Hunting your home inside and out?

[Mama2Twins]

Common in 1950s?

Would it be common to hide things back in the 50s? Or even the 60s?
A navy captain owned the home. What was common navy men and family to do while husbands went to war? Common hiding tricks for old war vets?

 

[Pa Hunter]

hehe i work in old homes every day here in pay you never know what you will find in the attic craw space the basement rafters above duct work or boards nailed to rafters in banisters pocket doors or even old key holes iv found jewlry coins one time even found a 1943 Tommy Gun with a fully loaded 50 round clip. you just never know.

 

[Mama2Twins]

I found some glass shards and a unique bottle top around an old tree this past weekend and am wondering if I might be onto something. If it is a cache, is it common for the coins to be deeper? Or spread out some? I will clean up what I found and attempt to post a pic. I was told the old lady used to look out that window everyday all day long staring in that area.

 

[Mike1961]

one time even found a 1943 Tommy Gun with a fully loaded 50 round clip. you just never know.

You hang onto that baby or rather not say????

 

[ewemule]

My first year led me under the house...

Had the jones and figured why not try. It's hands and knees, dusty, smells funny and was rather unpleasant. I did find some pennies and nails.
I don't think I'll do it again any time soon.
Sounds like you have an interesting piece of property. Good luck.
Marty

 

[Mama2Twins]

Found

I found more whaties outside and what I think is an error coin and some things I can't identify. I'm going to try a electrolysis machine that I am making today. First time making one!

 

[Rivgum]

I would check the crawl space under the house. My grandfather buried $16,000 under his house in 100 bills. He wrapped the bills in tin foil, then fiberglass insulation and stuck the wad in a craftsman tool box. My grandmother told us that he buried it under the house cause he didnt believe in the banks. The only thing out of place under the house was a 6" piece of PVC pipe sticking out in the dirt, and sure enough about 6" down we hit the metal tool box. We found the money at a good time because it was mostly rotted out from the moisture in the dirt. Luckily the bank exchanged the half destroyed bills for new currency. GL and HH

 

[Mama2Twins]

Had the jones and figured why not try. It's hands and knees, dusty, smells funny and was rather unpleasant. I did find some pennies and nails.
I don't think I'll do it again any time soon.
Sounds like you have an interesting piece of property. Good luck.
Marty

Too funny! The things we do when the weather gets colder . That is great

 

[Mama2Twins]

I would check the crawl space under the house. My grandfather buried $16,000 under his house in 100 bills. He wrapped the bills in tin foil, then fiberglass insulation and stuck the wad in a craftsman tool box. My grandmother told us that he buried it under the house cause he didnt believe in the banks. The only thing out of place under the house was a 6" piece of PVC pipe sticking out in the dirt, and sure enough about 6" down we hit the metal tool box. We found the money at a good time because it was mostly rotted out from the moisture in the dirt. Luckily the bank exchanged the half destroyed bills for new currency. GL and HH

No crawl space here, basement only. Interesting about the pipe. I see one that seems out of place in the back yard.

 

[Mama2Twins]

okay, here I go trying to post my first photo.... found this yesterday on side of yard (first photo) added a few extras for you

 

[KWA]

i do had a neighbor that has a cash only business and he told me that he buried tens of thousands of dollars in his backyard in coffee cans to hide from his wife.
they divorced 6 years ago and i know where he is living now.....hmmmm .
also it is correct that a lot of pre 1950 people did bury their money especially in small towns or isolated areas as banks were not that common in those locations especiallyin the 20's and 30's.
GL2U

 

[Mama2Twins]

i do had a neighbor that has a cash only business and he told me that he buried tens of thousands of dollars in his backyard in coffee cans to hide from his wife.
they divorced 6 years ago and i know where he is living now.....hmmmm .
also it is correct that a lot of pre 1950 people did bury their money especially in small towns or isolated areas as banks were not that common in those locations especiallyin the 20's and 30's.
GL2U

Orchards?

 

[hillbillydigger]

Get a rubber mallet and tap around on the floors to look for hollow space. It used to be quite common to have false floors to hide things in. Also go down in basement and look for stashes in beams overhead, in nooks and crannies, even inside no longer working furnaces and under porches. Growing up we lived in a house that had been rebuilt over another foundation so there was a fireplace underneath the house and there was stuff hid inside the fireplace. For fireplaces that have vents in the mantle, remove the vent cover and look for money. Another popular site is behind the crawl space door or attic access panel in wall.

Other things to be aware of- look for old nails in the bottom limb of an old tree as the nail was used to mark the spot of buried caches. Out in the country people used to nail tin cans upside down on their fence posts and sometimes they rolled paper money up inside those cans.(remember a farmer telling me that when I was a kid) Inside vases or books is another hiding place. One of the best places to find old coins is on old houses that have the crawl under porches. Many coins slip through the cracks in porch for years, but people are too lazy to crawl down there and retrieve it. The porch protects from weather, so the coins won't be very deep.

 

[gunwolf]

Wow! Thank you for all of the input. If I find that buried jar of money I will let you know...

when I was about 10(1975ish) I stole my brothers jar of coins and buried them in the dirt underneath our sandbox next to a maple tree.

I MD'd around that whole tree this past summer, I found the mason jar lid and some broken glass..one buffalo nickel and a few 1960's pennies. the coins were under huge tree roots and I suspect that the rest of the coins from the quart size jar were pushed deep or spread way out from the original location. I am going to re scan that area in the spring with my new E-trac and hope I can find some more coins. I don't think there was any silver in the jar, but who knows.

 

[Mama2Twins]

Get a rubber mallet and tap around on the floors to look for hollow space. It used to be quite common to have false floors to hide things in. Also go down in basement and look for stashes in beams overhead, in nooks and crannies, even inside no longer working furnaces and under porches. Growing up we lived in a house that had been rebuilt over another foundation so there was a fireplace underneath the house and there was stuff hid inside the fireplace. For fireplaces that have vents in the mantle, remove the vent cover and look for money. Another popular site is behind the crawl space door or attic access panel in wall.

Other things to be aware of- look for old nails in the bottom limb of an old tree as the nail was used to mark the spot of buried caches. Out in the country people used to nail tin cans upside down on their fence posts and sometimes they rolled paper money up inside those cans.(remember a farmer telling me that when I was a kid) Inside vases or books is another hiding place. One of the best places to find old coins is on old houses that have the crawl under porches. Many coins slip through the cracks in porch for years, but people are too lazy to crawl down there and retrieve it. The porch protects from weather, so the coins won't be very deep.

Love the info! Thank you.

 

[Mama2Twins]

when I was about 10(1975ish) I stole my brothers jar of coins and buried them in the dirt underneath our sandbox next to a maple tree.

I MD'd around that whole tree this past summer, I found the mason jar lid and some broken glass..one buffalo nickel and a few 1960's pennies. the coins were under huge tree roots and I suspect that the rest of the coins from the quart size jar were pushed deep or spread way out from the original location. I am going to re scan that area in the spring with my new E-trac and hope I can find some more coins. I don't think there was any silver in the jar, but who knows.

That is too cool. Congrats!
When I find broken glass I get excited thinking it may be a cache

 

[KWA]

hey wolf, gonna give those coins back to your brother?
gl2u

 

[DualFieldBandit]

Mama2Twins, I've done well at finding stashes in the old barns or where they once stood. The old timers would bury there stashes in the horse stalls. No one would be able to tell if they did buried something in a stall because the horses keep the ground torn up plus no one would see them. Then another place I've found a stash was in a stone wall. Not the thin kind but those ones that are three feet thick. Then I've found small coin stashes just outside of the kitchen window in the flower garden or patch. If someone was out side working in the garden it wouldn't bring attention to them. The Garrett AT-Pro would be a very good detector for checking the walls and floors of a house. I also have a Garrett Grand Master Hunter CXIII with the two box unit just for locating stashes in old cellar holes. The best thing about the CXIII for stash hunting is it only picks up larger objects and doesn't go off on nail and small iron bits. Hope this helps. HH

 

[Mama2Twins]

Mama2Twins, I've done well at finding stashes in the old barns or where they once stood. The old timers would bury there stashes in the horse stalls. No one would be able to tell if they did buried something in a stall because the horses keep the ground torn up plus no one would see them. Then another place I've found a stash was in a stone wall. Not the thin kind but those ones that are three feet thick. Then I've found small coin stashes just outside of the kitchen window in the flower garden or patch. If someone was out side working in the garden it wouldn't bring attention to them. The Garrett AT-Pro would be a very good detector for checking the walls and floors of a house. I also have a Garrett Grand Master Hunter CXIII with the two box unit just for locating stashes in old cellar holes. The best thing about the CXIII for stash hunting is it only picks up larger objects and doesn't go off on nail and small iron bits. Hope this helps. HH

My rockwall I attempted eyeball and something growled at me, it looked like a bobcat, kidding! Thanks for the tips, much appreciated

 

[Perquimans]

Here are a few of my thoughts:

1. If it was something that a women was hiding - then go look out the kitchen window for clues-she would probably want to be able to see where she hid the loot!

2. If a man hid it --then look out the bedroom window- he would have wanted to keep an eye on the loot to make sure all was well...

3. If there is an old car on the property --check the gas tank...

4. Any type of vent inside the house needs to be checked.

5. Check fence posts--if one is higher than the rest--check it.

6. I’ve told too may of my secrets...

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