(07-19-2023, 08:30 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote:(07-19-2023, 06:17 AM)Ninurta Wrote: My first wife's great grand dad buried what was then about 30k worth of gold coins up a holler here. Then he died, and never told where it was buried. A lot of folks have tried to find it over the years, but so far, no one has...
... that we know of, that is.
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Wut?! I'll be right over.
Err, never mind, I don't have a land mine detector.
The rumor is that he buried it somewhere around his outhouse, but I think every square foot of that area has been dug up, and nothing. I think he probably parceled it out into smaller batches and buried them somewhere on the mountain, probably under the rocks that stick up out of the ground around there.
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