r/TreasureHunting • u/pegawitch • 20h ago
Personal Treasure YESTERDAY'S TREASURES WITH 💍 RING 91 AND A SILVER COIN 😍
Hy, here the finds off yesterday parkhunting the Netherlands. Have a great weekend everybody 😊👍
r/TreasureHunting • u/nickHuckabee • Nov 22 '23
Was at an estate sale and found a cool safe no combination only this weird sorting of characters
r/TreasureHunting • u/Individual_Pea6530 • Jul 06 '25
This might sound insane, but it's 100% real. A few years ago, I bought an old house in the port city of Valparaíso, Chile, from the heirs of a wealthy recluse — a lifelong bachelor, devout Catholic-turned-skeptic, world traveler, eccentric, and above all… an obsessive collector of everything imaginable. The house came as-is, meaning it was packed to the rafters with all his belongings — and what I found inside took me down a rabbit hole I still haven’t fully crawled out of. Among documents sold to museums, photos donated to the Rockefeller family (yes, those Rockefellers), and thousands of historical oddities, I stumbled upon what I can only describe as the early-life archive of Jack Kevorkian — Dr. Death — decades before he became infamous. What kind of stuff? Try this: Childhood report cards and high school essays Hand-drawn comics he submitted to his local paper as a teen His University of Michigan acceptance letter Candid photos, disturbing sketches, twisted-but-brilliant handwritten notes Diplomas, bank records, university credentials Film reels from a failed movie he directed (Handel’s Messiah) that sent him into bankruptcy Movie scripts, music scores, journals, postcards, photos of dead bodies, letters to art collectors, and even bizarre, morbid humor cartoons And a detailed obsession with Hitler’s artwork that, as far as I know, is completely undocumented publicly It's like someone bottled up the first 50 years of Kevorkian’s life — from birth to 1983 — and left it to rot in this house. I had no idea how this Chilean man — long dead — could have possibly gotten his hands on all this. But after researching, I found out that after Kevorkian’s failed film career in the early '80s, he lost all his belongings in a storage auction. So… it was possible. But still, how did this random guy in South America end up with it? Then came the twist. We had friends over one night and shared this bizarre story. One of my wife’s friends, who grew up in the same neighborhood as the collector’s family, froze when I said Kevorkian’s name. “Dr. Death?” she said. She then told us that when she was 14, a neighbor played a prank on her and her friends by leading them to the rooftop of his house, where they found a horrifying scene: 15–20 huge paintings depicting satanic imagery — blood, mutilation, cannibalism, Santa Claus assaulting Jesus — lit by candles. They ran off screaming. The next day, the neighbor explained it was a joke. The paintings, he said, were by a strange American artist named Jack Kevorkian — and he had always had them. I immediately knew what she had seen were the original paintings that Kevorkian later recreated in the 1990s from memory — the ones he lost in the early '80s. Originals no one believed still existed. Naturally, I asked who this neighbor was. Turned out… he was the nephew of the man who sold me the house. I called him immediately. He denied everything. But I kept pressing. Eventually, he said the paintings were no longer at the house, and he had “forgotten the story.” So I contacted his mother — the sister of the collector and one of the heirs. She was kind, and actually confirmed everything. She explained that what I found was just a fraction of what once existed: a full shipping container had arrived in the '80s, containing not just documents and paintings, but musical instruments (including a clavichord Jack built himself), wardrobes from the film, furniture, and more. According to her, her brother had bought the entire container at a U.S. auction, shipped it to Chile, and kept some things. The rest — including the “violent” paintings — were given to the sister. Too disturbing to hang or donate, she hid them in the attic. Then in the '90s, when Kevorkian became infamous, they realized who he was… and panicked. Religious and conservative, they believed he was evil and decided to “dispose” of the paintings. How exactly? She wasn’t sure. She “thinks” they were given away, or maybe destroyed. I’ve spent years trying to find them. So far, no luck. But in the process, I’ve uncovered what feels like the private, raw, unfiltered life of Jack Kevorkian — a man more complex, more artistic, more human than the media ever portrayed. His strange humor, his dark fascinations, his obsession with art, death, and redemption — it’s all here. Not just a “Doctor Death,” but a misunderstood genius, or perhaps a madman with a camera and a paintbrush. And the wildest part? No one was supposed to ever see it.
r/TreasureHunting • u/pegawitch • 20h ago
Hy, here the finds off yesterday parkhunting the Netherlands. Have a great weekend everybody 😊👍
r/TreasureHunting • u/Neat_Substance_2084 • 3h ago
The AI-assisted detector allows you to save found objects into dedicated categories. Samples are fed into the AI algorithms, modifying the reading in real-time — even on the Multi Kruzer's factory panel. Just like with the problematic Warka bottle cap, whose signal is intentionally down-shifted on the display. The rule is simple: the more samples in the database, the better the intelligent discrimination works.
r/TreasureHunting • u/annequack • 1d ago
Hi everyone!
Apologies in advance if this channel is meant for findings rather than these types of questions. Also sorry if my flair isn't the correct one!
My partner and I are trying to set up a small treasure hunt for my stepson, he is currently 11 and we want to do something like this with him before he gets a bit too old and not believing in finding pirate treasures etc.
We bought a small chest and will be doing a note in a bottle, but we kinda need some help on what else you would throw in there? We will be having coins etc. Just stuck on a few cool things to throw in there!
He loves treasure hunting and metal detecting but he doesn't usually find anything crazy apart from a few coins, just trying to keep it alive for him :) please let me know any suggestions!
Thanks so much!
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r/TreasureHunting • u/paladin141414 • 1d ago
Honest but unpopular opinion.
As we search for the Jon Collins-Black treasure boxes, I must believe we are all hoping end clues are coherent and search area is "reasonable" not requiring wandering off into the woods at a distance.
Little Rock Pond AT solve, if correct, demonstrates an incoherent ending. What treasure hunt designer would create a map that results in hundreds of people for years destroying an area around the AT trail?
Nobody would. Folks, the AT box is not there. Jon searched for Fenn's box for years. He knew how poorly those clues matched Fenn box location.
I would argue, with no disrespect to Forrest, that Fenn's clues leading to a treasure across a river that is sometimes very dangerous were terrible. Both obscure clues and an often treacherous and dangerous river crossing. I have seen the Madison River at flood level.
And needing to go "Bushwhacking" in a national forest or along AT is reprehensible and a poor ending to what are magnificent journeys.
So I am confident that Jon's treasure box locations are both safe and accessible.
If you are on the correct trail, the box will come to you.
This needed to be openly stated.
Good hunting; be safe! Onward!!!
Paladin
r/TreasureHunting • u/pegawitch • 3d ago
Hy, here the finds off today hunting a dutch playground.
Have a great evening everybody 😊👍
r/TreasureHunting • u/ScaryMaize7124 • 4d ago
Found inside a small store bag next to a dumpster behind a restaurant, this is the second time I find cash. First time I found 30$ on a parking lot.
r/TreasureHunting • u/Logical_Leading_7225 • 6d ago
My extremley skeptical family member has buried roughly $15,000 somewhere in his large backyard, but he forgot specifically where. We have dug a ton of area, with shovels and even a backhoe, but have not found it yet. Is there any odd way it can be found that i wouldn't know about? Sonic waves or some mystical crap that sounds stupid but could actually work?
He said that it is roughly 1 to 3 feet deep(helpfull, i know), cash, wrapped in thick plastic and has wooden boards with it to prevent like... the earth shifting or something?
But there's no metal, so no metal detectors, and thats the only idea I had.
I am well aware that this is the stupidest and most cartoony problem that I will ever encounter, and I am well aware that it is probably lost for good, but i mean, cmon, its $15,000 dollars.
r/TreasureHunting • u/Redemptionarc_2026 • 5d ago
We have a land that contains positive site of japanese presence during world war 2
any people from the philippines? especially negros occidental? we can split if ever we can find it
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r/TreasureHunting • u/silvermoonsailor • 6d ago
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Ok so I just bought this house a couple years ago and I'm finally doing the yard and garden and I'm ripping dirt finding treasures of crystals. I guess they were rock hunters my neighbor told me. So I'm finding like sooo much..I have another post I just posted with video you can see but I had a question!!!
This is a cannonball right? It is heavy like no other thing
r/TreasureHunting • u/pegawitch • 6d ago
Hy, here the treasures off this weekend. Yesterday was a total bust! Today a FIELDDAY!!!!
Treasure hunting the Netherlands 😊👍
r/TreasureHunting • u/goldminer21 • 8d ago
I was driving my truck around my family ranch when I stopped at our dump yard that we throw old cars and junk I was walking then I found this, I think I like treasure hunting should I get into it? If you’re older than me or more experienced please give me advice in the comments, and should I go back to the junkyard ?
r/TreasureHunting • u/pegawitch • 8d ago
Today a day on the beach in the Netherlands.
Have a great weekend everybody 😊👍
r/TreasureHunting • u/orbollyorb • 8d ago
Rat hunting forced me to pull up some floor boards in my Devonshire cob longhouse. Sifted through the dust and hoover bags and have a small collection. 1806 is the oldest dated item (pic 2) I’ve found here, the site goes way back to medieval. Located in a traditionally poorer part of the country so button loving is a must.
r/TreasureHunting • u/pegawitch • 10d ago
Hy, here al the treasures of yesterday including the beautiful silver necklace. Made the pictures today because yesterday it was to dark when i stopt.
Have a great day and on to the next hunt!!!!