Thread: What Would You Hope to Find?

LOL....now wouldn't that be nice if it were that simple......

Yaw, I know, I was just being facetious! ( if that's the word, guess I should look it up), yep that's the word!

The sad part is that your story is probably true--most items would be declared fake (and you would be sent to prison anyway--just for good measure) and any items that were declared authentic would be declared of now value because you touched them, breathed on them, photographed them, or just looked at them (and then you would be sent to prison anyway--just for good measure) and it would be declared that no information could be gleaned from...

"Actually, yeah...I don't know crap about gold plus it seems to bring more headaches than blessings." Weight to Volume, Gold will buy many books, plus the books you guys describe would fall under the antiquities act or National security or worse. No way of telling how old that gold is though. Enough gold invested in bribes to the proper politicians, then you could buy the property, sit a few, then make a wonderful...

Rockhound7 wrote: Books! old dusty books! You'd rather find boks than GOLD? Actually, yeah...I don't know crap about gold plus it seems to bring more headaches than blessings. Gotta deal with the feds, then you gotta sell it at a loss, gotta pay to have it tested and assayed, etc. Would I take gold...sure...why not...would I rather have access to some old records taht could potentially rewrite or at the very least clarify the...

Aw Come On Dan! Yep, still lurking around. Personally, the gold/treasure would be at the bottom of my list.

Randy Bradford wrote: Someone I've met through this forum that posts elsewhere (sorry, dont wanna drop the name) told me he had found something rather special in Claifornia, a Spanish Mission carved into the side of a mountain. He claimed to have found tons of old (16th century) church records before injuring himself and having to abandon the site. I always thought how amazing it would be to find something profoundly historical like that...

"Ancient scroll describing how to build an energy free motor"? Are we talking space aliens? lol.

A sweet water slide that leads me to a pirate ship. Like in "The Goonies"

I'd hope to find an easy way to carry lots of heavy stuff down a mountain by myself.