Weird things you found on your property...

[TIMETRIPPER]

Shortly after buying the house 20 years ago my wife found a $5 gold piece while digging in the front yard to plant flowers. It's one of those incised stamped Indian head coins made in 1910. last time I checked it was worth around $350 or so. Son bought me a metal detector for my birthday a few years later but the only stuff I can find is old nails and other such junk.

John

 

[BornToLooze]

At the deer camp we've found a couple pipes coming out of the ground. From what we can guess there used to be houses way back when and that was from their well. One was coming up through a tree stump.

 

[2ffat]

We bought our house almost 30 years ago. The yard was completely overgrown so I cleaned it out. Found all sorts of stuff, including a rusty hibachi and lots of spent shells. I live in town so the shells were a curiosity. I asked a neighbor and she mentioned that the house had once been surrounded by the FBI looking for a jewel thief. His mother rented the house at the time. They eventually found him hiding on the attic. That also explained the bullet holes inside the house.

 

[BearBio]

1. Found an Indian Head penny on top of the cabinets in a rental house (old farmhouse) in NorCal.

2. Had an old Indian campsite on a friend's ranch (grinding stones, oaks, year-round trees and water). My nephew found an old 56 Spencer rimfire casing there.

Not on our "property", per se but my cousin had a mining claim in Angeles National Forest. His partner found:
1. A Ford Tri-motor with pilot and mail bags still in it. Mail plane from Palmdale/Lancaster to L.A. (likely Van Nuys or Burbank)

2. He found a Ford Model T sitting in a meadow (no road in) with a 3" sapling growing up through the floorboard.

Same area, we found an old stamping mill with hand forged square nails.

 

[M E Morrison]

1. Found an Indian Head penny on top of the cabinets in a rental house (old farmhouse) in NorCal.

2. Had an old Indian campsite on a friend's ranch (grinding stones, oaks, year-round trees and water). My nephew found an old 56 Spencer rimfire casing there.

Not on our "property", per se but my cousin had a mining claim in Angeles National Forest. His partner found:
1. A Ford Tri-motor with pilot and mail bags still in it. Mail plane from Palmdale/Lancaster to L.A. (likely Van Nuys or Burbank)

2. He found a Ford Model T sitting in a meadow (no road in) with a 3" sapling growing up through the floorboard.

Same area, we found an old stamping mill with hand forged square nails.

What happened to the airplane? I wonder if they tried to deliver the old mail?

 

[codenamedave]

Not on my property per se, but moving into different apartments I've found: A BB gun (cheapie Crosman pistol); a sealed plastic bottle, maybe half-liter sized, of hydrochloric acid (kinda wonder what the story was behind that); and an unopened shipment from that old late night infomercial guy Carlton Sheets' Amazing No Money Down Real Estate Money making System!

Kept the BB gun, which would probably be a felony in CA these days.

Didn't know what else to do with the acid so I called the local PD and they said bring it down to the station and they'd dispose of it.

Gave the Money Making System! to a ex-con co-worker, he ended up moving into a large fancy arty-farty barn conversion home that he talked the owner into renting to him just by walking up cold & knocking on the door.

 

[BearBio]

"What happened to the airplane? I wonder if they tried to deliver the old mail? "

My understanding is they have to try, then it goes to "dead mail"

 

[DeathGrip]

2. He found a Ford Model T sitting in a meadow (no road in) with a 3" sapling growing up through the floorboard.

If he hadn't left the jack under my old trailer he might of got the car out of there.

I still have the jack but it took me years to figure out it was for a T Model.

 

[Fishslayer]

Also found where the old trapper Jim Bridger scratched his name in a cliff back in 1836.

You don't remember him doing that?

 

[turnerriver]

There's a 1960 vintage bomb shelter in my back yard that my father in law built as a working model, he built & installed several during the Cuban missle crisis. Cans of crackers still down there and a million cockroaches.
Regards,
turnerriver

 

[nicky4968]

There are Indian (feathers, not dots) graves on my brother's property. His wife is an anthropologist. She finds many beads in the ant piles.
Also, she is mad because we never picked up our spent .22 rounds. She can't tell a 1900 Winchester .22 long rifle case from one from 1960.

 

[mainegrw]

My family purchased a cottage on the CT shore back in 1975. While doing some maintenance around the property, they dug up a 1930s or 40s vintage toy firetruck that has sat on the window sill in the house ever since. As the area was developed around that time, we wonder if it came from the original owners...

Also, just about 20 years ago, while finishing high school, I worked for a local car dealership, that had been around for quite a long time. Anytime they needed any kind of utility work done involving excavating parts of the property, it was quite an entertaining time just watching and waiting to see what the backhoe would bring up with each scoop of dirt. I recall an entire bumper jack coming up, as well as the hood or door from an old car among other things. The story goes that early on in the dealship's life, a junkyard of old parts was located just outside the backdoor of the service shop, and was eventually burried to build the surrounding parking lots. Stuff like this really excited me, and for a brief instant had considered archeology as a career, though other passions eventually won out...

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[pmanton]

I bought a house in Tacoma, WA around 1975. There was a Thompson SMG stock in the basement hidden up among the joists. Nothing else though.

 

[M E Morrison]

I bought a house in Tacoma, WA around 1975. There was a Thompson SMG stock in the basement hidden up among the joists. Nothing else though.

Maybe the people before you found it...

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

In the late '70's, found one of these in a cow pasture one day, a little beat up and worse for wear. My family's farm in S.W. Iowa, two miles from the Missouri boarder. It was a inert BDU48B Practice Bomb, except it was painted orange. Could only of been there a couple of days or we would of seen it. Actually, I think the cows might of found it first because they can be very curious about such things.

We had a lot of Air Force and Air Guard planes that flew over our propriety, even though we good 60 miles from any kind of military base or city of any size. Missouri ANG C-130 Hercules and Nebraska Air Guard RF-4C Phantom II.

Seeing the (Boeing 707) EC-135 Looking Glass planes out of SAC Headquarters at Offutt AFB was almost a daily occurrence. Often at about 3,000 feet, cruising at speed and maneuvering, which is really low for a plane that size.

Perhaps it fell off an F-4 on accident. Probably at night.

I think our little corner of Iowa was sort of the perfect "turn around and go back point" from a number of airfields. Plus being in the middle of nowhere, it was a good place to make some noise. And it wasn't just our farm. All our neighbors and friends saw low flying airplanes too.

 

[kfields]

The wife and I have found a lot of cool stuff on our property here in rural Ohio. Our brick home was built in 1826 so a the next cool find is just around the corner!
Preparing my garden, I found this old coin in the dirt. Another yard find is this old civil war era button.

 

[bill2000]

When digging the hole for my foundation the excavator pulled up a boulder thats' about 4'X5'X4'. One side of this beast is as flat as a pancake. It has parallel ridges about 1-1/2" high and about 2" apart. Evidence that it was dragged many miles by the mile high ice cube that covered the state millions of years ago.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

In the late '70's, found one of these in a cow pasture one day, a little beat up and worse for wear. My family's farm in S.W. Iowa, two miles from the Missouri boarder. It was a inert BDU48B Practice Bomb, except it was painted orange. Could only of been there a couple of days or we would of seen it. Actually, I think the cows might of found it first because they can be very curious about such things.

We had a lot of Air Force and Air Guard planes that flew over our propriety, even though we good 60 miles from any kind of military base or city of any size. Missouri ANG C-130 Hercules and Nebraska Air Guard RF-4C Phantom II.

Seeing the (Boeing 707) EC-135 Looking Glass planes out of SAC Headquarters at Offutt AFB was almost a daily occurrence. Often at about 3,000 feet, cruising at speed and maneuvering, which is really low for a plane that size.

Perhaps it fell off an F-4 on accident. Probably at night.

I think our little corner of Iowa was sort of the perfect "turn around and go back point" from a number of airfields. Plus being in the middle of nowhere, it was a good place to make some noise. And it wasn't just our farm. All our neighbors and friends saw low flying airplanes too.

Usually the practice bombs are loaded on a fighter who heads for a bombing range.
They might fly some kind of a practice high or low profile on the way.
so you must be or was in between an operating base and a bombing/gunnery range.
Often the Air National Guard fly from Civilian Airports and use reservations/ranges which belong to them.

 

[gtk]

While headed to a deer stand on our farm, I found a woman with "mental issues" completely stuck in a briar thicket. When I rode up to her on my atv, she looked at me real curious and said, "they sent you for me, didn't they? " I have no idea who "they" were.. I finally got her to explain from which end of the property she came from, and rode her back to the road and pointed her to her friends house.

One time after some bad weather, i found a lot of old photo's strowed about in our field. Must have been from a tornado that hit a nearby community.

While elk hunting in Walden CO, I was sitting on a high open ridge miles from anything. I noticed a real old tree that had blown over ages ago,and it had a small hollowed out trunk that was only visible from the underside. Being naturally curious, i peeked in it, and saw a bottle. I pulled it out and it was a very old stubby Budwiser bottle. Figured it had to be one of the earliest ones.. Probably some range rider crammed it in their ages ago..

 

[federali]

Not Mine

While leveling the ground behind my house to install an above-ground swimming pool, I scraped up a heavily corroded full metal jacketed pistol bullet of about 32-35 caliber, don't remember which. My house, as well as the entire development, was built on filled-in land in 1950. The bullet either came with the fill or has been here from a time when you could take shots with a firearm without attracting attention.