The traveler wasn’t able to find the ship again, but his conviction was enough that he spent his whole life trying. He filled his pockets and sped to the local mission. In another story, a traveler who came upon the ship one night found pearls beyond imagination. Although Clusker also disappeared when he set out on a return journey, that initial report’s a decent positive affirmation that the ship exists. There’s the added support that the Los Angeles Star reported the ship as found in December, 1870, as the result of an expedition by Charley Clusker. This happened as recently as 1922, and would still be happening if people hadn’t completely drained the river. When they went to return the way they came, the waters had receded back over the natural dam, leaving the vessel stranded in the sea. As the story goes, a Spanish vessel sailed up into the Salton Sea, possibly riding a tidal bore, a surge of water that moves against a river’s normal flow. It becomes even less wild of a claim when you look at geography. Add on the fact that we have modern examples of large ships getting stranded in deserts and it’s not outside the realm of possibility that 16th Century Spanish explorers hit some of the same problems. Generally, that diverse a group of people don’t agree on something unless there’s some truth to it. Claims of seeing a sea-faring vessel stranded in the Salton Sea Basin have been repeated by American Indians, Spanish explorers, regular explorers, migrants, and treasure hunters for centuries. There’s too much to this one to be entirely false. The McConaissance was real and it started in 2005. The second is we will look for, and take, any opportunity to defend that movie. The first part is the movie centers around looking for a lost ship in the desert, which is exactly what this entry is about. The reason we bring that movie up has two parts. If you ask us, one of the world’s most criminally underrated movies is Sahara. If it’s not there, it may be inland near Treasure Lake, which is kind of self-explanatory. But really all that means is, if the gold is there, it’s harder to get to, but not inaccessible. Sadly, the island doesn’t exist today, as it was completely eroded by Raritan Bay. The first was a small island called Money Island, named after 17th century Spanish coins that were found on it. In Cliffwood Beach, there are two possibilities for hiding places. So these trees are a matter of historical record, not pirate mythology. Kidd’s Rangers were two giant elm trees Kidd used to guide the captain back to his gold and both stood until very recently. Research has narrowed down the locations of other buried treasure to four spots, but we’ll tell you number one.Ĭliffwood Beach in New Jersey is interesting to treasure hunters because it’s centered between where Kidd’s Rangers used to stand. The British weren’t able to recover everything Kidd stole and for about 300 years now, treasure hunters have been attempting to locate the rest of the loot. He was eventually captured, because that’s what happens when you murder your way across the Atlantic Ocean. That’s where they started to make some real money. He tried to attack only French ships, but after his crew mutinied against that idea, he decided to just attack everyone. The short version is, he got his start as a privateer, which was a government sanctioned pirate. It’s almost a guarantee you’ve heard the name Captain Kidd before, but you might not know much about him. Turns out the answer is yes and his treasure’s in New Jersey (probably). The cliché of buried pirate treasure is something you think about no matter how old you are, so we’re constantly wondering if there’s the remotest possibility that anyone like One-Eyed Willie existed. We’ll admit The Goonies was a big reason we wanted to write this article. Early retirement is only a metal detector and shovel away. In fact, this might be the last feature we write. There are enough local legends, ancient texts, and conspiratorial histories out there that, to us, people aren’t tripping over a hidden chest of emeralds every time they take a quick stroll through the woods. The good news is finding buried treasure might not be as difficult or limited to 80’s movies as it sounds. But until we figure out exactly how to harness gamma radiation and spider bites, only one of those is something you could actually accomplish in your lifetime. We’d put some serious money on every person in the world having two fantasies: super powers and finding buried treasure.
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