Couple Finds Gift From Mafia Hidden 100 Years Ago

When a couple saw the old house that stood nestled in the rural Mohawk Valley farming village of Ames, they were instantly drawn to it.

With plans to renovate and restore the early-20th-Century house, they decided to start in the old mudroom – a 70-square-foot space that, oddly, seemed to have been added on to the house as an afterthought.

But when they started to remove the rotten skirting boards, they unwittingly unsealed the first in a string of secrets that the house had been keeping. Although they were nervous about what else they would find, nothing could have prepared them for what they eventually uncovered about the home’s twisted past.

Drawn In

Nick Drummond and his partner Patrick Bakker bought their new home in 2019. They were inexplicably drawn to the area of rural Montgomery County that consisted of wide-open fields and pastures for days.
The scenery was fit for a fairytale and the house they were going to view seemed like one too

Picture Perfect

With only the occasional silo or barn flickering by the window, they drove deep into the farmland and spotted the silhouette of an American Foursquare house, perched on a hill in the middle of nowhere.
They loved the aura of the house, but they would only realize later that the previous owner had left them a strange gift.

Urban Legend

The couple’s first year in the house was relatively uneventful. The fixer-upper was aged but sturdy and Nick was particularly excited to begin restorations. He felt like all his years of experience and interest in historical architecture had left him more than qualified to tackle the enigmatic house.
But when they met the neighbors, Nick and Patrick’s excitement stalled.

Neighborhood Gossip

When Nick and Patrick first met their neighbors, they didn’t know what to think of them. They seemed nice but they kept questioning them on why they bought the house.
Unbeknownst to Nick and Patrick, their new house came with quite the neighborhood reputation. Their new home was riddled with strange tales and a mysterious history.