Not my luck but you may not think this kind of thing can happen. Had to call the attorney that handled my inlaws estate matters. After business we were chatting. He bought a 300 acre plot somewhere up in Canada. Sold the timber on the property for 5 times the purchase price. But as the TV pitchman says "Wait there is more"
Gets a letter from the local authorities that a gold mining company has bought every property surrounding his. And the thing sits smack in the middle of where the company wants to do an open pit mine for gold. He had no idea about the gold but you guessed it, he holds the mineral rights to the land! Nice guy too.