You dream as a kid to find buried treasure, and for a couple in Staten Island, that dream became a reality.
For years Matthew and Maria Emanuel thought a rusty metal box hidden behind some trees in their backyard was just part of a cable or electrical box, so they never bothered inspecting it.
Matthew and his wife only discovered the “treasure chest” when they decided to replace the trees in their yard. They called a crew to help them and that’s when the discovered it wasn’t an electrical box, but a rusting, peeling, weathered safe.
