MUSKEGON, Mich. — When you go to Pere Marquette Park Beach in Muskegon, you might find a man named Dan Betz scouring the sand for buried treasures. Turns out, he's been doing that since 1973, almost ...

This old chest full of coins was found buried in a beach at Hilton Head, South Carolina. The coins proved to be toys. Angie Moore, photo Finding a rusty treasure chest full of gold coins is the ...

Steve Styles walks along the surf line, sweeping the round coil of a metal detector back and forth across the sand. He listens for the telling beep-beep-beep in his earphones that will alert him to ...

It's beach season in Florida: Some people surf, tan, build sand castles ... But if you're in the Treasure Coast, it's a great opportunity to seek buried treasure. You may have seen people with metal ...

A Tennessee man was about to propose when he realized the ring had "fallen out of his pocket," Myrtle Beach police said Myrtle Beach Police Department/Facebook One couple will have a beach proposal ...

Editor's Note: October 8th, 2025: We've checked to make sure that our recommendations are still available and competitively priced. A new round of metal detector testing is currently under way, so you ...

Beneath the thick river grass lies more than just rocks and sand. On this dive, I teamed up with TripNDive to explore a stretch of river using our underwater metal detectors. Together, we uncovered ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Chris Jenkins heads to Folly Beach, Sullivan’s Island, or IOP, about four times a week. He isn’t ...