r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HimelTy • Jul 21 '26

Video A crashed Pan Am passenger plane from 1952 has been identified today by Discovery Channel in the Atlantic Ocean.

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u/Overall-Bullfrog5433 Jul 21 '26

That is nice. Every time I watch that show with Josh he gets all excited over something but nothing is usually found. Too late in the day, time ran out to get back, always some half assed excuse.

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u/CanaryRoutine3646 Jul 21 '26

They were there to find one of the treasures from the book "The Secret'. That was a really good set of episodes. They also were there when the set of stolen ruby slippers were possibly uncovered. Josh is one host i actually believe is truly trying to discover things.

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u/Canadiantx69 Jul 21 '26

That break in episode when the Boston treasure was found is one of my all time favorite episodes, because I had been in Boston for a week, renting an apartment for a week a block away from where they found the treasure, and flew home about 4 days before it was found. As soon as the episode started I immediately went "oh shit, is that the park around the corner from where I was?" and then bam, it was.

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u/codymreese Jul 21 '26

The 'Secret' episodes were great and it was amazing that he got to help solve and actually find one of the treasures.

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u/fermbetterthanfire Jul 21 '26

Like the self help book??? What treasures are these?

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u/CanaryRoutine3646 Jul 21 '26

Some years back, a man buried treasure boxes all over the U.S. in major city public lands. He then wore a book of verses that correspond to paintings filled with clues on where to find them. I'm not sure how many there are, but a few have been found, so they are real, and not just to sell books. Look up "The Secret" treasure book. It should come up.

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u/Canadiantx69 Jul 21 '26

There were 12 poems/paintings in the book, and only 3 of them have been found to date, Boston (the EXU episode) being the most recent. To make matters tougher, Byron Preiss died in a car wreck in 2005, and had not recorded the exact locations of any of the treasures, so no one including his family know where anything is to verify if they're still there/accessible.

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u/CanaryRoutine3646 Jul 21 '26

I do think the artist that painted the paintings is still alive. I believe he knows the cities or at least which painting goes with which poem, but i think that's about it. I want to get more into it. I'm assuming there's a reddit community?

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u/Canadiantx69 Jul 21 '26

I'm not sure, all of my knowledge about it comes from the episodes, but I'm sure there is. There's a sub for everything, lol.

As to the person who painted the paintings, I vaguely recall Josh asking about that, and being told he was given instructions as to what to paint, but nothing else, though that could always be a lie. The cities I believe are already identified successfully, with the context clues, it's just deciphering exactly where the casques are, made even tougher by 45 years of changes to the area and cities.

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u/C6H11CN Jul 21 '26

I like that, though. It's how archaeology actually works. A bunch of nerds getting excited about a period nail is one of the most realistic things on Discovery Channel these days.

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u/NotawoodpeckerOwner Jul 21 '26

I still enjoy the show and very rarely they do find something interesting and undiscovered. But they still do some interesting things and make the odd discovery.

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u/Secure_Indication167 Jul 21 '26

Yeah i don’t agree with bro above. They usually don’t find THE thing they are looking for because, well it’s usually something that has been undiscovered for hundreds or thousands of years. But they almost always get close or find clues or something cool.

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u/ajamuso Jul 21 '26

100% - every episode in recent memory has had some big find that’s decently satisfying

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u/wtb2612 Jul 22 '26

Yep. One that comes to mind immediately is when they were looking for a specific shipwreck in Lake Superior. They didn't find the ship they were looking for but ended up discovering another shipwreck that was lost for over 100 years.

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u/Vhexer Jul 21 '26

That’s archeology though, you’re not always gonna find stuff. Plus, there has been LOADS of times they actually do find stuff on Expedition Unknown.

Hell, the latest episode he and the archeologist that is investigating the Plain of Jars in Southeast Asia found the only known jar with a lid, as well as a completely new jar site