Picture this: You purchase a storage unit for $500 and inside find a safe containing $7.5 million in cash. Do you return the money to the original owner or keep it for yourself? That’s precisely the scenario one man found himself in after obtaining a unit auctioned off by A&E’s “Storage Wars” star Dan Dotson.

“The first person they called to open the safe, I guess, couldn’t, or didn’t, so they called a second person,” Dotson said in a video posted to Facebook and YouTube after a friend of the buyer’s told him the remarkable story.

“When that person opened it up, inside the safe — normally they’re empty, but this time it wasn’t empty — it had $7.5 million cash inside the safe.”

After discovering their storage shed had been sold, the original owners had their attorney offer the new owners a deal: $600,000 to give the money back. Eventually, the new owners settled on an increased cut of $1.2 million in exchange for the return, meaning everyone walked away a winner.

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