Jarrod Whipple receives a message from a friend asking him to help clean up an abandoned barn.
Then Jarrod and the other friends came there, and did their best to clean it up, and then, as agreed, cleared the contents there.
In the process, Jarrod noticed many of the wrapped objects and felt that they were special, so he decided to keep them.
Unexpectedly, it was his own random move that brought a huge harvest to Jarrod.
The surface is covered with dust
Looking back on this incident, George Martin, who was with Jarrod at the time, still felt incredible, and he sighed: "The whole thing really feels very incredible. Like, how did this happen, what's hidden in it? ”
Jarrod lives in Connecticut, USA, and is an auto mechanic.
(Jared Whipple finds hundreds of works of art in a garbage dump.)
According to Jarrod, one day, he received a message from a friend who told him that he had an abandoned barn in Watertown and asked Jarrod to help clean up the contents.
So Jarrod came there with George and a few others. There, they saw a lot of things. In one of the buckets, Jarrod noticed that there were many wrapped items inside, covered with a thick layer of dust.
Curious, Jarrod reached in, took out one of them, and then removed the protective film on the surface, revealing a beautiful and unique work of art, which made Jarrod very happy.
He hurriedly took out other similar things with George, unpacked the outside, and displayed colorful or black-and-white paintings, exquisite sculptures, etc.
Jarrod and George took an inventory and found hundreds of them.
Looking at them, Jarrod couldn't let go, and if he got the treasure, he couldn't bear to throw them away along with other ordinary things. He decided to keep them in his possession.
In any case, Jarrod did not expect that such a move of his own would bring him such a big surprise.
Because later, he found that these objects that were supposed to be thrown away were not ordinary things, but the masterpieces of Francis Hines, a well-known but oversized artist in the United States.
(One of the works harvested by Jarrod Whipple)
Evaluated by professionals and worth millions of dollars, Jarrod couldn't have been happier.
Get permission from the family of the owner of the painting to leave the things behind
Later, Jarrod became famous.
However, according to Jarrod, when he learned that the masterpieces belonged to Hines, he did not intend to quietly collect them.
He inquired around, contacted Hines's family, and told them about it.
However, Hines's family was generous. After listening to Jarrod's story, they did not ask for them back, but told Jarrod to allow him to leave them behind.
(Jarrod exhibited some of his work in a gallery.)
Later, Jarrod sent some of Hines's works to the exhibition. Today, he's still thinking about selling some of them.
It is reported that after learning about this incident, the new owner of the barn felt sorry and sent people to rummage through all corners of the barn many times, hoping to find something valuable from it. However, the results were disappointing.
"We kept looking, but found nothing. Jarrod and his friends cleaned it up and left nothing behind," he said regretfully.
(Floret)