We also don't have a basemant, and recently cleared out the garage, so there aren't any interesting foreboding corners to explore.
About the only thing in my attic are mice and bats. Damn mice. Scratching all the time keeping me awake. Although there is an old Coleco Vision and a bunch of games up there too. They were my wife's. Oh, there's also my dad's old 0 scale trains from when he was a kid. I don't have any use for them other than them being cool. I've often thought about selling them but I'm not sure how my siblings would feel about that.
If they don't know about it. It obv wasn't that important. I really wasn't responding to his story that much.
*shrug* Or maybe they just have Memory loss
My attic is just filled with every single Lego set made until the year 2002.