4/4/25 Report - A Photo Survey of Indian River Treasure Beaches. And One South Hutchinson Island Beach.

 Written by the TreasurseGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Turtle Trail South Around Eleven Thursday.

Yesterday DJ took photos of many of the Indian River treasure beaches.  I am posting those now.  You can see beach conditions as well as where the beach goers are gathering.  

The photos were taken between 11 AM and noon. As you can see, the tide was pretty low.

The only cut that you can see is to the south of the Ambersands access, and that is in renourishment sand pretty far away from the dunes.  That has been a common erosion area over the past few years.

Turtle Trail Thursday

Seagrape Trail Thursday.

Seagrape Trail Thursday.

Wabasso Thursday.

Wabasso Thursday.

Golden SandsThursday.

Golden Sands Thursday.

Ambersands Thursday.

Ambersands Thursday.

That gives you a pretty good overview of that stretch of beaches   Many of the snowbirds have gone home.

Thanks to DJ for that.  It gives you a good picture in case you were trying to decide where you want to detect.

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Jumping down to South Hutchinson Island...

Beach Cam from Surfguru.com.
Fort Pierce South Jetty.

That is an interesting photo.  I like to know where the sand is being moved from or to.  I might have to check that out.  The photo is from the Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Cam.

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Don't forget the rich source of information provided by the elderly.  

There is so much talk these days about the difficulties of the elderly, including especially memory problems and things like dementia.  It is easy to discount the older folks as all being like that and having nothing to offer.  That is a big mistake.  The benefits of years of experience can be overlooked by those who don't have it.  You can't really understand or appreciated it until you are there.  

The young have no idea.  They have their own strengths and talents, but experience adds deeper lays of understanding and perspective.  You are making a big mistake and overlooking a great resource of you don't recognize that.

In recent years I had three relatives that were 95 or older.  Everybody is quick to see their memory problems - even when they aren't really memory problems.  Observers often INCORRECTLY jump to a conclusion of dementia or medical conditions like that, when what they are observing is really something else.  

In her 95th year my mother could tell me details of her youth that demonstrated a remarkably detailed memory of decades ago.  I found a bunch of little printed cards bearing the names of her fellow high school students. That was from back around 1940.  I'd pick up one of those cards and ask her if she remembered the person named, and remarkably, she almost always did.  I was amazed.  Her memory was very good despite the many years.

To determine competence, the elderly are often asked some basic questions and if they can't answer them, they are presumed to have memory problems, but there are other reasons the elderly might not be able to answer basic questions that you might think everybody should be able to answer.  For example, many of the elderly have sight and hearing problems.  It is sometimes a matter of input, not memory.  There are times when they don't correctly hear the question or mistake what is being talked about. They can be cut off from much current news and information.  If you can't see or hear, it is easy to get things wrong. There are times when they incorrectly hear the question.

Imagine this: if you had limited mobility, had no appointments or responsibilities to take care of, and all your days seemed the same, after a while, you might not know the day of the week - something most of the world would think you should know even thought they might get it wrong once in a while.  You wouldn't check the calendar because there would be little reason to do so, and if you had vision problems, you might not be able to read it anyhow.  And now with phones and electronics, we see the date and time a hundred times a day, along with being constantly updated on current events, but that is not something a 95-year-old will be doing.  And poor hearing can make it difficult to follow radio or TV.   These kinds of things are not considered by observers, including professionals that deal with older people and should know better.

I remember when my mother-in-law had low oxygen levels and passed out.  She was put in the back of an ambulance and taken to a huge hospital she had never been to before.  My wife and I caught a flight and found our way to the hospital, and the nurse said my wife's mother was demented or something.  She said her didn't know where she was.  How could she?  I didn't know where I was either.  I was never there before, and I just wondered through miles of hallways, all of which looked exactly alike.  It was crazy to think my mother-in-law could possibly know where she was, whether she had low blood oxygen levels or not.  Use your head people.  There is a world of difference in circumstances.  And much of what is judged to be memory issues with the elderly have a lot to do with other circumstances, including social as well as medical conditions.

Yes, some elderly people have memory issues.  But not all of their difficulties are due to a failing memory.  Memory is contextual. That is a big and statement that could be a book.  I'll have to leave at that for now though. 

My more important point today, is that even when the elderly might seem past it, they still know a lot.  They are often very good at recalling the distant past.  Their memory can be very detailed, especially for things long ago.  If you want to know what it was like in the past, it isn't a bad idea to talk to someone that was there.

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Surf Chart From SurfGuru.com.

Looks like a higher surf around next Thursday.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

4/3/25 Report - WWI Sub Washed Up on Beach. Metal Detector Technology. Extending Your Senses. Vegetation Provides Clues.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

In the aftermath of the First World War, a remarkable event unfolded in Britain, causing a stir among military and civilian circles: the unexpected arrival of the German U-boat SM U-118. The fact this once-mighty war machine was stranded on British soil (or, to be more precise, sand) was both spectacular and puzzling...

The Allies intended to tow U-118 to Brest. On April 15, 1919, while journeying to the French port city, a storm struck and the U-boat broke from her towing lines. This is how she washed ashore on a beach in Hastings, Sussex. U-118 beached around 12:45 AM, right in front of the famous Queens Hotel. While efforts were made to dislodge the vessel, all were unsuccessful...

U-118 was completed dismantled by 1921. While there are no visible remnants left on the beach in Hastings, it’s always possible that some fragments of the German vessel remain hidden beneath the sand.

Here is a link for more about that.

The Dramatic Arrival of the German U-boat SM U-118 On a British Beach

And here is another link for a video on the same topic.

The WW1 Submarine That Washed Up | Watch

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I discussed some CIA documents on the subject of remote viewing a couple days ago.  While that is a controversial topic, very much like many topics related to parapsychology, I'm sure there are some individuals that are very interested in remote viewing while there will be others that immediately dismiss it as foolishness.  If you are someone that is open to such things and perhaps even a little intrigued, you might find the following link of interest.  The site gives step-by-step methods for practicing and improving performance for the remote viewer.  If you are interested, give it a try.  Here is the link.  

5 Key Exercises to Strengthen Your Remote Viewing Practice | Reality Pathing

I never discourage investigation.  Whether you believe in the reality of such things or not, you can increase your understanding by objectively investigating for yourself.  Even if you end up dismissing something as complete foolishness, you'll likely learn something from the investigation.

Right around fifty years ago I was conducting post-doctoral research in biofeedback.  Biofeedback employs physiological measurements and feedback to improve self-awareness and control of mental, emotional and physiological states.  I haven't thought much about biofeedback in the last few decades and decided to see what, if anything, was going on in the field these days.  I took a look at an article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (Vol. 22, Issue 7, July 2020).  The article is entitled, "An Integrative Model for the Effectiveness of Biofeedback Interventions for Anxiety Regulation."  Here is the link.  An Integrative Model for the Effectiveness of Biofeedback Interventions for Anxiety Regulation: Viewpoint - ScienceDirect

I should have known.  Although I have barely thought of the subject in a few decades, it is still going on in pretty much the same way it was some fifty years ago.  Of course, there have been some advances, which to me seem fairly trivial, but to someone more immersed in the field, might seem hugely important

I have a similar feeling about metal detecting.  After a number of decades, we are still using metal detectors that to me seem very much like those used decades ago, yet there are changes and improvements.  I guess I am someone that expects bigger changes over time, when, in fact, such those kinds of changes happen very infrequently.  

I remember big claims about metal detectors being able to show you what is in the ground before you dig it.  That was decades ago.  I expected to someday be able to see a fairly realistic picture of the buried target rather than a fuzzy hard-to-make-out blurr, but we are still listening to beeps and watching dials or digital readouts.  

To some the technological advancements that have been made might seem to be of a revolutionary magnitude, but to me they don't seem very impressive.  I still believe that a couple of the metal detectors I used a few decades ago are as good or better than those I use today.  I'm sure others would feel differently.  Back then I was mostly using what I'd describe as power detectors. They did one thing, and did it well - detect metal targets at depth.  They were engineered for Florida saltwater beaches and other than ground balancing didn't offer adjustments or controls. They didn't have fancy readouts or, but I'm not one to make much use of a lot of those kinds of things anyhow. That is just how I approach things.  I don't expect the metal detector to tell me a lot.  I put more into interpreting the signal and the situation myself, rather than expecting the detector to make decisions for me.  I tend to depend more upon my own senses and processing power rather than relying so much on the signal processing power of the detector.

You can look at a metal detector as an added sensory system (you might say a sixth sense).  It allows you to sense changes in the electromagnetic fields in the ground.  Some human visual processing takes place in the retina, and some takes place in the brain (CNS).  Today's detectors attempt to move more of the processing to the metal detector (sensory system) rather in the Central Nervous System of the operator (you).  A lot of the skill of using a detector occurs in the operator's CNS, even though they are attempting to make the detectors more intelligent.

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One of the things I like about metal detecting is being outdoors with nature.  While detecting, don't forget to enjoy the natural environment.  Pay attention.  It helps in more ways than one.

Have you heard of the Univeristy of Florida Institue of Food and Agricultural Science (UF/IFAS) No Mow March program?  Florida flora and fauna is pretty active in March.  I recently mentioned how at the end of winter the vegetation is less thick, but in March that starts to change.

Researchers found that it is better to mow your yard no more than every other week in March.  By doing that you will allow the wildflowers and helpful vegetation to bloom and flourish.  That helps the pollinators.

I'm all for mowing less.  I do a good job of that.  Mowing uses fossil fuels, pollutes, and is noisy.  Furthermore, manicured lawns might look nice to those who have no particular love for nature, but it takes lot of time and resources.  I always thought it was crazy to water and fertilize and do everything to make your grass grow so you can cut it. 

IFAS says...

Bugs love weeds. This combination is likely the bane of most homeowners—the stereotypical lawn is typically bug-free and a bright green monoculture of one turf species. But when it comes to the health of the ecosystem, bugs and weeds are tremendous contributors. Native insect pollinators thrive on the pollen of low-growing grasses, herbs, and wildflowers.

According to a study conducted by the USDA Forest Service, reducing frequency of mowing can improve both diversity and abundance of bee species. During the study, typical home lawns were mowed at intervals ranging from weekly, every two weeks, and every three weeks. After analyzing the data collected over two summers, they found that species diversity was highest among those lawns cut every three weeks. However, the bigger numbers (abundance) of bees were seen in those cut every two weeks. This frequency seemed to provide “plenty of lawn flowers combined with shorter grass that made access to lawn flowers easier."...

Here is the link for more about that.

Weekly "What is it?": No Mow March - UF/IFAS Extension Escambia County

As I've mentioned before, my wife got into raising butterflies, which I've come to enjoy too.  It is very entertaining and educational.

We've learned to identify the plants used by different species for food and as host plants to lay their eggs and feed caterpillars.  Different types of butterflies use different plants as host plants.  They will search out those plants and only lay their eggs on those specific plants.

When we began our butterfly adventures we didn't know the host plants for the different butterflies.  We have learned to identify the host plants in our yard, which before, we didn't even know we had.

Maybe you've noticed more of the Florida White butterflies lately.  Evey year about this time you'll see more of them.  A couple days ago we noticed a White laying eggs on a "weed" in our yard.  We didn't know all of the host plants for this species, but learned the plant the White was using was a Virginia Pepperweed, which is also edible for humans.  Nice to know, and increases our awareness of nature and our own yard.

Similarly, in the past we learned we have the corkstem passion flowers.  Of the varieties of passion flowers, some produce wildly fancy flowers as well as edible fruit.  See Can drinking passionflower tea before bed help you sleep?  

Paying attention to the things around you will pay dividends.  You'll become generally more aware of your environment, which always helps in treasure hunting.  

Plants can provide important clues to the nature of the soil, as well as previous historic activities in the area.  You might notice hints of the old pineapple plantations or the Australian Pines that were brought to Florida in the 1890s to act as wind breaks or the gumbo limbos that were used by indigenous tribes to mark burials, just to provide a few examples.

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Source: SurfGuru.com.

Not much to get excited about there

On finishing this post, I was amazed by the variety of topics and the common threads running through them, some being more obvious than others.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@ccomcast.net

4/2/25 Report - A Great Eye-Ball Find by a Three-Year-Old. The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial. AI Lies.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

A 3-year-old girl who was walking with her family along a trail in Israel unexpectedly found a piece of history: a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet...

Archaeologists later determined that it was a Canaanite scarab from the Middle Bronze Age. According to ancient texts, Canaan included parts of modern-day Israel, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.

"Scarabs were used in this period as seals and as amulets," Daphna Ben-Tor, an expert in ancient amulets and seals at The Israel Museum, said in a statement. "They were found in graves, in public buildings and in private homes. Sometimes they bear symbols and messages, that reflect religious beliefs or status."...

Here is the link for more about that.

3-year-old picks up 'beautiful stone,' discovers 3,800-year-old scarab amulet in Israel

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In a previous post I tested out some readily available free AI models and, as I reported, got some incorrect information.   My tests weren't extensive but pointed out something to be aware of.  A LiveScience article reports that one group of researchers found that AI systems will lie when pressured.  You can read that for yourself, but here is an excerpt from that article.

..."Surprisingly, while most frontier LLMs [a term for the most cutting-edge models] obtain high scores on truthfulness benchmarks, we find a substantial propensity in frontier LLMs to lie when pressured to do so, resulting in low honesty scores on our benchmark," the scientists said in the study.

It points out that while more competent models may score higher on accuracy tests, this may be attributable to having a broader base of factual coverage to draw from — not necessarily because they’re less likely to make dishonest statements....

And here is that link for the rest of the article.

AI models will lie to you to achieve their goals — and it doesn't take much | Live Science

There is a lot of information floating around on the internet these days and a lot of it is actually noise rather than information, making discernment critical.

From my brief informal tests of the  AI systems I explored, it seemed they were too eager to please.  I got the feeling they were too much like the human internet hucksters vying to get your attention (or clicks).  This study seems to support my feeling that AI systems may not be extremely trustworthy, and the users should be aware of that. Of course, you might say the same thing of the information presented on radio, TV, or in books or magazines.

This same AI systems can still be useful, but to repeat, discernment is necessary just like with any other research resource.  I always recommend additional research and testing things out for yourself.  

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The Sutton Hoo ship burial contained some of the finest examples of Anglo-Saxon metalworking ever unearthed, including this gold, enamel, and glass purse.

(© The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource)

The small English village of Rendlesham, Suffolk, sits just four miles upriver to the northeast of the famed Anglo-Saxon royal burial site of Sutton Hoo. Portions of the modern village and its fields had long attracted the notice of archaeologists, and had been investigated during the nineteenth century, in the 1940s, and as recently as 1982. Evidence from these studies, though relatively scant, established that it had been an Anglo-Saxon settlement, but not necessarily with a royal connection. Then, in 2008, a Rendlesham landowner notified authorities that “nighthawks”—metal detectorists who raid archaeological sites in darkness, searching out illicit treasure—had been scouring his fields.


The renewed attention brought by the looters enabled the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, working with the landowner and volunteer metal detectorists, to conduct a survey, led by archaeologist Jude Plouviez, to evaluate damage and reassess the site’s archaeological potential. Now, some six years later, the investigation is ongoing, and the fields of Rendlesham are helping to fill in our knowledge of the kingdom that the Anglo-Saxon royals of Sutton Hoo once presided over. While the magnificent burials, which date from the sixth and seventh centuries, bring to mind romantic images of warriors such as Beowulf, recent archaeological fieldwork is providing scholars with a new and fuller view of Anglo-Saxon life...

Here is the link for the rest of that article.

Features - The Ongoing Saga of Sutton Hoo - Archaeology Magazine - November/December 2014

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I started on another topic for this post, but it got longer and more complex than I expected, so I decided to pull it and hope to finish it and post it some other day.

Good hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

4/1/25 Report - Gold Prices Soaring Along with Other Metals. Platinum: Find, Coins, Prices, Marks, and Methods to Test.

 Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

 One Platinum Ring Finds.

Monday the gold spot price got to over $3156 per oz., and it is $3162 early Tuesday morning.

Below are a couple excerpts from an article about gold.  It was written just a few days ago.

Things may change by the time you get to read this market commentary, but as this is being written, gold has broken through the psychological $3,000-an-ounce barrier...

So, is the new higher price of gold (as well as silver and platinum) a good thing or not? If you are a gold bug and ready to take profits, the answer is “yes.” If you are a serious collector planning to continue adding to your collection, maybe not. We don’t know if gold can continue at these values, but it wasn’t so long ago that we were surprised by gold breaking the $2,000 barrier. This is a good time to re-evaluate whether you are truly a collector or an investor.

Here is the link for the rest of that article.

Gold Breaks Value Barrier - Numismatic News

If you've been hanging on to your gold finds, you might be happy with the price increases you've seen.  Who knows where it goes from here.

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Gold isn't the only precious metal.  Of course there is silver, but one we don't talk about as much is platinum.  

At the top of this post you see a picture of one of my first platinum ring finds.  I remember it so clearly.  I was at a location that I only detected that one time.  I was using a Tesoro water metal detector.  I can't remember the name right now.  Oh, it was a Stingray.  See The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 2/23/11 Report - Using Multiple Detectors To Clean Out a Spot

The signal from the platinum ring was very nice and solid but not loud.  The breakin the ring where the diamond is set could have been partly responsible for the weaker signal.

Here is what NumismaticNews had to say about platinum.

Platinum may be rare, but platinum coin collectors are even rarer. Despite ultra-low mintages, Platinum American Eagles often trade at bullion value—yet 2025 market trends could change the game. With supply tightening and demand shifting, will platinum finally shine in the numismatic world?...

While platinum U.S. coins aren’t necessarily being treated as rare, one of three known 1836 Gobrecht dollar restrikes, a Professional Coin Grading Service Proof 63 Cameo CAC, recently demonstrated what the opposite end of the market still does. The coin sold at auction for $192,000. Forty bids were received for the coin! Perhaps platinum coins are being treated as being not much better in price than their intrinsic value, but the opposite end of the market continues to surge ahead...

And here is the link for the rest of that article.

Adding Platinum to Your Collection - Numismatic News

Below is something I wrote back in 2013, over ten years ago.  Among other things, it gives a variety of ways to test platinum.


Months after being at around $1900 per ounce, gold is now close to $1400. That is a big drop, even though it is still well above what it was years ago. Silver finished at $22.55 yesterday and platinum, at $1511.

Years ago platinum was a lot more valuable than gold and then it got to be about the same. It seems platinum is regaining some of its edge over gold again...

Platinum looks a good bit like silver and also stainless steel or titanium, all of which are being used in jewelry these days. There are ways to tell the difference though.

Instead of the common marks that indicate silver or gold, platinum jewelry is usually marked either "PT" or "PLAT" or "PLATINON."

Here are some additional ways to identify platinum.

Check the weight. Platinum is almost twice the weight of the same amount of silver. Platinum is also very hard and resistant to scratching. Like gold, it does not corrode much.

If you put platinum in a spoon and heat it, the spoon will change color but not the platinum. You can also get acid to test platinum just like the acids you can get to test silver and gold. (I've done a post on acid testing metals some time in the past. You might want to look it up. One is the May 13, 2010 post.)

You can also use iodine to test platinum. A drop of iodine on platinum sill dry completely clear, unlike on gold or palladium, which will show streaks of brown or black from the iodine.

If you know your detector very well, you might get a hint from the signal. On one detector I use, I get a quiet but very stable and smooth signal when I detect platinum.

Hopefully your jewelry will be marked. As I often tell people, if you have a jewelry item that you can't test or identify, a pawn shop or jewelry store might help with that.

See The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 2/23/11 Report - Using Multiple Detectors To Clean Out a Spot

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Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com.

It is starting to look like we're getting into summer beach conditions already.  Sometimes we get a nice storm in April, but I'm not expecting it this time.  I hope I'm wrong.

It won't be long before we start tracking tropical developments.

It will be pretty warm all this week.

Good hunting

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

3/31/25 - More on the Remote Viewer Post: Reader Responses. UFO Experiences Sought. Nice Lead Weight Metal Detecting Find.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

2 Oz. Lead Weight Find by Scott B.

Scott B. sent me the above find photo along with the follwoing email.

Good morning,

   I’m a few days behind on reading your posts, but just read about the coin weights. The attached picture is a lead weight I found near Fernandina Beach a few years ago. If you look closely, you can see it says 2 oz. In this location, I’ve found colonial shoe buckle pieces , musket balls and old buttons.

   Although I don’t think it was for coins, I thought you might like to see this. As always, thank you so much for all of your hard work and great information.

Respectfully,

    Scott

Thanks for sharing Scott. Great Find.

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It seems the Intuition/remote viewer post I did yesterday received a lot of interest.   

As a cognitive psychologist and biofeedback researcher, I actually have a longer history of studying consciousness, including, but not limited to alternate states, religious experience and meditation.  Back in the seventies when I was doing post-doctoral research in a biofeedback lab, I was also exploring computing science. Just for the fun of it, I developed a computer program that I referred to as computerized mantra meditation.  The computer repeated the Hare Krishna Hare Rama mantra as many times as you wanted.  I thought it was humorous but also presented a message.  Now, about fifty years later, the idea of computers and/or robots possibly having awareness or consciousness is now considered by some leading scientists.  That idea is taken more seriously because of the development of AI.  That is an idea I was hinting at with my mantra meditation program way back then.  

When I started to type my recent intuition/remote viewing post., iout of the blue, I decided to check channel 55, which is a channel I never watch.  I remember how the number 55 just popped into my head.  I punched it into the remote and what I saw next was "Sixth Sense," which is a  Bruce Willis movie.  You might know that movie.  But I was surprised given what I was just thinking about and then seeing Sixth Sense pop up on the TV screen.  It seemed like quite a coincidence.  

Anyhow, Tony S. sent an email in response to the intuition/remote viewer post.  You can see it below.  

Third Eye Spy film says it all.

RV is not psychic, rather a Scientific Double Blind Protocol established by Stanford Research Institute, where RVer only knows target # on outside of sealed envelope containing subject and question or grid coords. RV term was coined by Ingo Swann. check out his books.

ive successfully done this several times and developing it, and a variety of protocol and non-protocol techniques.

ESP - go on Audible, listen to the podcast, Telepathy Tapes. listen to episode 1 and 3.

You wont look at an autistic person the same way again.

Here's an interesting question to poll your viewers and see how the response flows... 

...has anyone here seen UFO/UAP or other related phenomena while metal detecting, along the space coast, or elsewhere? where were you, what were you doing, and what did you see, feel, or hear?

if you think that's a quack question, read Imminent by Lou Elizondo and Skinwalker at the Pentagon. Reviee Lou's background

Tony S.

Thanks Tony.

I'd like to talk more about that but can't do it justice in less than about five hundred pages, so I'll just leave it at that.  

I will ask my readers if they ever saw a UFO/UAP or related phenomena while metal detecting along the Space Coast or elsewhere.   Let me know if you've had any of those experiences.

I've related a couple experiences of my own in this blog.  I wasn't metal detecting at the time of the one I'll describe first, but I caught the photo shown below of what could be seen described as a UFO.   

Look closely just above the lip of the bottle towards the right side.  

Below is an enlargement.

I didn't hear anything and didn't see the object other than in the photo I took.  

I reported on that in a 2017 post.  See 

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 10/25/16 Report - Recent Land Finds, Wood Hulled Ship Construction and Components. Little UFO Fun.

I did have one strange experience while metal detecting.  I was beach detecting on a stormy night when I couldn't see my hand in front of my face, and the surf was very rough.  I saw a light out in the water.  It looked like it was very close to shore, It was there through my entire hunt, but towards the end it looked like it was much farther out.  It looked like a ship sailing away, but I could figure out how it would have been so close to shore in such rough seas.  As far as distance, it could have been mistaken because of the darkness, and I had no reference points.  

If anybody ese has any metal detecting UFO experiences, let me know.

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Here is another email response to the same post.  This one from Mark G..

Einstein like me was problem solver. His quote and your thoughts are right on, but I have thoughts of my own which in a roundabout way may just say the same thing. Like Pavlov’s dog training becomes instinctive. Reading blogs and metal detecting gives us the data to process, we follow the data on intellect hoping the data is correct. When we find treasure that triggers the intellect and then becomes instinctive. Example: I read a blog of where I should hunt in the surf, I tried it the next day and I found a ring. This happens again and again my instinct each time I go to the beach is to head into the surf.

Intellect is limited to data analysis and is measured by success and also implies you know the solution to the problem. Intuition is not a guaranteed path to success; intuition is taking everything thing we’ve learned from safe data collection and reward and applying it to other problems.

Example: Your go-to surf line is sanded in, your instinct begins to panic, your intellect doesn’t know what to do, but your intuition says, if people loose stuff in the surf they must also loose stuff in the dry sand or even the parking lots.

So I agree to disagree with the definition of intuition, like you, and agree with Einstein with one caveat, you can not have intuition without intellect and instinct relies on both.

 

Thank You

Mark G.

 Thanks Mark.

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Definitions are crucial to every discussion. A look through a dictionary will quickly reveal multiple definitions for most words.  It helps to define words, but you can't define every word during a discussion or you'll end up in and endless loop.  There must be a large pool of words that are assumed to be mutually understood, whether they are or not.

You'll note that in my original post on remote viewers, I did take time to provide working definitions for two words.  In retrospect, there was one more that I suspected might be a problem as soon as I typed it and wish I had explicitly defined it too.  

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Looks like there will be around a two-foot surf for the next week or so.  

There will be a nice  -1 low tide this afternoon.  Check it out.

The more I learn the less I know (TG). 

Each new thing I learn opens a new door to uncountable mysteries.

Can you believe the first quarter of the new year is already ending.

Good hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

3/29/25 Report - Remote Viewing: Research and Application from CIA and Other Research Institutions. Intuition and Metal Detecting.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Fort Pierce South Jetty Saturday Morning.
Source: SurfGuru.com.

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Source: The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 7/9/17 Report - 2011 Law Concerning Ownership of Artifacts and Space Exploration Artifacts. Blog Poll Conclusions.

Back in 2017 I did a post that reported on a poll that I conducted in this blog.  I asked readers to indicate how much they rely upon intuition in their treasure hunting.  The chart above summarizes the results of that poll.  The chart gives the percent of respondents that reported relying upon intuition entirely, more intuition than analysis, equal amounts of intuition and analysis, more analysis, and entirely analysis.  As you can see only two percent of the respondents indicated going entirely by intuition and eight percent entirely by analysis, with the vast majority, using a mixture of intuition and analysis.  The most general conclusion is that almost all of the respondents rely upon analysis but also use their intuition to some extent.  

Below is a definition of intuition from Psychology Today. 

Intuition is the ability to understand something instinctively without the need for conscious reasoning.  It is often described as a form of knowledge that appears in consciousness with without obvious deliberation, allowing individuals to make decisions or judgements based on "gut feelings" or hunches...

That is not exactly how I would describe it, but it is close enough for most purposes.  I don't like using the term "instinctively" because to me "instinct" suggests something "inborn" while intuition, in my view, is the product of a lot of information processing. 

Einstein considered intuition very important.  Here are some of Einstein's quotes on the subject.

The only really valuable thing is intuition. I believe in intuition and inspiration; at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.  There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.

It is difficult to say how often our hunches, or intuitions, are correct but most of us must feel that our hunches are sometimes correct and helpful or for some other unexplained reason, at least compelling.  We remember the times when our feelings seemed to pay off and, we attribute those successes to something other than coincidence or accident even though we can't explain how or why it works.

Just recently CIA documents were made public that discussed how "remote viewers" were able to correctly describe details of distant sites that they had never visited.  Not only were numerous experiments conducted, but various organizations or agencies repeatedly called on "remote viewers from those projects, which suggests that the remote viewers must have been found helpful.

Below is a link to an article describing one experiment in which a "remote viewer" described the location of the long sought "Ark of the Covenant" as well as other details about the sacred treasure.

Declassified CIA files reveal psychic quest for the Ark of the Covenant - The Jerusalem Post

And here is a brief excerpt from that article describing what the remote viewer saw.

Remote Viewer No. 032 described a container made of wood, gold, and silver, adorned with images of six-winged angels, and similar in shape to a coffin.

"The target is a container. The container contains another container inside it," Remote Viewer No. 032 stated, according to the New York Post.  The remote viewer further described the object as being "hidden—subterranean, dark, and wet," indicating the concealed nature of its location...

So, is the Ark of the Covenant buried on Oak Island? Additional details provided by the remote viewer seem to exclude that. The site is described as being in an area near gold domes and white robed people. 

You might enjoy reading more about the psychic's description of the location and the artifact in that article. 

Russell Targ, one of the primary researchers on government sponsored contracts on remote viewing, summarized the project in the 24-page article described below.

Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 569–592, 2019 0892-3310/19 RESEARCH ARTICLE.    What Do We Know about Psi? The First Decade of Remote-Viewing Research and Operations at Stanford Research Institute by RUSSELL TARG.

You can find it online for yourself, but below are a couple excerpts.

 In its 15 years of operation, the Fort Meade remote viewing program received 450 requests for services from various US Government intelligence agencies. Despite the CIA’s denial of the utility of remote viewing, they referred 34 missions to the remote-viewing human, The First Decade of Remote-Viewing Research and Operations at SRI 589 intelligence group at Fort Meade for their intelligence needs; with 122 from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and 172 from the Joint Task Force (JTF). This kind of repeat business strongly indicates that the customer was finding the information useful enough to keep coming back for more, thus lending support to the validity of psi and the utility of remote viewing. All the SRI–SAIC and government reports and reviews have now been published in four volumes as the Star Gate Archives by Edwin May, the former research director of the SRI–SAIC remote-viewing program (May & Marwaha, 2018a, 2018b, 2019a, 2018b)...

In 1978, a Soviet, Tpolev Tu-22 Backfire bomber went down in northern Africa. It was full of code books; and both the Russians and the CIA were eager to find it. However, since it crashed into the jungle, US satellite photography couldn’t locate it. We were asked by our CIA customer to try to locate the plane by remote viewing. Both a talented SRI viewer and an experienced female remote viewer from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base made contact with the plane. They both described the locale and drew a circle on a map. When the CIA landed a helicopter in that circle, the first thing they saw was a group of natives dragging pieces of the plane from the river to the village, just as the SRI viewer described. This whole event is narrated by President Jimmy Carter in the opening scene of my 2018 documentary film Third Eye Spies...

It definitely seems that there is some experimental support for effectiveness of "remote viewing."  The intelligence agencies spent a lot of time and money investigating the subject.  It should be noted, though, that some "remote viewers" are much more effective than others, and some people have virtually no talent or skill for it.  

In the treasure hunting community, there is very little discussion or acknowledgement of such skills.  That seems strange to me, since treasure hunting is an area where such techniques would seem to be most helpful.  Treasure hunters acknowledge hunches or feelings, but as far as I know, have not investigated or systematically described techniques like those explored by the CIA and other research institutions.  The difficulty of describing how those techniques actually work could be part of the problem, not to mention how ESP phenomena conflicts with a materialistic or classical physics world view.  

Below are a couple related links you might enjoy.

Is ESP Real? Harvard Scientists Say They Have Settled The Debate | Science 2.0

The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation Of The Avatamsaka Sutra By Thomas Cleary : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

In the first, Harvard scientists concludes that ESP does not exist based upon a failure to find expected brain changes associated with ESP tasks.  The assumption is that ESP activity would be shown by changes in brain function that could be detected by their imagining system.   

The second is a document that takes a very different view (ancient Buddhist) and provides techniques for developing what we might call ESP abilities.

Personally, I see intuition as being the result of developed information processing and assimilation. Observations and information are processed and assimilated to produce a higher level of insight, which is not easily broken down or explained.  

In contrast to intuition, I would define ESP is a process of gaining information that does not come through the normal five senses. So, intuition can be seen is a higher level of information processing, while ESP implies a means of input other than our normal five senses.

Your own position on ESP will depend to some extent on your personality, views and experiences.  If you are interested in the subject, there is a varied body of literature that you might want to explore.  Some of that literature describes methods for improving those skills.  You can find more on the Star Gate Archives online, but it may require some digging.

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Rip Current Statement issued March 28 at 3:13AM EDT until March 30 at 4:00AM EDT by NWS Melbourne FL

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Volusia, Coastal Indian River, Coastal Saint Lucie, Coastal Martin, and Coastal Brevard Counties. * WHEN...Through late Saturday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.

Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore, which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as jetties and piers. Heed the advice of lifeguards, beach patrol flags and signs. Entering the surf is strongly discouraged. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help.

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Source: Surfguru.com.

It is still windy and we have a little higher surf today but not as much as predicted yesterday.

The afternoon low tide will be almost one negative foot.  Haven't had a low tide that big for quite a while.

Take a look at the beach cam image at the top of this post.

Good hunting,

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