Homeowner Notices Crack in Closet Floor — What He Found Underneath Surprised Him

i once found a bunch of pictures of the guy who we bought the house and the woman next door NOT HIS WIFE after we moved in my wife made sure i didnt have a camera or that we didnt get to know the woman next door . although she was very friendly and gave us some nice melons from her garden a few times . My wife didnt let me fix anything inside her house LOL

Hey Byron,

ewwww! I could never look at that guy or woman again! ahhh! Too funny!

we found a whiskey bottle one time with a black lady on it with big white eyes called, Nappy head Whiskey!

I’ve found a nudies 8mm film in a small canister but didn’t have a camera to look at it, gave it to my lead carpenter.

I’m always fascinated when I find old handwriting inside walls from the original carpenters. Their cursive style was very cool. Kids aren’t even being taught cursive anymore which is kind of sad. if not pathetic.

I always bury stuff in the walls on every job. Big jobs get a silver dollar and I try to get the kids to make a time capsule. They’ll bring me crayon pictures and photographs and really get in to it.

I also save news papers that have significant current events on the front page and bury them too.
Gotta carry on the tradition.

-- mark - Grayslake IL.

Many years ago when I was a maintenance man in Baltimore, the company I worked for was building more apartments. On the property was an old mansion that had been from an era long gone and was slated for demolition. All of the doorknobs, faucets and hardware that were gold and sterling were gone and the only thing that we found was a book – of visitors to a party or event that was in the house from the mid 1800s. It was a whos who of the elite, from the Vice President to some of the wealtiest businessmen of the time. I have no idea what happened to the book.

When the bulldozer came, my boss at the time was there to watch. As soon as the bulldozer hit the building, it didn’t move too much, just kind of shook but something fell in the main lobby or foyer. My boss asked the operator to wait for a second while he investigated, knowing the potential dangers. He went in and found a small leather bag, picked it up and got out of the house. After getting out, he opened it while the operator made short work of the house. Inside the pouch were 10 gold eagles. I guess someone left them in the house in the event that they needed money and forgot about it or died, don’t know. It was almost like the house didn’t want them lost in the rubble.

I did not get any of the find but I did get to see a couple of them, the pouch, and the book.

-- Love woodworking and fixing most anything

The only thing I remember finding in a house is a boa constrictor. Or rather, it found me while I was in the crawlspace. About three feet long. I got out fast. The homeowner was delighted—the snake had been missing for weeks, escaped from the kid’s bedroom.

-- Joe Cottonwood -- 99 Jobs: Blood, Sweat, and Houses

I found an old Wurlitzer style phonograph buried under a stairwell years ago. Let the homeowners know when they got home. They had only owned the house for a few years but claimed they knew it was there. ????
I don’t know how, it was totally enclosed with no access. Oh well, their house so it was rightfully theirs anyway.
Also found some B&W girly mags in an closet wall. One of my guys kept those.
Lots of newspapers, some WWII era cigarette packs, an old 22, and a fair share of glass medicine bottles.
Also some old canning preserves in a crawl space in the old blue Ball jars. Dumped them all out and kept the jars. They are on display in my kitchen.

How many dead critter skeletons have you found in various locations?? I’ve found more than I could count.

-- The difference between a pro and an amateur, an amateur points out his mistakes

I also remember finding several old wooden fishing lures in the attics. I have a few of them hanging in my shop.

I found a little ol ladie’s dead cat skeleton in an attic once. Funny part is, she joked that it might be up there – hadn’t seen it in five years!

I didn’t have the heart to tall her I found it and just got rid of it.

4 ft. Bees nests, raccoon babies, woodpecker nests, dozens of bats, a 10” centipede dropping on my neck, cave crickets, salamanders, roaches, mice by the hundreds, carpenter ants by the millions, squirrels, snakes, scorpions, black widows and brown recluse spiders, opossums, skunks, and baby kittens – all alive!

the newspaper ads were the best. model Ts for 6 hundred, shoes for .89 cents….I’m not that old but, it makes you think and fun to look at.

-- mark - Grayslake IL.

Who ever bought my grandmothers house will get a surprise if they remove the siding to the garage. There is a series of bee hives that fill the wall 20’ x 15’. When they figured out how extensive it was they poisoned the hives – this was 45 years ago. today, it would be a crime, back then it was the practice.

They thought that there could have been 30 different hives in that wall

-- Love woodworking and fixing most anything

I worked on a house that had a bee problem. We called in an expert, and he removed 16 gallons of honey from inside the wall.

-- Joe Cottonwood -- 99 Jobs: Blood, Sweat, and Houses

If I remember correctly they estimated that there were several hundred pounds of hive in the wall

-- Love woodworking and fixing most anything