Lotto player wins $800K jackpot after his sister dreams about finding ‘a bunch of gold’

A North Carolina man won more than $800,000 in the lottery after his sister says she dreamt about riches.

David Atwell, of Kannapolis, won $837,187 in Saturday night’s drawing off a Cash 5 on a $1 ticket he bought at a local Jiffy Quik, North Carolina’s Education Lottery announced.

“I was stunned,” he said. “At first I saw the jackpot went back down to $100,000 so I knew someone hit it. I had no idea it was me.”

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His sister, though, had a hunch there’d be good fortune in his future.

“In her dream I found a bunch of gold,” he recalled. “I guess dreams do come true.”

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Atwell added that his family “always said I was the luckiest one.”

He said after he learned he won he was “hollering so much it scared the cat.”

He claimed his prize at lottery headquarters Monday in Raleigh.

Atwell took home a total of $598,591 after taxes, which he said he plans to use to pay some bills and donate to his church.

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