BLACKFOOT — A local boy discovered buried treasure in his backyard after unearthing a time capsule with cash and a note inside a Wrigley’s Spearmint Chewing Gum tin.

Andrew Blaser said his son, Creed, told him he wanted to go out and find buried treasure one day, so he went into their yard on Pendlebury Lane to look for it.

“Thirty minutes later, he had this time capsule that had $81,” Blaser said. “It had a note from a kid.”

A 10-year-old boy named David Z. buried the note around 2013. According to the note, the boy was upset with his parents and took the money from them. The note said he wanted to make someone else happy.

“He wanted someone else to buy something that would bring them joy,” Blaser said.

Creed was excited when he found the time capsule. He ran back into the house with his buried treasure to tell his father all about it. Blaser made a video of him and posted it on Facebook.

“I thought it was pretty cool,” Blaser said. “I thought it would be a good thing to share.”

Blaser and his son want to find David Z. to tell him his note was found and that he was able to make someone happy with his time capsule.

“(Creed) bought an airsoft gun with it,” Blaser said.

Blaser said he and his family reached out to the previous owners of their house to see if they knew anything about David Z., but they didn’t know anything about him.

“Their youngest son was around the same age, and he passed away,” Blaser said. “They can’t remember a friend that he had named David Z.”

This isn’t the first time Creed has found buried treasure. He also found an old sewing machine in a cave while visiting his grandmother’s house.

“That’s over 100 years old,” Blaser said. “He seems to be quite the treasure finder.”

The Blaser family will keep looking for David Z. They haven’t found him yet, but they hope to find him soon and learn more about him.

“I think it would be cool to find him,” Blaser said.