Treasure Stories

[kansas_jayhawks]

We've all read the magazines with "stories" of lost treasure. In fact someone put a series of books (4 or 5 states/book) listing all of the so called lost treasure that "no one has ever found".

Has anyone ever heard that someone actually found the "lost treasure".

Just curious. I've read a couple stories in the recent weeks that really get me to laughing. When you start figuring in the dates and ages of the individuals ... the numbers don't add up. Neither do the sequence of events that create many of these stories and I'm talking stories you can find in several books or magazines that are being repeated.

Any insights?

Thanks
KS

 

[hershey1]

My take on most treasure stories is if someone knew where treasure was they would get it and then post it. But I do read some of them myself. HH

 

[bill67]

I'd say with the way the government, and lawyers, and landowners, and relatives work here in the states ....... that it would be wise not to tell anyone if you found a large treasure...... let alone post it on the world wide web .... ...... Just my two cents .......

 

[chipmaker29]

I'd say with the way the government, and lawyers, and landowners, and relatives work here in the states ....... that it would be wise not to tell anyone if you found a large treasure...... let alone post it on the world wide web .... ...... Just my two cents .......

LOL...exactly. well put

 

[Tom_in_CA]

If I had a dollar for all the "sure fire buried treasure story tips" that passer-bys give me, in my 35 yrs. of this, I'd be rich And it's always someone who told someone who told someone type thing. Or in the treasure mags (particularly the treasure-lore ghost lost-mine legend stuff from the 1960s/70s mag's) is always variations of this:

The lone survivor of an indian attack comes dragging himself into the old west saloon, and spills his story of fabulous riches to the curious on-lookers. But he dies before going back to claim his fortune, but not before giving the tantalizing clues! I mean, c'mon people!

 

[kansas_jayhawks]

I would agree - no one finding a lost treasure today would ever admit to it. But chances are - in time it would get leaked out. Moving a million in gold coins would be very difficult.

But you would think that at some point over the last 25 years one of these lost treasures would have been found if they actually existed.

Probably the only person who ever made money was the person smart enough to write a book about lost treasures and got others to buy it.

KS

 

[bill67]

I think most big treasure tales are suspicious and folks have made a lot of money selling those books ...... But things do turn up from time to time ....

The Tilley Treasure found by equipment operators moving dirt in or around Fort Leonard Wood , Missouri area is a good story of a hoard of coins found. I think it was found in the 60's. I talked to an old treasure hunter once that said he had hunted within three hundred yards of where it was found. He told me the whole story but I don't remember much of the details. I think during the Civil War, the old man Tilley was found hung near his home which had been burned because he would'nt tell where his money was hidden.

The very first detectorist I ever met back in 1968 told me he researched violent and accidental deaths of individuals before the 1920's. Because most folks didn't trust the banks before then and almost everyone buried some of their money....... He then found where they had lived when they died and proceeded to hunt for and sometimes find the buried money left behind that many times the wife and children did not know about or failed to find.

Another old serious treasure hunter buddy of mine who died a couple of years ago told me about a tip he got from a guy that was floating down a certain river years ago and stopped at a location where an old post office was once in operation and had burned. A ground hog had dug his hole there and had dug up a few indian head pennies. Because you could only get to it by river, my buddy fabricated a 12 volt car battery powered screen sifter and he and his wife took it and a shovel and some food and floated down to the spot...... they set up and began sifting dirt. He said along with the Indian heads, old silver started showing up and he excitedly continued digging even while his wife fed him a sandwich. He said it was the hardest and fastest he ever used a shovel in his life..... .... He never told me exactly how much he found, and I'm sure it wasn't thousands of dollars worth, but showed me a handful of the silver barbers and seated that were too damaged by fire to put in coin holders ........

I believe if we knew how much money was still in the ground within a five mile radius of us we would probably flip ..........

 

[Uncle Willy]

There is more money and treasure lost and buried than is in existence today.

Bill

 

[boxofchocolates]

Bill,Thats funny about the sanwich,Thats to good not to be true....You can't make that up....That sounds too real.....LOL......hh.....Dan