When a couple saw the old house that stood nestled in the rural Mohawk Valley farming village of Ames, they were instantly drawn to it. With plans to renovate and restore the early-20th-Century house, they decided to start in the old mudroom – a 70-square-foot space that, oddly, seemed to have been added on to the house as an afterthought.
But when they started to remove the rotten skirting boards, they unwittingly unsealed the first in a string of secrets that the house had been keeping. Although they were nervous about what else they would find, nothing could have prepared them for what they eventually uncovered about the home’s twisted past.