A guy hears about a cool historical thing somewhere else, and then says I bet we have that in my hometown and starts digging. And he's right!

• guy who discovered Steppe Geoglyphs in Kazakhstan
  • "In March 2007, Mr. Dey was at home watching a program, “Pyramids, Mummies and Tombs,” on the Discovery Channel. “There are pyramids all over the earth,” he recalled thinking. “In Kazakhstan, there should be pyramids, too." Soon, he was searching Google Earth images of Kostanay and environs."
• guy who discovered Glastonbury Lake Village
  • "The lake village was discovered in 1892 by local medical student Arthur Bulleid, whose father was a local mayor and the founder of the Glastonbury Antiquarian Society. Bulleid had heard about the lake villages in Switzerland and believed similar sites could be found in his native Somerset."
• guy who discovered Longyou Caves
  • "For as long as anyone could remember the ponds of Longyou County were thought of as “bottomless,” but when one local set out to see how deep they really were he discovered the first in a series of massive hand-carved caves, the origin of which is almost a complete mystery."