Everyone loves a good treasure hunt.

The thought of being the one to finally reveal the long-lost location of buried gold, silver,

rubies, or precious artifacts after decades or even centuries make our hearts quick in and

breath shorten.

Just imagine dusting off the dirt to reveal a cache from time's long past.

Exposing riches to the first rays of sunshine in years is enough to get most anyone excited.

The thrill that comes with striking at rich is exciting, but the thrill of solving a mystery

is almost intoxicating.

That is what keeps people across the world and throughout the generations scouring the

earth for what others carefully tucked away.

Sometimes these treasures are found by complete happenstance, by someone simply walking

through the woods.

But many of these finds are located after years of extensive research, by teams or individuals

who take breaks from their own lives in the present to retrace the footsteps of someone

else by people who imagine themselves in another time, in another mind, in order to understand

just where someone they've never met, may have stashed their most prized possessions.

By doing this, some of these time travelers get rich, but others die trying.

Welcome to National Park After Dark.

I think I speak for everyone listening when I say thank you.

I love treasure episodes.

This is so exciting.

They are super lighthearted, comparatively.

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