An Incredibly Nostalgic Trove Discovered in a Man’s Childhood Home

Most of us have attics, right? They’re often a place where we store all of our junk or stuff we don’t need all year round. Christmas decorations, old clothes, and photo albums all linger in our attics. Well, for one man, Rudi Schaltter, he would come across a mystery in the attic of his childhood home. Rudi’s father built a house in what was Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, where the family lived up until the end of World War II. Almost 70 years later, Rudi would return to the home and find a tiny little string that would change everything.

Let's cast ourselves back to Czechoslovakia in 1945. WWII had just finished, and German citizens were asked to return to Germany. This is where Rudi comes in. He was a young boy at this time, and when he and his family were sent back to Germany, their family home was taken from them.

Rudi had since built a life in Germany with a big family of his own, but he never forgot his times in Czechoslovakia. At 80 years old, Rudi was ready to make the journey that would lead to the discovery of this mysterious string.

Ever since they moved back to Germany, Rudi spent his whole life working tirelessly to save up money so that one day he could return to his childhood home. Not only was he working hard to save money, but he also had a big family to look after.

Rudi's life felt like it had flown by. It literally seemed like yesterday that he was a small child living in Czechoslovakia, surrounded by the terrors of war. It was like he woke up the next day and had lived a full life, now 80 years old. He knew it was now or never for this journey.