. At the age of 25, Jean Laffite was living in New Orleans, operating a warehouse essential to dispersing the goods smuggled by his brother Pierre. But a giant storm hit the area, destroying the raft and washing away all the evidence. Christian Roper and Brackston McKnight, film makers. Although it hasnt yet been decided if the film will first be released at festivals and then to the public, Sunken Silver will eventually be available through online streaming. 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. 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. There will be people still in town who will remember Barnie Waldrop, Pinkerton said. The team, known as the "Temple Twelve," have been . In 2018, we decided to renew the legend with some information of our own. In 1965 a professional syndicate of treasure hunters, men who worked together at a packaging company in LeClaire, Iowa, and led by Clarence A. The crescent-shaped lake is less than a mile long, thirty to fifty yards wide, and twelve to forty feet deep. Boise County - Near the Nevada state line at Rye Flats, a shipment of newly-minted gold coins . 1``b`5 Y0$ Au`j`H@ Just about every book written about Texas in that era mentioned it. Pinkerton also maintains facebook pages Trammels Trace and Hendricks Lake Treasure-True Believers. H-E-Bs True Texas BBQ Restaurant Is Slipping, West Texans Are Learning What It Means to Live in Bear Country. Ive actually been at this project about 14 months now. 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. Its slated to be released in May on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Tubi. <> 0000003902 00000 n Somewhere with access to treasure-laden vessels, open coast, and trails and waterways to transport stolen goods. An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Barnie Waldrop of carthage was one of the more persistent treasure hunters. The Fenn Treasure was a cache of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico, hid in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. There are many stories about famed pirate Jean Lafitte, but one places his lost buried treasure at the bottom of a lake right here in East Texas. Sheriff of Carthage, who co-owned 470 acres on the northwest end of the lake with Corbett Akins. Christian is not discouraged. Barnie Waldrop said he outlasted all the others and had seen fifty of em beaten by the lakes bog bottom. There are many stories about the famous pirate Gene Lafitte, but one of them places his lost treasure at the bottom of a lake right here in East Texas. Every dollar helps. Maybe they can help them in their search from the insights learned from their own pursuit of the Money Pit. Or Black Lake. 146 0 obj 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. endobj Hotspots would include the many watercourses through the area and gravel arroyos northeast of Boise, near Idaho City. 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. 0000001730 00000 n (Image credit: Pictorial Press Ltd./Alamy) British . In 1969 an MIT graduate with a degree in electrical engineering and a patent for an underwater device for locating metals motored along the surface of Hendricks Lake in an eight-foot fiberglass boat towing his electronics. All they found was a big sawblade from one of the sawmills that had operated on the lake; they left the artifact behind for future treasure hunters. endobj Despite intense efforts at dredging, detecting, diving, and dynamiting for Hendricks Lake treasure, the only thing that was reportedly found in the lake was the rim of an old wagon wheel. True West Magazine article on Jean Lafitte. The silver was never recovered. There are people who spend their whole lives and considerable sums of money searching for sunken treasure ships, lost mines, and hidden loot. hill on the Lakes side, the scans show some promising images. Gary L. Pinkerton, George Mallory's lost camera. Six wagon loads of silver carried north along Trammel's Trace. While Pinkerton believes the lake area should be a park, the reality is Hendricks Lake is no longer accessible by the public as the land surrounding it belongs to private land owners or is being leased by mining companies. A brig named Santa Rosa plundered in Matagorda Bay in 1816. 01 April 2017. A formal statement is due around noon in Moscow on Saturday when the first pictures of the gold will be revealed to the world's . In an interview with KETK, Pinkerton discussed the treasure, or lack thereof, at Hendricks Lake. During his research for Trammals Trace, Pinkerton came upon the legend and it was something he tucked away and parked for a little while.. On an 1863 map of the area, it was named Flanagan Lake but since the 1880s has been known by its present name. He bought some steam engines and pumps, had a months worth of logs to keep the steam engines going and was gonna drain the lake. 4. . Peter Walker Adams lived in one of the houses on the hill near the lake and figured prominently in many of the newspaper stories. 157 0 obj Not all listings found on this site are necessarily listed through Best of Luxury Realty, Corp. and the story of the Hendricks Lake treasure is no different. Just another myth? According to a story by Mary Roger of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the silver was indeed robbed from a galleon by Laffite and his mean in the early 19th century. In Colombian newspapers, his death was lamented and his obituary described him as a brave naval officer. Waldrop believed this man had many treasure secrets, but he was a well-known fraud. 0000003134 00000 n What I like most about the lake is that, it just contains this feel when you go out there and you see the Spanish moss hanging on the trees, you feel like youve gone back in time, Roper said. In June of 2020, the treasure was finally found by a man who chose not to be named (perhaps understandably, as he was suddenly $5 million richer!). When we were looking through the story and seeing some of the characters that got interested in it, seeing some of the nations most prominent treasure hunters getting interested in the story, the story being picked up by some of the largest magazines and news outlets across the country in the 50s and 60s, seeing involvement from one of the worlds most famous psychicsits an incredible story, Roper noted. Over the years, Hendrick's Lake near Tatum has been a place where many people have visited in search of a legendary treasure that was supposedly left at the site by Pirate Jean LaFitte. And he says, Treasure has a way of keeping its secrets. The treasure, placed in a. As a backup plan, they would supply all adjacent markets with fresh fish on ice. The Galveston Daily News made light of the effort by suggesting they move their operation to the Gulf of Mexico since a good deal of wealth has been left under its waters by shipwrecks. A week after that humiliation, Paul Tatum clubbed a man to death after he made fun of Tatums attempt to drain the lake. ]9xd@% ilIA):cOr+}fJg-|o)!6ns+"6nsj[R JMr}bz b)N$PvfeY%Gc Za}J8420sw*b96z>r$J54a 75U,Y{hw!C'9i?| P[Zvh]|bNb7hRAbTi#n'M{ "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. Signup today for our free newsletter, Especially Texan. 24 Lake Toplitz In Austria Is Believed To Hold The Lost Treasures From World War II. 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. At times the story stayed in circulation due to the efforts of Harry E. Rieseberg, a man who was the self-proclaimed '"worlds greatest underwater treasure hunter.. Others have mounted full-scale salvage expeditions with backhoes and monster trucks and whatnot. In Gretna in 1960, across the river from New Orleans, a large number of gold coins were found in an area frequented by Lafitte and his men .According to another story, Laffite buried a large cache on an unnamed island in Lake Borgne. Daniel Vaughn is the countrys first barbecue editor, and he has eaten more barbecue than you have. They know it. 6. Texas is full of buried bootyor, to be a bit more accurate, full of stories about buried booty that no one has been able to find. . LAKE ISABELLA, Calif . 168 0 obj My interest in the treasure legend turned into an article for the East Texas Historical Journal and the seeds for this book. Low 47F. endobj It featured Pirate Treasures. Thats the one thing we all agree on about Sunken Silver, is that legend is a very powerful thing.. To the north of Tatum, in the middle of the forest, lies Lake Hendrix. Peoples commitment to myths, tall tales and legends is powerful, according to Pinkerton. Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake" but he is not a 'true believer' himself. 0000002062 00000 n The earliest mention of the treasure legend of Hendricks Lake that Pinkerton could find was in 1884. endobj When researching Trammels Trace for my last book, I encountered the treasure legend of Hendricks Lake. 0000006665 00000 n One particularly famous legend is that of Jean Lafittes treasure. This page is for discussion about that early history,. Even though some, including Waldrop and Stotlar, had looked into draining the lake, there were no other attempts at that folly. startxref 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. Michael Siepker, Fisheries Biologist; 563-382-8324; Michael.Siepker@dnr.iowa.gov Marc Waterlander, Conservation Officer; 319-240-6662; Marc.Waterlander@dnr.iowa.gov Iowa-Caught Fish Are Safe to Eat, In Almost All Cases Gary is currently working on a history of Spanish East Texas focused between 1770 and 1813. Stella Wieser of the Panola Watchman. There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. Pinkerton had to get special permission to visit for research and to take pictures. The stories of treasure have been around for a long time, Pinkerton said. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents( \n h t t p s : / / s c h o l a r w o r k s . A.C. SoRelle, Jr., and his brother, Henry, were oilmen who brought detection equipment, draglines, and other heavy machinery to dig into the gumbo mud on the bottom of the lake. Spanish troops caught up with the wagons along a trail near present-day Tatum, Texas. The first episode premiered on Tuesday November 17 at 10PM EST on the History Channel. In 1915 in New Orleans a worker uncovered a chest filled with more than 1,500 doubloons . Hendricks Lake near Tatum is now off limits to the public because it is on land owned by a mining company. 2. Not a treasure hunter, but a character who built an amphibious tractor he called the Watt-a-Bug which he drove into Hendricks Lake. Well, according to a story by Mary Rogers of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, there is evidence that in the early 1800s the theft did happen and that Jean Lafittes men, afraid that they were about to be ambushed, pushed several wagons loaded with silver ingots into the muddy waters. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents( \n h t t p s : / / s c h o l a r w o r k s . Jean Laffite was a French pirate and privateer born circa 1780. endobj The legends a legend, but the people that believed it and the effort they went through to actually find it despite obvious questions about the details, Pinkerton stated. Hendericks was a member of the Cras Est Nostrum and became Salazar at some point in the past. dave dave is he michael jackson,