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Welcome back to the Most Amazing channel on the internet, I am your host Rebecca Felgate
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and at our Toronto meet up, we will have loads of goodies to give away!
Okay, onwards into the Top 10 lucky storage unit finds….if this is your jam, give this
video a thumbs up!
10 - Real life Pirate Treasure Ah, a true classic from the TV show Storage
Wars!
So hosts Dan and Laura Dotson auctioned off a storage unit for just 1 thousand dollars
to a man named John Cardoza from San JoseThe idea of the show is that storage unites are
auctioned off blind without a knowledge of contents.
Luckily for John, inside he found 200 year old Spanish pirate treasure dating from the
16th to the 19th treasure.
The media jumped on the story, hailing john as the new owner of legit pieces of eight!
The box containing the coins was so heavy it took three people to move it.
The loot was valued at 500 thousand dollars…so…yeah, good old John got a 500 percent return on
his investment.
Awesome.
Errr….so next up we have Nicolas Cage’s stolen comic book collection!
What a bizarre story at number 9 Luckily for actor Nicholas Cage, his comic
book collection was found at a storage unit in Southern California in 2011.
The collection had been stolen over 11 years prior from his home in LA.
The collection included the first ever Superman comic, Action Comics One, which in itself
is worth over a million dollars.
The total value of the collection was 2.1 million dollars, and even though Cage had
received an insurance pay out for the stolen collection, he wanted to be reunited with
it.
He said "It is divine providence that the comic was found and I am hopeful that the
heirloom will be returned to my family."
It is not all storage wars here, or even extreme megabucks, sometimes your average person finds
something of value and it means a lot to them.
That is what happened with ebay user VermontGirl77 who simply found two skateboards at number
8.
In 2015, a humble storage unit renter acquired two old skateboards that she listed on ebay.
Little did she know the abandoned sports gears value.
The Vintage Burton Skateboards started a bidding war that ended up banking the lucky finder
over 30 thousand dollars.
Talk about a lucky find from someone who had no idea what they were looking at!
7 - 1966 Ford Mustang A family from Massachusetts explored a forgotten
storage unit belonging to a deceased family member and found an old 1966 Ford Mustang
that had sat there for 40 years!
How do you forget you have a car!
Cars are meant to be driven, especially mustangs.
Mustaaang sally!
Well, luckily it was found in the end as the family sold the old car at an auction in Greenwich,
Connecticut for nearly 160 thousand dollars.
What a find.
Another car up next at number 6, this time one driven by James Bond…
Back in 1989, a Long Island contractor splashed out a meagre 100 dollars for a storage unit
– not knowing what it contained.
The next day, he discovered that, hidden under some old blankets was a weird car boat hybrid.
They thought it was worthless until a trucker transporting the vehicle asked if the car
was from James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me.
Turns out it was!
It was the iconic Lotus Espirit from an underwater scene.
It later sold for just under a million dollars at auction to none other than Elon Musk.
It isn’t always cash that constitutes a lucky find…sometimes the evidence needed
to solve a murder case is hiding away in a storage unit waiting to be discovered …details
coming in at number 5 Rick Ratzlaff bought a storage unit in Colorado
when he found evidence to a 10 year old unsoved murder case.
The locker, bought in Canon City, contained bloody clothes and other pieces of incriminating
evidence associated with the murder of 17 year old Candace Hiltz.
Hiltz mother believed that her daughters murder was covered up by the Fremont County Sheriff’s
department, and indeed the locker did belong to the lead investigator in the case, Lt Robert
Dodd.
As a result of the find, Dodd faced fire and was placed on leave.
Luckily the find exposed a corrupt cop, but the evidence couldn’t be used as it had
been contaminated.
Imagine finding a long lost piece of art by a famous artist in storage?
That is what happened to Darrell Sheets, who came across a Frank
Guttierrez original.
That is coming in to number 4 Once again, storage wars for the win!
Darrel forked out just over 3 thousand dollars for a storage unit and was lucky enough to
find he had inadvertently bought a space containing a long lost Guttierrez art work, which was
valued at 300 thousand dollars.
At the time, in 2012, it was the biggest payout in the shows history!
A million dollars of Hollywood Memorabilia at number 3
Not only is that lucky, it is pretty darn cool!
Again, another offering from the Storage Wars Team, this time Dan and Laura Dotson came
across an abandoned storage unit in Orange, California contain 40,000 piece of old Hollywood
memorabilia.
In the unit they found props, costumes, posters, scrips, production cells, publicity photos
and artwork, including original work from Tim Burton!
How do these guys keep doing it!
They must be the luckiest storage hunters in the world.
I like this story at number 2, we have Millions of dollars of Bonds!
In December 2016, A Fresno California man found millions of dollars worth of bonds in
a storage he bought at auction.
The unit contained a chest, which in itself contained a beautiful slice of history and
a life changing amount of money.
Alongside old propaganda posters and old coins, he found 5 million dollar bonds from 1927,
which of course would be worth a lot more today.
Instead of trying to cash in the money himself, good hearted finder, Ryan Harper, is looking
to reunite the treasure with its owner, or owners living family members.
How nice is that!
Finally, at number one, perhaps one of the most valuable storage unit finds , we have
the 6 Million Dollar Beach Boys Haul!
Wouldn’t it be niceeeeeeeee to find original work from the Beach Boys!
Oh my goodness!
Talk about a lucky Storage Unit find!
A Florida radio station bought a locker containing what they thought was just documents and paper,
but it actually turned out to be handwritten lyrics, original scores and the first royalty
cheque of The Beach Boys.
The band tried to get legal ownership of the memorabilia but it was ruled a fair find so
was cleared for sale.
The items collectively sold for over 6 million dollars at auction!
So that was the Top 10 lucky storage unit finds - which of these would you most like
to come across?
It sounds like we all need to sign up to storage wars, am I right?
Get me that Pirate treasure!