For many of us, home is a sanctuary. It's a haven where we raise our families, lie our heads each night, and spend the majority of our lives. And sure, houses are built to last but that doesn't mean our homes don't need an

upgrade every now and then such was the case for Mary Ann Christensen's house

in northern Norway it had been in the family for years,

originally bought by her grandfather way back in 1914. And in 2020, she and her husband

decided that it was time to do a bit of refurbishing.

It was hard work, but they were making good time.

They had torn up the floorboards and had just started laying new insulation when Marian

found something strange. It was small and

circular. At first they thought they might have found the wheel of a toy car, but as

they dug deeper they uncovered more and their curiosity bloomed into absolute amazement.

Still they had to be sure of what they'd found, so they immediately called in a team of archaeologists

to help investigate.

And it turns out, Mary Ann and her husband's suspicions were right.

Beneath the floorboards of their family home lay an ancient thousand-year-old Viking grave. It's the kind of news that we love to latch

onto. Reports of mysterious treasure found in the walls, of old wells hiding

beneath kitchen linoleumum or mummies sealed behind wallpaper.

Why?

Because there is one kind of treasure that we're all eager to on earth.

We love a good story. They may not be in the form of buried

Viking treasures but these tales are worth uncovering nonetheless and sometimes a

city becomes filled with so many buildings, so many stories, so many

memories that it can barely contain them all. And that is when the past begins to leak into the present.

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