John Fletchers buried treasure

Alright....F*** it...If anybody wants to look at the hole or look for the other cache, it's located up the only creek on Kings road (a connecting road on hwy 21 around Geneva, TX.) I suspect that it was part of the original Kings hwy, El Camino Real, Nolan's trail.  The horseback ridge looks like a horses rear. There are huge ruts in the side of the hill where logging equipment has been dragging logs out of the woods. We cut over to the creek about 500' up and the ruts must have interrupted the water that cut into the creek bed where the water fall was. You can see where the water cut into the creek bed. Directly under that is the rectangular hole. We found a piece of barbed wire in the pile of dirt that was dug out. Maybe that could be from the period. Google earth helped me find Kings road and Fletcher trail just south of that area. If you see it with your own eyes...maybe you will believe...ye of little faith!!

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wow i was thinking of looking for a few old stories of 1700 there were plenty of people that took there money and put it in a jar and if you look at the amount that  joe made during his life time, it is as much as we make in a month that they made in a year. now think of how much gold was robed from banks how much could they got at that time. but what a thrill it is to find a few gold peaces wrapped in a cow hide bag

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Seldom, I want to apologize. I repect your wisdom and experience. I wish I could have lived your life!! I'm really not the cocky type but I was so sure about my research/experience. I wish I could un-post all the comments I posted. I'm not anybody really...I work graveyard...almost 35 years...in IT. I have wanted to be a treasure hunter my whole life! When I lived in California, I begged my husband to take me panning for gold. He stopped at the perfect stream up in the mountains by Yosemite and gave me ten minutes (he wanted to get to San Francisco). When we were planning a trip to Galveston, I started reading about Jean Lafitte. I took my metal detector down there but my husband locked it in the truck, took the keys and went fishing. I got to hunt for seashells instead. When I started reading your article about John Fletcher, I got sucked into the whole story. I couldnt get my husband to go with me to the area so I went by myself, defiantly. Some wild animal scared the crap out of me in the woods and I drove all the way back home totally defeated. I started thinking about it again around November, thats when I really started researching. I had to wait until after hunting season and then told my husband that all I wanted for our anniversary was for him to take me to Toledo Bend. He could go fishing... I just wanted to look at the terrain. I didnt expect to find anything but when we did...it was the most exciting thing I have ever experienced! We were only there about ten minutes and then we had to leave because my husband was hungry. He said we would go back but we never did. I know that I will never be able to get him to go back down there (he has no interest in treasure hunting) and I realize now that an empty hole doesn't prove anything. I thought that maybe someone else would want to go look so I shared the directions. Are there treasure hunting women that go out looking by themselves? How do you protect yourself? And what works on poison ivy?? That is some bad stuff...very, very bad!

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Hello Debo

Please do not get discouraged. Treasure hunting can be a hard frustrating game.

The following People I will not disclose their names or where out of Loyalty and respect for them.

I once knew two young identical twin sisters reared up buy their father who was a salvage diver. They grew up their fathers salvage boat and could do every job imaginable, there was nothing they would not have ago with. Real doers and get up and goers, really put a lot of men including myself to shame. They were never afraid to have a go and woe betide anyone who offended them.

The father scavenged whatever he could scavenge from sea and what odd diving jobs he could get. his young daughters could dive and was very fit and experienced at diving. In all their work they always continued their fathers tradition of leaving a special mark on a wreck as a calling card as such. Some times business was very poor and some times he did okay but poverty was never too far away.Some times when work was bad they would work a jobs on shore  But he and his daughters dreamed of one day making it big and the sea would call them back daring them dream. Years went by their father got too sick search they continued always chasing their dream. It was always a dream to find a valuable shipwreck. He never did find it after years of research. The authorities and archaeologists hounded him into his grave.

His daughters who I must admit could not always tell them apart got endless pleasure of screwing with my head confusing which one they were. I met them as part of my drilling team in New Guinea drilling into an active volcano. I asked them what are they doing in this sorry part of the world they said this job was better paying than their last? I asked them what was their last job, Collecting crocodile eggs in the wild. They ended up being some of bestwork mates I ever worked with. Living in remote location you usually end knowing a lot about the people you work with. They told me many stories of shipwrecks and they told me the special calling card mark they leave on shipwrecks and always dreamed of finding treasure. Perhaps that's is why we got on like a house on fire? But as life moves on and jobs come and go they moved on.

Few years later I saw a article by a Marine archaeologist complaining some one or some people have dived on a shipwreck and had found a patiented chub safe from the shipwreck and cut it open from the back. There was Photograph of the safe in the newspaper and in that picture you could see one last mark.

A smile came to my face.... one last up yours from the Twins. 5 million in gold gone.

Last I heard of them one is living on a deer farm in New Zealand and other is living in Hawaii.

So you see Debo do not get discouraged. Treasure hunting is long hard road but if you follow the advise Seldom gives about researching a treasure legend then perhaps the treasure hunting gods will smile down on you.

What you decide to do with it is your concern.....

Hardluck

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Hello Debo

Always remember treasure hunt with your head and not your heart.

Treasure hunting is like being a professional gambler. A good gambler studies his craft well. Until all the dot's and T's are crossed with verifiable evidence to his conclusion he will commit himself. Treasure hunting is always a gamble but minimising the risk and maximising the chances some times pay off.

Patience is a virtue. Researching the legend gives you the rules of the game. There are many legends posted on this site. I suggest before anyone to runs out looking for them is research there subject well, not just on the  internet but all sources available to them. Some legends will turn out be nothing more than legends, others will have more truth to them.

But most of all do not become obsessed with a treasure legend and become blind to all else. I can name a few over years that have gone down that road and it has cost them every thing.

Treasure hunting is as in professional gambling knowing when to hold em and knowing when to fold them.

Hardluck

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