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OCEAN CITY, N.J. (FOX 29) - For a New Jersey couple, a renovation project led to the discovery of love notes in their ceiling.
Video shows Scott Fisher gutting the house he and his fiancee bought in Ocean City preparing to make renovations. Anyone who's done this will tell you that you never know what you'll find.
"It was actually right up in this corner right here," said Scott pointing to the ceiling. What came falling from the ceiling along with all the insulation were dozens of envelopes and handwritten letters.
"I checked the dates and they're corresponding like day-after-day. It was almost every single day that there was a letter being written for almost a month," he said. Scott immediately called his fiancee, Magi, to come home and in the midst of studs and drywall.
"It was like hours. It took up some time, definitely," they said. The couple poured into what they describe as a love story.
"It says, I've enclosed two pictures I took for you. I hope you like them. Please tell me what you think of them. I got my new glasses. They're lighter in color and a little different shape," said Magi reading the letters. They believe they've connected the dots.
"It was a guy in the Coast Guard on a base in Cape May. He was writing letters back and forth with a woman from Ocean City and there were photos and polaroid pictures, letters from his mom and photos of him with his mom as a baby from the '50s and polaroids from the '70s," said Magi.
And President Eisenhower stamps. The postage was just 5 and 8 cents. Magi calls it a time capsule.
"Photos bring you back to a time and a place. The decor and the lamp and just the way the woman was dressed in the photos. It all tells a story," said Magi.
The letters were mostly about the man's daily routine in the Coast Guard, love and longing for the days when they'd see each other again. But for the soon to be newlyweds who found them the letters make them feel at home in their new home.
"It just makes it feels like we're in the right place," said Magi.
They say they've tracked down the family of the man who the letters were written to and they'll let us know if and when they can get the package back to him.