Although I don't believe in ESP, these stories are pretty good...I got them from losttreasure.com...There are a few stories...The post is long, but worth the read...
Treasure stories that include the phenomena of extrasensory perception (ESP) are not common. There are two fairly obvious reasons for this. First, if and when someone has a vision or premonition about a treasure location, the experience is frequently passed off as just wishful thinking. Second, if a search is made at the invisioned site and treasure is found, it usually isn’t reported. Regardless of whether treasure discoveries are the result of diligent research, blind luck or extrasensory perception, more often than not mum’s the word from the time of the discovery on. It is something of an unwritten code among the TH’ing fraternity.
But enough treasure has been found through some means beyond the ordinary five senses that a provocative case for ESP oriented research can be made.
In 1485 one John Chapman erected in the marketplace of Swaffham, England, a plaque commemorating his own good fortune and, indirectly, testifying to an early experience with ESP. It reads. “The tinker of Swaffham who did by a dream find treasure.” In the local church, Chapman had carved figures of himself, his wife and dog placed adjacent to the north aisle, which he also paid for, along with a prayer desk. All were offerings of gratitude for his mysterious discovery. His story bears reneating since it illustrates the peculiar manner in which ESP frequently manifests itself.
Chapman had a dream which included an explicit directive that he should go to London Bridge There, according to the dream, he would meet another man who would make him wealthy beyond his wildest imaginings. Chapman was a humble man of very modest means who seemingly had no chance of ever amassing wealth. But his strange dream occurred three times, so at last he decided to go.
Everyone who knew him surmised that he had slipped a cog somewhere, for he didn’t even have enough money to complete the journey. But he was convinced destiny awaited him at London Bridge, and even when his money ran out and he couldn’t purchase food or lodging, he resolutely continued.
Arriving at last, he began looking for the man who was to make him rich. Studying everyone who passed, be walked back and forth most of the day. The admonitions of his friends back home now appeared more prophetic than his curious dream. Finally admitting to himself that it was indeed a fool’s errand, Chapman resignedly turned to depart for home. It was then that a welldressed citizen approached him.
“I’ve observed you for some time,” the man said. “If you don’t mind my asking, why have you been walking about, doing little else but staring at every passerby?”
Chapman related that he had come as the result of a dream he’d had. The man waved a hand disparagingly. His opinion was that it would be ridiculous for Chapman to follow the directions of anything so unreal as a dream.
“Only the other night,” he went on, “I had a very vivid dream my self. And mind this. I was told to go to someplace called Swaffham where a fellow named John Chapman lived—a tinker, I seem to recall. In any event, this chap supposedly has a tree growing in his garden and under that tree, if I were to dig there, I should find a crockery urn full of gold. Can you imagine anything more absurd?”
Chapman was momentarily stunned at the obvious link between his dream and that of his chance acquaintance. Agreeing the story was indeed improbable, he excused himself and departed for home. On arriving, without pausing for food or rest, he went directly to his garden. He dug about a foot or so beneath the solitary tree before the shovel struck a stoneware pot. Besides being full of gold pieces, there was an inscription on the lid of the pot which read, “Dig deeper, under me doth lie one richer than I.” More digging revealed another pot twice the size of the first, and also packed to its brim with gold coins.
Another example of a fulfilled dream of treasure occurred in the British Isles about 100 years later. In Devonshire, a peasant man dreamed of four Roman Legionaires, mounted on horses and galloping along a country path. The four reined their horses suddenly, as if by prearrangement. Dismounting, each removed a leather sack which was tied to his saddle. After cautiously looking around, the foursome carried their bags to a spot between two prominent natural landmarks and buried them in a single hole. They then remounted and galloped away.
The peasant was struck by the dream’s vividness. It had seemed so clear that it was as though he had witnessed the event himself. He thought about it all day and suddenly realized the two landmarks in the dream were identical to a locality near his home. That evening his serfdom ended forever as he unearthed a pile of ancient Roman gold coins lying amid scraps of rotted leather at the precise spot indicated by his unusual dream.
Evidence of mankind’s seeming ability to perceive paranormally the location of hidden valuables is not limited to England, or to times long past. In California a remarkable case of finding money and lost artifacts apparently through information communicated by deceased spirits was the subject of exhaustive research by the noted authority Hamlin Garland in 1939.
Principally, it concerned an elderly lady, Mrs. Violet Parent. While recovering from a serious illness in 1914, Mrs. Parent had a vision of her dead mother. She was told during the vision that if she would check above the door in her small apartment she would find a gold coin.
“We considered this merely a dream,” her husband related, “but nevertheless we looked, and sure enough, over a door leading to the porch, we found a $10 gold piece.”
The Parents, who were very poor, were then convinced of the vision’s reality. But it’ proved to be only the beginning. Other spirits came to her from time to time, and some of these also directed her to sites where money could be found. Some of the money was in rusted tin cans buried in the ground, or in purses located among rocks or on the bottom of stream beds. They had apparently been buried or lost by miners some 50 or more years before.
Not all the money found by the Parents was old. Just as often she was directed to paper currency in streets or parks near their residence in Redlands. Mrs. Parent kept a diary of their finds dating from July, 1914, to December 4, 1924. It is a record to make any treasure buff green with envy.
A random sampling reads, “Sun., July 11, 1915—Mt. Rubidoux (Riverside), $14. silver; Sun., Dec. 2, 1917—Los Feliz hills, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, $28 in old leather sack; March 8, 1918—West Lake Park, Los Angeles, $25 currency; Sun., July 27. 1919—state highway beyond Universal City, found in swamp, small sack containing $45 assorted money; Sat.. March 5, 1921—Laguna Beach road in a ravine I find as told me in a vision $507 in a tin can: Wed., Jan. 25, 1922— Placenta Canyon, about four miles from Newhall, California, we find in gold money, loose in the sand and the wall of cliff, $90; Sun., April 15, 1923—found in eucalyptus grove about 3/4 mile out of Camerillo, small package holding AKE.EE.”
(Author’s noteFrom this date on, with few exceptions, Parent began coding the amounts of money he and his wife recovered. However it is a simple code substituting letters for corresponding numbers. Thus, in the preceding entry, they found the sum of $1,115.55.)
These excerpts from Mr. Parent’s meticulous diary record only a small portion of the many thousands of dollars the couple found. If we can accept as fact the claims that the directions to their finds came from departed spirits, the reason for it begs an answer.
Parent stated, “No one aids us but the dead souls who lead us where we find the buried money. They say ‘We do this to help you carry on your work.’” Their work, as it turned out, was recovering an enormous number of lost native crosses, metal tablets and other relics, some of which were later identified as having originated in Mexico and Central America. All the artifacts were recovered in California, but the search required nine continuous years and an accumulated distance of 3,000 miles traveled.
The primitive crosses originated sometime before Columbus discovered America, and the fact that they are shaped identical to Christian crucifixes is as perplexing as the manner by which they were found. Everyone interested in treasure, psychic phenomena or both will find Hamlin Garland’s book, “The Mystery of the Buried Crosses,” fascinating ‘reading.
The finding of hidden things through ESP is not restricted to dreams or visions. Some individuals seem endowed with an ability for psychic discovery by means of pendulums, bent wires and forked sticks. A wizard of the forked wand, Henry Gross, is probably the most renowned man in this field. He has found subterranean rivers in such unlikely places as the Sahara Desert. But Gross’ experiments in attempting to locate precious metal will be of greater interest here.
Gross learned that a government assayer had found gold ore which assayed at $20 per ton near Biddeford, Maine, sometime around the turn of the century. Since he lived near a stream which ran past the old discovery site, Gross wondered if by inserting a bit of gold in the tip of his dowsing rod he might find an unworked portion of the mine. Sure enough, the rod dipped toward a number of rocks in the stream bed.
These were sent to an assayer who returned a discouraging report stating that the samples contained no gold. Having already successfully used his dowsing rod in a similar manner to find buried gold watches and the like, the report confounded Gross. Confident his forked wand was not deceiving him, he studied the situation further and determined that the dowsing rod had indeed responded to gold, but not to any contained in the rocks, as would normally be expected. Instead, it had been attracted to almost imperceptable amounts in the water, which in turn was coming from the surveyor’s discovery.
To a man, dowsers agree it is not their forked sticks, pendulums or bent wires that bring about the phenomena of discovery. Instead, it is a kind of energy within their own being which comes “in tune” with another energy emanating from the object of their search. The instrument they hold only serves to indicate the location of the object, much as a compass needle points north. Thus, dowsing is simply another variation of extrasensory perception, though in this case channeled to the singular purpose of locating things that are not otherwise apparent.
There is another paranormal method of locating lost valuables which does not require dreams, professed spirit communications or dowsing rods. This is the puzzling ability of certain psychic individuals to sense where lost objects can be found. David Hoy is one such individual.
On July 20, 1973, Hoy was enlisted by Roy Volker, executive director of the treasure hunting firm Search Electronics, in an experiment to determine whether psychic powers could be used to locate sunken ships.
Hoy sequestered himself away in his compartment aboard the 42-foot search vessel Jennie D., in order to put his mind exclusively on the task at hand. The boat headed south from Miami into a thousand square mile area of island-dotted ocean known as the Cay Sal Bank. On the third day, Hoy emerged from his isolation to announce he had a psychic impression of a wrecked vessel. Volker ordered the ship’s magnetometer into use to confirm Hoy’s impression.
“When the sounding equipment located iron at the exact spot where Hoy had sensed a sunken ship, I was amazed,” Volker stated.
Below the surface his divers found piles of ballast stones, brass spikes, copper nails ‘and large quantities of cable—positive proof they were at the site of a ship which sank many decades ago. Then, as though to prove his find wasn’t the result of coincidence, Hoy scored again. Near Cay Sal Island, Hoy told a reporter, “I’ve had vivid impressions of the cries and moans of babies, women and men who lost their lives in a violent storm. It was a disturbing experience.”
The divers plunged overboard. They quickly discovered an ancient anchor which looked like it had been twisted during a severe storm. Then came piles of firebrick, spikes and nails amid the coral. A sampling of the items found were sent to Dr. Mendel Peterson of the Smithsonian Institution, who later identified them as relics from a ship that sank sometime during the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
Summing up the experiment, expedition leader Roy Volker stated, “David Hoy accomplished something that ordinarily takes months of searching and lots of costly equipment. I’m astounded.”
There is hardly a better word to describe these extrasensory discoveries. But how do you explain it? Librarv shelves sag with the weight of books attempting to cast light on the subject, while in laboratories and universities across the country researchers try to find a scientifically acceptable explanation. Since no consensus of opinion is yet available, we can only agree with Volker that it is indeed astounding.
But there is one point on which all authorities agree, and it is that everyone more or less has ESP ability. I advise anyone who has a dream or premonition about a buried cache of valuables to go check it out immediately. Otherwise some guy fooling around with a metal detector iust might beat you to it— Gerry Erberich
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