Hello All,
A friend of mine was recently helping relocate his mother in law to a senior living situation. While he was helping her move she mentioned that her Ukrainian husband (who had been placed in a mental institution years ago), over the years had mentioned that he hid some gold under the house. So after clearing out the house he went under to go have a look. After about an hour of digging around in the rat turd dirt he called up a friend and borrowed a metal detector. I asked him what kind, he didn't remember but he said it was yellow. So he started swinging and was getting tons of false signals from plumbing pipes. He didn't know how to work the discrimination. He said the dirt was hard and compacted and he figured if someone had dug a hole the fill dirt would be soft. So he started poking around with a stick. He also focused on the entrance area because it was tight and uncomfortable down there and figured the person that hid it would not want to go too deep. Suddenly his poke stick went through some soft dirt and hit wood! He brushed off four inches of dirt, pulled away a small piece of plywood, and found a large Gatorade jug in a hole that had wooden sides. He pulled out the jug and opened it to find another smaller Gatorade bottle. He opened that one and found it filled with US gold eagle coins minted in the 90's. He said the melt down value is $25k. He put the money in safe keeping for his mother in law.
I first heard about the story from a mutual friend a week ago but didn't want to post about it until I spoke with, and asked a few details on how it was found. I also asked for a photo but he didn't take any.
I'm not sure if this is the correct location for this post but anyway here it is.
Thanks
A friend of mine was recently helping relocate his mother in law to a senior living situation. While he was helping her move she mentioned that her Ukrainian husband (who had been placed in a mental institution years ago), over the years had mentioned that he hid some gold under the house. So after clearing out the house he went under to go have a look. After about an hour of digging around in the rat turd dirt he called up a friend and borrowed a metal detector. I asked him what kind, he didn't remember but he said it was yellow. So he started swinging and was getting tons of false signals from plumbing pipes. He didn't know how to work the discrimination. He said the dirt was hard and compacted and he figured if someone had dug a hole the fill dirt would be soft. So he started poking around with a stick. He also focused on the entrance area because it was tight and uncomfortable down there and figured the person that hid it would not want to go too deep. Suddenly his poke stick went through some soft dirt and hit wood! He brushed off four inches of dirt, pulled away a small piece of plywood, and found a large Gatorade jug in a hole that had wooden sides. He pulled out the jug and opened it to find another smaller Gatorade bottle. He opened that one and found it filled with US gold eagle coins minted in the 90's. He said the melt down value is $25k. He put the money in safe keeping for his mother in law.
I first heard about the story from a mutual friend a week ago but didn't want to post about it until I spoke with, and asked a few details on how it was found. I also asked for a photo but he didn't take any.
I'm not sure if this is the correct location for this post but anyway here it is.
Thanks
