Strange indeed, but absolutely true!

[kimsdad]

No great finds of old silver in this post, but something quite unusual happened. Chalk it up to whatever you want, but I'm not making this s**t up!

I was a little bored on Friday, so I went to the library to get a winemaking book. I saw a book on Pepsi memorabilia on a different shelf, stopped and flipped through it, coming to a page with bottles from the 40's. I looked at them and thought that those looked cool.



I put it back on the shelf. Before checking out, I went to the new arrival section and saw Les Stroud's book on survival, and decided to take it home. Later on that day, I sat in the back yard with my books and opened Stroud's. It opened to the page on orienteering with a flat plastic compass. I looked it over, because last year I found an old metal military compass, and was interested in that section.



The next morning, I met up with Etrac007, Lookn4Seated, and Olderactor in the woods. After working a grove area for a while, I picked a spot to hit in the woods. A few minutes into the woods, I looked down and saw this.



I picked it up and thought "Cool, it still works, too. Funny I was just reading about these..."

I stuck it in my bag and carried on. Olderactor had found his SLQ around this time, and I was busy looking for her sister. About 15-20 feet away, what do I find half submerged in the dirt?



It didn't register about the Pepsi Book until I was on my way home. I stopped back at the library and checked the book out so I could photo the page and look through it. I've always been a Pepsi drinker anyway.

The more I thought about it, the weirder it seemed. I was a little hesitant to post this, so I hesitated until today. I though what the heck, I'll throw it up here anyway for anyone who is interested. Even if you think it was just a coincidence, I still got a working compass and a cool old Pepsi bottle out of the deal.

Thanks for checking out my wierd experience!

 

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[Lowbatts]

Oh yeah, the Pepsi-Compass study-find vortex, never been there myself. There's no such thing as coincidence, yeah right!

Saw an identical Pepsi bottle in the woods and left it there, unaware of the age. No frosting or painting on it but the embossing was right on. Nice finds for sure Neil!

 

[DPBOB]

THE TWILIGHT ZONE !!!!!!!

It is so funny how things work out that way....

OH I'm interested just so you know....

Lots of weird things happen like that through out the years....

Cool story.....

 

[litefire56]

Holy Cr@p Neil! I see a pattern here...you need to get back to the library as soon as you can, and look at some books of old silver. Then hit the woods again!

Whats really weird is I emailed Les on Fri. regarding some parts for his aircraft. Also I was drinking a Pepsi at the time. I never drink Pepsi, but it was the only thing in the fridge.

 

[treasurefiend]

Great job on those finds!!! I usually get good feelings or talk about a find right before I found it. Like when I was hunting with Watercolor, I mentioned that I had a dream that I found a Shield Nickel but how I doubted that it would ever happened. Well a few hours later I found one.

More recently I was hunting with mikewaz when I said "alls I need it 1 SLQ to be tied from last years quarters total" and not even 2 min later I got a quarter signal. I showed mike and he seen me dig it up, it was a 1920 SLQ.

 

[ivan salis]

time to read a book on treasure caches

 

[treasurefiend]

So what year is that bottle from, it looks like 1 I found not too long ago.

 

[extractor]

I dont think it's strange, something get's put inyour brain, ya get drawn to it and ya find it. Just look at your Silver Count this year as an example. I think if ya don't all ready, you should start dowsing before your hunts.

 

[Mayo South Elgin]

I love stuff like this!
Is that what they call serendipity?
Or was that a hair product from the 60's?
Maybe it's a magical library.
I would see if they have books on gold coins

 

[twistidd]

Wow! I wasn't gonna say anything, but...

I had a dream the other day, where I was being chased by Bear Grylls (sp?) weilding a Pepsi bottle, until from out of nowhere, I heard the Survivorman theme chant and all of a sudden Les Stroud came swinging from a vine and grabbed me to save me! When we got to the top of the tree, Les told me to take this compass thing he had, and told me to head straight north, away from the advancing Bear. I ran and ran until I came across Kermit, standing there with a 1920 standing liberty! He was so excited about it and I mainly remember mikewaz standing there, holding his library card, telling me to head to the library to find a book on-

I forgot the rest.

Joe

 

[kimsdad]

Hey Kermit, it is a 1948 bottle.



Woo! Woo! Woo!

 

[mikewaz]

How cool is that Neil !!!!
I had the same thing happen to me not too long ago while out with Kermit, Joe and Bill. I found an old overgrown trail sneaking through the woods and thought Barber's for sure. I started to step over an old downed tree and suddenly stopped in mid stride.

I thought that it would've been a great place to stop and rest so I snuck my coil under some brush next to the tree and got a solid signal. I crawled under the brush and cut a large plug so I wouldn't damage the coin. I kept thinking Barber quarter the whole time, and all of a sudden in my mind I could see that coin in the plug.

I carefully pulled the dirt and roots from the hole and stuck my probe into the dirt. Still under a few roots I again removed more dirt and soil. I stuck my hand up into the roots and pulled out a beautiful 1976 bicentennial quarter...Freaky.
Mike

 

[outlaw007]

GRETA STORY NEIL CHECK OUT ANYOTHER BOOKS LATELY?