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Can College Sports Get More Absurd Than SMU Joining the Pac-12? The Lagina Brothers, famous for their search for the lost treasure on Oak Island and featured in the show The Curse of Oak Island, now hosts a new show called, Beyond Oak Island. \Dy@tw sde!F@D}@10 4c/ Houston historian Gary Pinkerton, a Longview native, is fascinated by those treasure hunters and their searches. He shows Rick and Marty the 1957 Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. Joe spent many hours growing up around Milzie Williamson and later used his Fisher M-Scope metal detector to search those mysterious holes. 0000001829 00000 n Born to an American mother and English father in Knoxville, Tennessee, Hendricks was raised in Portland, Oregon, and Twin Falls, Idaho, where she became active in local theater. On his visits to Hendricks Lake with his son, they got a hit and brought a diver along to search the bottom. The area served as a naval base during the war, and the publication notes that when the Allied forces were approaching, the Nazi's began sinking treasures in metal boxes in the lake . Legends live on! Drained Lake Delhi Revealed Some Treasures: One scavenger found 50 antiques, three rings and an old radio in the mud of this lake in Iowa. When he got on board is when things started getting fairly serious.. . . <>stream Pictured from left, Gary Pinkerton, Brackson McKnight and Christian Roper. An estimated $340 million., And as I write, the treasure hunters are out there, hunting, hunting, and hunting. 1``b`5 Y0$ Au`j`H@ 30 April 2021 AFP It is one of Sweden's most spectacular Bronze Age finds A man surveying a forest for his orienteering club in western Sweden stumbled on a trove of Bronze Age treasure reckoned. Excited about the history, research, and prospects of this Dallas Morning News, August 1, 1965. Brackston has been on board about 12 of those months. Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake. They know it. Hendricks Lake is an oxbow lake one and one-half miles south of the Sabine River and about four miles northeast of Tatum in Rusk County, Texas (32.371864N, 94.493190W). 2. Join the adventures in Beyond Oak Island- Tuesdays at 10PM and summaries and more in depth looks into the many stories of treasure, here at MW! After getting some readings at the bottom of the lake (Hendricks Lake), two Dallas oilmen actually brought in a giant crane and attached a drag bucket to the cable. To make this film a reality, we are seeking donors to help us meet our minimum budget goal. 0000001730 00000 n :P1N8ihB:Ap"4qau_-6)aqhcgZ!=(!~qB3&\S%I}Dc{M6H31jiet_Ya dZ`URw#ser6QcS$JJrnlHN_f1`>!nUA{:_>vtZ)F+/z#~+PDG-+\X?U89XfDD\%E%R! b#[\Z}%dw2Q cDDp=_Em&>M!$]5yors8%52]Tp%>E]SV)IW%]Ka("Y4'7QuFf$a Scotty Stotlar, Sr., appeared to have what it took to mount another serious attempt. If you change your mind, you can easily unsubscribe. Paul Uncle Fox Tatum, son of the founder of Tatum, Texas, carried out the first documented attempt to recover the treasure in 1884. In attempting to honor what he perceives to be Fenn's wishes . . And an MIT-trained electrical engineer who held a patent for underwater metal detection. In one Internet posting, I read the following: Texas has more buried treasure than any other state, with 229 sites within the states borders. 0000003134 00000 n Pinkerton spent time in Carthage recently talking to those with accounts of some of the treasure hunters, and he hopes to connect with more people who have Hendricks Lake stories to tell. 161 0 obj The silver was never recovered. Roper believes that the Little Cypress Creek story and the Hendricks Lake story may have a common heritage. Im hoping someday that people can get back down there, Pinkerton said. In 1925, W.E. Spring is a census-designated place within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area. 146 0 obj He is the primary antagonist of season one of National Treasure: Edge of History. As of May 2022, she resides in Austin and does media relations for TCEQ. Singer Treasure on Padre Island In the mid-nineteenth century, a man named Isaac Merritt Singer made significant improvements to the sewing machine. 154 0 obj xXMsFWLU9C*ZYWNUX=@$(" (~ J>iyAy/eJ%.%c~(~s9yLrMw3iQSM?FOgmvw[s[j3Hr'YyX~mvvN39 Kc7YcqZYo)~}u3 ? There was an error processing your request. It featured Pirate Treasures. The show starts with the Lagina brothers, Rick and Marty, sharing how their search on Oak Island opened them up to a world full of mysteries and lost treasures to explore. Two oilmen from Texas actually brought a giant crane to the lake after getting some interesting readings from the bottom of Hendricks Lake. No one's found the Spanish silver cache, but some treasure seekers in this area have struck gold-or gemstones, as the case may be. East Texas Gold From Mexico In 1839 Mirabeau B. Lamar, the newly inaugurated successor to Sam Houston as President of Texas, sent the Texas Army out to get rid of the Cherokees. Later, someone else who got high metal readings tried to dynamite the bottom of the lake. Gary L. Pinkerton, Trammels Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016). According to reports, the total bounty would be worth more than $1.36 million today. The Sam Bass Loot In perhaps his greatest venture, Texass legendary stagecoach and bank robber Sam Bass traveled to Big Springs, Nebraska, with his sidekick Joel Collins and held up the Union Pacific Railroad. <>stream He found what he was looking for in the Spanish colony of Texas. So nothing lines up; its just factually, there was no road that would carry wagons at that time. And You Thought Feral Hogs Were Bad. The tale basically states Galveston-based pirate Jean Laffite, in the year 1816, plundered a Spanish ship named the Santa Rosa. Somewhere with access to treasure-laden vessels, open coast, and trails and waterways to transport stolen goods. Seagoville pharmacist who was the diver that planted dynamite on the bottom of Hendricks Lake. 156 0 obj Every penny counts! Some tough local lawmen. Hendrick's Lake treasure is focus of Houston historian's upcoming book, By Stella Wieser It featured Pirate Treasures. Plus, if when they come back and nothing can be found, he says they have the whole Texas coast and more to continue their search. The oilmen then built a raft with a hole in the center and sank large pipes into the goop on the lake bottom. As a young girl, Diana pushed the plunger to set off dynamite. When a giant storm hit the region, the raft was washed away and destroyed. Just about every book written about Texas in that era mentioned it. 0000017011 00000 n endobj Singer & Co., which was renamed the Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865. Although they attended different universities, Roper reconnected with high school friends Brackston McKnight and Ryan Travis and the three now work together on the project. When they returned after the war, Singer could no longer find Money Hill because the sands had shifted and erased all the landmarks that he once knew. 150 0 obj Well, my beloved fellow Texas readers, though I have no idea whether anything Im about to pass on to you is the slightest bit accurate, here are six of the supposedly great Texas treasures still waiting to be found. He maintains websites for Trammels Trace and for Hendricks Lake, as well as social media Facebook groups for both stories. Legend holds that the Pirate Jean LaFitte, or in some other versions Santa Anna, left treasure at Hendricks Lake near Tatum. 153 0 obj There were treasure legends like that all over Texas, he said. Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammel's Trace. Some of the (alleged) lost treasures in Pennsylvania worth researching are ones like: $30,000 worth of gold coins said to be King George ll's Lost Plunder. Christian B. Roper on a scouting trip for his film . In doing the research, I ran across stories about Hendricks Lake, Pinkerton said. During the Mexican War of Independence, the Laffites served as spies for the Spanish, after moving to Galveston Island, Texas. Jean Lafitte's treasure Photo of Hendricks Lake, courtesy of Gary L. Pinkerton A Book by Gary L. Pinkerton, author of "Trammel's Trace". including dialogue . 0000007400 00000 n Royal discovery made after 99-year-old code is broken by Siberian mathematics genius. The ships turned out to be heavily armed privateers and they mounted a frontal counterattack that included heavy fire. In 1965, led a team of Iowans in some aborted, but ambitious, attempts at the treasure. This page is for discussion about that early history,. :icon_scratch: Thanks, Ernie The man who found a hidden treasure chest said to be worth about $2 million last summer in the Rocky Mountains one that had tantalized fortune seekers for a decade, led to at least two deaths. hunt presented by Christian, Rick and Marty offer to send Matty Blake down to <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Tell us)/Rect[72.0 211.9047 103.6572 224.7953]/StructParent 7/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Signup today for our free newsletter, Especially Texan. Just let me know if you find anything so I can break the story first. Off the shores of Nova Scotia is Oak Island, a place where unimaginable riches (or absolutely nothing) can supposedly be found at the bottom of a money pit that has eluded treasure seekers for centuries.Originally, the money pit was found in 1795 by a teenager named Daniel McGinnis who claimed he saw mysterious lights coming from the island, and upon investigating, found a small circular hole . Although the lake was searched in the 50s and 60s, nothing was found at that time. We had not even known that he had heard of the treasure. Waldrop believed this man had many treasure secrets, but he was a well-known fraud. 147 0 obj Other stories of Pirate Treasures are discussed. January 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? My favorite part of the legend is that the Guadalupe Mission in El Paso was built in way so that the shadows of the mission point to the Lost Padre Mine. A dirt contractor who learned about the legend when helping another man drill holes on the edge of the lake. The dumping of the silver in the lake was a temporary thing until danger passed, then was recovered, after all he had divers at his disposal. The location was later widely believed to be Hendricks Lake, an oxbow lake formation on the south side of the Sabine River. Roper has been pursuing the legend and examining where and how the various parts of the story originated. . Low 47F. Hits are sounded off. If you would like to help, our fundraising campaign can be found here. Christian B. Roper, Ryan Travis, and Brackston McKnight, all Jacksonville natives, are working toward a documentary film about Hendricks Lake called Sunken Silver. It certainly had promise since it was a round piece of wood, like the legend of the wagon sunk in the lake. There are still treasure hunters to this day who believe the Lafitte fortune would be found if the lake was drained. there were treasure legends, and the most common story is that Lafitte stranded a ship, a Spanish ship with gold, in Matagorda Bay in Corpus and was taking it to St. Louis on some wagon trains over roads that dont exist in 1816. Tales of pirate booty and Mexican gold have captivated minds for generations, and it all could be closer than you might think. Jupiter Island. Winds light and variable.. "My father and his friends shared the Hendricks Lake treasure legend with me when I was very young, perhaps 6 or 7 years old," Roper said. TATUM A trio of Jacksonville natives wants to turn two-century-old piracy legend into a full-length feature documentary film and theyre seeking funding help to do it. We need your support because we are a non-profit organization that relies upon contributions from our community in order to record and preserve the history of our state. In the 1880s through the 1970s East Texas was, in most parts, very poor, very rural and it gave people something to believe in, it gave them their attachment to the beyond,. According to legend, Singer hid the money he found in a large sand dune that he called Money Hill. But as fate would have it, he and his family had to abandon their Texas home during the Civil War because they were considered Union sympathizers. Jean Laffite was a French pirate and privateer born circa 1780. An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. We organized some strategic searches via dives doing grid patterns and things of that sort to try to get those up.. PRIME turn-key restaurant is a landmark of Fort Laud(Former Ernie's BBQ). Texas oilmen. Although hes fascinated by the legend and the excitement it created, Pinkerton doesnt believe its even a little bit true. North of Tatum, in the middle of the woods, lies Hendricks Lake. endobj Whether the treasure is truly out there or not remains to be proven. e d u / e t h j / v o l 4 7 / i s s 2 / 1 0)/Rect[128.1963 131.7406 353.4453 143.4594]/StructParent 9/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> they might find something, a storm rolls in. The idea of finding a lost treasure has universal appeal. True West Magazine article on Jean Lafitte. wATCH THE EPISODE HERE. [150 0 R 151 0 R 152 0 R 153 0 R 154 0 R 155 0 R 156 0 R 157 0 R 158 0 R 159 0 R] wagons to be pushed down an embankment and into a lake. click photo for more. Houston oilmen who conducted the largest search ever attempted in 1957-1958. People from Texas, Louisiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Kentucky, California, and even England wanted to find that treasure. At one point, while wandering the beaches of Padre Island, he came across a bunch of Spanish coins. Legend has it that the ship was so big it took two months to load and the Spanish were so upset with its loss that they sent five more ships to recover it- unsuccessfully. During 1957 and 1958 the most significant attempts to locate the treasure took place at the lake. brought up to the surface. Laffite approached them and was granted a commission and given command over a 43-ton schooner named General Santander. The open-endedness and lack of conclusion is what attracts Roper to the story today. One group proposed to use a new divining rod activated with isotopes. Secret stash of tsar's gold worth billions found in old rail tunnel near Lake Baikal. In 2018, we decided to renew the legend with some information of our own. Follow the link to read our updated Privacy Policy. In June of 2020, the treasure was finally found by a man who chose not to be named (perhaps understandably, as he was suddenly $5 million richer!). I once made a scientific study of all the known shipwrecks, from ancient to modern, that occurred off the Texas coast. If you fill out the first name, last name, or agree to terms fields, you will NOT be added to the newsletter list. His interest is in the people who have acted on their belief in the legend. Singer Treasure on Padre Island In the mid-nineteenth century, a man named Isaac Merritt Singer made significant improvements to the sewing machine. Before I started to work on the story running in the July 2009 issue (Sleeping Booty) about California musician Nathan Smiths quixotic attempt to find a lost Spanish treasure ship near the town of Refugio, north of Corpus Christi, I assumed that there was no buried treasure at all in Texas. And the story was basically, you wanna be the guy selling the metal detectors, you dont want to be the guy out there looking for (stuff) that doesnt exist. endobj The parade of those who made documented efforts for the treasure included oilmen, a television repairman, a pharmacist, a grocery store owner, dirt contractors, water well diggers, fraudulent treasure hunting equipment hucksters, a heating and air-conditioning technician, and numerous other true believers. Searchers used aerial photos, underwater metal detectors, and magnetometers to aid in their efforts. 155 0 obj To the north of Tatum, in the middle of the forest, lies Lake Hendrix. Sometime around 1816,six wagon loads of Spanish silver ingots, allegedly stolen by the pirate Jean Laffite, were being transported through what is now East Texas. The team has found several people who have direct . 151 0 obj By The Siberian Times reporter. A Book by Gary L. Pinkerton, author of "Trammel's Trace", Ive seen fifty of em beaten by the lakes bog bottom, from oil explorers and water witchers to plain nuts. . endobj Please post photos and a general area if you have . I always thought it was interesting that people had reason to believe there was pirate treasure 200 miles from the coast.. Texas oilmen who later drilled an oil well based on scripture. Calvin Wilcher is in charge of the scans..he is on watch for something not of Mother nature. hb```E@9Z9:sj*5)o(Hd`8iQ^gFMJNvZ7he);Ndx8uy}xc;Mt0u410[t0v4t40t40Zt00L@,E@`E,AsE^X/q5tDX4C#{ His main focus is on Jean Lafittes treasure, It is my sincere belief that the Hendricks Lake treasure was silver taken by Lafitte from capturing of the Spanish ship Santa Rosa in Matagorda Bay in 1820. . There is a legend surrounding a supposed lost treasure in East Texas, one that filmmaker Christian B. Roper and his team have been researching for a documentary production, Sunken Silver. The Lost San Saba Silver Mine This lost mine, with its rich vein of silver, has been what one treasure hunter writer has called the Holy Grail of Texas treasure seekers. In 1756 a Mexican official traveling through Texas learned from Indians of an exposed strain of pure silver that ran through a certain hill in Central Texas. It was found approximately a decade later in 2020 in Wyoming by an anonymous treasure hunter later revealed to be former journalist and medical student Jack Stuef. Thats the one thing we all agree on about Sunken Silver, is that legend is a very powerful thing.. And he says, Treasure has a way of keeping its secrets. That historic trail passed just to the east of the lake, with the trail making up two-thirds of the boundary between Rusk and Panola counties. February 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? Palm City. It led all the way back to an 1884 account where the guy who was the son of the founder of Tatum, Texas in East Texas decided he was going to drain the lake. Winds light and variable. Mainly clear. For Pinkerton, the treasure of Hendricks Lake is its history and the people who have believed in the legend over the years. Beyond Oak Island Summary of Episode 1: Pirate Treasures and the Search in Hendricks Lake for Jean Lafittes Lost Treasure. Christian knows his pirate history! It was one of the first times I met with Brackston after we graduated university last summer, Roper recalled. The land was sold sometime in the last 20 years and is now within a restricted mining area. 1. . Hutchinson Island. This caused the Ho-hum, right? Laffite was wounded in the battle and is believed to have died just after dawn. The legend of Hendricks Lake treasure has inspired men to search for it for at least 150 years. Hendricks Lake was By the time the summer of 1958 had ended, Waldrop, buzzing again and the moss-laden oaks echoed the sound of the SoRelles, and all of the other treasure hunters spurred on heavy equipment and trucks pulling in for another attempt. Texas, I learned, is full of buried treasureor, to be a bit more accurate, full of stories about buried treasures that no one has been able to find. But people buy into it, and thats the part thats interesting to me.. One person who is still committed to the Hendricks Lake legend is Jacksonville documentary film maker and treasure hunter, Christian B. Roper. Although $25,000 worth of coins and jewelry have been accounted for, no one knows where the rest of the loot went, and Collins and Bass were killed before they revealed anything. Alternate versions of that story have been documented since the 1880s, with variations including that the silver was from Santa Anna and the battle of San Jacinto and that the treasure was in a different location nearby. Hendricks Lake, Im going to talk to his son, who was 14 or so when they were out at the lake. Some said it was Santa Annas gold sent north from San Jacinto, and others say it was not even in Hendricks Lake, but in Martin Creek. That set off a huge treasure hunting stampede. 1930, it came up again, 35. In 1884, the guy Tatum is named after thought he would drain the lake, Pinkerton said. A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. Born in Longview in East Texas and living in Houston, Gary has published works of history born of his curiosity about what happened long ago in East Texas that played a role in the history of the Republic and of the State of Texas.