It’s all conjecture until someone digs it up.
Ah, Schrodinger's treasure.
I've often said that if I had a nickel for every story of buried treasure I would spend all those nickels and lie about burying them. The truth is, these stories are almost never proven true.
And when the stories are proven true, you have to find another treasure that has not been proven to be true.
This isn't supposed to be a deriding question, but do you have any examples? I can only think of Forrest Fenn and The Secret. But those don't really count because they were created to be like the 19th century treasure legends. There are also all kinds of hoards that are found, but those are usually found on accident. I can't think of any treasure that has been found using decoded ciphers, etc.
Hi Albert,
Carl, There was an old black lady living in a log cabin somewhere in Florida. She claimed she had the codes cracked. Mel Fisher believed it enough to come up to Montvale, Virginia and Bedford County to investigate. I was hunting in upper North Goose Creek above Montvale and I got ran off the road on US 695 that runs along Goose Creek by an extra large track hole that was capable of digging about 22 feet deep. The excavator belonged to Mel Fisher's people. He used the old Wilkerson Mill property he purchased about 100 yards from the Paschal Buford Tavern with the old chimney out back of the older tavern owned by his father, Henry Buford. Mel Fisher used this property as a base operation at the mill. His helicopter had flew over the old mill dam with a magnetometer and was picking up a strong signal behind the dam and along the cliff on the south-side of the branch. Of course I already knew there was a vein of low grade uranium in that area and that is what the magnetometer was picking up from the helicopter. I and my brother, Eddie made 29 trips up there in 10 days while Mel Fisher was up there. Each round trip was 180 miles. I had deciphered the Code Paper #1 and I wanted to get a contract with Mel Fisher which I did after he had went back home for the Winter in 1989. He vowed in the newspapers that he would return the Spring of 1990, but he never returned. I think he never came back due to poor health. All those double rum and coke and of course smoking cigarettes. I had two investors and treasure hunters from Florida that wanted to come up and check the area out I had deciphered. So I sent Mel Fisher a letter asking him to release me from contract so I could go on treasure hunting. In the contract I had to be within 100 feet of the location of the treasure and if I were, I would receive 5% of the treasure when recovered. Motivation, Inc. was the name of his company. He came to Peter Veimeister's book store in Bedford City inquiring about the Beale Treasure and with Peter's new book just published, Mel Fisher purchased a hundred copies and took the books back to Florida to entice and seek out investors for his project. I forget the name of his investor but I met him and Mel Fisher in Key West that Christmas, 1989. I would not swear to it but I believe his name was Chris Widener. He sold his yacht like $60,000 or more investing it with Mel Fisher as a partner. There were other partners also. I know of a lady Doctor in Lynchburg, Va., she invested something like $20,000 for one percent of the treasure and others followed suit. Landowners actually came to Mel Fisher to get him to search their properties. This way Mel Fisher did not have to go and ask the landowners for permission. Mel Fisher sold the property at Wilkerson's Mill and with the investor's money, he most likely made a hefty profit? It's good to talk to you again Carl. Are you back in North Carolina? Send me a message. I would love to tell you what I have located and I am fixing to go and try to recover some huge treasures. I tried giving it to the USA Government 12 years ago to pay off the National Deficit but they only threatened to put me in jail. So now I am going to recover these treasures and if...............well you know. Good to hear from you again.
Sound pretty interesting. Got any links?
