Hey YouTube, Jim here! Welcome to Top10Archive! You know what’s a mystery to me? The people who
are brave enough to get into abandoned buildings and look for things that most certainly don’t
want to be found. I don’t know what they really do it for, maybe there is a true thrill in it.
Me? I’m glad I get to find out about it from my chair. Whether it’s a WWII grenade found
in a building or the winning lottery ticket which may or may not start a years-long chase,
the rule of this list is still “finders keepers”- except for that guy who found a million dollars.
Stick around as we dive into the Top 10 Weirdest Things Found In Abandoned Buildings!
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coolest thing you've ever found was! 10. WWII Hand Grenade
This WWII hand grenade was found in Abandoned House in Athens, Greece. If
I got into an abandoned house in Athens, I’d certainly not expect any WWII memorabilia.
In November 2019, authorities were called when a worker in a house found a WWII grenade as they
underwent maintenance and renovation. The Greek Army Bomb Disposal Unit arrived at the scene
and cordoned off the entire street. Now, the grenade is held by state security and it’s a
total mystery how the grenade got there, why it was abandoned, or even if it still worked.
9. Rock-A-Bye, Babies! For some reason, people still
visit Chernobyl, the site of the nuclear incident of 1986, to this day. But hey! Those who do
rave about the abandoned building scene, it’s supposedly full of interesting sights for voyeurs
and photographers. If you’ve ever heard of the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986, you probably
know that it was one of the most catastrophic nuclear power incidents in history. The disaster
didn’t just affect the workers at the plant—tens of thousands of people living in the nearby
Ukrainian city of Pripyat had to be evacuated, and the city has been abandoned since then.
People who are fascinated by abandoned buildings still visit the city, such as the photographer
who captured this photo of scattered baby beds in a hospital. There’s even a bottle on one of them.
8. The Lost Laboratory and its Creepy Animals This scene is straight out of a Scooby Doo
cartoon. There was a guy who heard about an abandoned laboratory somewhere in London and set
out to find it at all costs. His search eventually sent him to an abandoned orphanage - perhaps the
first red flag. Next, he found that the building was full of a wide assortment of taxidermied
animals - maybe red flag number 2? According to them, animals such as dragons and werewolves.
I’ll take that with a grain of salt, but whatever it is that they did find,
they sent it to the Merrylin Cryptic Museum, who then put it on display.
7. Nicolas Cage's Comic Book
According to Nicolas Cage, back in 2000, a rare comic book was stolen from his home.
He searched for it thinking someone was bound to try to sell it, but it seemed to be gone
forever. Until, that is, a decade later, when it was found inside an abandoned storage locker.
It was returned to Nicolas Cage and put up for auction during which it sold for $2.16 million.
It's unclear if the person who found the book was rewarded at all, but we do know
that Nicolas had insurance on the book, which he was rewarded shortly after the book was stolen.
6. 600 Gold Coins To be honest,
the people who most often find abandoned things in the buildings are those who are rightfully there
to restore or demolish it. Like the workers in France who found, unexpectedly, 600 gold coins in
the cellar of the house they were working on. Upon inspection, they found that the coins were from
1870 Belgium, with King Leopold II on them. Apparently, they were so prized that they were
worth up to €100,000 (euros). When I get into the cellar, the most I’m able to find are dead mice.
5. 1929 Bentley 4.5-Litre Sports Saloon Somehow the owner of this 1929 Bentley
4.5-Litre Sports Saloon just forgot about it and left it in an old garage in Surrey, England.
It wasn’t just forgotten for a couple of years, either. It was left there for three decades!
In 2015, it was found in a beautifully preserved state and sold for $871,667!
Am I starting to be convinced about exploring more abandoned places? Maybe after this next one.
4. Bronze Age Sword A regular person might see this
and think “meh, rusty sword,” kind of like the guy who found it. Farmer Ambrose Owens,
who stumbled upon this on the banks of the Arney River in Northern Ireland in 1965,
didn’t know that there was little to be found in the area that wasn’t full of history. He just
dumped it in his barn and let it sit for 50 years or so. His brother then discovered it in 2016
and sent it to appraisers who told him it was 2600 years old and absolutely priceless.
3. A Winning Lottery Ticket I’m not quite sure why this man,
named Edward St. John, went digging in the dumpster, but boy am I glad he did! He was just
searching for cool items, he says, and I’d say he accomplished that mission when he stumbled upon
the winning lottery ticket for a $1 million prize. He was sued by the original owner of the ticket,
because when one man’s trash becomes another man’s treasure, that first man always comes
back demanding his money. However, he still got to keep a large part of it, and rightfully so!
2. Ancient Mayan Artifacts This story features a junk removal specialist,
and after hearing that job title I immediately want him to tell me everything he’s ever found. In
this case, he found an old barrel while cleaning out an abandoned apartment. Inside the barrel,
several Mayan artifacts dated to be 1500-2300 years old. Total, he said they were worth about
$16,500, which seems a bit low for me, but if it was my barrel, I’d definitely take it!
1. A Wild Animal Imagine working at
a police station and someone tells you, “I just found a tiger in a home.” Would you believe it?
This Houston police station did and arrived at the abandoned home they were
“exploring,” and actually found a tiger in a cage of the home’s garage. I’m not sure what
state the tiger was in, but thankfully it was moved to an animal sanctuary.
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