Avez-vous déjà entendu parler de découvertes qui changent la vie par pur hasard ? Il y a ce gars qui est tombé sur une pierre à l'apparence étrange, a commencé à l'utiliser comme un cale-porte, et boum - c'était une météorite qui vaut une fortune ! Puis il y a ce couple qui a acheté un canapé, a trouvé une cachette secrète à l'intérieur d'un ours en peluche rempli d'argent. Parlez de chance, n'est-ce pas ? Et n'oublions pas la personne qui a acheté un tableau lors d'une vente de garage, pour découvrir ensuite un chef-d'œuvre caché en dessous. La vie a vraiment des surprises incroyables en réserve ! Animation créée par Sympa.
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00:00 In May 2015, David Howell caught his metal detector and went to look for gold.
00:06 He chose the perfect place for that.
00:08 Maryborough, near Melbourne, in Australia, was the privileged place for antipodes during the 19th century gold rush.
00:15 The detector beeped, showing that there was something precious buried in the ground.
00:20 David discovered a reddish and very heavy rock, with a strange and bumpy surface resting in yellow clay.
00:26 As it turned out later, this discovery was indeed priceless, but only for science.
00:32 David brought the stone home, hoping to be able to open it and find a gold nugget.
00:37 He tried a rock saw, an angle grinder, a drill, and plunged the stone into the acid.
00:43 Nothing worked. Even a mass of construction sites did not do the trick.
00:47 A few years later, he decided to take the stone to the Melbourne Museum, to finally discover what it really was.
00:53 It turned out to be a meteorite of a rare kind.
00:57 The geologist who worked at the museum was at a loss.
01:00 After years of examining thousands of stones that people thought were meteorites,
01:05 he had finally got hold of the object of all his inquiries.
01:09 The spatial origin of the rock explains why it was so exceptionally heavy, with its 17 kilos.
01:17 It contained dense forms of iron and nickel, and its elements weighed a lot.
01:21 It had obtained its rough surface when it had begun to melt as it crossed the Earth's atmosphere.
01:27 Researchers named the meteorite Maryborough after the place where it was found,
01:32 and used a diamond saw to study it in more detail.
01:35 They took a slice of the spatial rock, and saw tiny droplets crystallized with metallic minerals all along it.
01:42 These minerals formed during the first years of our solar system.
01:46 Does this mean that the spatial invitation was about 4.6 billion years old?
01:51 Researchers are still not quite sure of the origin of this meteorite, or how long it has been on Earth,
02:00 but they have some assumptions.
02:02 Our solar system was once a turbulent mixture of dust and chondrite.
02:07 Gravity did its job and formed planets, but there were remains,
02:11 and most of them ended up in a huge asteroid belt.
02:15 The meteorite Maryborough probably made a detour from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
02:22 It was ejected by asteroids hitting each other, to decide a beautiful day to crash on Earth.
02:28 Carbon dating indicates that this spatial rock has been on Earth for a century and a millennium.
02:34 There were meteor observations in the 19th century that could correspond to its spectacular arrival.
02:41 Scientists say that the Maryborough meteorite is even rarer than gold.
02:46 It is the 17th meteorite ever discovered in Victoria, Australia, and the second largest.
02:52 In the 1980s, a certain David Mazurek from Michigan decided to buy a farm not far from Mount Pleasant.
03:02 The new property was equipped with a strange bonus, a big rock that held the door to the open barn.
03:08 The farmer explained that this rock was a meteorite, and that it had literally fallen from the sky in the 1930s.
03:15 He and his father discovered the crater left by the meteorite, and dug out this uninhabited space, which was still hot.
03:21 And they did not find a better use for it than to serve as a door lock.
03:25 After all, what else can you do with a meteorite?
03:28 The new owner was able to keep this unconventional lock and had to become quite frantic.
03:33 When he moved to a new house, he took the rock with him and used it for the same purpose for another 30 years.
03:40 Sometimes, David let his children take it to school, which must have cost them some easy money in physics and astronomy.
03:47 He then heard that other inhabitants of Michigan were discovering and reselling pieces of meteorite for staggering sums of money.
03:57 As his piece weighed no less than 10 kilos, he decided to take it to the University of Central Michigan to find out the value.
04:04 A local geology teacher was starting to get tired of the same requests.
04:09 For about 18 years, she had to explain to people that the rocks he had brought her were anything but meteorites.
04:16 But this time, she had the impression of having indeed touched the big lot.
04:20 She analyzed the rock and determined that it was a meteorite made of iron and nickel.
04:26 It turned out to be the sixth largest discovery of this kind in Michigan, and the most precious sample she had ever worked with.
04:33 A slice was sent for another series of exams to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and soon everything was confirmed.
04:41 It also turned out that the meteorite was a piece of an old solar system.
04:46 The Smithsonian and another Maine museum offered a generous sum of money for the space rock.
04:51 But Masurek preferred to give up his meteorite to the Abrams Planetarium at the University of Michigan for $75,000.
04:58 He generously shared 10% of this money with the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Central Michigan,
05:05 where the true nature of the rock had been confirmed.
05:08 Let's hope the money he kept for himself was enough to buy a new wedge.
05:12 In a garbage can located in the corner of your building, you find a large white bag.
05:18 The kind you should report if you were at the airport.
05:22 It's very suspicious, and oh no, there's something moving inside.
05:26 You dare to approach it, carefully of course.
05:29 You want to open it, but you decide it's better to do it with a long stick.
05:33 So that's what you do, only to discover that inside, there are more than 10 snakes alive, wrapped around them.
05:41 But finally, who throws a bag full of snakes?
05:43 Even if this situation presents a serious risk to everyone's safety.
05:48 It happened several years ago in England.
05:50 It was disturbing, but you got through it with all your fingers, so it's a little victory.
05:56 Further down the street, you see another animal living freely.
06:01 It's a chicken this time.
06:03 You look around to see if you can find its owner, but this chicken seems to be completely alone.
06:09 What's going on? Is it a remake of Chicken Run, or is it what we call a chicken raised in the open air in urban areas?
06:16 Well, if you guessed that all this was real, you were right.
06:20 It also happened in England, where a surveillance camera captured images of this strange event.
06:26 If you want to multiply this by several million, then go see the island of Oahu in Hawaii,
06:31 where fabulous hordes of wild chickens roam everywhere, free as birds.
06:37 You approach a neighborhood bordered by a small forest and decide to explore a little.
06:41 You don't come here often, so everything is a little new.
06:44 You come across a first figure that scares you a little.
06:47 Is it supposed to be Groot, the Guardians of the Galaxy?
06:50 It looks like the Guardian of the Forest, at least.
06:53 Or at least someone put together these branches so that they look like this.
06:57 But it's just a natural phenomenon.
06:59 I imagine that Lady Nature also has an artistic fiber, right?
07:02 By passing the Guardian of the Forest, you come across what looks like a small mountain of something.
07:08 But what could it be?
07:10 Is it made of clay?
07:12 You get closer and closer until the mass begins to reveal itself more clearly.
07:16 You can't believe what you see.
07:18 These are hundreds of kilos of pasta.
07:20 Yes, pasta.
07:21 This delicious Italian dish that almost everyone loves.
07:25 How could someone throw such an impressive amount of noodles?
07:29 In view of your last meeting, you also thought that all this was natural.
07:33 Probably, a restaurant has made too many spaghetti and threw them away after they became inedible.
07:39 It may seem disturbing, but it happened in reality.
07:42 In the suburbs of New Jersey, someone fell on a hundred kilos of pasta.
07:47 The mystery of how they ended up there remains intact.
07:51 The pasta incident broke your heart a little.
07:55 But you continue your walk.
07:57 And that's where you find an old abandoned house.
08:00 It looks like no one has set foot in it for a very long time.
08:03 You see the usual objects of an abandoned house.
08:06 A torn sofa, some pots scattered on the ground, old pieces of fabric hanging.
08:11 But the surprise is in the basement.
08:13 Once you go down, you are totally taken aback when you see a huge reservoir of water with something swimming inside.
08:21 Not a pipe.
08:23 Could it really be a shark?
08:25 Absolutely. And its name is Rosie.
08:27 Recently, an urban explorer went to visit an abandoned animal park in Australia and found Rosie in a basin.
08:35 She had not been alive for years. But isn't that really weird?
08:39 Back in a part of the city, you stop in front of an electronics store.
08:43 The TV in the showcase shows some of the strangest and most unique natural phenomena in the world.
08:49 As you have experienced a lot of strange things these last few hours, you stay to watch.
08:55 Furniture gardening is really popular these days.
08:58 This activity has attracted a lot of attention because of the many TV shows that are dedicated to it all over the world.
09:05 But there are not only professional hunters who can hit the jackpot with great finds.
09:10 A couple from Arizona just wanted a sofa.
09:13 But they were not ready to buy a new one and wanted to save money.
09:16 So they took part in a auction and made a $10 offer for an old sofa.
09:21 As this furniture was not in very good condition, they were able to acquire it with the container in which it was.
09:27 And while searching the box, they had a great surprise.
09:31 They found an old teddy bear filled with money.
09:34 This teddy bear brought them about $300,000.
09:38 In 2011, another man made an interesting discovery by examining the contents of a furniture store in the San Fernando Valley.
09:46 What he found was an old comic strip called "Action Comics No. 1".
09:52 The man did not know how precious this magazine was, until he brought it to an expert for a good estimate of the form.
09:59 And it turned out that this comic strip was the first to present Superman.
10:04 But no luck, our friend had to give the comic to his former owner.
10:08 In reality, it had been stolen from a famous actor.
10:12 Himself a fan of comics and Superman in particular.
10:17 The actor had reported the disappearance of the magazine to his insurance company and the authorities, but no one knew where it was.
10:24 Finally, this comic strip of an estimated value of about $1 million found its legitimate owner 11 years after it was stolen.
10:32 Another extraordinary object was found in a furniture store in Melbourne, Australia.
10:38 It was a 1927 Harley Davidson 8-valve with a sidecar.
10:43 According to the experts, this fascinating vehicle remained there for more than half a century before reappearing in 2015.
10:51 It was put up for sale quite quickly and was bought for the staggering sum of 440,000 euros.
10:58 The sale of abandoned furniture stores is often fun.
11:02 You never know what you're going to find there, or the profit you're going to make.
11:08 Here is the story of a couple from Long Island who, for only $100, made the best purchase of their lives.
11:14 In their mysterious furniture store was a 1976 Lotus Esprit.
11:19 This car is special because of its design, but also because it is the one that was used in the 1977 James Bond "The Spy Who Loved Me".
11:29 At first, the couple had no idea that the car was famous.
11:33 So they just looked for a way to fix it so they could use it.
11:37 It's true that it looked pretty cool.
11:39 By bringing it to a garage, they discovered everything it had that was exceptional.
11:44 Quickly, they were able to determine its origin and they ended up selling it during a auction in 2013.
11:51 Its price? $997,000, or a little over 930,000 euros.
11:56 Another resident from Southern California discovered something incredible in an abandoned furniture store in 2017.
12:04 Its box was filled with vintage videos, consoles, and video games.
12:09 Thanks to an expert's estimation, he learned that all of this was worth more than 45,000 euros.
12:16 In 2010, another lucky person paid 250 euros for a store filled with what seemed to be just simple furniture.
12:24 But after examining the box more closely, he discovered an object that was actually worth a fortune.
12:30 A 1928 Marshall & Wendell piano.
12:34 After an estimate from a specialist, he learned that its find was worth between 9,000 and 11,000 euros.
12:41 Space technology in an abandoned furniture store?
12:44 This box was sold at an auction in Florida.
12:47 After inspecting it, its owner realized that it contained a NASA rocket and a countdown device.
12:54 Apparently, these objects had been placed there after the program had abandoned them.
12:59 This discovery went around the world and was talked about on television.
13:04 Celebrity singers' fans sometimes find their happiness in forgotten furniture stores.
13:08 Here is the story of a box containing the personal effects of Aretha Franklin.
13:13 Most of her belongings had been transported there after an incident at her home.
13:17 She had ended up abandoning her belongings.
13:19 Later, she even admitted to having forgotten them.
13:22 During the auction, bags, clothes and even receipts in her name were presented to the public.
13:29 It is rare that the old things that we find in our homes are of any value.
13:33 But this married couple really won the jackpot.
13:37 In Cleveland, Ohio, they had started renovating their house.
13:41 The man was ripping off the ceiling of the cellar when he noticed something behind the bars.
13:47 It was a small green suitcase. He found a second one in another part of the cellar.
13:52 At first, the couple thought that the suitcases contained old baseball cards.
13:57 But instead, they found a treasure worth 38,000 euros.
14:01 It was actually old bank notes and some were extremely rare.
14:06 The discovery enchanted them, but they did not spend the money to have fun.
14:11 The man claimed that he had used the money to pay the mortgage of their house.
14:15 These people were even luckier.
14:17 The inhabitants of a small English town in North Yorkshire were renovating a house.
14:22 And they discovered one of the greatest treasures of English gold coins of the 18th century,
14:27 never found in Great Britain.
14:30 The owner had removed a small clay vase the size of a can in the concrete below the floor.
14:36 The surface of the vase was covered with a thin layer of salt and inside there were about 260 gold coins.
14:44 The estimated value of this treasure was about 225,000 euros.
14:48 But it all depended on the auction.
14:51 The amount could reach half a million.
14:54 A user went to the building where his mother lived.
14:57 In the basement, he discovered the huge safe of a bank.
15:01 There was a round and thick metal door leading to the safe.
15:05 He did not find any money or gold, but the safe was in excellent condition.
15:10 Other Reddit users then discovered how this could happen.
15:14 When a bank goes bankrupt, it takes all its goods, except for its safe.
15:19 Disassembling such an object causes huge costs.
15:22 It cannot be removed without very expensive equipment.
15:25 This is why banks leave their safe in their old premises.
15:29 Another Reddit user wrote that a lawyer's office had bought the building of a bank and turned its safe into an office.
15:37 As they could not drill its thick wall to install a window, they simply hung a photo of a window.
15:44 Another user published the scary discovery he had made in his basement.
15:49 It was a huge dark hole filled with cold liquid.
15:53 The user did not panic. He had measured the hole.
15:57 It was only 2.5 meters deep and was half full of water.
16:02 He had not found anything else, neither secret rooms nor dungeons.
16:06 It was not just a simple pit, but a cistern.
16:09 It was Reddit users who helped our friend understand everything.
16:13 In the past, cistern houses were equipped to make water tanks.
16:18 These tanks were spread out in dry areas where there was no running water system.
16:24 Or when people were afraid that a river or a reservoir would be polluted, they collected rainwater and stored it in their cisterns.
16:31 To avoid the contamination of the surrounding soil, they cemented their walls.
16:35 Then they used this water to do the cleaning, for the bath and the laundry.
16:39 It is even possible to install filters in this type of reservoir to make the water drinkable.
16:45 This user found something strange, not in his house, but in the basement of the office where he worked.
16:52 In a dark concrete room, among all the brick, he saw a red iron door leading to the unknown.
16:59 "Do not open in any case" it was written on his cold surface.
17:03 There was no padlock, no lock, only bolts.
17:07 The user could have easily opened it, but he did not.
17:11 Would you dare? In fact, this door was not at all scary, but it was quite dangerous.