I've done less hunting this year so far than any other year since I've started detecting, mostly due to work but also a busy home schedule as well. After not getting in a single hunt in July I've finally started getting back into the swing over the past few weeks.
This past week in particular I got in some nice evening hunts with some decent finds to show for it. I worked a few of my favorite spots as well as a new location that I hit several nights in a row. On the third evening there I had an odd experience. A little old lady approached me and asked if I was looking for coins. I said yes. She told me she had seen a number of people before me hunting this spot. She seemed as if she wanted to convince me I was not going to have any luck at this spot so I should head elsewhere. I told her I figured I wasn't the first to hunt this spot but that you never know when might have been missed and that it was nice to just be outside on a nice evening. She watched me for a bit and then wandered back to her yard where she continued to keep an eye on me. After 10 or 15 minutes she walked back over and asked if the car parked in front of her house was mine. I told her no. Then things got weird. She asked if I had seen her son. She said it was getting late and she couldn't get him to come in for the night. It seemed odd that a 70+ year old woman would need to bring her son in for the night. I asked what he looked like. She said he was tall. Then she said the police might have gotten him again, and that they have beaten him up a couple of times now. Then she asked me if I was "one of them" and when I said no she again asked me if I had seen her son. I'm not sure if she was really not all there of if she was just a very crafty old lady who figured pretending to be nuts would get me to go away. Either way it was getting late and I took my leave.
Anyway, I got a few nice old coins over the coarse of the week in addition to a very worn and broken 10k signed ring. I also dug a very cool 1946 Captain Midnight decoder badge which I'm quite pleased with.
Happy hunting!
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That '28 Merc is gorgeous. 
Lost soon after it was made. Any mint mark on that 1912 V nickel? Are you going to go back to the creepy location again?? 
