Anybody that thinks treasure finding is easy has not spent much time doing it. I have shown just a few of the empty holes I have dug. I do not want to keep doing this so I am trying to learn from my mistakes. I just traded and got another nice metal detector last night. I got a converted shovel with it that will come in extremely handy. Having the right tools can make all the difference. The absolute most important ingredient for digging up treasure is to find the right place to dig.
How do you decide where to dig? Did you come up with a treasure map with an X marks the spot on it? Not likely. Did you find an old diary that tells where a hidden treasure is? This could happen. How about a death bed confession from someone right before they die telling you where they hid the gold? Stories from treasure books or magazines? They might get you out looking but it is hard to tell what to believe.
I believe a good hiding spot today may have been a good spot a long time ago. Whatever method you use if you can't come up with a specific spot to dig you will never find anything. Running around with a metal detector will get you digging up lots of trash. Maybe within that trash there may be something of value. The beach could be good and of course the scenery there is nice. The guy I bought the detector from found a $6500 ring a few weeks ago at the beach.
I have an old creek in our area where the story goes there was a Civil War outpost along the bank. There was also a few rumors that pirates might have gone up the creek from the Manatee river. I found out who owned the property and got permission to hunt for treasure there. First we had a map dowser locate an exact spot on a Google Earth photo. It was in the close proximity to where I was told the outpost was. I took a person with an one-of-kind LRL (long range locator) to the area. I let him go off into the woods on his own and he came back out and told me he located a spot. I had another person who I believe has very good on site dowsing capabilities go into the woods on his own and he came back and said he had a location.
Nobody was to do any marking of the spot in any way. After each was done I would go into the woods and have them show me the spot. I brought another person to the site that had a unique device and they went off into the woods with it. They came back and said they found a hotspot. Nobody knew what the others had done and these were separate occasions. EVERYBODY marked the same spot within 3 feet and it was in the EXACT spot that the map dowser had marked. Wild hogs were in the area and kept the ground pretty tore up so there were no footprints from us and there was no way anybody was able to tell what anybody else had done.
I brought a GPR expert to the site. I took him into the woods and put him right in the immediate vicinity of the spot. He got excited because the GPR image showed an area of disturbed soil (not from the hogs) EXACTLY where everyone had said they got a reading for gold. Well at this point you would think there must be something there. A good friend of mine (and TNET member) and I brought our detectors, shovels, machete, pick, probes, ladder and a few other odds and ends, into the woods to the site.
We started probing, then detecting, digging then detecting, more probing, then detecting, more digging, and probing, and digging, and ended up with an approximately 8 foot deep hole. Not a single detector hit. I pushed one of my bigger probes into the ground and it went down 6 feet with me hardly pushing on it. We were near the creek bank. It was some of the easiest digging I had ever done. It was getting dark but I was not ready to give up. We covered the hole so that nobody would fall in and decided to come back the next afternoon and dig some more.
The next day we were digging around and probing and we heard a couple trucks pull up on the other side of the creek. We hid and watched as two guys got out and walked around. This went on for about a half an hour. We could not tell what they were doing and at times they were only about 40 feet away. The property on the other side is part of a farm. I had in the past had two well known map dowsers mark a location on a photo that was on the other side of the creek. It was not more than 20 feet from where the other guys parked their truck. They eventually left. The only thing I could guess they were doing would be some sort of treasure hunting. Just a coincidence? I know for a fact it had nothing to do with us being there.
Had some one or something led them to the spot on the other side of the creek? We may never know. It was getting dark. We filled in the hole. Is that the end of this site as far as me going back to dig again? Maybe I will take the Nokta Golden King there when it is fixed by Kellyco. This story is just one of dozens upon dozens that I have. I will eventually dig something up. I think it will be real soon. I hope so. I'm getting to old to be digging empty holes.
This is the site before we filled the hole in.
View attachment 967711 If anybody tells you finding treasure is easy, don't believe them.
