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A 500-foot-wide mountain of gold, silver and other valuable metals has been found buried two and a half miles beneath the ocean floor, in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. These aren’t manmade treasures?they’re natural accumulations of riches from volcanic vents. Dr. Peter Rona, who made the discovery, says, “At least 50,000 years in the making, the mound is composed largely of combinations of the metals copper, iron, zinc, gold and silver. It was produced by jets of hot, metal-rich sea water.”
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The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that the citizens of Bedford, a small town in Virginia, are trying to solve a mystery code that may be worth millions that has baffled treasure hunters for over a century. It?s known as the Beale Treasure, which is supposed to be a pile of gold worth $20 million which was buried in the hills of Bedford in the early 1800s by a gold miner named Thomas J. Beale.

One man moved his neighbor?s silo a few years ago to dig under it but ran out of money before he could put it back. A woman was jailed for excavating parts of the town cemetery, and the two brothers go to a local orchard to dig more trenches every fall.
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In 1633 a ferry loaded with one fifth of the wealth of England capsized in the Firth of Forth and was lost with all aboard, as the horrified King of England, Charlies I, watched helplessly from shore.

Many believe this to be the world’s largest unrecovered treasure, and now there is a possibility that it has been found.
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