Temerity Magazine Volume 1 Issue 1 January 2011 by Theodore Media LLC

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~ Index ~ Pg. 6 ~ Temerity, the first word ~ by Chad T. Everson Pg. 8 ~ Buffalo Nickel Classified ~by Chad T. Everson Pg. 9 ~ TejasDigger Interview ~by TejasDigger & Chad T. Everson Pg. 15 ~ Backyard Temerity Blog ~ by Chad T. Everson Pg. 20 ~ This is My Story…~ by JustAnotherPullTab Pg. 19 ~ JackSquatDigger‟s Arrow Head Collection ~ by JackSquatDigger & Chad T. Everson Pg. 28 ~ Grizzly Relic & Treasure Forum ~by Chad T. Everson Pg. 30 ~ Grizzly Book Reviews ~ Chad T. Everson Pg. 32 ~ MichaelSwan66 Interview ~ by Chad T. Everson & MichaelSwan66 Pg. 40 ~ In 2011, I am Traveling the Nation! ~ by Chad T. Everson Pg. 44~ The Phoenix Button “Je Renais De Mes Cendres” ~ “I Am Reborn From My Own Ashes” ~ By Recovering Relics Pg. 47 ~ Grizzly Chat ~ by Chad T. Everson Pg. 48 ~ Manufacturer Gangland ~ Chad T. Everson Pg. 50 ~ Hey I‟m just the RedNeck Picker ~ TheRedNeckPicker Pg. 57 ~ How it all Began… ~ by RecoveringRelics Pg. 60 ~ Operation Lost Gravesites ~ Chad T. Everson, Brenda Marble & Adela Morris Pg. 67 ~ Grave Dowsing by Brenda Marble Pg. 76 ~ Temerity Magazine Puzzles for Kids of All Ages!

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I would like to welcome you to the first issue of Temerity Magazine. This online magazine is now your home for the Grizzly Relic & Treasure you seek and find in your very own Grizzly Backyards. I hope you take the leap of faith and submit your story to this effort as it can only be complete when all those great stories of the Pioneer Spirit seeking the American Dream are told. It is your story that I cherish the most! In this magazine I pray you are inspired to get Grizzly with these great hobbies we all enjoy. I pray you get as excited as I am to share these hobbies and passions for the past we (Continued on page 7)

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dig up with our children and assure our future generations. Our time here is short, yet the relics we leave behind tell a story that must to be told and retold. Every target that falls under our coil has a couple hundred stories that could be shared. My goal is to inspire you to share at least one of these stories with the world here in Temerity Magazine or on our Backyard Temerity Blog. I have dedicated my life to inspiring others to conquer their fears, learn from the past to inform our present and lead us into a better tomorrow. Theodore Media LLC is my business where all these great products come together to inspire and ignite imaginations across the world. Join me here in Temerity Magazine, Backyard Temerity Blog, Grizzly Relic & Treasure Forums and live Chat to do the same. There is wisdom that we are trying to find and recover from past generations. It is in their stories of hardship and adversity that they kept their faith and their Pioneer Spirit won the day. Not every one that strives for that American Dream obtains it. Yet, it is in their stories that we find Temerity. Do you have the Temerity to dig up the past, learn from it, let it inform your decisions today so that a brighter future for us all will come tomorrow? I know you do, Act on your Temerity today! Chad T. Everson President Theodore Media LLC

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parents’ stories. The stories that were accomplished by acting with temerity embodying the pioneer spirit that built this great nation. The stories that cried out to obtain the American dream.

Americans are struggling right now, not only in keeping a roof over their heads, but many are just lost in despair. They are looking for anyone to provide them direction.

dug. Remember, you are an American, and you have the freedom to succeed or the freedom to fail. If you do nothing, you will fail. If you get Grizzly, you have the opI strongly recommend the portunity to succeed and financial ministry of Dave find the American Dream! Ramsey. Michelle and I You can do it. I believe in found Dave Ramsey a few my fellow Americans who years ago. There is no way I have invested in providI could do what I am doing a means that anyone ing today without his wis- can as Dave Ramsey says, dom.

“sell anything that is not nailed down!”

It is very important to get Grizzly and take on your I have a dream of travelfinancial predicament ing this nation in 2011 head on no matter how and telling your stories, deep of a hole has been your parents’ and grand-

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You and I have that opportunity to find our own American Dream! I pray I just made both of our chances to obtain the American Dream more attainable. I am launching... BuffaloNickelClassifieds.com

You now have an affordable site that you can sell and reach the customer base I have built since July 27, 2007. Get Grizzly with it! Your family , America, and I need you to get Grizzly and believe in yourself and your American Dream! I want to tell your story. Your story of Temerity!

1. DJ (TejasDigger) can Raynee is 7 months. you tell our Temerity I've lived in North Magazine Readers about Texas my whole life. yourself and your first introduction into metal detecting?

2. When did you get started into metal detecting and what was it that drove you to jump into this hobby with both feet?

I've been married to my wife, Mary for six years.

When I was a kid I watched the movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gooniesâ&#x20AC;? a thousand times. I'd always dreamed of finding treasure and metal detecting was a way

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My first silver coin was a 1911d barber dime and my momâ&#x20AC;&#x;s wearing it around her neck! I gave it to her for her birthday.

for me to actually do it. I didn't start until a year and a half ago and have been addicted to it since.

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get grizzly metal detecting?

Go for it! Just save some silver coins and gold jewelry for me, lol. 5. What have you learned in your first year metal detecting?

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won't find them on a park that was established in 2005. Do research and find out what parks you need to hunt and which ones to stay away from. Old schools are also good for finding old coins as well as old home sites. Stay away from areas with a lot of fill in dirt. Old coins can be in fill dirt, but I don't waste my time with it. The original soil has produced the best for January 2011

me. Also, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x;re looking for gold be ready to dig just about every signal and be patient.

6. What are some of the challenges you faced in your first year?

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figure out my detecthe old coins. Again, I tor and areas to hunt just had to be patient. 7. How did you overcome these challenges?

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ing never changes.

9. If you had one oppor8. What is it about metal tunity to share a nugget detecting that drives you of wisdom to someone to keep digging targets? considering joining us in this great hobby, what would that be?

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missing out on a wonderful hobby. Start out with a simple machine like an Ace 250. If you enjoy it the way I do you'll be upgrading soon, but if you don't have the patience for this hobby you will have saved yourself some money. The Ace 250 has been a proven machine and it is simple to run for beginners.

1926 Peace silver dollar 1842 Seated dime 1925 Standing Liberty quarter 1898 Barber quarter 1909 Barber quarter 1968 Kennedy half (40% silver) 1897 V-Nickel Antique sterling Tea Infuser

Can I keep going?

10. What is your favorite finds of 2010?

11. In 2011 what are your goals for your second season getting grizzly with metal detecting?

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I mainly wanted to show my finds, subfind more gold rings. scribe to other chanI'll have to sacrifice nels and watch and some of my silver comment on other coins to do it and dig videos. more trash signals. If you have not (Continued from page 13)

12. Now you have really done a great job on YouTube.com documenting your adventures metal detecting. Can you tell our readers about your YouTube channel and your approach to sharing your passion for this hobby with the world?

already, go subscribe to my channel!

TejasDigger

I started watching on YouTube.com YuleIn our next issue of lah and others toTemerity Magazine wards the end of 2009 TejasDigger and decided I wanted to post videos of my will share His finds as well. I still Arrow Head get a little nervous Collection! when I talk on camera and wonder if I Please Don't Miss it! should post the video. Volume 1 Issue 1

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Theodore Media has pioneered the Lift Up Thy Neighbor strategy online since the first blog was launched back in July 27, 2007. Since that day we have offered our fellow Americans great opportunities to launch their careers and extend their own online efforts. The same can be said for our latest offering: Backyard Temerity Blog

extending their own effort into my 169,570 first order Twitter.com Followers, can! Please contact me: TeddyBear@TheodoreMedia.com Although the blog is relatively new, it is hosted under TheodoreMedia.com and enjoys the traffic of the larger site and Google ranking to boot! Why would I grant such enormous reach to anyone and not charge them, you ask?

Backyard Temerity Blog is a blog that extends these sites and interest Well, I have always known that it is areas of Grizzly Relic & Treasure easier to accomplish goals when you Hunting. surround yourself with the best and  GrizzlyRelic.com brightest. Joining my effort can give an individual almost instant success in  GrizzlyBackyard.com reaching more people in one post  TemerityMagazine.com than alone, they could accomplish in three years of hard toil. I should  GrizzlyGarageSale.com know, I have been toiling to build All these interest areas and more are this reach since, July 27th, 2007. found in the posts published to the Still, there must be some catch, you blog, Backyard Temerity. are thinking? Well, there is one Any person wanting to join the blog (Continued on page 16) 

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I have invested capital so that I could offer great hosting and docatch. I expect those that I uplift to main solutions to the readers of Telift up my effort as well. If you merity Magazine, Backyard Temerthink about it, both of us are inter- ity and our authors of both. The dependent upon one another. For site is: either of us to tear the other down, it TemerityDomains.com would be like relieving oneself on Here you can find all the tools and your own pair of shoes. And it is this very point that you may see the 24/7 Customer Support needed to get you Grizzly online today! genius! Your website or blog should be the It is not a new philosophy but instead a command of Christ that we central hub that you wish to extend all your online efforts out onto the love one another. This is my winning strategy. It should be yours as world wide web. (Continued from page 15)

well! Backyard Temerity Blog is big enough to handle as many authors as we can throw at it. I prefer YouTube.com Video Creator‟s because it is a great social media tool to extend your effort! My system works the best if you have a blog or website of your own as well!

My effort can assist you in bringing readers to your site just like Twitter.com and YouTube.com can extend your site‟s reach. Every author of Backyard Temerity Blog is encouraged to include links back to their own online efforts. Hopefully it is their blog or website and their YouTube.com channel.

Backyard Temerity is quickly beIt works great because if you are re- coming the go-to site that lets any relic & treasure hunter know what is lying on only your YouTube.com Channel as your online identity you new and what is happening. are truly missing out. Your own You may have noticed that if I am blog or website is like your driver‟s subscribed to your effort that I may license, passport or credential (Continued on page 17) needed today online.

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have shared one or more of your videos on the Backyard Temerity Blog. I do this to lift up your effort and inform my readers on what is going on in the world of relic & treasure today! Now this is a hit and miss endeavor if you rely upon me to lift you up. Soon, if I notice that an individual does not return the favor, their videos will be the last videos I will be looking for to promote! It only makes common sense. Yet those that lift up my effort and join me as an author not only have my ear whenever they run into a brick wall or challenge but they have priority above anyone else if a great opportunity comes my way.

walk my lovely wife down the red carpet, something I told her would happen and she did not believe me until it happened. I have covered major events with my authors and brought the Grizzly innovation to the nation in covering it like no other. Again, this strategy not only works, it is very threatening to those who do not see the genius but instead are threatened by what they perceive as dumb luck. If it is dumb luck, then why is it so damn much work? We all have goals and aspirations. One of the highlights of my Theodore Media business is assisting others to reach their goals.

An example I love to share is a phone conversation I had with a friend who is a professional comeOn other sites, I have been afforded dian. He wanted to headline these the opportunity to travel to conven- events I was able to offer to him to tions gratus and enjoy when I can attend through my success in unitshare these opportunities not only ing bloggers. I encouraged him and with my readers, but include and in- shared my Grizzly Twitter Strategy vite my authors to join me! with him. I have been flown to Scottsdale, AZ, Now most people are not quite keen Washington DC 4 times, Chicago enough to take advice, but he was twice and one of those times rebrilliant. He took my Grizzly Twitceived a blogger of the year award (Continued on page 18) of $5,000 and the opportunity to

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I can receive award after award and get acclaim from my peers until the ter Strategy and played it like an afi- cows come home and even all of cionado plays a fiddle! that, how wonderful it is, just does not compare to encouraging, coachToday he has 121,433 followers on ing and igniting a friend to realize his one Twitter Account @StephenKruiser I took a different strat- their goal then being there to witness it. This is Priceless!!! egy with 10 accounts used to extend my huge online effort and combined Honestly, it was the highlight of have 169,570 followers. I could gain some long fought years. My stratmore faster because of the limitaegy unfortunately attracts more options Twitter puts on any one acposition than it does takers. I guess count. So his accomplishment is it is just human nature. You will amazing. never know all I have to deal with on You may have seen Stephen Kruiser a day by day basis because that is as an occasional guest on Red Eye, the burden of leadership and of visionaries. You do not need to Host of Kruiser Control on Pajamas Media or even listened to him on his shoulder my burden, you just need to reach for those big dreams that own Radio show Planet Kruiser. can only be held in the giant North Stephen is talented as they come, Dakota skies. You just need to but recently I had been flown to Awaken, Stand Up and Step into AcWashington, DC to a convention tion into this opportunity I am layand wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x;t you know it, my old ing at your feet. friend Stephen Kruiser was headlinOur success, and our defeat is intering! dependently woven on our Pioneer I just sat and watched him do his spirit that thirst for the American thing. He was on and I was there to Dream. witness my friend realize a goal he Join me as an author or reader of set forth almost two years before Backyard Temerity Blog Today! that day on a phone call. This to me Join our Current Authors! is the greatest reward. (Continued from page 17)

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sister bought his old Whites Prizm III off him and he got a new Hey itâ&#x20AC;&#x;s JustanotherPullTab Minelab SE. So after not again. much thought I asked I was thinking of all the my sister if I could borrow it. She said it would videos out there and be fine and so me and people giving advice on my cousin Doug went cleaning, maps, historic sites, best way to hunt, off metal detecting. etc. I had no idea how to use the thing and I Then I thought of how no one tells the story of would find a sinker and how they got started in be happy and Doug being the pro just laughed metal detecting. It is very interesting for me at me. to hear how everyone started and why.

Doug taught me a lot through the months and so then later I purchased my own Minelab This is My Story... Explorer II. I had a blast with him going to I got a call one day from 1800's era houses, my cousin Doug asking parks, farms, etc. if I wanted to go metal I learned a lot from detecting with him. Doug, but sadly on Now at this time, all I January 4th, 2011 Doug knew about metal dewas involved in a car tecting was what he had wreck that took his life. told me about it and It is sad to think that that was all. my cousin and I will not A few weeks earlier my go for more treasure

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hunt with each other anymore, but he left me with something. That great thought of what is out there laying in the ground waiting to be discovered. We had a lot of adventures and found many treasures, but what I will treasure the most is the memory of Doug and I spending time with each other and finding many awesome things. So Chad that is my little story of why and how I got into metal detecting. It feels good to tell someone how cool a cousin I had that introduced me to metal detecting. Thanks again, ~JustAnotherPullTab Check out JustAnotherPullTabâ&#x20AC;&#x;s

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One of my favorite YouTube metal detector video channels is that of JackSquatDigger's (JSD). I was really impressed with his video of his arrow head collection and I had to get the story behind such a great collection for Temerity Magazine readers.

have. JackSquatDigger is not only hilarious, this guy is brilliant. Kind of a renaissance man of sorts bottling his home made wine, metal detecting (Best of JackSquatDigger video 1 & 2), panning for gold, Farming with his Allis Chalmers Tractor, and even showing us how to freeze dry clothes on the I called JSD to interview him clothes line. This is a guy who and it was so insightful and fun you just want to know and pick as you can imagine if you have his brain. enjoyed his videos as I

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JackSquatDigger has many metal detecting buddies that you will see in his videos. JustAnotherPullTab and Izman65 join JSD in many adventures in their Grizzly Backyard. Arrow Head hunting is something I know very little about. I run across ancient tools from time to time but never truly (Continued on page 22)

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his father and grandfather always had. They know what I have or how would get together and to look for more. In my walk the plowed earth conversation with JSD, for enjoyment casting he helped me identify their trained eyes for that the rock I had those priceless remnants found, thinking it was of men who loved this ancient, actually land as they did today. was! He told me it is JSD remembered fondly probably a scraper. Yet, that when he was a boy, without knowing more they would not take him about the people who with them at first. Long may have made my hikes and a pleasant property a home way stroll traveling back ages back then, it would be in time was not somehard to be definitive. thing they wanted to be JSD has done his home- interrupted by a tired or work. He knows and bored lad. So JSD just has read a great deal decided to hunt without about those that made them and would take his his Grizzly Backyard a finds to his father or home over the grandfather to see if he ages. Better yet, he has had found something touched and recovered flaked and crafted by their artifacts one piece man long ago. He at a time just like his fa- fondly remembers findther and grandfather ing his first arrow head taught him as he grew and from that moment up. on his eyes have been on the land he walks. I asked JSD how he started collecting arrow Eventually, JSD won his heads. He told me that right of passage and (Continued from page 20)

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joined his father and grandfather walking in their footsteps, cherishing the land that fed his family and looking for relics from those that fed their families as well from this land long ago. I asked JSD where he found his arrow heads and he told me that he searched on family farms and along dried creek beds on family property. He told me that unlike metal detecting in Indiana, you can only hunt arrow heads, tools and artifacts that are found on top of the ground. You can not dig them as you would dig a silver or gold coin. He also said that he protects the locations where he has found his arrow heads and remembers where each was found so that looters don't come and dig up the history that may lay on or around where each was (Continued on page 25)

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found. JSD protects his land and this history, guarding it and protecting it for future generations as his father and grandfather taught him. We began talking about all the people that once lived, hunted and loved this land as we do today. We were talking about how these artifacts became placed or lost in these places all so many years ago so that they could be found today. I made a naive comment about these tools being lost as they drug their possessions behind their horses moving from one location to another. JSD reminded me that the horse came with the Spanish and these artifacts were lost thousands of years before a horse even set a hoof on this continent. For me, that

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coin, which would he rather find? He chuckreally helped put the led and said he could enormity of years that buy a walking liberty these artifacts have been coin off eBay. It is the waiting to be individually crafted arfound. Personally, it is row head that can not be still hard to grasp the replaced. amount of time that has passed by from when these items were crafted and utilized for their purpose and today. It is truly amazing. I asked JSD if he could go out today and find either an arrow head or a silver walking liberty (Continued from page 25)

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Check out JackSquatDiggerâ&#x20AC;&#x;s Youtube Channel!

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I cut my teeth on a forum out there. when I first started getting You may see that I have Grizzly online. signed up on many other I have a love/hate relation- forums, but I will never ship with forums. I love offend those that worked the opportunity forums hard to put them up, mainpresent for those who tain them with their own need a place online to find capital by advertising my like minded people. site on their forum. I hate that forums can give you a false sense of community and the inaction that often happens as this community stagnates after the pecking order is established.

I mainly wanted to see if another forum was needed in the marketplace. I concluded that there was room for many more.

the only place I post always has my name behind it. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play games and stand firm on my convictions. So the forum may sit empty for a number of months until some brave souls venture forth into it. Honestly, it is fine with me as I am utilizing my time I would be monitoring forums to create new products and research this up and coming hunt season!

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be drawn to my forum or another's Because of this I really if it fits your needs. I pray The forums are up and hemmed and hawed about mine fits yours! there for those brave souls including a forum on One thing that many fowho have the Pioneer TheodoreMedia.com. rum administrators do is Spirit to blaze the new However, the metal detect- purchase or set up dummy path! accounts and seed their ing niche really seems to I am gifting my authors of forum with activity. I embrace the forum platBackyard Temerity their know why they do this, beform. own Forum as well. Cut cause it is human nature your teeth in the forums So I decided to offer an especially on forums to be and join us as an author! alternative to the forums drawn to activity. that are already a success if you do anything! I abhor such tactics and

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Jameson really has done his homework pulling together a large variety of historical treasure stories that have as yet, gone lost and unfound. It makes me want to sell it all and just go treasure hunting full time. Jameson walks us through treasure stories from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s.

If you want to have a wonderfully inspiring read, try this book! Lost Treasures of American History by W.C. Jameson is a great collection of treasure stories. It is really amazing the kind of wealth and treasure that is still left buried in American soil. Volume 1 Issue 1

Please support my effort through purchasing all your relic and treasure books and even your metal detecting equipment through my Grizzly Amazon Store! Anything you purchase on Amazon you can purchase through Grizzly Amazon Store. I highly suggest Lost Treasures of American History by W.C. Jameson. W.C. Jameson would be a fascinating interview. A professional treasure hunter himself, he is truly a great asset and a great author.

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I just purchased this amazing book, Treasure Signs Symbols Shadow & Sun Signs by Charles A. Kenworthy. However, I have some bones to pick with the publishers. First the paperback format is all wrong. I need this book smaller so I can throw it in my metal detecting bag and have it at my fingertips on each and every hunt. Secondly, I want more actual photos of treasure maps with these symbols on with description of what it is telling us to look for on those we run across. Other than that, like I said above I

am going to beat the crap out of this book as I try to squeeze this large format paperback in my e-trac bag. The author, I not only want to interview but I want to pick his brain and accompany him on as many treasure hunts as possible. Do they offer internships? Charles A. Kenworthy has already lived a fascinating life. On the back cover is a signed photo of him and John Wayne watching his divers retrieve treasure from the deeps. Wayne inscribed the photo:

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Greed & Lust in Every Lookâ&#x20AC;? From the Author:

John "Duke" Wayne and I joined forces in 1974 in FULL TIME TREASURE HUNTING. I had already formed "THE QUEST, AN EXPLORATION CORPORATION" and had also engaged Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in an exclusive contract to advise, research, design and develop needed electronic / optical devices, as well as accompany us, in the field of treasure hunting. Early -on, Duke said: "Well, now that we've got the brightest guys in the world advising us, all we need now is some first class research. Ya know, if we do this right, we may even change the image of treasure hunters."

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I had the great privilege to interview a fellow YouTube metal detector enthusiast MichaelSwan66. The interview was done via YouTube utilizing the personal messages. I sent Michael a number of questions and he responded to each with his answers. Below is the Interview. Questions for TemerityMagazine.com Interview with MichaelSwan66:

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My father used to take us on camping trips to look for lost gold mines and pan for gold so I think that's what got me I'm 45 years old, marstarted but didn't start ried, have 6 kids and own metal detecting till 2010. my own landscape main- I started watching videos tenance service: Basic of guys metal detecting Gardening here in Cali- on YouTube looked like fornia. fun and the treasure bug bit me again.

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ing treasure? Some of my customers homes are pretty old and they are all more than happy to let me detect around to see what I can find. Recently I stopped by a buddy of mine's house whom I hadn't seen in a long time. His house is over 100 years old. I told him I would do it for free because he had I asked him if I could detect the yard. He was- let me detect there . It worked out for both of n't home so I left him a note and he called me 2 us. His yard looked betdays later and said go for ter and I had found my it and how much would I first honey hole with the most amazing find I charge him to mow his could ever dream of. yard ?

4. Now 2010 is your

rookie year metal detecting like myself, What would you say to those that have yet to get grizzly metal detecting? It's great fun and great exercise and there's nothing like digging up lost thing be it jewelry or old coins.

5. What have you learned in your first year metal detecting? I've learned that you never know what you'll find when you go, but depending on what your looking for the older the spot the better. (Continued on page 34)

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considering joining us in 11. In 2011 what are your this great hobby, what goals for your second season getting grizzly would that be? 6. What are some of the with metal detecting? challenges you faced in Be persistent and don't your first year and how get discouraged if your To get out and hunt as did you overcome these not finding much and be much as I can and to always have fun! patient. challenges? (Continued from page 33)

Finding old coins. I got 10. What is your favorite up the courage to start asking to detect some of finds of 2010? the older homes and the oldies started pouring in. I'd have to say my best 8. What is it about metal finds of 2010 would be detecting that drives you my first silver coin which to keep digging targets? i found in a nearby town it's a 1962 Australian six pence, 2 mercury dimes, The mystery of never 1912 v nickel, my latest knowing what you'll finds the 1913 British 3 find! pence and a 1911 Cana9. If you had one oppor- dian 5 cent.

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12. Now you have really done a great job on YouTube.com documenting your adventures metal detecting. Can you Tell our readers about your YouTube channel and your approach to sharing your passion for this hobby with the world? YouTube is great! I started making videos to share my finds with other (Continued on page 36)

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answers to the questions ther, father and uncle. I sent him, I had to fol- These are those stories detectorists around the low up with more! that Temerity Magazine world and enjoy watchis all about! Six children! This man ing what other have is truly Blessed! Michael A great American father found on their advenhas his own business, a finding and living his tures. Treasure is out there! You just have to go lovely wife and six chil- American Dream while dren and still squeezes embodying that Pioneer find it! some time to find relics Spirit he witnessed in his Now I only know Miand treasures right in his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x;s eyes as they set chael through his great Grizzly Backyard! It is a out to find Gold in CaliMetal Detecting videos passion passed onto him fornia when he was a on YouTube and the by his father and uncles. child. Next is Michael friendship we struck I had to follow up with telling us more about commenting on each him about his fond this fond and precious other videos. So when I memories of gold pan- memory. received back Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x;s ning with his grandfa(Continued from page 34)

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It's been a long time but I think the place was called Big Meadows in California. M y father, grandfather and our uncle John would take us camping. We were looking for a lost gold mine called “The Lost Gold Mine of The Thirteen Crosses.” My father had read about it in an old treasure hunting magazine. As I remember, the story goes something like: There was this old prospector that used to come into a nearby town there and resupply. He would Here is a photo Michael sent me of him and his son. cash in his gold and shooting over the gold crossed the river near the send money to his dust on big rocks to falls. He shot two of daughter. He was put- mark the way. them and was wounded ting her through school. but was able to get away. He then realized he had The falls to this day are On one of his stops to probably said too much. known as dead man‟s town he went into the sa- He quickly made it out falls. The old prospector loon to have a few drinks of town. Soon after he was never seen again. and a few of the locals realized he was being tried to get him to tell followed by the same The local Boy Scouts them where his mine guys he was talking with have been camping and was located. He told at the Saloon. looking for the mine ever them they would never since. 12 of the 13 find it. He had however, A gun fight took place crosses have been found marked the way by put- shortly after. He had (Continued on page 38) ting gold crosses and

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and they are real! We found 12 ourselves. Treasure is out there you just have to go and find it ! My dad and uncle thought the 13 crosses were meant to represent Jesus and the 12 disciples as part of the story was that the prospector was a Michael thanked me afvery religious person . ter the interview for letMan it was fun hiking all over that place looking for that mine! Lots of bear and mountain lions up there too. We tried our luck at panning for gold in the river below our campsite. Our uncle did pretty well filling up a small vile of small gold dust with a few tiny nuggets. My brother and I still talk about going back to try our luck again someday.

ting him share his fond memories of him and his father.

Magazine and all of Theodore Media is all about. In fact, I always lift up business and Americans like Michael who are finding their American Dream with their own businesses. I urge you if you are in the California area to utilize Michael‟s business for your own Grizzly Backyard!

Just good memories :) My father passed away a few years ago but lived a good life and loved to prospect and look for gold. My father, my uncle and friends of his would go dredging and Basics Gardening panning for gold at least P.O Box 148 one time a year ! He always could find it too :) Grover Beach, CA 93483 Take care and thanks for the chance to share my I imagine I am not the Michael has been story with you and the only one who wants to be readers of Temerity serving his local on that trip back to “The Magazine :) community for

Lost Goldmine of the Thirteen Crosses” with It is always my honor Michael, his brother and lifting up my neighbor. their children! This is what Temerity

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Theodore Media prides itself on creating great products. In 2011, we are undertaking the most ambitious project yet to date. I will be traveling this great nation, hunting with great metal detector relic & treasure hunters as they assist me in telling stories from what we recover. These stories will uncover those great Americans who came before us that sought the American Dream.

secret is it has never come easy to anyone.

What is going to take me across many states The American Dream is without leaving me not a quick strike-it-rich stranded along the road endeavor. Instead, it is side with appointments to meet? one that at times takes generations to obtain. Where am I to look for the stories I feel called In America we are to tell? blessed with the freedom to fail. As I watch the gas prices rise, it is a very real threat to this effort that failure is a real possibility.

When do I venture North, South, East & West?

How in the hell am I going to finance this and Yet, like my grandfather just find enough for gas who crossed the Atlantic money? Ocean at the age of 9, I Well, most of these fears am ready to rely upon are just distractions from Armed with the Pioneer my faith and Temerity to the task at hand. Spirit that seems lost to- find and tell these stories day, these great Ameri- of the American Dream. I have some great invites that stretch all along two cans all have a story to These stories must be and maybe three great be told and retold. told and retold. stretches of US highway. It is not everyone who There are a great deal of My strategy is that in the seeks the American challenges faced with Spring, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x;ll have 101 local Dream that attains it. such a venture. sites that need a good You and I both know Who do I go visit in that it has not come easy (Continued on page 41) their Grizzly Backyard? for any of us. The dirty

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dore Media site if and when I get the eGrizzly onceover! In the Commerce module indead of Summer, I will stalled and Grizzly! venture out for short 1 to I will also be locating 3 day trips to nearby businesses in the areas states. Then, in the Fall, that I am hunting that I will hit the highway want exposure online. and venture out for alYes, I am going to lift up most a fortnight travel- and promote the roading across many states side Americans who still and hunting with great believe in the American Americans along the Dream and seek it everyway. day running their busiHonestly, I don‟t know nesses even in this Sohow I am going to do it cialist Squirrel political or pay for it, I only know landscape. When you it will be done. think about it, these are the stories that need to My strategy to pay for be told and retold! Talk this great project is to raise money through my about Temerity! It is out there if you seek it out! sites after viewers see the product is worthy of Seeking it out will be extheir support and enactly what I will be docouragement. ing in 2011. (Continued from page 40)

and the element of surprise you will not know exactly where I am at all times but you will hear about it, read about it and view it through my videos with a small time delay. Believe it or not, but there are a few nuts out there that don‟t want you to be optimistic and act upon your Temerity to find the American Dream. In fact, there are some out there that will be very threatened when your Pioneer Spirit is rekindled and you get on with what God has intended you to do in this precious life!

We are so blessed to live in the greatest nation I am also selling dang I will try to be vigilant ever known to human near anything that is not about taking the readers history, yet, too many nailed down. I am of our Temerity Maga- choose to be shackled to queuing up the last few zine, Backyard Temerity despair. years of Pick‟n finds and blog and viewers of the In 2011, I am going will be selling them via Grizzly Groundswell to get Grizzly eBay, CraigsList, and Youtube Channel along changing that! even through the Theo- with me. For security

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These are some of the topics that I am going to be researching and I pray I can bring you through Temerity Magazine, the Grizzly Groundswell YouTube Channel and through Backyard Temerity Blog in 2011. These do not include the many metal detectorists I will be hunting with all across this nation. These are the issues and locations I will try to bring you in the Spring, Summer and early Fall (permissions willing). If you see a topic you have special interest or expertise in, don‟t hesitate to contact me and join in on the adventure!

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The Red River Ox Cart Trail

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The Lost Case International Steam Engine once owned by Mr. Wolfe

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The Kensington Rune Stone Norse Expedition

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The Lost Gold Coin in the cement foundation of local Blue Hill Township, MN homestead

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The Old Saw Mill lost Payroll

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The Old School House

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mike cafree’s farmstead

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solomon tidd’s farmstead

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I also found a USMC gold plated button.

When I bought my metal detector in the summer of 2008, I knew nothing about metal detecting.

One summer afternoon, I was out digging in my yard when I got the sweetest signal you ever heard.

I remember watching videos on YouTube of people metal detecting and just thought it was the coolest thing in the world.

ging signals in my back yard, I started to make some cool finds.

I started digging, and at about 4 inches, I saw a small button lying in the bottom of the hole.

I remember I found 6 I looked at it and wheat pennies in the there appeared to be same hole next to a I thought that finding a bird and some writsilver meant finding a tree in my yard. ing on it. regular dime, nickel, I found a watch, and quarter, or half dolI ran inside to show I remember plotting lar. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x;t know that my dad and I was out where I thought a they made silver happy I found it, but commonly used path coins back in the day. treated it like any would be in my yard, (Continued on page 45) After a month of dig- then boom, a watch. Volume 1 Issue 1

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other find and just put it away in a drawer. After I found the button, I became interested in how old it was. I spent a good month researching old buttons and going on websites to look at pictures of buttons.

The regiment number on my Phoenix Button is No. 29. A ship carrying Phoenix Buttons stopped at a trading post in Oregon, and dropped some of these buttons off. Indians would trade skins and salmon for these buttons and they would trade these buttons up and down the west coast of the United States.

Finally, I found my button. It was called the Phoenix Button. When I read about the history of the button, I was shocked. What I had found was an extremely rare 1820â&#x20AC;˛s Phoenix Button from Haiti.

Very few of these buttons made it east of the Rocky Mountains, with only 11 Phoenix Buttons being reportedly found east of the Rockies.

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and the rest have How many Indians been found in various have had the button states. in their possession? After I found this out about the button, I started thinking. There had to have been and Indian walk straight through my back yard, back in the 1820â&#x20AC;˛s.

What did they look like? What were their names? Where else has the button been that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x;t know of ?

He must have traded with another Indian How was this button lost? from another tribe. The Phoenix Button that I found in my very own back yard, had traveled more than 25,150 miles; going across the Carribean Sea, through the South Atlantic Ocean, around South America, through the South Pacific making a stop in Hawaii, across the Pacific Ocean, through the Colorado Rockies, across the Mississippi, and to MY very own back yard. Volume 1 Issue 1

I will never know the answers to these questions; but one thing I do know is that I found a true piece of American History. I hoped you liked the story of my Phoenix Button! It is what got me hooked on metal detecting and I will never part with it!

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Flash your Manufac- turned away from one turer Gang sign now! manufacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x;s home What Manufacturer turf because I did not own that companies do you Represent? brand of metal detecI noticed almost from tor. Which was a the start that that the shame because I was fanatic metal detect- there to shop for my ing landscape divides next metal detector. itself by manufacThat very experience turer. made my decision to This makes sense be- exclude that manucause we all need as- facturer from my next sistance mastering metal detecting purour metal detectors. chase. When I purSo, it would only be chased my newest natural for you and I metal detector, I can to seek out the manu- not lie, but that exfacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x;s gangland perience played a wherever they have huge part in my decitagged as their home sion making. turf. I vowed that my sites

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decision.

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be a no-brainer. Design as an artist, is important to me, but this consideration fell pretty low in my decision making. Although I think between those on my shortlist they were very comparable in design.

Price was honestly It seems to me that watched more videos the last thing that I the real differences and read more artiwas considering. I between models and cles in favor of the was pretty convicted manufacturers are: amazing results of to get the best techthe model I finally nology out there and 1. Price chose. do whatever it took to 2. Brand Rep & FolSoftware, electronics afford the purchase. lowing and controls were Your situation and 3. Design 4. Software, Electron- next in my decision needs will change making. I was exyour priorities in deics & Controls cited to see this ciding what manufac5. Results manufacturer was ture gangland you deThinking back on my thinking of computer cide to join. latest purchase I rank and metal detector Regardless All Manuthese differences connectivity. This fell facturers Gang memweighted by imporright into my line of bers welcome here! tance in making my thinking and should Volume 1 Issue 1

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I'm just the average American guy who lost his job due to the struggling economy and had to do whatever was necessary to put food on the table and keep a roof over my head for my family. I'm happily married and have five wonderful kids. Two children of my own and three stepchildren all ranging from 9-16 years of age. We reside in southern California. Fortunately I was able to fall back on the skills I learned over the years. I started going to auctions with my grandfather and that is when I was bit by that bug of buying and reselling for a profit. I've been doing this pretty much ever since I was about 15 years old.

self on really nice cool vintage items and collectibles. These ranged from a old baseball cards to fur coats, vintage items, Zippo lighters, primitive items, old photographs, pedal cars...you name a collectible I probably bought and sold it.

You will find you need to be quite the investigator!

This business takes dedicaI would go to auctions and tion, hard work, patience, estate sales and PHYSIdiligence, commitment, CALLY write down the creativity. selling price, item description etc and then run Great things are the flexihome and stay up half the bility, freedom, and you are night researching! I liter- in charge of what you ally went a month and make. You get out what

About 10 years ago, I really had to figure out a way to make money from home while living in the Midwest. I was introduced to eBay. I self educated my-

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through networking and, strangely enough, I get a you put in. few items from my local convenience store as I like About 70% of my items I to support my LOCAL sell on eBay; the other businesses an get a good 30% on Craigslist. I have deal on my ROCKSTAR!! that “if it's bigger than a bread box theory.” I keep A lot of people are turnshipping and any other ing to this business becosts associated with an cause there are no jobs out item automatically calcu- there. I do what I do with lated in my head at all my YouTube videos in trytimes. ing to simply provide people with basic information, I find a list of my items some hope, some motivaseveral different ways-tion and inspiration from swap meets and ga- brought back to the rage sales to estate buyground level so they can outs, thrift stores, and do this themselves. Craigslist. Very rarely do I ever buy and resell anyMy business is similar to thing on eBay. what they do on “American Pickers.” HowI get a lot of my items ever, I don't have the (Continued from page 50)

$50,000 Mercedes van and I don’t have a 5000 squarefoot warehouse or even a Danielle! I’m a one horse operation. Basically, I run everything out of my garage now, but what I do, I really have in common with those guys is the knack to “pick” out the obscure, collectible, rare or the valuable item. I simply negotiate a price where I can make a profit out of it. I asked myself several questions: How fast will it sell? How desirable is the item? What kind of condition? Then I determine what the market value is, make an offer, and go from there. I sell anything from the old pictures, antique postcards, Zippo lighters, vintage salesman samples, old fishing lures, pocket knives, old banks, Civil War cards, World War II memorabilia ,old hot wheels, WWI sniper rifle scope case, military patches, instruments, new items brand-new in the box, cell phones, iPods, (Continued on page 52)

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restaurant items, skate, surf, telephone systems, and antiques. I've sold even down to Lego pieces. You name and I sold it! Benefits and pitfalls of eBay and Craigslist: the upside is that eBay.com is the worldwide marketplace. You’re able to reach a lot more people than you would locally on Craigslist. Yet, these two sites utilized This is the theory I stick in tandem give you an with. The larger, heavier amazing sales potential! items are cumbersome, hard to ship and costly to EBay benefits: the buyer. I try to get  HUGE marketplace small easy shippable items.  More Collectors I really try to find items  Largest online selling site that are collectible.  Get paid fast with PayPal. 

REPEAT CUSTOMERS!!

Craigslist is a different EBay pitfalls: story. You deal with a lot  SHIPPING! However, of flaky people. Be careful you can make it fun by if you are a lady, have being prideful in your somebody with you at all packing skills! times when a Craigslist  DEADBEAT BIDDERS/BUYERS! It TheRedneckPicker will happen to you, and eBay Tip: you will eventually get ripped off! It is not a TREAT YOUR matter of will you? It’s FEEDBACK a matter of when! "Is it bigger than a bread box" theory:

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customer comes to purchase your item. Meet in well lit common place! Use the Grizzly instinct God gave you! I only sell most of my larger items on Craigslist. Believe it or not, even as pickers sometimes you have to diversify your business. You can’t expect that old vintage collectible items will show up in your lap every day. Your everyday consumer items such as coffee makers, cell phones, refrigerators, television sets and even surfboards can be sold for profit. Craigslist is a quick and easy way to make some money. Even "flipping" on Craigslist can (Continued on page 53)

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be lucrative. You have to be prepared to get up off that couch and go get the deal! Be willing to search your Craigslist finds and compare them to eBay! Look for my e-book coming out soon. I will teach you how to find the "flipable" items quick!! I've actually bought and sold the same items in a 24 -hour period. There are a lot of brand names out there and people will buy a good used one just to save money!!

This business actually creates new wealth and it is Conservation friendly too!! My customers range from teenagers buying videogames to old farmers buying coffee grinders. That’s the great thing about eBay; you reach just

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don't have knowledge of, trust me! Have a music guy, a car guy, a jewelry Probably the most fun I guy, OR GALS OF ever had selling one item COURSE, an antique conwas a 1996 Fender Strato- nection, etc. caster guitar I bought at a garage sale and it was kind Sometimes, being a of an oddball one. They "middle man" is a good had some additional after- thing!! market work done on it; it had a whammy bar and hip I have actually bought shot which most musicians something and had it sold would know are always before I bought it!! TRUE good. But the guy I sold it STORY!! I had a contact to,--we found we were “cut that said she had a client from the same cloth.” We that needed to get rid of a were both from the Mid- used copy machine...I west. I had never shipped a knew somebody looking guitar before so it was fun for one at the same time!! having this guy tell me and Made a quick $200 profit treat me as if I were a and never even third-grader telling me ex- TOUCHED IT! actly how he would ship the guitar. So we went step If I had nugget of wis-by-step over the phone dom to give to someone while I had him on speaker wanting to get Grizzly and I packed a guitar exPicking, it’s very simple... actly like he told me to. The guy was super happy Be committed. Admit to and it’s probably one of yourself you need to the only eBay feedbacks I learn a new trade. If ever had where sombody you do make this a part could spell the word con-time business, you scientious correctly. won't stop! You’ve got to dig and actually Your Networking Rolodex teach yourself! You Always have an "expert" in will learn something your pocket. You will run new every day! across something that you (Continued on page 54)

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You have to be very motivated and very selfsufficient to be able to make it in this business. If you're not selfsufficient, you will never make it. Buy low and sell high! Make sure you understand what you're buying. If you don’t know what it is...FIND OUT!! Be a Sherlock Holmes!! Know your market value BEFORE you even open your mouth when negotiating. Make sure your item‟s condition equals the condition of the item that you're comparing the value of it to! This is very key because if you leave condition out of the equation you will get burned! You can’t buy the same item on Craigslist or an auction for instance, that you saw sell for $100 on eBay--but in much better condition--and expect to get that same $100 for your worse condition item. It's a fact that you need to be

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certain on what you Navajo Indian baskets. have and that's someThese items are pricey thing that's not to be and very collectible. taken lightly. Because Well, I didn’t do my if you buy a couple of homework and made items and you're not an impulse buy!! UH getting that profit level OH! They turned out that you were expecting to be from Botswana, you can become disAfrican and not Native couraged very easily American. While I was and broke. So make lucky enough to break darn sure you are comeven on them, I was paring apples to apples. expecting a nice return Be a thorough examon my investment. iner! Cash-ola down the Do some preventive drain! A good lesson maintenance. Do learned. What you will your homework. Accufind is that you will rate research can make now know the differyou or break you. ence for next time. Watch out for fakes or Once bitten twice shy reproductions as well! The other thing is you One time I bought have to be optimistic what I thought were that you're going to

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find something! Get yourself centered and focused before you start! You see the fancy stuff on television on how they make the big RARE find and they make a TON of money off of it; that does not happen every day, only once in a while. You really need to make sure you strap the yoke on your back, go on the hunt and kill every day. If you do that daily without fail, you will make yourself a decent profit and those socalled "nuggets" will come along. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the-harder-Iwork-the-luckier-I-get theory!

tacts that you will fill your tune this business model Rolodex with. that I wanted to share this with others. There are a I also tell you what to lot of people out there AVOID in my e-book. who are struggling.

People get discouraged because they see all these different websites out there or you can make all this money on eBay by being a I'm in the middle of writ- drop shipper. Well, that ing an e-book and you ship sailed a few years know it covers a wide vari- back. You can still do that, ety of ways to obtain items however it's not a very fast and get creative. I think profit maker. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of that's the number one hard work up front at your thing in this business is store set up so that's a very you have to be motivated. tough way to go.

Some people just are not naturally innovative and creative. They have lost their sense of urgency because I think today's society has made us lazy. I don't mean to go beat down anyone or any one person in particular. Yet, people are just generally lazy. Prosperity has left us soft, we need to get Grizzly!

I go into great detail on eight different ways to obtain items to sell on eBay, Craigslist and in your network of experts and con-

I get down to the basics and old school. The days of people having to fend for themselves is rapidly

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You can get started with some of the basic things approaching, so if you I am about half way done you most likely already don't have that Grizzly in- with the e-book. It takes a have, like your phone, car, stinct about you, you're lot of work to write a camera and Internet! You going to be chewed up and book on this hot profescan go the slow route spit out. sion. I wanted to be able looking in thrift stores or to set something down the free section on What keeps me going? I that you know hasn't been Craigslist or garage sales. think it's that high of find- used up when it comes Always be thinking about ing a great deal. When you out. You know it's got to doing consignments, it buy something for five have a punch, a bang and a doesn't get any cheaper bucks and sell for $200 WOW! than that! You can get gothat is an absolute adrenaing with as little as $15 to line rush like you cannot Two things I want the $20 and turn it into $100 believe, that is really what book to do is: real fast if you're if you're keeps me going. buying the right items (Continued from page 55)

The fact that you know what you have to do to provide for your family and those basic necessities of every day. It takes money to keep a roof over your head and food in your belly.

doing anything else!

1. Help you solve your problem 2. Educate & Motivate Affordably

God gave us instinct and we have all of the tools inside of us.

So, if you want to be a picker, you can do it! It just With this business that is takes a simple commitdefinitely something that ment and it takes motivation, a good attitude, a lot can be done It is fun and I am passionof research and a little bit ate about it! I enjoy and I I would just really encour- of patience. I wish everylove it. I'm really at this one in the world the best age people if you are point in this venture, that struggling it doesn't take a of luck at doing this...You other than teaching other lot of capital investment just have to go all Grizzly people, I can't see myself and there is very little risk. on it!!

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over the years, including a large piece Most kids around the of aqua depression age of 15 are interested glass, a glass top, and in things like music, go- the colors of glass I pick ing to the mall, and sit- up are endless: Red, yelting around the house. I low, orange, blue, green, am not one of those brown, clear, and even kids. the occasional piece of pottery. We blame it on my grandmother for taking I started collecting coins me to auctions and an- at a young age as well. I tique stores almost every collected pretty much week when I was little. everything there was to She taught me how to collect. Baseball cards, look for sea glass on the coins, shells, rocks, beach. business cards, etc. You name it, I collected it. Before metal detecting, looking for sea glass was I‟m not a big fan of my favorite hobby. We modern music and techwould spend every sum- nology either. Somemer trying to beat each times I feel as though I other with the „best was born at the wrong piece.‟ time. Nonetheless, I am not your average teenI have picked up some ager. great pieces of glass

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I got my first metal detector when I was seven years old. I can remember it perfectly. It was a little blue metal detector with an on and off switch. I would go into our back woods and dig up old parts to bikes, cans, and other miscellaneous trash. All of my finds went to what I called „the junk pile,‟ a little pile of my finds at the base of a tree in my yard. My parents didn‟t mind it much because they could see that I was having fun. Who really knows exactly what I found, because most of the stuff I found was either thrown away or (Continued on page 58)

thrown back in the woods. Thinking back, I am able to remember what it was that made me want a metal detector. I remember watching my favorite show of the time „Arthur,‟ and Arthur went to a junk yard and there was a bunch of cool old pieces of metal lying around and I must have showed interest because for my birthday I got a metal detector.

Bounty Hunter Challenger, from Bass Pro Shops in the summer of 2008. I started off metal detecting in my back yard. I was finding what you would expect to be found from your back yard. I spent every afternoon metal detecting in my

In the following years, I lost interest in metal detecting. It wasn‟t until I was in the sixth grade until I became interested again.

bottom of the hole, was a little button. Of course I was excited, but I had no clue what I had really found. After months of research, I discovered that the button I had found was a “Phoenix Button”. Phoenix Buttons are extremely rare buttons, made in Haiti in the early 1820′s. To have found one in my very own backyard is simply amazing.

Around Thanksgiving in 2009, I had a great idea. I wanted to make YouTube videos about metal detecting and bottle digyard. Before I knew it, I ging. I don‟t know what it was was digging some nice Others such as Saving that made me want to stuff. I found keys, a start metal detecting coin spill consisting of History‟s Bill Ladd, and YouTube usagain. I can remember six wheat pennies, a ers„TreasureFiend‟, watching YouTube vid- watch, and a whole lot „wasabi167′, and „toiceeos of metal detecting. I more. born‟ had inspired me to watched a video named make metal detecting “Metal Detecting Then, one summer afWith Joe G”, that was ternoon, I was metal de- videos for myself. my favorite video and I tecting in my yard just I sat down and started pretty much watched it as I had been every other day, when I got the writing down names for every day. what I would call my sweetest signal I have Finally, I got my second ever heard. I dug down 4 show. Names such as metal detector, the inches, and sitting at the (Continued on page 59)

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„Aiming For Antiques‟, „Uncovering Oldies‟, and „New England Treasure‟ were some of my possibilities, but then it came to me: Recovering Relics.

You guys are the best! Anyways, I will continue to make videos on YouTube and I believe that 2011 will be a great year for metal detecting and bottle digging.

I made my YouTube account on January 1st, 2010, to show those interested in the rewarding hobbies of metal detecting and bottle hunting, what historic New England has to offer.

One last thing, I would like to thank my grandmother for getting me interested in this kind of stuff !

I started making videos of my collection, and eventually started to make videos of my adventures. I never thought that Recovering Relics would be so successful.

You can visit the

Good luck to all and Happy Hunting!

Recovering Relics YouTube channel

In one year, over 260 people have subscribed to the Recovering Relics YouTube channel, and I am closing in on 300 subscribers. I am very thankful for all of the support my viewers are giving me and I would like to thank each and every one of my viewers and subscribers.

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Back in November, Michelle and I advertised a litter of kittens in our local shopper. We were blessed when a gentleman and his wife answered our ad and wanted three to fill up their great old barn on their family homestead. I have the gift of gab and even though we were battling the crisp November winter weather, we struck up a conversation. One way or another, I mentioned I had been metal detecting in the area. The gentleman hesitated and then told me his plight.

events. So the cemetery is now closed to new burials and lot sales because they do not know where the unmarked grave sites lay. Well, this hit a cord with me. There is something about a fellow neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x;s lost and unmarked burial site that just eats away at me. The gentleman went on to say that there may be Native Americans buried from possibly the Indian War era there as well.

This conversation had to end much too soon as kittens had to be accomLocally, there is a cememodated for and settled tery that is a pioneer into their new home. So cemetery and his family we bid our farewells and rests there as well. Un- they were on their way. fortunately, the records This conversation ate for the cemetery had been lost or destroyed by away at me that night and I began my research an unfortunate turn of

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quest right away. The gentleman mentioned they had a GPR or Ground Penetrating Radar professional come out charging the local parish $7000. Unfortunately, it was after a rain and the data was useless. It really burned me that the GPR professional did not come out again and run the cemetery grounds in more favorable conditions. He got paid, but the parish got the shaft as far as I am concerned. So, I was now convicted to find a solution. I researched and contacted many GPR manufacturers or outfits that do the survey for you. Honestly, the cost was just too crazy high for me to take them seri(Continued on page 61)

ously and with the parish already burned and a bad taste in their mouth, I knew I had to keep looking.

home to my grandparents dowsing for a natural spring down in the pasture. It fascinated me and closing my eyes I thought I could find a I am transported back to used GPR, but still the the day I watched in wonder as the spring price point was way out was found. I even tried of my reach. So, I conmy own hand at it. I tinued to look and one night while I was search- tried to manipulate it and was confounded ing I hit pay dirt! I when the dowsing rods found two techniques made of coat hangers that offered real interestseemed to have will of ing opportunities! their own. I emailed both contacts Well, I called Brenda who were included on the pages and I got two and soon found a fast friend and kindred responses that same night! I soon found two spirit. fast friendships as well. From her experience, research and success, I The first technique I have no doubt that turned to was that of high technology in the dowsing will find the lost grave sites. GPR. I soon moved

online, and has been printed all over the world.

article on Grave Dowsing by Brenda Marble.

ticle here in Temerity Magazine.

Now, when I was a child, I remember my uncle Wally coming

This article was first published in 2000, the first article of its kind

I started about 26 years ago working my dog in Search and Rescue, looking for lost live peo-

Now ,I said I had two solutions and the second one took me by surprise! I ran across this great site: K9Forensic.org that had a great article on dogs specializing on finding historical burial locations. So I contacted and interviewed: Adela Morris

Institute for Canine Forensics www.k9Forensic.org

Q1-Adela Morris, Can you share with the readers of Temerity Magazine a little bit about yourself and your away and went old I re-printed Brenda Mar- great www.K9Forensic.o school when I found the ble's Grave Dowsing ar- rg website?

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Adela Morris e-mail: Adela@prusik.com Canine Search Specialist, Test Evaluator & Instructor Since 1986 Adela has been involved in search and rescue, specializing in human remains detection. She has trained and certified her dogs in Area/Wilderness searching, Human Remains Detection (land and water), and Evidence Searching. She now specializes solely in Human Remains Detection with her dogs. She is the founder of the Institute for Canine Forensics, Director and founder of Canine Specialized Search Team (CSST) a volunteer resource for the County of Santa Clara Medical Examiner -Coroner‟s office. She is also conducting research on residual scent in an unused building. How long can a trained dog locate residual scent from various decomposing human remains. Consultant for CSI Crime Scene Investigation television program. Instructor and Test Evaluator for: Canine Specialized Search Team (CSST) - resource of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's / Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office  Institute for Canine Forensics - Board of Directors  Instructor for Canine Decon  Canine First Aid 

Member of: Institute for Canine Forensics Office of Emergency Services California Task Force-3 NASA Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART) Canine Specialized Search Team (CSST) - resource of the County Santa Clara Medical Examiner-Coroner‟s office   

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ple. I immediately got more interested in law enforcement cases, looking for crime scenes and human remains. I am currently on my 5th dog and dreaming of a new dog. Although I still do cold case work for law enforcement I try to focus only on historic and pre-historic burials.

ONLY trains the dogs for human remains, especially old burials. Dogs that train and work old burials work differently than dogs who have been trained to find live scent. Our dogs are many times used in conjunction with other types of technology. By combining different techQ2-I contacted you after nologies you get a better stumbling across an arti- "view" of what is under cle where dogs were be- the ground. There are ing utilized to find lost conditions and times burial sites and plots in where dogs are not the best tool.

We use a sit or a down as the dogs alert, the dog is never allowed to dig or mouth the bones. When the dog understands and is reliably finding the human bones we start them in historic cemeteries on known graves. The dog makes the connection that the imprinted scent is now in the ground. We have found that the scent from burials lays just on top of the ground surface, unlike live human scent that is carried in a cemetery. Can you the wind currents. Our share with our readers Q3-How does a dog's dogs work slowly with how these dogs can find sense of smell work what even our modern when locating old bones their nose to the ground.

day technology at times or remains found in an comes up short? unmarked grave?

Q4-What types of training and credentials does Like all tools there is the We start our young dogs a dog have to go through right or best tool for on old bones and teeth, in order to be able to acevery application. There they learn to find them complish such a great service? are unfortunately even in all kinds of locations dog handlers who do not train or specialize in old burials but figure "what the heck I will give it a try,â&#x20AC;? only to leave a poor impression. Our team

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and places. We use a positive training technique rewarding the dog for finding and alerting at the location of the bones we have hidden.

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ICF Institute for Canine Forensics is the only organization that specializes in historic and pre(Continued on page 65)

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historic burials and the only group to have a certification program. It usually takes 2 years for the team to get certified if you start with a puppy, adult dogs can learn faster and can usually get certified in 8 months to a year. The dogs are also taught manners and obedience.

the conditions found there. Our first few days we worked very long days and also worked in the heat of the day. We were very unhappy when our dogs missed 2 buriQ6-If there are no teams als. We worked them too near me, what can I do hard in conditions they to support such a team were not acclimatized to. We had to slow down in my community? and not work them in This specialized training the heat of the day. After Q5-How can I find a must be done with oth- we changed how and K9forensics team near ers who know how to me to assist this gentle- train for it and have the when we worked we were excited when our man locate the unresources. dogs found a premarked graves in his loQ7-Can you share with historic burial that had cal parish cemetery? been re-buried at the me the successes and Unfortunately most of base of a tree many challenges a team and us are located in Califorcanine faces in locating years before. nia. I do have one meman unmarked grave? Q8-Does the weather, ber in MI and one who Disturbed graves, graves season or soil make up will be in North Caroaffect the success? that have been plowed lina. We travel all over, we have worked in Pra- and the soil moved YES.... the best condiaround make it difficult gue, in October we tions to work dogs in are for the dogs to pinpoint spend 2 weeks in Hawaii cooler temps and moisthem. We can give a (working not playing) ture. In the summer and have been to many general location but not months we would need necessarily pinpoint. In to work early morning to other states. We would Hawaii we were doing a avoid the hottest part of be happy to figure out an estimate for you, an- research project to see (Continued on page 66) how the dogs worked in other idea might be to

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find another project near by that could help with the costs. I know we will be doing a research project in the mid-west some time.... currently no date set.

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the day. Direct sun over head is very difficult conditions to work in. In Hawaii we worked early morning and late afternoon when the sun was getting low. Spring is the best month to work after the snow has melted. WE have learned a lot about soils. In the area we live we have lots of hard compact clays. In the summer it makes it very difficult for the dogs. Looser soils, work much easier.

Q9-Does the site have to be freshly mowed? The dog must be able to get its nose very close to the ground. If there is thick brush or tall grasses the dogs will not have a good detection because they could not get their nose in the right place. We did a project in Kansas at Ft. Leavenworth and they did not mow all the areas we needed to work and some of the grass

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was 10 feet tall and so thick you could get lost one foot away. This made it impossible to search.

graves. I took that as a challenge. I know they can and I have Adela Morris, one of the best in the world as a reOk, I now have 3 great source that hopefully can fly here to prove it. I technologies to locate also have Brenda Marthese lost graves. bel, the pioneer of grave  GPR ~ Ground Penetratdowsing as a vital asset ing Radar that is willing to do the  Dowsing same.  K9forensics Yet, the decision is not mine to make. If it was up to me and I had History.com type resources I would have all three technologies try their hand at finding the lost grave sites and a team of researchers combing archives for obituaries in the area. The real decision is to be made by the cemeteries board of the local parish.

In 2011, if this parish cemetery lets us, we are going to find these lost gravesites and more importantly tell this story. The gentleman also mentioned in the phone message that the chairman of the parish cemetery board will be contacting me to talk with them about my research here in the next few weeks. I will follow up I received a phone mes- in future issues of Temerity Magazine. Until sage tonight from the gentleman who‟s conver- then, send your prayers our way. sation has started this whole research quest. These graves need to be He was skeptical if dogs found and marked. could find pioneer

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By Brenda Marble One of the biggest frustrations in genealogy, is being unable to locate the burial site of an ancestor. Although we may have an idea of where this ancestor is buried, we have no proof. Grave dowsing cannot give us the name of the person buried in any unmarked grave, but it can identify the locations of unmarked graves within a cemetery or lot and also provide some clues to their gender and age. You may find that the dowsing rods respond differently for you than as outlined in this article which is why it is extremely important that you practice and de-

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velop your own technique. Dowsing is an age-old art that has been used for centuries to locate water, graves and etc. I first learned about grave dowsing from a fellow volunteer at the Cass County Historical Society while working on "The Cemetery Project". Since that time, I have conducted several of my own experiments and researched different theories. I still don't know that answer as to just exactly why this technique works, but I can assure you that this technique does work and has been proven. I will attempt to teach you how to dowse for graves in this article.

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MAKING DOWSING RODS

There are several ways to make dowsing rods, but I since I have only used one of these methods, that is the method that I will recommend. 1. Start with 2 metal coat hangers. Cut them at the neck just before the point where they join to form the hook of the hanger. 2. Straighten each hanger, trying to get out all bends. 3. Once the hangers are straight, make a 90 degree bend for the handles. I recommend that the

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handles be 3 to 4 this will restrict inches long. You movement. Do not may need to vary the grip too tightly, only handle length deenough to keep the pending on the size rods parallel. of your hand. Just be 2. Approach the sussure that the handle pected gravesite, does not extend bewalking very slowly. low beneath the hand. This allows for 3. If a body is present, the rods will cross in a light grip and front of you when keeps the handle you are over the from obstructing grave. Once you step movement. off of the grave, they will uncross. BASIC DOWSING TECHNIQUE PRACTICE 1. Hold the rods lightly in your hands, with elbows at your waist and forearms parallel to the ground. The rods should be held straight out, also parallel to the ground and parallel with each other. Do not place your thumbs over the bend of the handle,

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Let me stress that in order for this method to work properly, you must go to a cemetery with marked graves and PRACTICE. Everyone develops a slight variance in their technique and just because something works for me does not mean that it will work exactly the same way for everyone. For

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some, this method will not work at all, but I have found that it works for at least 90% of the people that I have taught this method to. Some people have associated dowsing with witchcraft, however, I do not believe that 90% of the population are practicing witches, I'm certainly not which means that there has to be a scientific explanation and requires no "Special Powers" by the person who is performing the dowsing.

CEMETERY LAYOUTS

Most cemeteries in the United States bury their dead in a Christian manner. This means that all bodies are laid with the head pointing west and the feet pointing east. It is very im-

portant to remember this, as the layout of the body will later help you determine the gender of the person buried there and also help determine if the burial ground contains human remains. I have not yet experimented with Indian burial grounds. It is my understanding that many of them are buried in a sitting position so some alterations to this technique may be necessary while dowsing in Indian burial grounds or cemeteries with different religious backgrounds. The techniques I describe in this segment will be based on Christian burials.

LOCATING AN UNMARKED CEMETERY

As mentioned earlier,

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Christian graves are laid out in a west/east direction. When trying to locate a lost cemetery, it is best to walk in north/south direction in order to pick up a pattern. Usually you will find the graves to be separated by 2-3 feet. As you cross each grave, the rods will cross and then uncross as you step off of them. I find that I take 2-3 steps between each grave (this may vary depending on the size of your step, which is why practice is, important). If you find that a pattern develops (cross, 3 steps, cross, 3 steps, etc.) you have most likely found a cemetery. You will then need to determine the perimeter of the cemetery. By walking north and south, you can come pretty close to determining where the burials begin and end.

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When you reach the edge of the burial ground and are not longer picking up bodies, go back to the last grave and begin walking east and west. You will now be picking up on the length of the body, you will get some variances depending on rather infants, children or adults occupy the end graves. Keep walking east and west until you are no longer picking up bodies. By the time you have completed a square, you will have a good idea of the perimeters of the cemetery. Be sure to always check past the last body for at least 20 feet. Remember that you are looking for a pattern. You will find that Christian burial grounds are very well laid out. Side by side and head to toe in perfectly straight lines. This is important to note because animals

can also be picked up with dowsing rods, however, it would be unusual for an animal burial ground to be laid out so symmetrically. So, the symmetrical layout of the burials is your first clue that the remains are most likely human.

DETERMINING APPROXIMATE AGE

me, 1-2 steps indicates an infant, 2-3 a toddler, 3-4 a child, 5 an adolescent or short adult, 6 an adult and 7 a tall adult. Once again, this is where practicing with marked graves helps perfect your technique.

grave, hold one rod over your head. The rod will swing around and point to the feet of a male or the head of a female. I don't know the scientific reason for this, but I can only guess that each gender is polarized to the earth by different portion of the DETERMINING body. You may get a GENDER false reading. It is uncommon, but does happen, that a person can There are two methods accidentally be buried to determine gender of backwards. I have the person buried. The found this several times first one can give a false which is why method # reading depending on 2 is used as confirmarather the undertaker tion. buried the person corMethod 2: rectly, the second method has proven to (One-finger) Standing be foolproof, so far. It is over the center of the VERY important to use grave, balance the hanboth methods when de- dle of one rod on your termining rather a bur- index finger, holding ial site contains human the rod straight down. remains. The rod will begin

To determine the approximate age of the person buried in an unmarked grave, begin at the foot/head of the grave and walk the length. The rods will cross at the feet/head and remained crossed until you reach the other end (feet/head) at which time they will uncross when you step off of the body. I count Method 1: my steps as I walk the (Overhead) Standing length of the body. For over the center of a

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making a circular motion. It will rotate clockwise for a male and

counterclockwise for a female. No matter how the body is laid in the grave, this method will give the correct gender. This method can also be used when more than two people are buried in one coffin or one grave. In this case you will need to go over the entire grave using the one-finger method. If there is a break between the bodies or a difference in gender, the rods will swing in a pendulum motion and then resume a circular motion. This is good to use when an infant is buried with their mother, etc.

als, use the gender methods to determine the layout of the bodies. If all heads point west and the one-finger method agrees with the overhead method, then most likely you have found human remains.

CREMATIONS

Cremations are more difficult to pick up, however, they are detectable if the ashes were buried in a container. When crossing over the buried (contained) ashes, the rods will react differently, swinging together Combining the two from left to right in a methods will help dehorizontal pendulum termine human or ani- motion. You CANNOT mal remains. Animals determine gender. Uswill also register gender ing the one-finger but it is unlikely that method, the rod will cirthey will all be buried in cle either clockwise or a Christian manner. So counterclockwise and if you find several buri- then reverse direction,

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repeating the reversals over and over. If ashes were spread over an area, then of course, they have gone with the four winds and cannot be detected.

DETERMINING HUMAN REMAINS

As mentioned above, animals can be picked up using the rods for grave dowsing and the one-finger method WILL also determine their gender. This is where looking for the layout of the burial becomes important and combining all of the above techniques to make an accurate determination. While checking a field that contained unmarked slave burials, I came across a horse that had been buried. One oddity in checking the grave was

that if seemed to be extremely large. I had stepped off 9 paces for the length and about 45 for the width. This was an indication that something was not quite right. Doing the gender checks, the overhead method indicated female and the one-finger method agreed. Even though this appeared to be a Christian burial, the size remained questionable. I then had to use the one-finger method to get an exact layout of the body and discovered that it had legs protruding to one side. The size was a good indication that the remains were not human but by determining the body layout, I was able to confirm this. Most humans (hopefully) are buried on their backs, animals on their sides. Checking for these slight differences will

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confirm rather you have human or animal remains. Although a horse is quite larger than a human, dogs, cats and other smaller animals can easily be confused.

niques; however, this could easily be faked. In order to convince my audience that this method truly works, I asked for volunteers to test the method on living subjects. Much to their amazement, the rods will cross over the DEAD VS LIVING body of a living human while they are lying on the floor. They will also Since I starting using give a gender reading. this technique, I have So, the above theories often wondered what by scientist cannot be causes the rods to true if this method cross. I have done some works on living indiresearch and have viduals. It has to have found that several scisomething to do with entists claim that the the magnetic field given rods pick up a disturoff by our bodies that bance in the earth's remains with the body magnetic field, other's even after death. claim that they are picking up the gases from decaying bodies. I WATER DOWSING have proven that these theories are incorrect. I give a presentation on Water dowsing is done dowsing and use a much the same way as video tape to demonyour basic grave dowsstrate the different tech- ing, however I have

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found a slight difference in the reaction of the rods when finding a large body of underground water. For me, when I walk over an area that contains a well or larger body of water, my rods begin to take me in a circular motion, both of them pulling me to one direction and around. On water pipes, however, I still get the rod crossing. This segment is important as you must learn to recognize rather you are picking up on a burial or on a water source. You can usually solve this rather quickly by following the length. Most of the time, your water source is a water pipe and once you find the direction that the pipe is laid, the rods will stay crossed as long as you remain over it. One step to the left or right though, will cause your rods to uncross,

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further establishing the fact that you are over a pipe. This is great for finding the water pipes in your yard and will save money if you ever have to have them dug up.

PRACTICE

Once again, I'm including another segment on practice. I cannot stress the importance of this enough. You cannot be sure that the readings you are getting are accurate unless you have perfected the technique while practicing on marked graves. Do not look at the stone before you attempt dowsing. Do all the methods mentioned above, make your determination and then verify it with the information on the stone. Doing this over and over again, varying

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gender and ages, and soon you will become comfortable enough to be confident of your dowsing. The more comfortable you become, the more sensitive you will become with the rods. If you are having trouble getting this method to work for you, then you are probably holding the rods too tightly, placing your thumbs over the bends of the rods or walking too fast. If you can rule out these three most common problems, then you probably fall within the 10% who cannot perform this technique.

PROVEN RESULTS

There are many skeptics who will say that this technique does not work. In the summer of 2000, I was given the

opportunity to prove that grave dowsing does work when I was called to a local cemetery to check a lot for unmarked graves. Upon dowsing, I found 3 unmarked graves located in the lot. The family, doubting this method, instructed the funeral home to dig anyway. Two wooden coffins were found in the exact locations that the dowsing rods had indicated, the 3rd location was not checked. Was this just luck? You be the judge.

THEORY UPDATE

of the rods when determining gender, vary. In some instances, they react the opposite of what I have reported here. This is why practicing in a marked cemetery in the same geographical location is important. I now feel that the longitude and latitudes of the earth affect the polarity reaction of the rod reading.

I was fortunate enough to interview Brenda over the phone and soon found a kindred spirit. Brenda has been Dowsing for over 10 years. Her article on Grave Dowsing was the first article online dealing with the subject and has been published all over the world. Brenda was modest when I asked how many she had taught Dowsing to Brenda Marble over the years, she reCass County Historical plied that the numbers & Genealogy Society had to be in the hunVolunteer dreds. I personally MOCASSFIND@aol.com think it is closer rather to thousands.

I found this great ArtiAfter further expericle here: (click here) menting in different after doing a Google geographical locations Search and have reand receiving reports printed it here in Tefrom other dowsers who merity Magazine after have tried this method obtaining permission thoughtout the United by the Author, States, we are finding that that the reactions Brenda Marble of

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