Abandoned Homes

Hello Goldnboy

First of all find out if there is still an owner and if there is try to get permission.

is the house with windows and doors open or missing?

How old do you think the house is?

Is it a affluent suburb?

If it is and old house from the 1930's there could be hidden stashes from the great depression or WW2 When people hid things in fear of the times. If the place is from the gold rush era and in a mining area then it might have some hidden gold.

However knowing the age of the house helps. refer to my tips of searching old houses.

Hardluck.

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Hello Goldnboy

You are correct it was a very sad story. Sadly I remember the event.

Air New Zealand Flight 901 was a scheduled Air New Zealand Antarctic sightseeing flight that operated between 1977 and 1979, from Auckland Airport to Antarctica and return via Christchurch.

On 28 November 1979, the fourteenth flight of TE901, operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 registered ZK-NZP, collided with Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. The accident is commonly known as the Mount Erebus disaster.

The initial investigation concluded the accident was caused by pilot error, but public outcry led to the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the accident. The commission, presided by Justice Peter Mahon.

He concluded that the accident was caused by a correction in the flight path coordinates the night before the accident, and the flight crew not being informed of the change that, instead of taking them down McMurdo Sound as they thought they were, directed them into Mount Erebus.

 In Justice Mahon's report, he famously accused Air New Zealand of telling "an orchestrated litany of lies", which eventually resulted in changes in senior management at the airline.

The accident today remains New Zealand's deadliest disaster. 28 bodies were never found and 12 others was unrecognizable and remain unidentified.

Perhaps there was legal problems with the house as the couple may not be officially declared dead?

So that might be an answer to why the house remained empty for 31 years?

However I cannot see any much chance of finding caches there from a young newly wed couple? Discretion is perhaps a better option and find another abandoned house search.

Hardluck

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Hello Goldnboy

The old mining hut sounds interesting.

Check all bottle and tins/cans buried near around the old shack. Old timers distrusted banks, the Chinese were even more fearful of banks. Many would bury their stashes near where they lived and worked.

Many would of buried treasures only to die with the epidemics that plagued the mining camps.

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