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