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Zahna Eklund & Ketsuda Phoutinane

Couple find £33,000 hidden cash treasure during home renovation

Stumbling upon hidden treasure is usually the stuff of dreams, but that wasn't the case for one lucky American couple who stumbled upon a $45,000 (£33,000) cash fortune.

Finding spare cash under sofa cushions is one thing, then there's uncovering thousands under the floorboards.

One man shared online how he found a jackpot hidden in boxes of his Cleveland, Ohio home on the picture sharing site Imgur.

The discovery was made while renovating their home's basement when the man, posting under the username Branik12, noticed something unusual.

Whilst ripping apart the basement's ceiling, he spotted two small, unassuming boxes hidden in the wooden panels between the top of his basement and the bottom of the ground floor, The Mirror reported.

At best, he thought they contained sports cards or other collectibles, but he was much, much more lucky.

He wrote on his post, which recently went viral again after being posted in 2016: "I took the box outside and gathered the wife. It has something inside, but not heavy like coins or gold bars. Might get lucky though. Could be old sports cards."

Instead, the man and his wife got to skip the hassle of trying to sell the items inside the boxes - because there were thousands of dollars in cash.

Each box had three packages wrapped in wax paper and was lined with an old copy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, dated March 25, 1951, which is presumably when the packages were stored.

One man discovered a mysterious treasure hidden under the floorboards (Imgur / @branik12)
Imgur user @branik12 found three wads of cash in the box (Imgur / @branik12)

Opening up the first box, the man and his wife were stunned to find a total of $23,000 (£17,000) inside, with all of the bills being dated somewhere between 1928 to 1934.

The man said: "We are freaking out at this point. This doesn't happen to us.

"The second package didn't have any twenties. It was all fifties! What is going on here? This is out of control!

"Some of the bills were rarer than others. Some brown notes, a gold certificate and some star notes that were nearly uncirculated. All bills were from 1928-1934."

The couple found £33,000 in cash during their home renovation (Imgur / @branik12)
The newspaper inside is dated March 25, 1951 (Imgur / @branik12)

The couple were in for an even bigger shock when they opened the second box to find even more cash hidden inside - giving them a total of $45,000 (£33,000).

And while many of us might take that cash and go on a spending spree, the man and his wife were far more reasonable with their little income boost.

The man explained: "This was a wild ride for us and I hope you all enjoyed it too.

"We are boring people and have been dumping our extra money to pay off our mortgage and that is where this money will go too."

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