Some guys exploring a warehouse in Detroit stumbled upon $1 million in baseball cards

$1 million worth of baseball cards found in Detroit

By Gemma Kaneko

August 21, 2015

Saturday morning cartoons, Nancy Drew novels and a myriad of movies have all taught us the same thing -- if you just look closely, you can find hidden treasure in your very own neighborhood. Pro tip: if you live in Washington, D.C., check out the back of the Declaration of Independence.

In case you don't believe that that this kind of thing happens in real life, two Detroiters are here to show you otherwise. The two men were exploring an abandoned warehouse in the Motor City when they stumbled upon a stunning cache: $1 million in baseball cards.

According to the Daily Mail, the warehouse is full of sheets of cards "dating from the late 1980s and 90s." If this sounds like the content of that box in the attic your mom keeps trying to throw away and not the prize you could win on a daytime game show, you have to understand that it's the volume that counts:

While only estimated to be individually worth between 99 cents and $5.99, the collective haul of hundreds of cases would potentially fetch millions if ever put on the market.

But before you break out your eyepatch and peg leg and go treasure-hunting, keep in mind that it's not completely clear who these cards actually belong to:

The sports cards technically belong to whoever owns the building or possibly another company who paid for them to be stored there under contract.

But the absence of many doors and windows in the once-thriving factory points to the fact that no … official has been on the premises for decades.