A couple purchased a house and discovered beneath it a find dating back over 50 years.
They didn’t expect to find something like this…
To find treasure or something interesting, it is not necessary to necessarily go „far“ and search for a treasure.
Even ordinary renovation work or simply tidying up an old house can give you unexpected surprises.
Chris and Collin Otkasek in California never dreamed of finding anything unexpected when they bought their house.
When they bought the house, they assessed, like everyone, the internal and external conditions.
The house had a cozy dining room, a kitchen equipped with necessary furniture and appliances, and a spacious closet.
The real estate agent selling the 1960s building shared with the buyers a small peculiarity of the property.
In the backyard, there was a small cement opening: there was a Cold War fallout shelter, of which no one knew anything.
Naturally, these words piqued the couple’s interest.
After purchasing the house, Chris and Collin decided to inspect the shelter.
They struggled to open the hatch, descended the rusted five-meter ladder, whose steps had not been stepped on for over 50 years.
At the bottom, they saw a thick metal door.
Chris opened it with difficulty, consulting with his wife beforehand.
„What could be in there?“ he thought, as the threats of the Cold War had long passed.
When the couple entered and opened the door, they were amazed.
In the 30-square-meter shelter, there was everything needed to survive a nuclear attack: water, canned goods, food in old cardboard boxes.
Multipurpose product packages, consisting of a 1946 powder protein mix created by a California restorer named Clinton, along with boxes of biscuits.
Of course, there was also a first aid kit with stomachache and heartache pills, insomnia pills, cold remedies, medical ointments, bandages, material for sewing wounds, and iodine solution.
Naturally, the medicines had long expired.
There were also clothes, including a popular 1960s diamond-patterned sweater.
For entertainment, there were many fantastic magazines and books.
Everywhere, on shelves and tables, there were jars of ground coffee of various qualities, some of which had never been opened.
The bunker creators evidently loved coffee very much, even though it couldn’t be considered an essential product.
There were also paper cups and a roll of 1940s Kleenex tissue paper.
All items were packaged in vintage packaging.
In the room, there were four beds, an air filter, and a water tank.
According to the new owners‘ calculations, the family could have survived with the supplies for several weeks.
To learn the history of the shelter, the spouses conducted an investigation and discovered that the house had previously belonged to a nuclear engineer named Elvin Kaufman.
He worked for the United States government and knew everything about the nuclear threat.
He knew that Soviet scientists were developing atomic weapons similar to those used by the Americans in Japan (Nagasaki, Hiroshima).
These tensions led to the beginning of the Cold War, which lasted until the late ’80s.
During that time, many countries started building underground shelters for high officials.
Even ordinary Americans embraced this idea.
So, in 1961, Kaufman created a safe shelter to protect his family from radiation after investing time and money.
Kaufman’s daughter recounted that her father wanted to build a large shelter where even neighbors could find space, but they declined the offer.
Fortunately, after the shelter’s construction, there was no reason for the Kaufmans to use it, and they simply forgot about it.
The couple was happy to have inherited this historical hideout, and the items inside were a kind of time capsule that took them back almost 60 years.
God forbid that anyone in the world ever has to use the hundreds of shelters built everywhere to protect themselves from atomic explosions.
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