Collecting hockey cards and memorabilia can feel like the most important thing in the world when you are younger and it can even become a lucrative business as the cards age. So, why in the heck would someone hide millions of hockey cards in an old Cadillac Stamping Plant in Detroit?
The story originally broke in 2015, but it resurfaced when new video footage of all of the cards hit YouTube this month.
The video itself is 19 minutes long, but we drop you off right at the moment when the people in the video find the cards. It is a mix of unopened packs and loose cards floating around everywhere. It is simultaneously creepy and fantastic.
It makes you wonder what the actual value of those cards might be despite their exposure to the elements. The Detroit Free Press did some digging and it looks like most of the cards are from the OHL during the 80’s and 90’s. They also have the origin story for the cards.
From the article:
John Hemmen of Casselberry, Fla., got wind of the story when his sister emailed him a link to it, and Hemmen says he’s sure the cards were the same ones he helped his late uncle – who sold sports memorabilia – store in the factory in the early 1990s.
While the money may not be earth-shattering, the discovery is and it makes for one hell of a video.
