The Kruger Millions: The Mystery of South Africa's Buried Gold | Myth Hunters | Absolute History 

I grew up on a small farm near Waterval Onder, the place where Paul Kruger spent his last nights in Africa while escaping from the British, I always heard the stories of the gold being hidden somewhere in those hills and imagined finding it one day while exploring the farm as a child, good memories!

South Africa has so much history but at schools children learn more about foreign history.Our education system is a mess.

They should give Kruger more credit than they do - he did beat the British in standard combat - every man 16-60 had an 8mm German Mauser and a horse , they were accurate to 1000 yards while the British soldier of that time was taught to value quantity of fire over accuracy and to March in quarter column . The boers would fortify positions and meet the enemies advance . The boers whipped the British for the first year plus of the war . It wasn’t until the British had changed generals and brought some 250k soldiers to the cape that the Boers went to true guerrilla tactics. Put some respect on that old man’s name . He was over 70 years old and leading a serious attempt at freedom from the crown

The brits are also not accused of genocide the boere concentration camps 22000 children died, Farm houses burned and 4000 adults died

My great grandfather was personal secretary to Kruger. I have an article he wrote where he says that the amount lost is greatly exaggerated. The rest of the money was spent on diplomatic missions in Europe. Certainly, the money lost was nowhere near the millions the legend has become.

😂😂 that "Sangoma" dramatization was pretty wild, literally cracked me up for real 😂🤣

Crazy how the British was never accused of apartheid

I grew up on a farm in Botha's Hill and lived there for 21 years. We often had people coming to the farm, claiming they knew that gold was buried there. Our neighbors farmed vegetables, and it was rumored that they had dug up their whole farm looking for it.

Let's be honest if you watched the entire podcast Duquesne would have actually gone back to South Africa in 1902 if there was really any hidden Kruger Millions - there is no way that he would have died in poverty 1956 if there was any truth to the stories that we still hear even today. Thats my opinion. I thoughly enjoyed watching this even so.

I know of a old man in hoedspruit who have found an undisclosed amount of kruger pound in the dry river bed in the blyde river on top of a old carriage buried under the sand

The story is a load of crap. Where is the 42 coins he received the first time and how and where did he sell the first thousands for the Zulu family.

Athol’s wife was a real Athol

long ago i was working at a restaurant next to the highway N4. one day a black man came to me and showed me a kruger gold coin. He said he picked it up nearby and was shown where it is in a dream. He didnt want to sell it to me. And left.

That Athol dude is not the smartest tool in the box.

If Fritz really knew where the treasure was, why did he not make his way back to South Africa to find it and turn his fortunes around?

The Kruger gold probably ended up in America. I had Boer War diaries written by 2 boers, Schickerling (Commando courageous) and Rootman (Oorlog dagboek). Both these men happened to be members of genl Ben Viljoen's commando, and both were part of the Boer forces escorting Kruger to the Mocambique border. Rootman wrote in his diary: "At Hectorspruit we buried stuff that will probably be dug up by later generations" (translated from Afrikaans). Schickerling wrote something to the same effect, but I do not remember his exact words. I lost both diaries by lending them to an uncle who developed Alzheimers before I could get them back, and I never got them back from his family. Now the story gets interesting. I speculate that 1) Kruger would not have been allowed to take a state asset across border to Mocambique, and 2) The boers would have moved it as far as possible from the British. 3) What was buried would not be much needed arms and ammo, nor food supplies, nor clothing. It must be noted that the diaries also mention damaged artillery pieces were dumped into the Hector spruit stream. It could be documents and archives, possibly with the gold hidden in between so none of the Boer fighters knew about it. 4) One person must have known though: the commander Ben Viljoen, maybe the ONLY person to know what happened to the gold. 5) Ben Viljoen was tasked with, or took it on himself to protect the gold, because his commando stayed in the area untill the war's end, effectively taking them out of the fighting. After the war, Ben Viljoen was shunned by the other Boer leaders, who, uncharacteristically, would have nothing to do with him. My guess would be because he refused to tell the others where the gold was. Ben Viljoen then moved to America, where he ended up in such high social circles that he later became a millitary advisor to Pres. Theodore Rooseveldt. To get accepted in that society he would have needed a lot of money, and the type of influence only money can buy, maybe with the Kruger gold?. My ten cents worth of info regarding this gold: It is gone.

If someone did find it they wouldn't declare it because it'll go straight to the ANC

Mr Paul Kruger was smart enough to be long gone and still ensure his fields are tilled

There was no Kruger millions. The Boers was fighting a war,and need to buy guns,ammunition and supplies. They have used the gold for that.

Well currently South Africa has silver fever. Apparently SA just won a case to claim the silver cargo that was sunk with the SS Tilawa in 1942

As a South African, I approve of this video, keep up the marvellous work!

Why does he not show the original SABC footage of his interview on the news....I am from South Africa and I have never heard of this story - I cannot remember it being on the news...where is the original news footage? I do not believe this...

That is the only Man in the world that could Win any argument for life, " excuse me Honey, Who took the the photograph "🤣🤣

What people don't know is when the railway station master of Colenso Natal went on pension years go, I can't remember what year - my memory tells me late 1970s. - The new station master was doing an inventory and found a chest that workers used to sit on - the chest had no paper work that the station master could find - it was heavy - took a couple of workers to move it to the station masters office - when the station master broke the lock - inside was full gold coins - the station master filed out a report - that was the last heard of the chest - probably the Kruger millions everyone is looking for.

This doesn’t sound like the whole story. What problems did they have selling the coins and what about his help solved those problems.

The Kruger millions was hidden in the mountains near Barberton. It will cost alot of money to take it out.

I followed the train trail, they went down river in canoe with the treasure

I heard an Indian man who worked as an Indentured labourer found the treasure whilst working on his master's farm. Each evening after work, he would remove a few coins and take back to his hut. His current descendents now own many chicken franchisees and petrol stations in the major cities of SA.

Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan.

There's more to this conspiracy, because there's no way the Transvaal could've extracted the amount of gold that left by train, it's not that the gold didn't exist but that the Boers had discovered a large amount of already mined gold that someone before them had mined and it was this gold rather than the coins that was the real treasure. It's a cool story anyway and there are people that expand on the myths that once there were believed to be a civilisation in the area that was mining gold long before the white man arrived and obviously that gets related to the Anunnaki stories and apparently there's been reports of discoveries of deep tunnel systems that we didn't make. So depending how far you want to go into these conspiracies, whether true or not, it is quite fascinating all the same.

That money is long gone what’s not in museums has been melted down and turned into something that could be sold.

Nice documentary, but as a South African it’s the very first time I hear of this. Great tale though

Always the interesting content that you don’t often see. I might have to take a few tips.

Halfway through and I’m already hooked

One of South Africa's most enduring urban legends.

What about the ones found in Sabie and Graskop and Pilgrims Rest and Lydenburg and Dullstroom and White River And Hazyview what about the POTS of Gold found there? You guys only have half of the info i see

Excellent information and narration...

I love the reenactments in this 😅

Rubbish. The market would have been flooded with Kruger Pounds during that time. Ermelo is also too far away from Machadadorp. Gold is heavy and a logistical challenge. Moving it to Ermelo under the circumstances at the time is highly questionable. It may be that a local Bank hid their cash around the small lake.

This would be a phenomenal movie

people from my province knows about these caves with coins,but they are guarded by some very powerfull spirits which beats and kill anything that trying to take those coins away,if yu are brave enough come and witness this yourselves

Klomp twak man

Absolutely ruins the coins by wiping them with a cloth . This will give them hairlines wich is not wanted if your looking for any numismatic value

Nice delivery

Ahhh... my great grandfather was a Bitter-Einde -- prisoner of war at St. Helena, and the only man to ever escape that island.

I really enjoyed the story as i was not aware of it. Thanks for allowing me to learn something new today.

He said he thought he was going to get robbed,, I thought he was going to rob them and term it business haha

A Kruger rand is one of the most valuable and well known bullion coins worldwide. Oom Kruger can talk every language in the world.

We had an old man with the name of Clinton, if I remember correctly, he asked my dad on a lot of occasion if my dad would let him dig in our garden for the Kruger millions. He claimed that on top of the gold they put horse shoes,and we did in fact found some. That was in New Muckleneuk in Pretoria.

I did my own research, lots and lots of new leads.

Ilike these type of folklore stories.Reminds me when i was a kiddo stuck up in my grandfathers Varanda surrounded by fiction books of this genre and others.

The Kruger millions or at least a part of it was found.

No wonder ANC want to expropiate the farmlands.

This was amazing to watch. Well researched, written and executed 😇😇😇

That's a great gold story.

greed is the seed of evil

He ripped them off so hard

Voetsek with this Kruger “pound” this is the Kruger RAND

Gold doesn't react to oxygen. i.e Gold doesn't rust. An alloy containing 50% gold won't rust and if Kruger Rands are 90% gold than what Athol's wife captured on that photo couldn't have been Kruger Rands because of the visible corrosion we witness on that "treasure".

41:49 did anyone else notice the Hyena in the background near the tree? 😂

I used to buy old coins. I was contacted by a young guy through my Facebook post. I went to see him in Pretoria in Mabopane. His grandfather was a sangoma. They showed me a lot of Kruger rands that I have never seen. They were Swati speaking original from Mpumalanga. They wanted 2 000 000 in cash for all of them.

If the Kruger millions realy existed, Paul Kruger wouldn't need to go to Europe begging for money to rebuild South Africa.

The British invaded Transvaal not South Africa.South Africa came into existance in 1910 after the gold firlds of the Republic of tbe Transvaal was stolen.

I know a secret.. and I know direct Family Blood line and I know what happened with the missing Kriger Rands... The story is half on par....

Anyone who knows where a fortune is is going to for sure get it themselves or tell a loved one where it is.. it doesn’t just stay there. Strike it rich by ripping this dude off

Imagine the same story from the perspective of a black man-how different it would be. Sure, maybe the white guy helped them get access to the farm, but was he technically entitled to any of the coins? It’s not like it was his farm anyway. Yes, perhaps the farmer could claim it all for himself, but unfortunately, he wasn’t the one who knew where or how to find it. This just shows How different a story can present itself based on the Insight of the storyteller.

The British army stormed Krugers Mint and stolen all the gold. Like they stormed Libya and stolen maummar gadaffis gold dinars... As we speak they are in gold bricks at the London Volt

All left with kruger on a ship called"Gelderland". Gelderland? It speaks for itself.

I live next to the salty lake 😢😢 I must start with the search

Krugermillions..he took it with overseas

Fascinating.

I heard a rumour that the Brandwag had the gold, then transported it to Germany in the 30s where it was sent to Argentina after the war. Strangely enought, this is the least unbelievable theory out there.

My brother used to stayed in Waterval Boven, and he had the idea that the Kruger Millions were buried in the grave yard of Waterval Boven.

Seriously people the gold is long gone now you honestly think for a single moment that his families didn't know where the gold was put 🤔 and this just goes to show that he was never a trusted man of the Boer people and it was very much about his own benefits and interests of wealth and power and more than ever if his family does not know where the gold was put his 33rd freemason brother's will absolutely definitely know where the gold is and that gold will be very much long gone now.

"One of South Africa's founders"😂

my great uncle on my mother's side of the family (my grandmother's brother) owned a big sheep farm in ermelo. There was always talk of the kruger fortune being buried on this farm, but honestly if it was, they wouldnt have had to sell the farm due to financial reasons as they did... still, there were no metal detectors in their time, so it may well have been buried somewhere on the farm.

It is possable that there is som of the coins somewhere. But I think, even if they try to ceep it secret it would leak ou somewhere, and we would hear of it. And if I found it, the anc will get 0.0000000000% of it. 😁

How did he drop the bag TWICE???? Never been so angry with a documentary before

Lets have more Boer history content! Fascinating! My husbands grandmother was captive in one of the concentration camps that were just as bad as those of WW2

Im praying just for one Kruger coin

the ZooLoo's got it all!

It went to Switzerland with Kruger 😅

Cela lesa sangoma please 😂 ngiyasidinga

One of South Africa founding fathers,what did he find exactly since South Africa has been here with it's inhabitants from the beginning of time

Once I asked a direct descendant of Paul Kruger about the lost millions. All he did was smile.

Hope that zulu family got their moneys worth 😢

A Sangoma is not a witchdoctor...that is a derogatory term....

Well if the Kruger millions left Pretoria in plain sight? Never made it to Europe with Paul! Then they have to be somwhere?

Now im going to go look for it. I live near it

Where can i find this Sangomq😂😂😂

Nkosyam spent so many years in ermelo😢 i didn't even come across one gold coin ..

Cool mystery 😎

Good point!

The Kruger coins are still there buried but now they are under water and soon will be discovered.

Him and his wife were the source of their problems

Ask Kruger's descendants in Switzerland what happened to the hoard of gold.

Wherever Kruger is buried 😶 Switzerland

If there was a fabulous treasure, why didn't Duquesne return to SA and recover it? Hmmm Because maybe there wasn't a treasure. Alledgedly, he was one of the last people to actually see the treasure before it was removed from the train and buried.

Nice documentary

What is the estimated amount in rand or dollars