Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this November 1989 file photo, Tommy Thompson holds a $50 pioneer gold piece retrieved earlier in 1989 from the wreck of the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — For more than a century, people across the Ozarks have believed that untold wealth lies hidden beneath their feet. Spanish silver sealed in caves. Civil War gold buried to keep it ...

Tommy Thompson, a deep-sea explorer who spent more than a decade in federal custody for refusing to disclose the location of a cache of gold coins from a historic shipwreck, was released from prison.

We were Treasure hunting for old silver coins, and rings, and we found a deep military M69 mortar round aka bomb used in WWII! This video is full of silver ring finds colonial copper coins as well as ...

(AP) – A former deep-sea treasure hunter who made one of the greatest shipwreck discoveries in American history and spent the past decade in prison after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of some ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has had that term ended by a federal judge ...