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Im in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. Its an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one mans strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. My names barry martin. I inherited a tiny, hundredyearold house from a little old lady. If there ever was a realestate niche, this is one. Hi, barry. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Nice to meet you. I meet barry in front of this little house. Yep, this is it his strange inheritance. Its just 600 square feet, and its now surrounded by a huge Shopping Mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. Who leaves this to somebody . Well, edith left it to me. Edith . Yep. Love to learn more. Okay. Come on. Barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shinglemill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. There was fishing on elliot bay the ....
To bequeath these shackles to my greatgreatgrandfather. Really . Is it a genuine piece of history . What does it feel like to hold them in your hands . I just go, wow. It is a wow. Im jamie colby, and im heading into buhl, idaho, today to meet a man with a really strange inheritance. Its a link to a figure out of the history books who remains as divisive as the day he was hanged for murder and treason. My name is john boling. In 2010, my mother died, leaving behind a very unusual relic that had been in the family for over 150 years. Hi, john. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Welcome to beautiful, bucolic southern idaho. Thanks for having me. Well, we got a lot to talk about. Come on inside. John boling is a paramedic and the youngest of four children. Okay. Ladies first. Thank you. His strange inheritance comes from his moms side of the family a long line of congregationalist ministers dating back to the 1800s. But its not until johns 18 years old and his air force dad retires to oregon that he fi ....