- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 1129
In todays dollars that would be around $200, 000. Not bad for a single pan. And note that most of the old time miners weren't interested in keeping records, so a lot of lucky strikes like this went unrecorded.
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 971
How did I miss this?
I mean, treasure for sure, but it found her:
Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/meteorite-crashes-into-womans-bedroom-golden-bc
Now, given the provenance, a small fortune basically landed on the pillow beside her while she was sleeping...
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 991
I like that from the outside it was almost completely unremarkable, yet when he picked it up and broke it in two...
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65095925
Honestly, this isn't news, what's news is that he bent over to pick it up. Australia is filled with preposterous happenstances like this. It just takes a hard working Aussie to bend over.
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 1040
And, yet again - this time in 1956 in the Lava Gulf, a small bay off Corsica. And, naturally, treasure laws being what they are the discovery was kept secret by the Scuba Divers that found it. Estimated value - tens of millions of Euro. Many of the treasures are believed to be irretrievably lost - due entirely to out-of-date and grasping treasure laws.