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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sriamerican" data-source="post: 25955673" data-attributes="member: 575658"><p><img src="https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/596/hce860.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>Venezuela’s economic meltdown had pummeled the fishing village of Guaca. Then something glistened in the water.</td></tr></table><p></p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>Hundreds of pieces of gold and silver jewelry and ornaments mysteriously surfaced on Guaca’s beach, easing the pain of an economic crisis and creating a local gold rush for villagers. Many of them immediately sold the objects they had discovered and bought food.<br /> </td></tr></table> <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>“It got so bad, I felt as if a rope was tightening around my neck,” said Yolman Lares, who first discovered the gold. The treasure has allowed his family to go back to eating twice a day.<br /> </td></tr></table> <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>Despite weeks of speculation over the discovery — including tales of Caribbean pirates, a sunken colonial frigate and modern smugglers — its origins are still unknown. A chemical test commissioned by The Times on a link of gold chain indicated that the piece had most likely been manufactured in Europe in recent decades.</td></tr></table><p></p><p>For several months gold and silver jewelry, ornaments, and golden nuggets have started washing up on the shore of a small Venezuelan fishing village that had been devastated by the country’s economic crisis and COVID-19.</p><p></p><p>Yolman Lares was the first to find treasure on the beach in Guaca in September when he found a gold medallion with an image of the Virgin Mary.</p><p></p><p>“I began to shake, I cried from joy,” Lares, 25, told The New York Times. “It was the first time something special has happened to me.”</p><p></p><p>Since then “dozens of villagers” have retrieved items – mostly gold rings – from the beach, including Ciro Quijada, a local fish plant worker who told the Times “This is God, setting his agenda.”</p><p></p><p>Locals have sold their treasure for up to $1,500 a piece – a boon to the village.</p><p></p><p>It is not known where the treasure has come from, but the paper notes the mystery has grown as a combination of folklore, the legends of Caribbean pirates and Christmas customs.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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