AMAZING Lost Treasures That Were NEVER Found!

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seeking adventure and gold get out your hiking boots and shovel because here are six treasures that can still be found [Music] number six the treasure of the Knights Templar after the fall of the Holy Land to the Muslims in 1187 and the failure of the Crusades the Knights Templar lost its founding purpose the religious order of warrior monks was now seen as a threat due to their wealth and political power in 1302 the Knights Templar were accused of heresy by King Philip the fourth of France and later were officially ordered to disband by Pope Clement v on Friday October 13 1307 french templar knights were arrested tortured and killed our modern-day unlucky Friday the 13th is related to this event the Knights who survived went underground taking many treasures and religious relics with them legend has it that many escaped Scotland with their riches Templar sympathizers supposedly helped hide the Knights treasures under a chapel until the new world was discovered descendents of the Templar fled to Nova Scotia and Canada leaving marks on old maps and gravestones giving credit to this legend there is a theory that the Knights Templar buried their treasure in a pit discovered in Canada in 1795 Daniel McGinnis discovered this pit and started digging he and his friends started hitting wooden planks every 10 feet and the money pit has drawn many treasure seekers over the years people have found layers of logs charcoal coconut fiber and putty among the biggest discoveries were a set of stone inscriptions found 90 feet below symbols on the stones were translated as 40 feet below like two million pounds the pit floods as excavations get deeper so nobody really knows what's actually at the bottom whether this pit is related to the Knights Templar remains a mystery but you are welcome to go and find out even if it isn't rumors are that the pit holds pirate treasure Marie Antoinette's jewels and maybe even the Ark of the Covenant number five Forrest Fenn's treasure Forrest Fenn has hidden over a million dollars worth of treasure and wants you to find it when he was 9 years old Fenn found an arrowhead knew his family's home in Texas triggering a lifelong passion for historical artifacts Fenn is now an 85 year old millionaire treasure hunter an art dealer in Santa Fe New Mexico not really new not really Mexico in 1988 Fenn was diagnosed with kidney cancer and thought he only had about a year to live 20 years later he had beaten the cancer and completed his plan of hiding a treasure chest somewhere in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains no one knows for sure how he became a millionaire and he has even been investigated by the FBI his reputation in the archaeological world is not exactly pristine and he has been accused of being a looter and grave robber in 2010 he self-published a book the thrill of the chase which contains clues and a poem directing treasure hunters to his estimated 1 to 3 million dollars worth of historical artifacts the chest dates back to the Year 1150 and is said to contain pre-columbian gold Chinese jade carvings and a 17th century Spanish ring with emerald rubies and diamonds his goal is to leave a legacy and get people to enjoy the outdoors while searching for the treasure many argue that the treasure is not in fact real suggesting that it is simply a way to push sales of his memoir however the rights belong to the collected works bookstore in Santa Fe and half of the profits go to cancer charity hundreds of people have contacted fen begging from our clues but his lips are sealed it sounds like if you've got a free summer Forrest Fenn's treasure might well be worth the hunt be sure to read his poem with clues to the treasure and let us know if you find anything number 4 the treasure of San Miguel after the war of secession which saw philip v ascension to the throne the spanish were desperately short of funds in 1712 spain began to assemble one of the richest treasure fleets with ships filled with silver gold pearls and jewels worth about two billion dollars by today's standards by 1715 eleven ships were ready to depart from cuba to bane right before hurricane season to deter pirates and privateers this turned out to be a huge mistake and all were sunk near Vero Beach Florida just a week into the voyage over a thousand sailors died and it took the Spanish almost four years to recover about half the treasure that was initially lost although their efforts were heavily hampered by pirates today only seven of the original eleven ships have been recovered though it is believed that much of the treasure still remains lost on the ocean floor on the 300 year anniversary of the fleet sinking in 2015 Eric Schmidt working with Brent Brisbane treasure hunter discovered one of the ships the capitana with gold and silver worth over 1 million dollars all of the artifacts are under the jurisdiction of the United States District Court of the Southern District of Florida under the care of brisbane 'the company the state of florida is entitled to 20% of anything brisbane or his contractors find the San Miguel which is thought to have contained the majority of the fleet's treasure is still missing get that diving gear on we're going to Cuba looks like there's some treasure to be found number three Nazi gold in laketop 'lets Austria as Nazi Germany began to fall its leaders set about hiding the billions of dollars worth of treasure they had collected and stolen while some cultural treasures were saved by the Allies 37 billion dollars is still missing and the hunt is still on after the war Nazis were rumored to have sunk metal containers full of gold and silver into Lake topless 5.6 billion dollars worth of rush Bank gold is said to have been dumped into the water by SS officers nobody knows exactly what was inside those containers some believed they had gold looted by German troops throughout Europe and carried back to Germany others that they contain documents showing where assets confiscated from Jewish victims were hidden in Swiss bank accounts in 1959 a diving team found 72 million pounds worth and forged sterling currency hidden in boxes and a printing press the forged currency was part of Hitler's plan to ruin the Allied economies in 1983 a German biologist accidentally discovered more forged British pounds and numerous Nazi era rockets and missiles that had crashed into the lake while looking for Lake critters he also discovered a previously unknown worm several people have died looking for treasure and the Austrian government has banned amateur divers perhaps what keeps the treasure in the public eye is the fact that those containers are also believed to contain pieces such as the legendary Amber Room panels from the 18th century as well as diamonds and gold worth millions of dollars adding to the mystery of Lake toplist treasure in 2014 the nephew of a senior Nazi SS officer came forward and confirmed that treasures were sunk there however diving for Nazi gold is one of the more risky treasure hunts on this list as there is a lot of wood and sunken branches that reduce visibility and increase the risk of drowning number two El Dorado and Lake Guatavita during the 16th and 17th centuries vast quantities of gold were discovered in the new world and Europeans believe that somewhere in present-day Colombia there was a place of immense wealth known as El Dorado when Spanish explorers reached South America in the 16th century they heard stories about the leader of the musica tribe who would cover himself with gold dust float onto Lake Guatavita and tossed treasures into the water to honor the gods El Dorado means the golden one in Spanish most likely referring to the leader who also went by el hombre Dorado the golden man El Rey Dorado the golden King gold has been found in the lake since the Spanish arrived in 1536 in 1545 the Spanish were able to lower the water level slightly and recovered hundreds of gold pieces this led to multiple further attempts to drain Lake Guatavita one resulting in the deaths of hundreds of workers the most recent and successful of these edition's was in 1911 when the lake was drained completely however a layer of thick hardened mud had formed trapping the treasure at the bottom of the lake so was this mysterious chieftain El Dorado or was it the lake itself or was there another lost city of wealth called El Dorado the lake itself might still be a gold mine and there have been other lakes and cities around Central and South America full of gold and lost treasures the legend lives on number one the Lost Dutchman mine one of the best treasure tales in the history of the American West is the Lost Dutchman mine shrouded in mystery the mine is not only rich in gold but is also cursed before the Spanish arrived in 1540 the Superstition Mountains of Arizona were considered sacred ground by the Apache Indians who believed it was home to their Thunder God when the Spanish discovered gold in the area they began to explore the mountain range despite warnings from the Apaches that they would be cursed and meet gruesome deaths it wasn't long before Spaniards began to disappear sometimes even just a few feet from their comrades to later be discovered dead and mutilated future expeditions did find several gold mines and the Apache began to attack the trespassers the land was later given to a Mexican cattle baron in a land grant who discovered several gold and silver mines and descendants of the family worked in the gold mines until the 1840s when all but two were killed by Apaches German immigrant Jacob the Dutchman waltz was said to have rediscovered the mine in the 1870s after saving one of the original descendants from a knife fight it is said that Walt had the richest gold ore anyone had ever seen many times men would try to follow him to the mine but he was always able to shake them off however in 1981 Walt caught pneumonia and as he was dying told his friend and lover the widow gulia Elena Thomas the location of the mind although she and many others who had heard the Dutchman speak of the mine looked for it it was never found it is still out there for anyone who wants to brave the cursed mountains good luck searching everybody and be sure to subscribe for more adventures and lost treasure watch underwater cities did you know that there are actually waterfalls underwater for more mysteries about the ocean click on the right see you next time

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Length: 10min 11sec (611 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 28 2016

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