Homeowners found 100-year-old letter in home…
They found what?
The last factor most new householders would count on to discover is one thing hidden in the partitions of their new home.
That’s precisely what occurred to Curtis Smith, a Wyoming resident who found hidden letters while doing a home renovation project in a 100-year-old home he bought back in 2002.
He shared the chilling discovery in the r/FoundPaper discussion board 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.”
The letters must have unintentionally gotten dropped into the partitions when the home was being constructed. Reddit/Ghosttowncs
“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 be taught more about the person who constructed the home, who “…had immigrated to the US, and had become a very successful sheep herder here in Wyoming,” Smith explained to the outlet.
Found photos just like the one above impressed Smith to research more about the individual to whom the letters had been addressed. Reddit/Ghosttowncs
The Wyoming resident finally posted about this decades-old discovery to his Flickr account, which linked 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 individual to discover historical past hidden in their home.
One soon-to-be-bride found a classic marriage ceremony gown in the attic of her newly bought home.
In a TikTok video, with virtually 3 million views, shared by Illinois resident Kaitlyn Ostolaza, overlay textual content reads, “POV you obtain a home with your fiancé and discover a marriage ceremony gown 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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