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

Wonder if he named his horse....

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

Every pub has a guy like this in it!! So he was days into the desert, 48 hours with no water, near death... And then went back.. several days, through the desert, with no water. He's superhuman.. and interestingly, always alone with no witnesses when he pulls off these incredible acts! Incredible, the real meaning, as in "not credible"! But I like him 😂😂

Victorville my hometown never heard of this

Honestly, I thought this story was debunked decades ago.

So in your investigation you're considering the options that a) he saw a ship b) it was a hallucination but not the obvious fact that c) he's full of 💩😂😂

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

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

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.....

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."

Makes me wish for a nuclear winter.

Thanks for sharing

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.

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

California was a place of magic. Past tense.

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

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".

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

Yes he named it wander

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