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When it comes to self-storage, most of us imagine furniture, piles of paperwork, boxes of clothes, unused toys and a whole host of other everyday household items. It would appear that more lurks behind those metal doors than we would have thought however. Self-storage units appear to have a secret world of their own and it has become such a fascinating subject that America even has an entire television programme dedicated to it. From the weird and wonderful, here are some of the strangest things that have ever been found in self-storage units. A live hand grenade If you live in America, finding guns and ammunition in storage isn't particularly uncommon. However, a man from Michigan was certainly in for a surprise when he found a live hand grenade casually sitting in a self-storage unit. A bomb squad was needed to successfully detonate the grenade but fortunately nobody was hurt. Treasure Pirates have famously sailed the world's seas in search of treasure and have encountered all sorts of danger along the way. Had they known about one particular abandoned self-storage unit in California, they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble. In 2011, a man from San Jose hit the jackpot when he bought a storage unit in a blind auction and ended up making a tidy little profit from it - inside was $500,000 worth of gold and silver. Unreleased Michael Jackson records A storage facility reclaimed a unit they had been renting out to someone because they hadn't been paying their bills. The workers were pleasantly surprised to find that the unit belonged to Joe Jackson, father of Michael Jackson. Inside they found over 270 of Michael's unreleased records and because he was in between record deals at the time, nobody had the legal rights to claim them. A body Having rented out a self-storage unit to a family in Florida for 17 years, the family was notified that their unit was going to be auctioned off due to unpaid rent. They were also asked to collect the contents because the owners of the company couldn't possibly sell the casket containing the family's dead grandmother that was found inside the unit. Samurai swords The cast of Storage Wars were more than surprised when they bought a unit at an auction and found professionally sharpened Samurai swords inside. Having faded away before the 20th century, the possibility that an ancient Japanese warrior may have been using self-storage for his weapons was more than a little baffling for the producers of the show. MStore offers self-storage for all your domestic, business and specialist requirements. To use the space calculator, find your nearest store or view our special offers, please visit our website Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Charles_Cockerton Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/7817645
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