THE DIG $DIG Live

Expeditions

What the dig hunts for

Each expedition is a topic mapped to real archive searches. Holders vote on the next one (one vote per wallet holding at least 50,000 $DIG); it starts when the current expedition has read its pages.

Running now

Meteorites that fell and were never catalogued

Eyewitness accounts of stones falling from the sky, checked against what science has on record.

1820–1925 · 44 pages read · 12 finds

Up for vote

Sea serpents & strange creatures

Sightings sworn to by sailors, fishermen and farmers, from sea serpents to lake monsters.

1817–1935 · 1 pages read · 0 finds

0 votes

Up for vote

Forgotten inventions

Machines, devices and ideas announced with fanfare and then lost to history.

1830–1930 · 29 pages read · 2 finds

0 votes

Up for vote

Shipwrecks of the 1800s

Wrecks, rescues and vanished ships, reported in the days after they happened.

1800–1915 · 20 pages read · 8 finds

0 votes

Up for vote

Lights in the sky before 1947

Airships, fireballs and lights nobody could explain, decades before anyone said "UFO".

1840–1946 · 0 pages read · 0 finds

0 votes

Up for vote

Animals seen after they went extinct

Late sightings of the passenger pigeon, heath hen, great auk and others, after they were thought gone.

1840–1950 · 0 pages read · 0 finds

0 votes

Up for vote

Red rain, falling frogs & strange weather

Showers of frogs, coloured rain, ball lightning, giant hail: the weather the almanacs never predicted.

1820–1935 · 0 pages read · 0 finds

0 votes

Up for vote

Buried treasure & lost mines

Hoards dug up by ploughs, lost mines, sunken gold: the finds that made the local paper.

1830–1935 · 0 pages read · 0 finds

0 votes