Most expensive find ever on Storage Wars was worth $7.5 million

One lucky person was able to walk away with millions after quite the find on Storage Wars.

When you sign up to the Storage Wars TV show you might expect to walk away with a couple grand, normally a bit of a tidy profit.

Most people don’t expect they will end up being millionaires by the end of it.

Storage wars host Dan Dotson, who also acts as an auctioneer during show, explained that he initially didn't think anything of the lot before discovering the hidden treasure trove.

The lucky owner was able to turn $480 into $7.5 million, obviously making a hefty profit off of the once in a lifetime discovery.

Unfortunately, the lucky buyer wasn't able to hold on the majority of the amount as the unit's previous owners heard about what happened. Talk about bad luck.

Dotson explained that a woman came up to him and told him that her husband had bought a unit from him, which contained a safe of unknown contents.

The woman explained that the couple hired experts to crack the safe and reveal its contents. When they did manage to get it open, they found a mind-blowing haul of $7.5 million in cash.

Facebook/Dan and Laura Dotson

"Then they got a phone call, mysteriously, from an attorney representing the folks that lost the money and the goods inside the unit." Dotson said as he explained the rare find.

"They offered $600,000, then they doubled it to $1.2 million and they gave them $1.2 million in exchange, I guess they gave them back $6.3 million.

"The question is would you give it back, or would you keep it and would you run for the hills, or would you look over your shoulder. What would you do?"

Now whatever way you look at it, it seems like a happy ending for everyone involved to me.

Facebook/Dan and Laura Dotson

Making $1.2 million off a storage unit you bought for almost $500 is one hell of a good day's business.

Sadly, for Storage Wars fans, if you were wondering why you had never seen this episode it is because this dramatic event occurred on a non-filming day.

Still, there have been plenty of mega-money hauls viewers have been able to enjoy thanks to the show, including a lot which went for $2,000 and contained half a million dollars in gold coins.

Other big money spinners often include collections of art, which can net hundreds of thousands of dollars from a much lower investment, like the unit which sold for $3,600 on the show and contained over 300 pieces of artwork with a combined value of over $300,000.

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