Man Finds Iron Age Gold With A Polaroid Camera 😲 

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This is VERY TRUE. I Found My Gold Mine here in Arizona taken on a Polaroid Camera 15 minutes after Sunrise on November 19, 2023. The Humidity must be 55% or higher. When I took the picture the humidity was 91% after a rain storm the following morning. The Gold mine is a Epithermal Porphyry Quartz Vein Deposit that also carries Silver. Much of the gold is a combination of Electrum, and it is RICH !

I laughed out loud when you were waving your metal detector at the sky. 📸

After googling stuff (so it's very conclusive research🤣) I have came up with a theory: Gold deposits in soil with time create bio/geochemically formed nanoparticles which get dispersed and transported with evaporating water to the surface. Gold nano particles are quite effective in triggering molecular ionisation upon photoexcitation (surface plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon). During state of SPR those particles often have red colour. 🤯

I’ve read an article long time ago, don’t remember where, about some guys in South Africa who were looking for treasure in the dessert, and were finding good sized nuggets using thermal cameras mounted on drones. Apparently this can work in that area because during the summer days the temperature is over 100 degrees, and drops suddenly and significantly upon sunset. They were using the drones right after sunset. I don’t know if the story was true, however, it makes sense somewhat, since a thermal camera can detect temperature differences even between empty voids in stone walls…

I've stocked up on vintage cameras for years, not knowing I was just waiting for this moment 🤣

As an avid detectorist and also a past post/grad applied physicist I have considered a number of scenarios which may influence remote sensing of metallic objects. There’s a halo effect where conductive (metallic) objects at depth will interact with surrounding media over time to alter/increase a target signature. Helps when looking for deep conductive targets at the beach e.g. old silver coins. That’s not what we’re looking at here! Metals also have high thermal conductivity, so you should be able to detect an infra-red delta around e.g. a silver object as it absorbs heat from the surroundings - that said; in the ground over time these temperatures would be fairly constant so likely no dice there! Hand-held xrf spectrometers are used by geologists in the field and combine an x-ray source with complex sensors and analytics to provide a reading on the material composition. Expensive and typically held directly against the target being analysed. Lots to consider, but a clunky Polaroid!? Hmm…

Actually, there's is already tech that can find "treasure" via their unique frequency signal. Exactly like the guy said, the longer the item is in the ground the larger it's signature becomes. A freshly buried gold bar would be nearly impossible to find using the frequency method. But if it's been there many years, it creates its own energy field. Like a cathode/anode relationship with the surrounding soil. Emeralds give off their own unique signature frequency that's decidedly different than silver and so on. The devices are pricey... but hey, if you are already metal detecting, and treasure hunting, then you'd probably have heard of them and are secretly squirreling away your finds in order to pay for one, and never tell a soul you have it. Because if it's bunk, you don't want anyone knowing you dropped $15k on a Sci-Fi gimmick. And if it works, you certainly don't want anyone to know you found El Dorado on your last trip to the jungles of Peru.

Interesting, certainly. You bring so much "over and above" info to the table Merrill! TY for not only being a great Teacher, but a Great Student as well!

I have been a photographer for 45 years, 0ne day l was metal detecting in a field in Berkshire England and had very little in good targets, after 3 hours in the field l had had enough of finding rubbish and went back to my car to leave, just ten yards from my car l saw a polaroid picture on the ground and being a photographer l pick it up and looked at the picture, the picture showed a view of the field l was in ,there was a small dip in the ground about a hundred yards out in the picture, so l thought l would go and detect the dip and very first signal about 9 ins down l found an Iron age gold stator . That evening l was going through some old metal detecting magazines when l found a story of a man who found gold by taking a polaroid picture of the field he was in and detecting an area in the picture that he was drawn too .

I would put this in the same category as the ‘X-ray spectacles’ that you would see advertised in comics back in the sixties!

I sampled topsoil for an oil company for 18 months. Leases were grid-sampled and a map of ppm of iodine made. Iodine tends to accumulate in the soil over oil and gas deposits, due to microseepage to the surface. UV from sunlight is involved in fixing the iodine in the soil. Reportedly, some portion of the UV rays from the sun can actually penetrate as deep as 90 feet into the earth. This shows something most people and even some geologists have never heard of. There was a Nova program once about quantum tunneling. A flashlight was shown upon a 6" thick brick wall. A tiny portion was detectible coming out the other side, though not visible to the human eye. It was passing through the mostly empty space of the the atoms and molecules making up the wall. It was then shown to be dependable enough to encode a piece of classical music into a light beam and pass that through the wall, pick the remnant of the light beam up on the other side of the wall, be processed, and play that music on a player. There could be something like this going on. Quantum tunnelling of some portion of the electromagnetic spectrum of sunlight, reflecting off a buried precious metal mass like a coin.

Been fascinated with this concept in treasure hunting for a couple years. Great job covering it.

Treasure hunting is a wide-ranging business. It's not just about searching with a metal detector. There are many ways, aura, polaroid, using feelings, etc. I love treasure hunting.

I favour “the end of the rainbow” method, alternatively “dowsing for leprechauns” might be a better choice if you live in the Emerald Isle.

Metals do leech into the soil on a microscopic level over a long period of time. That's why it is easier for a metal detector to pick up a silver dime buried 10" deep that has been buried for many years. Than a freshly buried silver dime. The metal that has leeched into the soil creates a larger target for the detector to recognize, the longer it has been buried. However soil conditions can affect this condition also. Some soils may not be as acidic, therefore reducing the leech affect on buried objects.

I worked for a medical company in a lab using a spectrometer. Basically a large machine that burned metals down to gas form that gave the spectrum you are talking about. It was how we verified the metallic alloys that were shipped in to be used for production use.

I am out in my backyard right now taking pictures with my iPhone of the grass and all I see is grass.

Hi Merrill back in school days late 70s I spent 3 years in photography today I'm still into it so here's my thoughts on it A good knowledge of the inner workings of a digital camera will reveal that unless the treasure emits LIGHT or electricity, the CCD chip is simply not capable of picking it up. Of course if it emitted light, we wouldn't need a fancy digital camera to see it, and we'd all be treasure hunting at night Great vlog as always Merrill

I miss those days when you went out and had fun metal detecting.

I’m glad you’re looking at other options for metal detecting. The topics you covered on this video I myself have thought of too but I’ve never connected the dots.

I must admit that despite the fanciful part about a camera as a suitable tool for the purpose, today infrared viewers can make effective thermal scans, but not to this extent. The argument makes sense as far as isolating the ground temperatures where the object or objects are buried and that this means losing scanning efficiency in the sub-layer. Just as for conductivity relative to mass and composition, so for radiated heat, something massive, could be detected even at discrete depths in less hot hours, with a more conspicuous heat signature. Back in our typical dimensions, I highly doubt that rings, coins or necklaces could radiate a trace that the sensor could effectively detect. Like all your content, this is epic Merrill.

I enjoyed this.. I can ony imagine that those watching this are looking on eBay to aquire a Poloroid SX-70 Sonar Instant Camera to start their Gold exploration… 😂🤣😂🤣

Here is additional information that is 100% true and backed by science. In 1963 Astronaut Gordon Cooper while using devices installed on the shuttle he accidently detected anomalies that were in areas he wasn’t expecting. He noted them on a map of his, and when he returned back to earth using his map, every single spot on his map, there was treasure discovered there. So this tells me that there are ways to detect gold even from space.

Do you see how many tabs this guy has open? Looks like my computer and my phone, and my other phone, and my tablet... LOL!

Super interesting M. Loved it. When I see you I’ll tell you an interesting store about auras 💥

this follows in line with long range metal detectors from GER in Germany

I heard of a story many years ago a man on vacation was taking family vacation photos with an old cell phone. Apparently it had a particular filter that captured something similar here. He was out west I think. When he looked at it he went back and dug and found a good vein. I often wondered if this was true or just something made up. I know someone who has taken pictures of locations suspected of having large amounts of gold in them. Every photo would have strange orbs in the pictures. Other pictures wouldn't have them. Strange makes one wonder for sure.

Completely agree about the swimming pools. Nice house & garden.

I think it would work. Gold and silver are known to reflect more infrared light, while ordinary soil tends to absorb it. As a result, in the photo, areas where gold and silver are buried should appear brighter.

One of the ways big mining company's find ore deposits is by fly over prospecting. I met a pilot years ago that found a nice deposit of placer gold. Big nuggets. The mining company decided it was to small and to filled with controversy to mine. So, when his retirement came, he went there himself and brought back lbs. Of gold. There is an aura that different metals put off. I've never heard of using a Polaroid tho. The cameras they have are heat and spectrum sensitive. Gold is red. Copper is blue. Iron is yellow. I don't know all the colors only what he told me. So it can and is done all the time. You can even burn and assay trees to find traces of gold that can lead to bigger deposits. Same with water. I've often wondered when they're looking for these big ship wrecks why they don't take water samples. Silver oxidizes in salt water and even forms chlorides. So they are to an extant, soluble. PPMs would increase the closer you got to your target. Thoughts.

The moment you said there are a large group of people I cracked up! Love your videos, man!

Most cameras have a built in IR cut filter that removes wavelengths below 760 nM. Deep red. Remove this cut filter and put on an IR pass filter over the lens and your camera will see down to 1200 nM. TV remote controls are actually blindingly bright but our eyes can't see 800 - 940 nM. Find the exact frequency of the red gold aura and place that narrow band filter on your camera then you can remove all light except but the deep red of gold.

Terry Carter had a video with matacia but sadly the audio is super bad in places so some parts you can’t understand. Matacia is in a retirement home I believe I saw on facebook. But someone good with cleaning up audio maybe could fix terry carters video with Matacia.

Have you seen a Tfr rod ? Search vids on here I bought one from the maker there in the USA and it locates the exact frequency of gold from nuggets to man made coins etc gold in raw form has an electrostatic frequency differnt from say man made gold coins. And silver has a frequency different to gold etc. Tfr rods can locate gold and silver of all types and even show you its weight at over 1000meters

Satellite X-ray spectrometry has been used for years by many industries to locate minerals.

Great video Merrill, i did have to check the video wasnt posted on the 1st April😂

Interesting theory. However, I would think that evening temps would show a more pronounced difference between the ground and any metal that retains heat since the dirt would release heat faster than a metallic object. But I have no education in thermo dynamics so...

Military satellites can use infrared to tell if the ground has been recently dug up and filled back, which happens when parachutes are buried, latrines dug and buried, graves dug and buried. It is due to the fact that digging up the ground disrupts the moisture distribution making a temperature difference that can be detected in infrared. I would guess metals that conduct heat well could make a temperature difference in the ground compared to ground that did not have the metals. Great video!

Great Ive got grannys old polaroid camera/ great digital camera to👍🏽

Great video. I can tell that you're a teacher. Very informative and interesting. Well done. Look forward to more info and some of your knowledge. Thanks, for being you.

Similar topic but a different methodology. Q, if a dogs nose is incredibly sensitive, can a dog be trained to smell gold 🤔. Dogs are used to smell for drugs and have shown the ability to smell cancer cells. Apparently, after I researched the topic years ago, I found a video on a guy in Switzerland (if memory serves) that trained his German Shepherd to do just that! Also noteworthy as a gold panner, I can tell you the earth gives off a certain smell when you're in good gold bearing soils.

This video is shockingly valuable…thank you

There are some archeologists that are using "ground sonar" to find buried objects. Basically bouncing sound through the soil and using receiver equipment to pick up reflected signals, similar to using metal detectors but they are looking for all objects under the surface, not just metallic. It is very slow and takes special equipment. They also use similar technology for oil exploration in the ocean.

this is very interesting read the book and contacted Mr. David almost 10 years ago the technic is strange and i do believe it can yield results but i have yet to find anything

I've personally noticed in certain old 1800's photos that while in Black and White SOME will however show one COLOR and will show gold as gold 🪙

Your channel is fantastic! Thank God im subscribed. I'm about ready to get my own setup with this new kind of treasure hunting. New to me that is. I really appreciate all that you share.

Astronauts saw something like that from space made a map and found shipwrecked full of gold

I only learned one thing... That treasure hunters are dogged in their persuits but are also become very dimwitted and gullible over the ideas of actually finding treasure easily. The biggest proof that this treasure aura method of finding treasure is not plausible is that if it were, the main proponents of the method would be rich from actually finding treasure using their method and not from selling books and doing interviews about finding treasure using their method and... they are not. They can't seems to find anything using only the aura method that they haven't buried as a "test" already. I want to see them be taken by a skeptic to several locations like a beach, gravel parking lot, parade field, battle site, etc... and the aurist have no idea where the skeptic has chosen before doing their "aura magic". Let them find just 1 buried item where they call the location and type of metal before digging where they indicate. If they can do that more than at odds of random chance l, then, I might believe it. So far, nothing as an explaination that they give makes any sense at all when placed against their claims.

The German book by Reinhold and Cornelia Ostlet "Hanbuch für Schatzsucher" current edition page 139 reports on a mysterious device in a fishing box. This could find gold at a great distance. Presumably an infrared camera was also used there, or what do you think?

Dowsing does actually work I lived on a farm and when our water supply dried up one year I took a Y shaped branch and where the water was you can feel the stick Pulse. If you turn away the pulses stop. But I have always been different to prove a point one year I reported to an aid agency about earthquakes predicting them three to four days before they happened.

I use the gold whistle method. A small whistle made of gold. When the golden sound waves make contact with gold in the ground, the buried gold begins to rise to the surface. Keep blowing and the gold will appear.

Earth's magnetic field is grounding the metal, and you already know about how conductive the metals are. So yes, I can understand why and now you got me chasing this!

This mean they are reading Golds radiant signature because it is a heavy metal , and it's obvious that the camera can detect the light wave gold even if buried

This sounds like the Star Trek looking guns with color screens people keep trying to spam sales of in the various Facebook detecting groups

So now I have to spend hours and hours on RU-vid. Great, thanks.

Thanks for your time!

Somebody knows out there… the digital cameras of today from what I understand they come with filters. It would be a physical line of film or electronic filter after they light hits the sensor… can any of these procedures be removed and return to original intent and what models of digital cameras can be utilized for this kind of application…maybe some kind of programming can eliminate the filtering effect…

I’ve noticed when editing digital photos I can find things in dark areas that I can’t see in the original photos, during recent Northern Lights the sky was black but my iPhone showed a lot of colours that my eyes couldn’t see. Couple of years back I went out at night to get a picture of the moon, on the field I went too I couldn’t see the colour of the grass I was stood on. However the pictures showed the grass colour similar to what I would see during the daytime, the camera & iPhone sensors see so much more than I can. Photoshpping pictures a few years back I could see people in the background that didn’t show up in the original pictures.

Infrared Thermography for the Detection of Buried Objects by Carl Santulli.

I have an 1.25” infrared filter I can use on my telescope 🤔. Too bad I’m colorblind as a bat 😞.

The gold hidden in Mexico by the fleeing Americans when Pancho villa kicked them out would produce the aura at dusk, and it could be seen with the naked eye.

The spectra scope. I need me one of those.

Hello professor! what about a thermal camera coupled with an equinox ? maybe here in the amazon this could works. your explanation of thermal diference. in suface make all sense. actualy here in Manaus i use a thermal camera to check wiring problems.

I was talking to a guy at a detecting rally in the uk last week and he was telling me about an old chap who he knew that was around when decent metal detectors started coming out during the early 70s and he was one of a very few who stated doing uk beaches with a pulse detector. The old guy showing him literally 1000s of rings that he found because nobody else was doing it and he used to sell them to make a wage.

I wonder if he was using a IR filter to block IR or to filter IR into the visible spectrum. Would a IR filter on a camera phone work?

You're not "Car Wizard" either, but I dig him too. Pardon the dad humor. 😉

Dousing is used by the British Water Board to discover its pipes in gardens - seen it done ! There is much we are kept in the dark about ! Cheers for this interesting aspect of looking about and I have liked and subscribed to hear more - good bless

Could these auras be exposed if the gold or silver was on the surface, visible to the eye?

They were able to determine the composition based on the spectrographic signature.

How can you have a liquid magnetic core ? The most dangerus for a magnet is heat ,just take a magnet at heat it up and is it no longer magnetic

George Eastman would be proud. This is concept is very interesting

I used a Polaroid camera that printed the picture as you took it, it works just fine!

You post the most fascinating videos haha

I have my mom's old Polaroid camera, but alas, no more film. :(

I have several old cameras I think I wanna try this

Oh youtube where have you brought me too now :) Anyways I can't comment on the varacity of polarioid film being able to detect them. But I can say they exists something akin to a standing EMF field. Normally we think of EMF fields as propagating as Electro magnetic radiation in a sphere from the source. There do however exist standing EMF fields that packed clusters of torus. They have the ability with the aid of a metal host, to persist for very long periods of time. I believe Aluminum and Gold are both very good metal hosts for such fields. What's more water can also contain these fields. I think this may be why people claim you can only see them on the polaroid film on high humidity days. Lastly when these clusters collapse, they give off a form of radiation that is little understood. It is often confused for neutron bursts, It has the ability to be recorded on film as a small mushroom shape if the film is observed under a microscope. For me the tell tale sign would be to take any polaroid images, and look to see if the red region, has mushroom, shaped markings composing the red portion. The scale of the markings could be very small only afew micron (other times they are much larger though) so a high powered microscope might be necessary. There is a lot of academic research to back up these finds. Ken Shoulders called them EVOs, John Archibald Wheeler theorized them in there relativistic form as GEONS. When these fields reach a higher energy state they can often be seen as ball lightning, but when they are not in a high energy state, they can persist in the ambient environment undetected, but they prefer a conductive metal as I understand it. So there is definitely a science to support these claims :) If this comment lasts and people want I can paste some DOI and other id's for related papers.

I've got the set up to experiment with this concept the program he uses is arch photo shop I think that's the name he used a camera filter along with a filter in the program

The precious metal elements are probably being leached into the soil, and the plants are absorbing them. The metals in the plants could be causing this effect. The plants are more active cellular wise/electrical wise during those sunny warm hours. The electricity combined with the metals in the plants could be amplifying the "aura". This would explain why the "aura" gets stronger over time. The mere heat wouldn't do that unless it's getting hotter and hotter; which isn't possible. Unless he buries his test metals in winter. Edit: The suncould be heating the metal in the plants, so the heat theory is possible, too. The plants could find it useful, so they keep absorbing more.

We use thermal imaging cameras here at the fire dept. Im going to start scanning peoples yards with it now. Lol

Love videos keeping things interesting,it could be possible that heat is very much of the reading the photo is capturing,but once again a very informative video.thank you again.

Check out the photo of the gold dime tell me what you see 🔎

I've used a black light looking for gold in underground mines. That works pretty good depending on the type of ore your working with. I would like to try a black light above ground! It's like how a scorpion's greenish glow. Also if you know where a red ant nest is, they build it and love the more gold colored, shiny pebbles better. If you want to know if gold is present, try panning an ant hill! Or black light!

Good video covering a whole lotta nothing. I have both of Matacia's books and also Villanueva's book on auras, and 20-something years ago I did all this, both with an SX-70 and a modified Minolta DSLR. I can say with extreme confidence all of this boils down to confirmation bias, same as dowsing. It simply doesn't work. The theory that buried objects hold heat longer than the surrounding soil requires the buried object to have a higher thermal mass than the soil. Rocks do, but metal does not. Besides that, UV does not penetrate the soil more than and inch or two and thermal conduction of the soil is poor. That's why you can dig a pretty shallow hole and find the soil below much cooler. So, the preferred theory to explain how this might work is bogus. I have no doubt both Villanueva and Matacia believe(d) in auras but that's because neither likely has (had) the foggiest idea how to construct a scientific test. If this method actually worked, there would be some pretty wealthy aura hunters but, as it is, selling books on auras is the only way to cash in. Sorry, this is for gullibillies, same as dowsing and long range locators.

Thats because aluminium is thin and cools down really quickly.

wait, so if we rig up the camera on a DRONE we can cover huge areas ?

Your video is very well done and I was with you all the way, except for one point. The quote about "stainless steel being the best" is limited to metals used in cookng vessels. Gold and silver should collect and radiate heat better than stainless.

Can you recommend any drone metal detector, am really in need of one for my company.

I wonder if you could drill into core and collect the liquid metal or diamonds down there

So what might be happening is a lot film that was produced in that time was not safe, due to the process in which they came up with in developing the material for making the cartridge film was highly radioactive. Early 80’s Kodak almost went bankrupt. But the key here might be is the elements in the film have all those properties as the woman was explaining.

Dig baby dig!

tesla said the secret to the universe is frequency resonance and energy. finding gold would be nice but a practical application like locating buried facilities seems useful. perhaps using a tesla coil to create scalar waves combined with an ultra high frequency antenna one could resonate buried materials and using sympathetic resonance could locate them. it would be nice to have the images show up on a display perhaps with goggles so one could actually see the images of the resonant frequencies as they locate. This would not be unlike how natural resources are located like oil and gas by the oil companies. Which also led to the invention of autotune for music.

I still call bullshit. 1. The film used in old cameras was not sensitive to IR light. 2. Modern digital cameras have a filter over the sensor to block IR light. 3. Thermal inertia would only be relevant once the surroundings have cooled off, such as early evenings. 4. The reason the aluminium foil feels cooler is due to thermal mass, not inertia. (Foil is too thin to hold much heat) Having called bullshit, I propose any experimenters use the exposed film IR filter trick over the lens of a modern smartphone that can go into "night mode". (which removes the internal IR block filter)

great vid! I'll have to watch it a couple of more times :) also, finally found a Morgan $ the other day! Thanks for all your your great advice.

😂Gosh the story they tell it's just like they've been there and touched it 😂😂😂

U can do geomagnetic testing that can reveal mineral halos through a test sample of the soil mixed with a little water and put in a device to get a numerical value. Then u grid out the area and record the numbers on the grid. Then the vein is signified by the high numbers. Which may be able to be verified with this method 😊

Very interesting, sounds plausible. 🤔👍⛏️🤠✌️🇭🇲

Hi laughed out loud when I saw a grown man on the Internet with a sleeveless shirt on.… I swear to God people on the right hand side of the United States, are strange

That is Awesome Stuff here. Now I regrate throwing out my old polaroid. But you still need the metal detector to pick up that object. otherwise this is very interesting wonder why he did not strike it rich in gold using his own method .. Thanks for this interesting video.. Peace

I'd rather use my grandpa's dowsing rods, those I know work as far as finding water. Never tried to find gold or other metals with them. Maybe I should give it a try, who knows . . . . . .