like to share with us? we would love to hear it. sense me an, nai e-mail or go tr . a menagerie of exquisite specimens. >> leopards, lions. >> skinned stuffed by a master. >> not everyone can take something that's dead and make it look alive. >> elk, moose, deer, goats. >> walking into someone's life long obsession, commitment, passion. >> antelope, water bucks, dikers, these lines are from night at the museum. >> that was a big get. >> can his sons get this legacy to pay off? or did they inherit a dying business? >> nobody has an inheritance like the one we've been bequeathed.

. jamie: i'm jamie colby and today i'm surrounded by millions of acres of pristine forest near vancouver, british columbia. i'm on my way to meet a family who inherited a legacy that evokes the very spirit of this wilderness. they're also left wondering how to preserve it. hi, brian. >> hi. jamie: how are you? i'm jamie. >> nice to meet you. jamie: nice to meet you, too. >> come on and check stuff out. jamie: love to see the house. thanks! what? oh, my god, what is going on? oh, my gosh! this is your house? i can't believe it. looks like a zoo. >> my name is brian, and in

2010, my dad passed away and left us an inheritance with noah's ark implications. >> brian tells me he and his brother stacy inherited this menagerie from their dad, a taxidermist named steve. a series of calamitous events including the one that caused their father's death stunned the brothers. theyuggle to carry on the legacy. born in 1938, he grew up on the family farm in nelson, british columia. >> how did he get introduced to taxidermy? >> he sent away for mail order taxidermy books and started by doing chickens and rabbits and stuff around the farm. jamie: it sets him on a journey that takes him far from the farm, which he leaves when he takes a job as a weldner vancouver. that pays the bills but taxidermy remains his passion. in 1959, he marries rachel

collins and they raise three strapping young lads, steve, jr., brian, and stacy who has a bigger surprise for me 40 miles outside of vancouver. >> what? >> welcome to the arc. jamie: what stacy calls the ark is a drafty old barn stuffed with the kulash brothers inheritance. >> ark is right. you look like you have two of everything. this is incredible! at first, steve kulash fashioned works like these in the basement of the family home. he began with game from his own hunting trips but soon after others brought by theirs too. jamie: did mom say if you bring another animal in this house, i'm going to kill you? >> i did hear her say that

before, but she would soften her stance at the bit of coaxing. jamie: show me a fine example of your dad's work? >> ibex is one of his best works. jamie: why? what makes it great taxidermy? >> he paid a lot of attention to the shape of the eye. the muscles that make the eyes blink and tissue. you have to have an artistic eye. not everyone can take something that's dead and make it look like it's alive. he was an artist. jamie: like so many artistic types, steve dreams of actually making a living from his life's passion. in the late 1960s he pulls the trigger, quitting that welding job and betting his family's future on his skill as a taxidermist. >> i remember going with him to empty his locker, and he had said, i'm just going to break free and do my own thing. jamie: he rents a store front and opens steve kulash

taxidermy, brian pitches in when not working as a meat cutter at a grocery store while stacy works full-time at his dad's shop and learns his craft. >> birds of prey are my favorite, they look menacing even while standing still. jamie: his dad taught him, anyone can stuff a bird but to turn a lifeless pile of feathers into this, it's about the pose, the articulation of muscles and limbs. stacy demonstrates the skills he learned at his father's side. >> separating the feathers along the breast plate and the breast bone. the entire thing stays to the skin and wrap cotton to make it look like it hassa flesh again. before they used to inject formaldehyde in the little fleshy part of this part of the wing. jamie: from start to finish, each piece can take days of painstaking work. >> you would go at 9:00 in the morning, sometimes he wouldn't

come home until 8:00 at night. jamie: steve's dedication pays off. soon his shop is attracting customers from all over north america and beyond. >> what kind of money can you make doing taxidermy? >> a good sale that we had was $150,000 when we sold two container full ofs animals to japan. >> his store front on kingsway was a vancouver icon. when you walked in, you realized you were walking into someone's obsession. jamie: rachel is scholar of the history of taxidermy called the breathless zoo. >> what i've done with taxidermy is to explore if it has relevancy in today's world, what is its history? meaning? great taxidermy is when you think the creature might reanimate in some way. jamie: reanimate is right. see the lions with ben stiller?

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taxidermy display? . jamie: by the mid 1970s in vancouver, steve kulash has established a thriving taxidermy business, and himself is a legend in the field. >> he's a different guy. different cat. jamie: at the same time, tragedy stops the kulash family. in 1981 steve's wife rachel dies of cancer at age 38. seven years later. steven, jr., drowns in a boating accident. >> the death of my mother and my older brother crushed him. it just made him be closer to us because we're all he had. jamie: how did your family manage after that? >> we just dug ourselves into our work, and just kept going.

jamie: indeed, long hours at work proved to be therapeutic. >> and then you're going to open it a bit, right? jamie: as his reputation grows, new clients come calling. some from vancouver's burgeoning film industry. >> it was our first prop was the grizzly adams movie. jamie: grizzly adams, his first big break. >> it snowballed from there. >> they would commission us to make a 10 foot by 4 foot thick grizzly bear for macgyver. jamie: then another action figure places an order. >> for the first rambo movie they wanted one for the sheriff's office. jamie: speaking of movie rentals do the felines look familiar? if so, you are one of the tens of millions who bought a ticket for the hit film "night at the museum." yep, steve kulash made them movie stars. they're the prize of his

collection. >> there's a whole of african mammal. jamie: he stuffed them and digital artists made them attack ben stiller. down, boy! >> did you catch him? >> all by myself. jamie: so following his passion is paying off for kulash. a job he loves and the freedom and money to take hunting and fishing trips and safaris all across the globe. >> my dad could speak a few languages. loved to travel the world. this is my dad on one of his hunts fair mountain lion. jamie: that could be my favorite picture. >> i'm 50, and he's 70. we went hunting istill couldn't keep up to him. steve's friend, herb karras shared adventures.

>> he could handle himself up and down the mountain or stay overnight in the woods if you had to. >> very good luck, have a good day. >> yes. jamie: in 2009, kulash gets recognized as a bona fide artist. he's work is featured in a museum show of animal art called ravishing beasts. rachel is the exhibit's curator. >> steve's taxidermy was great it. reflected who he was and had a certain charisma and passion to it. jamie: the following year kulash is preparing to pursue one of his other passions, an international hunting expedition. then one night in march 2010, his son stacy who lives in the basement of the family home is awakened by the smoke alarm. >> i open the bedroom door, there is a five foot fire. jamie: as stacy runs next door

to call the fire department. his dad makes a fatal mistake. >> he went and tried to put the fire out himself when he could have walked out the front door. jamie: could you see? could you breathe? >> i tried to get out of basement, there was too much smoke, i couldn't get back down there. jamie: steve kulash gets trapped amid piles of boxes and equipment. [ sirens ] . >> awhile later they told us our father passed away. jamie: he leaves behind the business where he'd worked side-by-side with his sons filled with nearly 200 mounted animals. that's not including the metaphorical elephant in the living room. can a taxidermy business thrive in the 21st century? and can stacy kulash the right guy to do it? did you say i know i can, i know i'm good, but it's not for

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>> inspect to find any res anywhere. jamie: meanwhile like his father did, stacy kulash gets calls from hollywood. >> two months ago working on a life-sized beaver for a movie about leonardo dicaprio. i had to make the belly open so the actor could skin it on camera. jamie: good work if you can get enough of it. >> at the end of the day, it's about the dollars. you can't pay your bills on good intentions. jamie: did you ever say i know i can, i know i'm good, but this is not for me. >> i trained for over 30 years. i'm going to keep on doing what my dad taught me. jamie: it's only between stacy and i so we're in solidarity because we're brothers. i'm a meat cutter but i've recently retired and i need to regroup my family and push this to as far as we can go. jamie: and that may mean going

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the us, canada, and europe. growing from of scientific pursuit into a common element of on the core. >> nineteenth century there is an age of colonial hunting, a desire to display your manliness. jamie: throughout much of the 20th century hanging one of these heads on your wall is still the cats meow. >> it was either the largest you had ever seen, the hardest to kill. it really becomes a souvenir to tell the story about yourself and your encounter with the animal. jamie: that is one reason the talent of steve kalush was in high demand. >> i learned from when i was six years old. jamie: et al. and his sons inherited >> you think i can handle the real thing? >> possibly. >> shall we give it a try? >> we will give it. a little nylon, one of the

ones we will be using. jamie: a little blue. >> right along the rim. jamie: with my like it will be cross side. jamie: right here. >> yes. >> here's looking at you, kid. jamie: traditional taxidermy is now less popular for a host of reasons from a cultural a cultural shift toward conservation over conquest has redefined the art form. still, the hope for the kalush boys. >> there has been a revival in taxidermy lately. it ultimately becomes a very individual process. jamie: what do you do with that taxidermy business you inherited in an era when many people see a mounted head and think comic strip gag? if you are the kalush brothers brothers you plan time firmly in cheek and branch out into a knew

hipster movement called rogue taxidermy. >> an old art form, putting bits of annals together. it's the carnival nights conquest. >> we have actually done some hipster taxidermy ourselves. the fantasy for a tv show. pigeon wings. >> it was funny. >> the jack loves were done for a café type restaurant. >> the antlers are from a white tailed deer. jamie: some of the creations go beyond fantasy to the macabre. >> took the back vertebrae of the deer and had a major human skull on top of it. i made a walking cane with it. that's all for $650 mie n yo fatr's xidey. >> d wtev yo ha to

to keep your doors open. jamie: which does not mean brian and stacy are discounting their dad's legacy. they still intend to unload that noah's ark menagerie they inherited for a big price. >> we had a lady that came in but a tiger from us. the tiger was 18,000. jamie: a promising start, but a drafty barn in the middle of nowhere is not exactly a customer magnet. >> you need a new place. >> yy a new shop. >> it's between stacy and i. we're trying to carry on and keep our name going in this business. jamie: has author and curator rachel pollack when observed,, yes, it is possible. this strange inheritance will long preserve the bond between in the part of the

party father and his devoted sons. >> he is legendary. he he taught me his whole life. he always had something to offer's. >> my father was basically my best friend. we are hoping to dominate. ♪ jamie: in his day he stuffed a lot of trophy animals, but his own body once found them hard at work i, as in kitty. mounting pets now. the animal belonged to a neighborhood woman and had been her beloved companion. carefully adjusting the whiskers to give him the perfect feline expression is , gazing lovingly at her owner. thank you so much for watching. remember, you can't take it

with you. ♪ ♪ you have a "strange inheritance" story you would like to share with us? we would linow. ♪ ♪ >> on a cool spring evening in north carolina a car crash kills a renowned coin collector. he's carrying the crown jewel of his collection, but is it really one of the rarest and most valuable coins in the world or a clever fake? >> just imagine she's sitting there saying to me they say i'm not real, what do you think? >> half a century passes before the man's heirs and the public learn the truth about his precious cargo. >> we sat there on pins and needles, and then the numbers started coming in. [applause] ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ jamie: i'm jamie colby. today i'm in picturesque roanoke, virginia. the name roanoke is believed to become from an algonquin word that means shell money which is very appropriate to the story of this strange inheritance. >> my name is ryan givens. in 1992, my mother died at the age of 79. as executor of her's estate, i found a lockbox in the her closet. jamie: ryan, this is box. >> this is the box she kept it in in her bedroom closet, and she kept it along with other things in this envelope right here. jamie: so it says "this is a changed date," and what else -- "not real"? >> "not the real one."

jamie: changed date, not real. mel v.a.'s note reflected what she'd been told about the coin inside, that it's a clever fake of one of the rarest and most valuable coins ever minted, the 1913 liberty head 5-cent piece. coin expert and auction near paul montgomery wrote a book about the nickels. >> from 1883 to 1912, the liberty head nickel was the design that the u.s. was using for commerce. it was in 1912 that they made the decision to move on to the next design which was the buffalo nickel. at the end of 1912, they really should have stopped making liberty nickels. instead, somebody made five before the dyes were destroyed. jamie: the five nickels are legal tender, but the u.s. treasury has no record of them. >> samuel brown was an employee at the mint at the time when the coins were transitioned to the buffalo head nickel. there's a lot of speculation that sam brown had them made and

put away. jamie: five specimens made their first appearance in chicago at a 1920 convention. the seller? surprise, surprise, samuel brown. >> seven years later the statute of limitations had passed for any crime that might have been committed, so all of a sudden there's a huge story that five coins that had never existed were now going to be at the chicago coin club show. jamie: four years later all five coins are purchased by a single wealthy collector for $3,000. -- $2,000. it's not until the early 1940s in st. louis that the set of five nickels is sold in public again. egypt's king farooq scoops one up for his collection, and the following year so does a prominent coin collector from roanoke, virginia, ryan givens' uncle, george walton. enter the enigmatic benefactor of our "strange inheritance."

ryan, tell me more about uncle george. >> i like to refer to him as a professional collector. he had a pretty decent stamp collection, he had books, almanacs, but coins were his main thing. jamie: truth be told, ryan doesn't know his uncle george well and neither, it seems, does anyone else. he's a lifelong bachelor and successful estate appraiser, a job that keeps him constantly on the move. he lives in a series of hotels from north carolina to florida. exactly how walton came to acquire his 913 nickel -- 1913 nickel is equally murky. the most oft-told story is that in 1946 he trades clash $3,750 worth of gold for the rare nickel. the seller may or may an heir to the camel cigarette fortune. >> he said a member of the tobaccoing reynolds family, so we can assume it may have been

r.j. reynolds. >> however he acquires it, the 1913 nickel gives walton a special status on the coin show circuit. >> it was a calling card of sorts, because if you were one of the owners of a 1913 nickel, you were an important collector. jamie: walton plays the role of swaggering, inscrutable collector to the hilt. once he's seen nonchalantly flipping his famous nickel. wasn't he worried about scratching it? his reply: no, because it's a fake. >> the reason being since it's a valuable coin, he used it for disdisplay rather than the real one. jamie: he promises to display the real one at a show in wilson, north carolina, where he's a headliner. with about $250,000 worth of rare coins, he sets out on the drive from roanoke to wilson. nowadays you'd be in some sort of, like, armored truck. >> that's how things were back then. you would never see that today. but wilson was having their first show, so it was going to

be a big deal. jamie: it's march 9th, 1962. ♪ ♪ >> he was almost within the town limits when he was hit by a lady that was driving a car, apparently she'd been drinking. ♪ ♪ jamie: george walton was 55 years old. he dies without a will, so his siblings name a bank in roanoke to act as his executor. what was the process? >> the bank sent letters to every bank that they knew in north carolina and virginia and said do you have anything there that belongs to george walton? jamie: once all his collections are reassembled and cataloged, the family gets some shocking news that also sends coin officionados around the world. george walton's 1913 liberty nickel is declared a fake.

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♪ ♪ >> so who was the first woman to have her portrait appear on u.s. currency? it's a, martha washington, who appeared on the $1 silver certificate in 1886. jamie: on his way to the a north carolina -- to a north carolina coin show in march 1962, eccentric coin collector george walton dies in a car crash. it's front page news in the coin world. >> george walton was a respected knew mistist. jamie: a new york city auction house is called in to appraise george's collection. >> so they sent a man to evaluate all the coins. it took approximately 2-3 weeks. jamie: how much did the family get for what was sold? >> total came to over 850,000. it set a record for an individual collection.

jamie: it would have been even more, maybe $60,000 more, if not for the stunning pronouncement that walton's prize 1913 nickel is a phony. because the 3 in 1913 is unlike any font used by the u.s. mint, stacks concludes the date has been altered. >> there were so many altered dates out there, it wasn't difficult to take another liberty head coin such as the 1910 and alter the 0 to look like a 3. jamie: in fact, walton has a number of suspect currencies in his collection. so many that the bank feels it needs to notify the secret service. >> the secret service came and took some of the items that he had because they were either counterfeit, altered or illegal to own. jamie: stacks declared the nickel a fake. >> right. jamie: but the secret service said, keep it, it's okay? >> it was not totally illegal to have an altered date, but if you

tried to sell it to someone, that was illegal. jamie: the secret service returns the nickel but warns the family never to try to pass it off as the real mccoy. in the meantime, george walton's reputation as an an esteemed coin collector takes a posthumous beating. >> it was just a piece of junk, so it was put in with the odds and ends. so my mom picked up the 1913, she was born in 1913, so that could have been reason. my other thought was she wanted it put away permanently -- jamie: to protect his reputation? >> right. in other words, try to keep it from getting any worse. jamie: melva givens never wavers in her belief that her brother george had the real nickel somewhere in his vast coin collection. but she accepts that the one in her closet really is a fake. >> she had some coin magazines, newspaper articles that kind of kept up with other 1913s, so she knew he had it, she just

couldn't find i. jamie: she's not the only one who's looking. everyone in coin collecting circles is wondering where the vanished nickel has gone. some assume it must still be by the said of the road where walton crashed and show up at that spot with metal detectors. over the decades the nickel enters into american cultural lore. it's even the subject of tv episodes on hawaii 5-0 and the hardy boys. then in 1992 melva passes away at the age of 79. >> where i was executor of her estate, is so it was up to me, of course, to go through what she had and split things up between my brother and my sisters. she had a box of items in her closet, and i got the box out. the nickel was there. jamie: ryan takes the envelope with the nickel in it and places

it on his night stand. >> i used to look at it late at night. one time i just imagined she's sitting there saying to me they say i'm not real. what do you think? jamie: with each passing year, the 1913 liberty legend grows and so does the value of the four confirmed specimens. in 1996 one becomes the first coin to sell for over $1 million. then in april 2003, a cub reporter on a local feature assignment sparks the most stunning turn of events ever in the coin world. everything the experts thought they knew about the most famous coin in the world was wrong. >> i wasn't looking to find the million dollar nickel. i was looking to tell a good story. jamie: that's next on "strange inheritance". >> for this "strange inheritance" quiz question, you might want to get up close to your television set. one of the coins you're looking

at is a fake 1913 liberty nickel. the other is genuine. can you tell which is is real one? hint: the numbers tell the story: >>

take one more look. can you tell which is the real 1913 liberty head nickel? it's b. stay tuned to find out why. ♪ ♪ jamie: one of the five super rare 1913 liberty head nickels has been missing for decades. ever since george walton's was declared a fake after his death in a car crash in 1962. 41 years later, in 2003, paul

montgomery's company is trying to come up with a way to raise excitement for a coin show that summer in baltimore. >> our publicist remembered that it was the 90th anniversary of the making of the 1913 nickel. we thought it would be a nice thing to have a reunion for all the coins. jamie: that prompts another brainstorm. what about a $1 million reward for that fifth nickel regardless of the condition it was in? >> i said, well, sure, i guess i'd pay a million bucks even if it had a hole in it. jamie: the press picks up on the story, and within days a reader of the roanoke times calls the newsroom suggesting a local angle. >> somebody had said he knew george walton when he lived in roanoke. we had our research librarian at the roanoke times start digging up information on mr. walltop's relatives. -- mr. walton's relatives. ryan knew about nickel. he didn't know about the million dollar reward.

jamie: adams' pursuit of a good story sets in motion a series of extraordinary events. >> adams also contacted the editor of "coin world." she asked him if he knew where the altered coin was, so she finally got in contact with me and said we'd like to have that altered date coin on display in baltimore. jamie: ryan's uninterested in dredging up the bogus walton nickel tale. but that 90-year-old lady is calling out to him again. >> so i asked or my brother and my sisters -- asked my brother and my sisters if it was okay to take it up there, and they said fine with them. jamie: wow. did you think to yourself, what if it's real? >> you always wondered, but i wanted more to find it was real for uncle george because it was, basically, his reputation. jamie: on july 30, 2003, he drives from roanoke, virginia, to baltimore and meets with his siblings to show paul montgomery the nickel. >> i was ready to tell them that

their coin wasn't genuine, but at the same time you always want to meet someone that has history in the business. jamie: but once he has the coin in his hands, paul montgomery does a double take. he was expecting to see a fake, but this doesn't look like a fake. paul invites jeff garrett, who has a pedigree as solid as his own, and four other experts to assess the nickel's authenticity. >> he says i think we found coin. >> they were the coin experts. and you try to get some indication from their expression as to whether it's real or not. but they didn't really show any. so i was a little nervous. jamie: this convention holds an unprecedented opportunity that stacks' auction house didn't have in 1963; to to compare george walton's nickel with the four others that had already been authenticated. >> we spent 45 minutes talking

about the different nuances of the coin. jamie: the experts hone in on that strange 3. what shocks them is that it's identical on all five coins. >> took a long time, but finally paul called us over and they had all decided that it was real. ♪ ♪ jamie: the very defect that caused stacks to declare walton's nickel phony proves four decades later that it has to be real. what's more, it's mint condition condition -- its mint condition and incredible story make it worth much more than the million dollar bounty. >> i am the only one in the industry has gotten to tell a family who thought they had nothing that, indeed, they have millions of dollars, and that is the best thing that happened to me in my career.

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approaching. >> we relize we're not getting younger, we knew we would have to sell it, it was part of my mom's estate. any one of us could not hold on to it. jamie: he is introduceed to ceo of heritage auction. >> the 1913 nickel is one of the most famous coins there is, for an opportunity to handle one, it is like a paintsing collector getting the mona lisa. >> heritage set date of april 25, 2013 in chicago, fitting since that is where 5 liberty head nickles were revealed in 1920. >> auction shut down, and said we're going to prepare for this special offering, we sat there, then numbers started climbing. >> 180, 190, 190,000. jamie: jeff garrett, one of the

experts, decides to place his own bid with another collector, larry lee. >> in audience, and i sent a text to larry, i said this coin will sell in about 15 minutes last chance to bid, and almost half jokingly, he calls me, he said, what do you think it will bring, i bid 2.1. 2. jamie: jeff and larry bid against another collector. it rises by 100,000 each bid. >> sold. >> jeff and larry win the auction. >> how much did they pay for the nickles? >> total price came to 3.2 million. >> almost surreal for personal perspective, it was like chance to handle one of the few great coins. >> layer lee, now the nickel's owner mutts on display at this

coin shop in panama city, florida, the givens siblings split the net proceeds four-ways, and donate $100,000 in honor of uncle george. any regret in not waiting? >> if you hold on to it it will keep growing and growing, but how long do you think you will live to ain't jo wasn't to -- e. jamie: george himself made noises about knowing of a 6th 1913 liberty head nickel out there somewhere. we can't know for sure how many 1913 liberties were minted, think about that if you inherit some of grandma's old stuff. i am jamie colby for stpraeufrpblg inhestrangeintertt take it with you.

jamie: do you have a "strange inheritance" story you would like to share with us? we would love to hear it, send me an e-mail or go tour web fro. >> donald trump just wrapping up his speech to official voters in new hampshire. welcome to special primetime edition of the intelligence report, trump speaking in the granite state allowing voters to ask questions, anything they want, we heard, him echo some of his popular themes, the need for a wall with mexico, taking care of our veterans, he would save social security. >> she did a terrible job at hewlett-c