15 Lucky People Who Found The Rarest Things and Became Millionaires Overnight
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- The feeling of finding a quarter or a dollar bill on the ground is one thing, but to stumble upon treasures and artifacts is a whole other! Some lucky people happened to find old Austrian treasures; others found dinosaur bones!
Some of these lucky finds stand to make the finders a fortune; others are just a little bit creepy and scary. But we'll let you judge for yourself!
Welcome back to 4 Ever Green! Today we're going to look at some lucky people who came upon the rarest things unexpectedly! But before we begin… what is the craziest thing you've ever found unexpectedly? Share it with us in the comments below!
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My wife Mary is my greatest find!
That's the sweetest!
Awe sweet God bless you both
@@angelinemarketing Thank you!
@@laurastansbury518 Thank you!
Awwww
When I was a kid, while walking on a beach full of pebbles I found this beautiful, translucent, perfectly spherical stone. It was super light and even smelled good! I carried it like a treasure for days until my older brother informed my I was carrying a roll-on deodorant ball.
Hilarious!!!!!!!
I hope you still have it. No matter how it started life as a sphere, it ended up a gem on the beach.
Lol😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣listen ones man's trash is another man's treasure!!!
This some funny shit!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hilarious😂
When I was 18, I found a fully-intact clay pot in a cave while I was dove hunting in central Arizona. I took it to an archeologist at the University of Arizona who said it was an Apache cooking pot, and that he'd never seen one fully intact. I ended up selling it to a museum for $2,000 about ten years later.
Lucky museum, that cost more than $2k
A 20 pound note when I was 10 .
On our honeymoon in 1979, we went to SeaWorld and paid $5 for a pearl diver to bring up a bucket of oysters. We picked one. There ended up being 2 size 8mm cream pearls in it. Fast forward 40 years later, our 2nd honeymoon. We went to Universal to a pearl stand. They had oysters in a small tank. We told the salesclerk the story, and we all laughed. We picked an oyster. She opened, and damn, if there were TWO slightly smaller cream pearls in this oyster. We all screamed and could not believe it. So long story sort I am having the pearls made into a necklace for my only daughter's wedding day. I hope she loves it!
Nice story. I hope your daughter will love the necklace too
That's a Beautiful story, your daughter will treasure that always
I was walking down a street in Baltimore and found a sterling silver ring. It was no biggie but it was pretty so I took to wearing. One day I was in line to make a purchase pretty far from there and the man behind me asked to look at the ring. He got misty eyed and said that it was like a ring that he had. It was the last gift given to him by his wife right before she died. He said that he had felt terrible 😔 since he lost it by Hollins Market (where I found it). I gave the ring back to it's rightful owner. The man was openly crying as was I. I think that, for both of us, they were joyful tears. I felt lighter, like I had played a part in delivering the ring back for the woman who had passed away and left her husband feeling empty. I hope it helped him find a bit of peace
Amazing story. Example of the mysterious workings of the universe. There are no coincidences.
That’s amazing 😭
I was one of the most touching moments in my life. Also made the rest of the day so much brighter
Wow, how wonderful! A thousand blessings on you for restoring that man's treasured ring. That is some good karma, right there.
How kind of you! 🙂👍
I was collecting beach glass where 2 streams converge with my kids and we found a bunch of small bits of silver. About $30 worth, but still a pretty cool memory
I got lost once when I was about 15, with no money and no phone, so as i walked down this endless road and started too get a bit panicked, then low and behold there was this £5 note right in the middle of the path on which I was walking on, still too this day I believe something was looking over me 😅
I think there was! 😉
Hope u enjoyed ur pint after 🍺👍😜🤣
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When I was a kid I got bucked off my horse and landed in the sand bed of the river In Winnemucca,Nevada,and my boot had been knocked off. I went to grab it and it uncovered a $50.00 note. My dad just laughed and shook his head and I got to keep the money. :}
(I was only 8 yrs old)
That guy got hustled for the declaration. That item would be a priceless peice of American history.
I said the same thing, it was 1 of 24 original 1st copies and it was in immaculate condition. I believe this happened in the late 1980s and was sold in 1990 at an auction.
When I was a kid - about 7 years old - I was playing in the woods behind my house. We lived in the country and we didn’t have neighbors for miles in all directions. Anyway, I was making a trail in the forest when I heard this little girl crying. I eventually found her. She was about my age and she said she had lost her mom and dad. I took her by the hand back to my house but when we got to the edge of the forest, she ran back in. I felt something very eerie come over me but I was too young to comprehend it. I ran to my house. My hand that touched the girl’s hand started to sting. I told my parents and they came with me to the woods. When we got to the place where I first found the girl, she was gone but there was small bone showing through the dirt. My father called the police and they eventually unearthed the bones of a 5 year old girl that they never identified but they said the bones were at least 100 years old. Ever since then, the skin on my hand has become discolored. Doctors say it’s vitiligo but I know it’s because I touched a ghost.
good story...
😮😮 That is crazy!!
Crazy creepy but cool story! 👍
That's a crazy good break through! Sounds like a gift to me
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The blue ball is a glass fishing float. My grandpa would tie those into his throw nets too. They were commonly used in the early 1900s, so it could have been floating in the sea for 80 plus years.
No its an irl version of heart of the sea from minecraft
When I lived in Hawaii I used to collect them. Same when I moved to Washington State. They ware all over the place in both places. Though it was more so in Washington.
We find them on our beach in Long Beach, Washington! We had an East wind one night and we found like 40! it was amazing! made the newspaper! lol
I once lost my marbles, however I haven't found them since..
I've got them. Plus, Nancy's , Kamala's & Joes...
Hence the rye bread
Craziest thing I have ever found ? My self respect and dignity 😂
ive searched for that one but its nowhere to be found...
Okay 😒
I'm Glad you found it.....
MANY DO NOT
Priceless.
Yet even though you found it, it's still worthless
I found im still breathing today. Blessing of God.
Me tooo☺️
Me too
Amen. Praise God.
Haha.. You are funny😂😂😂
You are still breathing today is because you choose to be and live a good life and do not .are stupid choice so thanks yourself!!!
Glass balls were used on fishing nets as bobbers many years ago. Had a friend stationed on Johnston Island (Pacific Ocean) and found several of them while scuba diving the coral reef.
Cool
@@poorsillyboy I found one!!!
yes. when we get an east wind they wash up!
long Beach, Washington
Years ago my friends dad was walking in British Columbia when he found a dinosaur bone. He went back and found many more. Turns out he had discovered a new dinosaur and spent years going on speaking tours. It totally changed his life.
@James Hama Im good!!!
@James Hama I currently live in Calgary Alberta
What dinosaur
What was the name of the Dinosaur ?
@@katiekorell9776 -- Hope u keep ur profile private. That was creepy. Hope u don't start getting calls from that guy asking,
"Did u check the children?"
The glass ball is an old bouy for a fishing net.... You used to be able to find them all over the place, especially after a storm. There was several sizes as that was the only type of bouy for many years.
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I'll 2nd that conclusion. Glass bouys were common in Japan and are now found all over the pacific coasts. They are a very popular decorating item in Alaska. Their are older rarer blown ones that are one piece and slightly newer (ww2 era) ones that are molded in 2 pieces and sealed together. That appears to be the latter.
I was thinking the same thing. Glad I was not the only one.
Yep, my Grandma had a few of them she found on Venice beach in the 1950's that were old blown glass ones...along with a section of the original hemp rope net still attached., they were most likely pre WWII and judging by the condition of the rope, they'd come from the hull of a wrecked ship that had decayed over time and collapsed in, allowing them to float up to the surface and eventually come ashore through storms, currents, and the tide.
I was gonna say that [that they are old buoys] till the narrator convinced me that a guy makes them and hides them as he travels from ocean to ocean around the world. Lol.
A book at garage sale signed by Mark Twain for 25 cent
No effing way! That's a fabulous find! Wow, all that and history too!
Hi Wanda Ward, it’s nice meeting you here.. I’m Richard by name, it would be nice getting to know you better, if that’s ok with you? My mom once said good friends are never too much to have. if you don’t mind, can we be friends??
Lovely smile you got there on your profile picture, it can brighten up the most darkest atmosphere of any man’s world😉.
Hi
Best thing I’ve ever found was god🙏✝️
True That👍👍👍
💖🙏⚘Amen💖🙏⚘
True,when you find God ,you find all the treasures.
When I started metal detecting a few years ago, I went to a construction site I had been working on one Sunday.
It was an old neighborhood in Denver that was becoming a hot new place in town. It used to be a pretty rough area and there was always trouble brewing there.
On my hunt I dug up two silver dimes, a silver spoon, a .45 caliber slug and a live 357 magnum round!!
Yeah, it was a rough neighborhood!!
I found a human skull on a small island in the middle of a small lake in Indiana. We turned it in to the DNR. We were contacted later by the anthropology dept of Ball State and told it was very old, not a homicide or anything like that. Coolest thing I've ever found
WOW a jeep! Under water?! How rare! That must be one of the greatest discoveries of the century!! Some people have all the luck
Just another Tuesday in New Jersey.
Lol
after WW2, Korea, Viet Nam, the US Army ditched many of these, the one in this vid being a right hand drive, may be rare,
I love how this went from amazing and rare finds to a marine biology lesson back to rare finds lol
They didn't explain how someone became a millionaire after finding the Jeep. Would a 2nd World War Jeep wreck would bank a million, but what do I know lol. That lack of detail is gonna bug me so much now!
*I also like this mystery*
the craziest thing I found unexpectedly recently was a waterfall. It was quite a pleasant surprise. I enjoyed it greatly.
You're cute
I found $800 in a silver money clip in a McDonald's parking lot in the 1980's. I was only about 10 years old at the time. Last week I found $10 dollars on the floor shopping at my local dollar store.
This is how the depreciation works
I know the feeling!
Stopped at an Arby's drive through late one afternoon and they had me pull around to the parking area while my meal was getting prepared. Was leaning on the bed of my truck and looked across the parking lot and saw a loose dollar bill with two others folded up near it. Went to go pick it up and sure enough, $3.00, with two $20 dollar bills in with them!!
Probably not a pleasant dinner for the other guy though. "Got my change? Um yeah, right here..... somewhere......"
Id like my money and clip back sir. I turned around after buying my happy.meal and it was gone... 😑
Amazing research, Thanks
15:42 - My cousin had one of those, way back in the 1970s, I remember reading it as a kid. A neighbor, an avid comic collector since the 1930s, also had at least one copy. When he died the family sold the entire collection for a pittance, little knowing the value of the volumes in the collection.
Ooohh noooo 😩 That’s what sellers are just waiting for. Clueless heirs.
Their loss, that’s how it should be.
If you know enough about something, then YOU know how much it’s worth. Not the family who obviously didn’t like comics.
The glass ball is a fishing float, for nets, before the plastic ones. I use to collect them as a child.
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Thank you for the update, 4 Ever Green..!! Wow, I've never heard of that hand of gold story until today..!! @.@
I lived in Okinawa for 3 years while in the Marines and did a ton of Scuba diving. We used to find the glass balls all the time. In the old days they were used as floats for fishing nets.
I don't know anything about an art project, but I found a glass fish net float on an island in Alaska.
Imagine being millionaire in 1 dig such a dream come true ❤️
Imagine keeping it and selling it 10-20 years later and buying 100 instead of 1 house
That damn bottle drifted around the ocean for 200 years 😱 If only it could talk, I imagine it would have more than a few “giant fish tales” to tell us 😉😁
Cheers
The glass ball is a Japanese fishing net float, over the years I’ve found 100s on my beach in Kailua Hawaii
Yep I was going to comment that as well. I have a very large one.
The craziest thing I ever found was walking across the Santa Monica beach in Cali I came across several hundred used hypodermic needles with syringes protruding from the sand near the surface, waiting for some beach-goer to step on them and contract who knows what. How those used needles got there continues to boggle my mind to this day.
Wtf thanks for cleaning tbat up people suck
@@fullhalf420 hahaha what no it was Not did you not read the story dummy
Hope you called the police 😨😨😨
It makes one wonder how many artifacts will remain hidden and never found by being hidden in simple but unthinkable places to look like the back of a picture frame!
So as I’m viewing this, it’s as if Divine is giving me a glimpse, peek into what’s in store for my future blessings. I’m so excited and I patiently, humbly, loving and appreciatively wait😇🥰🥰🥰
Are you hoping for the pink grasshopper or whale vomit?
Hello! In 2018, Labor Day , on our way out of the San Juan Mnts outside of Durango , CO, I found , right on the gravel road where water had come down the mountain for many yrs was a huge tree trunk that had been there so long it was smooth & grayish white. I jumped up through the landscape & noticed an old piece of wood , pulling it out I noticed it wasn’t just any piece of wood but it was very old! It’s an amazing piece that resembles a dragon with a rock in its head! Totally amazing! I do have photos but not sure I should share
Hello
My greatest find is when I found a golden ticket inside the chocolate bar.
Super sweet of your freeloading “disabled” uncle to take you to redeem it.
🤣
@@sallysimpson8166 hey hey, I'm not disabled dude...
My favorite find was while digging for fossils I found the saber of a sabertooth cat.
Awesome! 👍😊👍
I found a mediaeval ring when i was metal detecting the beaches in Fremantle Australia, I have no idea how long its been in the sand for, All if it come from somewere else & someone lost it were, But what a find !
25 years of good luck, ill take it, thanks bro
Great detail, the German message in a bottle was in a bottle from a Dutch distillery from a village close by, Schiedam.
Broken glass found in the ground is my greatest experience 😂
the "glass ball" could have easily floated in from Japan ! they're still utilized there, and you can find them scattered across *some* beaches early mornings before they're all picked off :) Mutsu Bay, in northern Japan has a very specific stretch of beach with wrecked ships on it, they can be found (or pieces of broken balls) pretty frequently
My husband and his family lived on Haida Gwaii on 2 separate occasions have collected so many sizes of the glass floats all intact. They would wash up on the beaches there. One of the floats we have was made into a unique light.
A used comb in the middle of the street when I was 10. I still have it and use it...43 year later. Free comb! Yay! 🤪
lol i found a comb once 2.tho it was basically new.it's pretty nice 2 get.lol
I found Jesus
Loved it thank you
You are so welcome!
enjoyed the information about the little rock suckers the best.
I picked up a really big rock once. I was so proud. Lol
Lol so lucky u must be rich
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I found a tree branch that resembled AK-47. What a find that was for a kid!
Don't get rid of it if you still have it!!
It's prehistoric and really really old!!
Best thing I ever found was a Zippo lighter.
It was smaller sized than standard Zippos with a coating of purple paint (likely powder which is then baked in a 450 degree oven) with a rose engraved on it. Had it about 2years. I lost it on a July 4th when I left it on the roof of the van (sat atop to watch fireworks)
Great video
Old glass floats comes in all shades of blue & green, all sizes. You can usually see the Japanese fisherman's name symbol stamped in the seal to identify who owned the nets. It was always a rare thrill to find them sitting on deserted Pacific Island beaches, after the tide brought them in. They have travelled the string of pearls Pacific current path countless times before surviving treacherous coral reefs without breaking to reach a beach. They stopped making glass floats with the advent of plastic.
Not my find, my dad's. When he was about 6 or 7 in 1948, he was playing in a coat rack at a Woolworths, and he found a ring he gave to his mother, and later in life gave to MY mother. My whole life I thought it was costume jewelry, and wore it like so. Turns out it's an engagement ring from the early 1900's and worth over 10 grand, old mine cut diamonds set in platinum. I could never sell it, I will pass it on to my daughter.
The one that lost it in woollies, is smiling knowing it's now looked after so well.
👍😁💓🇬🇧💯🗣️🙈🙊🙉🌟
Always keep it in your family, make each new holder of the ring promise to keep it in the family.
Hi Pankstress, it’s nice meeting you here.. I’m Richard by name, it would be nice getting to know you better, if that’s ok with you? My mom once said good friends are never too much to have. if you don’t mind, can we be friends??
Lovely smile you got there on your profile picture, it can brighten up the most darkest atmosphere of any man’s world😉
Very interesting channel content!
The glass ball is an old fishing net float, and they are worth hundreds to thousands each
I dropped a ten dollar bill and this woman chased me down to give it back. Astonished.
There could have been cctvs where you dropped your money. People these days, geez.
I did that with $100 bill when I was 20 years old. It was an older woman. We were in the mall and she didn’t look that well off. I was brought up to treat others the way I want to be treated, so I didn’t give it a second thought to make sure I gave it back to her. 😊
I don't know if it counts but my mom's house was always really haunted so I did a lot of research on my hometown and I found out that that entire block was an Indian burial ground. I guess we even have an Indian mound Park here because it's so known that most of Sheboygan is a burial ground but it's just never talked about
🥺😔Why did they disturb them? I don't understand! 💔
The glass ball looks like one my grandfather brought home from Okinawa Japan during WWII. I have been told they were hand blown glass spheres used to hold up fishing nets in the water.
10:35 … i found a pink grasshopper the other day- im gonna cry
I remember coming across different bones in one of the areas we played and our parents (who had no idea) alway said those are cow bones… can’t help to wonder what they were
SAME! I fancied myself an archeologist when I was younger and dug up a bunch of bones, when I brought in a jaw bone, my mom told me it was cow, but to stop digging.... LOL
Human remains are hard to come by. Your parents were right.
I was in a crowded line at Great America when I noticed some cash on the ground that people were stepping on and walking over. I thought it was just a few bucks and that's why no one cared or noticed, but when I got to it, it was $300. that was a good day. 💕
The glass balls, I believe are actually glass buoys. These existed during mid 1800s in Norway and then spread to Asia. I have a few collection of them. FYI
It is said that the balls with water inside them are very rare. Meaning that the buoys were at deep depths and water forced its way and the glass survived the resurfacing too.
All are amazing, i like them all, spectacular.
When I lived in South Lake Tahoe I was at a beach and make old wind up Timex watch had fallen off. I desperately looked for it digging all over a 6ft radius around where my bf and I where. I found a beautiful 1 1/2 in amethyst wrap with silver wire. I never did find my watch, I still miss it. It kept perfect time.
The glass ball is an old float for a Japanese / Asian fishing net, they would have a long string of them tied / netted together that held up the top of the net. They use to be common and found all the time, but they were replaced by plastic ones in the 1970’s or 80’s.
I found a few on S.F. beach 1970s!
I found a green ball float...but I believe it older and is medicine Ball or the poison gas that they used to store to use like granades ...serin? Use caution sometimes They aren't bouys and smaller
I found a axe head from 3,000 B.C made out of a meteorite
Now that’s fuckin cool
😯Now thats a great find
it would be cool if I could post a pic to share
I love the content of your video
Isn't the glass ball a Japanese float? I recall my mother telling me that people used to find them on the beach all the time in Oregon. 🤔🤔🤔
I found amethyst on the beach! It was so beautiful
Did you take it home
If you did then you should display it
WOW THAT MUST HAVE BEEN WASHED UP ON SHORE U LUCKY BOIIII
I found a random orange crystal on the beach
You are the rarest thing in time and space, because you and you alone occupy any given moment of ALL OF time and space.
That glass ball is actually a glass ball fishing float once used in Japan
I cut a Medico key in Montreal for my office door. Six months later when I was entering my apartment in Paris I mistakenly used my office key from Montreal to open the door and it worked. Out of the millions of combinations a key to be cut it matched two locks in my life. The odds must be in the billions to one.
The glass ball is a Japanese fishing float for nets. I live on the Washington coast and have sean hundreds of them and they get quite large
I really love your channel
Amazing
The glass ball is from Japan they use them on their fishing nets, they come in a lot of different sizes depending on how big of a net they’re using
When I was a young boy I found a good sized piece of what was probably ambergris on the shore of Venice beach, CA. after a pretty fierce storm came through that was powerful enough to cause damage that closed Venice pier down for many years afterwards. The material was yellowish and waxy with a pungent smell that was odd, but not particularly unpleasant. In retrospect, I should've kept it...but in those days there was alot of oil rigs there nearby, and there was oil tar and other trash washing ashore, so I'd just assumed it was some kind of refinery chemical residue or something. There was approximately a quart sized piece of it, so if it WAS ambergris...welp...heck, then I threw a very valuable piece of it right back into the ocean without even knowing what it was! -Maybe it just wasn't meant to be...OR...maybe at the tender young age I was at that time, I simply wasn't ready for all of the big money, clout, and fast livin' that's associated with the high siddity whale vomit crowd ha ha ha :)
I remember that storm, I was a kid then too. The pier was wrecked hard. There was a really cool rock and gem store on the north side of the pier that was totally washed away.
@@sageoz9886 yes! I was just thinking about 21 shrimp n fries the other day. I miss living there
It’s illegal in the US to remove ambergris from the beach let alone sell it. So unless you could have gotten it out of the country, there wouldn’t have been anything you could have done with it.
GOOD JOB NICKOLAS CAGE! GREAT JOB TO EVERYONE!!! IM LOOKING FOR TREASURE! THAT'S WHY I LOVE HISTORY!!!
This video is very good
I found a chunk of metal on the beach and I can't find anything like it online.. I'm not sure where to take it to have it looked at, but I love watching these vids in hopes of seeing something like it.
Make a video and post it on TH-cam I wanna see lol
My mom's childhood diaries was my greatest finding ever
Hopefully it helped you love and appreciate her all the more!! Priceless!
Wow amazing
I pray who ever sees this be successful in life ❤️ 🙏
That last one makes me wanna cry; I had some mint condition, first edition Cat Woman comics. The first and second one. As well as a few others. Our house was set on fire and they burnt up with it; we were lucky enough to get out in time
Once I was visiting an old town in the desert where a relative lived and we were out for a walk and there was something poking out of the ground so for like 3 hours we dogged it up and it turned out to be a rifle from 1867 we sold it for 1.2 mill dollars
I grew up on Vancouver Island and I found some petroglyphs under some moss. They were pretty cool. My parents helped me uncover them but we didn't get any pictures. We didn't have cel camera's back in those days. They have now built a highway over them.
Glass balls are from the 1800’s when they used to use glass balls as for floats before they had plastic. MANY were used over the era in shipping and MANY broke free of their ropes that would degrade in the sea water. The orbs would then float off to be found on a beach some where. Most have been found at this point and decorate beach towns all over, however some are still out there floating in the sea or buried in the sand of some remote beach and finding one is very rare.
I think they got screwed on the golden nugget price for only a million…
They did, it could be almost double that depending on the exchange rate at the time.
Im not saying anything to offend anyone here, but,...
12 troy ounces to a pound. The value today if it was 100% pure (most likely only 80-90%) it would be worth around $1.3 million at todays gold prices. Its true value is just the fact that it is a freaking 60 lbs nugget.
I used to became very happy when i found any beautiful shell on my yard🙃🙂✌️
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Glass ball are fishing net floats used in South East Asia. They are common finds on Vancouver Island's Long Beach on the West Coast of Canada.
I bought a thrift bag once years back and found some scripted notes, a necklace and ¥100 in it, never cared about the note or thought to look at it, I don’t know how I lost the necklace but I took the money and got it changed into my currency. I was so happy.
My wife Kayla was my greatest find!
Forever & Always!
The craziest thing I ever found was my parents seperation.
Good video
I also found an ice skate box filled with Life Magazines and newspapers from the JFK assassination that were issued when it happened. The box was behind some insulation in my parents’ attic. I still have them.
I have a glass ball about 12-15 inches and has sand and saltwater inside . How the water and salt water got in there , i dont know but i found it in a mangrove near a beach here in Peleliu , Palau . It's awesome .
Someone found they got a rare bug
Me: I've never even seen a grass hopper
Yes some people are fortunate to find something special and profitable. Good for them.
this is awesome clip research
I have found several rare items, I found a heavy rock I thought it was a native American hammer stone,it is granite with quartz I brought it home and one day I was looking at it and realized there was something in the rock, it is a quartz formation in the perfect shape of the number 2 I searched the rest of the rock and found other 2s and a number 3 all naturally formed.
Show a video. It might not be as natural as you think. Some ancient civilizations could mold and manipulate stones and crystals.
@@bubbalove2261 don't really know how to do that, the rock is real and only "manipulated by years of tumbling down the mountain and river. Thanks and by the way I'm a fan of BTLS !
@@bubbalove2261 I have several other things I have collected like a piece of petrified wood with bark,knots and limb crotch that turned to metal, and a meteorite with the head and face of a great ape . A monkey faced meteorite!
Dragon balls!!!!!!!