Homeowners Found Dozens of Bottles of Bootlegged Booze Hidden in the Walls of Their House

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They’d heard rumors their new home was once owned by a notorious Prohibition-era bootlegger. Now it seems they’ve found the goods.

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In 2019, Nick Drummond and his partner purchased an old house in Ames, a village in upstate New York. An architectural designer, Drummond began renovating the house and, this month, launched social media accounts for @bootleggerbungalow to document the project. Drummond explained the name in his first Instagram post: “We were told the home was rumored to have been built by a childless German baron who turned to bootlegging in the 1920s,” he wrote. Drummond said, initially, they believed the rumors of a man named Adolph Humpfner were probably false.

However, Drummand says he found plenty of reasons to believe earlier this month. “We were just working on removing old finishes and everything and that’s when we found those first secret compartments,” he told Today. “I was trying to get the trim off (outside). I was taking this thing off and this whole thing fell out. At first, I assumed it was just insulation or something then I was like, why is there glass?” Drummond threw on the camera and documented that the entire area was packed solid with imported whisky dated from 1923.

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