On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up-and-coming rock band from Washington for their debut show in Chicago. After a blast of guitar feedback, 20-year-old Kurt Cobain politely announced to the crowd at the small club called Dreamerz: “Hello, we’re … Read more
Archaeologists in Romania have unearthed an elite Roman family’s ancient treasure, buried for centuries beneath the remains of a millennia-old city. The discovery, announced by the National History Museum of Romania on Aug. 23, was made within the remains of Histria, an ancient Greek city on the coast of the Black Sea. The treasure consists of more than … Read more
Watching an American icon like Indiana Jones battle Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” it’s hard to believe that it was actually a German cultural institute which played a pivotal role in transforming reckless Jones-style treasure hunting into the modern science of archaeology we know today. That institute, the German Archaeological Institute at Athens (DAI … Read more
These two went from trail walkers to treasure hunters. Two hikers stumbled across a mysterious treasure worth thousands, if not millions of dollars — and experts are baffled. The pair was walking along a trail in the Krkonoše Mountains in northeastern Czech Republic in February when they noticed an aluminum box sticking out of a … Read more
Stumbling upon loose change has never been so lucrative. A pair of hikers in Czechia hit the jackpot after stumbling upon a cache of gold coins and jewels worth over $300,000 — which some historians speculate could’ve been purposefully hidden from the Nazis. “When he [one of the hikers] opened it, my jaw dropped,” said … Read more
X marks the spot. The Netflix documentary “Gold & Greed: The Hunt For Fenn’s Treasure” (now streaming) covers the wild tale of a real-life deadly treasure hunt – and, it sets up a surprise second treasure hunt. “Within the TV and film industry, this might have been the most pitched project of the last 20 … Read more
This lucky woman found a framed and famed treasure. A Pennsylvania woman believes the $12 drawing she purchased at an antique store could be an original Pierre-Auguste Renoir piece, potentially worth $1 million. A Pennsylvania woman believes the $12 drawing she purchased at an antique store could be an original Pierre-Auguste Renoir piece worth $1 … Read more
Dr. Laurie Levermann Coker usually walks the South Padre Island coast looking for shells and other gifts from the Gulf of Mexico. Recently, however, she found a new treasure: a message in a bottle. Coker said she often walks along the beach with her two dogs, Ola – which means wave in Spanish – and … Read more
Word on the theme park beat is that those looking for a Disney fix are foregoing the crowded and pricey parks and splurging on a Disney cruise instead. After all, it’s got it all — the theming, Broadway-level entertainment, inventive food, astounding kids’ facilities and sunny foreign shores, including two private destinations. They even have … Read more
It was April 7, 2004, and Nacoça Pio was one of the first to learn of the bloodbath. A leader of the Cinta-Larga — an indigenous tribe who for centuries lived in isolation in the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil — Pio knew that tensions were high between his people and the white diamond prospectors who … Read more
A popular hunt that had people searching for a buried treasure for 31 years has finally come to an end. Dubbed “On the Trail of the Golden Owl,” the search captivated ten of thousands in France who joined the quest to find a statue made of an owl made of gold, silver and diamonds buried … Read more
British historians recently announced the remarkable discovery of a 1,000-year-old Viking “wallet,” thanks to two curious metal detectorists. Manx National Heritage, an organization based on the Isle of Man, announced the discovery in a Sept. 30 press release. In a statement, the organization explained that the coins were actually uncovered in May. Two metal detectorists, John Crowe and David … Read more
Call it a net positive. A British fisherman managed to hook an incredibly rare shark — a tiny Lego creature belonging to a 1990s set reportedly worth a few hundred clams on the resale market. Richard West, 35, reeled in the pint-sized plastic predator 20 miles off of Cornwall’s coast, near probably pirate-free Penzance. The … Read more
A UK couple went from rugs to riches after discovering a $30,000 wooden “diamond parquet” floor underneath their carpet, as detailed in a TikTok video with more than 2 million views. “We were blown away,” Josh Brooks, 37, told Jam Press about the literal hidden gem. He and his wife Emily, 38, had been renovating … Read more
A metal detectorist thought they’d uncovered a unique trinket on an Oregon beach, only to realize that it was actually someone’s cremated remains. The devastated metal detectorist detailed the “sad but interesting find” in a post currently jerking tears on Reddit. According to the heart-rending post, the unnamed beachcomber was exploring the Oregon coastline when … Read more
A group of Florida-based treasure hunters recently recovered hundreds of coins from a fleet of 300-year-old shipwrecks off the Atlantic coast this week. One of the divers called the find late last month “almost numbing.” “You don’t expect that,” boat captain Grant Gitschlag told FOX 35 on Friday. “You always hope for it, but you never expect it.” Fellow treasure … Read more
The sports world doesn’t want to see Charles Barkley go. Social media was abuzz after the legendary TV commentator announced on NBA TV on Friday night after Game 4 of the Finals that he will be retiring from the airwaves. Charles Barkley, one of the Greatest TV Personalities we have ever seen, is retiring after … Read more
Along with Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” scheduled for release this fall, Julia von Heinz’s “Treasure” is one of at least two dramas this year to follow the American descendants of Holocaust survivors on travels across Poland. Von Heinz’s film is based on a novel by the Australia-raised author Lily Brett, herself the daughter of … Read more
Meghan Markle has called Nigeria her “home” in a touching letter she penned to the the Oluwu of Iwo — a ruler of Nigerian society. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex last month ventured to the West African country for a three-day tour, during which the “Suits” alum referred to Nigeria as “my country.” During … Read more
He thinks Staten Island is treasure island. At 6 a.m. this past Saturday, David Hager, 58, and wife Michelle, 51, and two sons, Tyler and Ryan, 21 and 17, started digging in a small park in the forgotten borough. Hager, who lives in Colorado, believes he has correctly deciphered clues pinpointing buried booty on Staten Island from Byron Preiss’s 1982 … Read more