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That time someone found a Ferrari buried in their Front yard

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In February, 1978, a Dino 246 GTS was discovered by a group of kids digging in the front yard of their home in Los Angeles. After much speculation and media attention with very few leads, it was eventually concluded that the car, which had been declared stolen four years prior by its owners, had been buried [...]

Guy Finds 1938 Superman Comic in Wall of his new Home, Can Now Buy 10 Homes

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Average Joe contractor, David Gonzales paid $10,000 for an abandoned house he spotted in Elbow Lake, Minnesota with his wife last winter. The roof was in bad shape and a neighbouring restaurant had been hoping to buy it and turn it into a parking lot. Mr. Gonzales, a ’humble working guy’ who remodels homes for a [...]

Searching for Doodle Man: Who Doodled on this Styrofoam Cup like a Legend?

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Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their local car dealership in Oklahoma to get an oil change and found this cup sitting there covered in extraordinary etchings from a ball-point pen… The Reddit member (username SquishyMcphee!) asked the cashier where it had come from … [She] said that a [...]

UNLOCKED! Secret Time Capsule Safe found in a Tennessee Farmhouse

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There can be no feeling like it; uncovering a secret treasure buried in the past. A Reddit.com user has documented his discovery of a mysterious safe hidden in a closet of his grandparent’s farmhouse in rural Tenneessee, where they would often read Treasure Island to him as a young boy. “I always dreamed of finding [...]

Lost Films: Hitchcock, Gatsby and Oscar-winning Movies that Vanished

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Who will make the better Gatsby? Can DiCaprio pull off a pink suit as well as Robert Redford did in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 adaptation? As eager audiences pile into cinemas this year however, there’s one Gatsby we won’t be making any comparisons to. Very few are even aware of the original screen adaptation of F. [...]

Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was

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Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives [...]

Missing Renoir Painting bought at a Flea Market for $7

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You just don’t hear stories like this anymore… A painting by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir that hasn’t been seen since 1926, presumed lost forever, has turned up in a flea market in Virginia for the bargain price of $7. Sitting in a box of bric-a-brac, neither the vendor nor the woman who bought it [...]



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