House Blueprints Led To The Discovery Massive Hidden Treasure In A Man’s Garden
i f you were born somewhere between the 80s’ and the 90s’ you know that the hunt around the house for buried treasure was a real one! Kids would flip at the thought that maybe they would be lucky enough to find real treasure buried in their house backyard. I’ve personally dug so much, so deep just to find something that I would have considered “treasure”. Pins, bottle caps, old coins, fake nails were all considered hidden treasure back in my days. But then here’s a man called John Sims who goes by the name ‘Captantarctica’, one who really lived the treasure fantasy by finding something truly epic in his garden!
After thoroughly investigating the blueprints of his house, which he stumbled upon in the storage, he realized something was amiss, that there was something very huge hidden in his garden. In plain sight, there was nothing but grass, yet the blueprints suggested otherwise. Sims decided to use the blueprint’s key as a map to discover the hidden component and started digging up the garden with the use of a metal detector.
Sims wasn’t prepared for what he was about to uncover so when the metal detector started screaming, his heart started skipping beats, naturally. Was it gold? Pirate treasure? A ship’s anchor? Even better, a massive trap door! All these years living in the house, Sims had no idea there was a trap door in his garden! But what was inside the trap door? Fear gripped an excited and tensed Sims as he began digging around the door in an attempt to open it.
Questions cluttered his mind, as he tried to open what was buried deep and deliberately sealed for so many years, maybe for a good reason. Naturally, Sims was afraid of what he may find inside, but the adrenaline rush he was experiencing was enough to help him finally crank the door open.
The door led to a spiraling staircase that disappeared underground into total darkness. Now wasn’t time to back off, so naturally, Sims began climbing down with his heart thumping in his throat. What did he walk into? A bunker! Sims couldn’t believe there was a huge bunker in his garden that was built by Whitaker Pools in the early 60s!
Between the 60s and the 80s, many people built bunkers made from concrete and fiberglass that served as bomb shelters to safeguard against the cold war. Sims was excited, and for the most part relieved, and immediately shared his pictures online that quickly went viral. Like a domino effect, people quickly began checking their house blueprints to see if maybe they would find hidden treasure in their backyards!
Sims plans to restore the bunker with the help of a GoFundMe campaign and once the restoration is complete, it would be turned into a public museum to memorialize the cold war.
