How To Find Old Home Sites To Metal Detect

By Frank Pandozzi

Oh aye, the idea of searching for and finding a buried treasure has been thought near and dreamed by both young and sometime. Some have followed their hearts and take gone on treasure hunts that take resulted in locating buried treasures both beneath the ground and under the h2o. Others accept located caches of all sizes within homes and barns. Treasures are out there, just waiting to be found, and some of them may be closer to you than yous think. Older homes that date back one hundred years or more have a very proficient chance of holding a treasure; and these old homes are in cities and towns across America.

Many people did not trust banks. Also, many of our first settlers were very independent individuals, they wanted total control of their lives, and their possessions, including their money and valuables. It was common for those individuals to bury their valuables for safekeeping.

This practice of hiding their possessions was a constant as this state moved into the nineteenth and twentieth century. The stock market crash of the 1920'due south only bolstered the lack of conviction people had with fiscal institutions, and to this 24-hour interval, people are even so hiding their money. And the safest place to hide their money and possessions was in and around their habitation.

However, ofttimes the person doing the hiding would not tell the family unit. Husbands and wives many times never told their spouse that they buried a enshroud beneath the old oak tree. Therefore, when the spouse who did the burying dies, the other has no idea of the stash. And when both spouses are gone, or the family unit, non knowing of a subconscious cache on the belongings moves away, the business firm with the treasure becomes the holding of a new owner. There is cached treasure in onetime homes across the U.Due south.

Whether y'all alive in an older home that you purchased from someone else, or if you want to search for a treasure on the property of an old home, here are three places that have proved to be popular hiding places around old abode sites.

Beneath The Erstwhile Oak Tree

The old oak tree, or whatsoever large tree for that matter, has been a popular hiding place for cached treasure. Perhaps the reasons why are shade and a marking.

Burial a treasure large or small requires work. It's easier to dig a hole while doing so beneath the shade of a large tree. Also, many people used trees as a marker for their cache. You may non think a marker would be needed. After all, what person would forget where they buried their valuables. Notwithstanding, markers for treasures were also used at times to pb a family fellow member to a buried treasure upon a death. And then if you live in an quondam home, and at that place is an old tree on the property, particularly behind the home, information technology's a proficient identify to begin your search.

Most The Well

Some other popular expanse where treasures have been located is near the well. The well was used oft and it was a perfect identify to bury a treasure. Most wells were also located behind the homes, and then information technology would exist secretive and piece of cake to hide valuables fourth dimension and time once more.

The Outhouse

Outhouse in Shantytown, Spencer, Iowa, 1936

I dear digging in old outhouses. Yeah, I've been called crazy for climbing into these quondam cesspools. Withal, they hold a wealth of valuables from old pottery, bottles, buttons, coins, and yes even treasures.

There accept been treasures found within the outhouse, and below the wooden thrones. One private located an old metal container fastened beneath the throne, held in that location past a few nails and a metallic strip. Within the container was hundreds of silver dollars dating from the mid-1800s.

Think about all of the sometime abandoned homes yous drive by on a weekly basis. Then call back about how many of those former homes have a treasure lurking on its property. All you demand to do is ask for permission from the owner to search the property. Of course, you will tell them that whatever buried treasure you may find, will exist shared with them.

A metal detector is a useful tool for locating cached treasure. You don't take to spend a lot of money for one. A good detector costs between three hundred and iv hundred dollars. It could end up paying for itself.

Frank W. Pandozzi is an author, Boob tube Producer and well-known treasure hunter. He began his "treasure hunting" days 20-five years ago metallic detecting parks and schoolyards. Today Frank Pandozzi is the Producer and the host of Exploring History'south Treasures TV serial. He is married and has one son. For more information delight visit http://www.metal-detecting-ghost-towns-of-the-east.com

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