by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
About 1679 Spanish survivors of a shipwreck buried a chest of gold and silver somewhere on the slope of Neahkohnie Mountain, near what is now Nehalem, in Tillamook County. The vessel carried a large quantity of beeswax from the Orient, which was intended for use in...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
This legendary cave has been called by several different names and there are different stories as to what is in the cave. One version is that the Spanish put $11,000,000 in gold bars and coins with Indian slave skeletons to guard the gold. Another story is that...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
A lost silver mine awaits rediscovery a few miles south of Heavener, somewhere in Round Mountain. It is believed that this mine was worked by the Spanish and that a hoard of silver is still hidden nearby. Round Mountain, so named for the cap on its top, is about two...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
About the middle of the 1860s an elderly man named Lesuer came to the vicinity of Rochester. He had a letter which had been given to him by his father. The letter told the location of sixteen pack-loads of gold, silver and silverplate that had been buried by the...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
The Fanny and Jenny, a confederate blockade runner, sank off North Carolina in 1864 as she tried to evade Federal warships and reach Wilmington. Reportedly it carried a jeweled gold sword, sent to General Robert E. Lee from English admirers. An undetermined amount of...
