Short version...
A friend of mine, has a friend that told him a story of a fellow that hid a life savings of a bit over $50,000 somewhere on his property. In the mid-80's he got suddenly very sick and passed away without relaying the location to his wife and son. Wife passed a few years later, son died in car wreck a dozen more years later. Cousin who has property still believed it was hidden there... So, my friend, knowing I had an affinity for "finding", brought me in and asked me to try and locate it.
Property is a couple acres in size with a delapidated barn, well shed and two trailer houses. Lots and lots of junk, many cars, and scrap by the truckloads. So much so it's hard to navigate and detecting is out of the question.
So, we talked to the cousin, apply some of the "cache rules" about being in sight, but out of others sight, close enough to hear activity if some one tried to steal it, weather protected, fairly easy access, where "I" would hide it, markings of sort, and so on... I decided that of all the nooks and crannies, it might be under the back side of the trailer below his bedroom. Exterior wooden walls were erected to screen this area and it looked like an intentionally "clear but blocked" path under the trailer near the back door. Though there are hundreds of possible places, this I chose as first to check. I slide under and take a look- a few soft observations led me to probe with a brass rod into the dirt. Within a few dozen pushes, I strike a metal object, probe more and it's big, ground is also a tad softer, dig a bit and find it is a large skillet.
Skillet, yep, over the top of a 5 gallon bucket! (all this exactly centered under the main X in the trailer frame above it).
I excitedly dig the bucket free- but shortly realize... it's empty... Contains only newspaper that retained the shape of being wrapped around coin rolls and bundles of cash. Papers had dates from the 70's noting newer and nothing else.
Now we all are left to wonder; was it found by someone else, looted, or did the owner move it to another location, spend it, who knows... (and why was it closed, re-covered, and dirt smoothed out if it was empty?) With all the things I saw, heard, and guess on my intuition- I think the son probably got it a long time ago and just never told anyone and didn't make a scene spending it... Hope so, anyway.
Maybe next cache...
A friend of mine, has a friend that told him a story of a fellow that hid a life savings of a bit over $50,000 somewhere on his property. In the mid-80's he got suddenly very sick and passed away without relaying the location to his wife and son. Wife passed a few years later, son died in car wreck a dozen more years later. Cousin who has property still believed it was hidden there... So, my friend, knowing I had an affinity for "finding", brought me in and asked me to try and locate it.
Property is a couple acres in size with a delapidated barn, well shed and two trailer houses. Lots and lots of junk, many cars, and scrap by the truckloads. So much so it's hard to navigate and detecting is out of the question.
So, we talked to the cousin, apply some of the "cache rules" about being in sight, but out of others sight, close enough to hear activity if some one tried to steal it, weather protected, fairly easy access, where "I" would hide it, markings of sort, and so on... I decided that of all the nooks and crannies, it might be under the back side of the trailer below his bedroom. Exterior wooden walls were erected to screen this area and it looked like an intentionally "clear but blocked" path under the trailer near the back door. Though there are hundreds of possible places, this I chose as first to check. I slide under and take a look- a few soft observations led me to probe with a brass rod into the dirt. Within a few dozen pushes, I strike a metal object, probe more and it's big, ground is also a tad softer, dig a bit and find it is a large skillet.
Skillet, yep, over the top of a 5 gallon bucket! (all this exactly centered under the main X in the trailer frame above it).
I excitedly dig the bucket free- but shortly realize... it's empty... Contains only newspaper that retained the shape of being wrapped around coin rolls and bundles of cash. Papers had dates from the 70's noting newer and nothing else.
Now we all are left to wonder; was it found by someone else, looted, or did the owner move it to another location, spend it, who knows... (and why was it closed, re-covered, and dirt smoothed out if it was empty?) With all the things I saw, heard, and guess on my intuition- I think the son probably got it a long time ago and just never told anyone and didn't make a scene spending it... Hope so, anyway.
Maybe next cache...
