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I sure you two will find a way to keep each other warm.
Your private parts at least anyways.
 
Dr. Jones said:
Going treasure hunting with me today.
And it's cold.
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drove through St. George last night in the wee hours. snow on the ground shiny in the moonlight.

A whole lot of warm moist Pacific air pushing in today, everything will melt in the rain and your problem will be mud.
 
I clicked thinking one of "family" was in need and, well, this. Bundle up and if you get stuck you can always spoon(I'm sure that was already gonna happen)...
 
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I've met both these dudes. There's gonna be some fingers in bungholes this weekend. That is what they mean by "treasure hunt"


Lol. Have fun dudes.
 
You're not going find Fenn's treasure before I do. Cease and desist.

This is an interesting find recently, if legit:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nese-soldiers-uncovered-Philippines-WWII.html

Treasure hunters are claiming they have uncovered the masses of gold reportedly hidden in the Philippines by Japanese soldiers during WWII.

The discovery could mark the end of decades of speculation over the so-called Yama****a Treasure - gold bars and gemstones worth tens of billions of dollars allegedly looted by the Japanese Imperial Army.

Rumour has it that the looted valuables were stashed in more than 145 underground tunnels and caves in the Philippines before the surrender in 1945.
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Probably a load of bollocks though.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
You're not going find Fenn's treasure before I do. Cease and desist.

This is an interesting find recently, if legit:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nese-soldiers-uncovered-Philippines-WWII.html


Probably a load of bollocks though.
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ha ha.

The Philippines is the last place on earth to look for treasure.

If they tell you fables of fabulous proportions, you can bet the stash has been found, stolen, reburied, found, stolen, reburied, found stolen..... a thousand times.

There is no cave in the Philippines that hasn't been done a thousand times. This is where youngsters "scuba dive" without the tanks a hundred feet deep, never mind the loss of eardrums and the death toll.

By the way, there was a hole on the mountain where the some big guns were located commanding some inter-island passages. I threw some rocks down, believed it was where prisoners were thrown, and full of snakes too. If there was a ton of gold in there, I wasn't gonna go down.

But I believe the Filipinos would, did, and some even came back out.
 
Serious question, if you ever found a huge treasure, something of historical significance, would you announce it to the world, or just piecemeal sell stuff off to finance your lifestyle? I have thought about this, especially after reading about some of the legal battles that come about due to treasure hunters announcing then the state or local government deciding it should belong to them, or someone else with a supposed stake in it.

Personally, I think I would melt the gold down and sell off gold bars a bit at a time so as not to arouse suspicion.

Here is one of the more public cases, but the payout is beyond huge:

https://www.inquisitr.com/2614385/s...nish-treasure-ship-found-off-colombian-coast/
 
Old timer lived up on the mountain for forty years. If someone went up there, he had shack sorta logcabin type, and a rabbit on the spit. Every few years he would show up in town and buy something paying with an old gold coin from the 1870s.

Not so far from some famous payroll heists from some mining camps ala Butch Cassidy.

Don't poke around asking questions if somebody seems to have too much Roadrunner lifestyle and not old enough really to retire. Nursing some weed along the little creek, doing a run once in a while, lotta folks are off the grid.

BLM would claim anything you found today, if they ever heard of it. Not to mention IRS. I bet most of the real treasures have worked their way back into the economy.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Serious question, if you ever found a huge treasure, something of historical significance, would you announce it to the world, or just piecemeal sell stuff off to finance your lifestyle? I have thought about this, especially after reading about some of the legal battles that come about due to treasure hunters announcing then the state or local government deciding it should belong to them, or someone else with a supposed stake in it.

Personally, I think I would melt the gold down and sell off gold bars a bit at a time so as not to arouse suspicion.

Here is one of the more public cases, but the payout is beyond huge:

https://www.inquisitr.com/2614385/s...nish-treasure-ship-found-off-colombian-coast/
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Man, what a tragedy if people melted down several hundred year old coins into regular old gold. I get it. I feel like they need a better system in place, one that incentivises explorers/treasure-hunters so that they are happy to turn over the artifacts for good value in return.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Haven't heard from Dr. Jones for a while... should we be worried?
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News had footage of floods in the area. Virgin River roaring. Fort Pierce wash gotta be a river, too.

nah, the mud will freeze in a couple of days, and the roads coated with six inchers of snow again. Doc has a vehicle that is made for mud and snow, but it makes a story line for the wives. Must be having great digs on the Grand Wash rim. Doc's got his contract to go looking. He's fine.
 
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