Treasures From The Past That People Discovered During Home Renovations

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  • @OfficialFoodForThough
    @OfficialFoodForThough 2 місяці тому +75

    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
      @marcusott2973 2 місяці тому +3

      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
      @DavidAndTheDog 2 місяці тому +9

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

  • @jojesaky16
    @jojesaky16 2 місяці тому +24

    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

  • @thomasplouffe1363
    @thomasplouffe1363 Місяць тому +24

    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"

    • @sonadorazul3074
      @sonadorazul3074 13 днів тому

      That's weird as fukk that they would keep the room like that. That is very odd.

  • @torfrida6663
    @torfrida6663 2 місяці тому +29

    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. 🇬🇧👍

  • @edi9892
    @edi9892 Місяць тому +19

    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!

    • @maggiegarber246
      @maggiegarber246 19 днів тому

      That would have been cool!

    • @edi9892
      @edi9892 19 днів тому

      @@maggiegarber246 It was cool. We played down there, and it was more or less our secret... It's just that the staff hated that wobbly and narrow spiral staircase,e and thus, they didn't clean that place nor did they resupply the bar.

  • @melissaz2825
    @melissaz2825 2 місяці тому +21

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

    • @maggiegarber246
      @maggiegarber246 19 днів тому

      A Catholic church in Topeka was renovated a few years ago. They found one wall had several large murals which had been covered with paint.

  • @Gestrid
    @Gestrid Місяць тому +12

    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.)

  • @dimitrivergison2277
    @dimitrivergison2277 2 місяці тому +18

    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
      @leokrupp4442 Місяць тому

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

  • @mjjoe76
    @mjjoe76 2 місяці тому +37

    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.

  • @MikeStavola
    @MikeStavola Місяць тому +6

    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
    @anthonyplayground1402 Місяць тому +15

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

  • @synicyst9925
    @synicyst9925 2 місяці тому +22

    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
      @NYCHFAN 2 місяці тому +8

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

  • @tsugima6317
    @tsugima6317 2 місяці тому +33

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

  • @raymondricci5323
    @raymondricci5323 2 місяці тому +31

    Finding the original owners ashes is crazy!

    • @dieseldragon6756
      @dieseldragon6756 2 місяці тому +4

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

  • @dieseldragon6756
    @dieseldragon6756 2 місяці тому +22

    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
      @purselmer5931 2 місяці тому +1

      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
      @dieseldragon6756 2 місяці тому +5

      @@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
      @purselmer5931 2 місяці тому +1

      @@dieseldragon6756 Amen. lol

    • @sturmovik1274
      @sturmovik1274 Місяць тому +2

      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.

  • @DoloresLehmann
    @DoloresLehmann 2 місяці тому +11

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

  • @Wiz-kidddd
    @Wiz-kidddd Місяць тому +5

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

  • @roy_8693
    @roy_8693 2 місяці тому +8

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

  • @ribo451
    @ribo451 2 місяці тому +7

    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.

  • @nimue325
    @nimue325 Місяць тому +1

    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!)

  • @Lizablue0608
    @Lizablue0608 2 місяці тому +13

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

  • @deniseeulert2503
    @deniseeulert2503 2 місяці тому +6

    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.

  • @katiekat_duh
    @katiekat_duh 18 днів тому

    The stuff people find in their house is unbelievable!
    (So far) the only things we found in ours were the original blueprints. Lumber was purchased in 1900, then built in 1920. For some reason they were in the faux kitchen ceiling.
    While tearing out the (also faux) ceiling in the sunroom, we also found extra 50s wallpaper that decorates the tiny main floor bathroom. It was lodged between the original wooden wall and the added-on wall.
    I think we just put it back, along with the blueprints.

  • @Queina1
    @Queina1 2 місяці тому +37

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

  • @renakunisaki
    @renakunisaki 2 місяці тому +6

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

  • @r.j.powers381
    @r.j.powers381 2 місяці тому +3

    Absolutely fascinating 🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @bonitahobbs2374
    @bonitahobbs2374 13 днів тому

    I used to LOVE WHEN RHIS TYPE OF IF SHOW WAS ON TV !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WAS SOOOO REKAXING N POTENTIALLY FAIR.

  • @robstockton911
    @robstockton911 2 місяці тому +11

    LOL, the joints. 😂

  • @valeriewilliams6576
    @valeriewilliams6576 2 місяці тому +6

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

    • @mjjoe76
      @mjjoe76 2 місяці тому +2

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

    • @valeriewilliams6576
      @valeriewilliams6576 2 місяці тому +1

      True, TRUE. OOPS.

  • @DeborahThird-og1uo
    @DeborahThird-og1uo 2 місяці тому +12

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

  • @richardbeckenbaugh1805
    @richardbeckenbaugh1805 Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @bonitahobbs2374
    @bonitahobbs2374 13 днів тому

    The Monopoly Set at one time was worth some money at one time a few yeaars sgo. Of course, other things too. I just remember that!

  • @denisemass6081
    @denisemass6081 2 місяці тому +2

    Hope none of the items are haunted.

  • @Paul_Wetor
    @Paul_Wetor 8 днів тому

    While having ductwork cleaned in the house I grew up in (my niece's family lives there now), a book was found in the upstairs duct. It always had a heating problem (that was my room) and the book sure didn't help that. P.S. It was not a dirty book.

  • @RockandRollsince1992
    @RockandRollsince1992 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @cita_m
    @cita_m 2 місяці тому +3

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

    • @j.j.9123
      @j.j.9123 Місяць тому

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

  • @PurpleFinchFarm
    @PurpleFinchFarm 19 днів тому

    How do they know the Purple Heart decoration is circa WW-II? The design has not changed since 1932?

  • @JessiCat-Leopardtree
    @JessiCat-Leopardtree Місяць тому

    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.

  • @Loraann54fi10
    @Loraann54fi10 17 днів тому

    I bought my house after it had been foreclosed on and sat empty for three years. In the attic, shoved up under some rafters, I found a shirt and pants from our county jail. It had a prisoner number on the name tag on the shirt, so I called the county to let them know. I was very curious as to how and why, although I kinda knew. According to the neighbors, the family that had owned the house before had gotten into drugs, making and selling. The daughter of the couple that owned the house had hidden her boyfriend in the attic, which has a cubby door to what was most likely her room. Someone had snitched, and the Sherrif had apprehended him here at the house. All this took place probably 10 years ago. I've found many very interesting things hidden around the house and barn.

  • @brentisone
    @brentisone Місяць тому +3

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

  • @niagara6015
    @niagara6015 Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @lekanraposte6732
    @lekanraposte6732 Місяць тому

    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?

  • @1crowwoman
    @1crowwoman Місяць тому +1

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

  • @stephenbrinckerhoff3510
    @stephenbrinckerhoff3510 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @heatherhoward2513
    @heatherhoward2513 2 місяці тому +7

    Little worried about the original owner one.

    • @janpower1104
      @janpower1104 2 місяці тому +3

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

    • @girlscanbedrummers5449
      @girlscanbedrummers5449 2 місяці тому +3

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

  • @katiekat_duh
    @katiekat_duh 18 днів тому

    6:18 I want that door

  • @johnmudd6453
    @johnmudd6453 2 місяці тому +1

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

    • @sturmovik1274
      @sturmovik1274 Місяць тому

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

  • @deanwattles8722
    @deanwattles8722 29 днів тому

    why are the baskets "creepy", they're just baskets

  • @JTSA1234
    @JTSA1234 Місяць тому +3

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

  • @jeannek.srensen856
    @jeannek.srensen856 2 місяці тому +1

    5.10....what is this?

    • @DoloresLehmann
      @DoloresLehmann 2 місяці тому +7

      Looks like a whole lot of cigarette packets.

  • @silviac221
    @silviac221 Місяць тому

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

  • @maverick4177
    @maverick4177 2 місяці тому +8

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

    • @Daviticus042
      @Daviticus042 2 місяці тому +2

      Well, how old do you think America is?

    • @JF-ym8gm
      @JF-ym8gm 2 місяці тому +5

      Uh…Americans understand that “old” is relative.

    • @girlscanbedrummers5449
      @girlscanbedrummers5449 2 місяці тому

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

    • @llywrch7116
      @llywrch7116 2 місяці тому +1

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

    • @mjjoe76
      @mjjoe76 2 місяці тому +4

      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.