While working on a property in Norway, 3 Frenchman unearthed a treasure of gold bars and coins said to be worth about 900,000 euros.
In Orlando, Florida a land developer decided to build homes over an old bomb range. And lo in behold, home owners are still finding bombs.
A California couple was walking their dog in Gold Country when they noticed a decaying canister stuck in the ground. When they pried it open, they ended up finding a number of gold coins worth an estimated ten million dollars!
A man was renovating his garden when he found a cash register from the 40’s. He also found several car batteries in the vicinity, which were most likely to power the register during the war.
While a man was renovating his pond in Hyde Park, NewYork, he came across a funny looking bone. After having it looked at by a specialist, he suggested an excavation where they unearthed over 90 mastodon bones.
An Illinois man was picking fruit from his garden when he noticed a nylon bag sticking out of the ground. Upon further investigation there was $!50k in cash stored in the bag, and he was on the set of the Departed. Ok, last part was made up, but still, that’s a nice come up.
Every think you live on an ancient indian burial ground? Well this actually does, as he found Native American bones in his backyard that were over 1,000 years old.
A man dug up a used cannon ball from the Battle of New Orleans. His backyard was a battle field hundreds of years back.
An elderly woman was gardening in her backyard when she found an extremely rare 1902 dollar coin.
A mile from Stonehenge, archaeologists found one of Europe’s largest prehistoric monuments. Many believe the monument was for religious rituals.
While attempting to expand his pool, an Austrian man found treasure estimated to be about 650 years old. It included 200 rings, brooches, belt buckles, and other luxurious items.
This explorer found an old gun in his backyard. Trigger not included.
A Serbian man in Bosnia found six meteorites in his backyard.
Detroit natives, Eric and Andrew were building a dam in the creek in their backyard when one of them spotted a bone. After alerting the authorities, experts then authenticated the bone as a vertebrae from a mastodon some 13,000 years old.
This army service ring was found, but the owner left no other traces of his whereabouts.
Ken Sauve was digging in his backyard when he found a number of bones. He didn;t think anything of it, and figured they were just animal bones, but his wife insisted they press the issue. Turns out the bones belonged to a skeleton that walking the earth in the 1600’s.
An amateur historian was exploring his home in London when he found an ancient burial plot dating back to 2500 BC.
A little boy discovered something sticking out of the ground, but everybody he told shook it off as nothing important. 30 years later it was identified as the skull and jaw bones of a 16 million year old baleen whale.
In 2014, a Canadian was clearing a gap in his yard when he discovered an unusual pillow case buried in the ground. Inside the pillow case was a fully loaded machine gun and a mobile phone. Clearly, somebody was ready for the unexpected.
In 2015, an Israelite stumbled upon the largest collection of medieval gold coins ever found. These coins were said to come from the 10th and 11th centuries, and there were 2,000 found in total.
A 250 million year old Pliosaur bone was discovered while a man was building a fence for his garden. The man in question actually stored the bone in his shed for 16 years, before finally getting it examined in 2013.
A California couple found a fully stocked fallout shelter buried in their backyard.
This kid found a Mario figurine inexplicability buried in his backyard. Not a big deal, except that no one had lived on the property prior to the owners arrival.
The Star of Murfreesboro is a 34.25 carats (6.850 g) blue diamond that is eleven-sixteenths of an inch (17 mm) in diameter. This rare diamnod was found at the Arkansas Diamond Mine by John Pollock. It’s considered the largest diamond ever found by a tourist– and was valued at $15,000. Adjusted for today’s inflation, it would be worth about $95,452.
Turns out you can find some false teeth in Buffalo if you dig deep enough into old vegetable pots.
While digging up a hole for a swimming pool, a man discovered human remains inside of 13 caskets, dating back to the 1700’s.
A Czech Republic man was digging around his yard when he found two giant ass church bells, previously stolen from nearby churches.
