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Your Most Memorable Find.. All Time

I have been hunting treasure for over five years now, and I have been very lucky with all of the wonderful items that I have found! On my very first outing, while using a friends detector because I had not purchased one yet, I found something extremely valuable! We we searching a Michigan State Park, and I saw what looked like a land depression, so I decided that I would check it out! My imagination ran wild as I approached the area, as the shape of the depression looked like someone had buried an old horse drawn wagon! As I got closer, sure enough, the detector went crazy, indicating that there was something very large and metallic buried not to far below the surface! As I began to dig with an old military folding shovel, my anticipation grew, and grew!! I was filled with excitement as I imagined the treasure I was about to uncover! I wont get into all of the details of how we ended up recovering what was buried there, but I have just returned from the Vatican in Rome! I had an audience with the pope, and several Bishops and Cardinals, who sit on a special panel for any types of discovery or recovery of religious artifacts, that confirm or deny anything within the Holy Bible, or other recognized documents that have been discovered over the past several thousand years! At any rate, what I had recovered was rather significant, and something that I don't think anyone would expect to be found in a park in Michigan of all places! What I had unearthed has no been taken to the University of Rome, and is undergoing carbon dating, to confirm what I think everyone at the Vatican already knows is real! You see, the article that I found was a small decaying date tree wood box. Upon opening the lid to that box, having the hinges, hasp, and supports crumble due to rust and corrosion, what I found inside was truly breath taking! Upon removing the cloth cover, which was decayed, and rotted to the wood, I reached in, and gently removed the object from it's intended container. As I held it up in the afternoon sunlight, and brushed away the rotten pieces of cloth, and dirt that had seeped into the box over the many years it had been buried there, my heart skipped a beat as I saw what I held in my hands! Within minutes, my friend finally got to where I was digging, and he approached me as if I was holding a live hand grenade! He looked at me with pallor in his face, and asked me if I was okay! I told him that I was, and asked him what he meant by asking me if I was okay! He explained to me that my hair had gone totally white, and I had grown a long flowing white beard! I said he was nuts, and he backed away almost as if he had seen a real ghost! Upon standing up, still holding the item in my hands, I took a closer look. There, in my hands, I held one of the most significant archaeological finds in man's history! Yes, I held the Holy Grail of Antioch, the very chalice that was used at the last supper! We decided to celebrate this find before contacting the media, so I filled in the hole, and we headed for Arby's for the 5 for 1 dollar special! Later, we went back with shovels, and unearthed some other items that were buried there! We unearthed the Arc of the Covenant, some of the lost Dead Sea Scrolls, some books written by some guy named James Smith, Jimmy Hoffa's wrist watch, pen, wallet, and an old rusted .22 caliber pistol with a silencer on it, a map of the Bermuda Triangle, some close up photographs of the Yeti, some nude pictures of Crazy Horse, the Lindbergh Baby's diapers, blanket, and a knife, a very large silver hammer with the name of "Thor" engraved in it, a letter from some woman named Elizabeth Borden, saying something about her Armenian lover killing her parents because they had walked in on this woman and him when they were lying naked on a couch together, Obama's birth certificate from Rwanda, a picture of some guy standing on the grassy knoll across the street from the Dallas Book Depository, playing with an umbrella gun with President Johnson, who was giving him a handful of money, the cornerstone from the U.S Capital building, an old Masonic Book, in a Knights Templar Box, wrapped in a gift box from the Bohemian Club, and the head of John the Baptist! I realize that this find wasn't that spectacular, but I was pretty excited with it! We sold the entire lot of stuff, except for the Holy Grail to a couple of guys from the History Channel, who called themselves Pickers or something like that, and the chalice was unloaded on some pawn shop in Las Vegas, to some really goofy guy named Chum Lee! We got $50.00 bucks for the chalice, so we think that we did pretty good! After the Vatican got a hold of it, they wanted us to come and tell the hole story for some History Channel program. We will be finishing up on the film that we did for them in a couple of weeks. They want us to reenact the whole thing for some pawn shop show, where we take it in, sell it, and then they follow the chalice to some restoration shop, where they repair the chalice where it has decayed over the years! Anyway, I would tell you about some other finds, but I don't have time right now! I am off with my buddy to some island in the South Pacific called Kiribati, where we uncovered an old Lockheed Model 10 Electra, with the skeletal remains of a white male, and a white female. The only identification that they have made so far is the name "Amelia E" found on a metal whiskey flask, the same markings on a file that was still intact, containing two ounces of cocaine, five LSD tablets in another bottle, a half consumed case of whiskey, empty bottles all over the cockpit, and just a real mess on the inside of the airplane! It was a very strange find for sure. When we first approached the plane, lying in about 45 yards of water, we looked in the window, and the skeletons had rested in a very strange position! The female skeleton was found sitting on the lap of the male skeleton, both facing forward, and the female skeleton was still holding onto the controls of the plane! Both skeletons had their mouths wide open, and there is evidence that both were nude when the plane crashed, as their clothing, including their shoes and belts were found in the navigators seat! There was a pair of woman's panties draped over the head of the male skeleton, and a woman's bra was wrapped around the male skeleton's neck, holding it firmly in place against the head rest of the pilots chair. Experts don't know how the skeletons ended up in that position, as anyone who was flying like that would surely crash! Anyway, I will write more when I return from my trip! I just love owning my own metal detector right now, and our next U.S. exploration will be in the basement of the Alamo!
God Bless!!
 
This story would have been great for an April first, treasure story. You my friend have found a greater treasure than material things. The gift of Writing, and I must add, very good at it! I give you Kudo's :clap:....NGE
 
Just curious. Are you in real life.....Indiana Jones? Oh wait....I don't believe that he found " The Holy Grail. " From your screen name, I am assuming that you are either a professor with a degree in writing or like me, I just love to tell stories, and I've been told that if you give me couple of minutes, You could learn everything I know about the days gone by that nobody cares about anymore. I have been known to spin a few good corkers from time to time.......NGE
 
Ultra, I know the story is NOT true. Just commenting on his creative writing style, and I like it.........NGE
 
utahshovelhead said:
Im pretty sure that story is not true...some of that stuff already been found dont any of ya watch TV.

No its true Utah. I was there when he found it. I was on location of the National Treasure III movie as a technical advisor. :rofl::heh:

NebTrac
 
I should have put a smiley in on my first reply, cause someone actually thought I believed that story:rofl:
 
Hey, there was about as much chance of me stretching the truth in my post, as there is for Jesse Jackson to speak at the next Republican National Convention! Okay, so I am a Professor, does that mean I lie about everything? Wow, I am really glad now that I didn't say anything about the Great Japanese Tsunami Conspiracy, which was caused by the CIA messing around with papers found in Nikola Tesla's apartment!
 
Never implied that you were lying, just like your style, you should be proud of that. I know, I am, when I make use of my Jr. High creative writing class back in 1967. Now I am giving away my age:surrender:. I love words, word games, the English language.....etc, etc. George Carlin was my mentor:rofl:.....NGE
 
So far this would have to be the one. Had my new Etrac for a few days and found this Button.
Brass 34 mm. Gold eagle (Gold still on it) Found at an old colonial homestead.
In Albert's book on George Washington Inauguration buttons, it is
(WI 13 with a rarity of R6) which means only 3-5 exists and is extremely rare.:thumbup:
 
John - Maryland said:
So far this would have to be the one. Had my new Etrac for a few days and found this Button.
Brass 34 mm. Gold eagle (Gold still on it) Found at an old colonial homestead.
In Albert's book on George Washington Inauguration buttons, it is
(WI 13 with a rarity of R6) which means only 3-5 exists and is extremely rare.:thumbup:


Wow John, that is awesome!
 
My number one goal since I got seriously involved in this hobby two years ago was to find any coin with a 1700's date on it.

I was in Maine last summer and I found a very old cellar hole in the woods that had never been hunted before.
I was only hunting for a about 10 minutes when I real solid hit approx. 6" down - it turned out to be a 1724 King George 1st. Half Penny.
By the end of the two hour I also found a - no date King George 2nd Half Penny, sewing thimble, pair of cuff links, brass belt buckle, two brass shoe buckles and three pewter spoons.
It sure is great to be the first person to ever hunt a site !

The bad news is that things just got whole lot tougher around here - it will probably be a long time before I can find a coin with a 1600's date on it !

HH --- Mark
 
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