We Had to Abandon Our Vehicle to Even Find This Place...

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:01]Uhoh.

[00:00:05]Go around.

[00:00:07]Maybe you look up through. There's an even bigger one up there.

[00:00:16]Walk.

[00:00:17]>> Can't be more than a couple hundred yards, right?

[00:00:19]>> We're halfway. Yeah, >> no problem.

[00:00:34]Well, hey folks. My name is Brad. If you happen to be new to my videos, I explore the mountains of Vermont, searching for treasure with my metal detector. And today's video is part of my misadventure series. Days that just don't go quite as planned. Today I am out once again up in the mountains, invited this time by my friend Andy. We met Andy last year on some of his family's land, but today he has invited us out uh to some of his friends land. In fact, his friends are going to be joining us uh with their two children here for a little while before we head off on our own. There are two or three old foundations on this mountain property. We did bring the four-wheeler to get to them initially, but I think we're going to have to abandon it and walk to the other foundations.

[00:01:25]High hopes today. One seller hole. You never know. But if we've got two backups, hopefully we find some awesome stuff today.

[00:01:44]>> Wow.

[00:01:45]>> You know what this is?

[00:01:46]>> No.

[00:01:47]>> This is the basement to a house, but the house is gone.

[00:01:51]>> What happened? Yeah, it just got real old and rotted away.

[00:01:56]>> The houses.

[00:02:00]>> So, >> it looks like somebody's been here.

[00:02:03]>> There's a bunch of iron on the stones over here. Uh, >> there's a sugaring pan evaporator pan over there. I found some uh buckets over there, I would guess.

[00:02:18]I mean, that's definitely a home basement. You found it before us.

[00:02:23]>> Pretty good, >> I would guess. Um, probably like you said, 1830s.

[00:02:29]>> But then it looks like they retrofitted some kind of sugaring operation here probably 100 years ago.

[00:02:33]>> Yeah.

[00:02:34]>> But and there's paps everywhere. Paps cans.

[00:02:37]>> We'll check it out. Pretty confident this is going to be a beer can. Ps.

[00:02:48]No, there's a lead pipe. Okay, that makes sense cuz there is a spring right up here pulling the water from the spring.

[00:03:02]A lot of iron.

[00:03:04]This was down here is where I was finding all the lead pipe from the spring.

[00:03:10]But, uh, I'll cross my fingers for you.

[00:03:19]lead pipe.

[00:03:20]>> Pipe wamp wamp.

[00:03:22]>> Bummer.

[00:03:25]>> All right. Right here we have a 55.

[00:03:33]Whoa.

[00:03:36]>> What's that?

[00:03:37]>> I found a spoon.

[00:03:40]>> That must be from a house.

[00:03:42]>> It is from the house. Look how pretty. I don't think I've ever seen a spoon quite like this one, but the bowl is all scalloped almost.

[00:03:51]H, it's very interesting. Looks like a seashell. So, we have a lot of silver plating on the handle.

[00:03:59]>> Yeah, >> there you go.

[00:04:02]After spending about an hour finding only shotgun shells, trash, and a single spoon, Andy and I part ways with the owners of the property and start driving to the second of the three known ruins on the mountain. That is until we hit a roadb block. Go around maybe.

[00:04:27]Although, if you look up through there's an even bigger one up there.

[00:04:35]walk. It >> can't be more than a couple of hundred yards, right?

[00:04:38]>> We're halfway.

[00:04:39]>> Yeah, >> no problem.

[00:04:48]Look at that.

[00:04:50]>> Beautiful.

[00:05:01]Yeah. Should be right up there.

[00:05:03]>> Yeah.

[00:05:12]>> Yep.

[00:05:13]>> That's beautiful. A little bit more grown up than the last one, but we at foundation number two here.

[00:05:24]And looks interesting.

[00:05:29]Real wet down here.

[00:05:33]Oh yeah, a swamp.

[00:05:40]Well, unbelievably, we haven't found anything here. Some uh 22 shell casings and and junk. And always ask ourselves, despite being on private property and the land owner saying it's never been metal detected, always ask, does it seem like it's been metal detected? And this place uh does. They obviously can't find everything. But the question is, is it worth our time to stay here or move on to another one that's on the property?

[00:06:13]And uh considering I've been meting here for 20 30 minutes and have not found one interesting thing, I think that we might move. So, we'll talk to Andy. I have to go find the four-wheeler that we left a long time ago. Move on to the next.

[00:06:29]After leaving that second foundation, we retrace our steps back to the four-wheeler, drive it towards the third and final location, but end up having to abandon it again and continue on foot.

[00:06:45]What do you think? Does this look better?

[00:06:48]>> I think so.

[00:06:50]There's no barrel bands laying all over the ground.

[00:07:00]Question is, are we going to find the Wheeler again?

[00:07:06]>> Yeah, this is a 61 right on the edge of the foundation here.

[00:07:18]That's a shell casing.

[00:07:21]Over here though, I think I see a skull.

[00:07:26]that back out.

[00:07:33]Oo there >> woodchuck.

[00:07:36]>> Ah, look at that.

[00:07:38]>> I assume his teeth just fell out. Poor guy.

[00:07:47]Yeah.

[00:07:51]Well, this sounds like it's legitimately right on top, but it's a 90, which is an amazing target.

[00:08:00]I'm going check with a pinpointer to be safe.

[00:08:04]Yeah, right here.

[00:08:08]Yes.

[00:08:13]H.

[00:08:15]Oh, interesting. So, it I think it was just last year I found a foot just like this one. And I had no idea what it was, but I speculated in the video and the comments below the video had some great ideas. And I think that the one that makes the most sense is the foot on the bottom of an old mantel clock. Now, often times those mantel clocks were just a beautiful wood frame with wood feet, but makes sense to me that they might have heavy feet like this. Other ideas were little boxes, jewelry boxes, treasure chests. I think probably manic clock makes the most sense. That's a cool find. Interesting. It was so shallow, too.

[00:08:56]That's a pretty loud. 77.

[00:09:03]Oh, nice.

[00:09:05]That is of course a harmonica read.

[00:09:09]We find these pretty often and they come in all different sizes. Sometimes they get really big and long. Uh but this is just one of two parts of a harmonica.

[00:09:19]This brass plate has all these holes in it. There would have been these little brass reads to cover these holes and when you blow in or you blow out, they vibrate and make the note. Very, very common find at old places like this. It was a fairly inexpensive instrument.

[00:09:38]Somewhat easy to play.

[00:09:41]Um, very, very common find. Really cool.

[00:09:46]Right here we have a very loud 76 just feet away from the harmonica.

[00:09:57]Very shallow.

[00:10:01]Well, wouldn't you know it, the rest of the harmonica? This one actually has a lot of the reads left.

[00:10:08]Cuz see these little flaps here? That's cool. Lucky guess. I I had a suspicion.

[00:10:13]It was so close to the other one. It might be the rest of it. This would have been sandwiched in wood, and the wood is obviously gone, but these remain.

[00:10:20]It's the rest of the harmonica.

[00:10:26]>> Oo. Yeah. Not too bad. Have to clean it up. Heck yeah.

[00:10:31]>> Let's see. Too bad I couldn't find the other piece of it.

[00:10:34]>> Oh, it was broken a little bit. Bummer.

[00:10:36]>> That's all right, though.

[00:10:37]>> Still a great find. I love finding these.

[00:10:40]>> Yep. Definitely a farm, I would say.

[00:10:42]Mountain farm, you know.

[00:10:43]>> For sure.

[00:10:44]>> Sleigh bells on their uh horserawn sleigh coming up in here.

[00:10:48]>> Awesome.

[00:10:53]All right, we got a real nice 84.

[00:11:04]What is this?

[00:11:13]That is a mystery to me. It's a big oval piece of brass. It looks like we have two almost like cle almost like square nail heads but made out of brass riveted over on the back. and then a screw in the middle. What its original purpose was, I have no idea. It feels like maybe some string or something got wrapped around that or maybe some leather went on the outside of this and then it was riveted on using these and then screwed to a piece of wood.

[00:11:46]Never seen anything quite like that before, but it seems very utilitarian.

[00:11:51]Something to a wagon or a saddle or something like that. Interesting.

[00:11:59]86 right on the bank below the foundation. Huh?

[00:12:08]Come on. What is that?

[00:12:10]>> Is it a heart?

[00:12:12]>> No. Some kind?

[00:12:14]>> No, it isn't. I've never found one of those.

[00:12:16]>> That is neat.

[00:12:18]Huh.

[00:12:19]>> Heel plate.

[00:12:20]>> Is that what that is?

[00:12:21]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:12:22]>> Oh, that is cool.

[00:12:22]>> Yep. That's a heel plate to a lady's shoe.

[00:12:25]>> Yeah. And they had them as hearts. They had them as clubs. I've heard you could find diamonds and spades as well.

[00:12:31]>> Really?

[00:12:32]>> I've never found one of the whatever that is that shape before.

[00:12:35]>> It's an awesome find. They actually have this awesome story about the hearts where um uh ladies of the night would wear the heart-shaped ones and then there would be customers could follow the trail of hearts to uh the the home.

[00:12:47]>> Well, maybe we'll get lucky.

[00:12:50]>> That's an awesome one.

[00:12:51]>> Yeah, that is really neat.

[00:12:55]Just a 56.

[00:13:03]Oo. Wow. Actually, that's a suspender design I don't think I've ever seen before. And I have found a lot of suspenders.

[00:13:14]It's real small. Oop, we lost the teeth.

[00:13:18]The teeth fell right out.

[00:13:21]That's okay. Yeah, the teeth still swiveled until a moment ago when the little brackets broke. But this is really pretty kind of smaller design I've never seen before. Typically, they're very long widthwise.

[00:13:35]This one is very narrow.

[00:13:38]Maybe it's not for suspenders. Maybe it's for something else. I mean, it's it's set up like suspenders. Have a hook. This would have hooked onto a little loop and everything. But that's interesting.

[00:13:51]The most interesting suspender I have found in a while, that's for sure.

[00:13:56]Oh, right on the edge, huh?

[00:14:01]High tone. Coin toned.

[00:14:03]>> Coin tone.

[00:14:07]>> Yep. It's a penny, looks like.

[00:14:09]>> Is it?

[00:14:09]>> Looks like it. Yep.

[00:14:15]Not quite tell what it is, but >> it's got Abraham Lincoln on it.

[00:14:22]>> Does it?

[00:14:25]>> I think it's I think it's a wheat scent.

[00:14:27]But you know, there could be barber dimes in the same area.

[00:14:30]>> Exactly.

[00:14:31]>> Barbus, maybe a Morgan.

[00:14:36]I got a really loud 83 under this fallen tree that's coming right out of the foundation.

[00:14:52]What was it doing there? Oh man, that's a actually a very small ox knob.

[00:15:01]Um, an ox knob like this one would have been placed on the end of an ox's horns.

[00:15:08]And this was just they would cut off the tips, put these on there, and it would make them a little bit safer to be around without, you know, getting a horn stuck in you. This one it looks like, is much smaller, like half the size of some I have found.

[00:15:28]Not exactly sure when boines start growing horns, but apparently uh quite young. It's really cool. Common find farms like this.

[00:15:41]Well, this is a really comp complicated target here. Sounds like it's right on top, though. So, we're going to use the pinpointer.

[00:15:52]Oh, it's a horseshoe, I think.

[00:15:57]Nope, not a horseshoe.

[00:16:00]May I mean, no, it seems like it's I don't know. I think that it started its life as a horseshoe or something that was meant to become a horseshoe, right?

[00:16:15]It's just not formed into one yet or it was one that was formed into something new. Look like a giant staple.

[00:16:26]But it's the perfect size. This top is the perfect shape for a horseshoe.

[00:16:31]That's interesting.

[00:16:36]Got a small or possibly deep 80. Sounds great.

[00:16:51]Well, it's green.

[00:16:56]and really interesting looking.

[00:16:59]Whoa.

[00:17:03]What do you suppose that was? Well, it isn't very often I find something I have no idea what it is, but at places like this from the end of the 1800s, there's no telling what you can find. And this thing is gorgeous. I don't know what it is. I have to assume it goes to a big dresser. It seems like maybe it went to the foot. It's almost like a just a little pretty appointment uh for maybe the corner or the bottom foot of a a dresser or a chest or who knows? But it's beautiful. You can see that there's one hole for, you know, a nail or a screw and then on the back it seems like there's a post for maybe another nail.

[00:17:44]I'm not sure. I don't recognize it. It could have gone to anything, honestly.

[00:17:48]But it is beautiful.

[00:17:55]Check it out.

[00:17:59]>> Oh, look at that. That is beautiful.

[00:18:02]Maybe for >> one hole and then there's a post right here.

[00:18:04]>> So maybe it went on like a a door or a dresser or something.

[00:18:08]>> I think like a dresser. Yeah.

[00:18:09]>> Yeah.

[00:18:10]>> Oh, that's beautiful.

[00:18:13]And it was at this point we decided to call it a day and start trying to find that four-wheeler again so we could actually make it home. While we didn't exactly walk off the mountain with our backpacks full of treasure on this particular trip, we certainly enjoyed the adventure. Thanks again for watching and hopefully you'll join me next Friday for another new adventure somewhere in the mountains of Vermont.