I received (OK I weaseled ) an invitation from my buddy, Mike, to hunt on an old farm house that he recently inherited from his Grandfather. It was built in 1878. The estate still includes several acres of farmland surrounding the house. Though it now sits in suburbia, it was never sub-divided, and the land around it is vacant. He is certain that the place has never been hunted before. I jokingly asked him if there were any family rumors of buried treasure at the ol' place and he answered "kinda" and related to me the following chestnut: At the end of WWII one of the sons (my friends uncle) returned home to the farm. In his possession were several war souvenirs, included among them were two Japanese hand grenades. I think you can see where this is going. The old man of the house was very agitated with the son and wouldn't, or couldn't, be convinced the the grenades were harmless, though the son claimed the charges had been removed from the grenades. After much back-and-forth it came down to one question: did you personally see, with your own eyes, the removal of the charges? Well no, the son admitted, he hadn't. The father handed his son a shovel and told him to take the grenades out behind the sheep pens and give them a proper burial (apparently back in those days kids obeyed their parents and knew how to operate a shovel). From that day forward anyone in the family could (and did) point out the infamous location of the buried, alleged ordnance. Mike is certain he knows where the spot is. Obviously I'll have a full plate just finding "conventional" treasure at the location, and no good can come from detecting near the "ammo dump". Right? Not even to just uncover whatever is there, photograph it, and cover back up, right? 
If you'd happen upon any ordinance....back-away, and call the proper authorities for proper handling, though I doubt it will be an issue.
