65. Couple Discovers $10M of Gold Coins Buried In Yard
Location: Northern California (USA)
Year Found: 2014.
Est. Value: $10 million*
The couple were walking their dog 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 was in the thousands but many of the pieces in mint condition were so rare, their face value was much higher.
This couple, like the leprechaun featured on the Lucky Charms box cover, found gold at the end the rainbow. They chose to remain anonymous because they didn’t want people with metal detectors to invade their home.
66. Cursed bag of cash found in Backyard
Location: Johnsburg, Illinois
Discovered Year: 2011
Est. Value: $150,000*
Wayne Sabaj had been jobless for two years when he discovered in his backyard a nylon bag containing $150,000. Was the bag a blessing, or a curse for Wayne Sabaj? Sabaj handed it to the police who said that if the money was not claimed by the end 2012, he would get it back.
Dolores Johnson was Sabaj’s neighbor. She claimed to have thrown out the money because it had been “cursed”. Dolores Johnson died not long after she told the police of the curse. Sabaj died next, followed by the death of his father. Although his lawyer claimed there was no suspicion of foul play in his death conspiracy theorists continued to claim that the curse of the Nylon Money Bag is what ultimately killed him and two others. Maybe we’ll see a Hulu documentaire one day tracing back the bag to its horrible origins.
