..... after several minutes of looking around the box goes to a solid beep, ...
Me thinks you're using it wrong.
.... I am looking for about 20 pounds of gold ....
Canyon, how's your math ? Convert 20 pounds to ounces. Then multiply through the current spot price of gold. See how much $$ you're talking about. And then tell me the story isn't a fanciful ghost story legend gone awry.
Naturally there's *always* eye-witnesses involved, eh ? And when you FINALLY track down that eye witness (assuming you could), and interviewed/scrutinized HIS story, you would no doubt find out that .... well ... he didn't actually *see* the gold himself. But he got it on GOOD AUTHORITY from the construction worker who saw it. Ok, so you track down
THAT guy to interview/scrutinize him. Turns out he didn't actually see it either. But not to worry, because he got it on good authority from his sister in law. Who, when she was a little girl, saw the mysterious men digging a hole, blah blah blah. At what point do you finally realize that it's all silly nonsense ?
The dead giveaway is that it's invariably 20 ft. deep and .... after doing the math, is going to be millions or billions of dollars.
But this is all no doubt falling on deaf ears. I too pointed out the failure of logic and crumbling of stories to my hosts that took me all over Mexico hunting for these "sure fire" treasure leads (that sounded SO GOOD when they spun all the tales from their home country before we left). And no matter how much you point out the failures of the stories, the alternate explanations , or outright silliness, it was to no avail. They just become all the more entrenched, and write you off as a loco americano. And if you show them that there's no signals coming from the floor of a cave, naturally that doesn't mean there's not a treasure there. It merely means your detector doesn't go deep enough. If you dug 10 ft. and still get no signal, that merely means it must be 20 ft. deep. It's never that the treasure isn't there mind you
