The truth of matter was, stories were everything and everything was stories.

Everybody told stories.

It was a way of seeing who they were in the world.

It was their understanding of themselves.

Well, when I was nine years old, I found my first arrowhead with my father.

He was an airhead collector.

And so was my football coach in high school.

So we did all that together.

And most of the arrowheads you find out in the countryside are broken, half in two.

And people say, oh, that's broken. That's that's terrible but to me that means a lot to me that means that that projector was on the end of an arrow

it penetrated a body of a deer maybe hit a bone and broke right in front of where it was hafted

so that to me that has that thing has a history that a whole era had doesn't have.

So I think it's the wonderment of being out there,

of seeing nature and visualizing what used to be.

The Rosetta Stone was buried for 2,000 years before somebody found it. And I said in my book, Don't you know that guy's proud, the guy that carved that thing.

Well, it was 1988 when I acquired the treasure chest and started filling it up with things.

I paid $25,000 for the treasure chest, and I started to fill

in it up with 265 gold coins. Most of them are American Eagles and some double eagles, mostly double

eagles. My goal never changed. My goal was to take that treasure chest out in a very special place

and put it there. I've never said that I buried it, but I've never said that I didn't bury it.

I just don't want to give that as a clue and let people go looking for it.

If you can find a treasure chest and open that lid for the first time,

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