Showing posts with label wedding band. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding band. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

8/4/15 Report - Lost Wedding Band. Mel and Deo Fisher Collection Auction. Intuition and Forms Of Paranormal Perception. Balloons Coming Home.


Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesrport.blogspot.com.

One of Two Possible Locations of Wedding Band Lost In Ocean.
A man's yellow gold wedding band engraved "Amélie & Pierre" was lost in the ocean at either Palm Beach or Fort Lauderdale Aug. 2.  It wasn't noticed missing until he was in the water at Fort Lauderdale but was in the ocean at Palm Beach in front of Peruvian Ave. (shown above) earlier.

They don't know exactly where they were in Fort Lauderdale at the time.

Check for the engraving, which will provide a good ID.

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 To view the online auction of the Mel and Deo Fisher Collection here is the link. 


http://www.invaluable.com/catalog/searchLots.cfm?scp=c&catalogRef=LCOZ5LM9LU



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Here is an interesting story.  Not metal detecting, but I thought it was interesting anyhow.


An Oklahoma widow and her daughter who spent their first Father's Day without dad this year released balloons and a message at his grave site — and may have gotten a "message" back.
The pair was stunned when — after leaving the cemetery, running a few errands, and driving 25 mile back home — the balloon's note showed up at their house...

Once home, Saige went downhill from their house to the pasture where she and her father worked together and spotted her message with the balloons — only a few hundred feet from the house....

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/balloon-released-fathers-grave-flew-25-miles-familys-home-n402721

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The following remotely relates to the above story.


Nearly half of the adults in the United States believe in the existence of ESP, which includes telepathy (direct knowledge of another person's thoughts), clairvoyance (direct knowledge of remote events), and precognition (direct knowledge of the future). People commonly report unexplained knowledge of a loved one's death or a telephone caller's identity, for example, and attribute this knowledge to paranormal mental processing.

I've had those times, and I've sure many of you have too, when it seemed that a find was more than coincidental.


One time, for example, I was at work and only had a about an hour before another appointment, but kept feeling that I should go detecting at a particular location.   But I didn't have hardly any time.
I finally decided I would run down to the beach.  By the time I got to the beach and in the water, I had less than a half hour to hunt.  Well, I went in and in just a few minutes had a diamond ring with over nine carats of diamonds - seven diamonds, each over one carat.  I took my find and quickly left.

Normally I wouldn't have gone when I had so little time.  If traffic had been bad, I would have had no time.  But I felt like I should go.  It kept nagging me, and it paid off with an unusually good quick find.

I don't know if it was just coincidence, intuition, or something else.   I can't say with confidence that it was anything other than coincidence.

I do a lot of analysis.  I try to figure things out and make good calculated decisions.  You know that if you've been reading this blog very long.   Nonetheless,  I will follow my feelings at times regardless of anything else.  I doesn't pay off a lot.  I tend to do a lot better with a more analytical calculated approach.

One recent study by Harvard University claimed that by studying brain functions they found no experimental evidence for telepathy, clairvoyance or precognition.  Other books on similar things by scientists with good credentials indicates that there are conditions for such things and not all people have the same abilities. 

I find the Harvard study woefully inadequate anyway.   They were looking for electrochemical brain responses.  That is how normal perception works, but they were supposedly investigating "Extra-sensory" or paranormal perception.  Why would you expect paranormal perception to work just like normal perception.  If it did, it wouldn't be paranormal. 

I am not convinced either way and think alternative methods of perception may be possible, but I have no convincing evidence of them.  

Intuition could be nothing more than the assimilation of a lot of knowledge that isn't completely consciously clear at the time.  As tasks become automatic, you don't have to always be aware of each and every part of the task.   For example, you don't have think about putting one foot in front of the other and transferring your weight when you walk.  After you learn to walk, it becomes automatic.

Anyhow, I find good analysis and calculated decisions much more consistently productive, but I'm not ready to deny or ignore all of the subtle notions and feelings that I get.  As remarkable and stunning as intuitive successes might seem, they are much too rare.

I'd like to hear your stories of finds made through unusual coincidence, dowsing, intuition, ESP or any of those kinds of things.

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On the Treasure Coast we still have the one and two foot surf.  Expect the same for several days.  We are having some decent size tides.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

Saturday, March 1, 2014

3/1/14 Report - DeSoto's Pigs, Parade of Generations, Unintended Consequences and Returned Ring


Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.



Want to know what to do next weekend?  If you want to have a blast, try the Treasure Coast Archaeological Society Club hunt on March 8 in Wabasso.




DeSoto landed on the west coast of Florida in 1539 having never experienced much other than success before that.  He was rich and famous and ready for a new conquest, but after three years in Florida he died after losing his entire fortune and reputation.

He landed on what would become the Sunshine State with nine ships and six hundred men.  What remained of DeSoto's possessions when he died 77 years before the Mayflower landed was two slaves, three horses, and seven hundred pigs.  The pigs were auctioned to the few survivors of the expedition who promised to pay with the gold they would find in Florida.

Not too long ago I awoke one morning to find my yard and my neighbor's yards randomly plowed up.  The villain, feral hogs.

One newspaper headline read, 500,000 Feral Hogs Causing Problems in Florida. After 500 years in the wild the feral hogs have migrated into at least 35 states and as far north as Canada.

I'm now of the stage of life when many of my old friends are gone, and of course my grandparents and one of my parents, and many of the people that I've known along the way have also departed.  Many departed young and well before their time.  But one of the things that you can't appreciate until you reach that time of life is the parade of generations that steps onto and then after a short time depart the stage of history.

For those of you who like to find old things, let me suggest that it is more about the people than the things.  You might get a lot more out of an old find if you stop and think how it got there, who it was that used it, what they did, and even how they might have affected you.  Let your imagination run.  It might be more accurate than you think.

I never would have guessed how DeSoto might have affected my front yard in the 21st Century.  And we don't usually think about how a small thoughtless word or deed might have some unintended consequence on someone somewhere today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year or even centuries later.

We do many things intending to have some direct demonstrable impace, maybe on our children, spouse friend or neighbor, often without any apparent result.   It might be the unintended consequences though, that range far and wide, spreading an unrecognized or unknown effect far greater than anything we ever imagined.  It might be any of our little unconsidered words or deeds that turns out to be unimaginably important.


A unique titanium polka dot wedding band was lost on a Florida beach and found and returned nine months later.  Here is the link for the video and article.

http://www.wptv.com/news/state/les-grigsby-gets-unique-titanium-wedding-ring-back-9-months-after-losing-it-at-venice-beach

Thanks to Jorge Y. for submitting the link.


As news of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine spread Friday the price of precious metals dropped.  I was surprised that the value of the dollar also dropped Friday.  However, both the price of precious metals and the Dow Jones Industrial Average began to trend up at the end of the trading day.  It is hard to figure out, but I'd be surprised if gold didn't increase in price as the result of the conflict, but I often don't get it right.


On the Treasure Coast the tides are getting pretty big.  You'll see some nice low tides and high high tides.

For Monday, up to a five foot surf is predicted.  That isn't near the nine foot surf that was predicted earlier but might do a little cutting.  The tides might help, but I'm not too hopeful because the wind is expected to be a little from the west by then and the surf will not quite be in the range of what usually does the job for us.

People sometimes ask me how they can support the blog.  The only thing that I suggest is spreading the word and send in photo and reports, links, finds, interests, comments and questions.

I still remember when I posted some of my first posts.  I didn't expect more than a half dozen readers but was surprised by how quickly people found the blog and became involved.  I don't do anything to publicize the blog myself, so it must be due to readers spreading the word. 

If you haven't noticed the hit counter shows well over 700,000 hits now.

It makes it much easier for me to do this blog when I hear from readers.

Thanks to all who contribute.


Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net