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An old building often has a long story, full of secrets that its former residents have left behind. That’s one of the reasons why some folks prefer living in the old town—it has an aura. And, every now and then, they resurface.

We at Bored Panda put together a list of pictures people took during their home renovations when they suddenly discovered unexpected treasures. Turns out, things like a locked safe and a 100-year-old Monopoly set can be hiding right between your walls.

All you need to find them is a sledgehammer.

#1 While Tearing Up Their Carpet, My In-Laws Found A Giant Monopoly Board

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#2 Found Original Homeowner In The Walls Of A Teardown

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#3 We Tore Up Some Carpeting In Our House Expecting Concrete But Instead Found This 70’s Masterpiece

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#4 Restoring My 1880 Victorian House And Found This Vibrant Tile Original To The Home After Partially Removing A Faux Fireplace

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#5 Twitter User Finds A Secret Hiding Place In His Walls While Renovating, Inside Was A Children’s Book Of Poems From 1835

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#6 Found An Old Monopoly Set In The Walls Of My 1925 House

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#7 Found Old Newspapers Used As Insulation In The Wall Of A 130-Year-Old House

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#8 Collection Of Reference Seeds Found In My Grandad’s Attic

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#9 Found This While Renovating. Any Idea? Bomb Squad On The Way

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#10 Found A Steam Room And Hot Tub In My Basement, Behind A Wall During Demolition

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#11 My 84-Year-Old Father Is Renovating His House. Hidden Behind The Wallpaper He Found These Wall Murals, Which He Believes Are From 1912

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#12 Found A Beehive While Renovating An Old House

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#13 My Wife And I Are Upgrading Our Kitchen. We Found This Fossil Under The Floor Boards

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#14 Found 83 Gold Coins At The Bottom Of A Coal Container After Renovating The House

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#15 Renovating A 100-Year-Old House, Found What Looks Like A Samurai Sword Under A Section Of The House That Had A Dirt Floor. Still Sharp And Heavy

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#16 1977 McDonalds’ Christmas Trash Found In The Wall Of Our House

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#17 There’s A Dried Flower In This 165 Years Old Latin Book I Just Found In Our Attic

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#18 We Discovered A Locked Safe In The Floor During Remodel Of Our Old Home

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#19 Found This Locked Safe Under The Carpet Of An Estate Home I Recently Purchased

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#20 Beautiful Drawing Found Behind A Wall While Renovating Our Bathroom

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#21 Found A Floor Safe While Renovating. Trying To Open It Now

$400 for a locksmith later – empty.

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#22 This McDonald’s Cup Found In A Wall During A Kitchen Renovation

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#23 While Renovating My Grandma’s House, I Found The Prosthetic Leg Of My Great Grandfather In The Attic

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#24 Took A Radiator Off The Wall To Decorate And Found This Ancient, Alien Invasion Wallpaper

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#25 Found Perfectly Preserved Cans In A Wall I Was Demolishing

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#26 My Mate Accidentally Put A Hole In His Wall And Found An Old Hidden Safe

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#27 Refitting Our New Houses Loft (Attic) And Found £500 Of 1981 Currency Wrapped In Insulation

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#28 Found A Suitcase In The Attic Of My Dad’s Old Comic Books. Most Of Them Seem To Be Marvel Dated In The 70s

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#29 Renovating My Bedroom And Found This

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#30 House Flooded And We Needed To Remove All The Wet Carpet. I Found This Floor Safe In The Slab Under The Carpet In The Closet

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#31 Found These (On The Left) Under Old Carpet When We Got Stairs Re-Carpeted. 10 Months After We Moved In Found “Minton” Or Possibly “Pugin” Tiles In The Hallway Under A Laminate

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#32 I Took A Knife To The Lino In The Bathroom And Found The Original Edwardian Tiles. My Great Great Grandmother Was A Housemaid Here In Cupar In The 1880s

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#33 My House Is Built On An Indian Burial Site. I Am Replacing The Furnace, And I Found This Under The Old Furnace

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#34 I Recently Bought A 1980s Home In Southern Illinois To Renovate. I Found This And Other Contraptions. I’m Scared To Move It Because It Looks Like It Can Explode

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#35 I Found A Safe Inside The 6000 Square Foot Mansion We’re Remodeling

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#36 Renovation Find

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#37 Day 1 – It Was An Unbelievably Exciting Morning When We Discovered This Gem Hidden Behind Various Layers Of Plaster And Wallpaper In The Master Bedroom

One of the things I was hoping for when purchasing a period property was to find little surprises like this this will become a little project of mine to restore back to its former glory, we are thinking of moving it into the dining area to become a key feature in our living space.

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#38 New House. Previous Owners Left This Behind Basement Bathroom Curtain

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#39 Found A Hidden Attic While Doing A Renovation. It Was A Door To A Hidden Room With Old War Time Newspapers, An Old Bed And Old Photos On The Walls

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#40 My Parents Are Redoing The Tile Floor In The Kitchen, And They Found A Safe Under The Tile. It Was Empty

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#41 Bought A House 10 Months Ago. Found Today While Working On The Basement

Its a copper pipe from the toilet upstairs.

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#42 My Dad Is Renovating His Bathroom And Found A Dress In A Walled-Off Secret Closet. It’s Handmade From The Sixties

The house was built in 1965. I tried it on then put it back in the wall. We’re thinking about adding something to the secret closet, but I’m not sure what yet.

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#43 We Have A 23-19! My Friend Found A Monsters Inc. Door While Doing A Recent Renovation

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#44 While Re-Mortaring An Old Brick Wall Inside A Building, I Found A Loose Brick. This Note Was Behind It. 32 Years. Added My Name And Date, Then Mortared It Up Again

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#45 After A Recent Flood We Found External Walls Inside Our Walls. House Built Around 1900

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#46 Found In A Wall In Vermont

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#47 Found A Bottle Of “The Mixture” During Renovations

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#48 I Found A WWII British Gas Mask In The Attic Of A House We Are Renovating

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#49 Found A Marriage Certificate From 1895 In A Flooded Cabin We Renovated

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#50 I Found A Suitcase Inside A Wall

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#51 Found This Book From 1916 Inside The Wall Of My House

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#52 Found Inside A Wall At My Mother In Law’s 1880’s Queen Anne Victorian House

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#53 I Was Cleaning My Attic And Found A Doll House TV With The Twin Towers On It

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#54 Was Helping To Clean Out An Old Mansion In Minnesota And Found This Civil War Letter In The Attic. He’s Saying That The War Will Be Over Soon And He Will Be Coming Home

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#55 My Sister Bought A House About A Year Ago And Has Been Doing Renovations. She Just Recently Found This Behind One Of The Walls

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#56 My Friend Found An Invite To Walt Disney’s Daughter’s Wedding While Renovating His House In LA

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#57 I Took A Wall Out Of My Closet And Found A Makeshift Passageway. With A Large, Heavy, Creepy Basket In It. And The Basket Was Not Empty

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#58 Getting The Kitchen Floor Redone. Here Are All The Floors Since The House Was Built In 1880

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#59 A Pay Stub We Found While Renovating Our Home

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#60 Found This Class Picture From 1911 In The Walls When Redoing Our Kitchen. The Back Says Vivien Gilbert, June 1911

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#61 Renovating A Cupboard And Discovered A Floor Safe After Living Here For Two Years. Sadly, It Was Empty

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#62 1970s Fanta Grape Soda Found Inside My Drywall While Renovating Bathroom

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#63 My Grandfather And I, Found A WWII Purple Heart While Renovating A House He Just Bought

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#64 Renovating My Bathroom And I Found Some Lost Treasures From The ’70s

The text says:
“Dear Betty-Jean

A little something for your brain.
Warning: the surgeon general has detected that happiness increases with the amount smoked. Please don’t overindulge.”

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#65 I See Your Tiny Coffee Cup And Raise You This Tiny Little Fork I Found During My Home Renovation

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#66 Renovating A Bathroom And Found A Newspaper From 1944 In The Wall

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#67 A Mural In A Kids Bathroom I’m Renovating From The 50’s

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#68 Found In My House During A Kitchen Renovation

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#69 My Friend Is Renovating A House And Found A Lock Box. Police Shut Them Down When Contents Were Revealed

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#70 We Knocked Down A Wall In Our House And Found An Old Fireplace. It Still Has Ashes In It

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#71 I Work For An Apartment Management Company. I Was Working On Some Dry Wall And Found This In A Pile Of Debris. From 1979

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#72 Found These Old Coins In The Wall During Renovation

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#73 This Milky Way Wrapper From 1961 I Found In My Wall

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#74 Schlitz Beer Found In The Wall, Dated 1937

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#75 This Yardstick I Found In My Attic Is Old Enough To Have A 1 Digit Phone Number

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#76 I Found An Old Notebook From 1856 In My Attic

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#77 A Newspaper About The Evacuation Of Dunkirk I Found In My Grandmother’s Attic

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#78 This Confederate Currency I Found In My Uncle’s Attic

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#79 19th Century Painting I Found On My Grandparents’ Attic (I Repainted The Frame)

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#80 While Renovating My More Than 100-Year-Old Home, I Found This Almost Perfectly Preserved Baseball Catalogue

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#81 Demo Team Pulled This Out Of A Fireplace In A 1950s House We Are Renovating

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#82 Found In A Wall Of My 100-Year-Old House

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#83 Parliament’s From Around 1955 Found In The Wall Of A House During Renovation

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#84 Found This While Renovating My Basement. Anyone Have Any Idea What It Is?

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#85 We Found It When Renovating A Castle My Brother Recently Bought. It Was Hidden Behind A Wall. The Castle Is Only About A 125 Years Old

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#86 Found This Key While Renovating

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#87 We’re Renovating Our Home And Had To Take Down The Covering On The Wall That’s Been There Since It Was Built In 1980, Found This Gem Underneath

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#88 Renovating My 1950s Home And Found This In A Cold Air Return. My Grandpa Shares The Same Name So I Found It Very Neat

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#89 Found A Few Boxes Of .22 Bullets In A Wall Of An Old Cottage I’m Renovating, Pretty Neat

This bolt went right through one of the boxes, would have to assume they drilled through the box first. From the little research I did, it seems like they were made between 1957-1960s