Sharing a rented home with strangers is always a gamble – sometimes you meet friends for life and other times you meet odd people who cause you to lock your bedroom every night.
Unfortunately, Ben James, 34, has encountered the latter after discovering his new flatmate wants to make a ‘disturbing’ pillow out of human hair.
After recently moving into the rented house, he couldn’t believe his eyes when he went to throw a bottle in the bathroom peddle bin.
To his shock, the bin was full of salt and peppered locks and weighed the equivalent of a 1lb bag of sugar.
Ben, from Chislehurst, London, described the discovery as ‘something out of a horror film’.
‘It was quite disturbing. When I picked up the bin it was as heavy as a bag of sugar,’ he said.
‘Hair itself is quite light so for it to weigh that much really is quite remarkable’.
Ben decided to quiz his housemate about the bizarre discovery but the man, in his 60s, unashamedly revealed that the hair was his.
He said he intended to make a homemade pillow from his beard and hair trimmings and had been storing them in the bin until he had enough.
‘This is obviously a project he’s had in the works for some time,’ said Ben.
‘When he got home I asked what it was all for and he just calmly said “I’m planning to make a pillow”.
‘Whether that’s going to be for his own room or for the living room I’m not quite sure.
‘I didn’t want to probe him too much to save embarrassment but it really is quite creepy.
‘I haven’t seen anything quite like that before. It’s just like something out of a horror film.’
Ben said the house wasn’t in ‘the best nick’ when he originally viewed it but said he ‘desperately’ needed to find a place.
‘I did notice my socks stick to the floor and the flat does give off the vibe it hasn’t been cleaned in 15 years.
‘But I would never have imagined finding something like this’.
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