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In a strange twist of fate, this Fontaine family missed out on the gold, so did another member of the Fontaine family but of a different type of gold. Foot's Creek, which runs into the Rouge is just south of the town of Rouge River where I was born. The river empties into Coos Bay on the coast where Steven Fontaine the Olympic runner was born. In 1972, he came in fourth in the Olympics but was considered a heavy favorite for the gold in 1976 when he tragically died in a car accident. His car was a gold MGB, I think, which is another irony. He was only 24. The Fontaine Track Meet in Eugene, Oregon is world famous. Another early name for Rouge River was 'Hang Tail", the legend being a man fell into the swift Rouge but saved his life by miraculously hanging on to his horse's tail.
I know of a couple spots here that have been dug up and went thru in search of treasure. One fella who brought in all kinds of tractors and heavy machinery and dug up his whole pasture because "he had a hunch". Not sure if he ever found anything besides tons of red dirt or not
For those who interested in gold , Gold is formed in many things that when u see maby u will not notice that is gold … it just need to be under some process to get the clean gold … just learn that process … the old arabs already write books about it ,, they was so good in that process,,, just learn from the old arabs books ….
It’s like how in the past people wrote I was born in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and five for example. Writing can be poetic or mimic some periods of time but most often it probably is from a certain time period.
Enjoyed this episode, I’ve been in that area hunting mule deer and some areas on shear cliffs and rock outcrops would be perfect areas for lost treasures such as these silver ingots. Thanks!
I was told a story of a man who in 1972 was a silver coin collector he lived next to the river when a storm called agnus came through and flood our town wiped out that man's house he lost it all. It was all in cans and jars. well it was October 5th 2022 a friend and i went down to the river looking for our chance at luck., I left him and started walking down the river bed with my detector swinging as I'm look for a path to get out of the river and up were them houses once stood as I was climbing I felt some real bad pain in my knee I tore something in my knee I was in a lot of pain I started yelling for my friend but he couldn't hear me I was to fare away from him so I stated using my shovel and detector as crutches as i was walking i was still swinging and a great big tone screaming high tone so i got down and i cut open a plug and stuck the pin pointer in the hole it was right there i grabbed it look like it was a stone it was a bank i was in shock i filled in the hole and started back toward my friend yelling for him in pain and in excitement after about 7 minutes I found him i showed him the bank and said its full of coins and i have to go im hurt .. he made me wait a hour before he took me home.. 24 silver coins 34 clad the oldest was a 1884s morgan dollar 1 walker 1 1964 Kennedy 20 40 % Kennedy half dollars. check out the short videos on my channel
It’s funny how some say pirates have ill gotten gains. It’s like if the government gave you a license for piracy then it was legal. Super corrupt that if you got a license for piracy then the gains are not ill gotten but legal.
One thing that is common in treasure stories, We found something but had to leave, and couldn't get back to dig it up. I've driven six hours to return to places I was metal detecting at. I got a Barber dime and a few Indian head pennies. And thought it well worth the time.
Well I know one story of a guy finding a cave in a snow storm and marked the place to come back when he left the next day as there was gold in the cave. You’d think it’s fake but the guys son actually says for decades the family went camping In that same area looking for a cave. Like if actions of people continue to look for it it’s probably real that they actually found something but can’t find it again
Well that’s because in those days the dangers were off the charts. I’ve found tons of gold I’m self made billionaire from making finds globally. Look at banner on channel. You do know that buried caches are buried at a depth of two feet deep or more. A normal metal detector can only do inches under the ground. That’s why you only finds coins dropped out of pockets. You need a $3k metal detector to find caches or else you won’t find a thing. I decrypt maps and extract information out of stories and go right to locations. Most of my work is done from a chair with world class research. People do 10% research and 90% guessing at different random places. While I do 90% research and connections, and 10% is traveling there with some manual labor and I find dead bodies on the scene and caches. The real Indiana jones way
I looked at the map. If it was nearing dusk after they left cooperton or late in the day they shouldn’t have gone through the mountains but stuck to the plain as walking flat ground is way easier and faster then hills or mountains.
I live in the U.S. I’ve seen the “fairly peaceful” protests with cities on fire or the tent cities with public defecation. The U.S. is a third world country in some parts with rolling black outs while parts of Mexico is modern. There’s quite a few cities in Mexico that are like refugee spots of American citizens retiring down there. Then ya got the nice resort towns. Ya I do believe Milton Friedman though. If drugs were legal violence would go down and mexico would benefit from the tax revenue. The biggest problem if Mexico legalizes drugs is it’d make American politics and military mad at them.
Having spent 3 years with "gold fever" using at first pans, then a sluice box, and finally a dredge I can tell you that it is a lot of work for little payback. The big nugget is like winning the lottery. They are few and far between. It's said that 1/10 of the gold in the Mother Lode (where I might add I currently live) has been found. So it's out there and if you should get the fever, keep looking. After all, how much fun can it be spending the day upside down in the river? The narrator should look into the pronunciation of the river names. He's gotten most of them wrong.
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Finding treasure is like trying to find Bigfoot or Nessie (the greatest loch monster in the world). It's very rare people find treasure 🪙 and its cursed.
