Seagoville pharmacist who was the diver that planted dynamite on the bottom of Hendricks Lake. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[72.0 594.2333 124.3037 607.124]/StructParent 1/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> The land was sold sometime in the last 20 years and is now within a restricted mining area. Its slated to be released in May on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Tubi. An estimated $340 million., And as I write, the treasure hunters are out there, hunting, hunting, and hunting. He also might have(might have, I remind you)come across a wooden chest containing what was then $80,000 in jewelry and coins. So nothing lines up; its just factually, there was no road that would carry wagons at that time. Pinkerton. As a young girl, Diana pushed the plunger to set off dynamite. The story died down but regained momentum when treasure hunting became popular again in the fifties and when True West magazine printed an article about the long-forgotten silver prompting treasure hunters to flock to Carthage and Tatum. For more information about this incredible project and to see a short film trailer, go to their website at www.sunkensilver.com. It was found approximately a decade later in 2020 in Wyoming by an anonymous treasure hunter later revealed to be former journalist and medical student Jack Stuef. . Hughes Springs up in Cass County was founded by two brothers looking for a treasure in the 1850s or 60s. Singer & Co., which was renamed the Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865. "You're a liability, Sebastian" Hendricks[src] Agent D. Hendricks is an FBI agent and the leader of Cras Est Nostrum. 0000003902 00000 n No one's found the Spanish silver cache, but some treasure seekers in this area have struck gold-or gemstones, as the case may be. Contacts. 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 hard to find any newspaper before that, but thats the first and oldest mention that I found of it, he said. Mainly clear. $10,000 Utah hidden treasure found: 'Overwhelming and humbling' Building on that production they are airing a new 8-episode series titled "Beyond Oak Island" premiering Tuesday, November 17 at 9:00 pm central. 0000007400 00000 n On the trail of East Texas' buried treasure news - The Black Chronicle Buried, EAST, Texas, texas news, texas news update, trail, Treasure Laffite was wounded in the battle and is believed to have died just after dawn. He knows more than a thing or two about the present . Essentially, somehow treasure came up in conversation and I had asked him if hed ever heard about the story of pirate treasure being lost in East Texas and we started slowly looking into it. 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. Some fishermen in the last century pulled several silver bars from those very waters with a hoop net. Calvin Wilcher is in charge of the scans..he is on watch for something not of Mother nature. . Low 47F. Maybe they can help them in their search from the insights learned from their own pursuit of the Money Pit. Hobe Sound. Christian Roper and Brackston McKnight lay eyes on Hendricks Lake, the alleged locale of sunken pirate treasure. Our new Privacy Policy will go into effect on January 1st, 2023. endobj But people buy into it, and thats the part thats interesting to me.. In an interview . That set off a huge treasure hunting stampede. Having already written a book on Trammels Trace, a road running through Tatum which he noted was the first road to Texas from the north, Pinkerton is now embarking on a journey to research the people and the reasons for the treasure hunting extravaganza for an upcoming book. Not one of them found any of the reported treasure, but that never prevented the next person from trying. endobj 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. <>stream Host Mattie Blake and local movie maker Christian B. Roper (see Sunken Silver) led a team conducting underwater searching. The basic story is that in 1816 silver stolen by pirate Jean Lafitte from the Spanish brig Santa Rosa was being moved north from Matagorda Bay to St. Louis, Missouri, for disposal. Gary L. Pinkerton, Trammels Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016). Treasure Hunters Find Mysterious Shipwreck in Lake Michigan Forrest Wilder writes about politics and the outdoors. Hendricks Lake was the sight of many treasure hunts over the course of the 20th century. there were treasure legends, and the most common story is that Lafitte stranded a ship, a Spanish ship with gold, in Matagorda Bay in Corpus and was taking it to St. Louis on some wagon trains over roads that dont exist in 1816. They say this inspired them to reach out to other treasure hunters and hear their stories. No matter what, I come to believe throughout professional research or diving, I will always associate it with Jean Lafitte, with treasure, with piracy because its meant so much to the community, Roper said. Legend Sunken Silver help him in his search. Tales of pirate booty and Mexican gold have captivated minds for generations, and it all could be closer than you might think. After getting some readings at the bottom of the lake (Hendricks Lake), two Dallas oilmen actually brought in a giant crane and attached a drag bucket to the cable. We organized some strategic searches via dives doing grid patterns and things of that sort to try to get those up.. endobj 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. Historian Gary Pinkerton says the legend is mostly unsubstantiated. 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. If the treasure is out there, then some East Texan is bound to find it. The son of the founder of the town of Tatum. Christian Roper and Brackston McKnight, film makers. Legend holds that the Pirate Jean LaFitte, or in some other versions Santa Anna, left treasure at Hendricks Lake near Tatum. TATUM A trio of Jacksonville natives wants to turn two-century-old piracy legend into a full-length feature documentary film and theyre seeking funding help to do it. CNN As soon as Forrest Fenn announced that his treasure was found earlier this month, rumors swirled about whether it had really been found or if the treasure hunt had been a hoax all. 150 0 obj 2019. Beyond Oak Island Summary of Episode 1: Pirate Treasures and the Search in Hendricks Lake for Jean Lafittes Lost Treasure. Tracy Y Hendricks in Arlington Heights, IL - Whitepages Hendricks Lake was By the time the summer of 1958 had ended, Waldrop, buzzing again and the moss-laden oaks echoed the sound of the SoRelles, and all of the other treasure hunters spurred on heavy equipment and trucks pulling in for another attempt. endobj Do@aj^HmFd*`G1 X Marks the Spot - Texas Monthly To contact Pinkerton, call (409) 201-8026 or email gary.pinkerton@outlook.com. The information comes from books and treasure hunting Web sites (the best of which are legendsofamerica.com and treasurefish.com). True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake His main focus is on Jean Lafittes treasure, Scotty Stotlar, Sr., appeared to have what it took to mount another serious attempt. January 2023 Reader Quiz: What Did You Learn? There are two legends in particular that seem to have found purchase in the minds of East Texas treasure hunters. Like everybody else, he tried to find it over and over and over again. click photo for more. . Author explores area silver legend - texarkanagazette.com Jean Lafitte's treasure Photo of Hendricks Lake, courtesy of Gary L. Pinkerton . If you would like to help, our fundraising campaign can be found here. The story goes that wagon loads of silver This warrants some underwater metal detectors to be taken A few of the Cherokees were accompanied by agents of the Mexican government who had promised a lot of money to the tribe if they were able to drive out the Texans. Hotspots would include the many watercourses through the area and gravel arroyos northeast of Boise, near Idaho City. 0000001390 00000 n The Cherokees started getting their butts kicked. A man named Nathan Smith thinks he's found the remnants of a sunken ship from an 1822 hurricane north of Corpus Christi - thanks to Google Earth. He maintains websites for Trammels Trace and for Hendricks Lake, as well as social media Facebook groups for both stories. And soldiers were overtaking them, so they had six wagon loads full of gold and silver they dumped it in the lake. 0 they might find something, a storm rolls in. The story goes that Union soldiers tracked down Confederate president Jefferson Davis in 1865 and confiscated his gold. 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. None of (the rest) lines up, but 1860s, 1870s, there was enough yada yada to create some story.. A famous actress said, Legend remains victorious in spite of history. For this one to last over 150 years, the grains of truth have firmly resisted erosion by the progress of historical research and inspection. A Seagoville pharmacist who sailed around the world. Hendricks Lake, once a commonly-frequented lake both for recreation and treasure hunting, is no longer accessible to the public. The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. 0000044783 00000 n And then he became postmaster two years later, so apparently nothing came of that. The 1907 theft included the removal of a diamond star, pendant, and the collars of five knights of the Order. His website is titled True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake but he is not a true believer himself. Charles Fitzhugh Grice had the technology needed to find Spanish silver if the treasure was there. On the trail of East Texas' buried treasure The July 17, 1958 edition of the Panola Watchman includes this update on a search for Jean LaFittes treasure at Hendricks Lake near Tatum. Tales of Spanish Silver Lure Treasure Hunters to an East Texas Lake Oak Island Treasure Found May 18, 2021 - YouTube Peter Walker Adams lived in one of the houses on the hill near the lake and figured prominently in many of the newspaper stories. He initially doesn't release any details on the finder or location. After completing high school in Virginia, she moved to New York City and pursued a career as a model following her entry into a Seventeen cover contest. I titled it True Believers because Im way more interested in the people who believe this stuff than the possibility that there might actually be something, Pinkerton said. Markers are dropped, and divers are sent down. IXK\!%X[CQq tfI&JA PAefQj$9k,HmN}) n1jXb#,L5N_T U7VOn'u[^cW c{*`!+?@6rJQ|n ;fr4a}_OM%)t0 HUn>>IudFn _IXEvFmoj8!~X!HL: To him it is the Chase and the history. We met with Gary and it was very strange because he was working on this book at the same time we were working on this film and it had been decades since anyone had ever shown any interest in Hendricks Lake.. 148 0 obj 1. . Barnie Waldrop, a Carthage television repairman, had used his own electronics to search the lake for years. xXMsFWLU9C*ZYWNUX=@$(" (~ J>iyAy/eJ%.%c~(~s9yLrMw3iQSM?FOgmvw[s[j3Hr'YyX~mvvN39 Kc7YcqZYo)~}u3 ? Texas Lege Watch: A House Republican Fights for Chicken Freedom, Texas Monthly Recognized by ASME in the 2023 National Magazine Awards. It is my sincere belief that the Hendricks Lake treasure was silver taken by Lafitte from capturing of the Spanish ship Santa Rosa in Matagorda Bay in 1820. 0000017195 00000 n MW Questions: Are Keywords for the Null Cipher Used in The Great US Treasure Hunt? Hutchinson Island. The tried to dynamite the bottom, but ended up with no silver for this efforts. and the story of the Hendricks Lake treasure is no different. Hendericks was a member of the Cras Est Nostrum and became Salazar at some point in the past. ]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{ Texas oilmen who later drilled an oil well based on scripture. . <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents( \n h t t p s : / / s c h o l a r w o r k s . Adams was a Rusk County backwoodsman who wears an old slouch felt hat, bib overalls, and a denim jacket, buttoned at the throat even in hot weather, and a favorite character of columnist Frank X. Tolbert for many of his Tolberts Texas articles over the years. (Courtesy of Andy Swanger) As far as more. One group proposed to use a new divining rod activated with isotopes. The Sam Bass Loot In perhaps his greatest venture, Texass legendary stagecoach and bank robber Sam Bass traveled to Big Springs, Nebraska, with his sidekick Joel Collins and held up the Union Pacific Railroad. The first episode premiered on Tuesday November 17 at 10PM EST on the History Channel. When one of the recent landowners near the lake sold their property to the mining company, they inserted a treasure clause that reserves the rights to one-half of any treasure trove found on the Property by Purchaser. There will always be true believers in the treasure legend of Hendricks Lake. On his visits to Hendricks Lake with his son, they got a hit and brought a diver along to search the bottom. Ocean Breeze. Stories like this, its what created a filmmaker in myself, its what creates archeologists, its what creates people that come up with plans to conquer whatever they want to solve in life, its just a special place.. Beyond Oak Island Summary of Episode 1: Pirate Treasures and the Search The area served as a naval base during the war, and the publication notes that when the Allied forces were approaching, the Nazi's began sinking treasures in metal boxes in the lake . An historian named Herbert Bolton, using the original journals of the Mexicans from the eighteenth century, found what is now known as the Boyd shaft on Honey Creek. Join the adventures in Beyond Oak Island- Tuesdays at 10PM and summaries and more in depth looks into the many stories of treasure, here at MW! After years of searching, Roper is still optimistic, and he said that his commitment to Hendricks Lake will still be there no matter what he finds. La Belle was a French ship that sank in Matagorda Bay in 1685 after running aground in a storm. Two years later, its researchers went on a mapping expedition with the . I got copies of pages in Spanish that say Yeah there was the Santa Rosa, the proposed name of the ship, there was a Santa Rosa, (but) it didnt sink. It carried cane liquor and salt and sugar from Cuba to Cadiz. 153 0 obj When a giant storm hit the region, the raft was washed away and destroyed. trailer 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. He had heard about the Trace from his dad as a portion of it runs through family land. And You Thought Feral Hogs Were Bad. by the Rieseberg article had gone home with no treasure to On Monday, June 16th, 1958 Barney The popularity of treasure hunting during this time period was profiled in numerous pulp magazines and news features, and the business of supplying treasure hunters was page one news in the Wall Street Journal. (Image credit: Pictorial Press Ltd./Alamy) British . One person who is still committed to the Hendricks Lake legend is Jacksonville documentary film maker and treasure hunter, Christian B. Roper. So all these treasure magazines sprung around these treasure hunting, metal detectors, stories about lost mines. That's . A pharmacist. Houston oil men began a search for Spanish silver-thelegendary treasure of Hendricks Lake.! wATCH THE EPISODE HERE. Texas, I learned, is full of buried treasureor, to be a bit more accurate, full of stories about buried treasures that no one has been able to find. 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. Although $25,000 worth of coins and jewelry have been accounted for, no one knows where the rest of the loot went, and Collins and Bass were killed before they revealed anything. Exclusive opportunity to purchase 1843 S. Federal Hwy, Andy's Live Fire Grill & Bar. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular articles. World's largest 'treasure hoard' worth over $20 billion may soon be found Please post photos and a general area if you have . 168 0 obj Little is known about his origins, but he was probably born either in Basque-France or in the French colony Saint-Domingue. The ships turned out to be heavily armed privateers and they mounted a frontal counterattack that included heavy fire. 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. Id met his daughter, who when she was 12, they let her push the plunger on the dynamite to blow up the bottom of the lake.. Legends live on! Now, two years later, in his book, "True Believers: Treasure Hunters at Hendricks Lake," he has given new life to a legend about hidden silver that developed alongside Trammel's Trace. e d u / e t h j / v o l 4 7 / i s s 2 / 1 0)/Rect[128.1963 131.7406 353.4453 143.4594]/StructParent 9/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> 155 0 obj Im going to talk to his son, who was 14 or so when they were out at the lake. Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. Royal discovery made after 99-year-old code is broken by Siberian mathematics genius. HISTORY Channel at Hendricks Lake: The Rest of the Story He believes that stories like this reveal something about the people who tell them. It led all the way back to an 1884 account where the guy who was the son of the founder of Tatum, Texas in East Texas decided he was going to drain the lake. In the last chapter of the book, I really talk about where do we go from here now., Theres something inherent in us that wants to believe those legends, Pinkerton stated. While en route through East Texas, the smugglers received word the Spanish army was closing in and, in an effort to hide the treasure, dumped the loot in a local lake. 15 Hidden Treasures Rumored to Be Somewhere in the United States A light came on when the probe hit metal. Houston oilmen who conducted the largest search ever attempted in 1957-1958. A heating and air conditioning contractor. . When I found out theres essentially a documentary, a great one right here in East Texas waiting to be put out there, I was just excited to try to do everything I could to make that happen, he commented. Agent Hendricks | National Treasure Wiki | Fandom Every penny counts! Somewhere with access to treasure-laden vessels, open coast, and trails and waterways to transport stolen goods. Meanwhile, his younger brother John was exploring the coast of Texas. Legend has it that Basss part of the money is in Cove Hollow, about thirty miles from Denton. In Colombian newspapers, his death was lamented and his obituary described him as a brave naval officer. Jack Steuf Found Forrest Fenn's Hidden Treasure - The New York Times Barnie Waldrop. An occasional newspaper article kept the story alive and throughout the 1960s treasure hunters found their way to Hendrick's Lake, but none matched the expeditions launched by the SoRelle . xVy~}F0N13`&p"I9:tZ"-"}]{~~x/ c HfE4sowa-n_?B. 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 . The team has found several people who have direct . According to the legend, the Cherokee were fleeing north after the Battle of Neches when Roper said their path crossed Little Cypress Creek on the property of a man named OHendrick. Since that time, many parties and individuals have endeavored to find the Lost Treasure of Hendricks Lake, with searches as early as 1884 and as recently as the 1970s. Or Black Lake. In 1925, W.E. One particularly famous legend is that of Jean Lafittes treasure. Just another myth? It featured Pirate Treasures. Larry Holzwarth - May 12, 2018. The other big buried treasure legend from East Texas is the story of Little Cypress Creek. The duo are currently working to make a documentary about the local legend of sunken silver ingots in the lake near Tatum. Jean Laffite's treasure in the Sabine River - Lone star treasure We'll send you a couple of emails per month, filled with fascinating history facts that you can share with your friends. The oilmen then built a raft with a hole in the center and sank large pipes into the goop on the lake bottom. The desire to believe that millions of dollars of silver bars still lie at the bottom of Hendricks Lake is not for the treasure hunters only. The lake is located in the extreme northeastern part of the county along the boundary between Rusk and Panola. Read More about Jean Laffites treasure in the Sabine River, USS Hatteras (formerly St. Mary) was a 1,126-ton steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the early part of the American Civil War. This is the place where six wagon loads of silver stolen by Jean Lafitte from a ship called the Santa Rosa were supposedly dumped, according to HendricksLake.com, a website run by author and independent researcher, Gary L. Pinkerton. The film will center around local lore of a lost treasure of $2 million in silver ingots said to have been stolen by French pirate Jean Laffite and hidden by smugglers in Hendricks Lake, a. Two oilmen from Texas actually brought a giant crane to the lake after getting some interesting readings from the bottom of Hendricks Lake. In this work you will find what I hope you found in my first book solid, thorough research and a story with which we can all connect.