Secret Hideaway: War Booty

Gursky Dept: It was last possessed by Beth Ann McFadden of Cornelius, N.C., who, while growing up in New Jersey, heard about the war booty her great uncle kept hidden behind a false wall panel in his basement, according to Vancouver Sun. After her great-uncle, Harry Gursky, died in 1988, the 11 paintings -- limp canvases removed from their frames -- went to McFadden's parents. Her mother kept them in a closet, unaware of whether they had any value and a cache of art stolen at the end of the Second World War is back where it belongs, after a 65-year odyssey featuring a transatlantic smuggling, a secret hideaway and -- in the end -- a little browsing on the Internet. "It was kind of a family secret," says McFadden, 45, a legal assistant. "We weren't supposed to talk about it." As reported in the news.
@t vancouver sun, browsing on the internet