Have any of you guys ever found anything a little more... Sinister while MDing?

SilverEagles92

Maybe:

A dead body?
A horde of stolen cash?
A murder weapon?
A cache of drugs?
Even crime in progress?

lathmach

I found a broken cap pistol once. Does that count?

Ray

marym

I've across a few dead bodies, one time a skull. The bodies were birds, squirels and such. The skull was that of a dog. I seem to recall some one this board once uncovered a dog's collar. I'll let that poster tell his own story. lol

demodigger

i dug a stilleto buried in a grassy strip in san francisco. it seemed a little out of place. got me kinda scared. i think it could have been a murder weapon thrown out of a car or something. same city, i dug a WW2 era hand grenade with the explosive part removed. and yet again in the same park, i dug an entire M16 magizine, fully loaded, live rounds.

ricko

I ain't saying nothing.... Cheers, RickO

mrguby

25.000 bodies in one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!oh i was at a cemetary lol.

AUandAG

I lurk in this forum as I don't detect anymore due to arthritis in the shoulders. But, I did detect here in
S. Nevada for years. Always out in the desert looking for lost loot (actually documented from a robbery
in 1911). Spent several years covering several miles of open desert and foound absolutely nothing other
than the occasional lead bullet, shell casing or bubble gum wrapper (yes in the desert miles from the city).
However, one afternoon I got a huge hit at about 12". Heart raced, forehead began to bead up, and the
digging commenced. Ok, I found a box about 12" square filled with 1/2" square, green board, computer
chips. Yeah, modern computer chips. What the hay. Just buried them right back up, wiped the sweat
off my brow and moved on.
Wonder, to this day, what the heck they were doing buried in the desert, a foot deep, 10 miles from Vegas.

bob

vaq45

My brother was missing after a BBQ at my dads house once,he passed out and i found him under a bunch of leaves that the little kids buried him in-I used my detector (he has a steel plate in his head)

shudson

<< <i>I lurk in this forum as I don't detect anymore due to arthritis in the shoulders. But, I did detect here in
S. Nevada for years. Always out in the desert looking for lost loot (actually documented from a robbery
in 1911). Spent several years covering several miles of open desert and foound absolutely nothing other
than the occasional lead bullet, shell casing or bubble gum wrapper (yes in the desert miles from the city).
However, one afternoon I got a huge hit at about 12". Heart raced, forehead began to bead up, and the
digging commenced. Ok, I found a box about 12" square filled with 1/2" square, green board, computer
chips. Yeah, modern computer chips. What the hay. Just buried them right back up, wiped the sweat
off my brow and moved on.
Wonder, to this day, what the heck they were doing buried in the desert, a foot deep, 10 miles from Vegas.

bob >>



You know in about 5 years time, someone else will post this EXACT same find... lol

pendragon1998

<< <i>I lurk in this forum as I don't detect anymore due to arthritis in the shoulders. But, I did detect here in
S. Nevada for years. Always out in the desert looking for lost loot (actually documented from a robbery
in 1911). Spent several years covering several miles of open desert and foound absolutely nothing other
than the occasional lead bullet, shell casing or bubble gum wrapper (yes in the desert miles from the city).
However, one afternoon I got a huge hit at about 12". Heart raced, forehead began to bead up, and the
digging commenced. Ok, I found a box about 12" square filled with 1/2" square, green board, computer
chips. Yeah, modern computer chips. What the hay. Just buried them right back up, wiped the sweat
off my brow and moved on.
Wonder, to this day, what the heck they were doing buried in the desert, a foot deep, 10 miles from Vegas.

bob >>



You just got your name on a government list.

AUandAG

I think I'm on every gov't list there is already! Funny!!

bob

You know in about 5 years time, someone else will post this EXACT same find... lol

Got to leave some stuff in the desert to find for everybody....I'll be watching this forum for
a repeat dig!

bob

ricko

Well, I guess I will say something... I have found a skeleton (pinged on the ring), a head (human, in a bush), and once.. a hand - only the hand.. with a ring... silver. Cheers, RickO

BobGreene

<< <i>Well, I guess I will say something... I have found a skeleton (pinged on the ring), a head (human, in a bush), and once.. a hand - only the hand.. with a ring... silver. Cheers, RickO >>


Did you call the police? What happened?

COINB0Y

When I was a kid living in Annapolis, MD, we found a bunch of human bones (one was partially exposed in the woods) and all the kids in the neighborhood gathered together and went back and had a digging party.

We laid out the bones to form a skeleton on my buddies driveway. No skull found, but we had everything else. My mom called the cops and they took them away but nothing was ever reprted back to us kids.

We were 7-8 years old. This was in Indian Hills Subdivision of Ritchie Hwy about 1970.

I suppose this is where my "detecting bug" started.

ricko

Yes.. I called the cops in all three cases... one was a missing guy (Alzheimers), the head, from a car accident, and the hand was never identified. Cheers, RickO

pendragon1998

Yeesh!

ricko

Now.. if I could just find that hoard of cash... Cheers, RickO

Barbercoin

Wouldn't it be cool to find the wagon loaded with 1906D mint dimes that supposedly fell of a cliff in the rockies? Now that would be the best!!!

gecko109

<< <i>Wouldn't it be cool to find the wagon loaded with 1906D mint dimes that supposedly fell of a cliff in the rockies? Now that would be the best!!! >>




Those might be in a river/stream downhill from wherever the accident occured. I have a gold dredge that captures coins quite well. Plus its got its own air compressor for diving. If you can pinpoint the exact location, I can get away from work for a couple weeks.

ricko

Ah.. a treasure hunt in the offing... keep us posted... Cheers, RickO

JeffinMich

I found a rotted out pistol back in the 1970's. It was too far gone to tell if it was the real deal, or a toy.

BobGreene

<< <i>Wouldn't it be cool to find the wagon loaded with 1906D mint dimes that supposedly fell of a cliff in the rockies? Now that would be the best!!! >>


Why would coins be transported by wagon in 1906? I believe the Mint utilized trains by then.

Barbercoin

Ya know, I read this very interesting story about 1906 Denver dimes being lost in transit, as a result of the wagon falling into one of the canyons out there. Just to double-check the mode of transport (because you suggested the train thing) , I started looking for this story again. I cannot find it. Sorry...... The story seemed very realist to me when I read it.

Maybe somebody else has heard this story before and can shed some more details.

pendragon1998

I haven't heard the story, but why not? Trains didn't get everywhere back then - I'm sure there was a need for off-rail transport to the more rural banks.