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Chasing Dreams!
Treasure Hunting
This is the stuff dreams are made of. Free gold, silver and/or jewels. This is the kind of thing we dreamed of as children when our parents took us to the beach. Chests full of pirate treasure or treasures washed up from sunken ships. Then as you grew older, you realized that it's all just a crazy fantasy so you got a normal job like all the other sheeple and you've been slaveing your life away in some little cubicle, reading the business section of the paper then going home to sleep so you can wake up and do the same thing the next day blah blah freakin blah. Buried treasure! Bah Humbug!
But every once in a while you turn on your evening news or notice in the morning paper word of a treasure found. I'll never forget that day I saw the paper when the late Mel Fisher found the treasure hoard from the lost Spanish Galleon the Atocha. A wall of silver bars 45 feet long, chains of gold, box of black pearls, silver trinkets, canons, jewel encrusted swords and they're still finding more..... The childhood dreams come back to life and make the remainder of the day stuck in that damn cubicle all the more miserable, but at least now there's some hope! You go out and buy a metal detector the following weekend and you start planning a trip to some ghost town. You buy your topo maps, canteen and shovel and head out on the road with visions of ingots dancing in your head only to return home tired, sun burnt and disheartened. Your co-workers think your nuts and laugh while saying things like "I can see a ship sinking with treasure on board and I can see someone loosing a class ring but why on earth would someone bury a treasure and leave it? That's just crazy or downright stupid!"
They don't know what I know though. Haha! Those fools! Let them laugh and make fun, I'll show them as I shirk my work and search the internet reading all the treasure stories I can get my mouse on. See look there, Davy Crockett buried 45 jackloads of treasure so the indians wouldn't get it and he planned on returning but died in the Alamo so it's still there waiting for someone with enough grit and determination to find it. There's another one; The lost mission of San Saba where the Spanish had indian slaves digging in a silver mine and then had to bury the mine before the Apaches killed them off except for the one that made it back to Mexico City vowing to return but never got the time to due to failing health or whatever. Then there's treasures said to be buried by the outlaw Sam Bass and even more buried by Jesse James and his gang. The stories are endless and if any of them are found very few if any ever hear about it.
I've heard a few, like the story about some guy that would go around demolishing old barns and homes on peoples property so he could salvage the wood and sell it to antique stores and wood shops. This man claims he was hired to dismantle an old home on a remote farm and when he got to tearing up the kitchen floor, he removed a large board and underneath was about $5,000 worth of silver ingots. The best guess he had was the old couple had died, forgetting about the silver hoard. There's other stories of people burying gold coins when the government was confiscating gold during the 'Great Depression' and trading the gold they took for worthless paper. It's highly possible that many of those old timers forgot about their hoards too or maybe they just thought their children were greedy and worthless and didn't deserve one damn cent of their hard earned money. Those little hoards could amount to a nice windfall if someone were to stumble upon them with thier trusty metal detector or a long range locator by thier side.
So you see, there are logical reasons to want to go out and find buried treasure. The dream still lives and I'm sure it always will. For every thousand treasure seekers there's one that finds a real treasure. No person can guess who that 'one' might be but rest assured, it's not the guy in the cubicle next to yours scoffing at you while he's planning his next big weekend of binge drinking and puking it all up the next day! Hahaha and if I ever turn out to be that lucky 'ONE' you can bet your bottom dollar I'll be the one laughing as I sail away into my new, cubicle free life!
If you've ever dreamed of finding a treasure or if you're just now starting to dream about it, you can find a wealth of information in the right places. Check out the links under the Outlaws and Treasure section of my link list and before you go..... Happy Hunting!
Daniel Duke
bravenet.com