muck money 
the trees and the rain and the mud and the mire of the swamp was enough...but the snakes and briars are something to contend with all differant from the …

Identify?? 
Although I don't do metal detecting, I would love to at some point in the future! What I do is dig for beach glass. I have found a few rings, a silver …

Hunting Treasure with my Granddaughter 
I had my detector loaned out to my cousin Lloyd in California. He had recently returned my detector and on a sunny weekend, I decided to test it out. …

trash heap treasure 
this place is called what allan ? " The sewer hole? no dummy.. its the old pineville dump!!! you know the refuse pond the trash DUMP!! Well O.K. !! lets …

jail house finds 
..the old jail was called the ROUGE BOX or the HOT HOUSE-located by GPS and we found the coordinates and the foundation and some iorn bars and then..WHAM!! …

old house riches 
...well what if danny??gosh the darn house is so old and delapitated thatthe flys and skeeters pass it up!!! but i will check the floors and window frames …

Buttons,Badges and Pins 
Hey Frank It`s been a while since I wrote you.I`ve found several old looking pieces in the past year and here are some of them I was hoping you could …

porch swing find 
the house 1889 crowley,louisiana. first of the big southern mansions. the city of crowley est.1889 so the house was first of 200 such annebellum homes. …

Junky treasure find 
...the old car junk yard was well over 90 years old and was no longer used for modern cars and trucks to be left here to rot and rust and decay away into …

College ring 
My family and I go to Wilmington, Delaware every summer where my wife is from. Her family still lives there. We usually end up going to the southern …

17th Century Coin Bonanza !! 
Hi all! I got word from a local 'old timer' that a certain area of a cove on my local tidal creek was used as as swimming & picnic area when he was …

the road to riches 
...after 5 hours and a tired hunting dog i finally rested by a tree on this dead end farm road(TX-345) it dead ended at an old building called the morgue.obviousily …

Uncharted forest 
....the old barn was decayed but still standing and the coffee was pushing for revenge so i turned on the whites detector and let the NOSE go to work for …

building codes 
stan and I were re-wiring an old theatre in downtown baca springs texas and needed to get behind some wall panels of the theatre backstage.after getting …

Tin box full of coins and documents/gun 
Not really a detecting story, but cool anyway. When I was a kid, my dad and I were ripping out all the plaster lathe in our 1830 house in Annapolis and …

The treasure is in the Hunt! 
I bought my first detector at the end of February 2011 which was a whites MXT pro and used it a little bit, but the ground was still frozen and forcing …

1810 wedding band 
Here`s another old piece of jewerly I found yesterday.So far this is the oldest dated find.At first I thought it to be a poor man`s wedding band because …

New England Jackpot 
A couple of days ago i was detecting in my neighbor's property. His house was built in 1801 and has a fairly large property. I went up to a raised area …

old jewelry 
Hey Frank I recently found a very fragile old looking piece.I`m not sure where to take it to see what it`s worth.Any suggestions?

"TREE STUMP TREASURE" 
..usually the rain makes the earth more digable and tender..but after the storm the earth was still parched. The old stump i discovered next to an old …

"Red deer park" 
after hunting with my radio shack detector for 6 years i decided to upgrade to a nice beach type detector. $599.99 on sale-free shipping-4days later -the …

Jungle Booty 
Vietnam-1968-Tet offensive..Orders were to follow "C" ompany and bravo company to the road leading to phnom deim airbase-sector (29 Zulu)to meet the enemy …

nuclear winter 
my grandfather was an oklahoma cherrokee indian during the 30's he was a carpenter and broke horses for money. now in the 21st century i had the opportunity …

metor finding 15 mins away from were i live! 
im only 15 and i already love to metal detect, one great find that i found was my mom and my dad went to go into town to do arons so i went to and went …

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My random find of 2011 
I am still new to the world of metal detectin and spend on average, 4 hours a week scouring the yards of old homeplaces here in central Arkansas. Last …

"Beach Buzz" 
..holly beach south ,louisiana. 6-hours-4 rings and 135 coins later im still buzzing the beach sand and hoping it dont rain soon. then the big ping-BUZZ!what …

Grandma's buried silver. 
My great grandpa had a country store and ran a post office in a community in Arkansas.He lost money during the great depression,and decided to save money …

"UNDERFOOT PING" 
...WWWWRRRRRIIIEEE...the sound was familiar as a can or a scrap signal or the rusty old iorn globbs we often encounter.but not this time!!!i dug for at …

RINGS AND BLINGS 
..my son peter bought a dfx detector at a pawn shop for$75.00 and began the task of hunting our yard.well thats fine peter ...but what to find? he made …

Thicket finds 
the underbrush here in montana is gruling and menacing..let alone the wildlife.but for bobby and me,its all about the finds!!the reading bob got was iorn …

Dr.Franken Murray P.H.D.*(RETIRED) 
I realize that a woman is for ever..but my wife saw the commercial on detecting..went to a whites detector store-bought-returned home.."HERE old Doctor..go …

"BARN BURNER"!! 
..in the field?NOPE!!in the well ?NOPE!in the chicken shed floor?NOPE!!Under the barn ?LETS SEE? 6 feet under the old Thornson barn we heard dector signals …

Buried 57 Chevy 
I was working a shoreline area on Galveston Bay during a warm fall day this past 2010. Doing a slow sweep with the discriminator set to ignore beer tabs, …

OK. Here we go again... 
I recently got a friend of mine interested in metal detecting by showing him a small gold pin with diamonds I found. He wanted to give it a try. So, …

silvercache 
..i recently found so many coins ..i almost had a Tack!!!a big one!!!2(**225 LBS> -sacks of Morgan dollars under an old ball park diamond!!!it took a hoist …

Beach story. 
Several years ago was detecting on a beach on Connecticut shore. After several minutes of nothing, decided to sit for awhile and simply enjoy the view. …

First day finds. 
For Christmas, I got a Bounty hunter Quick Silver Detector. I Went out to my back yard and started just messing around with no discrimanation on. The first …

First timer 
I have had a bounty hunter pioneer for years now. Played with it off and on over the years. Up untill now it was for fun because face it its a bounty hunter. …

Maj.Gen.Lebeauf-ARMY-retired 
.......it was years ago....1953 to be Exact and the circumstances were of an Orderly-must be type situation.the 8th regiment and the 8th army had taken …

INVESTIGATING LAKE GEORGE, NY WITH A METAL DETECTOR 
One day I went to a local library near Lake George, New York and they had old topo maps of many nearby areas. It was fascinating to see these maps and …

"priestly involvement". 
This idea that pirate tresure is possible... stuck real deep for years in my craw!!Especially since i live and work in southern louisiana.(COON-ASS/CAJUN-Country)My …

Hunting for burried stolen gold. 
I was 14 years old. My uncle had talked to a man who found a map that was in the belongings of a deceased uncle. The map fit a story about the uncle. The …

" RIVER OF DREAM'S" 
..the map was old and the story was twice as old of the confederates hangout here in south louisiana. i planned this hunt and stayed up nights online searching...searchin …

" PASSER UP" 
...SO MANY HOURS SLIP BETWEEN BEGAN AND FINISHED -FIVE TO BE EXACT AND THE HEAT WAS STILL HOT!!SO AS THE BOTTLED WATER RAN DRY AND THE SUN WAS ORANGE ENOUGH …

St.Patricks day 
Hi, my name is Patricia, I always loved reading lost treasures and enjoyed seeing lost towns, I grew up near the Jesse James farm,had been there a couple …

Grave discovery  
...the name of the old grave yard was "Scottsville" 1778-1962...it no longer is used as the space is no longer avaliable and its very overgrown with weeds,briars …

box find 
under the shrubbry of an old farm in southern louisiana comes this box of iorn???strange insignia on box..so we hack the dern thing open and wow!!!gold …

Mark B 
I'm a beginer, and the other day i found a coin that says its a two shilling coin, and i dont know what it is worth but i know that it it very cool that …

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