• What cryptic treasure is a map to entire armies of warriors?
Who managed to dig up an entire car?
We count 10 unbelievable hidden treasures people found in the world.
10 – Safe and Bourbon • After removing part of their kitchen,
this lucky couple came across a hidden treasure in their very own house.
• The couple found an old concealed safe that possibly belonged to one of the 6 previous
tenants.
Inside the safe was over $50,000 in cash, a bottle of bourbon from the 1950’s and
a mysterious book titled, ‘A Guide For The Perplexed’ containing a message for an anonymous
person called Alan, signed by a Vincent.
The story got even more exciting when they found cryptic clues hinting at another treasure
buried somewhere else in America.
• No one has found the second treasure.
Yet.
9 – Lucky Sofa • A student from Germany had their life
changed one fateful day at a furniture auction.
• After purchasing a couch for 150 euros at an auction in Hamburg, the student casually
sat around on the couch in their house for a while before making a big discovery.
Hidden deep in the seat was a 17th century baroque oil painting, valued at 16,000 euros.
Experts say the painting has ties to a famous Venetian painter Carlo Saraceni.
• How the ancient painting ended up in the sofa is a mystery.
8 – Backyard Antique • A couple of kids who were mindlessly digging
in the front of a house in 1978 hit something very unusual under the surface.
• They hit what felt like a big sheet of shiny metal, and called over a local sheriff
to take a look.
After a lot more digging, it was revealed that the metal was attached to an entire Ferrari
Dino 246 GTS.
Police were perplexed as to why someone would bury such an expensive vehicle.
• After tracing the history of the car, it was discovered that the owner had scammed
police by telling them his car was stolen and claimed $22,000 through his insurance
company.
7 – Atocha Motherload • A ship called Nuestra Senora de Atocha
sank in 1622 and was lost at sea for hundreds of year.
Until it was rediscovered recently.
• A company called Mel Fisher’s Treasures found the long lost ship that was destroyed
by a hurricane near Florida Keys.
After searching for the ship for 15 years, the Fisher crew not only found the vessel,
but over $450 million worth of gold treasure on board.
One necklace alone was valued at $250,000.
• The rear section of the ship has never been found and is rumoured to contain half
a billion dollars worth of treasure.
6 - Mosque • When an Italian couple purchased a house
in Palermo, they did not expect to find one of history’s secrets.
• After Giuseppe Cadili noticed some water damage on the walls of his new house, he called
in a renovation expert.
Underneath the plaster was some curious Arabic writing on the walls, so they removed the
surface and found that every inch of the walls were covered in the writing.
Apparently the house had originally belonged to a North African nobleman in the 1700’s
who used the room as a mosque.
• In the end, they decided not to renovate the room out of respect for their culture’s
fascinating history.
5 – Saddle Ridge Hoard • It’s always a shock to discover ancient
relics, especially when it’s on your own property.
• A couple from California’s gold country were taking their daily walk through the fields
with their pet doggo when they noticed a rusty can sticking out of the ground.
They picked up the heavy canister and took it home.
When they found out the pot literally contained gold, they ran back to the place they found
it – only to discover another can full of coins.
• They uncovered 1400 rare gold coins in total, all of which had been laying half buried
for over a hundred years.
4 – Tassie Fossil • A discovery on the island of Tasmania
in Australia created more questions than it answered.
• In the small town of Kuranda, a local contractor found strange remains buried under
the surface of some soil.
Experts initially suggested they were prehistoric animal bones, but only half of that was right.
It was an animal, but not prehistoric.
It was an 8-metre whale to be exact.
Which was strange to find 10 miles from the ocean.
• The most plausible explanation is that the whale was dragged there when it beached,
so that it didn’t explode near people’s houses.
3 – Piano Loot • Three pianos donated to a small school
in England are the last place you would expect to find hidden treasure.
• The vintage pianos were generously donated to Bishop’s Castle Community College in
Shropshire, and were in need of a thorough tuning.
While the piano tuner got stuck into the instruments, he uncovered a hidden section under the keys.
After further dismantling, he found 913 rare gold sovereigns worth up to one million dollars.
• If the school is allowed to keep the funds from the treasure, they will apparently donate
it to the school’s budget for the students to enjoy.
2 – Booby-Trappage • A group of rag-tag adventurers claimed
to have found long lost Japanese treasure in the Philippines.
• The infamous lost Yamashita Treasure was a story that circulated at the end of World
War II, and many people claim that it was just a rumour to boost morale after the war.
A video surfaced online which supposedly showed a group of men in gasmasks cleaning off huge
bars of solid gold.
They say the treasure was booby-trapped with bombs.
• Anthropologists insist the video was a hoax and that the treasure never existed in
the first place.
1 – Xi’an Warriors • One of the most mind-blowingly huge discoveries
in the world happened on a rural farm in China.
• A group of farmers were digging a well in 1974 when they hit a statue buried under
the ground.
They dug some more and found several more life-size terracotta statues.
Several years later, the entire land was excavated to reveal more than 8000 perfectly preserved
soldiers and animals made from terracotta, alongside the ancient tomb of the first emperor
of the Qin Dynasty himself.
• The emperor ordered the warriors to be buried with him so they would protect him
in
the afterlife.