Pretty Bizarre Objects People Found After Digging In Their Own Yards
Have you ever wondered what hidden treasures are lurking underneath the surface of a home? Most importantly: What hidden treasure lies buried in the backyard?
Most kids have that fantasy, but as grownups, we would never consider ourselves so lucky. On the other hand, you might find really bizarre things like these folks did.
Whether they went digging or stumbled on them by chance, they found some unbelievable things that will make you want to take a shovel into the backyard and do a little digging.
So here are some strange objects people found in their yards.
The Hidden Passage
A village of El Haraneya, which was near the Giza Plateau in Egypt, found an ancient tunnel while digging in his backyard.
The tunnel he discovered was known as Herodotus by an Ancient Greek historian who visited Egypt and the passage led to the Great Pyramid of Khufu, one of the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in Giza.
The Lost Wedding Ring
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A Swedish woman named Lena Paahlsson lost her wedding ring, which was a white-gold band with seven small diamonds back in 1995. 16 years later, she found it growing on a carrot in her garden.
Both Lena and her husband Ola think the ring fell into the sink and wound up lost in vegetable peelings that were turned into composts.
Cast Iron Toy Pistol
Reddit user Ladymoonshyne claimed she was digging in her backyard when she found something buried two feet underground. It turns out that it was an old cast iron toy pistol, which was popular during the late 1920s all the way to the 1950s, which shot caps and may have belonged to a brand like Kilgore.
We’re In The Money
According to ABC News, a couple from Sierra Nevada, California noticed something poking out of the ground. It was a rusty canister, and inside there were $20 gold coins from the 1890s.
All in a all they discovered 8 cans with 1,427 coins with a value of $27,980. In total, these folks had about $10 million bucks!