Father And Son's Treasure Hunt Leads To Discovery Of Dead Body In Abandoned House (image@Pixabay)

A father and son discovered a dead body in an abandoned house last Saturday. The incident happened in Mississippi, while they hunted for treasure. The 23-year-old Riley Bryant and his father Chuck were metal detecting when around a deserted property. They were accompanied by few of their friends. When they peeped into the house, they saw the dead body.

Talking to WREG, Riley Bryant said, “we actually noticed through the window of the vacant building that there was something that didn’t look right on the floor in one of the back rooms”. He has found rare items in the past, which included bullets from civil War-era, a 1880s glass bottle from the J.J. Henrich Bottling Company, and an old oar lock for a row boat. However, he was shocked to find a human corpse inside the vacant house.

He said they thought it to be “strange” and determined that it was definitely something we needed to report to the authorities. He believes that an ill-fated person was seeking shelter from cold and did not survive.

“He had taken stuff in the house, ripped the curtains down, towels, anything he could find had to kind of pile on himself to try to keep warm. When you really look at it just gets sadder and sadder. This is not someone that was wandering around drunk or something. It was somebody that obviously wanted to live”, said Riley.

The treasure hunters stayed at the site, while the local enforcement investigated the mysterious death. The identity and the gender of the body has not been determined. The body was transferred to Pearl, of Mississippi, for autopsy that would determine the cause of the death, as reported by WREG.

Chuck turned the incident into a lesson and said that they should become wary of others and help the less fortunate.