Has this ever been posted here before? I came across this article from a few years go about a couple in Ohio that was renovating their house and found a suitcase with $23k in old Currency hidden in the ceiling wrapped in newspapers from the 1950s The bills aren't in great shape but some were Gold Certificates etc.... kinda cool
With inflation that’s about a quarter million. people, PLEASE don’t hoard modern money. NOTHING circulating will be worth any more than face value in your lifetime.
Some folks just didn't trust banks. Wonder why it was left there? Stolen loot, drug money, small bank heist? What was on the tapes? We want to know! Great article; thanks for posting it.
...and the FBI showed up to help with the demolition Must be be something about green lunch boxes in that neck of the woods... http://www.nbcnews.com/id/27608773/...-houses-walls-becomes-nightmare/#.X2NG5Yt7mUk
When my wifes grandmother was on her deathbed she whispered in my wife's ear to find the loose stone on her fireplace mantle and get the cash that she had stored their. She had lived in that tiny old home for most of her 98 years. My wife did as she was told and found bill after bill rolled up tiny as a toothpick in that fireplace mantle. Most were notes from the 40's and 50's and all tallied up almost $600.00 when all was said and done.
When my brother and his wife got married they rented a small dilapidated house owned by her strange uncle Arthur. Arthur told them to never move the stove but never told them not to renovate the bathroom. When they pulled out the medicine chest off the wall, about two or three coffee cans worth of silver coins spilled out from behind. For years the uncle had been stashing coins in the used razor slot in the back of the cabinet. They held off moving the stove until he died and she inherited the house. They found nothing. They always joked that they were afraid they would find a dead body. Arthur was a strange duck.
Love hearing stories like this. I, myself, have stashed a few treasures under my wood stove hearth for someone to find in the far off (I hope) future. I'm also known as a "strange duck" by some. LOL
WHEN YOU FIND MONEY KEEP QUIET, I WILL GLADLY TRADE FORTUNE FOR FAME, FAME YOU CANNOT PAY FOR A CUP OF COFFEE, 5 MINUTES LATER IT IS ON TO THE NEXT THING, LOL IT ALWAYS AMUSES ME WHEN PEOPLE FINDING RARE COINS OR ANTIQUES OR TONS OF LOOT, THEY WANT THEIR NAME IN THE PAPER, AND THEN EVERY ONE FROM THE BIGGEST BEGGAR OF ALL (UNCLE SAM) COMES WITH THEIR HAND OUT, TAKE THE CASH, KEEP QUIET, THEN ON YOUR DEATHBED, MAYBE TELL YOUR SPOUSE, LOL
Many old people did not trust the banks after 1929 that caused the depression. Also, many of the bootleggers hid their money. Just as today people work for cash and it's never reported. There was an old abandoned house in Atlanta a while back that had a fire. The fire dept came and while trying to put the fire out, they pulled part of the ceiling down and old paper bags fell out of the ceiling. They opened the bags and found the old currency back from 1900 to the 1930s. I forgot the total amount but it was close to a million I think.
