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
A European woman recently stumbled upon buried treasure from the Middle Ages in what archaeologists are calling a once-in-a-decade discovery. In a press release that was translated into English, the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ARUP) explained that the treasure was found by a woman walking in Kutná Hora. The town is … Read more
David Hager, 58, is on the hunt. Next Friday, he, his wife and two sons, ages 16 and 21, will travel from their home near Denver, Colorado, to NYC to search for booty hidden decades ago. “Some place in the city of New York, there is a treasure,” Hager told The Post. “There is a … Read more
They’re in deep now. A couple of first-time UK homebuyers were stunned to discover a 10-foot well hidden below their living room. Shaniah Lloyd, 28, and her partner, Ross Bennett, 25, purchased their Edwardian townhouse in Coventry, England, for about $239,000 in November. While lifting the floorboards to replace the boiler last month, they were … Read more
He stumbled upon a gold mine. A 12-year-old UK boy is sharing how he discovered a rare gold Roman bracelet while walking his dog in a field in the Pagham area of England. Rowan Brannan was with his mom, Amanda, 44, two years ago when he spotted a band that dates back 2,000 years. “Rowan … Read more
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It’s a “titanic” treasure trove. A veritable “Holy Grail” shipwreck said to be worth billions could be exhumed from the depths of Colombia as early as next month, sparking a veritable gold rush in archeological circles, experts say. “There has been this persistent view of the galleon as a treasure trove,” lhena Caicedo, director of … Read more
A Norwegian man recently came forward to disclose that he had found several medieval coins as a child and hid them for six decades – until now. Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes told Møre og Romsdal County Municipality officials that he and his brother were adventuring under the floorboards of Edøy Church in 1964 when he found … Read more
You can now own a piece of the “Rocket Man.” A treasure trove of items from Sir Elton John’s Atlanta home on Peachtree Road will be sold in a live auction at Christie’s in Midtown Manhattan on Feb 21. Dubbed “The Collection of Sir Elton John: Goodbye Peachtree Road,” the priceless collection of musical history … Read more
Should you quit your job and become a dumpster diver? One Baltimore woman says she’s uncovered a whopping $2 million in unwanted treasure — everything from Le Creuset cookware to a $500 Dyson hairdryer. Jennifer Lleras, 40, is a busy mom who owns her own marketing firm, earning her a comfortable living. But when the mother of … Read more
The 20-something comedians Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy, who produce digital shorts for “Saturday Night Live” under the group name Please Don’t Destroy, owe a lot to their “S.N.L.” forebears Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, whose troupe The Lonely Island laid the groundwork for Please Don’t Destroy’s distinctive style of two- … Read more
One whale’s vomit is another man’s treasure. A fisherman in Scotland was walking his dog along the beach in Ayrshire when his dog found a “disgusting” blob on the beach — which might be a highly valuable chunk of whale vomit. “I work on a fishing boat, so I knew what ambergris was. I’ve never … Read more
She has no shame in being a full-time gold digger. An Australian woman discovered gold nuggets worth $127,000 underneath her childhood play area. Tyler Mahoney, 27, a reality star on Discovery Channel’s “Gold Rush” was gold-digging with her brother Reece and her father Ted when she came across her biggest hit yet. “We were at a place … Read more
An eight-year-old boy has unearthed an extremely rare silver coin while playing in a sandbox, dating to about 1,800 years before he was born. The young boy, who was identified only by his first name, Bjarne, was playing in a sandbox at his primary school in Germany when he made the incredible discovery. He rushed … Read more
Last year when Patti LuPone announced she had left the stage actors union Actors Equity, effectively ending her long Broadway career, it was a shocker. She was hardly in a slump, having just won her third Tony Award for playing Joanne in the revival of “Company.” LuPone, 74, later told People she gave up her … Read more
A Pennsylvania woman has turned dumpster diving into a lucrative business after discovering that authentic designer items are often tossed away. Veronica Taylor, 32, of Quakertown, Pennsylvania, teamed up with her friend Liz Wilson, 38, to sell the salvaged items on the auction app WhatNot and on live-streamed auctions. “It’s really like a real-life treasure hunt,” … Read more
A pair of TikTokers had their spirits lifted after going viral with this secret treasure. Social media is raising its proverbial glass to one man who discovered a secret cellar beneath his two-centuries-old home, containing several bottles of aged liquor. Luca Hillier and his friend Tom shared a video of their findings earlier this month … Read more
Diamonds are a man’s best friend. A 37-year-old treasure hunter discovered a $40,000 engagement ring while combing Hammock Beach in St. Augustine, Florida, with his metal detector in October. A video posted by Joseph Cook shows him excitedly digging for the ring while initially thinking it was a coin of some sort. “No way, man. … Read more
Anyone looking for a deal on a new car will dig this story. A British man won a Fiat 500 after a mysterious phone call led him to keys buried in a field. The search was part of a treasure hunt held by Scrap Car Comparison, an online marketplace that matches the owners of scrap and salvage … Read more
This horndog likes it ruff. A cheeky canine in the UK elicited sophomoric guffaws galore after unearthing a giant black dildo — a NSFW chew toy he refused to relinquish for 20 minutes until he received a treat, according to his dog walker. “When I realized what it was, I was just like ‘oh my … Read more