A couple got the shock of their lives when they moved into their new apartment and found empty bottles of rum pouring out of the walls.
Cathy, 51, and her husband Roy Aukamp, 52, were in their New Jersey house for just two days when a storm flooded their basement.
But they soon made an unusual discovery once the big storm was over.
Roy yanked out a piece of plasterboard and scooped out what looked like an endless stream of Captain Morgan rum bottles.
The bottles were completely clear, with none of the golden-colored alcohol still inside.
He shoveled them across the ground, as Cathy could be heard laughing and saying, ‘Thirsty?’
Roy, still kneeling on the ground, shook his head, not looking amused.
‘It’s five o’clock somewhere!’ Cathy added.
Along with the video of the incident, Cathy wrote on Instagram the week before that a massive rain storm flooded the home they had just purchased and left more water than the ground could hold.
‘This is what we found in the walls of the finished basement when removing ruined sheetrock,’ she wrote.
The strange incident drew the attention of hundreds of thousands on social media, and Cathy added a photo of a place were the bottles were dropped.
Many Instagram users cracked jokes around Melvin’s 99 Bottles of Beer song.
‘Lmao 99 bottles of rum in the wall,’ wrote one Instagram user.
’98 bottles of rum in the wall, 98 bottles of rum…’ commented another user.
One user remarked: ‘You bought a house from captain Morgan himself.’
It came full circle when Cathy revealed that the old homeowner got in touch.
‘The person who did it saw the video after it went viral and reached out and said there are hundreds more,’ she said.
‘But also that he is now three years sober.’
It is not the only recent occasion of unexpected discoveries in walls of homes.
Last February, residents of a home in Santa Rosa, California, called pest control who removed about 700 pounds of acorns that spilled out through the walls.
And in May 2023, a first-time homebuyer in Centennial, Colorado, made a terrifying discovery of snakes in the walls of her house.
This article was originally published on June 28, 2024.
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