A couple from New York's Staten Island discovered a treasure buried in their backyard. They found a rusting safe containing $52,000 worth of cash, diamonds, gold and jade. Wait till you find out what they did with it.
According to Staten Island Advance, Matthew and Maria Colonna Emanuel had asked a local company to replace some trees in their backyard. It was the landscapers who discovered the safe, which they initially described as a "metal box."
"I thought it had something to do with electricity or something," Mr Emanuel told Staten Island Advance.
They pulled it out and that's when they noticed a dial, suggesting it was a safe.
After cracking open the safe with a pickaxe, the couple was stunned to find thousands of wet wads of dollars, simply rotting away. "And there are all these bags with hundreds and jewelry, diamonds, engagement rings, dozens of rings, gold with jade," Mr Emanuel told CBS New York. "It was stunning."
Inside was also a piece of paper with their neighbour's address, reports New York Daily News. "First I knocked on the door and I asked them if they were ever robbed and they said they were," Mr Emanuel told CBS New York. They'd been robbed in 2011.
Why the burglar dumped the safe in their neighbour's home and never came back to retrieve the loot remains a mystery.
The Emanuels returned the cash and jewels to their rightful owners. "A couple of people asked us, 'Why did you return it?'," Ms Emanuel told CBS New York. "It wasn't even a question. It wasn't ours."
According to Staten Island Advance, Matthew and Maria Colonna Emanuel had asked a local company to replace some trees in their backyard. It was the landscapers who discovered the safe, which they initially described as a "metal box."
"I thought it had something to do with electricity or something," Mr Emanuel told Staten Island Advance.
After cracking open the safe with a pickaxe, the couple was stunned to find thousands of wet wads of dollars, simply rotting away. "And there are all these bags with hundreds and jewelry, diamonds, engagement rings, dozens of rings, gold with jade," Mr Emanuel told CBS New York. "It was stunning."
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Why the burglar dumped the safe in their neighbour's home and never came back to retrieve the loot remains a mystery.
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