A Virginia Beach woman who picked up a couple bags of clams from a seafood shack was shocked when she discovered a rare, purple pearl inside one of the clam shells.

It might be a pearl!' " Upon closer inspection, the couple realized it was not only a pearl, but a purple one. "We're finding out there's only a handful on earth," Barbara Krensavage said.

Scott Overland of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, told FOX 5 DC that he was at dinner with his family in Delaware when he discovered a purple pearl in his clam dish.

A Pennsylvania man made quite the discovery inside a clam served to him at a Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, restaurant: a purple pearl.

Courtesy/Scott Overland Scott Overland, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, found a rare purple pearl in a clam he ordered last week at Salt Air Kitchen & Bar in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

A Florida man was about halfway through a plate of steamed clams when he chomped down on something hard— a rare, iridescent purple pearl. The find could be worth thousands.

In August, Scott Overland found a purple pearl at a restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. It's been appraised at over $4,000, but he's not selling.

A Phoenixville, PA man was on vacation, enjoying a meal with his family at Salt Air Restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, DE when he came across a surprise in an order of clams: a purple pearl!

Phoenixville man finds rare purple pearl in seafood appetizer he almost sent back "I bit down on something kind of hard and I initially thought it was a shell or something like that," said Scott ...