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>> do you have a strange inheritance story you'd like to share with us? we'd love to hear it. website. strangeinheritance,.com. coming up next is "strange inheritance." thank you for joining 100,000 creepy crawlers.?0"s >> spiders will cover your whole face. >> all collected from the far reaches of the world. >> wait, is it alive? talk about a bug -- >> walt disney went into the museum and wanted to buy the collection. >> but there's a bigger story behind this bizarre collection. ♪ ♪ >> i'm jamie colby and right

Millions? somebody tells you you're 6. sitting on >>6a=ñ there are some insects that have never been seen since. there are some thought to be: extinct extinct2;j cf1 o >> for bugs. this whole place feels like a time capsule. to the may family/me the collectiona legacy, but i learn it's also a scientific marvel of sorts.u!; >> you must be jamie. >> hey, are you sam? sam johnson has beenrp!eñ coming to the may natural history museum for more than six decades. it inspired a childhood passion that paefedriou the way for a -- and high school biology teacher. >> i bring my classes here every year ...

By early 2012 it's painfully clear that something has to be done. >> my mom and cousin continued doing what they had before, but it created a bunch of stress. jamie: from the time of the first great depression when her grandfather and great-grandfather took the show on the road, the bugs had supported the may family. was it time to fold up the tent? >> i asked each person in turn what they thought they wanted to see happen to the existing operation and what they wanted out of it. that was an eye-opening experience all of their own. jamie: finds -- find out what hs in the financial gusher that ...

But what i can do is change your mind if i told you that it was was a priest for millions. >> you are sitting on money in terms of value. >> some of these insects have never been seen since and some are thought to be extinct but not confirmed, but the collection was assessed between five to $6 million. jamie: per bug? >> this whole thing feels like a time capsule. jamie: it's a priceless legacy for the may family. but it's also a scientific marvel. the museum inspired a childhood passion and paved the way for a career as an entomologist in high school biology teacher. >> i bring my biology cla...

Jamie: on may 1, 1952, the may natural history museum opened its doors. the may family is finally home, only to lose their master bug collector when he died in 1956 at the age of 72 years old. >> probably have somewhere between 170,000 specimens. more or less his legacy is that he is the one that collected essentially all of it. reporter: the future of this strange inheritance is in the hands of john may who has even bigger plans for it. those plans include the biggest name in theme parks,. >> walt disney wanted to buy the collection to be one that is coming up next. announcer: first, our bird...