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When you buy or inherit a new home and/or property, do you ever wonder
what the previous owners may have left behind? There could be hidden
treasures up in the attic, inside the walls, or deep down in the
basement. They could have been left there several years before,
completely preserved.
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Treasure-Trove - Andreas K. from Wiener Neustadt, Austria found a
treasure-trove of 650-year-old jewels while digging to expand a small
pond in his backyard. It contained over 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt
buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments.
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The Long Lost Audio Tapes of Martin
Luther King, Jr. - Steven Tull found audio tapes of a conversation
between his father and Martin Luther King, Jr. It turns out his father
interviewed King in 1960 for a book about the Civil Rights movement that
never came out.
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Golf Ball - An interesting golf ball from 1899 dug up and found in the
Bronx. Perhaps once upon a time it was actually white.
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A Live Korean Missile - A couple in St. Francis, Wisconsin found a live
20-inch-long Korean missile with a 5-inch explosive head inside of their
bathroom wall while they were remodeling. The couple carefully carried
the missile outside and left it there for the bomb squad to detonate.
The neighbors claimed that the home's previous owner was a man that
served in both World War II and the Korean War.
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Gold Nugget - A man from California used a metal detector in his
backyard to find a 8.2 pound lump of gold in 2011. He was able to sell
the gold at an auction for $460,000 but remained anonymous so that no
one would go digging around for gold on his property. Geologists claimed
there was a 100% chance that there's more gold on that land.
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Church Bells - A man from Czech Republic found two large church bells
that were about 400 years old while he was digging up dirt in his
backyard to install pipes. He later found out that the bells were
actually stolen 11 years prior from a church nearby.
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Hidden Safe - A couple found a bottle of bourbon from 1960, a copy of
the book "A Guide for the Perplexed" by E.F. Schumacher, and $51,080 in
a 50-year-old safe that was hidden in behind their kitchen wall.
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WWII Tank - A wealthy German man in the suburb of Heikendorf, was found
to own several WWII arms, including a WWII-era Panzer tank (tucked away
in his basement), German cannon and torpedo.
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Dead
Chickens Stuffed Into Walls - The Bretzius family found chicken
carcasses stuffed in their walls in Pennsylvania. A local historian
proposed that the dead chickens were perhaps a part of some "Dutch
magic" that was used to heal ailments and remove evil spirits. Clearing
out the chickens for the Bretzius, however, was the real nightmare as it
cost them about $20,000 and several years to finish the task.
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