On the Oregon coast, science, legend, and wild theories are intertwined at Nehalem, where archaeologists, historians, treasure hunters, and crackpots attempt to dig out the past.

Watch the slide show from our May 2010 Club Hunt.

Over two dozen people were seen scouring parts of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park with metal detectors in recent weeks

Orvin Farmer Jr. finds history in England, some amazingly beautiful finds including a Romano/British bronze razor back pig with red emerald eyes

The National Forests in NC wants to prohibit leaving geocaches in Wildernesses, Experimental Forests or Wild and Scenic River corridors, and limiting the possession or use of metal detectors on National Forest lands.

Police reported that a treasure hunter enthusiast with a metal detector located an unexploded “artillery ordnance device” that was found a few yards from the pavement near 47th Street in Garden City

On Friday and Saturday, January 15-16, 2010, The Grand National Relic Shootout (GNRS) had a relic hunt on the Castle Hall Plantation in South Carolina. This was an active plantation from the colonial era through the civil war.

Ever since Scott Mitchen unearthed his first Indian-head nickel at the site of an old country store parking lot in Benoit at the age of 10, he has been infected with allure of treasure hunting.

A higher federal court will now hear the legal dispute over just who owns the richest sunken treasure ever found, either Tampa’s Odyssey Marine, which found the treasure, or Spain, which claims it as a historic artifact.

January is National Hobby Month, and here is why I believe the hobby of metal detecting is one of the most exciting and rewarding hobbies. Thirty-five years ago, I purchased my first metal detector