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6 Real World Treasure Hunts That Could Make You Rich
We’d put some serious money on every person in the world having two fantasies: super powers and finding buried treasure. But until we figure out exactly how to harness gamma radiation and spider bites, only one of those is something you could actually accomplish in your lifetime. The good news is finding buried treasure might not be as difficult or limited to 80’s movies as it sounds. There are enough local legends, ancient texts, and conspiratorial histories out there that, to us, people aren’t tripping over a hidden chest of emeralds every time they take a quick stroll through the woods. In fact, this might be the last feature we write. Early retirement is only a metal detector and shovel away.
Captain Kidd’s Treasure
We’ll admit The Goonies was a big reason we wanted to write this article. The cliché of buried pirate treasure is something you think about no matter how old you are, so we’re constantly wondering if there’s the remotest possibility that anyone like One-Eyed Willie existed. Turns out the answer is yes and his treasure’s in New Jersey (probably).
It’s almost a guarantee you’ve heard the name Captain Kidd before, but you might not know much about him. The short version is, he got his start as a privateer, which was a government sanctioned pirate. He tried to attack only French ships, but after his crew mutinied against that idea, he decided to just attack everyone. That’s where they started to make some real money. He was eventually captured, because that’s what happens when you murder your way across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Lost Ship in the Desert
If you ask us, one of the world’s most criminally underrated movies is Sahara. The reason we bring that movie up has two parts. The first part is the movie centers around looking for a lost ship in the desert, which is exactly what this entry is about. The second is we will look for, and take, any opportunity to defend that movie. The McConaissance was real and it started in 2005.
Forrest Fenn’s Treasure
This treasure hunt follows the template for a Hollywood kid’s movie exactly. It’s some kind of chest, hidden in the wilderness, with any clues for its location coming primarily from a purposefully obscure poem. There’s almost too much cliché here to be true, but people’s confidence in its existence seems unshakable, especially since Forrest Fenn is still alive and told CBS about the treasure.
The Beale Ciphers
We were surprised that it took so long for the word “hoax” to pop up, but for most of what we saw in our research, even for stashes we didn’t include, hoaxes just didn’t appear often. We guess it’s because people just know there are some lines you shouldn’t cross.
Copper Scroll
It’s a little funny that movie characters are constantly looking for Biblical treasures but, for all the things the Bible includes, it doesn’t have any treasure hunts. We guess it’s because, in the Bible, Moses was just handed the Ten Commandments and when Jesus went on his quest for the Holy Grail he was just picking out a cup.
The Tomb of Qin Shi Huang
This might be the most honest entry on the list, since it’s the only historical one that doesn’t come with the unspoken caveat of possibly not being real or exciting. We know it’s real because we’re in the process of excavating it, and it’s exciting because there’s no reason to doubt what the ancient Chinese claimed about the crazy scale of the tomb. On the other hand, the hunting part is over, so while there’s still more to discover, that’s mostly up to archaeologists now. On the third hand, this is literally an ancient, booby trapped Chinese emperor’s tomb and if that doesn’t fit on this list, then nothing does.
Geocaching
None of us are going to find any of the rich stuff listed here. Decode the poems and riddles, pore over all the archaic maps and ancient scripture you want to, sweep miles of beach with a metal detector. We won’t stop you. Hell, we’ll compile a list of equipment recommendations if enough of you want something like that. But in all likelihood, a few articles and books and futile searches are the closest we’re going to get to these treasures.
But if it’s the searching you enjoy, try Geocaching. It’s all the fun of a treasure hunt with the added bonus of actually finding something. Sure, what you find probably isn’t going to be a few million dollars worth of conspiracy gold, but, at the end of it, you’re not going home empty-handed.
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