1870 Treasure Hunt: The Lost Ship Of The Mojave Desert | Myth Hunters

According to myth, there is a shipwreck in the Mojave Desert with precious cargo, and in 1870 Charley Clusker risked everything to search for it.
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[@jamesgunnyreed]

While stationed at MCAS Yuma, Az I spent a lot of time in the desert for work and for play. one area the Spanish ship is reported to be is up a large wash west of the intersection of 78 and Ogilby road. Which is east of Glamis, north of Picacho Peak. Between that intersection and the Colorado river, There is another possibility south of Picacho Peak east to the Colorado.. Its easy to see on google earth how the Imperial valley which stretches from the Gulf of California up to the Salton Sea which would be the deepest part, and on up close to Palm Springs. As recent as the late 1800's, early 1900's, before the dams and canal systems were built, ships could sail up the Colorado to Yuma Az. The rumor I heard from locals is that there was a big rain season up north and the Colorado was flooded. There was a Hurricane off the pacific that pushed into the Gulf of Ca. The raging, flooding Colorado draining everything from as far north as the Rockies, already flooding the Salton Sea, Colorado River Delta, and Imperial Valley, collided with the storm surge from the hurricane and it was the perfect scenario to re-form Lake Cahuilla or Sea of Cortez. If the Ship sailed up the Colorado to seek shelter from the storm it is a possibility. Another note. If you drive on Interstate-10 from Quartzite to the Indio/ Coachella area and look south to the Mtns. You can easily see a waterline hundreds of feet up the mountain side. Ive been to the top of the Chocolate Mtns north of the Salton Sea, north of Slab City, Nyland, and Brawley (Its a bombing range so don't go up there). There are sea shells just a couple hundred feet in elevation from the peak.. There are also rumors that south of Interstate-8 between Mexicali and the Mtns headed into San Diego. Also south of Mexico Route 20 in Laguna Salada that there are still oyster beds in the now dry desert floor that have pearls.....

[@ktm42080]

There's an hour of my life I'll never get back.....

[@joestitz239]

But you know something you didn't know before :) now stop smoking g pot to quit your garbage attitude toward true life stories.

[@RegulareoldNorseBoy]

watching this at 23:00 super duper stoned is the best Yeah. You go find that treasure desert hippie

[@davidbrown4271]

Are you high on marijuana ?

[@lputaa]

​@@davidbrown4271Yes I'm

[@TribeManagement]

Let's go, I hope I find treasures in the interior of British Columbia this summer😁 I've found 2 old arrow heads so far that date to 18th century

[@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852]

👏👏 congrats

[@RegulareoldNorseBoy]

kewl

[@RegulareoldNorseBoy]

I'v dated women older than that, but congratulatione My buddy found an ''viking'' axe head from around 870 bc The house I was grown up in dates from 1730 I guess 18th century is old time according to Americans 😀

[@redolds231]

@@RegulareoldNorseBoyconsidering your 1730 house predates the founding of the USA, yes, 18th century is kinda old here in the states.

[@RegulareoldNorseBoy]

@@redolds231 But than again. USA is '' older '' than most current European states. norway : 1814 Germany 1911 Etc..

[@erics.786]

Wonder if he named his horse....

[@h.e.floydiii7259]

....or if it felt good to be out of the rain??

[@Scree1972]

I Bet he named his horse AMERICA

[@joh466]

Laaaalaaalalala

[@katiemoyer8679]

No name

[@davidbrown4271]

Horse 🐎 with no name is crying shame 😅

[@ellaeadig263]

"You can go for days without seeing a soul" *laughs in Australian*

[@flashpromo15]

Victorville my hometown never heard of this

[@abnurtharn2927]

Honestly, I thought this story was debunked decades ago.

[@gregpuryear8163]

I thought the same thing

[@benediktmorak4409]

@@gregpuryear8163 and you two are not the only one... suppose -they - thought it is time to bring it up again?

[@irtnyc]

This story was never bunked in the first place. It's just one of the many seemingly echos of fake news about cities of gold and other fantastic imaginary treasure in the Americas that were used to con everyone from royalty to investors to sailors and soldiers, for centuries. To con them into risking their lives or mere money into explorations or conquistadoring that otherwise no sane person would willingly do. Now, it's being used to con people like us on the Internet into wasting our time wasting time watching stupid videos for somebody else's profit.

[@jamesbarfield6870]

Never was debunked.

[@katarinad1309]

I lived in the Mojave for over 20 years and trust me we were bored enough that if this “shipwreck” had ever been spoken of we would have looked. I have never ever heard of it. Not to mention no one low on water plays around in that desert. Unless they want to die that is of course. Death Valley got to 132 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday oh yeah and someone died. There has been no water there in hundreds of years.

[@369RiCHBOSS]

I live in the Coachella valley that's such an honor to have watch this and hear my hometown name ❤thank you very much appreciate you

[@michaelogden5958]

11:36 Alternate Narrator: "When Charlie returned, there were superhighways, traffic jams, and skyscrapers. But suddenly it all went away and Charlie found himself digging in the dirt. It's no wonder that Charlie's fractured sense of time led him to believe there could have been a ship full of treasure in the Mojave Desert."

[@davidbrown4271]

😂

[@Gary-ce2hk]

To continually risk death by many means,Charlie was a tough S O B . Believed enough to risk it all more than once. Trying to satisfy his beliefs is what drives us all. Amen

[@amochswohntet99]

I went on gold mining/camping school fieldtrips in the Mojave as a kid. We encountered Native american graveyards, ghost towns from the 1800’s, and boreholes scattered throughout the area, sometimes as deep 100 ft. Imagine a bunch of school kids(largely unsupervised) running around a canyon full of boreholes 😂 that’s pretty much what took place on the hikes from camp to a remote ghost town, because many of the parents weren’t up to hiking, but the kids were of course.

[@kyleshelton1512]

If there was still a ship, somebody on Google Earth would have found it by now lol

[@davidbrown4271]

Bingo

[@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852]

Thanks for sharing

[@davidbrown4271]

Your welcome

[@TrooBlud34]

California was a place of magic. Past tense.

[@peoplehavetherights]

Quite.

[@nalasjourney1818]

Yes all of the desert Tweaker see this will be out Teaking in the desert with metal Dectors looking for ship treasure and ship scrap metal

[@davidbrown4271]

Charlie mansion went in the desert a lot and turned mean there his posse said .

[@kennethrobertson8719]

Yes very past

[@prusabean]

Makes me wish for a nuclear winter.

[@abnurtharn2927]

@prusabean Where is Chicxulub when you need one.

[@davidbrown4271]

Visualize world 🌎 peace ✌️

[@patrickpeppers]

Ring a ding ding.

[@gerardo06ss]

I live in Salton Sea and this is the first time hearing about this😊

[@RyMoeller]

Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #7 "The Seven Cities of Cibola" by Carl Barks (circa 1954) has the lost ship of the desert in it. Barks overheard the story in a diner and thought it would make a good set piece in the adventure. Like the rest, his assumption was the story was a "long yarn".

[@jeffreym.keilen1095]

I was stationed outside of Barstow for almost four years in the 1980's. Never heard of such a ship, but how the dessert moves, changes,125° in the shade,the critters.....that IS all true.

[@Sch2155]

Love the fact he said where white Americans could go and underexploited. Coming from a british person talking about America is the same as a british person talking about India.

[@IzzyTheEditor]

Thank you! Always drives me insane when British people seem to think they know absolutely anything about American history. There's a reason we beat them in 1775 and then wrote them a dear John in 1776.

[@sheribrummett1960]

I'm born and raised in Brawley California been there 63 years and I've seen it 128 in the shade

[@MythicTales993]

This is one of the most useful videos I've ever watched. Thank you for sharing!

[@davidbrown4271]

Useful how ?

[@patrickpeppers]

​@@davidbrown4271 It's a bot.

[@369RiCHBOSS]

Thank you ❤

[@davefellhoelter1343]

I live in so cal generationally, with family in AZ, we have had properies in the Mojove from hi desert to below sea level at this "Salton Sea" Imerial valley, post WWI in San Bernardino with a chicken ranch, orchards, and cannery on Tippecanoe . I frequent the Calaco mines area, my truck just overheated on my way up to hi desert on a 4x4 outing, "I had 15 gals decent potable reserve plus more drinking water. Yes! I have had at least three heat strokes "in the Mojave". YES! "I think" he saw what he said he saw, yes there really are mirrages, and hallucinations, a few weeks ago "I saw" a Highway that never got closer, then I changed elevation and "IT WAS" Much Closer, but still far off, and a solar farm, next to the Hwy. Once in a Mustang GT 5.0 convertable about 1990? I was followed via a VERY bright white ball of light, no sound for me, I suspected was a few miles away but in a stationary tracking mod, I Felt Like a military system was useing me for "Targeting" practice, "I hoped", west bound 40 from about AZ to Barstow, about mid night to early morning 100% dark. I also watched a stealth bomber mid morning full light of day in low levels south 15, south of Barstow about these days. I also think Charly had enough time in the desert to master these facts. I worked in the 90's at a rare earth mine at state line, and Casa Grande all outside no shade, above 115 deg in the shade. Yes! there "could be" a ship! in the desert, maybe some lost nuc bombs, or bombers? considering the year? Ther "IS" still lots of gold in them thare hills! NOW! "I will" look for ships! Had a boss in 70's Downey ca, Imperial tropical fish and pets, he was a Costguard Vet, bought a gold mine in northern ca, disappeared? Thanks Gary Clinkenbeard! My Buddie! Tried to sell me a pet store before I could drive. after I was a paper boy.

[@brianmurray7980]

What did I just read?

[@davefellhoelter1343]

@@brianmurray7980 a mirage of gold, ships, or treasures? easier to find than mine?

[@jefflangille2882]

That's a whole lot of random unrelated information

[@terencephillips6833]

Poor hapless Charlie .

[@user-dq1kr6zc2t]

This reminds me of Davy Jones' Locker where Jack Sparrow was in eternal purgatory.

[@johngault4790]

I bet the horse was named no name

[@davidbrown4271]

‘Twas

[@JB-rt4mx]

It could be possible to float to the north end of Sea of Cortez to the Colorado River, El Centro, CA.

[@Miguel_and_The_Microbes]

He had saw the ship? What a fool😅

[@garydhaese7318]

Satellites have been used to spot items from space, why not this ship? Ground penetrating Radar?

[@EzraCannon-xp9is]

There's both good news and bad news Charlie Clusker...... The good news is, you found water in the Mohave desert. The bad news is, it's in the quicksand that you're sinking in.

[@launiesoult3248]

Yes he named it wander

[@vanrobinett3309]

It’s a great story but there is no ship.

[@NarayanKulkarni-mu2yp]

Sir please show us disappears of magnolia empire kubli khan naval fleet in Japan island

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was a thrilled watching story....pioneering adventures were more skirting than Charlie and his followers...(maybe making money 💰 through Selling imagination )... how many individuals and institutions ?!!😮 are making a lot of money 💰 by selling attractive, horrible, mysterious imaginations...

[@NarayanKulkarni-mu2yp]

Sir when he went to los angeles did he go to the bar and drunk full mug of beer isn't it

[@NarayanKulkarni-mu2yp]

Sir please show real Charley that person went to the gold rush and found the ship

[@DJL78]

This is absurd.

[@davidbrown4271]

Mirage

[@ralphtaylor787]

When did he learn the Apache language?

[@Coolidge2329]

Now shoplifting is legal in California

[@loopwithers]

This clickbait bilgewater bears all the hallmarks associated with Dan Snow, the Prince of Darkness. The destroyer of people's trust in historical truth, I believe

[@abnurtharn2927]

@loopwithers This channel is often just regurgitating old material they bought from other channels, This video has been circulating here since 2014, so yea, bilgewater.

[@davidbrown4271]

This is a good little documentary

[@Aranjuez44]

This video may as well have been like clickbait.

[@davidbrown4271]

Mirage 100%

[@stephenconnolly3018]

I very much doubt he lived too 105. He lied about most thing in his life.

[@debbiemarquis3231]

They ever define anything on this channel.??

[@deelady53]

The Spanish said they sailed a ship into what is now Death Valley. The water receded back into the sea and the ship was stranded.

[@benediktmorak4409]

The STORY is not bad at all. But the - film - with it, does not fit together in ANY way.

[@troynov1965]

This is as big a BS story as Hidalgo or The Beale Treasure.

[@JB-rt4mx]

Such neatly trimmed beards, must be microfiber jackets..no sweat stains..🎩🏜

[@teridacktaljones4553]

🦝

[@aprils.]

1. Dressing up white men in laughably bad wigs to portray native Americans is in remarkably poor taste. 2. Charlie was clearly a tool.

[@kentkagle3850]

Another stupid pointless story with 0 purpose or meaning.Stories about idiots are never good.Great subject to waste a mindless video on wtf

[@stephenhayden2586]

Complete nonsense

[@jeremywood7682]

First terrible timeline video I've seen

[@MrWeedWacky]

What kind of an idiot, finds a ship, decides to go back but then chooses a more difficult route and then can't find it again? I doubt he found it, I doubt it even exists!!

[@MikeEllingsworth-sc4zm]

Well