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📹 Owners of historic Kansas home uncover trove of secrets
When Thad and Robin Krasnesky bought a 140-year-old home in Leavenworth two years ago, they got more than they bargained …
I once bought a house not that old — built in 1963 — and discovered a big cardboard box in a corner of basement behind the water heater. There were old family photos, an 1880s marriage certificate and items indicating the family name and that they were Jewish. They were not related to the people I bought the house from; so the previous owner had lived for years with that box in the basement undisturbed. The last name was unusual, and I was able to research online and find relatives on the east coast. I contacted them and mailed the big box to them. I was glad to give it back to people who it would mean something to.
After a friend’s grandfather passed they found a room behind a bookcase. That room had a plastered over space containing a wall safe. With lawyers, family and a safe cracker present they opened it up. It contained the old large currency bills at face value of thousands. The lawyers placed it into a bank at face value. When the family got their share it was only based on the face value and not the collector’s value of gold and silver certificate notes. The bank said those deposited bills were just placed at face value and were long gone. Shyster lawyers and bank.
It does NOT need to be a mansion for cool old stuff to be found in an old house! Sometimes construction workers will leave things (like, BEER CANS) inside odd places, (informal time capsules?) I owned a house where I removed one of the mantel pieces so I could restore it. Inside a hollow part of the mantel piece was a 1906 calendar from a local farm supply and feed store (The area is FAR FROM “rural” today!). The house was completed in 1907. Not at all a “mansion”, just an 800 Sq. Ft. 2-bedroom, wood frame little “worker’s house”! That calendar was OBVIOSLY an “Easter Egg” left by whoever installed the mantel piece!
I absolutely love old houses like that one and it looks like it was well taken care of over the years. My only issue is electricals, plumbing, A/C, Heat. these great older homes just don’t have all the comfort stuff and when a historical society gets involved the suddenly you can’t do anything without a ton of paperwork and approvals from people you never even met or have seen the house in question.
What a amazing guy. I was touched by the fact he took the time to find the a previous owner’s family and give them the pocket watch he found above the book shelves. I wish him and his wife many more treasures hidden in this beautiful old home. They are truly wonderful and the fact they give so much, not only of themselves, but to organizations that make a difference. Thank you for sharing this amazing story with us. ❤️
As a serious American Pocket Watch collector, I can relate to this story more than most. What impressed me the most was the fact that he does not consider himself the “owner” but instead the “caretaker” as am I the caretaker of all my watches in the collection. I have hopes that this house and my watches can be passed down to others in the future so that someone else can be the caretaker of them. Get story.
It’s so fun renovating homes. I have found clothes, school books, teachers name from the time period and more in the Ringling brothers birth-site house. They said on TV and the paper that it burned down. It didn’t. It was only a porch fire. The house still stands at the end of Walton’s hollow in mc Gregor Iowa. I have lived here for over 32 years. I won’t give up on the house.
We have similar homes here in New Hampshire that much people don’t know but were part of the under ground railroad, crawl space he found looks like hiding quarters like ones we discovered here at relatives home when they were renovating. Actually in Portsmouth they give a tour of the homes they found similar tunnels or tunnels tooms that would connect to other homes or roads. This place is so beautiful I am glad he is trying to preserve the history!
My friends grandparents left him a home built in 1916. One day he was remodeling the walls and in one of the walls he found a map from the 1800s. The map led all the way to Mexico and the missions that were built by the Spaniards to convert to catholisism. On the back of the map it stated the reason for the map. He has the map in a glass case and its so brittle.
The new owner opened-up the crawl space in his new house and found a huge sealed barrel. He knew he had stumbled onto something interesting, because it was tucked deep in the back. When he got it opened and looked inside, he found the body of a young pregnant woman dead for 50 years. The original elderly owner was still alive living in Florida in retirement. Authorities questioned him; he said he knew nothing about it, but they already knew that he had worked at a barrel company for many years. They told him they would run DNA tests on the victims and get back to him. DNA results indicated that THE OLD MAN was the father of the baby, and the mother was identified as an Argentinian who had come to the States in the 1960s. Her family reported that she had gone missing back in the ’60s, but her parents now deceased, never found-out what happened to her. When the FBI went back to arrest the original owner, he had committed suicide (True story)
In a small town in IL, a man opened up the top of the bottom post of his staircase and it was filled with gold coins. It was held there with a cut nail and no one bothered to look for years. He also searched where the hitching rail was and found many coins. The sad part is when younger his father hired a man to metal detect around the house. The man said he did not find anything other than a few coins and left. Weeks later they came home to a big hole in the yard. They will never know what was there.
My family owns a 1904 historic mansion. The utilities are so high and it’s in an old coal town, so no one wants it. We rent it out to somewhat offset the taxes and maintenance but it falls further and further into disrepair. If it were in a city it would be worth millions but in this little town we can’t give it away. We keep it going because of memories and history, but it’s not sustainable for much longer.
My house was built in 1922. Under the floor boards in my office which I accessed from the old pantry in the basement I found several books on german and how to speak it, write it ect. They were ww2 Era and we suspect someone in the family was learning german probably in secret as the Germans weren’t popular at the time lol. Found some other cool stuff, small stash of coins, a bag of about 300 dimes all from the 50’s. Found out my back porch used to be a cistern, it’s a giant empty concrete box with a manhole cover. I’m going to seal it and use it.
I really looked forward to seeing parts of Kansas.. And after visiting Kansas I don’t think I would ever want to go back again so many of the small town treasures I wanted to see like old cars and old signs and old things in people’s yards have disappeared… THEY TURN KANSAS INTO THE REAL-LIFE PLAINVILLE…. IT’S SAD TO SEE SO MANY LITTLE TOWNS OF LOST THE REAL HISTORY
Helped an old lady clean out her house. Found a short plat written in pencil with a Washington Territory notary stamp. In the kitchen, behind molding, I found a half size coffee can full of 1930s 10 and 20 dollar bank notes. Still have one that says National Bank of Seattle on it. You never know what you might find in an old house.
We used to own a painted lady Victorian home in Michigan build in 1890. We had a lady ghost living with us. I traveled a great deal at the time and when I was gone she would sing and scared my wife who would sleep in a couch downstairs. We decided to restore the first floor main rooms and my wife and daughter picked out the wallpaper for the front parlor. After we removed 6 or 7 payers of paper we discovered the first wall paper and it was almost an exact match to what they hand bought 3 months before. I took a roll up to where the ghost lived and showed it to her and told her we were restoring her beautiful home and to leave my wife alone. She stopped the singing immediately. We didn’t find any treasures.
I found a hidden room. I walked around a space between a third story roof and a ballroom in a giant old bordello. The house had 4 corner towers and one you couldn’t get into the top room of it unless you wanted to break through wood panels. It was a ruined toy room, walled off since the 1950’s. Just packed full of toys and books. Unfortunately it had about 18 inches of raccoon feces and water damage. A train set was rusted to the floor and just shattered into rust flakes. We ended-up taking the panels down, it had to be cleaned out. I got a bunch of change, mostly wheaties but a few mercury dimes and silver quarters from the bottom of the toy boxes and that was it. We were shoveling it out wearing respirators. Later a few coworkers pushed a 30,000 thousand dollar piano out the fire escape. A few minutes later someone’s girl replied with a text about how much it was worth. It was before smart phones so they were calling people but they were impatient.
So who owns the mansion now? That bald guy in the green shirt? The reporter didn’t say, and it’s totally unclear. She referred to him as “not as an owner” early in the piece and as the home’s “caretaker” at the end, but he also said he’s never moving out, so that implies it’s his property and he lives there and can stay there for the rest of his life? I’m so confused. Not great journalism in my opinion. 🤔
I can tell you exactly why you’re finding things. His daughter believed the house was occupied by her father’s spirit. She hid things within its structure as a way to communicate with him and to bequeath his spirit with wealth and abundance. These were very, very common practices in the late 19th century.
Until I was 4 in late 1981 I lived in a home in upstate NY; Lions Falls. The home was over 200 yrs old when my parents bought it for 10k USD. There was a secret room in the garage they used to hide our Xmas gifts in. There was a secret exit that went underground about a half mile tunnel and came up under a real wood tree stump that was preserved! They said they had it sealed up so we three girls would not get trapped down there. They never tried to take anything apart to search. Did not occur to them. Amazing house.
I must admit I am not a coin collector. But unless you’ve already had your coins appraised, I don’t think you should toss them around by the handful as you did in this article. They are already a bit worn and tossing them around might wear them out even more. At any rate, it was good to hear you found the relative of the watch. Have fun treasure hunting 🤞
My son and daughter was playing hide go seek in the house we were renting I was outside cooking on the grill my wife starts screaming of such sorts that I had never heard before as I round the corner of his bedroom following the screams of my wife I see her holding on to my son with one arm as if he was about to plunge deep into a cavern …he was hiding in his closet from his sister when the floor gave out and he was able to catch himself before falling into a hidden room in the basement…My wife was holding on for dear life as we tried to shift his weight on to me ..After I was able to get my hands on him I was able to pull him out with little to no injuries..We then proceeded to the basement and eventually found the hidden room which had a hidden tunnel to the church behind our house about 200 ft …The pastor of the church was just as surprised as us when we showed him…The church and house was part of the underground RR and was the last stop on the Shores of lake Erie before making it North to freedom …My son found out the hard way but he wasn’t hurt and we all learned a history lesson in the weeks that came …We have since moved from that house but will never forget the lesson we learned living there …
I’m a cashier and anytime I get any change I always listen for that specific TING of silver! I also look at rolls of coins for odd colored and shaded coins. My oldest is an 1864 American Indian head penny. You would be amazed at what you would find if you just take a look after hearing a curious sound! Man if those coins could talk to stories they would tell us!
I’ve been a carpenter contractor for over 46 years now. In that time, I’ve remodeled or renovated more old homes than I could ever remember, with projects ranging from small (installing some doors/windows for example) to large additions and more. In all these years, I’ve found pretty much nothing of value. Some things that stand out are old newspapers, some turn of the century children’s shoes, and some 1930’s records. And maybe an old tool or two. There’s probably been other things, but not significant enough to remember. In all these years, I’m still waiting to find my first silver coin….
i bought a 1800s house in a extremely small town near a historic district. its a old house and then a really old garage that looks like a smaller house. i been finding all sorts of things. i found a really old wrench buried under the fence. i found a spoon in a big wood square where at some point someone grew vegetables. my attic had blown in insulation around the 90s im guessing and when i go up there to check for rain leaks sometimes i have to step off the planks i put down and my foot sinks into the insulation and things will pop up, i found a entire old window in the insulation, old wallpaper rolls, empty wallpaper rolls, i found a old box from the 1980s that had squares of the original carpet design, i found 2 bags of old bed sheets and curtains it didnt have the sheets and curtains but had the old price tags and dates and label of what was in it and also there was a baby carriage instruction booklet from 20 yrs ago, one part of the wood i had actually found in the garage. it amazes me because this house has went through numerous owners since the 1980s and almost nobody did anything, i mean there is things they left just sitting in some areas for over 20 years i just dont get it. i been searching all over the place. i found a burial rock under my porch maybe for some sort of animal that passed and was buried before someone added a porch on top of it. i found a car alarm button by ac delco which wasnt to old but still funny to find it in the ground. i found a really old beer can that had a pull tab on it.
No mansion person here but, my home was built just around the time of the depression abt. 1929, next to a railroad. We’ve never found anything of interest except old bottles in the yard. It’s a bungalow and missing closets. Seems like they cut a lot of costs but materials were good. Any tips on searching presently unknown hiding places from that time frame?