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Joe Harker
The biggest ever haul in Storage Wars history ended up turning a $480 auction into a $7.5 million jackpot.
You can find all sorts of things on shows like Storage Wars and sometimes people can make extraordinary discoveries by sheer luck.
However, the most valuable lot anyone involved with the show was ever part of ended up turning a $480 investment into $7.5 million after an incredible discovery.
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Fans of Storage Wars might be familiar with Dan Dotson, as he ended up being the guy who sold the seemingly innocuous lot, which turned out to be concealing a hidden treasure trove.
However, the lucky buyer didn't manage to hold onto the vast majority of this stonking amount of money after the unit's previous owners heard about what had happened.
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 said they'd hired experts to crack open the safe and when they finally did manage to get it open, they discovered that the safe had contained $7.5 million in cash.
"Then they got a phone call, mysteriously, from an attorney representing the folks that lost the money and the goods inside the unit." he said.
"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?"
Whichever way you slice it, 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, Looper reported that this dramatic event occurred on a non-filming day so the cameras weren't around to capture the incredible moment.
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.