In most cases this is an unlikely scenario, unless a kidnapping, sudden blow to the head or a case of sleep walking is involved. The seven cities of Cibola that Coronado and other Spanish adventurers sought in the vast deserts of the Southwest were pueblos. The more I did this, the more I realized that I could fill in the all navigation gaps everywhere. The opportunities in crime were far more abundant and lucrative, and so when he was paroled out of prison in 1920, he began working in for various trucking companies. His first was legally tangled enough to require a retrial, on charges of tax evasion over his rumored income of a "couple of million dollars." Many Phoenician residents and business owners would find people with shovels and, in one case, a backhoe, sneaking around their property and leaving holes everywhere. According to the Daily Mail, the legend of the Nazi loot has puzzled the people of Liberty for over 20 years after the local newspaper first wrote about it. However, if he saw the burial of this novel treasury, it meant nothing to him, and the knowledge of the hiding place was lost. Just as he'd feared, Dewey kept coming up with more crimes to prosecute him for, and there were plenty to choose from. I loved it. He escaped through a hole in the roof, doubled on his pursuers, fired a pile of dead leaves and wood at the mouth, and suffocated the white men with the smoke. Look at your map. Here's one we came across in a collection called "Short Stories of Lost Treasure in the Adirondacks." (It has no author, of course.) The contents of the latter, though rich and old, were not solid, and when diffused through the systems of several Long Islanders, imparted to them a spirituous and patriotic glow for in thus destroying the secreted stores of a royalist were they not asserting the triumph of democratic principles? Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. More than 40 years after these events, a meeting of Spiritualists was held in Columbia City, and a medium announced that she had received a revelation of the exact spot where the goods had been concealed. In Shandaken Valley, in the Catskills of New York, it was affirmed that a party of British officers buried money somewhere when they were beset by the farmers and hunters of that region and never got it out of the earth again. This story states that a wealthy recluse who had an estate near Hicksville, NY on Long Island buried many caches of gold and silver coins amounting to $750,000. St. Lawrence county Lord Amherts buried $100,000 in gold coins on Treasure island during the Revolution.Rumors of buried treasure by French soldiers in the area of Fort Levis on Chimney Island below Ogdensburg.River pirate Patterson buried a large cache in 1813 on banks of Chippewa creek.GT(ghost town) Louisville landing, 5 miles W of MassenaGT Converse, 6 miles ENE of PotsdamGT Harper, 3 1/2 miles SE of ParishvilleGT Eddy, 2 miles NE of Dekalb JunctionGT Osborneville, 7 miles ESE of Pope millsGT Hollywood, 7 miles NW of ChildwoldFranklin county $175,000 in gold coins was buried by Mt. Acres of the neighborhood were then dug over by treasure hunters, who found a box of cob dollars and several casks. It is believed that his treasure whatever was in those chests and the gold coins he possessed are still buried somewhere on the Island. Somewhere near Tupper Lake, you might find a lost treasure from long ago! The Monarch wrecked off Toronto Canada with 250 ton cargo in 1856. The order was filled, and the silver was found, as promised, but though a watch was set, nothing further was seen of men or ship for several months. Dans discription of what one may go through was good. It happened right here in the North Country. This is true of all placer gold, but is especially important with glacial gold deposits due to their extremely fine texture. It was also unclear if it was in cash, jewels, or even gold pieces. The Loomis gang was a family of outlaws in the mid-1800s. It was reputed that some of the treasure was buried on the shore by the robbers. Dutch's immediate gang, including Rosenkranz, were cut down with machine guns. The second version states while the British were retreating from the battle for Fort Stanwix trying to run to Canada that they threw a cannon that was sealed and had gold inside into a swamp near the old Route 69. Indians were troublesome, likewise, so it was thought best to put most of the goods into the ground, and this was done on the tract known as Hez Copiers farm. Massing his plate, coin, and other movables into three barrels, he ordered his three slaves to bury them in pits that they had dug beneath his house. Another resident back in the early 1800s was Moses Follensby. He would receive shipments of the supplies he would need to furnish the home from French ships. They will be on hand at the spot revealed to them through the vision of a hex layer (a vision that costs them 50 cents) until the night arrives when there are no blue flames. She could see, however, that the dollars were packed edgewise. It occurred at the southern tip of Lake Champlain, near Whitehall, already the site of many historic lake-related treasures. Find the darker colored streams with exposed bedrock. Legend says that a local man, Otto Hillig, arranged to have the treasure hidden after coming into possession of it after stealing it from a German spies in 1942. This is just one of many examples where the natural response is not only dangerous, but could actually get you killed. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. Although there is a physical component to getting lost, it remains mostly a state of mind. The other top level gangsters were not convinced. Outside Warsaw about two miles west, other early residents buried $45,000 in gold coins on the Rogers farm. I suggest that you dont look for this treasure during the summer months because the swamps in the area produce an enormous amount of mosquitoes and from what I have heard there is an abundance of bees in the area. A man to whom the secret had descended offered to reveal it, but his offer was laughed at as he was a prisoner. About the Author: Charles M. Skinner (1852-1907) authored the complete nine-volume set of Myths and Legends of Our Own Land in 1896. The four men did return, however, and lived by themselves amid the woods of Saugus, the gossips reporting that a beautiful woman had been seen in their company the mistress of the pirate chief, for, of course, the mysterious quartette had followed the trade of robbery on the high seas. A thin sheen of sweat covers the skin, producing a clammy feeling and chills. He buried $400,000 in gold and silver coins close by his cabin. The heart quickens in the chest, the echo of the frequent beats drowning out the surrounding natural sounds. In 1776, while a Tory a colonist who was loyal to the British named Robert Gordon was fleeing from the Patriot troops is said to have buried a treasure worth $75,000 in a marshy area called The Haven which is on the Poultney River about a mile from Whitehall NY. Today it is an abandoned labyrinth of graffiti-covered walls, dramatic architectural flourishes, pools of water and abandoned rails. In the southern part of Chester County, Pennsylvania, is money, too, but just where nobody knows. The Butlers never came back and lived the rest of their lives in the Niagara region of Ontario Canada. Dutch Schultz trusted only his longtime bodyguard, Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz, and so no one knows the form or size of the treasure he allegedly buried in the Catskill Mountains, near Phoenicia, NY. Evidently, though, the treasure is not. amzn_assoc_region = "US"; I became convinced that anyone new at the skill, with the right attitude and proper planning, should not fear becoming lost. Many treasure hunters have been searching for that treasure for years to no avail. 100 gold and silver coins were found by an old foundation near the water on the island in the 1800s. During the examination of these relics possibly the bones of mutineers who had been killed in the fight onshore a man fell into a fit of raving madness, and again the search was abandoned, for it is now said that an immutable curse rests on the treasure. Numerous caches from robberies are thought to be located Panama Rocks. Contrast that to bushwhacking when knowledge of direction, terrain, and time are constantly on your mind every step of the way. Dutch was later shot down in the Palace Chophouse in Newark, New Jersey in 1935. This is often the most difficult step, especially these days since we live in a culture where always doing something is the norm. The battle was for Fort Stanwix which is not the city of Rome, NY. The legend. It was after the turn of the century when a boat put in, one evening, at Cold Spring Bay, and the next morning the inhabitants found footprints leading to and from a spot where some children had discovered a knotted rope projecting from the soil. This would be a good island to do some treasure hunting if you are ever in the area. When the old trail started to peter out, I continued on following what I thought was the trail remnant, although it could have been all in my head. In 1827 a woman who was understood to have the power of seership published a vision to a couple of young blades, who had paid for it, to the effect that hidden under one of the grass-grown wharves was a box of dollars. Somebody had accidentally opened it and had removed the treasure. Although these deposits are rarely of much consequence on a commercial scale, these local deposits are nonetheless responsible for much of the gold that can be found in those states. Whenever he was wearied the mediums that he consulted would tell him to make cuttings to the right or left, and for every fresh discouragement, they found fresh work. Although no gold and silver coins were found on the wreck itself doesnt mean they could have been lost on or near the beaches of Dunkirk, New York. Ghost town(GT) Elberta, on RR, 2 1/2 miles NE of Ransomville.GT Wilson Station, on RR, 2 miles SE of Wilson.GT Pendleton Center, 4 miles NW of Millersport. It is said that he anchored at the island after he had stolen a ships treasure. The wealth of the Astors hardly exceeds the treasure that is supposed to be secreted here and there about the country, and thousands of dollars have been expended in dredging rivers and shallow seas and in blasting caves and cellars. We know for certain that the same glacial deposits that are responsible for gold deposits all throughout the Midwest and Northeast have also left gold scattered all throughout New York State. The Great Camps of the Adirondack Mountains refers to the grandiose family compounds of cabins that were built in the latter half of the nineteenth century on lakes in the Adirondacks such as Spitfire Lake and Rainbow Lake.The camps were summer homes for the wealthy, where they could relax, host or attend parties, and enjoy the wilderness.In time, however, this was accomplished without leaving . When New London was sound asleep, the young men stole out and, by lantern light, began their work. To find the coin, Hillig is said to have left 25 clues behind to help locate it. During one summer, a sloop visited the island frequently, laden on each trip with chests that never were taken away in the sight of men and that are now supposed to be buried near the site of the Frenchmans cabin. One by one, they were killed in quarrels until but a single man was left, and he, in turn, was set upon by the resurrected victims and choked to death by their cold fingers. Follingsbys Pond, in the Adirondacks, was named for a recluse who occupied a lonely but strongly guarded cabin in the early part of this century. Close by, other coins of a later date were found. The mutineers rowed back to the ship, and after vainly waiting for several days for a chance to go on shore again, they sailed away. The Germans were planning on blowing up the railroad trestle in Liberty, and were carrying a large sum of cash. When the boughs creaked together on tempestuous nights, it was said that dark shapes might be seen writhing on the branches and capering about the sward below in hellish glee. In 1880s, a gold vein was found near Wells. Wrong. Dutch was determined to end this threat to his "business" and held a meeting of the Syndicate where he outlined his assassination plan. So if you are up for a good history lesson and treasure hunt like I know you are then keep reading as we explore New York States numerous lost and buried treasures. On Isle Royal an island on the St. Lawrence River which is located off the port of Waddington, NY. Digging Deeper: Lost Treasures of Massachusetts. And that is how his occupation was listed on his death certificate. Rumor and folklore say that Follensby was a trapper and hunter in the area and is said to have buried $400,000 in gold coins somewhere on his property near what is now Follensby Road in Franklin County NY. So it was a bit of ironic justice when Dutch Schultz's second tax evasion trial was moved to Malone. But it can the beginning of your own treasure hunt and maybe you will find one of these lost treasures in New York State. This can easily occur when one carelessly neglects to keep track of their location, does not carry the proper equipment, or has the equipment but never learned how to use it properly. Unless map-less and possessing a complete lack of knowledge of the area, one should always have a general idea where they are located, at least within a square mile or so. The mien was threatening, the nose had reddened and extended, the hair was rumpled, and the brow was scowling. This tiny island got its name because legend has it that Lord Jeffrey Amherst a British Army Officer during the Revolutionary War had buried $100,000 worth of coins somewhere on this island. Listen to these voices that have ties to Upstate New York. A lonely, crabbed man, who died in a poor hut after the American Revolution, owned that he had served the British as a spy but said that he had spent none of the gold he had taken from them. They agreed that none should return without his companions, but they were detained in the north and separated, some going home to Spain. They are so intricate, and most would argue there is no comparable place to this beautiful forest preserve. The spirit of the defrauded and murdered captain had claimed him, the medium explained. It was believed that much of the plunder was buried in the clay near the waters edge. They say you can't take it with you, so 1930s gangster Dutch Schultz did the next best thing: He hid his millions away somewhere in upstate New York and told no one where to find it. A flash of lightning rented the air and stretched him senseless on the grass. During the 1920s Shultz made a fortune. Just before the death of Jones, which occurred here in an orderly manner, a crow, so big that everybody believed it to be a demon, flew in at the window and hovered over the bed of the dying man until he had drawn his last breath, when, with a triumphant cry, it flew through the west end of the house. Author's Note: This piece was actually one I originally submitted and had declined by Adirondack Life Magazine.It was recently published in The Adirondack Almanack's August 22, 2021 online edition.. . A pleasant hike in the Adirondack backcountry suddenly turns into a disaster. A fortune worth $1 million when it was hidden in 2010 is waiting to be picked up somewhere in the Rocky Mountains just a few miles from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She had a rough crew on board, and it had been necessary for her officers to watch the men closely from when the latter discovered that she was carrying a costly cargo. Between driving everywhere, reading email, texting and surfing the computer (hopefully not all at the same time), todays culture rewards people on the go, where thinking is frowned on as being unproductive. (When you tripped and broke your ankle you also smashed your emergency beacon.) Panic is a typical reaction when suddenly finding oneself in totally unfamiliar surroundings, often followed by frantic wandering about, suggesting the reaction of a chicken after an encounter with an axe. Lesser-known pirate Charles Gibbs is said to have buried a large treasure near Southhampton Beach on Long Island. GT Parkers, 1 mile S (GT) Rector In Niagara county the steamer Alexander sank at Youngstown in 1915. A farmer named Belknap dreamed several times of a buried treasure at this point, and he was told, in his vision, that if he would dig there at midnight, he could make it his own. Quite a bit of this truck traffic happened on the back roads of the Adirondacks. Lord Amherts buried $100,000 in gold coins on Treasure island during the Revolution. Strange noises overhead for the wind was high, and the twigs seemed to snicker eerily as they crossed each other-sent thrills along his back from time to time, and he was about to return, half in anger, half in fear, when his spirit visitor emerged from behind the tree and stood before him. 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