A Toledo man found quite the surprise while cleaning up an old home on New Year’s Eve.
Walter Castanedo told WTOL , a CBS affiliate in Toledo, that he bought the home in May 2024 for $1,000. He found 10 times that in the basement last week.
“I just kind of felt like ‘woah’, like ‘huh,’” Castanedo told WTOL. “Because you read about this stuff but you never actually see it. And then when it’s right there in front of you, it’s kind of hard to process.”
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He was gutting the basement when he found $10,000 in cash. Most of the money was in five envelopes between two bricks, but he also found a handful of $100 bills underneath bricks where a potbelly stove used to be…