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15 Forgotten Things Found Inside Books
In a small town called Otega in the state of New York, there is an independent used bookshop with something very special about it. For decades, the owner of Popeks bookstore, which was passed onto...
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Hidden in Henry’s Room: The Secret Life of a Janitor
Here’s one that slipped past my radar: only the greatest self-taught artist of the 20th century whose work was not discovered until his landlords were cleaning out his room upon his death in 1973. No...
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Hollywood’s Iconic ‘Gone with the Wind’ Movie Set Has Been Hiding in a Barn...
It was the first ever film to receive more than five Academy Awards, one of which was bought by Michael Jackson when he bid $1.5 million on the 1939 statue for Best Picture. Re-released in theatres in...
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Faded Faces: The Recovered Archives of a Forgotten Photography Studio
The passing of time creeps up around her face like the long arm of a dark shadow trying to erase the memory of her existence. But her gaze remains fixed and strong, as if she refuses to be forgotten....
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Chronicles of an Affair with his Secretary, Found in an Abandoned Suitcase
The briefcase was found three decades after the affair took place, abandoned in a German apartment and later sold at auction. The contents of the suitcase, an extraordinary collection of materials...
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Inside the Paris Department Store where Nazis Shopped for Stolen Jewish...
When Paris was liberated from the Nazi occupation in 1944, an album of 85 photographs was found in a shop that had been used by German soldiers assigned to the “Furniture Operation” (Möbel Aktion),...
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Camouflaged Anti-Nazi Pamphlets found inside a Dusty Box at the Library
The label attached to the box said “Do not open until war is over”. It was the early 1980s and John Rathe, the librarian in the NYPL’s Rare Book room, had no idea what he was about to uncover when he...
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A Brief Compendium of the Traveling Salesman’s Vintage Sample Case
Unlike most of the vintage stuff we tend to get nostalgic about on this blog, I’m not sure travelling salesmen of yesteryear rapping their knuckles on our front doors is something we’d necessarily...
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Paris Apartment Renovation Reveals Hidden Revolutionary Frescoes
A Paris apartment hiding a revolutionary secret, a stone’s throw from the 17th century arches of the Porte Saint-Denis © Sloft It was supposed to be a straight-forward renovation project for...
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That Time Someone Found a Ferrari Buried in Their Front yard
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...
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Hidden Room Found in an Attic from WW2 is Sorta Cool, Mostly Creepy
If I ever find a hidden time capsule, there damn well better be some sort of pirate treasure inside it! But anyhoo, today we’ll be looking at a discovery courtesy of Reddit.com from a user who found a...
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UNLOCKED! Secret Time Capsule Safe found in a Tennessee Farmhouse
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...
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Missing Renoir Painting bought at a Flea Market for $7
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...
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The Fantastical World of Mingering Mike, the Imaginary Legend of Soul
When you were young, what did you want to be? An astronaut, a princess, maybe a superhero or president of the world. Mike Stevens dreamt of being a soul super star, he wanted to tour the world, to...
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Found: A German Soldier’s WWII Scrapbook
There’s something enchanting about coming across an old scrapbook; more than just a photo album, a lovingly put together book of ephemera can be a unique window into a life lived elsewhere. We...
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Lost Films: Hitchcock, Gatsby and Oscar-winning Movies that Vanished
Who made the better Gatsby? Did DiCaprio pull off a pink suit as well as Robert Redford did in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 adaptation? There is another version of The Great Gatsby, although we won’t...
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