MARBLEHEAD, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Moving day for one family led to a total surprise in one local town. Hidden cash that was stashed away for years was suddenly found, and that's not where the story ends.
Flannery's Handymen move furniture for a living, and on those jobs they find all of things that were misplaced or forgotten.
Ryan Barrington, part of the crew, says they've found everything from cash to wedding rings, and Tuesday was one of those days. Barrington and crew were moving a piece of furniture when suddenly something caught his eye.
"It was a manila envelope kind of folded with rubber bands around it," he said.
The envelope held $10,000 and thousands in bonds.
"I pulled out a couple of $1,000 dollar bonds and there had to be close to 75 to a hundred of them," Barrington told FOX 25's John Monahan.
His first instinct was to show the elderly woman who was packing up and leaving from her family home.
"She was in the room with her daughter and I came in and showed her and she took a step back and sat down and tears came to her eyes. Tears of joy," he said.
The lady who prefers to remain anonymous wasn't the only happy person.
"I knew it was the right thing to do just seeing how happy she was," Barrington said.
He went on to say, "Just a sense of closure from her late husband just knowing that he left them something, something that might have been missing. I'm not sure."
Why the money was lost remains unclear, but finding it transformed this regular task into a moving experience.
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