Featured Image: 1853 triangulation chart of Biscayne Bay, Key West, Bahia Honda, the Cedar keys and the Dry Tortugas produced by the U.S. Coast Survey. Essentially five maps compiled onto a single sheet. Upper left map focuses on Key West, Florida, and the surrounding islands. Upper right map details Key Biscayne Bay, just south of Miami and north of Key Largo. Other maps show the Cedar keys, the Dry Tortugas and Bahia Honda. Prepared under the supervision of A. D. Bache for the 1853 Report of the Superintendant of the U.S. Coast Survey . SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain). [View full size].
KEY WEST, Florida (ABC 4 News) – Cross Marine Projects of American Fork likes to get its feet wet. The company has gained a global reputation for finding things in lakes and oceans – things that other people have lost.
Cross is perhaps on the verge of it’s biggest find to date. It’s a find that could change history and make some people very rich.
A Cross team was recently in Key West, Florida. They used the tourist Mecca to stage an exploration of sea floor about 10 miles South. Their objective: a Spanish ship that sank nearly four centuries ago. . . . Read Complete Report
Featured Image: Sawgrass prairie in Everglades National Park north of Anhinga Trail, southern tip of Florida. CREDIT: Moni3. SOURCE: Wikipedia (Public Domain)
A Florida man who went hunting for pythons in Florida’s Everglades returned instead with a mysterious treasure: an antique, diamond-studded gold medallion that could date back to the 17th century.
How the handmade, penny-sized amulet got there is a riddle. One theory is it could have been aboard a ValuJet plane that crashed nearby in May 1996 – or that perhaps it was part of the debris field from an Eastern Airlines crash in the same area in 1972. The fact that it is partially melted on one side could support that idea. . . . Read Complete Report with photos.
Featured Image: This is a locator map showingNassau Countyin Florida where Nassau Sound, the believed location of the remains of the Spanish treasure San Miguel is located. CREDIT:David BenbennickSOURCE: Wikipedia (Public Domain).
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA – Nassau Sound is known for its tricky waters to navigate, shark infestations and a remote, narrow pass where the Nassau River meets the Atlantic Ocean.
Doug Pope also sees the sound as a possible site of treasure from the long-lost Spanish galleon San Miguel that wrecked in 1715. Pope is president of Amelia Research & Recovery LLC, based in Fernandina Beach, and his quest to find the San Miguel’s loot is the basis of his business. . . . Read Complete Report
Redditor Evilenglish was helping his family clear out his grandparents’ old farmhouse in Tennessee last week when he discovered a block of concrete on the floor of a closet under a staircase.
“This was very out of place since all of the downstairs flooring is hardwood,” he wrote. “I pushed the carpet back further and saw a round cap with a circle indentation on it. I pulled off the cap and…A Secret Safe!” . . . Read Complete Report
Residents of a town under siege by the Roman army about 2,000 years ago buried two hoards of treasure in the town’s citadel — treasure recently excavated by archaeologists.
More than 200 coins, mainly bronze, were found along with “various items of gold, silver and bronze jewelry and glass vessels” inside an ancient fortress within the Artezian settlement in the Crimea (in Ukraine), the researchers wrote in the most recent edition of the journal Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia. . . . Read Complete Report
Photo: Surrender of U.S. forces at the Malinta Tunnel. Philippines May 6, 1942. CREDIT: US Army Military History Instate SOURCE: Wikipedia ( As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.)
Every war that has ever been waged by mankind has always spurred on the stories and legends of lost or stolen fortunes. In fact, there isn’t a country or territory on the face of this earth that doesn’t have at least one legend concerning treasure as a result of military conflict. World War Two was certainly no exception. (1)
At the entrance to Manila Bay in the Philippine Islands and bordering the South China Sea lies a tiny island only nine square kilometers in size; a rocky outcropping that was to play a significant role in the war with Japan between the years 1942 – 1945 . . . Read Complete Report
Documentary which depicts the World War II story of 16,000 American soldiers defending the tiny island of Corregidor in the Philippines against the might of the Japanese army.On 6 May 1942, General Wainwright surrendered the island. Corregidor the ‘Invulnerable’ fortress had fallen.
“The Filipinos did most of the fighting and most of the dying…”
Annual reports for the Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme(PAS) have shown rises of 12% and 8% respectively in finds recorded in England and Wales for the year 2011.
Figures published last week show that 97,509 finds and 970 treasure cases were recorded during that period. . . . Read Complete Report
Photo: On Sept. 29, a fisherman discovered more than 400 pounds of marijuana scattered along a Jupiter Beach in the 3000 block of State Road A1A. SOURCE (TCPalm).
Square grouper and white lobster have been washing up on Treasure Coast beaches.
But they’re not delicacies you’ll be seeing in area restaurants. Those are the terms given to heavily wrapped bales of marijuana or cocaine appearing on local beaches over the past month.
Since Sept. 3, more than 500 pounds of drugs — mostly marijuana — have come ashore or been found in the water from Brevard to Palm Beach counties. . . . Read Complete Report
Armed with a basic metal detector, a first-time treasure hunter in Britain reportedly has uncovered a trove of Roman-era gold coins that experts believe represents one of the largest such finds in England’s history.
The cache of coins – Roman solidi dating back to the 4 th century – is estimated to be worth £100,000, or about $160,000 in U.S. dollars.
According to the Helmel Gazette newspaper, the man – whose name has not been made public – reportedly bought a beginner’s metal detector from a shop in the Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, area. A few weeks later, the man returned to the shop, showed the shopkeepers 40 gold coins, and asked them: “What do I do with this?” . . . Read Complete Report
Regton Metal Detecting Tips: Common Detecting Mistakes
Published on Apr 18, 2012
Common Detecting Mistakes? This is the seventh video in a series of hints & tips to help and improve your metal detecting skills and techniques. Nigel Ingram, from Regton, presents the whole series.
R.G. Babcock and Norman’s Story of the Painted Rock
A certain “Norman” told author R.G. Babcock the story of an old Blackfoot Indian about a large horseshoe shaped outcropping of sandstone, called Painted Rock. The entire inside walls of this natural amphitheatre were heavily painted by former Indian visitors.
When this Norman was a boy of about 10 or 12 years old, an old Indian came to his school to talk about Indian customs. He claimed to be 100 years old, and he said he was a Chief of the Blackfoot tribe. His name was Horse Eagle. He was full Indian dressed with buckskin fringed trousers, beaded vest and war bonnet. . . . Read Complete Report
The Lost Dutchman Mine: One of America’s Haunting Mysteries
What strange secrets lie hidden near Superstition Mountain in Arizona? Did a lone miner really discover a fortune in lost gold here? And what strange force has caused a number of adventurers to die brutal deaths and vanish without a trace in this rugged region?
Located just east of Phoenix, Arizona is a rough, mountainous region where people sometimes go… only to never be seen again. It is a place of mystery, of legend and lore and it is called Superstition Mountain. According to history, both hidden and recorded, there exists a fantastic gold mine here like no other that has ever been seen. It has been dubbed the “Lost Dutchman Mine” over the years and thanks to its mysterious location, it has been the quest of many an adventurer… and a place of doom to luckless others.
What strange energy lingers here? What has caused dozens of people who seek the mine to vanish without a trace? Is the answer really as the Apache Indians say? Does the “Thunder God” protect this mine… bringing death to those who attempt to pillage it? Or can the deaths be linked to other causes? Are they caused, as some have claimed, by the spirits of those who have died seeking the mine before?
Let’s explore all of these questions and journey back into the haunted history of the Lost Dutchman Mine… and uncover the numerous deaths and the violence that surrounds it. . . . Read Complete Report
This is a clip from the 1990’s TV show “The Lost Dutchman’s Mine”. This program is full of historical and rare interviews with individuals like noted prospector and author Barney Barnard who passed away in the 1960’s. Barnard was part of a posse that discovered the bodies of many of those murdered while searching for the Dutchman’s gold mine. This show as well as the entire series “The World of Treasure”hosted by philip Michael Thomas is now available on DVD from http://www.amazon.com/shops/twothumbsupdvd
