Treasures From The Past That People Discovered During Home Renovations

[@thomasplouffe1363]

we found a extra bedroom in my friends new house, however it was a sad find, it was a infants nursery, for a little boy born sometime in the late 70s, it had a crib, change table, clothing, toys, bottles everything, the window had been covered up as well so we had no idea it was there, it was clear the baby had passed away as a terry blue sleeper was laid on the cribs mattress spread out, instead of gutting the nursery my buddy's wife had it restored, a new window was put in and a new door, she vaccumed the room out and washed all the clothing and toys and closed the door, she put up a sign that says "shhh baby is sleeping"

[@edi9892]

The craziest thing I've found was a spiral staircase behind furniture. It led to a secret basement complete with four bowling lanes and a small bar! It belonged to a hotel which was still in operation. They didn't like the staircase and thus ignored the basement! Later, it was no longer up to code and had to be sealed!

[@Gestrid]

If someone ever carefully removed the paint in my family's dining room, they'll find a beautiful mural covering the wall. (Wasn't my call to cover it up, unfortunately. I would've left it uncovered.)

[@jojesaky16]

My dad was a general contractor his whole life and did a lot of renos. Found all sorts of cool stuff, including a set of American flags with 48 stars (and less, some were quite old!) under a staircase

[@OfficialFoodForThough]

My dad is a roofer and found a gorgeous set of Venetian glassware in an abandoned house that they were hired to reroof. The hand blown glasses in the stunning colors with gold are just breathtaking. ❤❤

[@marcusott2973]

My best friend has a roofing company, and he's found a silly amount of guns antique to the modern era in rafters of buildings.

[@DavidAndTheDog]

If they were hired to re-roof, the house clearly had an owner. Hope your dad gave the owner the glasses.

[@torfrida6663]

That’s not a creepy basket! It’s a perfectly ordinary laundry basket where you would collect items to go to wash once a load is collected. 🇬🇧👍

[@melissaz2825]

I love all the beautiful tile work that people uncovered. And the tree murals! How could someone have just covered those up?

[@mjjoe76]

You know what we found when we renovated our bathroom? Black mold. Long story short, the previous owners were DIY enthusiasts and shouldn’t have been.

[@Meibeon]

The ancient alien wallpaper is from 1972, I had the same in my bedroom 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@girlscanbedrummers5449]

Kind of cool looking not going to lie

[@willisbarth]

Spider web section of your dry wall.

[@nimue325]

I now live in the house my grandparents built in the 50s. You wouldn’t think I’d find any hidden treasures since we know all the renovations but there are enough things like that still-working waffle-maker … and oh, the excellent quality tools … to keep me busy. (Or regretful: found a tiny bundle of canvas and aluminum but I simply couldn’t make sense of it and finally decided it was only part of something; found out a year later that it was an *amazing* camp stool design!)

[@dimitrivergison2277]

I found 8 complete gasmask+canisters dating 1934 when renovating my attic. Except 1, they are all in pristine order. Some even contain the name of the solider, written on the fabric bag.

[@leokrupp4442]

Be careful, the filters on those gas masks may contain asbestos.

[@MikeStavola]

I found secret rooms and escape hatch in my house. Previous owner was a major drug producer. He also fully insulated the property, which is great.

[@anthonyplayground1402]

I once found an entire bed room behind a wall ... my neighbour was pretty angry ;) (apartment living)

[@jeanne8507]

😂

[@tsugima6317]

Monopoly games were introduced in the 1920s, so that must have been brand new.

[@raymondricci5323]

It pretty much looks the same.

[@katepoole6891]

That looks like the Monopoly game we had.

[@Wiz-kidddd]

At my last house i lived in I found some fine china plates and silverware,

[@roy_8693]

Those swords are most likely war trophy's from WW 2 Hope they smoked those joints! 😎

[@RD9_Designs]

I thought ww2 also

[@synicyst9925]

There is a 19th century shoe hidden in the walls of my house. I found it while renovating and put it back where I found it. As a surprise for future owners I have put every expired plastic card (credit, debit, ID etc.) through a slot in a wall, so that one day they will find hundreds of little plastic cards when they renovate.

[@NYCHFAN]

Putting a shoe in the wall was to ensure good luck.

[@Queina1]

Some of these are repeats just with different captions. You've now lost my interest.

[@raymondricci5323]

Finding the original owners ashes is crazy!

[@dieseldragon6756]

(S)he must've *really* loved that house... ❤

[@DoloresLehmann]

Some of those things are like, why would anyone cover this? Some are more like, they shouldn't have uncovered this!

[@sturmovik1274]

Come on, who doesn't want a Monopoly floor?

[@wendy-diannwendy-diann8060]

​@@sturmovik1274Everyones dream that lol

[@dieseldragon6756]

I pity the person who lost/misplaced that £500! In 1980 that was a pretty significant amount of money (We're talking _Pay off a chunk of your mortgage_ money) yet today that will buy you about 250 loaves of bread. 🍞 The Bank of England will still happily exchange these of course, but the rub is you only get the same £500,- in current polymer notes. Per the hidden rub with money, they won't make any adjustments for inflation... 🎈

[@purselmer5931]

That amount is equivalent to less than 3K pounds today (about 2,600 pounds). Unless your mortgage is very, very low, that's not really a "chunk" of your mortgage. Shoot, if your mortgage is new, you'd be lucky to get 2 or 3 monthly payments from that - hardly a "chunk" out of a 30-year mortgage. Just sayin.

[@dieseldragon6756]

@@purselmer5931 Ah, but in 1980 that same £500,- would've been at least six months worth of mortgage payments...At a time when 25 year endowment mortgages were common, at that. I know someone who bought their house (A three bed semi) for £20k in the late 70s, and that £500,- close to the start would certainly have reduced the interest due over time! 👍 The same house is probably worth £750k today. If only our wages had appreciated in direct proportion to that value... 💸

[@purselmer5931]

@@dieseldragon6756 Amen. lol

[@sturmovik1274]

I like to think that that wasn't lost, it was a hidden emergency cash reserve. Maybe an older person who grew up in the Depression and still didn't trust banks. Only "lost" in the sense that they never told anyone about it.

[@richardbeckenbaugh1805]

Clearing blackberry bushes from a burnt out tavern from 1902, my brother and I found gold coins, intact whiskey bottles and makeup from the brothel that was upstairs. Carrie National herself murdered the tavern keeper and then set fire to the tavern burning most of the girls in the brothel alive, so the accounts of the fire in the town archives say. She split his skull with a hatchet. She was never tried for the murders because she fled the state before she could be charged and state officials didn’t want to bother extraditing her over a tavern keeper and a bunch of prostitutes. The site had been donated to a church by the tavern keeper’s family and the church had been built at the opposite corner of the property. They needed the site cleared to expand their parking lot.

[@Lizablue0608]

Makes me wanna go buy an old Victorian house…BRB..🙃 DANG..awesome finds.

[@renakunisaki]

So that's where great grandpappy's fish went.

[@r.j.powers381]

Absolutely fascinating 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ribo451]

My buddies house had a pipe burst and flooded the floors with water about 4” deep. A crew came in and was removing the bottom 2’ of drywall and they found 5 loaded guns in the walls. They weren’t especially old or terribly expensive but still pretty cool. They looked up the previous owner and found out that he had a domestic charge and was a felon so he probably hid them.

[@robstockton911]

LOL, the joints. 😂

[@deniseeulert2503]

When my folks put in a new microwave Mom wrote on the wall first. It was the day of the first woman to walk in space. House was sold with the microwave, wonder if the note on the wall has ever been seen again.

[@1crowwoman]

I did like the video but seriously you have a few doubles in it, why?

[@RockandRollsince1992]

One day my grandpa will die and as someone digs in the backyard they will find some buried pets and a carwreck.

[@valeriewilliams6576]

OMG-does the Monopoly Man have a MONOCLE in that old game you found?

[@mjjoe76]

The character didn’t appear until the 1940s. This game might pre-date him.

[@valeriewilliams6576]

True, TRUE. OOPS.

[@GoodToGoIndustries]

5:32 I want to see what the rest of that set looks like. The racecar would be so heavy.

[@DeborahThird-og1uo]

That samurai sword looks like it might solve a few cold-case murders.

[@RD9_Designs]

Nah... WWII trophy.

[@denisemass6081]

Hope none of the items are haunted.

[@cita_m]

Alot of the posters in the video need to practice their comma skills.

[@j.j.9123]

It’s “A lot” not “Alot” as that’s not a word.

[@brentisone]

The modern editing transitions are much too fast for this topics, ....

[@niagara6015]

There are several repeats in this video - clearly used to make the viseo longer. It becomes uninteresting to see the same stuff over and over.

[@heatherhoward2513]

Little worried about the original owner one.

[@janpower1104]

Probably demanded their ashes "be interred" ...!

[@girlscanbedrummers5449]

They probably grew up or loved that that house enough to have their ashes be put in there

[@JessiCat-Leopardtree]

My mom has a metal salt and pepper shaker just like the one in this video. Slightly different shapes and green but they are metal and oriental in design. I think hers came from Japan, or she got it there.

[@lekanraposte6732]

0:05 That money is basically worthless. Just imagine if it was instead invested in stocks and instead of the money, it was the stocks bonds instead? Like for maybe, IBM?

[@johnmudd6453]

So he finished the wall at a quarter past four , but what year ?

[@sturmovik1274]

Must've worked fast to place all those bricks in under one minute.

[@stephenbrinckerhoff3510]

Those "contents of a 2oo year old safe" are obviously modern. Bills from no more than 1930's are considered "funny money" as the paper money is of the older lager bills , big bills.' and they have different pictures on them.

[@JTSA1234]

Format is annoying. Quit trying to watch it at 2:20

[@silviac221]

I used to watch your videos before and now this is the second one I see with lots of the old stuff. Goodbye

[@jeannek.srensen856]

5.10....what is this?

[@DoloresLehmann]

Looks like a whole lot of cigarette packets.

[@maverick4177]

Americans thinking old is 1912 When in Europe they are digging up gold, swords and people from 5000 years ago 😂

[@Daviticus042]

Well, how old do you think America is?

[@JF-ym8gm]

Uh…Americans understand that “old” is relative.

[@girlscanbedrummers5449]

Here we are another Non american trash talking americans about stupid shit they aren't american to understand typical 🙄

[@llywrch7116]

Naw, I think old is before my grandparents were born, say before 1880. ;-)

[@mjjoe76]

What a silly comment. Do you not understand the concept of a relative term? Not far from me are effigy mounds built around 500 BCE, but something from 112 years ago is still “old” to me.