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  • 2021-12-17 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Reddit User Find Treasure in His Grandparents' Barn? (en)
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  • In late 2021, online advertisements were displayed on websites, claiming: He Found Treasure Inside His Grandparents' Barn. Our research led us to a Reddit user named EvilEnglish who posted in 2013 that he really did find what could be described as a treasure that was left behind in his grandparents' safe in Tennessee. However, the truth of the story had been twisted over the years by the ads and slideshow articles. First, the two pictures in the ad had nothing to do with the Reddit user, his grandparents, or where the treasure was found in the safe. The photograph of the supposed Redditer is of Chris Seiter, a writer for exgirlfriendrecovery.com, and the picture of the old house appeared to also be unrelated. We found multiple photographs in the 60-page slideshow article that resulted from clicking the ad that also had nothing to do with what actually happened, despite the fact that they were credited to him. Further, the discovery was made in EvilEnglish' grandparents' farmhouse, not a barn. In the original story that was posted in 2013, EvilEnglish, who did not provide his real name, said that his father died in 2009. That led to his inheriting his grandparents' farmhouse in middle Tennessee, a property they had owned between around the late 1970s and 1997. As he wrote on Reddit, it was under a damp and loose carpet in the closet under the staircase that he found and eventually opened a secret safe: On April 30, 2013, EvilEnglish posted to Reddit that the safe had been unlocked, revealing treasure from his grandparents' past. Inside, he found dozens of rare coins, pocket watches and wristwatches, jewelry, and stacks of soggy money, according to KSL.com. The money may have been wet after a pipe leak that had occurred in the years before the safe was found. The original Imgur album of photos, as well as multiple YouTube videos, are no longer available. Readers looking for pictures of the grandparents' secret safe can find them within the same news article from KSL.com, or from this HuffPost article from May 1, 2013. In the album, the pictures showed the Major Safe. Co. logo in the floor being looked at by the professional who found a way to open it. All of the found treasure from the safe was displayed on the kitchen counter. In an old Reddit comment, EvilEnglish wrote: Funny that as a boy, in that very house, my grandma read me 'Treasure Island,' and I always dreamed of finding something like this! (en)
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