I dont know if this is true. but my auntie swore that what she told me was true.
a long time ago, she had this laborer in her farm somewhere in toril, davao city. this laborer had a carabao to boot as his only and significant worldly possession (aside , of course . from his clothes and farm paraphernalias).
one day, she told this laborer to go to her nearby and adjacent farm ( where another tenant lives) to plow a portion of her farm where there abound boulders and rocks. this laborer then went to this adjacent farm and did what was required of him, to plow the portion of that field. as he was plowing the said property, he noticed a metal wire (not electrical wire) on the ground. since he was new to the area, he followed the path to where this metal wire would lead to. he was able to observe that this metal wire led to a boulder or big rock. so he beckoned this tenant ( laborer 2) for help and they were able to move this not-so huge boulder to another location, presumably beside the original location, through the use of logs. since this tenant (laborer 2) did not believe in treasure and since he had no idea that treasures maybe found under a boulder, he left the area after realizing that nothing of significance was found under the rock.
this tenant (laborer 2) might have committed the biggest mistake of his life , and so he might thought afterwards, because his co-laborer (laborer 1) was nowhere to be found a day after. laborer 1 just left his farm, leaving his carabao and other farm paraphernalia (laborer 1 was single).
nothing has been heard of this farmer (laborer 1) for so many years. until some acquiantance of my aunt told her just last year that this acquaintance just saw the laborer of my aunt in cebu. laborer 1 , according to the said acquiantance , is already a wealthy businessman in cebu.
we can only speculate as to what really happened. but one thing is very interesting. this laborer might have strucked it rich because he followed the wire that led to the boulder, remove the boulder , dug a few meters , and recover something of significance.
again, this is only a hearsay, a story passed on by my aunt to me . the series of fortunate events might have only been a product of her fertile imagination. but again, we can only invest in hope. thus, if by chance i will find a metal chain/wire attached to a concrete or rock, I will definitely do what laborer 1 did because the said metal chain or wire was there for a reason.
but until now, i have not found the said metal chain or metal wire myself. has anybody in this forum found the said metal chain or wire by chance? please comment if you share the same experience of laborer 1.