A playful mum has left behind a spooky surprise in her home for the next owner to find when they eventually move in.
Sue Goff, from Dorking in Surrey, came up with the hilarious prank whilst renovating her living room with her husband after the couple noticed a void in the wall in which the old occupants had left old photographs.
To keep up with the tradition, Sue decided to leave behind a slightly more terrifying addition in the form of a full-size skeleton along with an envelope that reads 'Hide and seek champ 2021'.
The 57-year-old mum-of-two says she enjoys pranking her family, with her children often being her chosen targets, and couldn't resist the opportunity so scare others.
Sue said: "I've played practical jokes on my kids all their life, so I think they're a bit sick to death of it, to be honest. My youngest daughter especially, I locked her in the loft once with the lights off.
"I also hid under her bed for half an hour whilst she was having a shower. Then when she walked in, I grabbed her ankles.
"I chased her down the road dressed as a zombie nun and showed up on her doorstep dressed as a gladiator. It's all been in good fun though."
Sue is a self-proclaimed prankster but her husband Darrin doesn't get involved, with the mum admitting he didn’t find the prank as amusing as she did.
“My husband, Darrin, doesn't share my sense of humour,” she said, “The minute he saw me putting the skeleton into place, he just smiled, tutted and walked away.
“If I'd come across a fake skeleton like this in a new home, I'd find it highly amusing. It's my sense of humour anyway.”
Sue plans to add more hidden easter eggs to the home once they finish insulating the rest of the home.
She continued: "The skeleton is all closed in now - a bit like a coffin. The skeleton was up in my loft, leftover from Halloween. I've had it for a couple of years. I needed somewhere to put him, and whilst I was renovating, I discovered this big void.
"We were putting the extension on, and we couldn't use this space for a closet, so we just decided we'd put the skeleton in there. I didn't really have any more use for the skeleton, so this was the best way to dispose of it."
But, like the owners before her, Sue also added some personal touches to the gift.
She said: "I put some pictures of my family and animals in the envelope for the next people to discover. It was a friend's dad who suggested I write 'Hide and side champion' on the front.
"I wanted this to serve as a time capsule, as well as a bit of a joke. The photos the previous occupants had left were twenty years old, but it's still nice that they thought to do it."
