Dan Dotson, the familiar face of the reality TV show A & E "Storage Wars", was standing up at a charity event in Indio on November 1 when a silent woman approached him.

She had a story to tell the auctioneer.

His friend bought a storage unit in Dotson the previous month in southern California – and found $ 7.5 million in that warehouse. This was a surprise to the buyer and the auctioneer.

"It was an incredible story," Dotson told Desert Sun as he recalled the exchange. "She said," I have to tell you this story, my husband works for a guy who bought you a unit and there was a safe inside. "

Dotson tried to hear the woman after the din of the event – the Cars, Stars and Rock's Roll, charity auctions, in Indio, a city known for hosting the music and dance festival. 39, Coachella Valley art.

But he has grasped the essence of the story: "She said," There was a safe in the unit. The first guy could not open it, so they called a second guy and there was $ 7.5 million, "and I said $ 7.5 million? And she answered "Cash".

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Dotson refused to share the name of the woman, the city in which the unit was sold or the name of the new owner of the unit, citing reasons of confidentiality and security. This auction has not been registered for the popular A & E series.

Mr Dotson said that when the original owners of the storage unit discovered that their storage locker was being sold, they asked their lawyer to contact the new owner in order to negotiate an agreement to recover the storage unit. ;money. The lawyer initially offered $ 600,000 to the new owner of the unit on $ 7.5 million, but they eventually agreed to retain $ 1.2 million and return the rest.

Dotson and his wife, Laura, told the story in a video posted on Nov. 7 on YouTube. On the video, Laura Dotson asks viewers what they would have done with this money.

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"I would feel so worried," she said. "I feel it would not be clean money."

Laura Dotson adds that the story of a storage unit is sometimes a mystery. Sometimes the landlord moves away, forgets to pay rent, ends up in prison or even dies.

"Who knows, but it happens all the time and it's the modern treasure hunt," she said.

While Dan and Laura Dotson are known as auctioneers featured in "Storage Wars," this sale was simply a routine sale by their US-based American Caliresa company, American Auctioneers, California.

But Dan Dotson said he would tell this story over the next 20 years. Although his work has led buyers to find many great treasures, no unit has ever accumulated so much money in his experience.

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