The Most Messed Up Finds On Storage Wars
What's the most unexpected thing you can find in a storage locker? If you said 'bones, blood, and more bones,' you'd be right. Here's what Storage Wars dug up in these impromptu mausoleums.
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00:00What's the most unexpected thing you can find in a storage locker? If you said bones, blood,
00:05and more bones, you'd be right. Here's what storage wars dug up in these impromptu mausoleums.
00:11Abandoned storage units seem to be no stranger to skeletal remains. In one of just many strange
00:15finds, we turn to the Season 5 episode, The Return of the King of Montebello. In this
00:20episode, Brandy Pisante, Jared Schultz, and their team crack open one of their many purchased
00:24lockers. Inside is a couch, an old lamp, a raft with oars, some burned corn on the cob,
00:28and what seems to be a box of occult objects.
00:31What is this?
00:33Some weird voodoo stuff.
00:34The magical find in question was dubbed the Voodoo Box, which is likely an insult to actual
00:38practitioners of the voodoo religion. There's some kind of small antlered skull, a bag of
00:42chicken bones, a rattle, a totem with chicken beaks attached to it, and a slender wooden
00:46carving of a man with a chicken hat that attaches to the top of his staff.
00:50This feels like some bad juju voodoo.
00:53While nobody else was taking it too seriously, Brandy found it legitimately off-putting. Brandy
00:57and Jared bought the locker for $900 and apparently made a profit on it.
01:02Of course, these weren't the only mystery bones that have been found in Storage Wars.
01:05In the Season 11 episode, Biorina, Daryl Sheets and his granddaughter Zoe sift through a locker
01:09that he purchased for $500. Along the way, we get to witness Daryl's profound gift for
01:14overpricing semi-functional junk, like even a generously described wine rack of $50 value.
01:20And then there's a box of surprisingly clean, individually wrapped animal skeletons.
01:23That's a bird. You can tell by the beak right there.
01:28Daryl and Zoe head to a natural history store called The Bone Room to try and price their
01:31finds. The store proprietor takes a look at four of the skeletons, a bat, a crow, a squirrel,
01:35and a snake. While Zoe finds it all delightfully cool and educational, Daryl isn't having quite
01:40as much fun.
01:41It's a little morbid to me.
01:43Oh, well.
01:44The proprietor concludes that the animals were likely roadkill and had been stripped
01:47in a home job that wasn't quite as perfectly done as the official way, which would be using
01:51beetles to eat the flesh off. Ultimately, it was illegal to sell the bones because they're
01:55roadkill. We're guessing Daryl would have priced the set at $2 million.
01:58I kinda wanna puke.
02:01Finding bones isn't anything new. It's just that they're not usually someone's uncle.
02:05In the show's first season episode, Skullduggery, Dave Hester climbs into another storage locker
02:10to dig out what's inside. He finds a framed map of the United States, some bins with clothes,
02:14some books, and a musical instrument case.
02:17So this should be some kind of… holy s***.
02:22Yes, that's a real human skull inside.
02:25Hopefully it's not an unsolved mystery or anything like that.
02:28Thankfully, Hester's fears were unfounded. The skull had hinges on it, and some bones
02:32had nylon strings running through them. The entire skeleton was perfectly clean, too,
02:37so it was probably used in a formal medical setting. That doesn't mean it wasn't a murder
02:41victim at some point, though. The ethics of the human bone trade are notoriously problematic,
02:45for obvious reasons.
02:46The proprietor of the store where Hester took the skeleton appraised each bone individually,
02:51placing the skull at $700, the hand at $300, the femur at $90, each vertebrae at $20, and
02:57so forth. The whole skeleton was valued at $1,670, against $1,350 for the locker.
03:03One man's bones pays another man's bills.
03:07You know what you totally don't need? All that extra blood in your body. At least, that's
03:11what folks thought until the late 19th century. The idea was that illnesses arose from an
03:16imbalance of bodily fluids. In order to purge the body of bad mojo — maybe reduce a fever
03:21or get rid of a rash — sometimes you just had to get rid of some blood.
03:24And back in the first season of Storage Wars, Daryl Sheets discovered a medical bloodletting
03:28device built just for this purpose. Sheets found himself rummaging through another locker
03:32and discovered some records and a fog machine before unearthing a, quote,
03:35strange music box or something that turned out to be a medical bleeder from the mid-19th
03:39century. The device's use was deceptively simple. A doctor would have wielded it to
03:43cut a patient and let them bleed. Sheets wound up getting $500 for the bleeder, which is
03:48a pretty decent amount seeing as he paid $250 for the locker.