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jamie: i am jamie colby, today i am cruising into nashville, tennessee, music city. i am on my way to meet the sons of rock legend roy orbison, the man who gave the world, oh, "pretty woman," only the lonely you and got it, left his heirs an unexpected treasure, possibly the opportunity of a lifetime. >> i am alex orbison, my dad passed away in 1988, my brothers and i, drive years later found something, that would help us realize a life long dream. >> alex. >> hello. jamie: how are you? >> i am in hendersonville, just outside nashville, alex has invited me to a muhsal lan muhsl

landmark. what is this place? johnny cash built it. >> one of the best recording studios in the world. jamie: families were close. >> yes. >> i can't wait to learn more, i would love to see inside. >>, of course. jamie: this cabin has been a creative refuge for dozens of major recording artists, but also like home to roy's boys. and linked to their late father. what was he like as a dad? >> wonderful. jamie: born in 1936, roy spent much of his youth in vernal, vernon, texas. >> he had his first radio show as an 8 year oeuldz oelz, he knn the door, he said i am roy orbison, i want to play some

songs for you guys. jamie: in 1955, a fateful meeting with johnny cash, gets him an invitation to sun records in tennessee, not long after roy marries his childhood sweetheart, they move to nashville, roy rockets to the top of the charts with a string of hits. jamie: was oh, "pretty woman" a game changer. >> they love the song it made him a international super star. jamie: roy and claudette have three boy, roy, anthony and wesley, roy can't ask for more. then in 1966, tragedy strikes. >> claudette and my dad were coming back from the drag races on their motorcycles, at the end of the ride, truck pulled on ut and claudette was killed

instantly. jamie: as 30-year old widower with three young sons, roy relies on his parents who live across the street for child care, he writes and tours, back in nashville, young wesley finds comfort in his father's songs. >> how it visited with him, he was on the road all of the time, so, that was i just always, would go to those records and listen. jamie: on tour in leads eengland, his drummer insist he go out and have fun, at a nightclub he meets 17-year-old beauty barbara skwraeu jacobs. >> he ran into my mom, and he looked over said grab that girl i'm going to mary her. jamie: they fell in love, starting a long distance romance, he suffers another devastating loss, on sep 15, a

fire rips through his home in nashville. jamie: where was he? >> the last show of a tourer in gland. he was showing pictures of boys and how happy we were. he found out,. jamie: roy's parents, and 3-year-old wesley escape. but his two older sons, 10-year-old roy dwayne, and 6-year-old tony are killed. >> was it something your dad was able to talk about. >> i have gone back to interviews, he said, if you look back and you are not a crazy person, you be crazy for what you did have not for what you don't have. jamie: barbara jacobs helps him through the grief. in 1969, they married. go on to have two boys, roy jr., and alex. for now roy's career takes a backseat, to family life. >> did he encourage you to play? >>ly did not push us, he just

left guitars around the house for us to find. jamie: had you always dreamt of playing with your dad. >> always, yes. jamie: as 1980s unfold, entertainment world reguess covered roy orbison. linda ronstadt, covers blue by bayou and van halen "pretty woman," they become hits. and his song in dreams for his film blue velvet. >> david lynch loved hreudz his music. jamie: roy orbison is making a comeback, inducted to rock 'n roll hall of fame by none other than the boss, and while roy works on recording a new album called mystery girl, producer jif lynn introduced him to tom petty, the three with old friends bob dylan and george

harrison start jamming each other's houses. >> out was that was the traveling wilburys. jamie: that was released in 1988. and mystery girl to be released in february, a milestone roy never reachs on december 6, 1988 he dies of a massive heart attack while visiting his parent's home in nashville, 52 years old. >>y was crushed -- i was crushed as a 12-year-old kid, such a loss, no real way to describe it in words. >> but the classic songs and timeless sound live on. orbison continues to be irresisttable to hollywood, a year after his date, pretty woman the ma movie makes julia roberts a super star, and orbison is as big in death as he

was in life. jamie: inheritance is strange but the legacy is love. >> that is next. >> first our "strange inheritance" quiz question. what was roy orbison's first number one single?

>> what was roy orbison's first number one single? it is only the lonely released on march 25, 1960, reached number 2 on billboard top 100 before going to number one in great britain. jamie: music legend roy be on soorbisondies from a heart attan nashville, in december 1988, he was 52 years old, and about to release a album mystery girl. he has another hit. >> from outsiders perspective this would be a tragedy that roy did not leave t to see the succs of this, i think my dad was already in a new career peak, where he was not walking down the street without getting mobbed. jamie: the song, you got it makes it to top 10 in start. >> quiout sit. jamie: in case you need a

refresher, my trip comes with a serenade from wesley orbison. ♪ from you ♪ -- i'm crying, okay. >> ♪ i pray that you are here this day ♪ anything you want ♪ you got it. >> roy orbison passed down his love of music, and that sound. when their mother barbara dies in 2011, roy a boys are also the hairheirs to his music library,y work on a rerelease of mystery girl, they hope to produce a

deluxe version with previously unreleased tracks. >> i realize we had unreleased material that no one had known what to do with it. jamie: roy's boys believe somewhere in the massive archive there must be a song of a recording they remember their dad singing around the house. a family favorite, calld the way is love. >> he was just saying it umumbling it, that was coming out of him. >> ag. alex decides this is the perfect song to include. but he can't find the tape anywhere, what amounts to 30-years worth of material. >> we have it cataloged pretty well, but there was a large pipe of stuff that could not,. jamie: you said i have to dig in? >> whatever you are doing, drop it wild getting in that vault, and find this tape.

>> did you have to listen 2,000s of things? >> i have been in archives for hours, and out of the -- i laid my hand up on the wall, and i rubbed my eyes, and i thought what is this? jamie: after weeks of searching, origin at cassette tape for the way is love is sitting in front of him. filled with excitement alex calls family friend, john carter cash, son of the late johnny cash. >> he said, listen, i have this cassette same of this song nobody heard before, however it was an old tape recording, with tape wor worbre . pitch would go up and down. jamie: audio energy, plays me the original cassette tape just as alex discovered it.

>> you can hear all of the artifacts are the analogue cas sit, the his -- and cassette, the hiss, and the worbbl e . >> roy's boys, and john charter cash look for someone to restore the recording. >> to the end of the internet, john carter had a meeting with one of the guys from sony, he said i know a guy in germany who specializeed in this stuff. jamie: did they get it right? >> they said there was nothing they could do. >> your heart must have sank. >> it was heartbreaking almost like roy orbison is gone. jamie: is all hope lost? or has dad left his boys another surprise. >> it gave me cold chills, like wow. jamie: next on strang "strange

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>> which of the following artist covered roy orbison's oh, "pretty woman," the answer is a, alvin and the chipmunks. >> 2013 in nashville, almost 25 years since the release of roy orbison's mystery girl album. roy's 3 sons' to package a 25

anniversary rerelease. this time with bonus tracks from the vast music library they inherited. one ballot in particular, the way of love, had never been heard in public. alex hunts down the recording among thousands, but it is low qua quality. and the brothers cannot agree on what to do next. >> i wanted to release it like that, i like the hiss, i had a little bit more of an obstacle what are we adding to this or tamper with a masterpiece. jamie: dmasterpiece. >> the thing is the way of love. quality of recording did not pass on its own. jamie: audio is so bad, they can't be sure what the words are. >> as we were working on it we were writing down the words.

jamie: just when it seems it is time to pull the plug they have a breakthrough. >> a couple weeks go by. i am? one of johnny cash's filing cabinet looking for song lyrics, there are lyrics from the way of love by roy sor or orbison. jamie: it is amazeing. >> it gave me chills. jamie: then a surprise call from the germany engineers with a new super computer they find a solution to restore roy's vocals, remember before? ♪ >> we took it from that, came up with this -- >> the way you love.

jamie: wow. wow. gives you chills. >> it does. jamie: now they recovered their dad's voice, the brothers are ready to do something they wantd to do sing they were kids, record a song with their father, roy with his boys. >> i said we should play on this, what do you think? one of the pause then said sure, 100% we should do that. jamie: did anything say that is crazy or you all in? >> we were all in. >> everyone is ready to rock 'n roll. roy jr., wesley, and john carter cash agree to play guitar, alex will play drums, and all of roy's boys will sing back up vocals. jamie: listening to it in the raw form, and you guys added on. >> the way is love, the title it is there.

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jamie: it is spring 2014 just outside of nashville, tennessee. 25 years after death of roy orbison. his sons have restored a homemade recording he did of a song, called, the way is love. jamie: take me in that room you hear your dad's voice from the heavens. >> it was like hearing an old friend. it was surreal. but also familiar feeling. >> as they prepare to record.

they get a unexpected case of the butterflys. >> i was nervous the night before, i could not sleep, they had to drag me in to play guitar it was like skydiving. >> i remember specifically thinking this is one of the toughest songs we could do, it is not quick, it is not technical but it is free-flowi free-flowing. jamie: were there tears. >> tears of joy kind of, almost like climbing on the top of a mountain, and just a sense of relief. >> to hear the boys, they are singing with their father after all these years, so inspiring, it gave us a chance to get in the family. >> like your dad. >> your dads were.

jamie: 25 anniversary edition of roy orbison's mystery girl is releaseed on may 20,2014, box set includes a documentry directed by alex. >> we did a premier here in nashville, then one in l.a. >> wesley of the like, now the album is out, when do we do it again. >> i can't tell you how much it meant, this location is special, this is johnny's place, johnny was our godfather. john carter is my first friend, my best friend, i think that parents would look down on us we're just kids playing around the big boy's game. >> my trip to nashville would not be complete without a private gilt ar lesson from roy

-- guitar lesson from roy orbison -- jr. that is. >> okay got it. >> okay. >> you can do this. >> 1, 2, 4 -- >> 2, 5. >> where is 5. >> right there. >> 5, okay, 1, 2, 4, 2, 5 ♪ >> that is it. that is actually it. jamie: remember i said orbison left other music, and previously unreleased material? here is the story. back in early 1970s, orbison became disenchanted with his record label mgm records and lift, some of the albums were shelved, another project for roy's three sons and next generation of fans, i am jamie colby for "strange inheritance" thank you for watching and remember, you can't take it with

you. >> found in grandpa's attic... >> it was a dirty, dusty old box. and then it's like, "wow. i don't know what it is." >> ...a discovery that will make the baseball world flip. >> you've got honus wagner, ty cobb, cy young, christy mathewson. >> i'm thinking to myself, "oh, my god. i have $1 million sitting in a chair." >> but is it almost too much of a good thing? >> it certainly changes the market in a negative way. >> i'm jamie colby, and today, i'm in northwest ohio, on the edge of an area called the great black swamp.

i'm here to meet a family who's lived here for more than a 100 years. so when they unearthed their strange inheritance, they give it the code name -- "the black swamp find." >> i'm karl kissner. in 2011, my cousins and i inherited the family home from our aunt. she had left us a note -- we would find things in this home that we never knew existed. >> karl, a 54-year-old restaurant owner, has invited me to the family home in the small town of defiance, ohio. karl? hi. i'm jamie. how are you? >> very good. pleasure to meet you. >> nice to meet you, too. thanks for having me. is this the family home? >> this is grandma's home. come on in. i'll show you around. >> the house first came into karl's family in 1909. >> neat old place, but needs a little tlc. >> are you saying be careful? >> yes. >> okay. in 2012, karl and his cousins

start the daunting task of cleaning out a home that's been lived in for more than a century. after several weeks of sorting through the house, only the attic remains. karl and his cousin, karla, decide to tackle the project. >> ladies first. >> oh, my! look at this place. the attic is empty now, but not that day in 2012. karl and karla walk in to find a century's worth of dusty boxes and family heirlooms. and literally filled to the rafters. >> filled to the rafters, all the way up to about here and just a path down through the middle. >> after several hours, they uncover a box hugging the back wall. it contains something the two cousins have never seen before. >> it was a dirty, dusty old box, and i opened it up. and then it's like, "wow. there's -- i don't know what it is." >> the cousins see what appear to be small cardboard photos

tightly wrapped in twine. they recognize some pretty familiar faces. >> we're both looking at it. it's baseball players -- cy young, ty cobb, wagner -- but they're not baseball cards, not to us. we get one out and we look at the back, and they look like baseball cards, just miniaturized, no stats, no who made it, no nothing. >> how many are we talking about? >> hundreds. [ laughs ] >> amazing. so, you see the box. you take them out. what do you and karla say? >> actually, we set them on a dresser in the hallway and dove back into the attic >> but soon, karl starts to ponder where the strange cards may have come from. were they something aunt jean collected off a cereal box? or maybe they go all the way back to his grandfather, carl hench. >> he's a german immigrant and he works his way down through chicago and towards the ohio valley. >> he's chasing the american

dream -- to own a home and start a business. carl's a butcher by trade, and by 1905, he's scraped together enough to open his own shop here in defiance -- the carl hench meat market. along with meats and sausages, he sells candies and other grocery items. was he successful in his shop? >> very successful as a butcher in town, very well-known. >> in 1909, he marries his love, jennie. they start a family and buy that dream home. by now, baseball has long established itself as the national pastime, and for decades, various companies have used baseball cards to sell their products. >> the first nationally circulated cards came inside packages of tobacco in the late 1880s and was actually one of the first opportunities for the average citizen to own a real photo. >> candy companies jump into the game, too. the so-called "caramel cards" help sell the sweets and the top players of the day. >> you've got honus wagner

ty cobb, cy young, christy mathewson. >> children love the candy, but the cards even more. >> kids did what kids do. they played with them. they traded them. there's card-flipping games that they did with them. >> all karl and karla know at this point is that the cards may have come from their grandfather's store. >> our guess is that he would have given them away as promotional items, and like any good businessman, when you got leftovers, you save them for the next promotion. >> beyond that, karl isn't sure what they have in the box, but he tells his cousin he'll find out. the box sits on that dresser for a few days and almost gets thrown out several times before karl brings it to his restaurant to research the cards online. after a few days, he has some leads. >> i was looking at a 1909 caramel card and i'm going, "okay, it's not identical, but this is too close, and they've got an estimated value on this

card --" >> of? >> around $15,000. >> karl discovers that a similar ty cobb card, identified as a 1910 caramel card, recently sold for $40,000. >> and i got a box full of them, and they're pristine. >> that's amazing. you're sitting on a bundle of money. >> yeah. at that point the, the heart is starting to race, and i'm thinking to myself, "oh, my god. i have $1 million sitting in a chair." >> a lot more than that... if, that is, karl can confirm his cards are real. >> you're a little skeptical, but you're always looking forward to that one phone call that turns out to be gold. >> that's next. >> but first, our "strange inheritance" quiz question.

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>> it's "c," the 1984 donruss don mattingly. he didn't have the hall of fame career some predicted, but mattingly's cards remain popular. >> while the grandchildren of carl and jennie hench are

cleaning out the century-old family home in northwest ohio, they find a dust-covered box containing what appear to be vintage baseball cards. >> i had went to some of the auction sites. i'm seeing a ty cobb for $40,000. and i'm looking at the ty cobb that i have, going, "ooh! mine's better." >> the box karl found in the attic not only contains cobb, known as "the georgia peach," but all the greats of the era. and it's not just one of each player -- it's dozens. in all there, are 800 cards, most in pristine condition. >> it kind takes it out of a scope and a realm that you just -- you're not quite sure how to handle it. >> step one -- find out if the cards are real. karl reaches out to vintage-sports-cards expert peter calderon in dallas. >> i received a phone call, which was very cryptic. he didn't want to go into any

details. on a daily basis, we receive phone calls from people who find cards. it's always reprints. >> peter tells karl to text some photos of the cards, and he'll take a look when he gets a chance. >> when i got that first picture, the first thing i thought of, "this is gonna be filed in a too-good-to-be-true folder," but they looked amazing, and i saw nothing about them that suggested they weren't real. so, i definitely -- the next plan was -- we talked about him sending me some sample of the cards. >> karl overnights eight cards to peter, with a note attached, saying, "call me before you open." when the box arrives at heritage auctions in dallas... >> i gave him a call, had him on the phone. >> and there's that moment of silence that feels like 10 minutes, but it's actually a matter of seconds. >> i opened up the box and i pulled out a large plastic holder. >> and then there's the, "oh [bleep] >> i was just floored, because i

had no idea what a 100-year-old baseball card looked like brand-new. >> well, at that moment, i pretty much know that, "yeah, these are real." >> karl has one more bombshell. >> so, his next question is, "do you have any more?" "yes. hundreds." >> i would have been happy if it was just the eight cards. there was when you realized, "this is the find of a lifetime." >> karl dubs the cards the "black swamp find," after the nickname for this section of northwest ohio. they're quickly shipped to dallas on an armored truck and locked in the safety of a vault. the next step is to get each card officially graded on a scale of 1 to 10. karl goes with professional sports authenticator. i meet up with joe orlando, president of psa, at the national sports collectors

convention for a crash course in grading baseball cards. why is this one only a 1? babe ruth cannot be just a 1. >> so, if you look at the card, you can see all of the defects. there's surface wear, multiple creases throughout the card. this is about as low as it can get. >> so, this one is higher. this is 8. is that considered mint? >> this is considered almost mint. but when you look really, really close, you can see very little, tiny white pieces of wear on each corner. and that's the difference between an 8, a 9, or a 10. >> those tiny imperfections can make a difference of thousands of dollars. >> if this is a psa 8, it's worth roughly, you know, $100 or so. if it were a 9, it's worth probably, you know, north of $1,000. and if it's a 10, it's worth north of $5,000. >> so, what about the black swamp find? do karl's cards make the grade? what was your reaction when you saw the first cards? >> it was just -- it was mind-blowing. >> before the black swamp find,

the highest grade psa ever gave to a card in that series was a 7. karl's cards beat that in their first at-bat. >> it was a ty cobb and it graded a psa mint 9. little did we know that there were 15 more ty cobb 9s and, of course, hundreds of high-grade 8s, 9s, and even 10s in the set. >> sounds pretty good, right? not so fast. the collection doubles the known population of this type of card, and the unprecedented size and quality of the find could crash the baseball-card-collectors market. will karl's inheritance end up being too much of a good thing? >> if you were to flood the market with all of this at one time, it would certainly diminish the value of the entire find. >> that's next. >> here's another quiz question for you.

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>> it's "b," $517,000 -- for a 1914 baltimore news ruth rookie card, sold in 2008. >> in 2012, in defiance, ohio, karl kissner discovers 800 vintage baseball cards in the attic of his old family home. most of the century-old cards remain in near-mint condition, which is rare among cards even half their age. before the collecting craze in the 1980s, cards were simply fun

toys to be used in bike-wheel spokes or flipping games, like this one. so, i'm gonna toss a card, and it'll land either picture or stats. you're gonna toss a card. if you match my card, you get to keep my card and your card. if you don't, i get to go home with your cards. >> okay, let's do this. >> all right? here it goes. stats. >> stats up. >> picture. i'm a winner. >> you're a winner. >> fortunately for karl, his grandfather wasn't interested in such games, and the collection should easily be worth millions... if they play their cards right. you see, selling the so-called "black swamp find" all at once could flood the market and severely drive prices down. >> because of the size of the collection and the quantity involved, there was a lot of concern about the value. if there was one of each player, that would have been ideal.

>> so heritage auctions proposes a series of separate sales to maximize the family's take. >> we decided the best way to do it is to take your time, sell them by the set over a number of years. >> karl runs the estate on behalf of the 20 grandchildren and divides the cards up into equal sets. each family member can either join a consortium to sell the cards or keep his share as a family heirloom. did anyone keep the cards? >> yes, yes. >> really? >> some of them did. >> but most family members agree to team up and sell the cards gradually. peter calderon tallies the numbers and comes up with what karl might expect, if all goes right -- nearly $3 million. for karl, it's a staggering sum. >> we're stunned. this is something we almost threw in a dumpster. >> in august 2012, in baltimore's camden yards

ballpark, they put the first 37 cards up for auction. >> they were the best of the best. they were the best-graded cards out of all of them that we had graded. >> ladies and gentlemen, let's do lot 001. it's the 1910 e98. >> in bidding that's fast and furious, the family sees one lot of nine cards go for $40,000, a second lot of 27 cards goes for $286,000, but the real clean-up hitter of the night, the only psa gem-mint-10-graded card of hall of famer honus wagner in existence. auctioneer: >> $240,000 solid. i have the cut bid. anyone else? done! $240,000! >> we're flabbergasted. this is a wonderful gift from our grandfather and from our aunt. what more can you ask for? >> the family's total for the night?

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>> now back to "strange inheritance." >> karl kissner and his family are slowly selling off their strange inheritance -- 800 rare vintage baseball cards. the collection is valued at around $3 million. an initial auction of their best cards has already brought in $566,000, and the family still has plenty of high-grade hall of famers to sell. in october 2012 and may 2013, two online auctions -- with some help from legendary manager connie mack -- rack up $419,000. then, in august 2013, in chicago, a psa 8 "miner" brown

pitches in to help the team ring up another 228k. and in the big apple, in february 2014, a psa 8.5 johnny evers and mint 9 frank chance assist in a $300,000 haul. two more online auctions raise the total to $1.7 million. on july 31, 2014, i join karl and his cousin karla at the 35th national sports collectors convention in cleveland for their latest auction. >> we've got a fired-up crowd here tonight. what do you think, karl? >> it's exciting watching everybody and listening to the on-floor bids. you just -- you get into the feel of it, the mood of it. >> bid what you want. the last person standing with their hand in the air gets the item. >> apparently, people have money. >> apparently. [ both laugh ] >> and at the end of tonight, you may, too. up first for karl and karla

tonight, the georgia peach. >> this is a 1910 e98 set of 30 ty cobb, black swamp find, psa mint 9. are you serious? yes, we are serious. $26,000. who's bidding 28 grand? $27,000 -- heritage live. $28,300. fair warning, anybody else. >> when the auctioneer kind of slows down like that, you know it's getting good. >> yeah. >> sold at at $28,000. >> congratulations, guys. that's awesome! >> give me five on that. yeah! >> now stepping up to the plate, a psa mint 9 honus wagner. >> go, honus. >> yay! come on. yeah, come on, honus, baby. >> 32 1/2 on heritage live. another bidder just jumped on. let's sell this thing. $33,000. >> the bidding ends at $33,750. >> yeah! very good! all right! >> their weekend earnings, including online sales, total $133,000, lifting the black swamp find total to

$1.85 million. [ cheers and applause ] are you satisfied tonight? >> i'm ecstatic. and you know the person that's buying it wants it and appreciates it, and he's gonna add it to his collection. and maybe he'll pass it on to his family. >> a box stored and forgotten in the attic for over a century eventually changes a collectibles industry forever, along with the lives of the 20 hench grandchildren. so far, the black swamp find is like a slugger with 40 home runs at the all-star break -- well on track to surpass the goal set by peter calderon. >> there's still 10 more sets to sell, and we're still averaging almost $200,000 a set. >> and in the card-collecting market, the game's never over till the last man is out. what would grandpa say? >> i think grandpa would be stunned, amazed, and pleased. i'm sure that he is, 'cause i'm sure that the whole family is up there looking down with big

smiles on their faces. >> was the black swamp find nearly history's most epic case of some guy's mom throwing out his baseball-card collection? karl thinks so. when he made his big discovery in the attic, he spied several wrinkled and grimy cards strewn among the rafters and the floorboards. karl believes that they went flying during one of his grandma jennie's cleaning purges, when she'd pitch boxes of junk right out the attic window into a big mound below. thank goodness she never got hold of that one box in the corner. i'm jamie colby for "strange inheritance." thank you so much for joining us. and remember, you can't take it with you. do you have a "strange inheritance" story you'd like to share with us?

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