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« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2010, 10:49:53 am »
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I hear what you're saying seldom. Over the years the stories change depending on the person and their ability to remember past events. It's sort of like playing a game of telephone. Get ten people in a circle have one come up with a unique sentence and each whispers it in the ear to the person sitting next to them. By the time the last person has been told it and they repeat it it is always way off.

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« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2010, 12:10:20 pm »
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There is a story around Galveston about widow who buried a mason jar of jewelery in her garden back in the 40's. Over the years I have heard several versions with the widow having different names and the location of her house all over the island. The point is I have never been able to find any mention of the treasure in news papers court records any where. Its just a local story that could get blown up into a half million dollar treasure with little work. 

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« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2010, 01:02:08 pm »
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And I bet people like to toy with others and purposely inflate the value of said treasure just to get people going. Funny for them but not for real treasure hunters.

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« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2010, 03:04:15 pm »
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Digger I said that I stop selling story's to Mag's for several reasons One was a small regional magazine wanted me inflate the valve of a small $5,000 cache to $100,000 to sale magazines. Sooner are later someone will check the facts and found out I lied, I could not live with that.

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« Reply #24 on: April 11, 2010, 10:07:07 am »
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Woa... that's really something that they would want you to do that. You did the right thing. I couldn't live with that either. Hopefully that didn't happen too often.

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« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2010, 08:02:05 am »
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I can see that happening. Glad you stood up for the truth Seldom, too bad it usually costs to be honest. Some of these monetary values in treasure storys always make me question the amounts when they seem too fantastic.

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« Reply #26 on: April 14, 2010, 09:03:45 am »
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Here is a story I am telling for two reasons, first it is amusing and second we may learn something about how treasure stories get inflated.
  Old Jimmy is what we call in Texas a taco short of a fiesta plate, y?all know what I mean. Someone gave Jimmy old Garrett detector years ago and you see him hunting around old barns and house?s digging up beer cans and horse shoes.
 Jimmy has got it in his head that the people that live at the end of the road are Gypsy?s and out to buy all our houses. Anyway someone told Jimmy that how gypsies did it is they take 999 pennies and throw them in your yard at night and in three months you will sale out..  So he has decided that we need to team up and hunt all the yards within a mile of the gypsies, we can get almost 10 dollars a yard plus lift the curse. His words.
  I can see this story getting inflated to 999 silver dollars buried under the porch with the retelling over the next 20 years and then 999 20 dollar gold pieces in the future.  That?s why it is so important to research a story back to the original when possible.
  Let me say that Old Jimmy is a real person and I am not making fun of him just using him to make a point.

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Woa... that's really something that they would want you to do that. You did the right thing. I couldn't live with that either. Hopefully that didn't happen too often.


It has only happen that one time and like I said it was by a small now gone magazine. I don't think the big mag's  do things like that.

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« Reply #27 on: April 14, 2010, 11:16:34 am »
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Just don't let the gypsies paint your house or pave your drive way and I think you'll be OK.

This thread sure taught me to make sure you can at least go back to where I got my info before saying anything. Thanks!!

And it does seem very easy for the story to keep growing.

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Can anyone tell me if the marks on this stone mean the 999 bars of gold the WW2 Gypsies buried are in my back yard?

I heard all about this from a guy who heard from his cousin that a guy named Seldom saw them bury the gold bars.

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« Reply #29 on: April 14, 2010, 11:47:40 am »
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I heard all about this from a guy who heard from his cousin that a guy named Seldom saw them bury the gold bars

See I did not see it, it was night. I heard it from the ghost of General Yammy or was it Jesse ghost 

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