Catherine Rusoff
A New York City couple known on social media for their magnetic fishing exploits in local waterways say they recently came across an unexpected discovery: a safe containing two stacks of waterlogged hundred-dollar bills.
James Kane and Barbie Agostini, who reported a variety of magnetic fishing discoveries in their Youtube channel, told Spectrum News NY1 on Saturday, after finding a muddy safe in a lake in Queens on Friday, they were shocked to find stacks of hundred-dollar bills estimated to be worth $100,000.
“I said ‘Honey, that’s not possible, damn’ some swear words’… and we took it out and it was like two piles of damn hundreds,” Kane told the station. “Big piles.”
The video showed the couple’s murky discovery — along with partially disintegrated hundred-dollar bills inside.
Kane, who said the couple had already found many old safes, said he assumed they would only find empty plastic bags that normally held money – and was surprised to find real money inside.
Agostini said he thought Kane was joking when he announced the contents of the safe.
“Once I saw the real dollars… and the security tapes, I lost it,” she said.
Kane said they contacted the NYPD because he thought there might be some “legalities” involved. Because the owner of the safe, which was likely stolen, could not be identified, Kane and Agostini said police allowed them to keep the stock saturated.
“I think the discoverers rule worked for us,” Kane said.
Unfortunately, the notes were “waterlogged” and “pretty much destroyed,” Kane said.
CBS News has reached out to the NYPD for comment.
Kane told NY1 that he and Agostini started magnet fishing because they were bored during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We call it the poor man’s treasure hunt,” he told the station.
Kane said they captured everything from World War II grenades and 19th century weapons to a motorcycle and a bag containing foreign coins, pearls and gold jewelry. The YouTube channel that chronicles his adventures has more than 4,000 subscribers and around 1.4 million views.
People who fish with magnets have made other surprising discoveries in recent months. In May, a magnetic fisherman pulled a human skull attached to an exercise dumbbell in a New Orleans canal.
In April, someone used a magnet to fish metal objects out of a Georgia stream. pulled out a rifle as well as some missing belongings from a couple who were killed in the same area nearly a decade ago.
In March, magnet fishermen pulled a unexploded ammunition of the Charles River in Massachusetts. A few days before that, another one was found in the same area, CBS News Boston reported.
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