A) We are not talking about watermelons and sandwich "baggies" here. Honestly I believe you haven't even taken the time to research the facts around the Yamashita treasure....
Yes we ARE talking "watermelons in sandwich baggies". IF the point is: "odds-on-favorite of history repeating itself". Perhaps our difference then is: You seem to imply that gold bars and yamashita treasures ARE being found. In that case, you're right: My analogy doesn't hold. Because , to carry the example, it would mean that someone DID fit a "watermelon into a sandwich baggie"
So I guess I challenge the notion of the supposed finds. More on this in a minute.
And ... yes ... I have researched the Yamashita legend. But I know that you will say that: Anyone who researches it, who doesn't end up believing in it, hasn't researched it *enough*. Right ? I could say the same thing about Unicorns. If you say "they don't exist", then what's to stop me from saying : "That's because you haven't researched unicorns enough" ?
.... If you saw a dirt poor banana farmer living deep in the mountains with literally zero options for increasing his income suddenly build a house that would be comfortable in a Beverly Hills neighborhood and then hear rumors that he found a few gold bars on his land, what would you believe?....
Couple of responses to this:
1) Can you concede that there are multiple ways that people come into wealth, build bigger/nicer homes, have sudden income increases , etc.... ?
2) I find it very curious that YOUR OWN WORDS are: "rumors". Hmmm. Why that word ? Well I got news for you: forgive me for stereotyping certain cultures, but legend/lore and telephone-game gone wild, (ie.: "rumors") is very pronounced in some geographic areas.
For example, in Mexico, I ran into the same thing: "Rumors" of someone who found gold coins or gold bars. But I took it a step further enochsea7:
I purposefully hunted down the persons . Whom my host was alluding to. Who "knew about a find". I'd interview them about this "gold".
Well guess what ? It turns out they didn't actually see any gold. *BUT NOT TO WORRY*. Because they got it on good authority from so & so. So I tracked down that so & so to gather information. Well guess what ?
They too didn't see the gold. But not to worry. They heard it on good authority from so & so. And so on, and so forth, back to
permanent regression. Are you beginning to see the telephone game at play ebicgsea7? BUT AT NO POINT in the game, does it ever not cease to be first-person singular , past-tense certain "found".
Because the human mind wants SO HARD to believe in treasure (the stories are so fun). But with a little scrutiny, as you can see, the stories fall apart. And yes, in fact, they are nothing more than "rumors" (your own words). In fact, on a few of the stories I traced through 3 or 4 people, you'd finally arrive at the person who "saw" it, and .... presto: They just saw sparkles in the ground. Or smoke coming from a hole. Or had a dream, blah blah blah. Obviously I hope you can see those are not valid indications of "treasure".
....... B) Pulse induction is tried and true technology at this point. The Whites TM 808 has absolutely stellar reviews across the board. .....
Did you read my alternative explanation for "signals" that a detector gives, in post #20 ? DO NOT GET LOST IN THE EXAMPLE. Other examples There's been people who dug for hours, before discovering they had steel toe boots on that was giving the signal. And I recall a time when my buddy dug for 30 minutes deeper .... and deeeper... and deeper .... only to discover later than he was digging down through the center of a barrel hoop (the "beep" from the detector beeps @ the center of the hoop, doh!). I can continue on and give you 20 more examples. But I fear you will get "lost in the example". Suffice it to say: Not every "beep" of a detector means: "Yamashita treasure". There can be reasons . Eg.: You're misinterpreting it. It could be a soda can. It could be you're not setting the machine right, misintrepreting flutter, etc.. etc....
.... As far as your opinion of dowsing goes im just going to shut it down instantly with a quote from someone with a level of intelligence that, i would hope, you wouldn't so easily attempt to discredit:
Einstein himself respected dowsing and what it implied. He said:
“I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, however, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.”
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I'm afraid it's not just dealing with me on this front. I'm afraid you're going to find an avalanche of persons who 'diss the whole enterprise of dowsing.
As for Einstein saying that : Are you aware that "smart people make mistakes" ? Here's another true quote of Einstein: He was an acquaintance of Gerhard Fisher, who was the founder of Fisher metal detectors. Back when Fisher had started making inroads into metal detectors in the 1930s , he actually discussed it with Einstein. Einstein was said to have balked at it. Saying there was no commercial market for such a device. Well .... gee .... a look at the long list of metal detector manufacturers, who have indeed found willing customers to buy detectors .... That would seem to imply that Einstein made a mistaken future prediction there, eh ? There are brilliant people ALL THE TIME who are less than perfect, and made statements that later turned out to be un-true. Einstein, for all his brilliance, walked around with his fly open too. Geniuses can excel in one venue, but lack in others.
....say a very very large hot rock(common in bicol area ) ....so if u keep digging say 30 feet and hit water then what are u going to do .....sooner or later u hit water before u get to china .....step back and think about all this ....u got a signal whats the signal 
?? are u in a mining area 
and am not joking seen this near sipalay
