- [Narrator] When you
move into a new home, it can be exciting and
sometimes a little creepy to find things left behind
by the previous owners, especially when those
things are hidden away beneath the floors and behind the walls. In the case of one Norwegian couple we'll be discussing today, what they found under their floorboards was much more unnerving
than they initially thought. So stay tuned to find
out what they discovered alongside a whole host
of other unbelievable and slightly chilling
secrets people unearthed in and around their homes. In May 2020, the Kristiansens, a married couple from Bodo, Norway, decided to counteract
their lockdown boredom by installing some insulation
under their floors, but what their DIY project led to, they couldn't have imagined
in their wildest dreams. The Kristiansens were
tearing up their floorboards when they found what appeared to be part of an old toy car underneath. They knew it was old since the
floorboards hadn't been moved since the house was built in 1914, but they had no idea how
ancient it would turn out to be. Shortly after making that first discovery, the Kristiansens also
stumbled upon an iron ax head, which ultimately convinced them to contact local authorities. Experts from Norway's Tromso Museum were sent over to examine the finds and when they started digging, they found even more
peculiar looking artifacts. From ancient remains to iron arrowheads, everything dated back to the Viking age, between 800 and 1100 AD. The old toy car wheel
meanwhile was actually a decorative glass bead
from the same time, but what was everything
doing under the ground? According to archeologists, the Kristiansens were sitting atop an ancient Viking burial
site, also known as a cairn, commonly identified by a pile of stones like these ones they
found under the house. Cairns were a very common
burial practice in the Iron Age and served as a predecessor
to the headstones we know today. Usually the deceased were laid
in a boat and piles of stones and soil were laid atop the remains. Although no boat was
found on this occasion, it likely already disintegrated
over the centuries. According to archeologist,
Jorn Erik Henriksen, Viking burial sites are
not uncommon in Norway, though they're rarely found under houses, making this particular discovery
all the more fascinating. I just hope that by
disturbing the burial site, the Kristiansens didn't unleash the wrath of an ancient Viking
ghost upon themselves. Even if they didn't, some of the people
we'll be looking at next might just have unleashed
a few ghosts of their own. Black hole, if you
thought your 2020 was bad, just ask 67 year old Chris Town from Guildford, Connecticut
who reached new lows that year quite literally. One day, Chris and his wife Angela, were helping a friend
of theirs assemble a bed on the ground floor of
the 19th century home she was renting when
the pair started to hear a strange creaking noise below them. When Chris looked down,
it was already too late. The floor caved way beneath his feet, and his wife watched in horror as her husband disappeared
before her eyes. She immediately called 911 frantically telling a
dispatcher that her husband had fallen into a black hole, which it basically was. When firefighters arrived, they found Chris 20 feet
down in a hidden well, barely keeping his head
above water by using his legs to brace himself against
the surrounding walls. The firefighters quickly lowered a harness and used a poli system
attached to a ceiling joist to lift the 67 year old to safety. But even though Chris emerged
with only minor injuries, the question remained, what the heck was a well
doing under the floorboards? According to property records, the house was built in 1843, a time when wells were often found next to or under buildings as
a private water source. Most likely the house
was at one point extended covering the well though
clearly not sturdily enough and slowly forgotten about. The home's previous owner
who sold the house in 2015 after living there for 42
years said she was stunned to learn about the well. So either that owner
was super light footed or there's an underlying
problem somewhere. Did someone say termites? Soggy encounter, in the early eighties, Reddit user EvilEnglish often
visited his grandparents at their second home in rural Tennessee. Whenever he was there, he loved reading the classic
novel Treasure Island with his grandmother. And like most kids, the Redditor often fantasized
about one day discovering a hidden treasure of his own. Little did he know, his dream would one day come true. Shortly after both his
grandparents passed away, EvilEnglish inherited
the Tennessee property, but ultimately decided to sell it. While preparing the house for viewings, the Redditor was removing
some carpet from a closet under the stairs when he noticed a
peculiar slab of concrete amid the hardwood floors. In the middle, there was a round metal
plate covering something. On removing the plate, he
made an amazing discovery. There hidden in the floor was a safe. EvilEnglish quickly called a locksmith to break the safe open, and what he found
legitimately stunned him. Inside the safe, the Redditor
unearthed watches, jewelry, some soggy bills and a
hoard of collectible coins. After sorting through it all, EvilEnglish had no idea whether his findings were
really worth anything so he turned to the
trustee Reddit community. Some Redditors advised EvilEnglish
to take the soggy bills to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to have them replaced whereas others pointed out
the possibility of selling the piles of coins he found
to willing collectors, potentially racking up a
couple thousand dollars. While the final outcome
was never shared online, it wasn't so much the treasures value that mattered to EvilEnglish, but rather the fact
that his childhood dream finally came true. And who knows, maybe the entire hoard was a secret gift left by his
grandmother for him to find. I mean, after all those years of reading Treasure Islands together, she was bound to a picked up a few tricks. Before we go digging after
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any of my latest uploads. All done, then prepare yourself for what our next lucky finders discover tucked away in their walls. Top shelf discoveries, when Nick Drummond and Patrick Baker of Ames, New York were
informed of the town gossip that their more than a century old home was built by a bootlegger, they pass it off as a small town legend. In case you didn't know,
bootlegger is a term for someone who illegally
made or distributed alcohol during the time of America's Prohibition in the early 20th century. But shortly after Nick and Patrick made some home renovations in October 2020 a year after they moved in, the couple realized the
legend could be true. One day, Nick was removing
the outside skirting along the bottom of the entryway when a package wrapped
in brown paper fell out. Understandably Nick
immediately tore into it, but he wasn't prepared for what he found. Wrapped in the paper was
an old green whiskey bottle still with a seal on it, which admittedly didn't seem
all that impressive on its own. It was only when Nick
removed another plank along the skirting that he
noticed identical packages stretching all the way around. Nick immediately thought
of the local legend and realized they had stumbled upon the bootlegger's secret stash. All in all, seven bundles
of six bottles each were found behind the
skirting and four more under the floorboards,
making 66 bottles in total. After some research, Nick learned the bootlegger was one count Adolph Humfner, a German immigrant shrouded in mystery who died suddenly in 1932. The prohibition era
liquor was aptly labeled old smuggler Gaelic whiskey, a Scottish brand still
in production today. Incredibly, the full
bottles were estimated at a value of around a
whopping $1,000 each, meaning the couple could have potentially come away with $66,000. Of course, they ended up
keeping one of the bottles to taste test because I mean,
if whiskey aged as well, why not try some that's been under your
house for almost a century. The floor is lava, in 2017 when James and Suzanne Brierley purchased a 10 acre
property in Bend, Oregon, they had no idea that there
was something truly spectacular lurking beneath their feet and they only found out about
it four years later in 2021 right as they were
about to sell the place. When they first moved in, the realtor informed James
and Suzanne about a cave located close to the house, but the couple never
paid it much attention. After all, the entrance
to the cave was a small, ordinary looking hole in the
side of a neighboring hill, nothing to really peak one's interest. It was only when one day when James decided to check the cave out that the Briar Lees realized what they'd been missing. As James crawled inside
expecting a tight squeeze, the cave turned out to be so large, he couldn't reach the ceiling
even when standing up, but its astonishing size wasn't the only remarkable
thing about the cave. Turns out the cave was an empty lava tube formed millions of
years ago by molten lava that flowed underground
from the Newberry Volcano 20 miles away. After discovering the lava tube, James and Suzanne were left pondering how they might've used all
the secret additional space, but since they were still
selling the property, they only hoped future owners would tap in to its greater potential. As of June 2021, the property was up for
sale at $1.8 million and the lava tube located close
to the house was advertised as a possible renovation
into either a wine cellar, bed and breakfast or a concert hall. But what would you use a secret underground cave like this for? My vote's on evil villain
layers slash karaoke lounge. I mean, just imagine the natural reverb. Panic room, for Jake Brown, a
resident of Plymouth, England, what started as a laid
back day in May 2020 quickly turned into an
adventure in his own home. While having a morning
coffee outside the front door of his basement level property, Jake noticed a patch in the wall with a completely different
texture under the stairs leading up to the street. So he grabbed a drill and
made a pair of peep holes in the wall, one for viewing
and another for a torch. But as he peeked through the holes, Jake realized he didn't just stumble upon some tiny crevice. Beyond the wall, he looked straight into a
dusty room sized cavern, and you bet he opened that sucker up. After a bit more drilling and a few carefully placed
blows with a hammer, Jake made a hole large
enough to climb through. He flashed his torch around
the place and quickly realized the 10 foot high 16 foot deep room had been sealed for many, many years. Aside from some building waste like guttering broken
doors and an old bicycle, Jake's most exciting discovery
were some vintage paint cans from the fifties and sixties, the remains of a newspaper from 1964 and bottles dating all the
way back to the early 1900s. A historian friend of
Jake's who oddly happens to possess detailed knowledge of the area revealed that most of the
houses in the neighborhood were built with underground spaces to use as wine cellars or bathing areas. Now, considering most of us
already have bathrooms nowadays, I doubt a bathing area
would be of much use now, but I'd say Jake just knocked through into an opportunity for
the perfect man-cave. Scaly crawlspace, on a
particularly windy evening in March 2019, an
unidentified Texas homeowner was experiencing trouble
with their TV signal. Thinking the cable connection
was likely to blame, the homeowner decided to
crawl under their house to the cable box to see
if they could fix it. But just as quickly as they
got into the crawl space, they retreated again in
absolute terror, why? Because the crawl space
was absolutely taming with rattlesnakes, a whopping
45 of them to be precise. The homeowner quickly got Nathan Hawkins at Big Country Snake Removal on the line. And when Nathan arrived with his team, even they were shocked by the situation. With so many rattlesnakes
in the crawlspace, Nathan knew his team had
to be extremely careful and it's easy to see why. Those rattlers do not seem happy about their sudden eviction notice. One by one, Nathan and his
team grabbed the snakes and pulled them to safety. It took two bins and a
bucket to hold all 45 snakes and once they'd been secured, Nathan drove them out to a safe location where he released them. According to him, all Texans need to conduct
regular inspections of their crawl spaces, especially in the months
leading up to winter when rattlesnakes like
to stow away together in large numbers for warmth. At the end of the day, Nathan said, rattlesnakes don't care
how nice your house is or what kind of car you drive, they only care about survival and they don't take too
kindly to being disturbed once they're in. Duct tales, a 50th anniversary is traditionally known as the golden year, and no one knows this better than California-based contractors
Clarke and Rush Mechanical. In 2013, shortly after
the business turned 50, a company technician, Steve Ottley, was out examining some duct work on an air conditioning
installation at a local house when he stumbled upon some
truly surprising treasure. Over a dozen baby food
jars filled to the brim with not baby food, but
strange small rocks, almost powdery in appearance
with a peculiar golden hue. The moment Steve saw
it, he knew in his gut it was pure gold. Soon, his suspicions would
be proven exactly correct, but he didn't let greed
get the better of him and immediately alerted the
homeowners to his discovery. While the residents were
previously completely unaware of the treasure's existence, they gleefully accepted
their newfound fortune, which ended up being worth
a staggering $300,000. The origin of the gold
still remains a mystery, but it's believed to
date back to the 1950s when the house was first built. Quite possibly, the owner could
have been a gold prospector or more likely a jeweler who
collected all the golden scraps from cutting and scraping their projects and stowed it away for a rainy day, but ultimately possibly
due to a sudden demise or having to move away in a
hurry, never retrieved it. Can you believe Steve was that honest to give up over a quarter
of a million dollars? For his sake, I certainly
hope he got a hefty tip. Another day on the job. One day in April 2021, border patrol agents at a Texas checkpoint were going about their jobs when an ordinary looking
truck with a flatbed trailer came past and they stopped
it for a routine inspection. As the agents were
conducting their checks, their accompanying police
dogs started to get restless all homing in on a particular
spot in the trailer, which had nothing but a few
bags and tarps thrown over it. But seeing as they knew their
dogs were seldom mistaken, the agents got to work removing
the trailer's floorboards, and that's when an ordinary day on the job took a truly extraordinary turn. Under the floorboards, the patrol agents discovered
20 undocumented immigrants of which two were
children crammed together with seemingly no room to move, but thankfully all alive and well. Most of them held their
arms down along their bodies to make more room in the trailer, which appeared to be no
more than 18 inches deep. As shocking and almost mildly
impressive as this was, however, the authorities
are extremely adamant about how dangerous attempts
like these to illegally migrate to a new home can become. The origins of the migrants as well as their destinations
were never disclosed, but that doesn't change the
fact that any of them could have easily suffocated or had
been seriously injured if the trailer somehow gotten
into trouble on the road. Plus for anyone who
gets seriously car sick, I couldn't imagine a more hellish journey. As much as they probably
hated their plan failing, I'm sure the migrants
were at the very least slightly relieved for that
horribly uncomfortable ride to finally be over. Voodoo discoveries, after
their father's death in 2011, the children of Michael Halberian, the last owner of New
York Steinway Mansion called in a few auctioneers to sell the mansion's contents. Little did they know, their father might've been
hiding something firmly on the creepy side. While clearing out the attic, the auctioneers came across what looked like a 19th
century wooden box. Thinking nothing of it and more interested about the contents, they
broke the lock and opened it and oh boy, were they left shuddering
at what they found inside. Staring back at the auctioneers
from the inside of the box were four voodoo masks and a doll surrounded by rusty nails. The auctioneers immediately felt uneasy. Given that besides the
general fear of being cursed one might get from a
voodoo discovery like this, the wax the masks were made from had an intensely unsettling
resemblance to real skin. Thankfully though, they
were definitely made of wax. When the auctioneers told the Halberians about their find, the family
members all denied the box being their fathers, which is
arguably a little suspicious, but still possible. Because the box was located in the attic, it could easily have been up there since the late 19th century
back when the house belongs to a certain Benjamin T Pike, a marketer and catalog publisher, although too little is known
about his life to be certain. Ultimately and understandably, the Halberian family didn't want anything to do with the masks so the auctioneers
decided to hold onto them. After all, they could be
worth a lot to the right buyer seeing as voodoo masks
are considered to be of high spiritual importance
to practitioners of voodoo. Traditionally worn during
religious practices to represent the spirits of ancestors or to control good and evil
within their community, the masks were far from
your average attic trinket, but with the associations
between voodoo dolls and other voodoo paraphernalia
with malevolent curses, I certainly know that if it
were me making the discovery, I'd be rid of them as soon as possible. The lost box of Loch Ness, situated on the Southeast
side of Scotland's Loch Ness, Boleskine house was
built in the 18th century and at its peak served as the grounds for many occult magic rituals as conducted by the building's
most famous inhabitant, occultist and supernatural
enthusiast Aleister Crowley. When a seller on eBay claims to have found a peculiar box under the building's floorboards after the place mysteriously caught a flame in 2015, 41 year old Rick Spencer
from Grimsby, England jumped at the opportunity
to purchase it, why? Because the hexagram
carvings on the box's lid and the melted wax that sealed it all pointed to the spellbinding
supernatural practices of one man, Aleister Crowley. Before Rick opened the box, he surrounded it with a circle of salt to keep any alleged dark
energies from escaping. With shaky hands, he broke the seal and opened the box and its contents were every bit as creepy as its outside suggested. On the inside, Rick found
a voodoo looking doll, some vegetation, and a
rather disturbing drawing of a dark eyed demonic figure. Needless to say, it was every
bit as creepy as he'd hoped. Only after doing some research, Rick came to a disappointing realization. The sketch was almost identical
to the demonic antagonist of the 2012 horror film Sinister, which meant it couldn't be
related to Aleister at all. It seemed the drawing at least
was the work of a charlatan. Still, Rick hadn't given up hope that the other items might be real. According to him, the ritualistic ceiling of the
box was so authentic looking, it must have been done by a real . Now I don't want to say we've
got a second Loch Ness monster situation on our hands, but a cursed a box
sealed with black magic? I'm starting to think
there is something strange in Scottish drinking water. Home expansion, when
Tal and Oriah Shimshoni first bought their house
in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem in the early 2010s, they knew it needed
some serious fixing up. Only like the Norwegian couple we met at the start of this video, their renovations didn't get that far before a seriously surprising discovery diverted their attention. While workers were breaking
up the flooring one day, the jackhammer suddenly disappeared. It plunged down into the
darkness down a big gaping hole that according to the
deeds of the house at least wasn't supposed to be there, but the hole wasn't even
the most shocking part. As the Shimshonis dug further, they realized they had
stumbled upon something with great importance. There beneath their house, they were staring at an
old Jewish ritual bath about five feet deep, 11 feet long and almost eight feet wide. Not sure what to make of the bath, Oriah and Tal called the
Israel Antiquities Authority, who immediately came out and
excavated their discovery. To everyone's astonishment, the bath was dated at over
2000 years old and was thought to have been originally
constructed in a private home in a first century Jewish village. More intriguingly, the baths discovery supported the Christian
tails linking Ein Kerem with a birthplace of John the
Baptist, the mentor of Jesus. Up until then, there had been no archeological proof supporting the notion
that a Jewish community was indeed living in Ein
Kerem during that time, which really made the
bath an impressive find. Since then, the Shimshonis
have often invited the press into their home where they've
actually installed a trap door leading down into the
ancient ritual chamber. Surprisingly enough, the bath
still fills up with water in the winter, although
neither Tal nor Oriah have any idea where it
actually comes from. Most likely the water
comes from the ground as the water table, the
underground boundary between the soil surface and
underground water supply, rises in the winter months. But I mean, if they can't stop the water, why not embrace it? They'll definitely save money on their water bill in the winter and any bath in such a
holy location is sure to feel twice as refreshing. Have you ever made a mysterious discovery in or around your home? Let me know in the comments
below and as always, thanks for watching.
