The Lost Ship of the Desert - Myth Hunters

[@dr.brandileebunge]

This was a great adventure regardless. Thank you gentlemen for this fascinating documentary. I've been an explorer in the Mojave desert with my father since age 5. We'd go exploring out in the abandoned mines out by Jawbone Cyn. & Ransburg. This brought back fond memories.💗🌞🙏

[@JUSTENization]

I’ve lived in san Diego all my life and travel in this area many many times, this is the first time I’ve heard of this story, this ship. Amazing.

[@tiffanystephens4785]

Best documentary ever.. 4th timr watching it.. I really would like to see more!

[@dezertwiki4684]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@thomasmixson7064]

Once saw a city in the sky. A mirage of a small town 12 miles away over the horizon...could see people walking around ect

[@phoebehill953]

Admirable detail was given to the period costumes and sets. Nice work!

[@carlrichards5207]

I grew up in the Salton Sea area. Didn't see a ship but that doesn't mean its not there. The desert is a strange and wonderful place especially this area. Very dangerous if your not used to it and are not prepared. Beware. It's hot.

[@reidellis1988]

The American Southwest is amazing. It's not for everyone. I love it.

[@adamakaru2683]

Charlie, you are my man!. Determination not giving up and go for it the only way.

[@arvettadelashmit9337]

Daddy told me that some of the men he was training with, during WWII, found a large ship in the Desert (that sounded like a Viking Ship, when they described it). Daddy never went looking for it. He was sorry, years later, that he didn't.

[@adinous]

I need you to arrange compgian to search adventure quest for your fathers ship and invite me to be part of

[@TuyenPham-bt6yx]

Should have given that poor ol horse a name, Chuckie-boy. In the desert, you can't remember your name!

[@jkoonce4244]

How many times and places do you need to post this pirated comment ? It’s getting a little autistic

[@davidhollingsworth1723]

Noted something interesting; a map showed the Route Charlie Took from Cincinnati to California. Part of it was the Route 66. Mythos live on. Atlantis, Lemuria, A Route from Xenia, OH where Simon Kenton ran one of his gauntlets. This area is supposed to have a buried treasure. We as people have a fascination with legends and supposed buried treasures and artifacts,

[@babyrazor6887]

I heard this tale from my Great Grandfather who heard it from his grand father when I was a kid back in the 50's. His tale was somewhat different. The ship was Spanish and it was traveling up the Baja Sea collecting pearls by trading with the local Natives. It wasn't carrying gold and such just pearls when it became stranded. I'm sure some specialized satellite equipment could possibly locate it's remains. And while their at it maybe they could locate the Aztec treasure buried on Isla Tiburon.

[@babyrazor6887]

PS: News Papers in the late 1800 were for printing Fabulous Tales to sell a paper...FACT

[@JohnnyButtons]

@@babyrazor6887100% tall tales…

[@brandonhall1923]

That's the story I heard in my youth too

[@DanFajardo-b2b]

I heard that same story from my family

[@aebemacgill]

Desert magazine ran a story on the ship around 1960. The story is possible, and the ship would likely be in what was a shallow part of the sea, south of the Salton sea.

[@CanonFodd3r]

Love that the natives told a tall tale to the white hero and the tale still lives on to this day

[@dezertwiki4684]

There's a lot of documentation of this tale. As far back as 1853 with William P. Blake.

[@johnpartridge7623]

Very interesting Story & well told 👍

[@dezertwiki4684]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@DT-sb9sv]

It's supposed to be 15 miles west of Dos Palmas Oasis. It could still be underwater. There are also 24 missing WW2 aircraft in the Salton Sea.

[@adammcd9424]

I worked deep in the Australian outback and on three occasions spanning over two weeks i saw a distant lake on the horizon. After scanning a map and driving towards this lakes location one day I realised it was just a mirage.

[@The_Bass_Stunters]

Someone call the History Channel! Got a new reality adventure series! Curse of the Desert Pirate Gold!!

[@hukabuktx6766]

Im surprised Charlie found California.

[@iguanapete3809]

It's not the Mojave desert. It's the Colorado Desert and is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert. The Mohave is north of here and at a higher altitude.

[@MatthewMiller-i1t]

Loved this documentary, very good.

[@justbe1451]

Great story i have never heard of!

[@toddgardner6355]

Also abandoned in the Mohave desert: the full "Ben Hur" Roman colosseum from the chariot race, and the palace of Egypt with pyramids in the background... Hollywood has left many treasures in the desert.

[@carolharris2357]

Death Valley has the cave with giants.

[@nevyen149]

@@carolharris2357 You probably mean Lovelock Cave...but it's not in Death Valley, it's in Nevada...and it's giant sloths, not giants.

[@nevyen149]

The chariot race from the 1959 Ben Hur was filmed at a studio in Italy...and the 1925 scene was filmed at what is now the corner of Venice and La Cienega in L.A. You might be thinking about the Egyptian sets for "The Ten Commandments"...which was buried, not in the Mojave, but in the sand dunes near Guadalupe, CA.

[@johnjohnon8767]

I think the ten commandments was filmed there.

[@nevyen149]

@@johnjohnon8767 Read my earlier comment.

[@robertafierro5592]

I never heard this legend. This is exciting!

[@shinycat01]

Cool story! whether there really is a ship in the desert or not, the idea is tantalising and so delicious to the imagination. Just imagine if it were true and you found it.....

[@dezertwiki4684]

That would be cool!

[@Mrz-sb1hw]

Wild goose chase galore when it comes to gold. Death awaits you curses galore and no gold at the end of the rainbow a lephracan has it.

[@toddeaton3269]

A small museum in Julian once possessed a map of the location of this ship along with an account of its appearance and contents as well as stories of it reported by the old natives, when we went there in 2016 the curator brought us to its place discovering it was missing. Knowing enough to locate it generally we took some good photographs of the area environs just to illustrate telling the story, but had no time or preparedness to explore that ravine... This reminds me of what we almost did!

[@GuillermoMaytorenaIV]

Was the map ever rediscovered in the museum's collection? Or is there a reproduction/photo of it?

[@STEVEN-STEELE]

If you listen to the amount of time between it being seen. As the ship broke down. Nobody would see the same ship. With just the top of a hull above ground and the structures of the upper fore deck fallen down a ship might be mistaken as a Viking long ship.

[@YahWay.]

" after initial success, his luck ran dry" Translation. He jumped somebody else's claim, and then staked a claim that he pretended to be the source

[@merenuisence]

You could be a great channel. Keep it up

[@dreamarouse3197]

The newspaper man is tuff to go with no horse and walk for 20 days in the desert.They found a 🐋 in the jungle recently so a ship in the desert doesn't sound far fetched.

[@andrewmonaghan8487]

This is what happens when someone chews on to much cactus

[@cw9507]

Some say Charlie couldnt even tie his shoelaces...bloody Charlie

[@GaryLordsWayMinistry]

If so it would most likely be at the bottom of Salton Sea in CA. That would be the most likely spot for they would try to keep the ship at the furthest point from being stranded on the ground. So that is where I would look for it. Back then it would be just sand and soil it was not full like it is now till the farmers used it to drain for their fields and irrigation took over the valley. They call it the Salton sea because it is full of minerals and pollution from agricultural uses and the water is unable to continue out to the Colorado river and so it remains dead with no life or fish remaining in it. I think if there was a ship there any and all cargo would have been pilfered by now. Oh Charlie that is talked about in this video would need to take supplies for him and his horses/mules with enough water to keep them for months and that would be more restrictive than the food he would have to carry along as well. He would be in a no way back adventure, so he would need investors to keep shipping him supplies while he looked for the treasure. They themselves would need to make a speedy trip with with caravans of wagons so a road would need to be prepared as well so the venture could keep working and not get bogged down in the soft blowing sands of that desert. it would have been a disaster from the start. But here's another way this story can come to a either disappointing end or he makes good on his efforts or is killed and taken advantage of by those who embed themselves in his adventure and take him and everything they find and keep it for themselves; and say Charlie died on the trip, or make up a story and say his horse stumbled and he fell and broke his neck in the fall. But whatever story they come back with Charlie is no more. I do believe I could write a book and sell it as well.

[@williamerentfro9543]

Charley had this gift of gab..

[@aundreacarroll252]

They have millionaires and helicopters now

[@jeffborgesen1710]

Since we live in modern times they can always look for it with a satellite from space

[@robertryan3639]

That ship has sailed!

[@vaargwolf]

Story reminds me of Lasseter's Reef Australia.

[@TheSilmarillian]

I had that thought hello from NSW

[@Matthew-d2y]

Mysteriously, mysterious 😊

[@speakupriseup4549]

File this garbage in with the lost treasure of Oak Island.

[@3coins.]

Mohave desert is brutal.

[@ameliab7245]

He took a different route each time.

[@jeffreyriley8742]

That's because he was a liar and a conman suckering investors into funding gold hunting expeditions.

[@markgarin6355]

Everything under....the sun. Yes it all is. '......If you don't know where you are, you can get lost easily...'. duh, you are lost.

[@sarahbowman7566]

Anyone got LIDAR or some such? I feel that could be a good starting point and it is worth a crack as I feel far more study of desert areas is needed due to many historians and archeologists etc seemingly have the delusion of 'once a desert, always a desert therefore it must be devoid of history'. Blatantly this attitude and this so-called myth being treated at least somewhat dismissively imply avoidance and blase cockiness. Kind of like was the case with Ankhor Wat and even more so with regards to all those 'lost' cities in the Amazon basin.

[@sarahwatts7152]

I was thinking the same thing! No need to end the documentary on a mystery when the data to prove/disprove either already exists or would be a straightforward way to answer this question for good

[@AverageAmerican]

Well, Humans don't have any control over many ancient sites. The establishment doesn't want us poking around and finding more evidence of the past they will be brushing off as myth.

[@neailbabson4494]

An old television western bat Masterson tells of a same tail

[@Bishop0178]

Quicksand don't kill you! You won't drown you are less dense and float. He couldn't have known that though and it is still a scary situation especially with im relying on his horse in the desert.

[@jasonMMorris]

The Ark and the Dove from above

[@JMgoldmining]

I love this hard story, wow😮😮😮

[@rodfast8196]

But Charlie, he don t say much.

[@burningsandsexploration3711]

This area was covered in water once, but that was thousands of years before the Europeans came.

[@dezertwiki4684]

The last great infilling of the Imperial and Coachella Valley's, which created Lake Cahuilla, was as recent as 1680 - 1730 according to geologist.

[@jkoonce4244]

It was there in 1740 and gone by 1752 according to indigenous folklore

[@tunisiaharvey8503]

Wow, imagine that amazing.

[@thureintun1687]

United States of America is so great that it's greatness makes me want to die for it's wellbeing and survival of it's civilization

[@thureintun1687]

and i l born grown up and live in opposite face of the planet

[@JohnnyButtons]

22:00 sadly UFC champion #EvanTanner is an example of venturing into the desert without being totally prepared 😢

[@whiteraimentevangelism]

Noah's flood

[@leostgeorge2080]

Nice story. I would have enjoyed it more without the drama added by the story tellers. As a man of science, the added drama is a waste of time for me. I always find it odd when people think they know what someone was thinking or feeling. How the harsh reality of life frightens the hell out of some people only strengthens my deduction of how soft people have become. I own land off grid and spend as much time there as i can. So much more enjoyable no matter how much harder life is, living is so much easier. So peaceful. No electric no water no internet no cell service not even roads. Just peace.

[@kimberlyrogers9953]

💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼

[@AlejandroSanchez-z1v]

I agree. But hoity toity schnoberea. Me being a man of science and all. Me so smaaat. Hmm hmm hmm very well.....

[@AlejandroSanchez-z1v]

How did you comment with no internet?

[@leostgeorge2080]

@@AlejandroSanchez-z1v Dude you need to move out of mama's cellar. It will be good for you. Help you grow mentally.

[@JoseRamos-gv2om]

I stopped listening to the narration. Too many unrelated details and taking a long time to get to the point.

[@deniserowley8549]

Surely a horse would not have survived the desert.

[@marypatten9655]

like most deserts. the wind blows and the sand moves. would not be surprised if there is a Vicking long ship out there some where. metal detcting might be able to find it. have to find where the Sultin Sea was in the 2nd through the 7th centuries. some say the sea was man made in the 19th/20th century. others say it has come and went for the last 10,000 years. that it actually connected with the Sea of Cortez. could the long ship be in the Sea of Cortez instead?

[@jordanhicks5131]

No way it could be viking. No chance in hell. It is a ship from the age of sail, most likely colonial spanish or perhaps an english privateer/pirate

[@Kimberly-mu1lq]

why don't they do sonar from up above? satellite?

[@randallandsons121]

good luck getting a reading on wood that is hundreds of years old. it most likely will show up as rock or other hard material, or as dense sand in some cases and blend right in to the rest of the desert unfortunately. You need pinpoint precise locations, then scan sites individually up close. To simply scan all areas of ground at once would overwhelm computer processors and it would be very difficult to discern what is what. Also, most scanning equipment only reads 10-20 ft down. It is a LOT harder than you would think to scan for ships. There are other ways to spot them without the use of expensive equipment believe it or not, and it is up to each "searcher" to figure these methods out for themselves. If you believe you might have found something, :::DO NOT DIG::: Instead, find a trusted Archaeologist to verify what you found, and go the legal route. ALWAYS REPORT AND DOCUMENT YOUR FINDS!! Going about it in an illegal way will not only ruin your life, it will ruin the chances of others finding important pieces of history for the rest of us to share and learn from. I hope this helps

[@funnyusername8635]

The whole area has been very very extensively mapped by satellites. They can't find it because it's not there. Charlie was just one of many people in California trying to recoup their losses from making a foolish dash to the wilderness.

[@krackheadmn]

Who was the voice the main voice anyone know? Thank you

[@deniserowley8549]

Was it a mirage initially when dehydrated.

[@requiscatinpace7392]

Is this guy where the expression a “Proper Charlie” comes from?

[@terryono-ss8he]

i thought the had a wagon full of suplies

[@chuckg3517]

Is it just me, or was that Dave Turin playing Charlie??

[@dezertwiki4684]

nope

[@moonuni]

I guess thats where the saying ,he was a right Charlie came from.

[@offgridselfteliant]

And people still think Oz is a place!

[@bustr]

Lake Kaweah is not fed by the Colorado River.

[@bustr]

Sorry. You were saying Cahuilla not Kaweah.

[@TheSilmarillian]

A ripping yarn indeed lol

[@deniserowley8549]

Why was talon walking instead of riding.

[@jacobcirkel6971]

Maybe the ship is the "vliegende hollander" (the Flying dutchman) 😊

[@dezertwiki4684]

You never know. Could be.

[@danielrutschman4618]

I know exactly where that lost ship is, and why it's there!!! It's right next to the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, which is located in the Superstition Mountains at the far western edge of Area 51. What happened was when they loaded the ship up with all the gold from the mine, it was too heavy and sank from the weight, taking all the miners and mariners with it. I've seen it from a distance while riding through the desert on a horse with no name, but no one can get too close to it because it's guarded by Bigfoot.

[@dezertwiki4684]

Witty humor.

[@burningsandsexploration3711]

How did Charlie make money to do all this wondering?

[@mirriulahwaterdog]

I'm still looking for the camel.

[@bajaboy27]

Except this was not in the Mojave desert, it's the Colorado desert.

[@deniserowley8549]

The ship would not have been sitting on the sand in tact.

[@philltaylor8442]

He was looking for shells hidiat!those he found before he thought he'd seen! He wasn't looking for gold?.

[@timanctil8225]

How the hell would quicksand tear the hair out of anything???

[@dezertwiki4684]

Quicksand won't do that. He was a little too dramatic for me also. I didn't make the film, I was only in it for my story.

[@hotpiegravy2347]

California sure doesn’t mean what it did back then.

[@carolharris2357]

Last year in the desert it got up to 126° at least. The wind in the daytime is just hot day and into the night. Let the horse find water, they can smell it. By the third trip the horse is saying I think I'll stay here.

[@johnjerman3421]

lol flunked science & have never owned a horse have ya lol water has NO smell - horses are sensitive to the smells of the surrounding plant life NOT WATER as I said water has no smell

[@nascargas]

What is the name of the fellow here? Charlie Kloska turns up nothing in an internet search. I dont think I have the spelling correct...

[@dezertwiki4684]

Charles Carroll Clusker. Most of this story happened in late 1870 and early 1871.

[@JohnnyButtons]

There never was a ship…. just tall tales and myths.

[@toddgardner6355]

The list ship is the legendary Black Pearl.

[@brendadion7868]

Oh poor Charlie??? What about his poor horse???😮

[@jeffmittag6681]

My horse at least had a name .

[@scoobbbbbydo]

Satellites

[@polymathperspective]

When a ship has no water underneath it, there is no way the ship would be standing straight up. It would be laying on its side. - lied.

[@brendadion7868]

...the love of money

[@nphipps9406]

you every hear about ghost ship. they have ghost people, animals and whatever, so what about ghost ship

[@murrayrandall2085]

Load of Bull-Ship to me......

[@renatoobungen5401]

Ghost shift 😄😀😆🤣

[@DePalma.]

White Americans? Those we the only Americans 😂

[@nicksantus5307]

has no one bothered Ariel mapping

[@toddgardner6355]

Kind of creepy. Suggesting that a map of the little mermaid might be helpful.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dakotathacker3821]

@@toddgardner6355 yeahh isnt she like 14 in that movie or something?

[@jkw24691]

what a crock! anything for tv.

[@Sketchcook81]

So this whole thing is based off of a guy's interpretation of a story he was told about a bird? And no one has ever found anything? Yeah, it does not exist.

[@michaeljoseph9881]

That's the biggest farce I've ever heard you're the problem is it's probably already been sacked and ripped off and everything like that

[@dakotathacker3821]

uh.. what?

[@JCO2002]

Americans and their tall tales - not going to waste my time on this.

[@Birdie121]

But you're going to waste your time to comment on it, smh 😆 i hope you don't look as dumb as you sound

[@maxortega4690]

I grew up here in the Coachella and Imperial valley deserts. I'm 67 and after 50 years of gathering information and cataloging clues I know where the ship is however it is on FEDERAL LAND and may as well stay lost. One coin was sold for $38,000.00 , the finder kept quite except for the coin collector he sold it to. The collector had no idea where it came from, just that it was authentic. HOWEVER IT IS ON FEDERAL LAND AND GOOD LUCK TRYING TO EVEN GET A PERCENTAGE OF THE VALUE FROM THEM.

[@dezertwiki4684]

Very interesting max. I was born in Indio in 58 and raised in the valley also. Why don't you email me and maybe we could share some clues. [e-mail]

[@maxortega4690]

@@dezertwiki4684 the clue putting it 30 miles west of DOS PALMAS OASIS, would have you by Desert Shores. When the Sea was evaporating/ drying up, it was located pretty much where it is now. A person turned a coin over to a coin collector in exchange for $38,000.00. Which he promptly used to purchase a home in North Shore

[@dezertwiki4684]

Desert Shores is only 15 miles from Dos Palmas. 30 miles would put you around "Clark Lake (dry)" over by Anza-Borrego.

[@dezertwiki4684]

Do you know this coin collectors name?

[@maxortega4690]

@@dezertwiki4684 no, but the person who sold it went from day laborer to home owner.

[@BasilExposition]

That actor has the most boring demeanor of any acting I've ever seen. Its borderline frustrating. He doesn't even crack a grin. "his eyes must have been bulging out his head" 😐

[@veritas41photo]

Some Problems. 1) Did the native American story-teller speak English? Apparently so, but this begs disbelief. 2) What about the poor horses he rode across the barren wilderness? I have little sympathy for this guy Charlie. but lots of concern for his horse(s).

[@zarasbazaar]

Or Spanish. Mojave is a Spanish word, so obviously the area was once controlled by Mexico. Perhaps Charlie spoke some Spanish. There were also other frontiersmen, settlers, soldiers. It's not too odd to think the local tribes learned English from them.

[@jeffmittag6681]

what year did your county gain independence ? And from who ?

[@mawi1172]

At 70, this is the 12th story I've read about ships in the desert. Its NOT a new storyline. Its no surprise when another fictitious story gets made up, every decade or so... 😂.

[@dezertwiki4684]

Of course it is NOT a new story line. It's a legend from 1870.

[@willamsandell1082]

A great story for sure , but who cast the block of wood playing Charlie ..jeeezzz..what a boring visage

[@Satan172]

Εγώ ξέρω ότι υπάρχει καί ξέρω ακόμα γιατί πήγε εκεί οποίος θέλει μπορούμε νά τού πούμε 48:20

[@dezertwiki4684]

Translated from Armenian ... "I know that it exists, and I still know why it went there." correct?

[@cherjohnson5807]

👍🏽

[@03stmlax]

The fact that so many people flocked to California during the gold rush wasn't entirely relevant when it comes to finding gold. Sure, you'll have a slightly less chance at staking the claim you want, but there was and still is plenty of gold in California to go around... You just gotta find it