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In my long Journey digging into treasure legends you soon begin to see into unique world of people who fail in such ventures of treasure hunting due to a combination of various reasons. The most telling of all 99% was poor research was part of the failure.
I had an interesting conversation with hardluck the other day as once he used to post various treasure legends for joy of sharing them. However he told me had come to realization he may be doing more harm than Good. Because due to the nature of such treasure legends in can induces a whole range of people dream of what if? Not particularly a bad thing however there is many people who engage in such practices are doomed for failure because they never understand the enormity of research needed to succeed. Some are plain ignorant and dangerous to Themselves and others who perhaps should never of existed if their parents was never allowed to breed.
3. Cases in question.
Case in question 1. Hardluck was contacted by emailed from a man in Tanzania who had become obsessed about a WW1 German treasure Hardluck had wrote about on a Forum. The man turned out to be a drug dealing Tanzanian Gang member interested in a treasure story. It turns out he murdered several families on the property where he thought this treasure was buried. thus digging into an old hospital basement and exposing himself to an buried radio active radiological waste from scrapped ex-ray machine. poetic justice is it not?
2. Another story Hardluck and I shared was from 1999. A working trip in Brunei. On a side trip we found an island and a settlement north of Borneo which was the original settlement the British made in Asia before the establishment of Singapore. The fort and Town was destroyed by Sulu pirates. We had close encounter with insurgents who had a training camp on the island. Years later Hardluck gave details of the location to Malaysian authorities and before long rumor of treasure its been claim in off the records circles being there made its way over to the Philippines. Since the area is disputed territory by both nations in January this year there was a small border war between the Philippines and Malaysia resulting in deaths of at least 28 people perhaps even more.
Malaysia rejects clan leader's call for cease-fire in Sabah as death toll rises - CNN.com
3. In 2009 hardluck posted a story about the mad dictator of Paraguay. While stories were well known in Paraguay about the dead dictators lost hoard. It was not well known outside of the country in the English speaking world and yet a few years after was flurry of books and interest from outside the country on story of dictator and his Irish mistress. As of 2013 20 dug a massive hole of premise of finding treasure right the way down to the water table. You do not have to be smart to realize that the dictator held onto what treasure he had left. And buried hastily before all was overrun and killed. Not a 50 ft hole by a rather shallow location probably not far from his last stand.
The Following Photos can show the extremes treasure legends can become blind obsession.
Perhaps in years to come the hole will become another Oak island and of course it was the Freemasons fault or even the Templar
And even of this year 3 men have been buried alive.
Trio buried alive hunting Paraguay treasure - Americas News & Top Stories - The Straits Times
On reporter summed it up best....But it captures many people’s imagination in the largely rural, poor South American country. And the digging goes on. And so it is many places. many people for all races and all walks of life can become foolishly obsessed in their quest, not only a risk to themselves but to others. But most of all my friends I am reminded of one of old hardlucks sayings
"where there's treasure evil is never far away"
Crow
I had an interesting conversation with hardluck the other day as once he used to post various treasure legends for joy of sharing them. However he told me had come to realization he may be doing more harm than Good. Because due to the nature of such treasure legends in can induces a whole range of people dream of what if? Not particularly a bad thing however there is many people who engage in such practices are doomed for failure because they never understand the enormity of research needed to succeed. Some are plain ignorant and dangerous to Themselves and others who perhaps should never of existed if their parents was never allowed to breed.
3. Cases in question.
Case in question 1. Hardluck was contacted by emailed from a man in Tanzania who had become obsessed about a WW1 German treasure Hardluck had wrote about on a Forum. The man turned out to be a drug dealing Tanzanian Gang member interested in a treasure story. It turns out he murdered several families on the property where he thought this treasure was buried. thus digging into an old hospital basement and exposing himself to an buried radio active radiological waste from scrapped ex-ray machine. poetic justice is it not?
2. Another story Hardluck and I shared was from 1999. A working trip in Brunei. On a side trip we found an island and a settlement north of Borneo which was the original settlement the British made in Asia before the establishment of Singapore. The fort and Town was destroyed by Sulu pirates. We had close encounter with insurgents who had a training camp on the island. Years later Hardluck gave details of the location to Malaysian authorities and before long rumor of treasure its been claim in off the records circles being there made its way over to the Philippines. Since the area is disputed territory by both nations in January this year there was a small border war between the Philippines and Malaysia resulting in deaths of at least 28 people perhaps even more.
Malaysia rejects clan leader's call for cease-fire in Sabah as death toll rises - CNN.com
3. In 2009 hardluck posted a story about the mad dictator of Paraguay. While stories were well known in Paraguay about the dead dictators lost hoard. It was not well known outside of the country in the English speaking world and yet a few years after was flurry of books and interest from outside the country on story of dictator and his Irish mistress. As of 2013 20 dug a massive hole of premise of finding treasure right the way down to the water table. You do not have to be smart to realize that the dictator held onto what treasure he had left. And buried hastily before all was overrun and killed. Not a 50 ft hole by a rather shallow location probably not far from his last stand.
The Following Photos can show the extremes treasure legends can become blind obsession.
Perhaps in years to come the hole will become another Oak island and of course it was the Freemasons fault or even the Templar
And even of this year 3 men have been buried alive. Trio buried alive hunting Paraguay treasure - Americas News & Top Stories - The Straits Times
On reporter summed it up best....But it captures many people’s imagination in the largely rural, poor South American country. And the digging goes on. And so it is many places. many people for all races and all walks of life can become foolishly obsessed in their quest, not only a risk to themselves but to others. But most of all my friends I am reminded of one of old hardlucks sayings
"where there's treasure evil is never far away"
Crow
