It's amazing what one can find on google.
Posted on 04/26/2005 4:32:24 AM PDT by bitt
It's everyone's fantasy, a dream we always wake up from, tormented that the images of our sleep are just illusions.
That is, finding buried treasure.
One morning three weeks ago, such a fairy tale suddenly came true for Barry Villcliff and Tim Crebase, two friends trying to dig up a small tree in Crebase's yard in Methuen, they said.
Using a spade to get at the roots, Crebase heard a thud, and about a foot down, he saw he had hit a piece of wood. The 23-year-old roofer then realized the wood was part a 2-foot-wide box.
He kept digging until he ripped the top off and found nine rusted tin cans, which decades ago -- maybe nearly a century ago -- held ginger cookies and dough. Crebase wrapped the cans in a sweatshirt and carried them to a nearby truck, where he and Villcliff, his 27-year-old boss from Manchester, N.H., began cracking them open.
''It didn't look like anything we ever saw before," Villcliff said in a phone interview last night. Then he caught a glimpse of Crebase's face and knew he found something valuable.
''I'm a pessimist; I was waiting until I got a professional review before I jumped to any conclusions," Villcliff said. ''Tim, however, was singing and dancing. He was ranting like a rabid monkey."
When they finished emptying the old cans in a milk crate, they saw before them about 1,800 bills -- including more than 900 $1 bills, 200 $2 bills, and 300 $20 bills dated from 1899 to 1929, they said. There were also a pile of gold and silver certificates and scores of notes from local banks in Methuen, Haverhill, Amesbury, Newburyport, and beyond.
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It's amazing what one can find on google.
HEY! You haven't been here long enough to be so authoritative-like! You gotta be here from the last century to qualify as a genius.
Dang! I read the headline three times before I noticed the word "hoard" wasn't "board".
My wife is from Methuen. She will get a kick out of this, thanks for sharing.
I thought it read "Pair digs up buried whore in Methuen".
Those $10 notes with the buffalo image look cool.
It's been a while but...
alumnus and alumni
alumna and alumnae
So wouldn't the plural of dufus (being masculine) be dufi? And girls who are dufuses would be dufa and dufae.
Mica, mica, parva stella!
Yeah, the Clerk of Courts will be real happy to get eight of them when these guys are arrested for refusing to turn it over to the Commonwealth.
"Another (theory) is that it was profits hoarded from bootlegging during Prohibition."
...so the Kennedy's will be laying claim to this booty.
OMG You're not joking are you?
Which guy? Mel Fisher found a Spanish galleon in Florida waters, and the state claimed the bulk of it. Tommy Thompson found a U.S. gold shipment from the CA gold rush in international waters, and spent half of it (if not more) fighting off lawyers from every insurance company in the country.
Buried treasure in your yard? Now would be the perfect time to "shut the **** up"!
AMEN
I'm not sure about that Latin. I think we need some Latin experts but they're probably over on a thread about the new Pope.
Oh man! Some people have all the luck!
> Those $10 notes with the buffalo image look cool.
Back then, Greenbacks were not only worth something, but they also conveyed American symbolism with dignity and beauty.
That is exactly what I was thinking. Take the money put it in ziplock bags, sell it 30 to 50 notes at a time 3 to 4 times a year at coin and money shows. Take cash and pocket it quietly.
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