When A Treasure Hunter Lifted The Floor In This Attic, His Miraculous Find Solved A Family Mystery
A metal detector starts to ping in the corner of an attic, and it piques the interest of treasure hunter Keith Wille. So, the expert takes a closer look and warns the family whose home he is scouring not to get their hopes up. But then he lifts the lid on a box pulled from below the floorboards. And no one can quite believe what they see inside.
As Willie confesses on his YouTube channel RediscoverLost, “hidden treasure” is usually little more than a box of old family photos. Though this find was far more intriguing. Also, it solved a mystery that had mystified the home’s owners for decades. This was, in fact, the box that they had spent years searching for!
It’s a container that had remained elusive to the unnamed family – despite numerous attempts to locate it. Yet according to the Daily Mail, other members of the clan had found similar containers in their own homes. And they weren’t about to let this house go without one last effort to find it.
In the YouTube video created by metal detectorist and treasure hunter Wille, you can see clear damage in the attic which marks other failed attempts to locate the box. Carpenters and construction contractors had previously been hired to help the family in their search, but it was all to no avail. As a result, they called in Wille to help find any potential items before they let the house and its presumed contents go for good.
Wille is a man who has harbored a fascination for hidden treasure since adolescence. As he describes on his website, “Treasure hunting started for me when I was in my early teens. I frequently listened to family members discuss 19th century silver dollars lost behind the walls of my grandparent’s 80-year-old home.”
