Magnet fishers near prison pull up live bomb, call bomb squad

A routine magnet-fishing run near a prison turned into an emergency the moment Johnny and the crew felt what was on the line. Instead of scrap metal or a strange relic, they dragged a live bomb out of a creek and stopped the trip cold, then called police and the bomb squad.

The video, titled Bomb FOUND Near Prison!! Most Destructive Magnet Fishing Find EVER!! (BOMB SQUAD), frames the pull as one of the most dangerous recoveries the channel has ever made. A related MSN write-up says the find happened while exploring the creek near the prison and that authorities were contacted for safety, which is exactly the right move when a magnet starts bringing up something that looks military, explosive, or simply wrong.

That response matters because old ordnance can stay unstable for decades. Mud, flowing water, rust, and repeated disturbance can leave a buried explosive in rough shape, and the wrong grab can turn a hobby outing into a crime-scene-sized hazard. The prison-adjacent setting made this one especially unnerving, because it suggested a stretch of water with enough old dumping or disturbance to hide something dangerous for years.

The FBI says bomb squads and local police are frequently called to deal with decades-old military explosives. Its Hazardous Devices School at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, trains and certifies the nation’s civilian public-safety bomb technicians, with about 200 new bomb techs trained each year and roughly 467 public-safety bomb squads across the United States. That system exists for moments like this, when nobody on shore should be improvising with an object that could still go off.

The warning signs are not theoretical. Separate magnet-fishing videos and local reports have described a 1953 artillery shell found next to a prison, two military rockets recovered in another pull, an artillery shell taken from the Red Cedar River in Lansing, Michigan, a suspected explosive pulled from Sonoma State University lakes, and a WWII grenade found in Blandford, Devon. Put together, the pattern is hard to miss: waterways can hide all kinds of history, but some finds belong to the bomb squad, not the bucket.