OUT of CURIOSITY has anyone here found a BIG Treasure ?

[Deleted member 140734]

I recently met a very wealthy and lonely widow. I went on a few dates, but my friends called me a gold digger. The treasure comes with too much baggage.

 

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[bc5391]

Boy this went South in a quick NewYork minute
Good thing I didn’t answer truthfully 😂.. of course I can admit to finding a $5 bill in the parking lot a few months ago. Does that matter now?

Beet ya, I found a $20 bill when I was in my 20's,, good thing I am past the 7 year limit to report it.

 

[Gare]

OK Let me ask a different question .
WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you FOUND a CACHE WORTH over $50.000 ??

I know what i would do but will wait for a while to post it

 

[Linesider]

The guys that hit it big aren’t on the forums anymore. . There out hiding from us. 😂

 

[Crow]

The guys that hit it big aren’t on the forums anymore. . There out hiding from us. 😂

A lot of them are dead amigo.

It does not matter how big you hit it. the hunger never leaves you. Searching for treasure becomes a drug.

One such treasure that used poster here about 2O years ago. made millions. But he is not the only one either. You see Treasurenet over years has been full of saints sinners and everything in between. Everything from hobbyists to full time treasure hunters. to conspiracy theorist nut jobs. You name it treasurenet has seen it. kudos to the moderators who try to keep sanity in Asylum.

Treasure net brought people from all over globe. some made deals, contacts and exchanged information that was overlooked by most. Treasure net has become a neutral screening place where you can get in contact with people if you only remotely knew what they have been or still doing would leave you totally awe struck.

Some things can be talked about other things just cannot be spoken about in public forum.

Crow

 

[Crow]

OK Let me ask a different question .
WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you FOUND a CACHE WORTH over $50.000 ??

I know what i would do but will wait for a while to post it

Me personally I would not say anything? Where there is treasure evil is never far away. I have seen it destroy peoples lives. tear families apart. People talk. then other people tell other people before you know every one knows. Then you get the claims either out of greed or envy.

Crow

 

[Mackaydon]

Crow,
Your previous two posts are all so true; I can attest to them--but not disclose the details.
Don in SoCal

 

[Almy]

My most monetarily valuable treasure find is a 50 cent silver coin, and the value is in the silver because the coin is badly abraded.
However, there is a local treasure story from the early 1900s I have heard from several sources, one of whom saw the hole where the treasure was dug. The treasure was gold coins from the late 1600s or early 1700s, a military payroll that was buried when an enemy army was approaching. The finder discovered it in a field about 200 years later while he was plowing. The finder was an employee of the farmer who owned the land. The finder spirited the coins away secretly at night with the help of a horse, wagon and friend. These two people then began making annual trips together and returning with expensive cars. Their farms became very prosperous, with the latest machinery and big buildings. One family member peeked through a window into a room the finder kept off limits, and saw him handling a pile of gold coins on a table. The primary finder shared some of the money with favored family members but pointedly left others out. The owner of the farm where the find was made heard about it, asked for a share, but was refused. Neighbors did not like this person thereafter and many in the family became bitter about it. Three generations later, there is still bitterness when family members reminisce. And the reputation of the finder among his neighbors is bad, even after he has been dead many years.

 

[Surf_Pirate]

I once shared my Big $ story here but no one seem to catch on. Left certain details out of course. I was really young and dad knew how to keep his mouth shut. Definitely added to the treasure hunting bug as a kid.
Stumbled on a sort a cache years back also…. Dumb luck like most my treasure

 

[Surf_Pirate]

My most monetarily valuable treasure find is a 50 cent silver coin, and the value is in the silver because the coin is badly abraded.
However, there is a local treasure story from the early 1900s I have heard from several sources, one of whom saw the hole where the treasure was dug. The treasure was gold coins from the late 1600s or early 1700s, a military payroll that was buried when an enemy army was approaching. The finder discovered it in a field about 200 years later while he was plowing. The finder was an employee of the farmer who owned the land. The finder spirited the coins away secretly at night with the help of a horse, wagon and friend. These two people then began making annual trips together and returning with expensive cars. Their farms became very prosperous, with the latest machinery and big buildings. One family member peeked through a window into a room the finder kept off limits, and saw him handling a pile of gold coins on a table. The primary finder shared some of the money with favored family members but pointedly left others out. The owner of the farm where the find was made heard about it, asked for a share, but was refused. Neighbors did not like this person thereafter and many in the family became bitter about it. Three generations later, there is still bitterness when family members reminisce. And the reputation of the finder among his neighbors is bad, even after he has been dead many years.

Was this in the town I’m thinking of?

 

[gemee]

Loose lips sink ships.

 

[Ex Nafragiis Venit Aurum]

A lot of them are dead amigo.

It does not matter how big you hit it. the hunger never leaves you. Searching for treasure becomes a drug.

One such treasure that used poster here about 2O years ago. made millions. But he is not the only one either. You see Treasurenet over years has been full of saints sinners and everything in between. Everything from hobbyists to full time treasure hunters. to conspiracy theorist nut jobs. You name it treasurenet has seen it. kudos to the moderators who try to keep sanity in Asylum.

Treasure net brought people from all over globe. some made deals, contacts and exchanged information that was overlooked by most. Treasure net has become a neutral screening place where you can get in contact with people if you only remotely knew what they have been or still doing would leave you totally awe struck.

Some things can be talked about other things just cannot be spoken about in public forum.

Crow

Not to be morbid but I'd love to get a list of accounts that still exist but are no longer with us. Would love to see what wisdom they left us with. I heard about Carl Fismer late last year - was a tragedy to lose him without ever having been able to meet him in person.

 

[RGINN]

Easy to answer for me--no. I did find $5,000 in twenty dollar bills one time, stashed in a culvert, but they were all counterfeit so I turned them over to the Secret Service. I know two people who did hit it big. Not millions but several thousand. One went the legal route and came out ok, the other one is lost to history. I know what he found but don't even know his real name.

 

[Ex Nafragiis Venit Aurum]

Easy to answer for me--no. I did find $5,000 in twenty dollar bills one time, stashed in a culvert, but they were all counterfeit so I turned them over to the Secret Service. I know two people who did hit it big. Not millions but several thousand. One went the legal route and came out ok, the other one is lost to history. I know what he found but don't even know his real name.

Dang that would suck. Good on you realizing they were counterfeit

 

[UnderMiner]

I once found a cave on a small island in the Philippines full of mysterious wooden crates. Skeletons in tattered Japanese imperial uniforms were hunched over the crates. I noticed, clenched in the bony hand of one of the skeletons was the glint of gold - there was gold coin in his hand! I surmised the crates must be full of gold too. Perhaps billions of dollars worth! But as I went to open one of the crates a booby trap was triggered, and a huge boulder came crashing down from the ceiling! Boom! I was nearly crushed, but luckily moved out of the way just in the nick of time! The gold was still accessible luckily and many of the crates had been smashed open by the boulder falling on them. The floor of the cave was now covered in gold coins and disarticulated human bones. I began hauling the crates to the mouth of the cave but soon realised something terrible, the booby trap had not been confined to the area in the rear of the cave but by the mouth of it as well, the entrance had been sealed by a rock slide. Now trapped in the cave I could only return to the treasrue room and hope I could find a way to to escape, perhaps some tool to aid me. And so I opened the crates. Gold, gold, precious stones, silver, bejeweled deities, but nothing useful. Then finally, as the light of my flashlight began to dim, I opened a crate that was full of blasting caps and TNT, all brand new still sealed in rusty metal tins. I figured this is what they must have used to build the room and they had left overs. So I rigged the explosives at the mouth of the cave, lit the fuse with my lighter, and ran for cover. The explosion blew the mouth of the cave wide open but also induced a series of collapses inside the cave. I had hardly made it out in one piece when the entire interior collapsed - sealing the treasure inside. I had not salvaged a single peice of loot, all I had gotten was a sore back, ringing in my ears, and a story most people will disregard as the ramblings of an insane person.

 

[Limitool]

OK Let me ask a different question .
WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you FOUND a CACHE WORTH over $50.000 ??

I know what i would do but will wait for a while to post it

I'm sure that has happen Gare X's 7. People get lucky. I bet when it happens that person would love to scream to the treasure Gods and show everybody. I'd even bet that person would love to take pics and store on a computer. I also bet it would be so tempting to post on Tnet and listen to what people would say while sharing his story.

But in reality unless it was found in your own yard or on your property all the above should not and cannot happen. Telling people would be so hard not too. Taking pics and storing them is also careless unless your ready to share with all. So while I'm sure its happened I believe it would be very careless to announce such a find. I couldn't fathom all the questions and media coverage it would generate. And all of that would lead to "accountability" by announcing it. Why would someone or anyone do that...?

 

[mtnmanpp]

A lot of them are dead amigo.

It does not matter how big you hit it. the hunger never leaves you. Searching for treasure becomes a drug.

One such treasure that used poster here about 2O years ago. made millions. But he is not the only one either. You see Treasurenet over years has been full of saints sinners and everything in between. Everything from hobbyists to full time treasure hunters. to conspiracy theorist nut jobs. You name it treasurenet has seen it. kudos to the moderators who try to keep sanity in Asylum.

Treasure net brought people from all over globe. some made deals, contacts and exchanged information that was overlooked by most. Treasure net has become a neutral screening place where you can get in contact with people if you only remotely knew what they have been or still doing would leave you totally awe struck.

Some things can be talked about other things just cannot be spoken about in public forum.

Crow

some might say that "we're all here, cuz' we aren't all there"

 

[Sandog]

I found my wife. She's a treasure, and she cost me a lot of money!

 

[cuzimloony]

All jokes aside, this website, tnet, is the best treasure of all

 

[dersegler]

1. Did you report it ? No
2. Did you lose a percentage of it for taxes ? Not for many years then I got caught. I did pay 10% to someone called "The Big Guy".
3. How would you handle your NEXT big find ? I wouldn't leave my laptop laying around or take it to a repair shop and forget completely to pick it up.
4. How or why did you hit the mother load ?
I really wasn't qualified and had lots of distracting experiences but had a lot of help from my family and friends.

HB