Utah treasure hunters discover time capsule, reunite memories with original owners

DAVIS COUNTY, Utah — A pair of treasure hunters, who had been on the lookout for Utah’s massive money prize of $20,000 tucked away within the mountains, stumbled throughout one thing that ended up being priceless to those that buried it 36 years in the past.

“We cherished wanting in there and studying all the things,” stated Kevin Richard, who positioned a time capsule this weekend close to Francis Peak in Davis County. “It was superior.”

Richard and his brother-in-law Troy Thompson had been on the lookout for the coveted treasure once they observed an space with rocks close to a tree that appeared odd to them. Thompson discovered the time capsule, a black pipe with caps on every finish, hidden below the rocks.

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“Once we opened it up on the automotive, it felt like only a scene out of the flicks,” stated Thompson. “We simply opened a bottle of treasure, solely it occurred to be not solely money, however a treasure filled with recollections.”

Inside had been cash, footage, letters and outdated certificates from adventures relationship again to 1986. The paperwork had names on them, which is how Thompson and Richards had been capable of monitor down a number of the unique homeowners of the recollections and in the end the group who buried the capsule.

Members of Boy Scout Troop 6210 from West Valley Metropolis buried the time capsule in 1986 and went again a number of instances so as to add gadgets till 1994.

“I actually don’t bear in mind even doing it,” stated Troy Orton, who revisited the time capsule website in 1994. “I don’t know if I went on my own, I don’t know if I had different individuals with me.”

Orton, joined by fellow Troop 6210 member Patrick Packer and former Scoutmaster Lyle Olsen, met in Bountiful on Monday to take a look at the capsule uncovered by Thompson and Richard.

“It brings again all of the adventures that we had as a troop as principally simply mates,” stated Packer.

The gadgets and recollections had been distributed among the many group.

Richard stated he didn’t need any of the gadgets and meant to search out their rightful homeowners.