Almost every person in his life, at least for a moment, imagined himself the owner of a huge treasure: a chest with jewelry or a found wallet with an impressive wad of money. As you grow up behind a whole heap of everyday problems and the rapid passage of time, this fantasy becomes more and more vague. But in vain!
Treasure is the dream of every person
Comparing the number of hidden and unfound treasures over the past centuries, you can see a fairly significant difference, which is the primary incentive to search for more treasure.
Excitement, self-confidence and intuition will be an impetus that can radically change everyday life. Of course, knowledge will still be relevant here, since you need to search with some stock of information behind you.
So, what is a treasure? How to find treasures? Where to do it?
A treasure is a certain stock of valuables buried in a secluded place by some persons, which other persons want to take possession of. There are three categories of people who want to take possession of treasures:
- Black diggers, exactlythose who know how to find treasures, because the purpose of the search for them is profit: any item found is measured only in monetary terms. Ignoring generally accepted norms and foundations, they are looking for where an ordinary person would be ashamed to set foot.
- Red diggers. This type of seeker honors tradition and respects the past. For them, the search for lost treasures is bound by a sense of duty and a desire to convey historical values to posterity, as well as to assist the state in establishing the events of bygone years. All actions are due to the call of the heart, and the purpose of the search is to preserve memory. Gathering in communities, they are ready to accept those who want to help understand history.
- White diggers. For them, treasure hunting is more like a hobby, although the monetary factor plays an important role in this. Love for history is successfully combined with the desire to make money on it, and the selfish motive is restrained by honoring traditions and observing signs.
Types of information for treasure hunt
Treasures and treasures can be searched for with direct and indirect information. Direct information most reliably indicates the path to treasures, as it is based on knowledge of their location. For example, a descendant is looking for the treasure of his relative (grandfather, great-grandfather), knowing exactly or approximately its location. In almost all cases, the search is successful. Only the less expected value of the treasure can disappoint, especially if the material costs and efforts invested in its search exceed the amount found.
Indirect information based onassumptions, conjectures, intuitive flair that tells you where to look for the treasure. In this case, there is no guarantee of complete success, but there is a small chance of making yourself richer. Here everything depends on the luck and luck of the treasure hunter. Therefore, before diving into the exciting world of searching, at least a minimal knowledge of history is required.
Earth is the most reliable store for valuables
In Russia, which was always going through troubled times, suffering from unbearable oprichnina, oppression of officials, dispossession and barbarian raids, the best store of money was the "earthen bank". Everything that needed to be hidden, the man tried to bury. This was done without witnesses in an inconspicuous but memorable place. In a house with an earthen floor, valuables were most often buried under the stove. This had a double benefit: shelter from prying eyes and savings from frequent fires. Basements, sheds, and attics were also actively used. The treasure was buried under the thickest trees in the garden, on trade routes, along river banks, under fence posts and large stones. As a rule, professionals trying to find other people's treasures and treasures are guided by such information.
Napoleon's Gold - where to look?
Among the legends about large treasures, a special place is occupied by the story of the gold of Napoleon, who 200 years ago tried to conquer Moscow and take the stolen valuables out of it. For this, three convoys were organized, the last of which, consisting of 350 wagons, disappeared along the way, literally “evaporated”, despite reliable information about the route of movement and stops.
In winter Russia, the long journey with the loot for the French soldiers was very difficult.
Lack of food, death of horses, severe frosts and skirmishes with Russian partisans exhausted the enemy to the limit: the French were forced to get rid of everything superfluous that interfered with the road: guns, boxes with charges, things. Confidence in the delivery of the looted good in connection with the observed picture was minimized, so the Prince of Beauharnais, who was responsible for the valuables, decided to hide some of them, which was done. The impetus for making such a decision was the information that their own French soldiers, driven to despair and impotence, began to take away the loot and hide it along the way.
The robbery of the remnants of the convoy continued further when the French fell into the hands of the Russian troops. Here everyone was robbed and hid the stolen goods, so the Russian command decided to burn the carts with their contents. Since the carts burned down completely, leaving no trace, a version appeared that there was no gold and silver in them, and perhaps there were paintings and expensive things.
There are a sufficient number of versions about the disappearance of Napoleonic values. One of them suggests that the carts on which the treasures of Russia were taken away were just a red herring. And Napoleon took the stolen goods with him. There is also a version that the valuables were hidden at the first stage of the journey, when the French already had a clear idea of what difficulties they would expect on the road. Despite the many organizedexpeditions and excavations, this secret has remained unsolved.
Scythian gold
Russian treasures include in their list the Scythian gold left after the disappearance of the tribes of the same name and hidden somewhere between the Don and the Danube among the many burial mounds in which the dead used to be buried. Often, his weapons, armor and jewelry were placed in the grave with the deceased. Also, a mask of thin gold (foil) covered the face of the deceased, clothes or wooden figurines. By the way, there is discord between mounds and mounds, since their main group does not have gold burials inside. But the royal mounds, completely plundered back in the 19th century, differed in appearance from simple ones, which an experienced treasure hunter could easily identify.
Kolchak's treasure
To this day, there is an active search for the treasures of Kolchak, who in 1918 occupied Kazan and appropriated the main part of Russia's gold reserves (approximately 1,600 tons) stored here. This money gave enormous power to Kolchak - the proclaimed Supreme Ruler of the Russian state - and began to be spent on arming the White Guard. Some of them remained in Japan without being turned into weapons. According to various sources, investments were estimated at 150 tons of the precious metal. Approximately the same amount of gold was exported and placed on deposits in foreign banks. In the end, about 400 tons of embezzled precious metal remained in the country.
When the Whites were forced to retreat deep into Siberia, they divided the remnants of Russian we alth into three trains. The first one wasselected by the Czechoslovak corps and given to the Bolsheviks on the terms of an unhindered exit from Russian territory. The fate of the other two trains remains unknown. Presumably, the White Guards could throw the gold into an abandoned adit (approximately between Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk), trying to save it from the Bolsheviks.
The third echelon was divided into several parts, the owner of one of which was Ataman Semyonov, whose gold was later transferred to Japan. The rest can be safely called Kolchak's gold: its fate is also unknown and does not allow many treasure hunters to sleep peacefully. Some of the valuables were sent by river on the Permyak steamer and buried somewhere in the Surgut region. The second part (about 26 boxes) was unloaded from the train and also buried somewhere. The third share of the treasure was hidden near Krasnoyarsk in the crypt of a ruined church. The only surviving participant in these events, who knew where to find the treasure, was killed in 1960 while trying to cross the Russian-Turkish border. 150 kilograms of gold bars were found on him.
Genghis Khan Treasure
Finding the grave of Genghis Khan - the head of the largest of the world states, the ruler of millions of souls, the owner of untold we alth - is the cherished dream of treasure hunters all over the world.
Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Transbaikalia, Altai: the place of his burial was kept in the strictest confidence, and the grave itself was razed to the ground. About 2,000 thousand people took part in the funeral of the great ruler, but they were all literally chopped to pieces by 800 horse soldiers from the guards of Genghis Khan. These soldiers at the sameday were also killed. All this was done to keep the location of the ruler's grave secret. However, the matter was not limited to these bloodthirsty actions. So, the territory of the burial was cleaned from any unauthorized persons by specially created patrols. According to one version, a river bed was laid at the burial site to completely hide the traces. Expeditions visited the territory of Mongolia more than once in order to find the grave, and, consequently, the treasure of Genghis Khan, which, by the most modest standards, is worth millions of dollars. But all efforts were in vain.
Where did the pirates hide the treasures?
Pirate treasures stir the minds of treasure seekers, the theme of which is very often exploited in the film industry and literary works. Some of what is written and reproduced on the screen, of course, is fiction, but there are also real stories. The most prominent figure in the history of piracy was the Englishman Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard. This merciless and bloodthirsty captain managed to accumulate a huge amount of jewelry by attacking Spanish ships carrying gold from Mexico and South America. His pirate career lasted only two years and ended in an inglorious death in battle with the crew of an English ship. What happened to the jewels? Where to look for Blackbeard's treasure? Edward Teach said that he safely hid the treasure. But that's where the pirate did it, thousands of people who want to get rich still cannot understand. The hoard map suggests that it could have been made in the Caribbean, the Chesapeake Bay (East Coast of the United States), or caves in the Caymans.islands.
Pirate Henry Morgan - a native of Wales, like Edward Teach, was notorious. Some of the treasures he had hidden were discovered in 1997 in a cave near the Chagres River (Panama) by former American soldiers who were holding a treasure map bought from a market vendor. Treasures of Henry Morgan can be searched on the same Cayman Islands, located northwest of Jamaica, on the island of Pinos (65 km south of the coast of Cuba).
A few tips for a beginner treasure hunter
How to find treasures? As practice has shown, the best place to search is a village destroyed during the war or during the revolution.
To determine the location of such destroyed settlements, it is required to acquire topographic maps that have a large scale. Some of them should depict the area in a pre-war form, and some in a modern one. According to them, you can find out where and what structures were previously located (chapels, estates, churches). They are easy to find with a compass. In the search area, it is advisable to interview the local population for legends that are worth taking into account, but believing them unconditionally. After all, out of 100 exciting legends, about 10 will contain a grain of truth, and at best, only one of the stories will turn out to be real. That is, it is important to be able to filter information.
Of course, it is highly advisable to look for treasures with a metal detector by carefully examining the surface.
It is quite possible thatitems of interest can be found under the turf. Well, if the history of the object has more than one hundred years, during which a sufficient number of coins could have been lost there. Due to the large amount of metal trash, among which valuable items may be found, it is important that the metal detector has the ability to set the degree of rejection of trash, having sound and visual recognition.
Subtleties
In order to know how to find treasures, you need to understand how caches work. Household things (dishes, icons, clothes, samovars) people put in boxes and chests. They dug a hole near the house, where they hid them. The top of the hole was covered with stones or rubbish. Treasure hunters know that most often the burial chambers were made in yards, sheds, gardens and orchards, that is, where it is easy to veil fresh soil.
Wells, to which people entrusted their property in difficult moments of life, can also serve as keepers of all kinds of secrets. In them, in addition to all sorts of junk that was valuable to its owner, you can find staff documents, helmets, all kinds of equipment. This is especially applicable to places where the front line passed. A distinctive feature of the wells is the high safety of the items contained in it.
The attic is a convenient place to search for treasure
Lofts were convenient for hiding valuables. Attic bookmarks, which were more often resorted to by city residents, have several stages in their history:
- early 20th century, after the First Russian Revolution;
- revolutionary coup of 1917;
- 40s, when a decree was issued on the surrender of weapons by the population and increased responsibility for the propaganda of fascism, which meant the preservation of objects depicting fascist symbols.
Searching for treasures in the attic can be greatly facilitated by putting yourself in the place of a person who wants to hide his valuables. Roof beams, rafters, niches, depressions in walls and brickwork, any ventilation holes, inconspicuous hidden corners that are easy to remember visually - these are exactly the places that can please the seeker with something valuable. The use of metal detectors here will not be effective due to the large amount of construction debris and water pipes, which create a strong extraneous background. By the way, between the ceiling of the room and the attic floor there are always voids in which you can easily hide a large suitcase. True, the inspection of these places is complicated by the fact that the process of releasing and lifting the floor boards creates significant noise and takes a lot of time. Therefore, it is preferable to explore such voids in uninhabited houses.
Where to find the treasure besides the attic and the earth? Often, treasures were found in rivers and canals.
Over the years, a large number of coins and all sorts of objects have accumulated in the reservoirs, which now may have historical and artistic value. Many of these treasures were dumped into rivers to dispose of evidence, especially in troubled times. In the reservoirs you can find royal awards, sabers, daggers, icons, amulets. Retrieval of finds requires warmweather, a good tray and a shovel. The soil needs to be scooped up and washed.
Since fortune prefers persistent treasure hunters, the result will depend not only on luck, but also on their activity and enthusiasm.
