The 200-Year Search For The Cursed Treasure Hoard Of The Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains of North America are said to hide a multi-million dollar secret. A treasure hoard has lay hidden here for hundreds of years with only one expedition ever coming close. The only clues to the treasure's whereabouts are kept by a map made by the lone survivor of this doomed search party. To add to the danger, this treasure is said to be cursed due to this terrible misfortunes that have befallen treasure hunters.
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[@joejohnson8656]

If the natives were watching them, why wouldn’t you think they dug up what they saw them burying???

[@saint8228]

OMG Chuck, that mullet. That is hilarious. Every time he talked, I didn't hear a word because I was too distracted by the longest mullet I have ever seen.

[@JimmiHidalgo-Lopez]

There's never treasure without curse. You need to break the curse first before you can obtain the treasure. And that's where you begin.

[@modgirl6886]

Never leave a burning candle unattended.

[@carolcrass4322]

So many inconsistentcies but I love the images of the explorers heading through the mountains with their spades and picks in hand. A total seven dwarves vibe...hi ho hi ho off to work we go!

[@johngonzalez2310]

There's real treasure out there to be found. My family owns a horse and cattle ranch in southwest Texas near Van Horn. It's actually close to Victorio peak canyon. Chief Victorio was the last of the Apache's. He was killed defending his homeland. I grew up hearing stories about gold that was hidden near that area. I was told not to go looking for it up in the mountains because it's dangerous like rattle snakes, will javelina's and who knows what else. My uncle did find in 72' 33 silver dollars all from the 1870's to 1880's. Which I still own today. There's even buried treasure in New Mexico

[@machetevelasco4215]

If I go through all the trouble in a cave with the possibility of finding 34 million worth I'll be having snake, bats and owl for dinner

[@davidmagnuson1253]

Thats today's money back then would be alot less

[@michaelmelvin3263]

​@@davidmagnuson1253actually that's the same amount. Needed less back then so they would have been filthy rich

[@thegreenman7]

I agree. I'll chew through that mountain!!!

[@redcircleman]

But why

[@BigfootEvidence_Channel]

@@thegreenman7😊

[@hukabuktx6766]

We don't know much, but we can speculate...should be the header on every KZbin video.

[@beerye9331]

Yep like all the reality show digs and Big Foot videos. We looked, found intriguing clues, but didn't find anything. 😄

[@moniqueengleman873]

Absolutely

[@The_Phill_A_Blunt]

Sometimes you have to realize the treasure is miles from where they indicated, loved the story

[@nathanielerskine1875]

Really cool documentary. I live in southern Colorado and love history, but I had not heard this story before.

[@BlakeLightsbane]

Same, love history, born and raised Coloradian, never heard of this one. I’ve heard that we’ve had pretty significant gold strikes, but nothing considered to be “haunted” or “cursed”.

[@theamericanspirit8590]

None of it is real and it's not history. The only thing historical about it is the fact that someone wrote it at some point in time.

[@drewlanekustom]

I actually have one of these Hall's Mineral Rods given to me by an Uncle that was given to him by his Uncle who was an Old prospector.

[@sammysammy7666]

I'm from the Caribbean, I remember my great grandfather telling me about pirates who buried treasure on the island. First the pirates would have a slave or 2 dig a hole and bury the treasure. Then the pirate would ask the slave/s do they promise to guard the treasure with their lives, when the slaves answered yes, the pirates would then behead the slave/s, so that their spirit would forever guard the treasure

[@hiddentruth1982]

The problem I have with this story is it would have taken a furnace and some way to crush the ore to get ingots from it. 5 guys most likely couldn't have mined millions of dollars in gold and smelted it too.

[@SunCityOffroadRecovery]

Arastra and coal fired smelter, ancient technology that's very well documented all over anywhere the Spanish visited .

[@BC-iz8gt]

It was 300 men

[@clintxxxracerx9435]

Arastas and smelters are everywhere in the Rockies, Uninta, Henry’s Grants Peake all over the 4 corners regions. Research my friend before running that ole’ kock-kuzi!

[@winniedhaouadi1973]

How you know

[@winniedhaouadi1973]

​@@BC-iz8gthow you know

[@RayRay-ex9gc]

Click bait some flying mice scared them off 🙄💯 😂

[@speedingblock8826]

My dudes mullet is EPIC...... LOL

[@scaredsilly1st]

Right! That's about all I could think of everytime he spoke.

[@saint8228]

@@scaredsilly1st exactly! I have no idea what he said because I was too distracted.

[@Ilovesharts]

If you want to be a millionaire you dont give the government a map.

[@JoeSalazar-g8j]

no I want to be a multi-billionaire it's in my mind my dad took me to work with him all the time cuz I didn't go to school cuz I was a shithead so what else do you think me and him talked about what we look for all these years I know what a whole vast area very large deposits and stuff book people want to make me look like I'm crazy like I'm a dope fiend piece of shit father take my kids away from me have my baby mama killed after they had my mom and dad killed come on

[@JoeSalazar-g8j]

I had to sign the paperwork to volunteer to go to work for the department of as a volunteer

[@PlumTeaRose]

Step one - Find a native american who can either break curses, or create protection from curses Step two - Befriend and get them to do their thing Step three - search safely now and find what you want too Step four - profit, and make sure to give some of the treasure to the native American who helped you

[@MakeLuv2daNight]

Cool as Martin thank you!

[@becsgoodrich1438]

I grew up in Pagosa Springs Colorado and haven't heard of this treasure, however, I searched for treasure mountain on Google and it's right there outside of Pagosa Springs. What's more, I've seen the big white owl when I was 13. We were driving to Albuquerque on highway 84 before you hit chama NM, the owl stood tall in the middle of the highway it had to be more than 6 ft tall, and as we got closer it just spread its wings and flew away. The wing span was wider than the two lane highway but the woman driving me said the owl was an Apache legend related to young Apache women disappearing years prior. Crazy stuff.

[@robertblake3360]

Yeah that's horse shit lmao

[@usdetectforce7213]

Pass the joint brother pass it loool

[@BigfootEvidence_Channel]

Great video 👍

[@MrGolfvids]

The real treasure is that mullet

[@absolutelydisgusted3319]

🤣🤣🤣

[@kristopherg4804]

😂😂😂😂

[@seaislevel7233]

Just like a sun dial, or moon dial, it would depend on the mans height as well as day of year to have the shadow be in the correct position.

[@Halcyon111]

Quite a tale, thank you.

[@John-wg6xw]

WHY do I watch this stuff knowing the whole time that it will go nowhere.

[@irahzi938]

All this type of story never have a ending

[@Princess_Celestia_]

The problem with the standing on a mound thing is the mound has to not have sunk any, the person has to be the exact same height as the original person, they have to be stand on the exact spot at the exact same time of day at the exact same time of year. If these conditions aren't met exactly, you could be off mark by any where from a few inches to a a few hundred feet.

[@daidavies6210]

What a Load of Tosh 😂.

[@jackburke1977]

Shh I'm trying to sleep 😴

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

Good luck 🤞

[@Ilovesharts]

Even if an owl flew inches over your head youd never know it. They have completely silent flight.

[@xombecca]

You've obviously never had one fly close to your head.

[@leahfarnan]

why are your eyes closed? :D

[@xikimunki735]

So what happened to the boulder supposedly blocking the cave??? They were scared off by a group of bats flying into them and the owl going after the bats??? Come on.....

[@MarshallJohnson-b8k]

No way they could mine gold for 4 months and the Indians didn't stop them on the 2nd day. Nothing unusual about bats, owl and a snake in a cave. No way the only survivor is the journalist and not a miner or two. No gold brought back, only a map and tales of cannabilism and no mention of the location of the graves of 300 Frenchmen and yet he sent a copy of the map to the French government! People believe because they want to believe, not because of any objective evidence. If this story was true, LeBlanc would have been the first person to have died on the expedition.

[@The_Goat310]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the French government found the treasure

[@died4us590]

This story tale was made up by a traveling man, to muck 33 lol.

[@PuraVetus]

What I don't understand is why you would hide a treasure? Why not use it to have a nice life. Also, if it's hidden and somebody finds it, why would that person tell someone about it? If I were to find a treasure, I would keep quiet and avoid having the whole family and people who all of a sudden think they are my friends showing up at my door.

[@MrDessieJ]

The map wasent about finding gold bars, but to find where they previously digged and found gold out of the ground..

[@kevilrpm]

Great story and video! Unfortunately there are many holes in the story. The biggest being that any prospector would follow the heavies up stream to find the source. Also if they processed the ore originally you'd find trace signs of crushing and smelting or at least tailings piles on stream bends. Not saying it couldn't happen but it's likely someone found it, staked a claim and made a fortune bye now 😉 We geologists are not stupid and most of us are well armed 😂 Great story though! 💯🤠👌

[@Jimbeam97]

The world is a big place and that’s a big a** mountain 😂

[@markothwriter]

The guy who was interviewed - the one with the pony tail. He's a journalist. And he's also a tourism promoter for the local town.

[@RichyDH]

a good treasure hunt always begins with a cryptic map left by the sole survivor. Think I'll create a cryptic map now and hopefully will keep people busy for years to come

[@ADH247]

I love how all these people are like "oh rumor had it that this treasure is cursed"..... As if somehow that gold gives a shit about where it came from... That gold is an inanimate object bro! It dont have a brain, it doesnt know ehat a fucking curse is. That shits been on earth forever! You think that gold gives a shit where it's location is, let alone know what the fuck a curse is!!! The mind is a terrible thing to waste people!

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

Wouldn't that be a "mine"

[@Steven-wn2vx]

I love these videos so very interesting

[@The_Phill_A_Blunt]

Very well done video

[@joelroberts3743]

Yep, snake stuffed with bat and roasted in an owl. Sounds like a good dinner for a family get together. 😅

[@derekpenton3503]

Snakes bats i wouldn't let that stop me from getting to the prize i would go back more equipped lol

[@terrysampley3777]

I've heard several gold treasure stories, and this sounds like 3 different ones mixed together.

[@ant-1382]

Nice story!

[@harlanmcninchjr1927]

Louisiana was at that time governed by france, not spain

[@DrStrange347]

This algorithm is giving me gold fever!

[@JohnShepherdMusic]

They just happened to carry all the smelting equipment, set up a smelting operation and then crushed and smelted tons and tons of ore at 2100 degrees F all by hand up in the forest and then dismantled and packed out all the equipment so as not to leave any trace. 😂

[@d.l.austin2379]

Yes. It didn't take a science lab. Have you ever seen a Spanish Arrastra? It's like a big wagon wheel on the ground, laid on its side. They would tie donkeys, horses, or mules to a pole in the center. They put the ore on the Arrastra, the animal walked in a circle, which worked 2 apparatuses that tumbled and crushed the ore. They could melt the gold and for a mold, dig a rectangle in the dirt and pour. The Spanish worked mines and smelted ore all the time! Why couldn't those 300 Frenchmen?

[@ryanosourus]

They ordered it on Amazon prime. Two year shipping.

[@xandersmith6619]

Too many holes in your story. ​@@d.l.austin23791. At some point they didn't have horses or donkeys which is why they resorted to cannibalism. If they were attacked as many times as they said they would be losing equipment and men like crazy. If they were capable of making such a smelting factory then they could have stayed longer , like all winter and they wouldn't have had to leave like they did.

[@JohnShepherdMusic]

@d.l.austin2379 Yes, I am familiar with them. In fact, they date back to the ancient romans and phoenicians. Still have some issues. Since they couldn't locally mine the cinnabar ore needed to be refined for the elemental mercury critical to the gold processing, I guess they imported it from Spain, Slovenia or the Spanish colonies in Peru, which were the only viable sources of mercury during that time. Now, assuming they were able to somehow source the mercury required to extract the gold from the ore, we are now left to ponder how they were able to find and an adequately hard and flat surface to create the arrastras. There are indeed many arrastras that have been discovered and/or excavated throughout the world. They leave an unmistakable and almost permanent imprint where they have existed. Somehow these frenchmen were able to hide any trace of all this processing and smelting activity. Anyway, it makes for a good treasure story.

[@charliemowry774]

Colorado is full of mercury ​@@JohnShepherdMusic

[@ColinMalan]

Greed will always get the better of us humas😮

[@blackknight-qe9xs]

unimaginable treasures seen after solar plexus broke in the rocky mountains

[@BeardOperator]

You can tell when they make up these ridiculous stories and when there’s some what of truth actually being told.

[@romnickpalana4585]

i think time to time the local natives has an eye on every move of the miners then they dig up the stash and hide it elsewhere

[@colbyerau]

I grew up elk hunting on del norte peak. Thats cool about this story, i have walk hundreds of miles there and there is still somthing new i see when i go I found an abandoned campsite once loomed like a bear t9re thriugh in 2005 or 2006

[@bonnie2057]

im pretty sure nobody will get to any treasure because somebody knows and has been knowing about that treasure and greed will make sure no one takes out any amount of gold if there is indeed gold.

[@butter7734]

I'll go

[@lopamudraray4571]

Mackana's Gold 😮

[@pedenmk]

It's nice to dream lol. Thanks for sharing.

[@maytodec]

If the Ute were watching that closely they probably just took it after the first attack. It was there property being mined.

[@halbear4068]

No, we didn’t then (and don’t really now) believe land is ours. We cannot realistically possess it. Our oral history includes a couple stories similar to this and all come to the conclusion that it was decided that it all belonged to the earth and so that where it should return! 🙂

[@nathenexplosion8008]

It never crossed anyone's minds that the utes went and took it to a lake and tossed it all to the bottom so even if the French come back there stuff will be gone.

[@MrDessieJ]

They dellebritly blocked the passage way when winter arrived so that no one could dig in the rich gold area while they are not present.

[@JoeSalazar-g8j]

yeah I grabbed the the owl when we were on another special hunt

[@keithmiller6277]

Louis L'Amour wrote a novel based on this treasure...called Treasure Mountain. There is much treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains. Maybe God doesn't want it found.

[@scottyfox6376]

3-4 months of digging with pick & shovels & they find enough gold to somehow smelter into say a dozen plus bars of pure gold. You would have to be smelting alot of gold nuggets & shovel fulls of large gold veins from the granite. The story doesn't say they were sluicing the gold from streams so they must have had ounces & ounces of gold per ton of ore to crush & separate without the logistics of say hauling & using large quantities of cyanide on the finely crushed ore. It doesn't add up to me tbh.

[@Bkc-my4rm]

Whoever posted this needs to get in touch with me. I found one location and possibly know a second.

[@kathycondon4734]

So he says,(he knows the location of the burial mound!!)

[@charlescurtis-n5l]

The chamber was empty because somebody servived out of the 3000😂

[@az-mattgeorge3535]

Ill go

[@benjaminkitaura498]

The treasure mountain is actually in Canada…….that’s why they have not found it yet!

[@garychambers1089]

nova Scotia is in Canada genius

[@angrybird9925]

Hahahaha an hour of my life I'll never get back. Such a crock

[@DaysOfDarknessUK]

Thanks for the warning !

[@d.l.austin2379]

The Native American's consider themselves to be the protectors and caretakers of this land, not owners. That's a Cabal term, I believe. But, they believe that everything has a spirit and therefore must be shown respect. This ideology is foreign to most English speaking races. When they behaved in that manner, running around, digging holes, etc., they were seen as being abusive to the sacred mother mountain range. And they were criss-crossing through different tribal lands, without asking permission or showing any respect to the land or to the tribes. And the gold is part of the mountain. The Indians didn't want the gold for themselves. But, they had not forgotten the Spaniard's arrival a few hundred years before this. They were enslaved by the Spaniards to be guides and to dig. They never forgot the sickness that came over the Spaniards when they found gold. They were crazed & relentless. Basically, the Spaniards and their craze for the gold metal and cruel treatment of the Southwest tribes, like the Ute, Apache, Hopi, Zuni, Comanche and others, ruining anyone's chances, who would come after, to search for gold and treasure.

[@markothwriter]

The Native Americans killed, raped, murdered. They were constantly at war and never built anything.

[@deborahbaker4770]

Did it say how tall you had to be for the shadow of your head ?

[@JoseyWilds]

I already found it!

[@Pawny1-r1z]

You will never find it. It has been moved.

[@SiteUnscene]

Bats fly out at dusk to eat.

[@Crystal-bp6gv]

If the Indians were watching them so closely, they more than likely took the gold.

[@Noscams00]

Ridiculous

[@kaynef6637]

Why wouldn’t they look for hidden false walls in the man made cavern when they used the mineral rods . 😂

[@NeurodivergeJyn]

Im sure the natives were watching and dug it up.

[@eddiemyers7850]

No use in going looking for it. The Indians already got it years ago

[@TjentzEdwards]

It isn’t French gold… it is American gold.

[@DJAndyC]

A very suspect story in my opinion. It's more of a legend that you might tell your children than anything based on fact, I think.

[@blueexplorer76]

Your comments are the only suspicions I see. The site page linked is decorated with proof lasting for over 400 years. It's the source of the Great Seal seen on the US dollar bill...wink wink.

[@thesharpiefp]

People die going to work, swimming at the pool, even while sitting on the toilet, and crazier than that while hiking in the mountains look for treasure. All lost gold is cursed..lol

[@Zebred2001]

It's in the unmarked grave next to the grave of Arch Stanton!

[@jasonwillis4819]

The Good The Bad The Ugly.... for those who know!

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

BLONDIE!!!

[@Darrick-f9d]

Hey Chuck,, You've been chosen WINNER OF THE GREATEST MULLET OF ALL TIME... Enjoy your prize 🏆

[@jetjet1192]

No more gold at all. They took it already with them

[@krisztiankovacs6377]

The first 100 guys should have taken 700gr of gold each and run.

[@JestoniParoni-tt3qf]

ofcourse treasure is a twin of a curse ..just like a yamashita treasure in the philippines ..many treasure hunter have died without a reason..😢

[@BC-iz8gt]

Little people need to understand is they didn't have TV or entertainment so they had to make up stories and tall tales😅

[@BoostedLeonitus]

Del Nort or Del Nort-A?

[@DanOre-m2y]

Who Created this Video first I've ever heard of it ❓️💯🇺🇲🤠⛏️⚒️

[@DanOre-m2y]

OK so this Franch Gold is Course who's got the Map ❓️💯🇺🇲🤠⛏️⚒️

[@davidlancaster8152]

You are showing video of the survivors on the "front range" headind to the Missouri river. Problem is you keep showing deep forest and Front Range was almost treeless except for a few cottonwood groves. Barren prairie.

[@verumillic1424]

Hard to find something when you don't even do the research for the video ... Treasure Mountain is up by Aspen. Del Norte is in southern Colorado. There are 102 miles in between, Del Norte being s-sw of Treasure Mountain, not "40 miles northeast".

[@theamericanspirit8590]

😂😂😂😂👏

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

You have to use giggle maps to get the stories results. LeBlanc had a hunch the innerscreen would follow electricial. 😅

[@DanOre-m2y]

I agree 👍 but if you haven't got a map ❓️💯🇺🇲🤠⛏️⚒️

[@FrankJones-v7h]

You need to carry a few reliable riffles and have a mule out there like the wise old mountain men did back then. Plenty of supplies, GPS, Solar powered charger's, Certified Emergency SOS beacon. Knowledge of the many dangers. Plan for the worst hope for the best. All that and persistence could very well pay off.

[@narrowgroundentertainment]

Who hunts elk in a button down shirt? And who decided to dress the reenactor that way?

[@Mostviews111]

The rivers are filled with fish and berries everywhere but let's eat people come on..

[@MrDessieJ]

With todays technology...machines how much gold was taken out of the ground there?

[@John_Corrigan]

Native Americans found it and spent it on guns and whisky

[@MikeSmith-mp7lf]

Yeah imma go ahead and tell you that either the Natives sat back and waited for the first people to do all the work and then took it after the attack. OR! There were no Natives and someone got greedy. There were a lot of settlers that were unalived back then by other settlers and it was blamed on the local native population. Then a "guide" happens to hear of some treasure map and goes out into the wilderness with a foreigner nobody would know went missing and he comes back alone as a lone survivor. That's one hell of a coincidence. If it was real, one of the men found it and didn't want to share.

[@MrDlc1969]

RUBBISH

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

These are stories, and as entertaining as they are, the reality is they are stories. The Native people would still be telling the story of hundereds of outsiders invading their lands and the warriors who drove them out. Unless you get confirmation from one of them about the French invaders i don't think that there's much credence to it. But treasure island still sells, we do love a good story.