re: What’s the coolest thing you’ve found?

I found a $100 Dicks Gift Card by front door of Target on Seigen. The most unbelievable thing about it was that my next stop that day was to buy my son a Kayak at Dicks

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A dead body at the park.

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Need a little more info on this.

Oh man. Do you have a picture?

I've dug lots of Civil War artifacts that are very cool. But the most mind blowing finds I dug were silver medieval hammered coins last year in England. They ranged in age from 600 to 800 years. Also found a Saxon pin head that was between 1,000 to 1,600 years old.

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I found in a collapsed log cabin in a high country mining ghost town in CO. It had long, hand made iron nails keeping it together. Probably from circa 1860’s gold rush in CO.

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Those nails were so valuable back then that you would burn down the cabin for its nails when relocating.

All the nails were by a blacksmith one at a time. eta:maybe not in 1860's but in the olden days.

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A dead body at the park. Need a little more info on this.

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It was the last day of school and we had a half day. It was a gorgeous day so we went to the park to play basketball. There was a car with a person who was passed out at the wheel from drinking too much. Or so we thought. My friends dared me to go knock on the window to wake them up. When I raised my hand, the body twitched and blood rained down from this ladies hair. This was before cellphones so we drove a few miles to the police station to report. Which they didn’t believe us. Then once they discovered her they asked us to fill out reports. Another friend of mine knew her and said she lived another week before passing away. I’ll never forget that little shiver with the blood dripping

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2 days after the Great Gulf Coast Winter Storm of 2025, the roads weren't sketchy anymore, and we went to Navy Point Park. We took a short-cut through a residential street, and as I was driving I noticed a pair of what looked like Ray Ban Wayfarers in the middle of the road. I pulled over, and went over to them, and sure enough they were polarized Ray Ban Wayfarers in great condition. $200+ glasses. Helluva ground score.

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I had a couple of contracts in New Orleans that allowed me access wherever I needed before, during and after Katrina. I was in the ninth ward and made a turn onto a street and about half way down the block a house was sitting in the middle of the road. In front of that house was a 12” tall cast bronze replica of Rodin The Thinker sitting dead in the middle of the road facing me. I got out and about 20’ from it was his sculpture of Adam. I picked both up and put in my truck and left a note on the door with what I found and how to contact me. I turned around and made the block and six blocks up in the road I found Rodin Despair sculpture. I knew The Thinker and Despair because they are similar but I had to search to find the other was Adam.

That was about 3rd week of September. The following January I got a call from a man in Toronto who told me it was his mothers house and she had evacuated to Chicago to a siblings before the storm and they took her back to look at it and found my note. She died just after Christmas but they had all said after the holidays they were going to call me and tell me the story then she just died unexpectedly.

She and his father raised 5 kids in the house and both were maintenance workers at Charity Hospital. All 5 became engineers and had moved away but she wouldn’t leave. He said they saved their money and would go to Europe every 3 years because they both loved art and museums and that she had brought the sculptures back at some point. They wanted me to keep them and just send a picture to them of where I had them at my house.

I told them how I found him how I found them and we both were amazed at how the story ended.

I sent the pictures, he sent me a thank you note as did a brother in Walla Walla, Washington.

I have them in my house today and have a great story to tell about them when people see them and ask.

That’s the coolest thing I’ve found.

More weird/unexplainable than cool, but my love for my nephew. I never knew anything like this before, never asked for it and never necessarily wanted it, but when I held him for the first time all I could think about is how much I wanted to murder anyone who even came close to hurting him, however big or small the actual incident was.

Obviously I've gotten over that and I understand that he's going to have a normal human experience, but that's one of the first times biology has completely taken me by surprise. It was just so different from my normal personality I didn't expect it

Back in the 1970s I found a couple Civil War era marbles at the Chalmette Battlefield.

ETA: Looked just like this one…

Tough to say. Two bullets welded together perpendicular to each other was pretty cool