(Smile File) Boy unknowingly makes a historic find on the beach!

This boy didn't realize something historic had been sitting in his dresser for several years! (Photo: Pixabay)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This boy. His name is Ben Witten. He's nine years old.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
He noticed this shiny rock while playing on a beach
looked kind of different, so he picked it up and
took it home as a souvenir. Well for three years,
that rock remained in a drawer in his bedroom until
Ben visited a museum recently, and while there he was
looking at displays of stone age artifacts and made a connection.
Artifacts at the museum looked a lot like this object

(00:25):
in his drawer back home, and after working with some
experts at the museum, Ben learned that this shiny rock
that he had was a rare Neanderthal hand axe, estimated
to be between forty thousand and sixty thousand years old.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Wow, isn't that crazy?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Did he give it to the museum? Did he did
give it to the museum?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yes, he did. He decided to donate it to the museum.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I mean, I believe in doing the right thing, but
not that good, not that right.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
We're not crazy.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
I saw what you're sitting on. There's your college education
right there.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Crazy more?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Wow, But I guess he'd he did what he thought
was the right thing. That's why it makes our smile
fall