As a kid, everyone, at some point or another,
dreams of being Indiana Jones. Wouldn't it be great
to go on adventures and find lost treasures?
Unfortunately, for starters, that's not how
archaeology works. And in addition, there are
probably not many hidden treasures left, especially
in this day and age when so much of the world has
been explored and populated. But what if there are
hidden treasures out there, just waiting to be found?
Here's a list of some long lost treasures that you
could go out and find today:
.
.
10. The Alamo Treasure
The Alamo is remembered for many
things, including the famous battle cry reminding
Texans they should remember it. The old
Franciscan mission is located in San Antonio, and
was the sight of one of the most famous battles in
American history, when 188 men, including Jim
Bowie and Davey Crockett, tried to fight off the
powerful Mexican army of Santa Ana. What most
people probably do not know is the legend of a
massive treasure of gold and silver said to be buried
somewhere on the grounds of the Alamo. Many
people, such as historical researcher and fortune
hunter Frank Buschbacher, believe that in an effort
to wage a revolution against Mexico and declare
Texas independence, men like Bowie and Crockett
had actually brought millions of dollars worth of
treasure to the Alamo. The money was meant to
raise an army and pay for their oncoming war. The
treasure was called the San Saba treasure and it
was lost when all 188 men lost their lives in that
famous battle. Those who believe the treasure
exists think the men buried it beneath the
compound. Buschbacher has actually excavated
areas around the Alamo, but not a trace of gold or
silver has ever been found.
.
.
9. Dutch Shultz Treasure
Dutch Schultz is one of the most famous
mobsters in American history. He was a prohibition
era gangster who ran in the same circles as guys
like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky. He was said
to have amassed a massive fortune from his wicked
deeds. His fortune vanished without a trace after he
began to feel the heat of federal prosecution. It is
believed that he decided to hide away his treasure
somewhere in the Catskill Mountain range. When
Schultz was gunned down in 1935, the location of
his vast fortune died with him.There are different
opinions about what happened to his treasure, or
even how much there actually was. Most estimates
put his fortune anywhere between five to ten million
dollars, which he stashed away in an iron box
somewhere in the heavily forested area of
Phoenicia, New York. Some believe his treasure was
hidden close to Esopus Creek, which could explain
why it has never been found. Over the decades
since Schultz hid away his fortune, the area has had
numerous floods, which in all likelihood would have
washed away the treasure. Still, it's interesting to
think that a leisurely hike through that area of the
Catskills could make you a millionaire.
.
.
8. Victoria Peak Treasure
Victorio Peak is a part of the southern
Rocky Mountains, located in New Mexico. Over the
years, it has been used extensively by the United
States government as it lies within the White Sands
Missile Range where the government once tested
nuclear weapons. Before it was taken over by the
government, however, the area was open to the
public. That is when, in 1937, Doc and Babe Noss
entered the scene.As the story goes, they were with
friends deer hunting when Doc discovered an old
shaft in the side of Victorio Peak. He and Babe
returned later and explored the shaft finding
skeletons, gold, jewels, and historical artifacts
awaiting them. In 1938 the Noss's established legal
ownership of the find, and stories began to float thatDoc had found either Casa del Cueva de Oro or the
treasure of Don Juan de Onate, the man who
founded New Mexico as a Spanish colony. In 1939,
in an attempt to expand the passageway, Doc was
advised to use dynamite, which went about as
poorly as it could have, collapsing the shaft
altogether. Noss was never able to regain entry into
the mine, and was killed in 1949 by a would-be
partner after he and Babe had divorced. To this day
the Noss family continues to try to regain entrance
to the shaft, but no gold has ever been found. There
are some rumors that the government expanded the
missile range to include Victorio Peak and took the
gold to Fort Knox, but there is no documentation
supporting this claim.
.
.
7. Montezuma's Treasure
Apparently if you want to find a lost
treasure in the United States, your best bet is to
check out the Rocky Mountains and the southwest,
as this next treasure brings us to the town of Kanab,
Utah, which is said to be the home of the
Montezuma Treasure. Montezuma, the legendary
leader of the Aztecs, was a man in possession of an
incredible fortune. It was taken after he was killed
during a battle with the Spanish led by Cortez.
Millions of dollars worth of jewels and gold were
removed from Montezuma's treasure room by his
own people in order to keep it away from Cortez.So
why do people think the massive treasure of an
Aztec leader wound up in Utah? It turns out in 1914,
a prospector found an etching made on the side of a
cliff that matched a marking on an old treasure map
that was said to lead to Montezuma's treasure. The
prospector, a man named Freddy Crystal, tracked
down a descendent of Montezuma to interpret the
map, and it was determined the topography did in
fact match Kanab. Crystal actually convinced the
townspeople to help him secretly search for the gold
with the promise of sharing any findings, and
eventually they did manage to find a system of
caves and tunnels running through the mountain. It
was laced with booby traps, but no gold was ever
found, leading to the common belief that if the
treasure had ever been there to begin with, it had
either been moved by the Aztecs or discovered by
some absurdly fortunate spelunker.
.
.
6. The Lufthansa Heist
[olorc=indigo]Anyone who has seen the movie
Goodfellas is familiar with the Lufthansa heist,
which is believed to have been the biggest cash
robbery in United States history. It happened on
December 11, 1978 at JFK International Airport,
where an estimated five million in cash and
$875,000 in jewels were taken. To put that in
perspective, adjusting for inflation that’s a robbery
worth over twenty million dollars today. The heist
was carried out by mobsters including Henry Hill,
who would later be portrayed by Ray Liotta, and to
this day no jewels or currency have ever been
recovered.One of the reasons it has never been
recovered, of course, is due to the very violent ends
many of the men who participated in the heist met.
These deaths were ordered by Jimmy Burke, who
orchestrated the crime and realized the theft would
generate a massive federal investigation. As part of
his plan to clean up, he had almost every member of
his crew murdered to keep them quiet. Some of the
money from the heist was believed to have been
spent and used in drug deals, but the vast majority
was never found.[/color]
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.
5. The Amber Room
At first you might think something called
the Amber Room is a high class gentleman's club.
It's actually one of the most sought after lost
treasures in history. The room, which is a small
space created entirely out of amber panels with gold
leaf and mirrors, was built in the 18th century for
Friedrich I, the first king of Prussia. It was eventually
gifted to Peter the Great, and remained in the
possession of Russia until World War II. People who
saw the Amber Room often referred to it as the
Eighth Wonder of the World.And then, it vanished.
As it turns out, the curators in charge of protecting
the Amber Room during the war attempted to hide it
under wallpaper due to its fragile state, but that did
not stop the Nazis from looting this nearly priceless
treasure. It was then brought to Konigsberg Castle
in Germany, but in 1944 Allied forces destroyed the
city and left the castle in ruin, the Amber Room was
lost forever. To this day, no one is entirely sure what
happened to the room, though utter destruction
seems the likeliest explanation. Still, it has become
the subject of popular mythology. It also carries
with it a supposed curse, as several people who
either possessed or hunted for the Amber Room
have met with untimely and very curious deaths.
.
.
4. Flo Do Mar
In 1502, a Portuguese ship called the Flor
do Mar, or Flower of the Sea, was constructed.
Commanded by Vasco de Gamma’s brother
Estavao, the ship was part of a Portuguese voyage
to India in 1505. The ship took part in several sea
battles over the next six years until, in 1511, it was
lost in a storm.Now, the idea of a warship with such
a storied history alone would make for this being an
intriguing lost treasure, but of course there is more
to the story. Most notably the fact that the Flor do
Mar was carrying a boatload of spoils from a recent
victory. The fortune on board was said to be
enormous, making the Flor do Mar the most sought
after lost shipwreck in history. The ship is said to
have carried the treasure of the Melaka kingdom,
located in modern day Malaysia, which reportedly
included more than sixty tons of gold.
.
.
3. Leon Trabuco's Gold
Back in the early 1930s, a Mexican
millionaire named Leon Trabuco arranged several
secret and mysterious flights in the desert of New
Mexico. At the time, the United States was in the
midst of the Great Depression, and with the value of
the dollar about to plunge, the price of gold was
about to explode. So Trabuco and a few business
partners were said to have secretly bought up as
much gold as they could and smuggled it into the
US, waiting for the gold prices to soar so that they
could sell it and make an insanely large profit.All
told, it's believed they accumulated more than
sixteen tons of gold and hid it in that New Mexico
desert. Rather than taking advantage and selling
their gold, Trabuco and his partners held onto their
bounty with the hopes the prices would continue to
go up. However, they gravely miscalculated the
impact of the Gold Act, as it carried with it the
stipulation that private ownership of gold would be
illegal, leaving Trabuco stuck. Like so many other
treasures, this one supposedly carried with it a
curse. Three of Trabuco's partners were dead within
five years, and when Trabuco himself died, the
knowledge of the location of the giant stash of gold
died with him.
.
.
2. Blackbeard's Treasure
In 1996, archaeologists discovered a
shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina, less than
a mile and a half from the shore and sitting a mere
twenty-five feet (7.6 meters) below sea level. It is
not particularly uncommon to find a shipwreck, but
this is possibly one of the biggest nautical finds in
the history of treasure hunting. That's because
many people believe the ship was the Queen Anne's
Revenge, also known as the flagship of the
infamous pirate Blackbeard. In 1718, the Queen
Anne's Revenge blockaded the port of Charleston
and soon after it ran aground on a sandbar.So
what's the big deal? Well, for starters, Blackbeard
was a wildly successful and rich pirate, and the
location of his largest and most prized ship, some
believe, means his vast fortune must have been
located nearby on the North Carolina coast. Since
the wreck was found, and it should be noted, it has
not yet been confirmed to have been the Queen
Anne's Revenge, not an ounce of gold has been
found near or on the ship. Before he died,
Blackbeard was questioned about the location of his
gold, leading him to say, ''Only I and the devil
know.''
.
.
1. Treasure Of Knight Templars
In recent years, the Knights Templar and
its treasure has been made famous in both
Hollywood and in numerous books. It is one of the most famous and mysterious treasures in history. The Knights Templar formed in A.D. 1114, and over the following years accumulated a massive fortune, which has never been found.In the early 14th century, the Templars were ordered to be arrested, and those who escaped this capture and torture reportedly gathered the remaining treasure and loaded it onto ships to unknown destinations. A common belief is that the remaining Templars took their treasure to Scotland, and from there, it eventually found its way to Nova Scotia. Rumors persist of a vast money pit on Oak Island in that province of Canada, where it is believed by some that the Templars hid their money amidst booby traps. The search has continued on Oak Island over the years, and in fact originally the treasure in the Money Pit was apparently believed to have belonged to the infamous Captain Kidd. But as more of Kidd's treasure has been found, it is now believed that the Pit contains the Templar riches.
.
.
Hit thanx or repute for appreciation
dreams of being Indiana Jones. Wouldn't it be great
to go on adventures and find lost treasures?
Unfortunately, for starters, that's not how
archaeology works. And in addition, there are
probably not many hidden treasures left, especially
in this day and age when so much of the world has
been explored and populated. But what if there are
hidden treasures out there, just waiting to be found?
Here's a list of some long lost treasures that you
could go out and find today:
.
.
10. The Alamo Treasure
The Alamo is remembered for many
things, including the famous battle cry reminding
Texans they should remember it. The old
Franciscan mission is located in San Antonio, and
was the sight of one of the most famous battles in
American history, when 188 men, including Jim
Bowie and Davey Crockett, tried to fight off the
powerful Mexican army of Santa Ana. What most
people probably do not know is the legend of a
massive treasure of gold and silver said to be buried
somewhere on the grounds of the Alamo. Many
people, such as historical researcher and fortune
hunter Frank Buschbacher, believe that in an effort
to wage a revolution against Mexico and declare
Texas independence, men like Bowie and Crockett
had actually brought millions of dollars worth of
treasure to the Alamo. The money was meant to
raise an army and pay for their oncoming war. The
treasure was called the San Saba treasure and it
was lost when all 188 men lost their lives in that
famous battle. Those who believe the treasure
exists think the men buried it beneath the
compound. Buschbacher has actually excavated
areas around the Alamo, but not a trace of gold or
silver has ever been found.
.
.
9. Dutch Shultz Treasure
Dutch Schultz is one of the most famous
mobsters in American history. He was a prohibition
era gangster who ran in the same circles as guys
like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky. He was said
to have amassed a massive fortune from his wicked
deeds. His fortune vanished without a trace after he
began to feel the heat of federal prosecution. It is
believed that he decided to hide away his treasure
somewhere in the Catskill Mountain range. When
Schultz was gunned down in 1935, the location of
his vast fortune died with him.There are different
opinions about what happened to his treasure, or
even how much there actually was. Most estimates
put his fortune anywhere between five to ten million
dollars, which he stashed away in an iron box
somewhere in the heavily forested area of
Phoenicia, New York. Some believe his treasure was
hidden close to Esopus Creek, which could explain
why it has never been found. Over the decades
since Schultz hid away his fortune, the area has had
numerous floods, which in all likelihood would have
washed away the treasure. Still, it's interesting to
think that a leisurely hike through that area of the
Catskills could make you a millionaire.
.
.
8. Victoria Peak Treasure
Victorio Peak is a part of the southern
Rocky Mountains, located in New Mexico. Over the
years, it has been used extensively by the United
States government as it lies within the White Sands
Missile Range where the government once tested
nuclear weapons. Before it was taken over by the
government, however, the area was open to the
public. That is when, in 1937, Doc and Babe Noss
entered the scene.As the story goes, they were with
friends deer hunting when Doc discovered an old
shaft in the side of Victorio Peak. He and Babe
returned later and explored the shaft finding
skeletons, gold, jewels, and historical artifacts
awaiting them. In 1938 the Noss's established legal
ownership of the find, and stories began to float thatDoc had found either Casa del Cueva de Oro or the
treasure of Don Juan de Onate, the man who
founded New Mexico as a Spanish colony. In 1939,
in an attempt to expand the passageway, Doc was
advised to use dynamite, which went about as
poorly as it could have, collapsing the shaft
altogether. Noss was never able to regain entry into
the mine, and was killed in 1949 by a would-be
partner after he and Babe had divorced. To this day
the Noss family continues to try to regain entrance
to the shaft, but no gold has ever been found. There
are some rumors that the government expanded the
missile range to include Victorio Peak and took the
gold to Fort Knox, but there is no documentation
supporting this claim.
.
.
7. Montezuma's Treasure
Apparently if you want to find a lost
treasure in the United States, your best bet is to
check out the Rocky Mountains and the southwest,
as this next treasure brings us to the town of Kanab,
Utah, which is said to be the home of the
Montezuma Treasure. Montezuma, the legendary
leader of the Aztecs, was a man in possession of an
incredible fortune. It was taken after he was killed
during a battle with the Spanish led by Cortez.
Millions of dollars worth of jewels and gold were
removed from Montezuma's treasure room by his
own people in order to keep it away from Cortez.So
why do people think the massive treasure of an
Aztec leader wound up in Utah? It turns out in 1914,
a prospector found an etching made on the side of a
cliff that matched a marking on an old treasure map
that was said to lead to Montezuma's treasure. The
prospector, a man named Freddy Crystal, tracked
down a descendent of Montezuma to interpret the
map, and it was determined the topography did in
fact match Kanab. Crystal actually convinced the
townspeople to help him secretly search for the gold
with the promise of sharing any findings, and
eventually they did manage to find a system of
caves and tunnels running through the mountain. It
was laced with booby traps, but no gold was ever
found, leading to the common belief that if the
treasure had ever been there to begin with, it had
either been moved by the Aztecs or discovered by
some absurdly fortunate spelunker.
.
.
6. The Lufthansa Heist
[olorc=indigo]Anyone who has seen the movie
Goodfellas is familiar with the Lufthansa heist,
which is believed to have been the biggest cash
robbery in United States history. It happened on
December 11, 1978 at JFK International Airport,
where an estimated five million in cash and
$875,000 in jewels were taken. To put that in
perspective, adjusting for inflation that’s a robbery
worth over twenty million dollars today. The heist
was carried out by mobsters including Henry Hill,
who would later be portrayed by Ray Liotta, and to
this day no jewels or currency have ever been
recovered.One of the reasons it has never been
recovered, of course, is due to the very violent ends
many of the men who participated in the heist met.
These deaths were ordered by Jimmy Burke, who
orchestrated the crime and realized the theft would
generate a massive federal investigation. As part of
his plan to clean up, he had almost every member of
his crew murdered to keep them quiet. Some of the
money from the heist was believed to have been
spent and used in drug deals, but the vast majority
was never found.[/color]
.
.
5. The Amber Room
At first you might think something called
the Amber Room is a high class gentleman's club.
It's actually one of the most sought after lost
treasures in history. The room, which is a small
space created entirely out of amber panels with gold
leaf and mirrors, was built in the 18th century for
Friedrich I, the first king of Prussia. It was eventually
gifted to Peter the Great, and remained in the
possession of Russia until World War II. People who
saw the Amber Room often referred to it as the
Eighth Wonder of the World.And then, it vanished.
As it turns out, the curators in charge of protecting
the Amber Room during the war attempted to hide it
under wallpaper due to its fragile state, but that did
not stop the Nazis from looting this nearly priceless
treasure. It was then brought to Konigsberg Castle
in Germany, but in 1944 Allied forces destroyed the
city and left the castle in ruin, the Amber Room was
lost forever. To this day, no one is entirely sure what
happened to the room, though utter destruction
seems the likeliest explanation. Still, it has become
the subject of popular mythology. It also carries
with it a supposed curse, as several people who
either possessed or hunted for the Amber Room
have met with untimely and very curious deaths.
.
.
4. Flo Do Mar
In 1502, a Portuguese ship called the Flor
do Mar, or Flower of the Sea, was constructed.
Commanded by Vasco de Gamma’s brother
Estavao, the ship was part of a Portuguese voyage
to India in 1505. The ship took part in several sea
battles over the next six years until, in 1511, it was
lost in a storm.Now, the idea of a warship with such
a storied history alone would make for this being an
intriguing lost treasure, but of course there is more
to the story. Most notably the fact that the Flor do
Mar was carrying a boatload of spoils from a recent
victory. The fortune on board was said to be
enormous, making the Flor do Mar the most sought
after lost shipwreck in history. The ship is said to
have carried the treasure of the Melaka kingdom,
located in modern day Malaysia, which reportedly
included more than sixty tons of gold.
.
.
3. Leon Trabuco's Gold
Back in the early 1930s, a Mexican
millionaire named Leon Trabuco arranged several
secret and mysterious flights in the desert of New
Mexico. At the time, the United States was in the
midst of the Great Depression, and with the value of
the dollar about to plunge, the price of gold was
about to explode. So Trabuco and a few business
partners were said to have secretly bought up as
much gold as they could and smuggled it into the
US, waiting for the gold prices to soar so that they
could sell it and make an insanely large profit.All
told, it's believed they accumulated more than
sixteen tons of gold and hid it in that New Mexico
desert. Rather than taking advantage and selling
their gold, Trabuco and his partners held onto their
bounty with the hopes the prices would continue to
go up. However, they gravely miscalculated the
impact of the Gold Act, as it carried with it the
stipulation that private ownership of gold would be
illegal, leaving Trabuco stuck. Like so many other
treasures, this one supposedly carried with it a
curse. Three of Trabuco's partners were dead within
five years, and when Trabuco himself died, the
knowledge of the location of the giant stash of gold
died with him.
.
.
2. Blackbeard's Treasure
In 1996, archaeologists discovered a
shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina, less than
a mile and a half from the shore and sitting a mere
twenty-five feet (7.6 meters) below sea level. It is
not particularly uncommon to find a shipwreck, but
this is possibly one of the biggest nautical finds in
the history of treasure hunting. That's because
many people believe the ship was the Queen Anne's
Revenge, also known as the flagship of the
infamous pirate Blackbeard. In 1718, the Queen
Anne's Revenge blockaded the port of Charleston
and soon after it ran aground on a sandbar.So
what's the big deal? Well, for starters, Blackbeard
was a wildly successful and rich pirate, and the
location of his largest and most prized ship, some
believe, means his vast fortune must have been
located nearby on the North Carolina coast. Since
the wreck was found, and it should be noted, it has
not yet been confirmed to have been the Queen
Anne's Revenge, not an ounce of gold has been
found near or on the ship. Before he died,
Blackbeard was questioned about the location of his
gold, leading him to say, ''Only I and the devil
know.''
.
.
1. Treasure Of Knight Templars
In recent years, the Knights Templar and
its treasure has been made famous in both
Hollywood and in numerous books. It is one of the most famous and mysterious treasures in history. The Knights Templar formed in A.D. 1114, and over the following years accumulated a massive fortune, which has never been found.In the early 14th century, the Templars were ordered to be arrested, and those who escaped this capture and torture reportedly gathered the remaining treasure and loaded it onto ships to unknown destinations. A common belief is that the remaining Templars took their treasure to Scotland, and from there, it eventually found its way to Nova Scotia. Rumors persist of a vast money pit on Oak Island in that province of Canada, where it is believed by some that the Templars hid their money amidst booby traps. The search has continued on Oak Island over the years, and in fact originally the treasure in the Money Pit was apparently believed to have belonged to the infamous Captain Kidd. But as more of Kidd's treasure has been found, it is now believed that the Pit contains the Templar riches.
.
.
Hit thanx or repute for appreciation