Gardener Reveals The Craziest Things Spotted In People’s Backyards

1. A Dinosaur bone:

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Imagine the surprise when a gardener pulled out a fossilized bone whilst in someone's garden. Expecting it to be perhaps an old bone from an existing animal, experts identified it as a fragment of a herbivore dinosaur from the Cretaceous period, meaning it was tens of millions of years old!

2. Buried treasure:

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Buried treasure is something that lucky gardeners have stumbled across whilst at work, and had to inform the owner. They have discovered real, ancient buried treasure. One gardener found jewels, including rubies and sapphires from hundreds of years ago!

3. 1000 year old human remains:

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One gardener was digging in the garden beds when he discovered something that caught his eye. He didn't recognize the bone as any animal he knew of, so when he had it identified and tested by experts it was found that this was the remains of a 1,000 human.

4. A World War II Bunker:

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A gardener in the suburbs of London found a small, underground structure. He could see the walls were made of enforced concrete. He continued to dig to discover what the structure was. It was then realized that it was an underground bunker from World War II to hideout during air raids.

5. Lost graves from the 1700s:

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In the garden of a historic estate in Williamsburg, Virginia, a set of graves were found in a surprisingly well-preserved condition. The graves date right back to the 1700s. The graves belonged to a historic family cemetery who had settled in the region. The headstones made of local stone were still intact and dates could still be read on the graves.

6. Secret passageways:

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In a centuries-old estate, a gardener discovered a series of secret passageways buried under layers of overgrown ivy and plants. There are many theories about the secret passageways, some believe they were used to smuggle goods. Others believe that the passages may have been escape routes during the war.

7. New species of plants:

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A gardener in South America near the rainforest discovered a new undiscovered botanical gem.  It had never been named or identified before, previous to this discovery. It had a luminous appearance which was since given the scientific name 'flora luminous'.

8. Meteorites:

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An American family was gardening in their backyard when they discovered a series of strange-looking rocks that turned out to be meteorites! The rocks from space were dated from centuries ago. A meteorite shower had occurred and fragments had landed in the garden, buried and undiscovered for many years.

9. Undetonated bomb:

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Another gardener in the middle of an urban garden in Tewkesbury, England in 2023 stumbled across a bomb that had not been detonated. The bomb squad was called to secure the area and safely remove the bomb to prevent it from causing any damage. It was since destroyed and it is suspected that the bomb originated from WW2.

10. Native American artefacts:

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The unearthing of Native American artefacts by a gardener came as an important historical discovery! It unearthed ceremonial objects and tools that provided historical and significant information on the cultural heritage of Native American communities.

11. Undiscovered time capsule:

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In this instance, a gardener was digging super deep to test the soil when right under the roots of an ancient oak tree they came across a man-made object. After retrieving it, it was a time capsule from around 100 years ago and it contains letters that could still be read, as well as personal items like a teddy bear.

12. 19th-century coins worth $8 million:

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One couple was gardening like any other Saturday morning in a small English village. This time, rather than the usual rocks and pebbles they found a  huge cache of 19th century coins. The collection was worth $8 million and it was the biggest collection of old coins that had ever been found.

13. A 16 million-year-old whale fossil:

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A gardener in South Carolina dug up a 16 million-year-old whale fossil whilst gardening in their backyard. The fossil had been preserved in the sedimentary layers of soil and earth, and more than just a bone there was almost a complete whale skeleton. Experts from the local Universities were immediately called to help excavate the prehistoric giant.

14. Stash of cash:

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Tucked away right beneath a rosemary bush in a countryside English town, a gardener found a box buried quite deep that had clearly been stowed away. When it was pulled out and opened there were neatly packed bundles of cash. The origins are still a mystery but that didn't stop the theories circulating about robberies and runaway criminals.

15. A cannonball:

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In a garden in Charleston, South Carolina a cannonball was discovered whilst gardening. The cannonball dates right back to the Civil War era. The Cannonball unleashed new information about the area having an important historical role to play in the Civil War.

16. A hidden room:

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A gardener recently discovered a hidden room in a historic neighborhood in New Orleans. It was a kind of hidden chamber which could be accessed by a hidden trapdoor within the oak tree. Inside were old furniture and books. Local historians believe it could have been an escape from local hurricanes.

17. A Ferrari:

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Imagine the surprise when a gardener found an entire Ferrari deep inside the earth of one of his client's homes. The Ferrari had been used in a police chase many years ago and buried along with the evidence of the crimes only to be unleashed many years later.

18. Underground railroad site:

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A homeowner discovered an underground railroad underneath her garden in a town in Pennsylvania. The site had a hidden compartment, a shed, personal documents, and symbolic markings which experts believe were used as a safe house by slaves who had managed to escape.

19. Relics from the Civil War:

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A gardener in Fredericksburg, Virginia found a whole trove and relics that dated right back to the Civil War era. Right there in the garden was a uniform, a bayonet along with several musket balls. The relics were donated to the local museum where they could be witnessed by the community.

20. Abandoned wells:

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In a country town in Georgia, a gardener was planting some roots deep down when he noticed the earth's dangerous opening up beneath him. When he kept digging the open space under him was growing until he soon discovered a well that had been abandoned and covered which could have caused someone serious damage.

21. Pre-historic shark teeth:

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A gardener working in a backyard in Florida near Venice Beach came across a collection of prehistoric shark teeth in their garden. Some of these teeth dated back millions of years, as they had been perfectly preserved in the sandy earth! One tooth in particular came from a megalodon shark.

22. Sunken swimming pools:

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When you buy a house or begin gardening, you do not expect to find that your garden is sitting above an old abandoned pool. But a woman in South Carolina found exactly that as soon as she started to re-order her garden she came into contact with many blue tiles dating back a few decades ago.

23. Roman coins:

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Roman coins were discovered by a gardener in a rural Italian town. They were extremely well preserved and dated back to the height of the Roman Empire. The unexpected discovery gave valuable insight into the link between the Roman Empire and that particular town!

24. Stone Age tools:

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While finding objects from recent history is amazing, it's even more special to discover ancient objects, as one gardener did in France when they stumbled across a collection of Stone Age tools in their garden. The collection included all kinds of tools such as hand axes, scrapers, and arrowheads.

25. Vintage film reels:

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In the backyard of an old estate in Japan, a gardener discovered a set of vintage film reels from the early 20th century. Despite not being historic, the films were still intact and showed records of life one hundred years ago in Japan, from the perspective of an ordinary person.

26. Ancient pottery kilns:

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A garner unveiled the remains of ancient pottery kilns in their garden that dates all the way back to the Bronze Age. The garden was situated on the Mediterranean island, of Cyprus, and was taken from the garden and studied by local historians and University students.

27. Vintage glass bottles:

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A collection of vintage glass bottles from New York from the 19th century were unearthed. The glasses ranged in size and shape, and the majority of them were still perfectly intact after years of being buried underneath the dirt. It is thought that in the past, the area became a kind of dumping ground for household items.

28. The bones of a mastodon:

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In Los Angeles, an amazing discovery was made by a gardener. They found the poems of a mastodon which dated 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. The prehistoric Mastodon is not extinct, making it a remarkable relic from the past. It had been preserved in the sediment of the garden for all this time.

29. Church bells:

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A gardener also found church bells buried in a garden in an English village. They were 18th-century bells, thought to be the original set from the local church, The biggest mystery was that the bells had been buried or hidden for unknown reasons, only to be replaced with a different set of church bells.

30. Thieves contraband:

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Something that many gardeners have discovered around the world, built deep into garden beds, has been the contraband of thieves either new or old. In Nevada for example, a bag full of women and a weapon were discovered buried in somebody's garden with no idea as to how they had gotten there.