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Treasures From The Past People Found During Home Renovations · Be Amazed

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[SPEAKER_00]: A wise woman once said, home, is the nicest word there is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, clearly no one ever offered to buy her a chickfully.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I get it though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know my four walls better than anywhere else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you ever wondered what could be behind those walls, some renovators have discovered one in a million items they never knew were there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and some of them are truly shocking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've got bees, bones, live bombs, and more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, get your overalls ready as we check out some incredible treasures people discovered during renovations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there any better feeling than finally moving into your new home?
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[SPEAKER_00]: After months of endless paperwork and phone calls, having those keys in your hand has to be a real relief.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when one homeowner removed a section of drywall, they discovered they were sharing their house with some rather unwanted guests, a colony of bees.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, that's got a sting, and more ways than one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But how on earth did this have gross so wild without the previous owners noticing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well chances are, it didn't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Many homes in the past were actually built to encourage bees to nest in the wall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Huh?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Beehives would be installed in homes along with a network of pipes that bees could use to enter and leave the house to collect nectar.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When the homeowner won an honey they could just remove the back of the hive and have that golden deliciousness practically on tab.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, it's genius.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Except there's no way I could trust myself if that was my house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be shoulder-deep in that hole like Winnie the Pooh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for whether the new owners kept their fuzzy flatmates or not, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What would you do?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Could you live with a colony of bees of it meant free honey all day?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Family is everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I live mine, but sometimes they really hurt me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's believe if I had David Gonzalez's family?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'd be seeing Red.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After purchasing an abandoned house in Minnesota for him and his four kids David found a one of the kind treasures stashed away inside the wall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A nineteen thirty eight action comic book, the very first comic featurey Superman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These are super rare and hard to come by, so as you can imagine they draw a pretty penny.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The most valuable action comic sold for a whopping two point one million dollars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our guy Gonzales' copy wasn't in great condition, but he was still utterly sight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was in the money regardless.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or he would have been had the back page not been a reverberably damaging an argument with his wife's family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It still sold the auction for a significant one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, but had it not been damaged it could have gone for a stalking seventy-five thousand dollars extra.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It'd be cross out the Christmas card list, no questions asked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The bathroom is my sacred space.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If I want to sing Ariana Grande songs into my toilet brush, then I'm gonna.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let a boy be, alright?
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[SPEAKER_00]: A seven year old William Whitman from St.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Francis Wisconsin nearly had an explosive accident in his bathroom, and not the kind you're thinking of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whilst remodeling his toilet temple, he reached his hand inside the wall to remove some of the old insulation, but what he found didn't feel warm or fuzzy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nope, he pulled out a live, twenty-inch missile dating back to the Korean War.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Holy smokes!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Turns out the prior owner was a veteran of the Korean War who, according to his neighbors, liked bringing back souvenirs from his deployments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this guy bring a bomb back through Customs, and who would want a souvenir like that anyway?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Regardless, William and his wife carefully carried the bomb through to their garage and called the bomb squad, who confiscated the explosive and detonated it safely in a secure location.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The explosion was so loud it could be heard on the other side of town.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sheesh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine if William and Hammer do the well not knowing it was there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd give it a minute in there if I were you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whilst you're waiting, I've got something else to blow your minds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In Montreal, Canada, just as another homeowner was planning on sealing their cross-base, they also discovered a bomb.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The artillery shell for a QF-four and a half inch halitzer from World War I. That's right, this bomb is over one hundred years old, and there's a high chance it's been set in the walls of this house since construction in nineteen fifteen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Artillery shells like this are filled with shrapnel, tiny individual bullets which get ejected at rapid speeds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Shrapnel was designed to clear an area of people as efficiently as possible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yet someone thought it was a good idea to stick one in their house?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jeez!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually the bombsquad came to the rescue again, and good thing, too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that thing went off, it would have really blood.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Does anyone else get nightmares about going potty, but something's crawled up the pipes into the bowl ready to bite your peachy rear?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Haha, can't me neither.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, one renovator in Baltimore, Maryland, got the threat of their life when checking out the bathroom of a foreclosed home, they'd bought to renovate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And side the toilet was an entire head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, darn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's seen some crap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Literally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, it's not a real head, but it's almost a terrifying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The stair belongs to a Halloween decoration developed by decor company, Jimmy, around two thousand nine colored Donna the Dead.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, she's still absolutely horrifying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: how this one ended up staring into my breakfast will never know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What the owner did with it will also never know, and that might not be a bad thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If I bought that house I wouldn't even think about renovating.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The whole place would be burned to the ground, and I'd never sleep again thinking this could wake me up in the middle of the night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One rule I live by, no shoes and doors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what you've stepped in, and I certainly don't want to drag through my home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as one electrician discovered, choosing the house used to be such a big thing, it was actually encouraged.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was doing some rewiring work on an old house in Clinton, Michigan when he discovered a really old pair of boots, something deep back to the prohibition.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Others, however, think they're much older.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see way back in the fifteen-hundreds people were very superstitious, then many believed in magic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So people would often hide shoes in the walls and ceilings of their homes to protect them from witches and spirits.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Come again now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The logic was your cheesy trotters leave a stink in your shoes so budget it tricks the evil entities into thinking it's you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By following their nose towards your old boots the no good ghouls get trapped inside the shoe unable to get out again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It all sounds pretty silly to me, but a museum in North Hampton, England, has been keeping an inventory of these concealed shoes and so far.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have almost three thousand specimens.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With the oldest dating all the way back to thirteen o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Four.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those kicks are dusty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Personally, I'm not too scared of a witch coming through my walls any time soon, but I've got this friend involved tomorrow and he's all the shoes they can get.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ahhhh!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be gone, Evil Tana!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Does anyone really know what's going on in their attic?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mine's got suitcase as a Christmas tree and all sorts of other garbage in it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You never know though, there might be something special amongst all that clutter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in twenty thirteen one Norwegian man discovered some painting is called Sunset at Mount Measure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And after receiving some very bad advice, the previous owner assumed it was unimportant and left a consigned to his attic, where to remain for decades.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they really regretted that!
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually by world-renowned artist Vincent Van Gogh, and it's the first original full canvas Van Gogh painting discovered since the XIXIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
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[SPEAKER_00]: And a praisers noted that the painting used the same range of paints man go used in that period, all but confirming the amazing find.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After completing its authentications, Uncensored Malmajor was sold to an anonymous buyer for an undisclosed sum.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, the highest value man goes of solded auction for anything from a massive, thirty-nine point nine million dollars to an astronomical, eighty-two and a half million dollars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So whoever the lucky bitter was definitely busted their bank account.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's time for me to go rummage through some of my old possessions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If anyone wants to buy knowledgeable youtubers second grade sketchbook, hit me up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I hated gem class.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyone who forced me to wear short shorts in the winter should go to prison.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd have been much more motivated for shooting drills from the pain if I went to Cathedral School of Erbo though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When workers ripped up the gem floor of this school in Turku, Finland, they discovered something so fitting for a city founded in the thirteenth century.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Beneath the Bebal Court were the ruins of two houses, vaults, and a road dating back to the city's formation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This might be the coolest school ever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in eighteen twenty seven, most of Turku was destroyed by a raging fire, and during the rebuild a lot of the old city became buried under the new buildings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When the new jam was built at the beginning of the nineteen hundreds archaeologists knew there were ruins underneath it, but didn't appreciate how a significant of a fine they were.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now we have a view into the past and can begin to understand what a thriving city urbo was almost one thousand years ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually the floor of the jam will be replaced, but I've got an idea.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How cool would it be if they put in a transparent floor so that the ruins were still visible?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It'd be like shooting hoops with their Viking ancestors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some people say, I'm a lover, not a fighter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not me, I'm a certified bad boy trading a violent path of crime.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Facts are my weapons, and they cut like a sword.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what else cuts like a sword?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whilst renovating their one hundred year old home, Reddit user Bryson's removed some old floorboards and found a katana concealed among the dirt beneath.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It turns out the original owners of the house had been stationed in the Pacific during World War II.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not that they'd have fought with the sword, they were likely mass produced and gifted to every Japanese soldier as decorative pieces.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Come on guys, it might have been nineteen forty-two, but no one was bringing Katana to a tank fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for how the homeowner acquired the sword, we're not entirely sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Frankly, I'm too scared to ask any more questions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These guys are armed in dangerous!
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen enough horror movies to know basements are full of scary things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mine's filled with the tears of all the children I've failed to dish out quality knowledge too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They nothing scarier than that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, maybe there is one thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whilst ripping up the basement of a church in New Haven, Connecticut back in nineteen ninety, some workers uncovered an entire cemetery hidden beneath it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Say what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you heard me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've got a hundred and thirty-seven tombstones and there are mains of up to one thousand others.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the oldest state spec this sixteen eighty-seven, and no way you're telling me this place isn't haunted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the plus side, some of the ghosts are kind of famous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The family of the nineteenth president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, are buried here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alongside one of the founders of Yale University, Reverend James Pearpon,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now the mystery is who don't tell these famous faces in their basement.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Truthfully, nobody.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The cemetery was already there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One year after the last Grave Stone was put in place in eighteen thirteen a crypt was built around part of the burial grounds and a church built a top it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the Grave Stone's underneath had been conserved in their original positions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It gives me the willys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can spend long in a place with a bunch of dead gullies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do builds?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yuck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a period guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Give me an avocado bathroom suite over something modern and soulless.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Old houses have all these old mysterious secrets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what Grace Benavente learned when she said about renovating a room in her childhood home in Portland, Oregon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After removing the staples holding down the old carpet she lifted up that tattie flooring to reveal, another carpet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With a little bit of funk to it, and both looks and I imagine smell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh baby!
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[SPEAKER_00]: When Grace's parents bought the home back in the late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late late
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, as Grace restored the whole room to its full nineteen seventies glory?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Heck no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's kept in frame some of the less worn parts of the carpet and gifted them to some of her friends while keeping a small square for herself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Really, I can't blame her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Last time I saw something this kaleidoscopic and crazy, I was wildened and out at burning man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Money, money, money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When I was a kid, I learned this nifty little rhyme.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pretty cute, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The only problem is that it doesn't tell me what to do if I find five hundred dollar stations at the walls of my home, and zoos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be feeling so lucky I'd blow it all at the casino.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's never going to happen right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well for one redditer from the UK it did happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They found five hundred pounds worth of bang notes from nineteen eighty one ramped up in the insulation of their home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By today's values that's about two thousand one hundred dollars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a tasty little saw.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sadly before the lucky finer could search for any more, their dad boarded it back up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Damn, saying no to free money seems a little crazy to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But then again, you could end up like one homeowner near Lake Erio, Ohio.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Settle in, because this is a wild one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A contractor working on the bathroom of an eighty-three-year-old home was stunned when he found a stupidus, one hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars hidden in the walls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The only thing was, of course, they weren't his walls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then, when the homeowner vowed out, she wanted the Lord majority of the cash for herself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Out of good faith, she offered the contractor ten percent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, the contractor demanded forty percent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're disputed over sharing the mullock at so out of hand that after about a month had caught the attention of the estate of Patrick Doom, the former owner who'd stashed the money way back in the prohibition era.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the Loops had been found hidden with the cash that named Dune's family as the inheritors, so they sued the homeowner and attempt to claim it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But by this time, the homeowner had enjoyed a lavish holiday to Hawaii, sold some of the rear bills and mysteriously lost sixty thousand dollars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So there wasn't a whole lot left.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And what was left ended up being split between both original parties and all twenty-one of Patrick Dunes relatives.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was a tiny fraction of the original sum.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Greed really is a bottomless pit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Had the owner and the contractor settled it between them, they'd have both walked away much richer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who do you think should have kept the money?
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the risks of buying an old house is inheriting all the old problems associated with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, I don't think Reddit user Cameron sounds was expecting to uncover something quite this old.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whilst replacing his kitchen floor, he noticed too fossilized fish on the underside of an old tile.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fossils like these are commonly excavated from the green river formation in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, and can subsequently find their way onto everyday items.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Since the eighteen seventies in astonishing one million fossilized trees have been discovered here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The experts predict that a cold snap some fifty million years ago caused dead fish to sink faster because their swimbladers were less inflated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This combined with the depth of the lakes made it difficult for scavengers to eat them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a result, we have these incredibly preserved fossils all this time later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Needle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If old fish is your aesthetic, you can buy the tiles online for about three hundred and fifty dollars a piece.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, not for me, thanks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I once left some tuna in my fridge where we can add every cat within five blocks scratching at my door.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If old fish bones ain't exciting enough, then you're really going to dig this next one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In twenty seventeen, a Portuguese man was doing construction on his home in Pumball when he unearthed some tiny bone fragments in his yard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alarm, he contacted local scientists who after linked the efforts to excavate the remains, discovered a ten-foot ribcage and several large vertebrae.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What got Zilla graveyard was his house built on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the stalking skeleton once belonged to a ginormous dinosaur in the Mrakia Sordai family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The towering beast lived about a hundred to one hundred and sixty million years ago, and had roughly thirty-nine feet tall and a gigantic eighty-two feet long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This one could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It seems unlikely, and I sure hope the homeowner got to keep it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He could build the coolest mini golf course you've ever seen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you've ever lived in an apartment without a lot of storage, you'll know what a struggle it can be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've got a lot of trinkets and I need places to keep them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So when this homeowner removed a wall in their closet and found a secret passageway, you'd think they'd be excited, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: While after plucking up the courage, the homeowner retrieved the stray vessel, took some deep breaths, and cracked it over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Inside were all sorts of strange objects, eight old looking silver goblet frames with glass inserts, some fancy utensils, and a few candle holders had all been wrapped in a quilt for protection.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It all seems a bit cold like to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But this had belonged to a secret Satanic sect?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but the homeowner also found this duck statue placed in the bottom of the basket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nah, I see, it must have belonged to a satanic duck called who worship Gusifer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm kidding.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure it's perfectly innocent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I can't get over why the previous owner sealed it all behind a wall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This year, I made a deal with myself to read more books, starting with my favorite book of all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Dictionary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Best believe your boys, brazenly, brazenly, brazen through the bees beautifully.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But there's one really old book I saw recently that I'd love to get my hands on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When renovating an old home and Quebec Canada One Twitter user uncovered this creepy-looking book hidden in the walls,
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mysterious tomb titled The Rittlebook, or Fire Side Amusements is full of cryptic little puzzles and mental games and dates all the way back to eighteen thirty-five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Want to hear some?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is it that makes everything visible, but is itself unseen?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is that which is often brought to table, often cut, but never eaten?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Which were made first?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Elbows or knees?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you want to know the answers now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: tough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't give them to you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the most infuriating thing I've ever heard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is that what people in eighteen thirty five dead sitting around a fire and getting mildly irritated?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Boring!
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll never say anything bad about Netflix again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But back to the house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The book wasn't the only distinctive discovery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This amber ring was hidden elsewhere in the house, and an old casket handle was buried in the garden.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What could it all mean?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Did the previous homeowner put pieces of his soul into each object in an attempt to gain immortality?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, have mercy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, maybe I've jumped to conclusions here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even so, you've kind of met, and it's pretty
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know where you'll always find me at parties?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Knocked away in the bathroom for hours.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Setting the tough, fully closed, crying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, either that or I'll be in the kitchen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I've never been in a kitchen quite like what I'm about to show you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in twenty-ten Reddit user, the red geareder's grandparents bought a house and whilst renovating ripped up the floors to find a twenty-five foot deep well right beneath their kitchen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ugh, I'd be covering that right back up before any little girl with long black hair starts curling out of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, no such girl did come out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Instead, they found a small underground river at the bottom that flows beneath the house.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And has it a guess then that the house was extended out over the well at some point, rather than someone boring a chasm through their floor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Regardless, the homeowners didn't see it as a nicer, they saw an opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They added lights, covered it with glass, and integrated it into their new design.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whoa, what an awesome feature!
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's even a few plants growing in there which makes it look even cooler.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Old wells and houses might be a lot more common than we think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In York, England, and other glassed over well can be seen in Hoornington Manor, a converted farmhouse first documented in seventeen seventy-five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The glass is even strong enough for brave visitors to stand on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm definitely jealous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I won't want to those so badly, I might just dig a hole in the middle of my living room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On second thoughts, they're cool until you hear tapping on the glass in the middle of the night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't you even think about it, Donna?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening to the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see you again next time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll want to be amazed.