Every home has a few secrets. Most are boring, like the drawer full of Schrödinger's batteries or the mystery key that opens nothing. Then someone pulls up a floorboard or knocks through a wall, and the house reveals what it has been hiding since before they moved in.
People on the Things Found In Walls page shared the strangest things they found lurking in their own houses, and the answers range from time capsules to messages left by previous owners who clearly had a lot on their minds. Some are charming. Others will make you rethink that renovation. Whatever you do, don't open the attic after dark
#61 While Out Metal Detecting Here In South Central Minnesota At An Old Football Field I Found This Twenty Six Year Old Wedding Band Just Two Inches Under The Grass
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#62 I Went Out Metal Detecting Last Night To A Home For An Hour And The Home Wanted To See What I Might Find With His Young Daughter And Followed Along
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#63 I Inherited A Property And Found These Sheets Of Metal In An Old Garage Attic
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#64 Believe It Or Not, I Found This Civil War-Era Minie Ball Bullet In My Garden While Planting Potatoes Last Week, Just On The Surface!
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#65 My Sister Lives In Rosamond, California. They Were Chopping Down An Oleander Tree In Their Backyard, When They Found This Hanging On The Side Of Their Shed
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#66 Found This Ring In My Backyard Today Up Near Our Deck Where Our Dog Likes To Run Back And Forth
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#67 Not How I Wanted To Start A Sunday. Found In The Ceiling Edit: They Were On The Top Plate Of The Shower Wall In The Basement
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#68 Was Ripping Out An Old Bathroom And Found This In The Wall Space. Anyone Know What It Might Be? It's Around 3 Inches Long. And About As Thick As Your Pinky Finger. Looks Like Brass Maybe?
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#69 We Recently Renovated Our Bathroom In Our 1918 Home. During The Demo Of The Old Shower/Tub Combo, We Found A Little Door That Leads To The Closet Behind The Bathroom
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#70 Found In Our Yard By Metal Detecting Hobbyists. Anyone Know What It Is? Edit: Here Are Some More Pictures & A Banana To Scale LOL Found In Ohio USA My Home Was Built In 1853
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#71 I Have Been In This House For Almost 4 Years. I Looked Up The Other Day And Saw This, Plain As Day, On A Fireplace Brick
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#72 Well, Technically The Guys We Hired Did… But, While Demoing Our Master Bath, The Guys Came Across This And Saved It For Us
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#74 Found A Book But It Was No Ordinary Book And After Several Attempts To Get It To The Owner, Finally Successful
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#75 Patient Of Mine Brought In This Vertebral Body (Spine Segment) For Show And Tell:). Found In FL Digging (Not Really Near To Water)
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#76 1890 Home Gem To Our Surprise After Ripping Up The Carpet In Our 1890 Home! I’m Assuming The Yellow Was At One Point White. The Original Hard Wood Floors
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#77 Ohhhh I Finally Have Something! My Husband And I Have A Heating And Air Company And This Weekend We Were Putting Duct In An Old House
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#78 I Moved In My House 9 Years Ago And This Has Been Here Since. The Guy Who Lived Here Before Me Was The Original Owner Of The House
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