The Sinking of the Clara Nevada…Alaska’s Largest Mass Murder in History? SKAGWAY HOONAH ANGOON COUNTY - Built in 1871 by Dialogue & Wood at Camden, New Jersey, this 159.5...
Dark Deed – The Cache Creek Murders MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH – A former officer in the Canadian military, John Clark made his living mining gold in Alaska’s Cache Creek mining...
The Tax Man’s Lost Gold MARENGO COUNTY – There is an old tale told of lost treasure that was lost in the Tambigbee River, southwest of the tiny hamlet of Myrtlewood. The...
The Copeland- Wages Treasure MOBILE COUNTY – The murderous exploits of the Copeland-Wages Gang in the early days before statehood and organized government are numerous enough to...
Arkansas’ Lost Ghost Town & Its Forgotten TreasuresDESHA COUNTY – The bustling river port boomtown of Napoleon, Arkansas, was once located at the confluence of the Mississippi...
Arkansas Gold Fever POLK COUNTY – With the price of gold today, this lead may be worth checking out. On May 30, 1853, the Quachita Herald ran a story claiming, "During the past week...
Geronimo’s Secret YAVAPAI COUNTY – On February 17, 1909, the great Chiricahua Apache warrior, Goyahkla, Goyaałé, “one who yawns,” and known to the white man as...
Robbery Loot Remains Lost Near South Tucson PIMA COUNTY – The story of the train robber’s loot that became lost inside Arizona’s Colossal Cave has taken on a few new twists over...
Legends of Yerba Buena Island SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY – Legends of hidden wealth buried on Yerba Buena Island in the San Francisco Bay date to when Alta California, as it was known,...
Lost at Sea – Treasure of the San Jose UNKNOWN – With her hold bulging with food, provisions and mission treasures, the San Jose sailed from Cape San Lucas in May 1770 for San Diego, Alta...
The Cherry Creek Treasure DOUGLAS COUNTY – Roughly 63 miles separates Denver from Colorado Springs along U.S. Highway 25. About midway, a treasure of gold ingots worth about $...
Colorado’s Lost Regiment OTERO COUNTY – In September 2008, Janet Warford-Perry, (Lost Treasure, “Questions & Answers”) aptly wrote… “One thing is for certain, Purgatory Canyon has...
Dead Squirrels Tell No Tales! LITCHFIELD COUNTY – J.O. Maloney was known to his neighbors in Morris, Connecticut, as an… “old and very secretive recluse.”...
Mystik Mystery – The Town That Vanished NEW LONDON COUNTY – Today, historic Mystic, Connecticut, is a tourist destination known for its fascinating Mystic Seaport, the world’s...
The Neub Treasure NEW CASTLE COUNTY – According to renowned treasure hunter, researcher and author, Michael Paul Henson, in 1843 a man only remembered as “Thomas”...
Coin Beach, Delaware SUSSEX COUNTY – For coinshooters who enjoy working the beach, Lewes Beach, Delaware, also known locally as “Coin Beach,” has always been a hotspot for recovering old...
Old Indian Legends ESCAMBIA COUNTY – This story is based on tribal oral history and was later documented. The local Indians tell of an old pirate ship fleeing from a Spanish...
Ancient Military Caches Buried in Florida STATE OF FLORIDA – A man of strong conviction and vision, Hernando De Soto (c.1496/1500 - 1542) sold everything he owned to finance what...
Tales of Cherokee Gold (GWINNETT – FULTON COUNTY LINE) – During the Georgia gold rush, the “29ers” covered much of the north state in search of gold. They...
Incident at Chennault LINCOLN COUNTY – Confederate President Jefferson Davis was in church on the morning of April 2, 1865, when he was informed that Union forces had broken through the...
Cook’s Cache KAUAI ISLAND – English explorer, surveyor and navigator, Captain James Cook was killed on his third visit to Hawaii by local natives on February 14, 1779....
A Tale of Two Legends ISLAND of HAWAII – I suppose it comes down to whose natives you want to believe, but the mystery is how the natives of 16th century Mexico and the Sandwich Islands,...
The Bonnifield Treasure JEFFERSON COUNTY – I don’t have much on this treasure, but it could be worth checking out. Old timers in the Fairfield – Lockridge area...
Iowa’s Gold Rush PALO ALTO COUNTY - It was the summer of 1921 and Americans were just emerging from the Depression of 1920-21, which followed a period of post WWI recession....
The Lost Roaring River Mine ELMORE COUNTY – The origin of this story is George Ogden who wrote his first hand narrative for a story that ran in Lost Treasure in August 1975....
Armed Robbery, Double Homicide Case Closed BONNEVILLE COUNTY – For the residents of sleepy Idaho Falls, in rural Bonneville County, Idaho, it was a morning that began like any other. It...
Gold Cache Found JO DAVIESS COUNTY – In April 1932, Galena resident Ambrose Harle was running a fruit store in town. While out working in his garden one day, Harle swung his...
Twenty-Two Lost Caches MADISON COUNTY – Vito Giannola emigrated from Sicily to the United States in 1915 with his brother, John, and associate, Alphonse Palizzola. Belonging to the...
McBride’s Bluff Choctaw Gold MARTIN COUNTY – The Choctaw Indians originated from middle and southern Mississippi regions as well as parts of Georgia. There were, however,...
A Fortune Missing DELAWARE COUNTY - It was the morning of October 10, 1935, when a black and grey armored truck bound for Indianapolis came upon the scene of a downed power line across...
The Black Hand & $800,000 in Diamonds! LAKE COUNTY – Born in Calabria, Italy, Giacomo Colosimo arrived in Chicago as a young man during the 1890’s. He found honest work as a...
Blood Money Lost CHEROKEE COUNTY – During September 1897, newspaper headlines across the country left Americans stunned, so the murder of Kansas peddler Frank Galbraith was hardly...
Death of a Salesman STATE OF KANSAS – Here’s one for you died in the wool research junkies and amateur detective fortune seekers. The following events are well-documented historic...
The Castle Treasure WYANDOTTE COUNTY – The story of Sauer Castle and the lost treasure of the Sauer family is one recorded in both history and local folklore. The site has been the...
The Columbus–First Myth…Is It Important? POWELL – JEFFERSON – CHRISTIAN COUNTIES – All of us were taught about Christopher Columbus, who discovered...
Spring Creek Mystery Silver Mine CLAY COUNTY – Could a long abandoned silver mine discovered by treasure hunters in 1900 be the fabled lost mine of Englishman Jonathan Swift? That...
The Ballowe Treasure PLAQUEMINES PARISH – In the February 2000 issue of Lost Treasure appears a letter from reader John Arledge of Monroe, Louisiana. He asked about the “Ballowe Treasure...
Operation Paukenschlag Leaves Sunken Treasure Off Massachusetts Coast BARNSTABLE COUNTY – Three days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Adolph Hitler, on...
Jewel Heist! Thief Hides Jewels Near Hagen TavernFREDERICK COUNTY – A chest of jewels stolen from a French duchess is buried not far from the old Hagen Tavern in Braddock, not to be...
Stratagem to Escape – The Grover Berdgoll Story WASHINGTON COUNTY – A child of wealth and privilege, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (October 18, 1893 – January 27, 1966) was the grandson...
A Squatter’s Tale AROOSTOOK COUNTY – Back around 1900, land-leech Anse Hanley appeared at Fort Kent with his wife and two children. They purchased supplies before moving up...
The Mack Island Treasure! JACKSON COUNTY – As a retired police chief from a small police department in rural Oregon, I certainly recall many quiet weekday mornings passing as folks...
$100,000 Remains Missing OLMSTED–FILMORE COUNTIES – January 17, 1934, was a bitter cold morning in St. Paul. Inside the Bremer mansion, the morning unfolded like any other,...
$5 Million Whiskey TreasurePLATTE COUNTY – In a smoky saloon in Holt, Missouri, an "old river dog" sat drinking his beer while reminiscing about the dangerous snags that...
Samuel Mason, Land Pirate of the Natchez Trace CLAIRBOURNE COUNTY – Much of the early history and old legends told of the Natchez Trace about battles, cached treasures,...
Prospector’s Lost MineFLATHEAD COUNTY – It was a bitterly cold afternoon in 1898 when two brothers stumbled into an abandoned mining camp while hunting near the Peak of Columbia...
Mystery at Plum PointBEAUFORT COUNTY – It was Christmas day 1928 when two trappers were crossing Plum Point to check their traps in the nearby marsh. Both men suddenly stopped when they...
Indian Cache SLOPE COUNTY – Old timers once told of this legend many years ago around Amidon and Chalky Butte. The tale goes that four outlaws were hiding out on Chalky Butte...
McGuire’s Lost Cache CHASE COUNTY – At Fort Kearny, a buffalo hunter named McGuire had sold a load of hides then purchased his necessary supplies. Leaving the fort,...
Lost Algonquin Treasure CaveROCKINGHAM COUNTY – When the war between France and England spread across the Atlantic to North America it was the British Colonies that were targeted. French...
Ancient Treasure Found at Mantoloking OCEAN COUNTY – On October 9, 1949, the New York Times ran a story about ancient treasure being found along the beach near Mantoloking....
Lost in the Black Rock Desert WASHOE, PERSHING, and HUMBOLDT COUNTIES – Nevada’s Black Rock Desert is a primitive area located in the northwest. In 1849, overland...
Note: I received an e-mail from Lost Treasure reader Charles M. Deyoe, Jr. of Au Sable Forks, New York. Charles wrote… "I was wondering if you have ever done a state tale for my...
Creepy’s $34,000 Secret PORTAGE COUNTY – Alvin Francis Karpowicz was born on August 10, 1907, in Montreal, Canada, though he grew up in Topeka, Kansas. His criminal career...
The Boggy Creek Treasure CHOCTAW COUNTY – In northwest Choctaw County there is a buried outlaw treasure of gold and silver specie, watches, and jewelry worth $140,000 at the time it was...
Spanish Treasure Lead DEWEY – ELLIS COUNTY – Local research may help to better pinpoint this site, but in the upper northwest corner of Dewey County, just west of the town of Vici, a...
A Fortune in Gold Vanishes in the Oregon Wilderness… CROOK COUNTY – What happened to a fortune in gold freebooted by a band of outlaws in 1863 near Prineville is still...
‘MV’ MALHEUR COUNTY – The Snake River Massacre, also known as the Utter-Van Orman Massacre, was one of the most brutal ever documented. The Utter-Van Orman wagon train was composed...
Big Rock Massacre - Lost Gold ELK – CAMERON COUNTIES – This story is largely based on research compiled and published by Pennsylvania historian-writer Frances X. Scully. The...
Treasures of the Buck County Traitors BUCK COUNTY – During the time of the American Revolution, a band of outlaws known as the Doan Brothers, (sometimes spelled Doane) wreaked...
Laurel Run Treasure - Payroll Money Still Missing! LUZERNE COUNTY – On the morning of October 19, 1888, two employees of Charles McFadden, a railroad building contractor, were sent...
The El Dorado of the East STATE OF RHODE ISLAND – Occurrences of gold in Rhode Island historically have produced yields too low to support commercial mining. In checking the price...
The Tew Treasure WASHINGTON COUNTY - In the late 1600’s, Captain Thomas Tew, noted privateer turned pirate, retired in Newport, Rhode Island. During his years at sea, Tew had amassed a...
Lone Massacre Survivor Tells of Buried Treasures ABBEYVILLE COUNTY – Upstate South Carolina was dangerous country during the mid-1700’s, as one broken treaty after another...
The Dargan Treasure RICHLAND COUNTY – The lost Dargan Treasure is one certain to grab the attention of any brilliant sleuth or research minded treasure hunter who wants to try their luck...
Hidden on the Dirty Woman HAAKON COUNTY – Grindstone, South Dakota, was once a small crossroads settlement in the late 1800’s on the stage road from Ft. Pierre to Deadwood....
Ned’s Lost Spruce Gulch Gold LAWRENCE COUNTY - Located on the northern fringe of the rugged Black Hills of South Dakota, Deadwood was founded in the mid-1870’s after Colonel George...
The Keller Treasure LAUDERDALE COUNTY – NOTE: Hiram Keller is the principal in this legend of buried treasure from Lauderdale County, Tennessee. For research purposes before...
$1 Million TreasureHOUSTON COUNTY – John A. Murrell (1806? – 1844), also known as the Great Western Land Pirate, in his youth organized the Mystic Clan, a band of cutthroat outlaws...
The Devil’s Den Treasure WISE COUNTY – Not much is known about this Texas legend, but here is what I have on it. It was reported that $225,000 in gold ingots and specie...
Paris Gold LAMAR COUNTY - Somewhere near the town of Paris, Texas, a fortune in gold lies buried that has never been found. The story goes that, in 1882, vanguard feminist Frances...
Snake Gold UNKNOWN – Utah is a state with many legends of lost and buried treasures. Dating back to the time of the buffalo hunters and fur trappers, Spanish settlements on...
Missing Territorial Gold Coins SALT LAKE COUNTY – Between 1848 and 1860, the Mormon Church operated its own mint, which produced gold coins in values of $2.50, $5, $10, and $20 in seven...
Lost Civil War Booty FAIRFAX COUNTY – Confederate Commander Colonel John Singleton Mosby pulled off a daring nighttime raid on Union forces encamped at the Fairfax Courthouse on the...
Treasures of the Seventh Seal ARLINGTON COUNTY – The treasure of the Seventh Seal is reputed to consist of a hoard of gold along with priceless documents that, if known, would challenge...
Spanish Treasure in Vermont? WINDSOR – RUTLAND COUNTY LINE – There is an old, un-verified legend of buried Spanish treasure on Ludlow Mountain. The story claims that, around...
St. Francis Treasure ESSEX COUNTY - What little information I have on the St. Francis Treasure, as it is known, is enough to get a good researcher started on attempting to locate this...
The Legend of Bristol Notch ADDISON COUNTY – This buried treasure is known by several names, including the Bristol Cave treasure, the Hell’s Half Acre treasure, and the Bristol Money...
The Paymaster-Tukey Treasure JEFFERSON COUNTY – The tale of the Paymaster-Tukey Treasure is not one of Washington’s better-known treasure legends; perhaps that’s because...
The Victor Smith Treasure CLALLAM COUNTY – Special agent Victor Smith (1827 – 1865) of the U.S. Treasury was a man who led a double life: in death he left behind many lost fortunes....
The Black Tuesday Treasure KENOSHA COUNTY – Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, is remembered as the day of the infamous Stock Market crash that ended seven years of American...
The Lost Billings Treasure – Beware! VERNON COUNTY – Located two miles southeast of Ontario sits Wisconsin’s mystifying Wildcat Mountain State Park. The mountain’s baffling history...
Gold and Silver Reported Found in West VirginiaROANE AND WIRT COUNTIES – It could pay to do some local research to determine what became of the gold and silver mines...
Conspirators' Lost Fortune in Gold! WOOD COUNTY – A large deposit of gold is reputed to be buried on Blennerhassett Island in 1806 that has never been found. Originally the site of...
The Lost Downey Lode ALBANY COUNTY – After being wounded in the Battle of Harper’s Ferry, Maryland native Colonel Stephen Wheeler Downey (1839-1902) was discharged from the...
Slade’s Long Lost Loot PLATTE COUNTY – Joseph “Jack” Alfred Slade, {January 22, 1831 – March 10, 1864} used many aliases, but is perhaps best remembered simply as “Slade.” The son...
