SHOCKING Discoveries Made During Renovations 

I'm Japanese. Japanese soldiers absolutely used their blades in WW2. They didn't carry full sized katanas very often, but they did carry Tantos. They were ceremonial, yes, but they were also not mass produced junk. Some were produced for soldiers, but many were family blades belonging to their ancestors dating hundreds of years prior. Blades that had been passed down for generations. They were terrified to lose them to Allies as souvenirs, so many were scuttled. They used them in close quarters like Americans used combat knives. Was it as romanticized as The Last Samurai? No. But they did use them. Japanese soldiers also weren't allowed to surrender, lest they lose their honor. When faced with overwhelming enemy forces, they would charge the Allies with blades drawn if their ammunition and grenades were depleted, or perform Seppuku to keep their honor. Hundreds of soldiers have been found on idlands such as Iwo Jima in caves having had performed Seppuku rather than surrender. They also regularly executed and tortured prisoners with them. Japanese soldiers continued to fight the war long after it ended, one soldier refusing to believe Japan had lost and continued to fight until 1972. Another was fishing beside his issued rifle in the 60s, knowing the war was over and being afraid to surrender. Japanese soldiers had been sold propoganda by Emperor Hirohito that Americans and the Allies were barbaric people who would r*pe and torture anyone they came across before killing them. This fear caused civilians to Seppuku en masse, as they were terrified of the Allies due to brainwashing through this propoganda. This is also the reason they fought so hard and refused to surrender, and also why they took almost no prisoners.

Home owner gets the money 10% was a very nice gesture in my book

So the lesson here is: "Renovating can be extremely rewarding or extremely painful."

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The basket just looks like someone stashed their silver and antique wooden duck decoy which has and had value and desirability

Man he found the real life skibiti toilet 😊

That underwater well was my favorite but now I’m just hoping that Donna doesn’t pay me a visit any time soon

WWII Japanese swords were not always mass produced. Some were family heirloom swords that had been in the family for 100s of years. And all were considered weapons and were used often to kill.

Bees are underated. We need them. And they wont sting unless you pose a threat. 🐝

The bee hives were crazy because you would have gotten a lifetime supply of honey! Additionally, in your Worst Bug infestations video, there was a similar bee hive!

there´s actually a colony of bumblebees living in suspended-ceiling of my house. its not intensional beehive but they just decided to live here and its not really a proplem

The riddle book is typical of the time. The answers were sold separately. Another example was Nuts To Crack, a sort of broadsheet of puzzles & riddles. Reference: London Labour And London Poor (1840)

A bit long story here Ouro Preto, Brazil is a city where most of Brazil gold was mined back in the 18th century (the city name means "black gold") Back then when the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 that destroied mos of the Portuguese capital (and what the earquake didnt destroy the tsunami did) there was a gold tax called "o quinto" (the fifth part), where all the Brazilian gold was taxed in 20% to be sent to Portugal as funds to help raise Lisbon Of course many people used some "creative ways" to evade part of the tax, hiding gold-dust filled urns in walls, under the houses, you name it.. Even saints wooden statues were hollowed out to hid gold inside Now and again some of those urns are found

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"Buzzy flatmates "😂 We had a similar bee infestation at my childhood home and watched as the honey 🍯 was harvested albeit getting stung 🐝😉

The "Winnie the Pooh" part got me laughing! 😂😂😂

1:48 I would! But not for the honey… all I want IS TO WORSHIP THE *BUBUYOGS!!!* (Filipino for bees)

My favorite is the discovery of the ACTION COMICS #1. That spells serious dollars there!

In my childhood home, we found a (loaded) gun from the 1950's. We gave it to a friend. In a friends house, they found coupons from the 1940's & 50's.

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the difference in his voice now and his voice 2yrs ago is mind blowing

Another day, another binge watching Be Amazed!

This reminds me of another video I have seen of crazy renovations. One of them mentioned LAYERS of paint over the years. It would not surprise me that there would be anything of value hidden in the house that I grew up in, or even the one I am in now from the previous homeowners stashed away either in the attic or walls. Its like a scavenger hunt that you didn't know was happening!

The tuna and cat joke was hilarious. The most interesting find was the cemetery. Kinda creepy the patrons did not know they were going to church above a bunch of dead people.

The contractor should have been happy with 10%. The estate shouldn't have been entitled to squat.

The best part is that i didn't get worried about what I could find in my new house because im too poor to buy one 😂

Really enjoyed all this. It was excellent.

25 years ago my grandfather in his old holiday house in the Italian countryside found hidden beneath the floor 2 war rifles, grenades and first aid kits from WWII, belonging to partisan rebels who used to hide outside the cities/towns to fight the fascists. It was all bought by a museum.

The house where the $182000.00 was found. IMO the money belongs to the home owner. Not the Plumber. I mean, when they find say a broken pipe,do they share the costs with the homeowner? The original home owner who left it, sorry but when you purchase a property, everything left after signing is the new owners, unless there's some type of written agreement in the closing paperwork. For instance, when my parents sold our home in Eagle River, Alaska my mom had installed a white faux brick wall. Covering that wall was a gorgeous ivy that mom had trained. We're talking 12' x 8' . The new owners made certain that the ivy would be staying!

that 70s carpet would be fine in a baby/small child's room. Brightly colorful.

For the riddles, I'm sorta at odds with the first one: What is it that makes everything visible but is itself unseen? - The two answers I'm juggling between are light and eyeballs. As for the second one, I had to look up the answer: What is it that is often brought to table, often cut, but never eaten? - A deck of cards. No clue about the 3rd one though.

The fact he kept going back to Donna lmao-

This has got to be your funniest episode in a while. You should have a drink or two before each take moving forward 😂

You always provide such colorful commentary and great videos. Thank you.

Saying it again (😂), I don't know if someone who's making these videos will see this, but there is a channel stealing your content, translating it to Czech and making them shorter. He even uses pictures from your videos. His name is ZEK.

The carpet looks like the previous house owners love Christmas

That duck was an antique. The goblets too. Ever watched antiques roadshow? The ducks represent marriage and the "silver" wares were either from ceremony or gifts. Hidden probably because it was a dowry and the most prized posessions of original owners.

My dad is tunisian and when he was a child he axidentally broke a little bit of the floor of the living room in his dads house. He spotted a landmine and when he wanted to break more to get it grandpa then said to leave it be becouse the cement was too expensive. So its still there untill now i think.

Amazing video👍

This is one of my favorite topics from Be Amazed. Thanks!

I bean watching for 16 minutes and this is great so far

In 2004 we moved into our house and there were bees in our wall, about 6x2 area of bee hive. We found out because there was honey leaking through the cracks of the wall and I took a taste. A bee man came and removed them, I got to stand in my room while 100’s of drugged bees flew around me.

Be amazed if you're reading this you should be the new mrbeast because of how good your videos are

The people who went to see the titanic deserve a Darin award

I always leave surprises for future owners that renovate. Even in my current house when I redid the floors I painted KEEP OUT in red paint on the subfloor and left handprints being dragged to the fireplace.

Someone used a large artillery shell as an anvil. Would have turned the Anvil Chorus into the 1812!

There is a house somewhere along the Delaware River when George Washington and his party were trying to get across they had stopped at a place that had a well. The homeowners of this house happened to find it underneath their kitchen floor too. So they did the same thing they got it all restorated and put glass over the top and now you can see the well in which George Washington got his water for his men.

I have a phobia of bees, if I even hear a buzzing sound, I’m running the opposite direction at Mach 3. No questions asked

I don't think the person that found the money had any legal claim to it as it was not his home. Also the people that used to live there does not have any claim to it any more as they sold the home and that includes anything left behind. If I was to find anything valuable I would never tell anyone else about it. I wonder if the person that damaged the comic could be sued for destruction of private property?

If I'm a contractor and i break open a wall and find cash, I'm quickly packing it all in my bag and getting out of there. I'll come back there next day to finish the job, but no one needs to be the wiser. Never tell anyone about stuff like that.

8:13 when i was little, i used to ride my bike to school in shorts on winter days and it felt normal

WOW I didn’t know this

The basket was left there because it was junk they didn't want😂

If you give it to a friend, then your luck will never end.

Honestly, I'm amazed

That made me laugh so hard. Poor wee Donna.

Narration was on point!!! Loved it 😍

I lived right near the guy in the second story just a couple miles away. When they detonated the bomb, it was so loud that I thought a semi truck crashed into my house.

Wells in houses always remind me of lovecrafts "Pickmans Modell". 😱

Been to those churches in New Haven. Can't remember if I went to the basement or not but I knew about the graves in one or more of the 3 churches on the green. I think you had to have money to be buried like that. It makes sense to do it that way because the ground could be hard to dig in when it use to get below zero there.

4:26 I actually own Donna the dead! Sad Gemmy’s discontinued her bc it definitely scared a lot of people!

You can still find IED's from the Korean War still to this day, there's so many left over.

When i was moving to my new home we found a secret storage area we didn't know we had big enough to store a laptop of some sort but we usually put bags on it so we didn't noticed

1. If I found a bee colony, I'd call animal control. They know (or they know some one who knows) how to move a colony. 2. I know the narrator is only asking the question to be silly but, just to be clear, army soldiers don't go through customs. 4. BTW, did you know that, when shoes were first made after the dark ages, they were made so they could go on either the left or right foot. Ouch. #? (I lost count) -- $180,000 in the wall, found by the plumber. Yes, that's exactly how greed works. But you asked and I think the homeowner was being very fair offering 10% to the plumber as a finder's fee, it being their property. And, honestly, $18,000 is nothing to sneeze at. Because of his greed, he got a lot less. The basket behind the wall. I bet that was just forgotten when they cleaned out the storage area. Before cardboard boxes came along, baskets were often used as storage containers. What is it that makes everything visible but is, itself, unseen? Light What is it that is often brought to table, often cut, but never eaten? Playing Cards What is black and white and red all over?

What is it that makes everything visible, but is itself unseen? An eyeball. What is that which is often brought to table, often cut, but never eaten. A deck of cards. Which were made first, elbows or knees? You tell me.

I know exactly what’s behind my walls, 30 BILLION SQUIRRELS yea it’s annoying af but my parents are lazy and not doing anything about it

Skibidi toilet predicted the future 💀💀

Brilliant video as always ❤

When doing a renovation in an 18th century house (Gloucester, MA) we found hundreds of shoes in the walls. This explains it! TY

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There's a lake a mile from my house, kinda wanna make a hole connecting it from there to my living room too 😅🕳

I've noticed that narrators (on all channels) carefully cite locations of U.S. stories (i.e. Las Vegas, Nevada) but inevitably only the city & country of other nations (i.e. Montreal, Canada rather than Montreal, Quebec). It would be nice if locations outside the U.S. also included complete information as to location. That hair-splitting aside, I do enjoy your channel & narration!

AWESOME DUDE! Love the content! Keep up the great work!

so not as extreme as these, but while doing some renovations to my new home i found a few interesting things to say the least, 1 was a pair of speedos in a overhang that needed to go and there was no way to drop said item from the top floor so those were put in the wall delebrity, i found some porn in one wall, another wall had the old washer and dryer hook ups (still active) leaking causing issues in said wall, and thats just in 1 year in the home... wonder what i find the more i renovate the house, also 2/3 of the bathroom is done and nothing out of the ordinary there just golden shower yellow tiles that were plastic of all things that had to go...

Love this channel, particularly this narrator, he is the best. 🙂

Im one of the three that watched this when it came out

Be amazed is the most amazing youtuber And i never get bored from watching his videos even after watching the same videos multiple times which lead me to believe i have the answer to the riddle "what it often brought to the the table, cut, but never eaten" and im pretty sure the answer is aa cutting board

About those bees, I would HEAR them first and call a professional. Although all that free honey, yum!

I watched - I’m afraid of toilets now 😂😎🎉🎉🎉👍. As always wonderful ! Well done ! Thank you

I be amazed everytime I watch Be amazed video's

Im always AMAZED, and you give me a laugh too.

(This is on the topic of renovations that never happened.) I have a Petro Wash gas station near my house that has been vacant since 2009. It had been operating fine before, but then, people graffitied the side of the station, the roof of the car wash collapsed, and the fuel tanks were removed. Then, they had to board the windows of the Food Shop. Plus, old signage left up advertised gas at $1.98 per gallon, which is nothing now. If that wasn't enough, the structure's roof that had the tanks under it had part of it collapsed. AND, the roof was moldy and caked with dirt. Seriously, please start renovating your gas stations when they're vacant.

14:56 the one that bought the Property S/he did buy everything on that property so none have legal rights to except the property.

The first riddle is light. Cut but never eaten has to be a deck of cards. As to elbows or knees... uh... you got me on that one, unless it's a reference to which word was made up first, but I don't actually know. lol.

Just imagine renovating your father's house only to discover he packed bags of 100 dollar bills 💵💵

My mom used to live in a house that used to be a trailer that was converted into a house, the well was under the bedroom floorboards, it had an underground reservoir it fed from....some of the best water ive ever drank!

Donna was like Zoro 😂 visiting at every side of the video

I don't know about others, but I don't tend to seal souvenirs in my walls where I can't see them.

I love the fact half of these stories had military-grade equipment hidden in their homes incase a robber breaks into their home y'know you need a gatling gun or a bomb for those moments

I hope everyone has a great day! 👍

I think that this was very valuable at that time

Cool video.

Great video 📹 👍

Love your vids ♥️💜♥️

We lived in an 8 bedroom mansion built in the late 1800's owned by a mill/beer producer. My dad knocked down a wall in the great room and a woman's boot and glove fell out. No one knew how they got there and I doubt anyone will

There’s a lot of people who are leaving time capsules in their homes, garages and other places. The wicker basket is a time capsule.

What i find amazing about this video is that ive forgotten hafe the things you've said already.....

2:42 is that a Lada?

Hearing that during World War II That you were soldiers with take souvenirs home, could be that The Cortana

Never disappoint's me