above a ceiling, but inside an air coil in a wall unit, found what was likely a heroine stash. Called police for pick up they said likely was also phentinol. No way I was gonna try to get rid of it.

"1978 hustler" sounds like an amc model.

Here is a picture of a "78" AMC hustler? This on was not found in the ceiling.

My father drank Rheingold beer and I found his old Rheingold can opener. While researching the beer I came across this bit on wickipedia:

Rheingold's core consumer was working class men. A 2003 New York Times article gave a creative description: "Rheingold Beer was once a top New York brew, guzzled regularly by a loyal cadre of workingmen, who would just as soon have eaten nails as drink another beer maker's suds."

 During the cleanup of the World Trade Center rubble after the 2001 collapse, Rheingold cans were found that had been stashed in the beams by construction workers decades earlier.

Large, old, City buildings in general have lots of hiding spots where guys would "coop." Discovering guys nap spots is a whole 'nother bunch of stories. Mad Dog

i assume you're referring to the open gas can :)

I won't go into a lot of detail on this as I think there is still an active investigation going on, but my discovery started with an intact human baby skeleton above the ceiling. Further demolition in other parts of the building revealed 2 more of the same above the ceiling, and several dozen more buried behind an old stone wall. I also found a dismembered human hand under a 250HP steam boiler in the same building, but we're talking about ceilings here. Some weird stuff happened in that place and I ended up quitting my job after the wall discovery.