On the outside, this house may look like any other historic home in the north Denver neighborhood, but the interior tells a much different story. When Matt Feeney bought an 1891 Victorian home, it needed some TLC. He started to knock out the walls, and that's when he discovered a row of matches buried in the plaster. He ended up following a fuse-like object from the matches, which traveled behind the cabinets and was taped against the wall. Matt is convinced his residence had been rigged to burn, booby-trapped as a distraction mechanism. He also found a hidden door, which led to a small, empty chamber… And here's where things take an even stranger turn.
Matt learned the first homeowners were Denver's most famous connection to the mob, the Smaldone family. The Smaldones ran Denver's underground gambling from the 1930s to 1970. When they started bootlegging liquor, they would have needed a secret hideaway, or at the very least a place to destroy evidence. The chamber, perhaps?
There was also a series of unsolved murders, almost all of them thought to link back to the Smaldone family. But really, it's all just speculation that Matt's Victorian house was once a secret mobster hideaway — though the clues are definitely there.
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