BACKYARD HOT TUB NEVER NEEDED A HEATER, TURNS OUT IT SITS ON A NATURAL HOT SPRING - Video

Pool technician Reuben Castillo, thirty-six, was called to fix a "broken heater" on a residential hot tub outside Steamboat Springs, Colorado, only to find the unit had never actually been wired to power. Water temperature came entirely from an underground thermal vein the original builder apparently knew about but never disclosed to later owners. Geological survey confirmed the spring had been active for centuries, long predating the property. The homeowner, forty-nine, had been paying a plumber for phantom "heater maintenance" for six years. "I've been fixing something that was never broken," Reuben said. She got a partial refund and a very good story.