Self
storage units are used by people from all walks of life, from average families
to the neighborhood eccentric to some of the world’s most famous celebrities. With the TV shows like Storage Wars
and American Pickers, it has brought a new curiosity about what people do put
into storage.
In 2009,
a 1937 Bugatti 57S was discovered in an English storage garage, where it sat
untouched for half a century. One of just a handful of these original supercars
ever made, experts believe it to be worth as much as $9 million. A surgeon,
Harold Carr, apparently put the car in storage after buying it in the 1950s.
When he died in 2007, his nephew uncovered the rare car.
A San Jose
man bought a storage unit at auction, later realizing that it contained
thousands of dollars in rare coins, and gold and silver ingots. Worth more than
half a million dollars, the gold mine was stored in an unlikely treasure chest:
a blue Rubbermaid container. The anonymous buyer paid $1,100 for the stash at a
storage unit auction.
Back in
2000, Nicholas Cage filed a police report after an extremely rare comic book
was stolen from his home in Los Angeles. More than a decade later, the comic
book (Action Comics #1 – worth more than a million dollars) turned up in an
abandoned storage unit. The man who purchased the storage unit at auction
contacted a comic book dealer, who happened to have been the same person to
have originally sold Cage the book. He recognized it instantly, and Nicholas
Cage has reportedly been reunited with his comic book.
Whilst we
have not uncovered anything as unusual as the above, we are wondering:
What is the most unusual thing you
have found in storage???