65. Couple Discovers Gold Coins Worth $10 Million Buried in Yard
Northern California (USA)
Discovered Year: 2014.
Est. Value: $10 million*
The couple were walking their dogs in Gold Country when they made an incredible discovery. Nearly 1,500 gold pieces were buried under an old tree. The face value of these coins is in the thousands but many pieces are so rare and mint that they have a much higher value.
This couple, like the leprechaun featured on the lucky charms box cover, found gold at the end a rainbow. They chose to stay anonymous because they didn’t want people with metal detectors to invade their home.
66. Find a Cursed Money Bag in the Backyard
Location: Johnsburg, Illinois
Discovered Year: 2011.
Est. Value: $150,000*
Wayne Sabaj had been jobless for over two years when he discovered the nylon bag in his back yard. Was the bag really a gift or curse? Sabaj handed it to the police who said that the bag would be returned to him if nobody claimed it by December 2012.
Dolores Johnson was Sabaj’s next-door neighbor. She claimed to have thrown out the money because she believed it had been “cursed”. Dolores Johnson died not long after she told the police that the cash was cursed. Sabaj died next, then his father. Although his lawyer claimed there was no suspicion of foul play in Sabaj’s death, conspiracy theorists continued to claim that the curse of the Nylon Money Bag is what ultimately killed him and two others. Maybe we will see a Hulu documentaire one day tracing back the bag’s wretched history.
