We always said we’d find pirate treasure or gold or jewels at Whitfield. There are myriad chests, pieces of antique furniture, drawers, boxes, and nooks. And I’m a creepy old house, anything is possible. Unfortunately no gold turned up.. Until this summer. We were prepping for Aunt Mavis to come and turning the office into a guest bedroom. There is a massive old desk in there that needed to be moved. We decided to pull it apart because it was too big and too heavy to move and we just didn’t need it. Eric was doing a little demo day action when he came upon a false bottom of a drawer. In it was a gold! Like, actual gold. One Troy oz of Britanna gold just living it’s best life in the bottom of that drawer for…5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Who knows! It was an exciting moment because we could finally say our haunted house produced treasure! (Turns out the ounce of gold is worth a couple grand… We’re donating it to Ethan for his mission fund.)
