Whats your worst find can you beat a Cat tag with the Cat skeleton still attached

A2coins · Dec 20, 2016

I should have quit when I dug up the blanket!!!!!I hate this snow 2 weeks of this I love reading all the posts and stories I wanted to start this thread to hear some stories of worst finds.

OtakuDude · Dec 20, 2016

I was hunting behind an old abandoned house when I got a large signal. Once I first started digging it up, it looked like a large coffee can. Visions of a nice coin horde or perhaps some kids treasure chest flashed through my mind.

Imagine my profound disappointment when I pulled it out of the ground and saw it capped a pipe leading downwards. It turned out I found the cap to the septic tank.

1320 · Dec 21, 2016

1950's car bumper.....

Charlie P. (NY) · Dec 21, 2016

I found a spot with multiple targets and started digging up what looked like tiny toothpaste tubes.

Old condom lube containers.

Must have been someone's favorite "necking" spot years ago.

Dr. Witty · Dec 21, 2016

I didn't dig it up but found it right next to the plug i was digging, a little silver egg with a cord going to a battery case and power button. I knew what it was, filled in my hole and moved along...

hvacker · Dec 21, 2016

I was asked to check the level in a buried fuel oil tank. I couldn't get the measuring stick to go down the pipe. Something blocking it. I got a hook device, fished around a bit and brought up the foreleg of a deer. No idea how, when, or why.

IAMZIM · Dec 21, 2016

I was literally out in the middle of now where, hiking in the mountains here, and found a few small piles of rocks in an area of about 20' by 15' or so, so I go back to my truck and get the detector, and the first pile I get a slamming signal, I'm thinking, "HERE WE GO!!!" I dig down about a foot, and it is definitely a metal box! I clear enough dirt to see "Fluffy, our beloved friend, May 1989" engraved in the lid, WHOOPS! LOL! Who buries their pets out in the middle of the mountains? lol! I very carefully put it back!

gheenoe78 · Dec 21, 2016

Condom wrapper.

Patriot Relics · Dec 21, 2016

This thread is hilarious...egg with cord attached, pets remains lol time to move on. I can't compete, have dug condom wrappers as well as used needles

BigWaveDave · Dec 21, 2016

I too have dug up a cat.
Right in the middle of the back yard of a 1910's house.....
Wrapped in tin foil...boy, that was an ugly plug too.

A2coins · Dec 21, 2016

Good Thanks Dave I'm glad I'm not alone this one was in a blanket . We keep digging we will all end up finding just about everything possible that's why I love this hobby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dave Rishar · Dec 21, 2016

I've got a corner of an old school lot that reliably produces vintage car parts. We stopped digging there after the first few. There might be something valuable in there, but I'm not going to do the work to see. I'm still curious as to why all that crap is there. It's just the one corner, a fairly small area.

Back when I was first getting started, I was sweeping an old homestead out in the middle of nowhere. I knew where the house had been (the chimney was still standing) and I thought about caches. There was a very large tree nearby, right in the middle of what would have been the yard. I checked there and got a signal that damned near blew the headphones off my head. After some frantic digging, I hit flat metal about a foot down. Now grinning like a madman, I attacked the soil, trying to get to the edges of this metal object so that I could remove it. After more work than I'd like to admit, I got it free. And it was...

...the door to a frigging wood stove.

What was under it? You'd better believe that I checked. I pried that sucker out, hauled it off to the side, and found what may have been a firepit, lined with rocks from the creek. If there was something under there that was metallic, it was too deep for my Tesoro to find it. I keep meaning to get back there with the mine detector but I haven't yet, and the site has become so overgrown that I'm not entirely sure where that pit was anymore. One of these days.

I had a similar experience at the same site a few years back, but nearer to the road. That time, I tempered my enthusiasm with experience, and I was not so disappointed when I unearthed an old truck hood.

Way back when I first got started and was just learning my first machine, I did the back 40 of the place that I was renting in Silverdale. I have no idea about the history of the place, but I found a large patch of soil that was heavily contaminated with nails and burnt wood. It had an unpleasant chemical smell and the blackberries back there were inedible. I dug a few holes and got pretty sick for a few days. I went back and got sick again. Between the lack of good finds and the other stuff, I gave it up. I still don't know what happened back there (meth lab burned down?) but it wasn't worth my health to keep looking.

No bodies (pets or otherwise) yet, but I suppose that it's only a matter of time with my luck.

Muddyhandz · Dec 22, 2016

When I was about 15 years old, I dug up this container with "3 Merry Widows" written on it. I asked my dad what it was and he didn't know, so he told me to go ask my grandmother.
Went over to gramma's and showed her this tin and she quickly identified it as a condom container. She continued to explain but I was out the door so fast!
I remember the disturbed thought I had....How did she know it for condoms? :tard:

Almost 30 years later and 30 more tins added to my total, I still remember the first container and I'm a little more accepting of the fact that grandmother's had sex too! :laughing7:

One thing that still gets me occasionally is when I'm down along the river bank, eyeballing during low water levels.
I'll see this interesting shape, half buried in the muck and kick it loose or pry it up with my hand only to discover quickly that it's ANOTHER :censored:

tampon applicator!
Walk a bit further and there's another common object laying there, all stretched out with river slime caked all over......
Another used condom! :censored:

Finds like that along the river bank only mean one thing.....They still dump raw sewage into the river! :BangHead:

Dr. Witty · Dec 22, 2016

I find a lot of those pink applicators up here in the sand near lake Ontario. We call them beach whistles, but I'll be damned if I can get a sound out of them. Maybe i'm not blowing hard enough?

coinman123 · Dec 28, 2016

pot pipes.

Cool Hand Fluke · Jan 2, 2017

I was hunting the back yard of an abandoned old house and got a good hit at about 6 inches. Digging down I make out the shape of a metal box that's about 12" X 8" X 6".
Pulling it out of the ground gave me visions of the "big find", hoards of old silver coins and jewelry was going through my head. Once out of the ground I pried open the lid
with my digging tool and found the skeleton of some kind of rodent, it was ether a pet hamster or a rat! It must have been buried 20 or 30 years ago....glad it wasn't fresh!

kingskid1611 · Jan 7, 2017

Cool Hand Fluke said:
I was hunting the back yard of an abandoned old house and got a good hit at about 6 inches. Digging down I make out the shape of a metal box that's about 12" X 8" X 6".
Pulling it out of the ground gave me visions of the "big find", hoards of old silver coins and jewelry was going through my head. Once out of the ground I pried open the lid
with my digging tool and found the skeleton of some kind of rodent, it was ether a pet hamster or a rat! It must have been buried 20 or 30 years ago....glad it wasn't fresh!

Did you keep the metal box.....

coinman123 · Jan 7, 2017

Cool Hand Fluke said:
I was hunting the back yard of an abandoned old house and got a good hit at about 6 inches. Digging down I make out the shape of a metal box that's about 12" X 8" X 6".
Pulling it out of the ground gave me visions of the "big find", hoards of old silver coins and jewelry was going through my head. Once out of the ground I pried open the lid
with my digging tool and found the skeleton of some kind of rodent, it was ether a pet hamster or a rat! It must have been buried 20 or 30 years ago....glad it wasn't fresh!

I once saw a metal tin too, around the same size as the one you found. One and a half feet deep in the woods, under tons of huge roots. I had the same thoughts as you when I dug it. I pulled it out, a huge cookie metal cookie box from the late 1950's lol. I am now relieved it was not someone's pet after reading all the horror stories on here

. I regret not keeping it a little, it was very cool looking, unfortunately the bottom was completed toasted. Makes me wonder if there was a pet in it at some point after all, it is just not there anymore.....

kingskid1611 · Jan 8, 2017

coinman123 said:
I once saw a metal tin too, around the same size as the one you found. One and a half feet deep in the woods, under tons of huge roots. I had the same thoughts as you when I dug it. I pulled it out, a huge cookie metal cookie box from the late 1950's lol. I am now relieved it was not someone's pet after reading all the horror stories on here . I regret not keeping it a little, it was very cool looking, unfortunately the bottom was completed toasted. Makes me wonder if there was a pet in it at some point after all, it is just not there anymore.....

If the bottom was gone then the pet wasn't dead and dug its way out........