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🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Let's investigate unbelievable and slightly chilling secrets people unearthed in and around their homes!
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0:00.0 | When you move into a new home, it can be exciting and sometimes a little creepy to find things left behind by their previous owners, |
0:07.0 | especially when those things are hidden away beneath the floors and behind the walls. |
0:12.0 | In the case of one Norwegian couple we'll be discussing today, what they found under their floorboards was much more unnerving than they initially thought. So stay tuned to find out |
0:22.2 | what they discovered alongside a whole host of other unbelievable and slightly chilling secrets |
0:27.9 | people unearthed in and around their homes. |
0:30.6 | You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. Be amazed. |
0:38.3 | But, |
0:40.3 | In May 2020, the Christiansons, a married couple from Bodo, Norway, decided to counteract |
0:49.3 | their lockdown boredom by installing some insulation under their floors. But what their DIY project |
0:56.6 | led to, they couldn't have imagined in their wildest dreams. The Christiansians were tearing |
1:02.8 | up their floorboards when they found what appeared to be part of an old toy car underneath. |
1:08.4 | They knew it was old since the floorboards hadn't been moved since the |
1:11.9 | house was built in 1914, but they had no idea how ancient it would turn out to be. Shortly |
1:19.5 | after making that first discovery, the Christiansons also stumbled upon an iron axe head, |
1:25.7 | which ultimately convinced them to contact local authorities. |
1:29.4 | Experts from Norway's Tromso Museum were sent over to examine the finds, and when they started |
1:34.7 | digging, they found even more peculiar-looking artifacts. From ancient remains to iron arrowheads, |
1:40.9 | everything dated back to the Viking Age between 800 and 1100 AD. |
1:46.8 | The old toy car wheel, meanwhile, was actually a decorative glass bead from the same time, |
1:51.8 | but what was everything doing under the ground? According to archaeologists, the Christiansens |
1:57.3 | were sitting atop an ancient Viking burial site, also known as a cairn, |
2:02.0 | commonly identified by a pile of stones that they found under the house. |
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