Filthy Fortunes

In the season premiere, Paxton tackles a Michigan home once owned by a man who proclaimed himself the "Best Hoarder Ever." Now his children are overwhelmed by everything their late father left behind and in need of Paxton's help and expertise. Chasing a six-figure payout, the team wades through rooms crammed with vintage toys and hidden firearms, hunting for big-ticket items including a Mickey Mantle signed baseball. When they uncover a classic 1960s Austin-Healey automobile and collection of toy cars beyond what they expected, their hopes soar until low-ball offers force them to scramble for new buyers as they race the clock to hit their goal.

A police officer's house in North Carolina is packed with fishing gear, rare Beatles records, guns and knives. In Tennessee, sports memorabilia has taken over a family's home. Total sales top $100,000, and a client is moved to give Matt a lasting tribute.

A widower's home is so dangerously packed with belongings that his family will no longer visit. Matt's team scrambles to sell boats, vintage motorcycles, and barbershop equipment. A surprise find of unique Magic Johnson memorabilia could score big bucks.

The team pulls 50,000 pounds of trash from a hoarder's Tennessee farmhouse. A safe could hold a generational jewelry collection. Matt takes down a hazardous barn and salvages the wood for hard cash. A rare Spider-Man comic sells for more than $15,000.

A New York City home features "Back to the Future" self-lacing sneakers worth up to $100,000, mint-condition Knight Rider toys, and hip-hop tour jackets. The team also cleans a rural property covered in scrap metal to hunt for rare Olympics memorabilia.

Matt scrambles to clear a bat-infested barn and turn a sea of Santa Clauses into big money. While tackling jobs in Michigan and Massachusetts, Matt finds a lost cache of rare coins. A '64 Plymouth Fury could be a big score if the owner decides to sell.

Matt chases a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence in a jam-packed hoard and digs through a 4,000-square-foot chicken coop for vintage motorcycles. A '70s Coca-Cola vending machine could be a big score if they can get it out of the chicken coop.

In a house packed with oddities, Matt finds megalodon teeth, tribal masks and Civil War bullets. The team struggles to make the kitchen functional again. After low-ball offers, Matt scrambles and lands his biggest payday yet.

A massive seven-acre, snow-covered hoard pushes Matt to the brink. When it takes the team a full day just to unclog the driveway, Matt's deep in the red. To clear the stairs, they toss 500 pounds of trash and hunt for a lost gold nugget on the top floor.

Matt is shocked when clients reveal a Pioneer Village that's become a ghost town after three decades of abandonment. Matt hunts for a rare Colt revolver prototype and a Babe Ruth autograph rumored to be signed on a hot dog wrapper. A vintage Levi's find draws big money.

A hoard in D.C. featuring Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan memorabilia might be swallowed up by mold. The three-story home is so packed, the front door won't open. Matt hunts for a serviceman's foreign currency collection. Extensive repairs drive up costs.

At a hoard Matt's been circling for years, a genius inventor's pinball and jukebox collection could bring big sales -- but only if it's intact. Removing a 1980s waterbed costs time and money. Matt needs a hazmat suit to search a fridge marked as "toxic."

Matt's team goes full hazmat suit to tackle a rat-infested hoard that is rumored to have cash hidden in every room -- if the rats haven't eaten it already. The team also hunts for vintage Playboys, a rare samurai sword and original G.I. Joe toys.