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	Re: Searching old houses for Caches « Reply #10 on: August 26, 2010, 02:27:00 am »

I found 3 whisky bottles from the 20s in a wall and button up shoes under the floorboards in another house. I read somewhere that putting shoes under the floorboards for good luck was popular in the late 1800s early 1900s.

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	Re: Searching old houses for Caches « Reply #11 on: August 26, 2010, 03:11:36 am »

all great tips, thanks so much for posting them. Great

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	Re: Searching old houses for Caches « Reply #12 on: August 27, 2010, 11:21:49 am »

Speaking of customs and superstition, I found this on the internet.

English Folklore
For good luck at sea, sailing boats often had a gold sovereign set in the socket under the mast; the custom was common till about 1914, and is still sometimes followed. It has precedents from ancient Rome (Smith, FLS News 26 (1997), p. 12). Lovett found that fishermen from several towns used to ram a coin into the cork float of a drift-net, to break a run of bad luck in fishing, and held that ?in the old days? it would have been a gold one (Lovett, 1925: 54-5).

I have put a coin in construction before, not that I'm superstitious, I just wanted to perpetuate the hunt for treasure.

A neighbor told me a funny story. He and his wife were redecorating their dining room and decided to tear out the fake beams on the ceiling. They were about half done when they pulled one down and a note fell out. It read: "We spent a lot of money and effort putting these up! Why are you taking them down?" unsigned.

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	Re: Searching old houses for Caches « Reply #13 on: August 27, 2010, 11:30:39 am »

"A neighbor told me a funny story. He and his wife were redecorating their dining room and decided to tear out the fake beams on the ceiling. They were about half done when they pulled one down and a note fell out. It read: "We spent a lot of money and effort putting these up! Why are you taking them down?" unsigned."

You won't be seeing that on "If Walls Could Talk", but it definitely brought a smile to the day.

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	Re: Searching old houses for Caches « Reply #14 on: October 09, 2010, 06:41:39 am »

love that ironic sense of humor

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	Re: Searching old houses for Caches « Reply #15 on: November 28, 2010, 07:44:38 pm »

Ladies of the old days would hide their caches in the garden. Thats where they spent alot of their time.

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	Re: Searching old houses for Caches « Reply #16 on: November 28, 2010, 08:39:58 pm »

I was just talking to my dad today about my great grandmother burying jars of coins out the window of the bedroom. The coins have never been found.

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	Re: Searching old houses for Caches « Reply #17 on: November 28, 2010, 10:12:36 pm »

Goldrunner, perhaps you want to try a deep seeker Cool

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	Re: Searching old houses for Caches « Reply #18 on: November 29, 2010, 10:31:03 am »

So many treasure sights in the Phillippines. They all seem close in nature

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I have heard that a good place for a cache was under the master bedroom window. You would be awaken by any noise of digging or talk. Good one Goldrunner. In or around Marysville Ohio someone did uncover jars of gold and silver coins in the 1970s. They bought the property and was planting flowers around the out buildings. The husband found these by turning the soil around these buildings. In Marion ohio a construction Co was clearing the land for a apartment complex and unearthed bottles of silver coins not sure how many but I talked to a man here in Marion who was a metal detector dealer and he told me that he went there and found one milk bottle himself.

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I have a few more stories of found caches that I was told by the Metal detector dealer. Paul was his name. He died a couple years back. I listened to him very closely and even seen coins from his hunts.

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	Re: Searching old houses for Caches « Reply #19 on: November 29, 2010, 11:08:36 am »

Hello good day to everyone..

..i'm from Philippines and currently we had dug in a possible japanese treasure site somewhere in Mindanao..first of all this area was a japanese controlled area during WWII and has been testified by the local elders in the area..the site location is in the hill and a nearby river..on the surface there is a big man made concrete cement structure with mix of gravel ,corals and sea shells pasted on it, and it looks like a " SALAKOT " or a native hat mostly used by farmers..at the back of that structure approximately 5 meters far there is also a big rectanglular concrete cement structure as well and there is one hole an it's kinda borehole to me and also a man made located in the middle of that structure..we break that conccrete and start digging beneath ..on the upper soil layer about 2 feet deep we found a man made marker just beneath a head size stone and looks like in a locking sequence to me is a heart shape clay that i believe being cooked and hardened and then pasted in a white cement which is also a heart shape where there are some 2 holes at kind of a flower on the otherside of the cement..we used our metal detectors and it is pointing to Gold so we continue digging and about 2 meters we found shells fresh/sea i'm not sure mix in a soft clay.. about 4 meters deep the clay is getting hard and we noticed a dark brown spot in the clay which is intriguing to me because it's very un usual i guess..so we continue to dig deeper, until now we are in 8 meters deep and clay is gray and very hard but we still found some shells mix with it..some are whole and intact and some are pulvorized..and together we found some small pieces of wood and as well as a rotten leaves in which i wonder why it does not decomposed if the soil is hundreds or million years ago and untouched..??...my question to my fellow TH...do i need to go deeper on my dig? is our site Positive or are we on the right spot?..please help me...feel free to give me your thoughts my friends ..thank you and God bless!! Wink

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