Strange Inheritance

Jan 20, 2017

The Season 3 premiere features a log-splitting mallet believed to have been owned by a young Abe Lincoln.

Jan 20, 2017

A family feud erupts over ownership of "Conan the Barbarian" illustrator Frank Frazetta's art.

Jan 23, 2017

A U.S. Mint worker bequeaths a bag of change to his son, which includes a one-of-a-kind aluminum penny that rocks the coin-collecting world.

Jan 23, 2017

A Pan Am stewardess from the airlines' golden age leaves her niece a valuable collection of ancient beads she gathered in her travels.

Jan 30, 2017

Descendants of James Naismith inherit the two pages upon which he first typed up the rules of basketball.

Jan 30, 2017

Family members ponder what to do with a 1950s "Jurassic Park" the family patriarch built in Oregon.

Feb 6, 2017

A world-class blade maker (and one-time Unabomber suspect) leaves his brother thousands of hatchets, axes, swords and knives.

Feb 6, 2017

The great-great grandson of a legendary Texas painter discovers a long-forgotten mural in the rafters of the family's attic.

Feb 13, 2017

A rancher discovers she has inherited one of the world's largest sites of ancient Indian rock drawings.

Feb 13, 2017

A man inherits a collection of 80,000 autographs that his obsessive father and aunt had collected since they were children.

Feb 27, 2017

Jane Austen's five-times great grandniece auctions off the legendary romantic writer's ring to an American pop star.

Feb 27, 2017

A Louisiana man inherits an armada of scale-model warships his father painstakingly built from original blueprints.

Mar 6, 2017

Brothers inherit their boss's 60-year-old puppet opera, a Chicago institution, and agree to destroy it if the opera goes out of business.

Mar 6, 2017

A grieving widow watches a previous Strange Inheritance toy soldier episode, then invites Jamie to assess her late husband's huge collection.

Mar 13, 2017

Shocked brothers learn they are heirs to an art fortune stolen by Hitler during World War II and vow to get it back.

Mar 13, 2017

An old vaudeville performer in a traveling chimp act leaves her granddaughter dozens of captive primates.

Mar 20, 2017

The daughter of a world-famous baby photographer inherits 100,000 dazzling portraits from the 40s, 50s and 60s.

Mar 20, 2017

A cell tower mogul hoards three million pounds of scrap, leaving his heirs to deal with a forty-acre heap.

Mar 27, 2017

A father leaves his son stacks of ancient magic texts, some containing secrets magicians have guarded for centuries.

Mar 27, 2017

A homeless man dies mysteriously and leaves his cousins several storage units with contents reportedly worth $1 million.

Apr 3, 2017

A Pennsylvania man inherits hundreds of paintings by celebrities, from Ringo Starr and Bob Dylan to John Gotti and Adolf Hitler.

Apr 3, 2017

A pioneer's descendent inherits his never-worn 1893 Levis, called a denim collector's "Holy Grail."

Apr 10, 2017

A life-long roller derby fan inherits a massive stash of memorabilia from one of the sport's legendary skaters.

Apr 10, 2017

A man cleaning out his basement finds a forgotten masterpiece left behind by a distant uncle.

Apr 17, 2017

High-tech forensics suggest a family heirloom is the only photo of the outlaw Jesse James with the man who killed him.

Apr 17, 2017

A renowned tile artist leaves his sons 160 autobiographical murals, weighing 16 thousand pounds.

Apr 24, 2017

Children inherit a massive B17 Bomber their father bought after WWII, flew to Oregon and placed atop his 48-pump gas station.

Apr 24, 2017

Designer famous for his best- and worst-dressed lists leaves his agent a rack of gowns he created for Hollywood's biggest stars.