I read some chronicles of the First Crusade when the Lance was basically found in the cellar of a castle that was being beseiged. It was quite hilarious. A guy has a "dream," goes and digs up a Lance where the dream told him to dig, and no one questions that it looks like all the other lances they have. "See, Jesus is with us, and uh, here's the Lance that pierced His side!" Yet somehow they won (was that in Tyre, I forget). It goes to show that all people need is something to believe in.
Schicklegruber (aka Hitler) went to the museum where said lance was kept. He claimed to his friends that he handled it, and absorbed its energy.