They found what?
The last thing most new homeowners would expect to find is something hidden in the walls of their new home.
That’s exactly what happened to Curtis Smith, a Wyoming resident who discovered hidden letters while doing a home renovation project in a 100-year-old home he purchased back in 2002.
He shared the chilling discovery in the r/FoundPaper forum on Reddit. “Our idea was tear out the existing bedroom closet to create a separate bathroom entry, rather than the Jack and Jill style it was built with. Being an old house it was of course plaster and lathe, and a huge mess.”
“…while cleaning up the construction mess, out of the corner of my eye there lied a small blue envelope that had most [likely] been dropped into the wall as the house was being built almost 100 years prior! It was a letter sent from a sister in Bantry, Ireland, to a man named Con Shea here in Casper, Wyoming.”
“It was a letter thanking Mr. Shea for a present he had sent to his family back home in Ireland,” Smith told the Daily Mail. “There was also some catching up and keeping him abreast of the goings on back there in Ireland.”
Smith did some research to learn more about the man who built the home, who “…had immigrated to the US, and had become a very successful sheep herder here in Wyoming,” Smith explained to the outlet.
The Wyoming resident eventually posted about this decades-old discovery to his Flickr account, which connected him to a distant relative of the builder.
“As we were in contact, they also sent me newspaper articles, and even some pictures of him to help complete the profile of a man who had lived so many years ago,” he wrote in his post. “That December, I thought it would be neat to send that letter to Boston to be with his living relatives, the rightful owners.”
“All this to say, the thing I had hoped to find many years ago was actually found! You just never know what you will come across,” Smith added.
Smith isn’t the first person to find history hidden in their home.
One soon-to-be-bride discovered a vintage wedding dress in the attic of her newly purchased home.
In a TikTok video, with almost 3 million views, shared by Illinois resident Kaitlyn Ostolaza, overlay text reads, “POV you bought a house with your fiancé and find a wedding dress in the attic.
“This is not the previous owners wedding dress. Hoping to use something left behind as my something borrowed for our wedding. I just know whoever wore this dress looked amazing in it. The train is everything,” her caption to the video read.
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