In the all-new AMERICAN DIGGER premiering every Wednesday at 8:00 p.m., starting February 5, former professional wrestler-turned modern-day relic hunter, Ric Savage, and his American Savage team wander around the United States’ most valuable and historical grounds to uncover unexpected treasures and antiques hidden in the backyards of everyday Americans in the hopes of hitting the jackpot. The only thing standing in their way? The homeowners themselves, who Ric must convince to allow them to dig up their properties using state-of-the-art metal detectors and heavy-duty excavation equipment. The artefacts they find could possibly be sold for a substantial profit – but not before negotiating a deal to divide the revenue with the property owners. What buried treasures will they chance upon andwill they be worth the hunt?
In this 13-part series, what unwary home owners do not know is that the seemingly regular roofs over their heads are notmerely ordinary houses, but grounds containing archives of significantmoments in history, buried deep beneath the soil. Together with Ric and his team – recovery expert Rue Shumate, battlefield historian Bob Buttafuso, Ric’s wife Rita who manages the business and their 25year old son Giuseppe, who provides tech support and is the “muscle” of the operation – time travel to the past to the country’s painful human trafficking age to unearth slavery artifacts such as the 1838 servant slave tag which servants who worked at the Aiken plantations, South Carolina, were made to wear.Revisit the Prohibition Era for moonshining relics and mobster memorabilia such as trench knives which were three-in-one weapons – knife, brass knuckles and “skull crusher nut” in the hilt – used during World War One. Ric and team also turn back the clock to the Civil War, unearthing a host of for military collectiblesincluding artillery shells, amongst others.
In AMERICAN DIGGER, scourthese supposedly insignificant private properties where some of the most monumental eras have forever changed the fate of the country, and unearth valuable bits of history and stories that hadbeen previously long trapped below the Earth’s surface.AMERICAN DIGGER encores every Monday at 9:00 a.m., Thursday at 1:00 p.m., Saturday at 4:00 p.m., and Sunday at 7:00 p.m.