Doorbell removal

We had non functional wireless doorbells installed by the PO, which I decided to remove because everyone who came to the door assumed they worked and woudln't knock... or use the mechanical doorbells so we were always never home! I removed them to find some old wires behind for the previous, wired door bell. To my shock and horror the wires were still live, I had accidentally crossed them and they sparked. I tried to pull them out, but they went very deep, so I cut off a sample seen in the 2nd image.

I went around to the side door and removed its doorbell too, found newer wires than the candy cane striped ones found on the front, 

 

I found the hookup where all the doorbell wires were connected to, and shut off the power and disconnected them.

 Look at that mess, how all the wires were spliced together! Who lives live wires buried in the wall connected to nothing and/or doorbells that don't function!??!

So I pulled out the wires to the front doorbell from the basement, filled it with wood putty and sanded it, and eventually to paint over it.

I wasn't able to pull the wiring out from the second doorbell, so I cut it back as far as I could and buried the dead, disconnected wires, the cracked clapboard to the right, I believe is what they hid and ran the wires behind because I couldn't pull those out from either end despite being disconnected.

Doorbell holes were filled better than that, I just didn't have a more recent pic.