Every old house has its secrets – from hidden treasures in the crawl space and secret doors to creepy basement passages and dark attics filled with ancient valuables. The history is all around us, and if you look hard enough, you can find a treasure trove inside your home. Below you’ll see a list of people who made unintentional ‘archeological’ discoveries when on the task of home renovation and then found a way to put them to good use.
Some of the artifacts are small, like coins hidden in the wall, while others are more permanent features to the structure of the building, such as an old well in the floor and secret rooms. No matter the size we can all agree it’s pretty cool to come across clues that tell us about times past, so scroll down below and enjoy these ‘rare antiquities.’ Don’t forget to upvote your favs and may your treasure hunt be lucky!
P.S.: The story behind the razor blade slot that quite a few people find when home remodeling has a simple explanation – some houses built before the 1970s had these slits for razor disposal for two reasons. One was that the razors were dangerous to put in general trash, and the second was that people didn’t think about littering and trash the way we do now. For them, waste used to ‘magically’ disappear, so dropping them into a secret place between your bathroom walls seemed like a great idea.
#1 They Found The Old Bath Under Their Living Room
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#2 Pulled Up The Carpet At The House, And Guess What I Found!
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#3 Treasure In My Bathroom
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#4 I Was Helping My Dad Move Into His New Office, When We Found A Trapdoor
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#5 This Vintage Space Themed Wallpaper Found Under 3 Layers Of Other Wallpaper In An Old Farm House
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#6 The Walgreens In My Neighborhood Used To Be A Bank And They Used Its Vault As Their Vitamin Section
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#7 Friend Was Redecorating His New House And Found This Under A Layer Of Wallpaper
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#8 Found A Paw Print On A Brick Wall
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#9 The Table At This Pub Has A Well In The Middle Of It (England)
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#10 Untouched 1800’s Cemetery Preserved In The Basement Of A Tall Building Built Over It
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#11 My Grandparents Have A Glassed-Over Well In Their Kitchen
They bought the house 10 years ago, they stripped it down and they found it then. They thought it was quite unique and wanted it as a feature, it’s about 25 foot deep and connects to a small old river that ran under a long time ago. Fortunately I have yet to see anything down there!
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#12 Our New Apartment Has A Little Milk Door Under The Cabinets
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#13 My Friend Decided To Replace Her Old Carpet And She Found A Cellar Door And A Cool Surprise
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#14 My Apartment Is An Old Police Station And Still Has The Original Cell Doors But Painted
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#15 Found Some Friends In A Mile-Long Tunnel That Travels Beneath My Apartment Building
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#16 Lost Hippie Mural Found Under My Flooded House
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#17 Found A Message While Removing Our Cork Floor Tiles
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#18 My Living Room Was Built Around A Huge Sandstone Rock
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#19 This Wall Broke Exposing Years Of Layers Of Paint
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#20 Found Some Nice Drawings Under The Wallpaper I’m Removing
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#21 100-Year-Old Elevator Handle I Saved
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#22 These “Tom And Jerry” Type Mouse Holes Gnawed In A House Built In 1741
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#23 Uncovered At A Times Square Construction Site
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#24 I’ve Been Living In My House And I Just Noticed My Back Door Handle Is A Spoon
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#25 The House I’m Staying In Has Kept Its Original Well As A Feature
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#26 So I Just Moved Into A New Apartment, And Made A Big Discovery
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#27 While Renovating My Basement We Found This Painting On The Cement Behind The Wall
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#28 I Recently Moved Into A 70s Porn Motif Dream Home. This Is My Bathtub
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#29 Apparently, Disposing Of Old Razor Blades Inside Your Wall Was Acceptable In The 1950’s
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#30 This Mail Slot In A Building I Was In Today Sends The Mail Down 17 Stories To The Basement. Original From 1929
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#31 My House Still Has Old-Fashioned Light Switches From Its Original Construction
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#32 This Building Has The Original 1909 Electrical Switches
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#33 Found This 20-Year-Old Promise Hidden Under The Wallpaper In Our New House
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#34 Friend Tore Down His Wall For Renovations And Found This Mural On Another Wall Behind It
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#35 My House Used To Be A Bank, So We Use The Old Safe/Vault As A Basement
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#36 There’s A Random Chain Embedded In The Wall Of My 1930s-Era Home
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#37 A House My Girlfriend And I Looked At Had A Shower In The Guest Room
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#38 The Fan In My Toilet (Probably From The 70s) Has The Same Logo As Beats By Dre
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#39 My House Still Has The Original Light Switches
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