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Im here to meet a family whos lived here for more than a 100 years. So when they unearthed their strange inheritance, they give it the code name the black swamp find. Im karl kissner. In 2011, my cousins and i inherited the family home from our aunt. She had left us a note we would find things in this home that we never knew existed. Karl, a 54yearold restaurant owner, has invited me to the family home in the small town of defiance, ohio. Karl . Hi. Im jamie. How are you . Very good. Pleasure to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. Thanks for having me. Is this the family home . This is grandmas home. Come on in. Ill show you around. The house first came into karls family in 1909. Neat old place, but needs a little tlc. Are you saying be careful . Yes. Okay. In 2012, karl and his cousins start the daunting task of cleaning out a home thats been lived in for more than a century. After several weeks of sorting through the house, only the attic remains. Karl and his cousin, karla, decide to t ....
Im jamie colby, and, today, im in encino, california. Will rogers once said, if there are no dogs in heaven, then when i die, i want to go where they go. But when the owners go first, especially the rich or eccentric ones, it can make for one strange inheritance. My name is tyson kilmer. Im an animal trainer. When one of my clients, sam simon, passed away in march of 2015, i inherited his dog, who is not exactly lassie, marmaduke, or any other lovably harmless pet youve seen on tv. Hi, kilmers. Im jamie. Im tyson kilmer. This is my wife, alison. Aliyah and tyler. How are you . Im great i heard your family has a living, breathing inheritance . Indeed, we do. We have a cane corso that used to belong to the late, great sam simon. Sam simon even if you dont recognize the name, you surely know his work as codeveloper, with Matt Groening, of that iconic and longrunning tv show, the simpsons. Sam was born in 1955 and grew up in beverly hi ....
Im jamie colby, and today, im driving through southern california, where so much of the groundbreaking work for nasas Moon Missions was done. Im going to los angeles to meet a woman who embraced the lifelong passion of her soul mate a love for all things outer space. My name is shelly cigel. And when my husband passed away, he left me with an incredible collection and a special gift from beyond the grave. Well, this is just a few Little Things that i took out. These nasa artifacts belonged to shellys husband, rick cigel, samples of a lifelong collection that includes everything from engine parts to autographs. And this is actually the flag that they had signed, and that was from apollo 12. Are these control panels . Look at this can i touch this . Absolutely. Please. Okay. Here we go. Can you imagine . Regulator bleed valve open. Check. M. O. M. Open. Check. Looks like it says ....
This is a biggie 1911 Shoeless Joe Jackson signed photograph. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] hi. Im jamie colby, and im heading along the shores of lake erie in cleveland, ohio. Today im meeting a woman who inherited a rare item that recalls the most notorious episode in baseball history an episode thats inspired books and movies and retains an air of mystery to this day. My name is sharon bowen. After my husband, bill, passed away, i started to receive lots of phone calls about a scrapbook that he had kept in a trunk in our bedroom. I knew very little about Shoeless Joe Jackson, but now i do. Bill and sharon bowen raise two children in a cleveland suburb. How long were you married . We were married 39 years. Bill, a professional fundraiser, works for local universities and the salvation army. Hes a native clevelander and a baseba ....
[ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] [ midtempo music plays ] im jamie colby, and today im heading to the annual blueberry festival in plymouth, indiana. Its not exactly the kind of place youd expect to see a massive california redwood, but this tree rocks because it rolls. My name is jamie allen, and, in 1985, when i was 23, my father passed away, and he left me something that his father left him, and its kept me on the road all my life. Jamie . Jamie . [ chuckles ] how are you . Its really great to meet you. And how funny we have the same name. Lets get started, then. All right, here we go. This is one serious tree trunk. [ midtempo folk music plays ] and the root of the story, according to jamie, is in the late 1930s. When her grandfather, james allen, is a lumberjack in northern california. James, a widower with a son in the army, sees redwood trees so massive that several men can easily fit inside the hollowed trunks. One day, during a sudden rain squal ....