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A few weeks ago, the Lopez family decide to clean their grandfather’s attic. They expected to find some memories of the past, but they couldn’t have bargained for what they stumbled upon.

But to understand this story, you need a bit of context. When they were children, the grandfather would tell them stories about his father, Ernesto Lopez. According to him, Ernesto had found the pirate Jose Gaspar’s treasure in the Hillsborough River.

They’d always dismissed it as legend — until they found a box in the attic. Jose Gaspar was a notorious (and very real) Spanish pirate. Though they knew he was an actual person, they could have never assumed their great-grandfather got ahold of his treasure — but then recently, they found the box.

So what was inside? For starters, they found a crude map of Tampa, likely drawn years ago.

Here’s a drawing of Jose Gaspar, taken from a 1900 brochure. But the unearthed treasures were about to get even better.

Yup: They found old Portuguese and Spanish coins, likely from the 1700s. Visits to numerous antique stores in the area revealed that these coins are the real deal.

Finding real, centuries-old treasure is exciting in and of itself. But what’s that at the top of the box? Could it be what it actually looks like?

That’s right, it’s a preserved human hand wearing a ring. Why their great-grandfather would keep that, they may never know.

The Lopez family is still trying to make sense of it all. “Either my great-grandfather made the best, most elaborate pirate hoax ever and never shared it with anyone or he really did find some treasure on the Hillsborough River. There’s really no way to know which is the case,” Maria Lopez said in an interview.

No matter the truth, it’s a pretty amazing thing to find in an attic. It also reminds us all that you never know what might be hiding in storage — so don’t just assume it’s all dusty Christmas decorations. You could be sitting on a literal treasure!

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Tim Baker and the team of Superfan Builds recently set out to make the coolest litter box of all time. They made it possible for his cat to do his business inside of a hobbit hole and they also built a pretty impressive scratching post to go along with it.

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Here is the tomb after it was unearthed. A team worked together to open the box without disturbing the contents.

Road workers in the eastern China were given the task of widening a road in the city of Taizhou, in the Jiangsu Province. They were digging about 6 feet below the surface when they came across something completely by chance that no one was expecting to find. They hit something solid while digging and after a bit of research they realized that they had actually hit buried tomb. It was time to call in professional archeologists to unearth and reveal this mystery. They found that the chamber was over 700 years old.

Here the team prepares to see what was inside for the first time after 700 years.

Encased in the stone tomb was a wooden box.

After opening the box they found that the contents were rare silks and linens lying in some sort of brown liquid.

They discovered a mummy of a woman under the layers of fabric.

They were amazed to see the body and contents in near perfect shape for being underground for over 700 years.

They think the mummy was a high ranking member of the Ming Dynasty.

She was adorned with beautiful jewelry from the time period.

The team carefully moved the woman out of her tomb for the first time.

She was wrapped in many rare layers of fabric that would have been common for a high ranking member of the Ming Dynasty.

Whatever she was preserved in was remarkable. She even had her eyebrows still attached.

This close up of her shoes shows how well preserved her corpse was.

This is a rare find and with advancements in archeology today she will stay preserved in a museum.

What an incredible find to just stumble upon. This find will answer many questions about the Ming Dynasty and the forbidden city in China. After excavating the site, archeologists found 2 other coffins that they are researching now. Im sure we will see more on this story as time passes and data is analyzed. Only time will unearth the beautiful secrets from the past.

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Just a regular cardboard box, right?

We have the technology to work from almost anywhere, but why do so many of us still stay seated in the same place every day? If the folks behind Refold’s foldable mobile desk fully fund their project on Kickstarter, maybe we won’t have to. They offer an object that looks like a run-of-the-mill cardboard box, but is really a portable desk (for both standing and sitting). It’s lightweight and even looks great. Take a look!

Wrong. This thing can fold into a desk that fits your desired comfort level.

It works for both standing and sitting.

A portable office…

…that you can also stand on.

Oh, and make look cool.

Check out the video below.

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“Clerks”-Budget: $31,665-Domestic Gross: $3.1 million

All these great movies cost little money to produce, but all of them became box office hits later.

“El Mariachi”
Budget: $7,000
Gross Domestic: $2 million

“Halloween”
Budget: $325,000
Gross Domestic: $47 million

“Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels”
Budget: $1.35 million
Gross Worldwide: $25.3 million

“Mad Max”
Budget: $400,000
Gross Worldwide: $100 million

“Napoleon Dynamite”
Budget: $400,000
Gross Domestic: $44.5 million

“Night of the Living Dead”
Budget: $114,00
Gross Domestic: $12 million

“Once”
Budget: $150,000
Domestic Gross: $9.4 million

“Paranormal Activity”
Budget: $15,000
Domestic Gross: $107.9 million

“Pink Flamingos”
Budget: $12,000
Gross Domestic: $7 million

“Rocky”
Budget: $950,000
Domestic Gross: $117.2 million

“Saw”
Budget: $1.2 million
Domestic Gross: $55.2 million

“Sex, Lies, and Videotape”
Budget: $1.2 million
Gross Domestic: $24.7 million

“The Blair Witch Project”
Budget: $60,000
Gross Domestic: $140.5 million

“The Full Monty”
Budget: $3.5 million
Domestic Gross: $50 million

“The Purge”
Budget: $3 million
Opening Weekend: $34 million

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