# So did Donald Eugene Ivens ever materialise? (Follow-up to "found wallet from the 70's" thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-donald-eugene-ivens-ever-materialise-follow-up-to-found-wallet-from-the-70s-thread/536097 "2010-04-14T18:27:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-donald-eugene-ivens-ever-materialise-follow-up-to-found-wallet-from-the-70s-thread/536097/21 "2014-07-10T18:46:48Z")
I recently found a gold watch stuffed in a crack in the crawlspace wall. It was a retirement gift from 1971 and belonged to the former owner of the house according to the inscription. He’s been dead for 10 years but I traced his family through internet sleuthing and got a hold of them on Facebook. I sent the watch back to his family just this week. I too was curious about how it ended up there. It turns out that he was paranoid in his later years so he must have stashed it there. When I get some time I’m going to open that wall up some more and see if there’s anything else in there. ---
**Author:** ![filmyak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@filmyak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmyak)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-donald-eugene-ivens-ever-materialise-follow-up-to-found-wallet-from-the-70s-thread/536097/22 "2014-08-08T04:13:05Z")
> [@Schrade\_1](#): > > Just read the threadS in entirety from the beginning. > > Filmyak; I thought you said you’d tell the print media to take a hike, if they wanted the story only after you did the work. > > But perhaps if you called them now, you could sell the story to them for the $200 you spent on the search (or maybe you should count again, and see that you spent \ $615 😉 ) . Sorry I’m so late to this. Not reading as often as I used to. Naughty me! You know, if the media comes to me (which I seriously doubt will happen), I’ll consider it then. But I’m not going after them at this point. The mystery is solved, everything except WHY it ended up in the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-donald-eugene-ivens-ever-materialise-follow-up-to-found-wallet-from-the-70s-thread/536097/23 "2014-08-08T05:00:11Z")
> [@Anonymous\_Coward](#): > > I recently found a gold watch stuffed in a crack in the crawlspace wall. It was a retirement gift from 1971 and belonged to the former owner of the house according to the inscription. > > He’s been dead for 10 years but I traced his family through internet sleuthing and got a hold of them on Facebook. I sent the watch back to his family just this week. > > I too was curious about how it ended up there. It turns out that he was paranoid in his later years so he must have stashed it there. When I get some time I’m going to open that wall up some more and see if there’s anything else in there. Be careful, you may find what he was paranoid about… or worse, IT may find YOU. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-donald-eugene-ivens-ever-materialise-follow-up-to-found-wallet-from-the-70s-thread/536097/24 "2014-08-08T05:35:29Z")
I’m really hoping Brenhen gets back to us with DEI’s explanation regarding the wallet. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-donald-eugene-ivens-ever-materialise-follow-up-to-found-wallet-from-the-70s-thread/536097/25 "2014-08-08T08:15:19Z")
When people tear into the walls of our house, they will find: one hammer, at least two screwdrivers, a pair of kitchen tongs and a pair of pliers. All in the same wall. We had some trouble pulling wire. Oh, and the stuff we put, on purpose, behind the giant mirror in the bathroom. There’s a picture of the bathroom before we remodeled, pictures of us and one of the people we bought it from, and some pretty polished rocks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-did-donald-eugene-ivens-ever-materialise-follow-up-to-found-wallet-from-the-70s-thread/536097.md?page=1)