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Discovering something unexpected into the house is not a usual thing. Not many people have found something extraordinary in their house. So, we have got a big list of people who discovered something extraordinarily interesting in their house.
Usually The Contractors
In most of the cases, the discoveries are made by the outsiders or the descendants of people who knew about the secrets of the home. Most commonly, the secrets come out during the time of renovation or remodeling of the residence. And mostly it is contractors that make the discovery. There is a big list of contractors who accidentally unraveled many secrets of the house that the owners did not know about. An interesting story about an unexpected discovery includes contractor Bob Kitts who made a jaw-dropping discovery in a home some years ago.
Hit Something Strange
It happened when Bob Kitts was doing some work of remodeling in the house of Amanda Reece. He was remodeling the walls of the bathroom of the house when his tool hit something unusual. There was a lot of money stashed inside the wall tracing its history to Great Depression. The owner clearly had no idea about the hoarding of money inside the walls of her bathroom. The house was 83 years old and evidently had a very interesting story buried under it. Can you guess the amount of the money Bob discovered? Click on the next slide to find out.
Discovering The Happiness
Bob first spotted two green lockboxes kept below the medicine chest. The envelope in which the money was stored bore a return address for the P. Dunne News Agency. As soon as Kits discovered the secret treasure, he called Amanda Reece. Needless to say that the owner was equally surprised by the discovery. Subsequently, Bob and Amanda counted the money. The wall had stashed grand total of $182,000! The envelope had $157,000 and the cardboard box had $25,000. Bob called his discovery “the ultimate contractor fantasy.” Despite discovering such a big amount the two remained at loss. Find out why in the next slide.
The Greed Case
As they say, too much greed is not good for anyone. After discovering the money, Amanda offered Kitts 10 percent of the amount but Kitts wanted 40 percent of that. Their brawl captured people’s attention and soon the secret became an open secret and everyone came to know about it including the 21 descendants of the owner of the money, Patric Dunne. What could be distributed between the two only now had to be disseminated among 23 people? A lawyer who advocated from the side of the estate of Patrick Dunne called it “the greed case.” He said, “If these two individuals had sat down and resolved their disputes and divided the money, the heirs would have had no knowledge of it.” He continued “Because they were not able to sit down and divide it in a rational way, they both lost.”
A Lawsuit
The case certainly did a lot of harm to the Amanda and contractor. The descendants filed a lawsuit of $182,000 in order to defend their part. However, till then a great amount of money had been wasted by Amanda. She splurged around $14,000 arranging for a trip to Hawaii. Not just that, she also claimed that the amount of $60,000 had been stolen from her. Consequently, the great amount had reduced to a minor sum. The claimants had to content themselves with a small part of the cash. Not every discovery is exciting some could be the harbinger of extremely bad events!