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300-Year-Old Cottage That Is Left To Nature’s Mercy (22 Pics)

If you are traveling near Willersley you might hear strange rumors about an old cottage, how you can see flickering lights and how it is haunted.

Ghost have always sparked interest among people, some claim that ghost are real while others are skeptics. Old Crow Cottage is a cottage that has been abandoned since 2009, but it was build in the 17th century.

Urban explorer Dan Circa was very interested by this cottage, and he decided to go inside. He saw many family paintings and clocks inside, this is to be expected since this cottage was used by one family for 300 years.

The cottage has seven rooms, but one of the rooms is collapsed while another one is burned. Everything inside of the cottage is historically priceless, and Dan Circa hopes that all of the items will be preserved.

They Found A Safe In Their House Behind A Medicine Cabinet, So They Decided To Open It (16 Pics)

After seeing story after story about hidden treasure in the walls of older homes, I'm about ready to start buying up old properties with the hopes of finding something amazing inside the walls. Although with my kind of luck the only things I'll be finding in the walls are dust and probably bones from a mouse that couldn't make its way out in time. Well the couple you are about to read about has much better luck than I do. They moved into their home about two years ago, which was purchased as a fixer-upper. They started working on each room, then once that room was done, they'd move onto the next. It was time for them to remodel the kitchen. They know that their house has had six previous owners. Here's what they found.

While remodeling their kitchen they found a safe in the floor after they tore out the kitchen island. The safe looked relatively old and was built into the floor really well.

When they first moved in, they found a safe code in a medicine cabinet. They weren't sure what the code belonged to, but held onto it just in case. The safe looked to be about 10-20 years old, and after trying to open it a few times, it finally unlocked.

When they opened the safe, they stood there in disbelief. They felt as if time had stopped. They were starting at piles of money, an old bottle of liquor, a blue book, and what appeared to be an old Bingo card. Her husband was a little hesitant about reaching in for the items, in case the safe was booby-trapped.

Luckily for them, the safe was not booby-trapped. Inside was about $50,000, mostly in $100 bills. When they counted it, it ended up being $51,080.

This bottle of James E. Pepper was also found in the safe. Per Wikipedia, it's credited as being the inventor of the Old Fashioned which is basically whiskey, bitters, a sugar cube, and a lemon peel, although there are a lot of variations out there.

The seal was still intact and the seal stated that the tax stamp was 1960, aged 6 years. From the looks of it, this whiskey is top-notch and extremely rare to find.

The book was titled A Guide for the Perplexed by E.F. Schumacher. It was published in 1977. When they opened the book, they found a picture of Gregory Peck. But upon further examination, it appears the book was trying to give them some clues, specifically on pages 1, 7, 11, and 14.

On the back of the picture there was a note that read, "Alan, I have a book you must read. I've underlined a few key passages. Your friend, Vincent."

When they got to page 7, they found a map of Arizona. It looked like a bookmark at first, but it wasn't. This was more of a flash card that had an X over the city of Mesa, which is just outside of Phoenix. The front of the card had an outline of Arizona which was highlighted in green amongst the other "Mountain States".

On page 7, they found a passage that had been underlined. It was located in the chapter titled On Philosophical Maps. The passage read, "One way of looking at the world as a whole is by means of a map, that is to say, some sort of plan or outline that shows where various things are to be found."

Next up was page 11. There was a picture of a house or an old estate with the sentence underlined that said, "There yielded such fruitful results."

They found another picture that had been stored in this book and on the back of the photo it read, "Where one tree becomes three." This is almost sounding like a treasure hunt of sorts.

They are not sure what this photo is of, or where this three-headed tree, may be. Hopefully someone can help them.

Next up was page 14. They found another underlined passage that read, "Most modern readers will be reluctant to believe that perfect happiness is attainable by methods of which their modern world knows nothing."

There are three numbers circled on the Bingo card that was found. Her husband pointed out that the safe that they found in their house has a three digit code, so maybe the three numbers on the Bingo card are to the safe near the three-headed tree.

Photos of nuclear bombs a billionth of a second after detonation

In the mid-20th Century, as the US was testing nuclear weapons, a man named Harold Edgerton invented a camera using a special magnetic lens that could take photos at a billionth of a second after a nuclear device was detonated. These are some of the photos he captured

Artist Floats 100,000 Balloons Inside London’s Covent Garden Market

The 19th-century market building in London’s Covent Garden was transformed. French artist Charles Pétillon used twenty-five workers over five days to fill the building with 100,000 giant white balloons in an installation called “heartbeat.” The project is part of Covent Garden’s ongoing cultural program that strives to transform the district into an ever-changing art gallery, and will run until September 27th.

“The balloon invasions I create are metaphors,” Pétillon told. “Their goal is to change the way in which we see the things we live alongside each day without really noticing them. with ‘heartbeat’ I want to represent the market building as the beating heart of this area – connecting its past with the present day to allow visitors to re-examine its role at the heart of London’s life.”