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

[@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.

[@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.....

[@JessArellanes-m7t]

Interesting

[@mcmoffitt]

Should probably be re-titled "Lost Ship of the Sonoran Desert". Also stories of a cabin (ship) in the desert full of pearls.

[@TheHellFlower1]

Don't forget Tulare Lake...it was immense and one can imagine.....

[@denisehampton3102]

@jamesgunnyreed when my uncle found the one so of Int.8in the Saluda it was in the papers. I know from family lore. I recently saw some tv show with two guys that try to find this kind of stuff. They went down there but couldn't find any thing. I think the picture showed a mast & some other part of a ship. But In this spot if it's exposed to the weather &is in some kind of wash , there wouldn't be much left of it. In any case, no Spaniard is leaving gold or much of a ship behind if they get stuck. They would use everything they had to survive. Which might entail dealing with & assimilating with any local indigenous to survive. I think that show said something like that from the native side. But there is a museum for Morlin Childers @Ocotillo I beleave that had this information.

[@bonniejeannetucker6992]

Wow very interesting

[@ellaeadig263]

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

[@theunvaccinatedcanadian3410]

Laughs in canadian

[@sunshinewaters5335]

Laughs in Californian😂🤣😂

[@robroy5352]

[@bethbartlett5692]

... but you can't go days without water.

[@myfavoritemartian1]

Now 73, as a young lad, we knew of him as "Gold Dust Charley". 78 goes N/E out of Glamis and Ogelby road and 78 cross 12 miles N/E of Glamis. LOTS of desolate terrain out there.

[@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

[@bonniejeannetucker6992]

It still is magical

[@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.

[@ktm42080]

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

[@joestitz539]

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

[@Blueheron23]

Seriously 😅

[@Vizaya]

😂 ​@@user-gk4be5sr2i fack

[@ramziboudjerada6590]

Thnx for the save

[@Robsmack]

How big of you, to take an hour out of your extremely busy pants dropping schedule

[@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

[@kyleshelton1512]

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

[@davidbrown4271]

Bingo

[@denisehampton3102]

Some one did. It was Morlin Childers in like the 60s or 70s. Look it up

[@davidbrown4271]

@@denisehampton3102 ok

[@WayneCampbell-l3b]

Thats not teue. There are shipwrecks in bogs that no 9ne has ever found

[@10_rds_Fire_For_Effect]

Talbot the newspaperman walked all the way there, while they rode… then after 20 days of walking, he had enough and he walked for another 20 days all the way back. In the desert, with no supplies.

[@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!!

[@CRBCraneTechInspecterDrew]

I literally thought the same thing and was about to write it, Well said sir

[@riskyron1416]

Exactly/ Repeat the route and at least you know the conditions.

[@lovinLaVonna]

Heavy you ever been around a compulsive gambler? How about a drug addicted or people wanting fame. Gold did crazy thing's to people & if everyone else was finding gold & silver how important & rich would you be from finding a ship brimming with the stuff.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Typical in desert and high desert terrain, repeatedly folks can't find sites, "the terrain changes swiftly, particularly after even "1" wind or rainstorm.

[@MrWeedWacky]

@@bethbartlett5692 Has nothing to do with my comment... He found it, and instead of going back the same way to find it a second time, he went a different route, and never made it, a third time, third route, didn't make it anywhere near... He was mooching off peoples investments.

[@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

[@Auntjemmima]

Laaaalaaalalala

[@katiemoyer8679]

No name

[@davidbrown4271]

Horse 🐎 with no name is crying shame 😅

[@kevindillon2545]

Outstanding campfire story for kids at camp! Kudos!

[@JessArellanes-m7t]

That’s a very amazing story … I’m definitely going keep my eyes open.

[@gunners4129]

Okay 50 minutes to tell me some dude saw a mirage. Thats cool.

[@elitehacker1416]

Thanks for saving me time. I'm serious I appreciate comments like this.

[@kk-wh3hb]

Also the multiple explanations that the desert is hot and deadly

[@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..

[@jessejames14]

What happened to the wagon on the third trip? They never showed it on the trail.

[@gerardo06ss]

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

[@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852]

Thanks for sharing

[@davidbrown4271]

Your welcome

[@PeterBollen-dp8wi]

Greats groetjes, aan de pioniers op zoekers!!

[@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.

[@mersmithy1269]

It was

[@AtlantisChannel]

It’s a story that’s so crazy that nobody could have made it up.

[@RoseClairNeverson]

Fly drones over the desert to see you can find the ship

[@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.

[@statue98]

When I was a kid, back in the early 1960's I heard a shorty from my dad about a lost ship in the desert. He thought it was by the salten sea. Yeah he was a bit of a Charlie with stories to tell.

[@johngault4790]

I bet the horse was named no name

[@davidbrown4271]

‘Twas

[@scorpiouk5914]

@johngault4790, it felt good to be out rain. In the desert you can remember your name....

[@RBodge1234]

I think it was actually a river paddle ship, not a Spanish galleon. Back in those days, the Colorado River actually flowed with large amounts of water into the Gulf of California and it was actually possible to navigate up the river and into the Salton Sea. However, after damming the Colorado and all of the irrigation water being siphoned off, the Salton Sea began to dry up and the ship couldn't leave any longer. I don't remember if it was a gambling ship or a gold dredge. The ship was eventually abandoned and swallowed by the desert sands. It comes and goes with it being covered and uncovered with storms. Won't have any treasures other than the story.

[@Joshuamrsnrub325]

Does anyone know where the music from this is

[@kk-wh3hb]

It was the music playing in Charlie's head during every minute of his search

[@gxkgxgzn]

Great video

[@GMZohar14]

44:57 "He doesn't appear to be in a hurry, taking his time looking around as though he looking for something along the way" Yeah it's called markers...

[@flashpromo15]

Victorville my hometown never heard of this

[@denisehampton3102]

From El Centro. Yup, my uncle Morlin Childers found it. Down south side of the border.in the Saluda . I. The 60/70s

[@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

[@JamesDelacroix-5555]

It's not in the Mojave desert. On Google earth there's a structure that resembles the shape of a ship. It's like 100-150' looks like a big row boat. Half a mile to three quarters of a mile from some mountains.

[@Davrotu_72_Oklahoma_USA]

The ship is on old route 66 in Arizona just past the asteroid Crater. It is converted into a hotel gas station but the bulk of it is wedged bow first into the mountain crevice. It lies just past the railroad tracks on the left hand side of road as you are heading East back to I 40.

[@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".

[@Why-are-my-opinions-illegal]

Should have brought a couple planks with him on the first trip. There's any number of situations those can help you out of

[@sheribrummett1960]

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

[@richardrhodes4701]

Born and raised in the Mojave desert needles California I’ve seen many 130+ days. Needles has the world record for hottest rain in world history. Absolutely horrible lol

[@sheribrummett1960]

@richardrhodes4701 I believe you been in needles many times

[@Lori-c3s]

Did you know the Mojave river flows backwards? It flows along route 66 and sometimes flows underground. You can tell she's there by the Cottonwood trees. I've lived in Helen dale and Apple Valley.

[@MaGiCMushroomClouds]

It is very likely that there were many ships all over inland California. According to old maps California used to be an Island.

[@nibiru3645]

Truly, I have found the outline of a ship on Google Earth. But it is not in California for that matter. It measures about 590 ft. long. It is in the middle of an old abandoned center pivot irrigation system. Just some old farm land that has not been planted for years.

[@richardrhodes4701]

Grew up in the Mojave desert needles California… never heard of this lol

[@vanrobinett3309]

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

[@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.

[@bethsands7665]

Fly a drone along the harsh desert to see what is out there. If there is a ship, it will surely be discovered now in this day and age of technological wonders.

[@PeterBollen-dp8wi]

Hallo, een piraten boot altijds zeer prachtige schepen van de vroegere vervlogen herinneringen tijds jaren, historische schepen met wonder barre canonnen en zeer Groote lange masten en veel bier vatten!!

[@FrankVavru-rk5pc]

How about historical records? Are there any?

[@Why-are-my-opinions-illegal]

If the ship existed, I'm pretty sure it's been found many times by now and anything of value's probably been stripped if it hasn't been completely destroyed at this point If it was that easy to spot if you were in the area, it had been spotted so many times by now and would be a tourist spot at this point

[@Sentinel_Island_Tourism_Bureau]

"and all of the sudden, for him, it started to make sense..." It doesn't seem anything ever made sense for, or about Charlie

[@tommypatchell3342]

FINALLY he brings a wagon full of supplies with him,why didnt he do that in the first place?he might of been back already after one trip IF he found the treasure

[@mdiehr82]

It’s not in the Mojave desert. The ship is located in the Colorado/sanoran desert

[@leosumas]

Bacana demais. Maravilhado com a história

[@tommypatchell3342]

like the narrator said was charlie really looking for a ship? it begs the question did he really see one? i personally believe there could very well be one STILL there, its remote enough to still be a possibility.anything is possible

[@Vizaya]

Ads every 4 minutes is a bit much.

[@zerekshepherd5911]

KZbin premium 🤌

[@ericsimpson1176]

I did not get one add and don't have premium,,,KZbin is odd

[@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

[@goldbaron357]

Death Valley Days did an episode on this ship, based on a real account.

[@Miguel_and_The_Microbes]

He had saw the ship? What a fool😅

[@Why-are-my-opinions-illegal]

So the newspaper guy that was 21 days out from home just what turned around and walked home on his own. Did he ever make it back?

[@tedrookstool6627]

I would never have thought to look on a mountain for a ship.

[@MaGiCMushroomClouds]

How about a plane on the bottom of the ocean?

[@stevenwatsham5973]

I am sure Lidar could find it quite quickly If conditions are right!?

[@Robert-t1p]

Word has it their were many more ships than this one.

[@JosephSmith1823]

Now shoplifting is legal in California

[@owellorge1868]

Whine n cry about it more

[@johnnyrebel3340]

​@@owellorge1868 Why when your the only one offended by his statement?

[@URFUTUREUK]

Same in UK

[@garydhaese7318]

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

[@juneyshu6197]

Theyd certainly be able and if there was treasure the gov has taken it by now.

[@barry7608]

Why don't they search for galleons that went missing? I'm sure there would be some record of a missing large ship.

[@DavidThomas-qq4hf]

It felt good to get out of the rain... in the desert, you can't remember your name...

[@terencephillips6833]

Poor hapless Charlie .

[@JB-rt4mx]

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

[@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

[@CalebMcCalla]

lmfao what i was doing too

[@Al-kw5ii]

This about a ship or some guy named Charley?

[@JeffBrazeel-fe4wc]

ALL Ledge da, Stories, MYTHS, Oral Traditions have a Grain of Truth.

[@fayssalbendida9569]

Honestly I just finished playing uncharted 4 and I'm here inspired by it

[@user-dq1kr6zc2t]

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

[@mauricecalliss1303]

Sailed far as could up a flooded area knowing it dries out seasonally they offliaded the gold off loaded stolen from day one someone got the idea to steal it .ship dismantled or burnt. There no gold there now

[@jimweb3230]

A nice, honest way for a true American to make money.

[@scorpiouk5914]

I have been a believer of many other people discovering America before Columbus for over 30 years. I remember this story. But I remember it being a " Chinese" style ship. Oh well, I will delve into my 3 foot tall pile of internet printouts and see if this story matches the story I remember before I watch it

[@TheDonMalta]

is that Dave Turin?

[@Robert-t1p]

Charle was a villain like on. The chrystal skulls.He would kill anybody to get it.He was like the dutchman.

[@c.b.kansan1700]

Dude just couldn't stop making those bad decisions.

[@stephenconnolly3018]

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

[@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.

[@HouseMouse991]

​@@IzzyTheEditor the american revolution didnt end until 1783..

[@Robert-t1p]

The only way to find it is ground penitrating radar.

[@Aranjuez44]

This video may as well have been like clickbait.

[@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.

[@bethbartlett5692]

This story can easily be true. On the original maps of the area, California was a Peninsula. It requires Topology, Geology, Meteorology, and History, to gain a reasonable understanding of the subject. Possibly, more valuable than all of these, the local Native American Tribe's "History Keeper". Always confoundes me how no one, particularly Academics, bother to ask "the Experts". Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian

[@sisiamigomio]

outer banks crew bouta find it next season

[@tompayne8863]

A fool in search of fool's gold... His daddy let him down as a kid and didn't teach him some facts of life.

[@dippinfreshmedia]

Ain't no way! Charlie heard what he wanted to hear. Im from Los Angeles I've never heard of this story. Charlie was trippin

[@donaldperson948]

You would need to know how and where’s a way from the ocean inland! To the desert?

[@getonlygotonly]

yeah buddy. those natives saw Charle coming and probably said some thing like hey boy you aint from around here want to join us for story time?

[@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.

[@launiesoult3248]

Yes he named it wander

[@DrStrange347]

Sounds like somebody had too much peyote.

[@Robert-t1p]

Then the ship went to where it come in.And waited for another storm to come along.

[@Blueheron23]

Or maybe the ship exists in a different dimension 🤯

[@TerryRedding2044]

I've heard of the ship in the desert in Arizona when I lived in Kingman Arizona and from my dad who know about it and on one of my one of many of my trips into the desert I thought I see it I don't know if it was the same ship but I see a ship in the desert 😊

[@NarayanKulkarni-mu2yp]

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

[@davidbrown4271]

Mirage 100%

[@Robo67-24]

Got to be kidding. The Indian said it was a bird and Charlie's imagination turned it into a ship. No wonder he couldn't find it. Like Lasseters reef in Australia it doesn't exist

[@DJL78]

This is absurd.

[@davidbrown4271]

Mirage

[@ConnieGirard-en8ep]

I got a picture off google earth it looks like a row boat with oars old wooden boat close to yuma