Private properties, beaches, parks, woods, fields, shallow water, snow, rocks, and vehicles. Metal detection and treasure hunting services are based out of Groton, Connecticut.
Lost jewelry, historical property surveys, hidden or forgotten valuables, property markers, and buried utilities such as water lines and oil tanks. My equipment can find everything from tiny gold pieces on the surface to larger buried objects.
Search fees are dependent upon your specific circumstances. The exact fee is determined before your appointment booking.
Treasure hunting began for Keith Wille in his early teens when his curiosity and determination lead him to recover a cache of 19th-century silver dollars hidden behind the walls of his grandparent’s 80-year-old home. Over the past decade, Keith's love for treasure hunting evolved into a service widely known for helping families rediscover their lost possessions. Keith has returned $350,000 in lost jewelry and received recognition from archaeologists and historians for recovering rare Pequot artifacts. Keith discovered what is believed to be a 17th-century Pequot village, identified by Archaeologist Kevin McBride as Tatuppequauog, the "first forced settlement of native people." Keith was featured in multiple articles for his accomplishments, including The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Gold, silver, jewelry, artifacts, and many other forgotten treasures found! Is there a hidden fortune or time capsule on your property?
The New York Times
Mr. McBride says there is a “better than even” chance that Mr. Wille discovered the site of Tatuppequauog, one of the villages mentioned in the 1638 letter. The letter said it had 20 houses; Dr. McBride estimated that about 200 people might have lived there, a large enough village to account for the distance between where the adze and kettle point were found. If it is Tatuppequauog, Mr. Wille would be listed as the discoverer.
Reuniting people with lost possessions and the thing that means the most to them. Is there something you've lost?
The Day
For more than 40 years Elias Hage was married to Eleanor until she passed away in 2011. Every day Elias would take a swim at Waterford Town Beach. On one fateful day, he came out of the water to see the wedding ring he wore since 1960 was gone. Read how Keith Wille turned this heartbreaking story into a fairy tale ending.
In The News
For more than 40 years Elias Hage was married to Eleanor until she passed away in 2011. Every day Elias would take a swim at Waterford Town Beach. On one fateful day, he came out of the water to see the wedding ring he wore since 1960 was gone. Read how Keith Wille turned this heartbreaking story into a fairy tale ending.
Ellen and Michael Stefanski had their share of losses last month, but following a visit from Keith Wille and his XP Deus, a little something meaningful was found.
"I do this because sometimes all people have is a token to remind them of the best parts of their lives," Wille said in an email, "and those memories do not belong lost in the ocean.
Yet after almost three hours of non-stop detector-swinging, Wille was still probing for new leads, maintaining a running conversation with his client. “It makes no difference if I find it with the machine or I jog his memory and he finds it somewhere else,” he said.
Mr. McBride says there is a “better than even” chance that Mr. Wille discovered the site of Tatuppequauog, one of the villages mentioned in the 1638 letter. If it is Tatuppequauog, Mr. Wille would be listed as the discoverer.
After weeks went by Mr. Hage thought all hope was lost but a man with a metal detector and a hobby of finding things changed all that.
A family-heirloom engagement ring is back on the finger of a bride-to-be thanks to a ring-finder who found it after it was lost in the snow.
AGAWAM, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- A Westfield woman and her fiancé are breathing a sigh of relief after someone was able to recover a priceless family heirloom from the snow. They owe it all to a man who works to help people find their lost items. Keith Wille, a professional metal detectorist who specializes in finding lost items.
A professional treasure hunter from Connecticut went viral for finding $46,000 in the floorboards of a Massachusetts home. Since then, his modern-day treasure hunting business has skyrocketed.
A treasure hunter helped a Massachusetts family a settle decades-old rumor that money had been hidden somewhere inside their house since the 1950s. Within an hour's time, Keith Wille found the $46,000 in a lockbox that was hidden under the home’s floorboards.
