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

To win a massive sum of money is a dream for many people but for one lucky person on Storage Wars, this dream came true.

On a good day on Storage Wars a person can turn a tidy profit and walk away with a couple hundred dollars more, maybe even a couple grand. Most people don’t expect their investment to return them millions.

The seemingly luckiest find the show was ever part of saw a person turning $480 into $7.5 million after a once in a lifetime discovery.

Storage Wars host and auctioneer Dan Dotson said he sold the seemingly innocuous lot unaware that inside was 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 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.

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

Facebook/Dan and Laura Dotson

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.