I'm brushing up on my real treasure hunting skills after reading Rosie Priddy's amazing new book: "Bud Hardcastle: The Truth Tracker". Last night, I began reading "Follow the Signs: A Treasure Hunter's Handbook" (1997) by Dayne Chastain. This book is humorous but it also has some very important treasure signs and true treasure stories in it. I made note of the following story because it provides a good tip to locating hidden treasure caches. This one caught my attention
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Pages 27 & 28 - "...Hog pens are a favorite place for old farmers to hide their treasure, hog pens and fence posts.
Another hog pen north of Wewoka, Oklahoma proved more profitable. Jett had a friend from Wewoka who ran a general store. This friend told Jett about a hog farmer who, like the other one, would sometimes find coins when he went out to feed his pigs. These coins, however, were old silver dollars.
Jett and his friend went out and, with the farmer's permission, ran the metal detector around the hog pen. The land was sloping at about a thirty degree angle. At the higher end of the pen, Jett found and dug up a big bean post full of antique silver dollars.
They figured the pot had gotten tilted somehow and the silver dollars were just washing down into the pen a few at a time from the broken pot. Jett and his friend split the treasure with the delighted old farmer and went their separate ways."
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This is one reason I love to hunt around old farmsteads.
- Jay Longley, President, Central Texas Treasure Club
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