Man Realizes After Inheriting Grandparents’ Farmhouse That They Were Hiding a Big Secret Under Floor

man realizes after inheriting grandparents's farmhouse that they were hiding a big secret under the floor [Music] [Applause] it can happen that sometimes the people we love and think we know very well are hiding massive secrets this happened to one reddit user almost two decades after his grandparents passed away the reddit user's username was evil english and he inherited his grandparents farmhouse in tennessee soon enough you'll understand why the user wants to keep his name confidential evil english needed to clean out the old farmhouse before he could sell the property thinking he would find a few precious items from the place where he spent carefree days as a child evil english had no idea that he would soon discover something astonishing the user found a huge secret in one of the closets that his grandparents had hidden for years in late 2017 reddit user evil english posted his incredible story of hidden secrets he began by recalling his childhood of summer afternoons and pleasant holidays at his grandparents tennessee farmhouse originally the house which is so old that no one knows the exact date it was built and surrounding land had been a working farm shortly after evil english's grandparents got married they purchased the house went to living in it full time and began working hard to transform it into a proper home the surrounding farmland had been sold off by various owners just before the house was purchased right after getting married evil english's grandparents left their apartment in the deep south and moved into the house the house was a home for my grandparents for some 20 odd years he wrote they bought this house in the late 70s or early 80s to escape the oppressive summer heat of the south even though evil english didn't specify where his grandparents moved from it's no doubt that tennessee does enjoy much nicer summers than the long hard summers of the deep south the two turned the quaint little farmhouse into a beautiful home to them it was the perfect place to raise a family and spend the rest of their lives it also seemed like the perfect place to hide secrets from their family it wasn't long until evil english's grandparents had children they became upstanding community members of their little tennessee town friends and family viewed the couple as perfectly normal and happy they'd created an idyllic life throughout the years a family in a warm home and no one could see any reason to move away ever the children of evil english's grandparents grew up moved away and eventually went on to have children of their own still even though the family continued to grow the farmhouse remained the center location for summer vacations and holiday gatherings in between family visits the couple grew old together evil english shared that some of his most cherished memories were at his grandparents house sadly nothing lasts forever both of evil english's grandparents died in 2006. thankfully however they passed easily and painlessly the family grieved in the days after their passing even though they took comfort in knowing that the couple had led a long and happy life together they still wondered what they would do without them after evil english's grandmother's funeral the family knew that they needed to figure out what to do with a farmhouse in tennessee the home that once brought them all so much joy now only brought them sadness regardless none of them wanted to leave their beloved family farmhouse cold and alone still evil english and his family had no idea what to do with it even though evil english's father became the one to officially own the house neither he nor any other member of the family could live there as they found it just too painful so none of the couple's relatives moved into the house however they still hope that someone from the family would eventually live there when evil english's father passed away just a few years later the empty house was passed down once again instead of leaving it sitting emptily however he decided to do something different evil english wrote my father passed in 2009 and we've been working to close out his estate and traveled to the farmhouse to prepare it for sale the farmhouse needed to be cleaned out thoroughly so that evil english could prepare it to be sold he had no clue he was about to uncover the long-standing secrets that lurked within the house's walls the house needed some minor repairs before selling and all the old belongings needed to be sorted through even though evil english knew it would be hard to do given that he was the closest grandchild to his grandparents he was still happy to do the work he felt that it was finally time to allow someone else to enjoy the house with their family in the same way that his grandparents had evil english arrived at the farmhouse in tennessee only to discover that the task would be a much larger one than he had initially anticipated not only was the house in serious disrepair evil english's grandparents had collected more junk than he remembered throughout the course of their lives english's grandparents had become quite the collectors of a number of mementos initially the number of items and pieces felt almost overwhelming to english would he ever be able to get through it all however english's perspective started to change he realized as he walked through the farmhouse that he had been given an opportunity to learn more about his grandparents by going through their belongings soon enough he was daydreaming about everything that he could discover there who knew all that he might find english began to discover interesting collectibles as he started to go through the long forgotten farmhouse saying my grandfather was an avid sportsman and enjoyed collecting various firearms and my grandmother was a collector of coins and other antiques and curiosities he wrote he also discovered his grandfather's pistol collection on the very first day of sorting through the farmhouse as he continued to sort through the belongings english recalled how his grandma liked to tell him stories sometimes the stories were about pirates and treasure and sometimes she would tell her own real-life adventures although later she would say that she made them up regardless english still liked to believe that they were all true little did he know that he was about to uncover his grandparents secrets that had been hidden from their whole family english began sorting through his grandparents things in the dining room and then room by room he sorted through the living room and then the bedrooms it all went pretty smoothly and english ended up finishing much more than he had predicted he would on the first day he still needed to clear out the closets in storeroom however he inspected them and found that the closets had even more valuables in them telling him the most challenging part of the job was still ahead at this point nothing too incredible had been discovered regardless english was enjoying his time in the tennessee farmhouse it made him feel closer to his grandparents he decided to stay the night and clean out the closets the next morning as he was satisfied with his work for the day english woke up next morning excited about resuming the challenging task of sorting through his grandparents collectibles when he had assessed the closets the night before he'd gotten excited and imagined all the things he might find sadly though he was disappointed throwing away all the items took hours english's grandparents had filled the closets not only with valuables but also with useless old items like broken telephones and rusty kitchen stove after the closet was emptied everything looked normal except one thing that stopped evil english dead in his tracks you see the farmhouse had no carpet at all but when the closet was completely cleared out it revealed a carpet floor beneath why was there a carpet there but nowhere else english knew the moment he saw it that something was off about the carpet he couldn't remember his grandparents ever having any carpets in their home and actually only remembered them ever talking about how much they loved their hardwood floors even though a ton of ideas rushed through his mind the reddit user just couldn't make sense of them his first thought was that maybe the carpet was an expensive antique but as you can see from the photograph it was too old and dirty to be of any value perhaps he thought it came with a house but then again the house was way too old to have been built with carpeting evil english decided that there was only one way to find out his curiosity led him to analyze the carpet closer he closely examined it and noticed that it was dirty ripped and torn in several places he was ready to head home and exhausted from cleaning the whole house by himself still he knew that there was just something off about the carpet the odd feeling remained and he finally settled on the carpet needing to go so he grabbed his tools and began to rip the carpet off the floor he thought he would just finish this and he would be finally able to go home however english discovered the surprise of his life underneath the carpet when the reddit user started pulling the carpet up from the corners he felt like something underneath it potentially broke his first thought was that maybe his grandparents had put in the carpet to hide a broken floor he hoped that he wouldn't have even more repairs to do after this thought he made sure to be exceptionally careful in the event that the floor wasn't safe or stable english finally managed after a few minutes to scrape the carpet off the floor underneath the carpet lay a large piece of white metal in the floor inside the piece of white metal was a wooden circle it just had him thinking about how he couldn't understand why his grandparents would ruin a floor like this and he noticed that the wooden ring could be removed evil english felt nervous about what he might find still he chose to reach down and take off the circular piece of wood that was in the metal plate in the floor while originally he had expected to maybe find an old pipe or something in need of repair what he found was more complex underneath the wooden circle was a dial to a safe everything made sense to evil english all of a sudden the carpet in the closet covered a safe which must have hidden treasure all of english's logic went out the window in a flash is it possible that his grandmother's treasure hunting stories could be true however the safe's combination still stood in evil english's way just like any other normal person english tried to open the safe immediately one reddit post of his said i gave the handle a tug bun it wouldn't budge if you twist the handle it will still spin he then of course began to try every combination that he could think of i spoke with my mom and she said that my grandparents had a safe in florida and the combination was my dad's birth date she also recommended trying his social security number as a backup to that none of the combinations are proving successful searching for any clues as to what might open the safe evil english started going through his grandparents mementos again in hopes of finding the right combination believe it or not he tried every day for over a week with no luck he gave up and called the locksmith english called a local locksmith a man named tim to come out to the farmhouse after a week of his attempts to open the safe on his own tim reached the farmhouse quite quickly after all what locksmith wouldn't jump to the opportunity of opening a safe potentially filled with hidden treasure even for a professional though the safe was still difficult to unlock english recalled tim said about 30 minutes into this that if he had known what he was getting into he would have referred the job to someone else it looked like a complete pain in the ass to open this up he had to keep his weight above the drill and the workspace was very uncomfortable surprisingly it took hours and hours for tim to work on opening the safe evil english paced around the room nervously which of course added even more pressure to tim the several hours the poor locksmith worked fell even longer to the two men as they were both so excited to find what treasure was hidden away in the safe in short it was a tough task the time to open the safe finally came after almost six hours when tim cracked the lock as they peered inside both men could barely stop their hands from shaking initially as the lid of the safe opened the only thing that tim and evil english could see was a bunch of bricks and stones surrounded by water as one could imagine the men were extremely confused just as english began to wonder why anyone would fill a safe with bricks and water it dawned on them evil english wrote i remember that there was a pipe lake in the house a few years back i'm sure some of the water from that had accumulated in the save even though the bricks seemed pretty useless english sword that he could see something beyond the bricks it looked like a pile of books or boxes is it possible that these were the antique treasures english's grandmother had told him stories about when he was a kid everything started to become much clearer as he dug deeper into the safe the two men's expectations started to dip as they began removing the items from the old safe at first when english and tim removed all the bricks it didn't really seem like the safe held much value and appeared as though they only contained empty boxes a handful of coins and books that had been damaged by the water just as evil english started to think that all the hard work he and tim had gone through was for nothing he decided to take a look at each object it wasn't long until english realized that the contents of his grandparents hidden safe held more value than he initially thought on top of that there was more hidden treasure inside the safe english and tim found more and more hidden treasures as the two men continued to remove objects and rubble from the safe as english examined the objects and coins he felt like he was traveling back through time he realized that almost all the safe's belongings were from an entirely different era the reddit user knew that the pieces from the safe had to be valuable after all why would his grandparents have locked them away in a safe one of the first things that evil english pulled out from a safe was a 1937 coin book even though he didn't know much about collectible coins he knew that antique coins could sell for a lot of money english began to realize as he pulled out more and more coins from the safe that his grandparents were true coin lovers their passion for coinage began to feel a lot more like an obsession as he and tim removed literally thousands of coins a smile was brought to the reddit user's face as he thought of his grandparents adoration of the little coins which were from all over the world english and tim found many relatively recent and standard issue coins in the safe too they also found some coins in the collection that seemed extremely rare and unique sadly however not everything from the safe could be saved even though there was quite a bit of damage from the water from the roof link most of the coins survived the moisture in the safe makes the covers very mushy but the coins inside are in surprisingly good shape english recalled there were so many rolls of coins down there some of them were in plastic tubes but more were unfortunately in paper tubes however the hidden treasures didn't stop at just coins there were a ton of dollar bills sadly though they were deemed unusable as all of them were ruined by water damage although english soon came across even more hidden treasures from within the safe he was still a bit disappointed to have to throw out the dollar bills while many of the dollar bills were too ruined from water damage to be salvaged there were still a few things evil english found that he thought he might be able to sell for cash some of these things were some bills which had been signed by the secretary of treasury in 1968. this photo shows his inked signature on the bottom left of a dollar below on top of that artifacts from bar's time in power are extremely unique as he was only secretary for a month thank goodness the barbells were kept wrapped in plastic evil english was beginning to realize that he was looking at a gold mine and just when he thought the bar bills were an amazing find nothing could prepare the two men for what they were about to find next the reddit user set aside the coins and destroyed cash to continue pulling out even more valuable items from the safe his grandparents hidden treasure also contained multiple pure silver bars not just that his grandparents had even made sure to place the silver's manufacturer paperwork right alongside the bars this meant that english could easily prove the bars authenticity and therefore value but those weren't the only surprises evil english came across an old rusty box which to him resembled nothing more than a small and worthless toolbox at this point however he knew better than to take any chances this box might hold the safe's biggest secret yet yet again the reddit user was filled with excitement eventually he was able to break into the old toolbox from the safe however the toolbox was actually a jewelry box as it contained just that jewelry while some pieces had suffered some water damage english was happy to have most of the items still in good condition some of the pieces included several pocket watches and wallets as well as more gold and silver jewelry english was in total shock he had no idea that his grandparents had spent a majority of their lives collecting such amazing and unique objects and the fact that they had owned such possessions and kept these treasures hidden from he and his family that was what evil english couldn't quite figure out strangely english trusted these hidden valuables less after removing them from the hidden safe with all sorts of questions in his mind like why had his grandparents hidden these things for all this time he decided that he would need to search the whole place english wanted to make sure there weren't any more hidden treasures in the old farmhouse as he looked he noticed an unsuspecting looking coffee table one that he couldn't recall his grandparents ever using originally when evil english had been cleaning he had thought it was just another piece of rotting furniture now he knew better the reddit user would leave no stone unturned he would make sure to go through every drawer of the coffee table as he opened the first drawer he discovered yet another truly unexpected and unusual find when evil english opened the first drawer of the unsuspecting looking coffee table you might not believe it but he found yet another save the second safe had yet even more hidden treasures waiting for him english's grandparents had truly placed some incredible goods in even better hiding places in only two days this young man had brought to light two of his grandparents biggest secrets yet again evil english was bursting with excitement walking over to a work table he brought the second safe over and began trying to open it although the safe was smaller than the first this one opened much easier when he finally opened it his jaw dropped he was shocked to find something dangerous in the safe the second safe found in evil english's grandparents home ended up containing a hidden treasure of one of his grandfather's favorite collectibles pistols english wasn't surprised by this discovery as he knew his grandfather was an avid collector of antique artillery the only issue was that he had no clue what to do with them as it wasn't like he could go out and sell them to a gun shop english continued to search the house but didn't find much more he then was faced with one of the toughest choices of his life should he keep these treasures that belong to his grandparents or sell them for money because english faced such a dilemma to keep his grandparents beloved mementos or sell them off for cash he decided to take it to the popular online forum reddit it was there that he shared his story about how his grandparents had passed away and left their farmhouse and these hidden treasures in his possession many suggested to english that he should simply keep the items for himself and his family as nice reminders of his loving grandparents others suggested keeping them simply because many of the pieces were so damaged and that it was likely they wouldn't be able to sell for more than a hundred dollars at the same time others told him that the hidden treasures might be pretty valuable regardless of if they were damaged not all commenters thought that the damaged coins had lost value one professional coin collector commented and told evil english that there was a good reason the grandparents kept coins and bills in a safe collectible coins are worth everything he said even if damaged notes are often collectible as well check everything even if damage they can still have great value at the same time another commenter wrote just so you know anything from 1964 or older with 90 silver is worth about 20 times the face value of the coin 50 cents is ten dollars twenty five is five ten is two dollars not to mention the silver bars they're worth about twenty two dollars ten per ounce it's no surprise that evil english and his family felt emotional after finding the incredible mementos that belonged to their late loved ones after paying the locksmith tim of course the family decided that they would each keep any items that were significant for them and sell the rest evil english's keepsakes were some of the coins as whenever he sees them they remind him of the treasure-hunting stories his grandma used to tell him the question is still what about the rest of the hidden treasures the last anyone heard was that he was debating between taking all the items to an auction house or selling them individually to collectors sadly even though some of the items have been spotted at auctions it's highly likely that we'll never really know what happened and for a good reason too just as everyone was on the edge of their seats waiting to hear what evil english would do next he deleted many of his posts that talked about his grandparents farmhouse treasures luckily he returned and updated everyone later explaining his reason for pulling the posts after he had posted about the treasures evil english started receiving threats that people were going to track him down and steal his stuff to be safe he simply got rid of the posts so here's some advice when you come across anything valuable such as collectibles wait a bit to share it with the internet until after you have gotten rid of the items