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Boys Find WWII Bomb Buried In Woods
Searching for buried treasure, but finding a piece of history instead.
Three boys went out in the Marietta woods, and brought back a missile.
"We find all sorts of stuff. We find some coins every once in awhile," says the step-father of two of the boys, Aaron, Chidester.
"We got it at Christmas and we just started using it. Whenever there is metal in the ground it goes beep beep," 11 year old, Nathan Ritchie says.
It's that sound of beeps that got these boys to digging.
"We saw the back part and we just started digging. We finally got it all the way up an realized was it was," 12 year old Timothy Seevrs says.
What is was, was something they never expected to find. A missile from World War II.
"We all started saying, that's a rocket. It's a missile. We didn't know it was a bomb until we got down and got it out," Westin Ritchie says.
Standing at over five feet tall, the boys dug out a missile larger then all three of them.
"We did find out it was hollow in the inside. It was empty, it was relatively light," says Chidester.
And the missile isn't all. They found a kickstand, hatchet, bullets, and a shotgun.
Explosive technicians are making sure the missile is safe and the sheriff's office plans on giving it back to the boys in a few months. But they have some strong words for anyone trying to steal their buried treasure... "Finders keepers. Losers weepers."
The sheriff's office will also have to check with the government before giving the missile back to the boys.
Searching for buried treasure, but finding a piece of history instead.
Three boys went out in the Marietta woods, and brought back a missile.
"We find all sorts of stuff. We find some coins every once in awhile," says the step-father of two of the boys, Aaron, Chidester.
"We got it at Christmas and we just started using it. Whenever there is metal in the ground it goes beep beep," 11 year old, Nathan Ritchie says.
It's that sound of beeps that got these boys to digging.
"We saw the back part and we just started digging. We finally got it all the way up an realized was it was," 12 year old Timothy Seevrs says.
What is was, was something they never expected to find. A missile from World War II.
"We all started saying, that's a rocket. It's a missile. We didn't know it was a bomb until we got down and got it out," Westin Ritchie says.
Standing at over five feet tall, the boys dug out a missile larger then all three of them.
"We did find out it was hollow in the inside. It was empty, it was relatively light," says Chidester.
And the missile isn't all. They found a kickstand, hatchet, bullets, and a shotgun.
Explosive technicians are making sure the missile is safe and the sheriff's office plans on giving it back to the boys in a few months. But they have some strong words for anyone trying to steal their buried treasure... "Finders keepers. Losers weepers."
The sheriff's office will also have to check with the government before giving the missile back to the boys.
