13 Shocking things found in Backyard

As a kid, the backyard was the place where your wildest fantasies took place. You could play out there with your siblings, play with your toys, or just have an imagination-fest and roll around with nothing but your thoughts. I always used to play pirates with my sister in our backyard, and we would make people walk the plank, set sail on the high seas, and dig for treasure — but we would never have expected to actually find anything.

#1 14-16 million years old A fossilized whale was found in a man's backyard

#2 Someone found this WWII button in their yard.

#3 This man will have a lot of yard work to do. He found a rare 8.2-pound gold nugget in his California yard. The piece sold for $460,000. Geologists are confident there is more gold on the property.

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#4 A couple found eight cans filled with gold coins from the 1890s on their property in Sierra Nevada, California. The total worth was $10 million dollars.

#5 A guy in Austria found a 650-year-old treasure that included pearls, gold, and rings.

#6  A family found a Ferrari buried in their yard.

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#7 Two sisters found ornamental glass in their backyard from the early days of America.

#8 A little girl found a fossilized rock in her backyard. Appropriately, she gave it to her mom for Christmas. 

#9 A man wanting to dig tree stumps got the scare of his life in the Czech Republic. Dozens of hand grenades and explosives from WWII were hidden in his yard.

#10 A man who lives in a house built in the 1700s found this plate.

#11 A man in the United Kingdom found a pliosaur bone while building a fence in his home. The 250 million fossil is not native to England. 

#12 While cleaning her yard, a woman found a megalodon tooth. The tooth belongs to the largest shark to have ever swam our oceans. The largest predator lived from around 28 to 1.6 million years ago.

 

#13 A bomb shelter was found in a family’s backyard in Wisconsin.