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MacFadden's Lost Treasure San Bernardino Mountains
The cooks at work at the plush resort hotel glanced up just in time to see an elderly, barefooted man creep furtively out a back door. He carried a small knapsack over one shoulder as he stopped at a tool shed and picked up a pick and shovel. With these in hand he headed up a path towards a large grove of pine trees.
A half-hour later a young woman entered the kitchen and asked if anyone had seen her husband. Reluctantly, they told her what had happened. She left and walked up the path in hopes of catching up to him.
About a quarter mile up the trail, she saw her husband. He was about to bury a metal box in a deep hole near the base of a large pine tree. At that moment the old man looked up and saw his wife standing there, watching. Flying into a rage, he chased her back down the trail, threatening her with the shovel.
Sometime later the man returned to the hotel, still angry at having been seen. He told his wife that before he died he would draw a map showing where his money was buried. She could then dig it up and be the richest woman in the land, but until then no one would know where it was cached.
That afternoon, after her husband left on a business trip, the wife returned to the pine grove. The hole was still there, but it was empty. Her husband had buried his money in a different place, after he had chased her off.
The mans name was Bernard MacFadden, owner of the Arrowhead Springs Hotel, then a health resort. His wifes name was Johnnie Lee MacFadden. The plush old resort is located a few miles north of San Bernardino, California, in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains.
No one knows how much money MacFadden buried, but he definitely was a multi-millionaire who distrusted banks.
The Arrowhead Springs Hotel and its adjoining 1,735 acres have changed hands many times since MacFadden died. He never drew his promised treasure map. Today, the old hotel is a beautifully maintained retreat owned by the Campus Crusade for Christ. MacFaddens treasure is still there.
The cooks at work at the plush resort hotel glanced up just in time to see an elderly, barefooted man creep furtively out a back door. He carried a small knapsack over one shoulder as he stopped at a tool shed and picked up a pick and shovel. With these in hand he headed up a path towards a large grove of pine trees.
A half-hour later a young woman entered the kitchen and asked if anyone had seen her husband. Reluctantly, they told her what had happened. She left and walked up the path in hopes of catching up to him.
About a quarter mile up the trail, she saw her husband. He was about to bury a metal box in a deep hole near the base of a large pine tree. At that moment the old man looked up and saw his wife standing there, watching. Flying into a rage, he chased her back down the trail, threatening her with the shovel.
Sometime later the man returned to the hotel, still angry at having been seen. He told his wife that before he died he would draw a map showing where his money was buried. She could then dig it up and be the richest woman in the land, but until then no one would know where it was cached.
That afternoon, after her husband left on a business trip, the wife returned to the pine grove. The hole was still there, but it was empty. Her husband had buried his money in a different place, after he had chased her off.
The mans name was Bernard MacFadden, owner of the Arrowhead Springs Hotel, then a health resort. His wifes name was Johnnie Lee MacFadden. The plush old resort is located a few miles north of San Bernardino, California, in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains.
No one knows how much money MacFadden buried, but he definitely was a multi-millionaire who distrusted banks.
The Arrowhead Springs Hotel and its adjoining 1,735 acres have changed hands many times since MacFadden died. He never drew his promised treasure map. Today, the old hotel is a beautifully maintained retreat owned by the Campus Crusade for Christ. MacFaddens treasure is still there.
I just heard a really great one about a place locally. There was an old man who built an 8 room house up in the mountains. He mined for gold near his home. His house burned down and nobody ever saw him again. oooohhhh spppoooky! He even "disappeared"! 
I am pretty sure that this "house" was an old relay station. Everyone likes a good story! LOL
