5 Fascinating Amateur Metal-Detector Finds

1946—Underground Stolen Money: Using a mine detector borrowed from the U.S. Army, postal inspectors found $153,150 buried in the backyard of a postal employee who had stolen the money years before.

1952—Uncovering Pirate Treasure: On a visit to a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Edward Rowe Snow from Massachusetts used a metal detector and found eight 18th-Century Spanish doubloons and parts of a skeleton that was still holding the coins in its hand.

1966—Lost Gold Mine: In Texas, a group of treasure hunters using metal detectors reported that they had rediscovered the lost San Saba gold mine.

1966—Buried Model T: In Detroit, a group of people found what appeared to be a Model T Ford that a man had buried in his backyard back in 1926.

1997—Confederate Shell: In Virginia, two young boys using a metal detector found a live Confederate Army artillery shell in their grandfather’s backyard.