My journey starts to explore the area of top secret military observatory during the second world war it was a radar station and a lot of secret things were happening here it's right in jamestown beavertail state park spray cliff and you can come right here and park no problem and the path begins right here so it nature reclaimed my understanding is that major reclaimed most of it but i'm gonna try to find some remnants of the buildings fund from the foundations certainly the cistern which is visible for google maps so join me on that on that discovery and hopefully it's going to be fruitful and definitely very interesting historically place to come explore to treasure hunters observatory located on the beavertail peninsula on kunanika island which is the town of jamestown was a top secret world war ii facility the activities of spray cleave observatory provided a crucial contribution to the us navy and its pacific operation during world war ii and during world war ii little was known of the highly confidential activities at spray clip even today information honored its cares although i conducted a number of searches of various places i have not uncovered much

there are some interviews and some correspondence of the actual person but many admitted that to their recollection of the events that occurred almost 75 years ago they are somewhat vague

so back in rhode island beginning in 1941 and for the next 30 uh three years the beavertail peninsula from just north of beavertail farm and south to beavertail light station was close to the general public and devoted to the war effort and post-war defense while many rhode islanders are generally aware that military operations existed on beaver tail few details have been brought to the light about the extent and the description of the top secret equipment deployed there in world war ii and during the cold war period between 1950s and all the way through 1974 when the facilities were finally closed the property now belonging to the state of rhode island right this way is known as beavertail trying to locate the cistern which shows on google maps because the actual building where the radar system was

it's not showing up this is interesting looks like almost built steps but there's something to the right

what is that?  looks like a little bench maybe for the workers to rest i don't know let's see where this natural type of steps will lead us i have to come back here during fall because i'm not dressed for it's it's like a complete jungle i am complete with cuts oh wow so i believe this is the side of the cistern ah that's so i found the cistern cool so that's the only thing that shows on the google maps
all right at least we have a we have a view the main radar building somewhere over there but

it's basically impossible for me right now to fight the jungle here nature pretty much reclaimed this area i have to wait till i uh get better dressed and maybe for uh fall with the leaves will fall disappear will be easier to access just to show you what i mean just look at my leg

it's uh i have wounds and i can prove it all right let's give one more effort to find it so i'm sitting on that bench over here right next to the cistern catch my breath now let's see if we could

lose ourselves lose myself here see where this will take us it's not a clear path but that's venturing here just a little bit oh there is it seems like a little path opened up here all right

some old little construction materials i see the deer is running running through the woods in the back don't worry dear

Rhode Island Beavertail Top Secret Spraycliff Observatory

Several miles below Providence in Warwick is Gaspee point where the British schooner Gaspee ran aground in 1772 and the fire deliberately set by the American revolutionaries caused explosion which scattered debris and artifacts all over the beach, again it is located about seven miles south of Providence on the west side of Narragansett Bay the beach and this area has been turning up small artifacts and treasures from the wreck of the British schooner Gaspee that ran the ground in 1772 it was then attacked and overcome by Patriots and then it was also set on fire and that was believed by many the beginning of the revolution.

-and here in Cranston, RI Still Cove is where the captain of Gaspee was dragged on the shore

Gaspee Point Treasure Hunting in Warwick, Rhode Island

i am in front of hunting city trail um i'm in the search for the lost gomes town in smithfield rhode island called hampton city it's been occupied during colonial times the last known occupant died i believe is in 18 late 1800s so it is very interesting place mystery surrounds it it's not in town register so i will try to uncover it get as much information and hopefully it will turn out to be interesting area for treasure hunters so let's go this is my second attempt to find that city as you can see it's just a small little trail of i will give you the directions later but as you can see it's just a small trail it's called hampton city trail there's two of them there uh it's right before strasino rocky hill road but i will give you the directions later on so let's go and see what this is all about
let's see what's on the left side here
so here we are in the ghost town in rhode island uh that most people don't know about and uh you know rumor has it that this colonial area era ghost town uh once existed and served quite a purpose there are different versions one says that most people here were run away slaves or people with certain afflictions but we do know that it contained a lot of good useful professions for that era such as shoemakers tanners uh and so forth so this town is called hampton city of course and it's known to locals as lost city to the locals i mean in smithfield so it was a small mostly farming town and it was uh isolated kind of from the main town of smithfield and certainly from the rest of rhode island the exact the dates of when the town started is not known but we know it's around 1776.
and we know that the town existed until right before 1900 the last resident i think was mr henton died in right before 1900.

so it kind of disappeared after that it was in decline for for for a number of years already and i think it's due to the progress to the fact that their new roads were being built and it diverted the business away from them the main families that were the original families that basically created these communities this community were hunting shippies and paints so as you can see we're walking through there are uh many human activities uh there and we know that there are stone foundations uh i know there is a burial site somewhere uh we'll get to that as well hopefully we'll find it and we'll find some some sellers a very interesting time

this is getting interesting

i don't want to fall into some sort of old well

or a cellar be careful moving around here but that looks like

old

structures

interesting

looks like

it was a bunch of structures around close to each other

let's see what's

going on over there that is uh

a little bit more

looks like a up

and there's a hole

whoa

this is interesting

human activities from long time ago apparently this town was a thriving town full of professionals those days tanners uh shoemakers apparently and and other professions that were useful at that time it was driving and then apparently times got very harsh i don't know dude probably to the modern progress buildup of roads

i can see back further down one place after another completely taken over by nature what's this looks like a little

tiny house

huh that's interesting isn't that cool

right behind me

looks like some animal dig up a hole over there

so let's continue on that trail and i don't know exactly how long it is maybe 45 minutes or so walking distance but i will keep my eyes open when it structures any human activities to the right
i know they talk about this hampton city as a haunted city they hear noises people talking
uh so we'll see if i hear anything i'll let you know i venture to the side and i see almost everywhere human activity looks like there's a little puff going through the side let's continue
let's see where it will take us well this is there's almost no blush here because in the other places there's the brush is fairly thick it would

Ghost Town Hanton City - Rhode Island

so i definitely came to uh some sort of clearing and looks like a partial stone wall box that's the problem this is pretty big clearing here right in the middle of the woods looks like that wall strong wall continues further here this would be very interesting place to search with the metal detector
there's a clear puff here as well interesting let's go this way a little bit further honestly i don't know where i am right now i think i would have to go back to hit some sort of hit my main trail but i'm not quite sure looks like there is a little remnants of the stall wall stone wall here backs are getting worse i'm getting more sweaty maybe this way so there's definitely human activity over there
let's keep going there's a depression here with some sort of rock formations around it i'm not sure
what was here but it looks like former human activity again would be a good area to search
i'm going completely through the woods not sure where i'm heading i'm not sure where i am to be honest there's a bit of a clearing here let's continue here not sure which way he'd go back and how i'm gonna go back but i'm hoping state of line is small enough that i will eventually reach
somewhere i just hope i'm not going to meet the bear or some other creature that's bigger than me this is a spooky place i have to say i have to admit pretty dark tons of bugs and uh it looks like a
bed of a stream maybe that's why there's so many bugs here i gotta get out of here oh what's this
this is bugs are killing me i continue on the trail and i see on the right a stone wall so let's get it closer now that's a definite nice looking stone wall here let's continue see where it leads us
there's a little depression here it's not a good time definitely during the fall it's better to come here
here this would be a such a nice area to explore that's what it ends let's continue further in
see where it will take us there's a definite over here there's another stone wall i can see in a little bit of distance from me let's check that area as well looks like there was a little stream that's why there's so many bugs but this is this looks like there was some sort of settlements some construct some housing probably  this area is a little more clear but there you go there is another stone wall right here and i see further down the stone wall continues okay then let's go let's go further down
and explore as i can see the stonewall definitely splits this one goes to the right and this one goes to the left it's interesting so i think i found definitely a place where they lived you can see the stone wall here splits to the left and continues further down and then there is a hill let's go up to here let's see what's going on over there so i am on top of the hill and as you can see down there there's a stone wall i can tell there's a lot of human activities there used to be there's a lot of rocks so there's a little buffalo trail here that i'm gonna use to see if i can find something well there's a this hill actually continues further up okay so let's go further up and see what we can find over there
but i see a lot of timber here it's definite definite human activity from long time ago well i'm on top of the hill i don't really see anything super interesting although there is pretty much everything here is reclaimed by mother nature but i'm gonna go down the hill across that wall stone wall and see if i can follow it  whoa there is a pretty steep decline over here let's go this way ah i'm gonna try to reach that stone wall uh but i'm gonna go this way coming to another fairly spooky place i have to say quite interesting just take a look it's very quiet i don't really hear birds chipping here
there's a big rock formation

Ghost Town Hanton City - Rhode Island Part II

A band of native americans nipmacs attacked and destroyed groton during king philip's war in 1676.
many men women and children were killed here and it is said that the ghostly screams of those killed can still be heard if one listens closely there is a native american legend in hotfield close by that uh in 1675 over 800 native americans were slaughtered here and the woman who supposedly betrayed them was drawn to dogs who tore her apart native american attacks caused the town eventually to be abandoned in 1670 but it was repopulated later on it is a very sad story one after another but it is a great place to explore hingham massachusetts so in hingham there are remains of a settler for details of exactly where this fort is are very vague however for diligent treasure hunter nothing is impossible if you figure out where this fort was located i cannot tell you the the rewards you might you might have from that research

holyoke massachusetts

In holyoke  men many native americans arrowheads have been discovered so it's a great place to explore as well

now

uh dinosaur trucks again they seem to be everywhere but here the dinosaur trucks have been discovered on the west bank of connecticut river and those trucks are over 150 million years old so check them out

lakeville massachusetts lakeville is the site of a native american village as well as burial ground um lancaster another town was actually attacked during king philip's war so those places again are are very interesting and should be

checked out should be uh it's a good place to explore now the town of hannington in massachusetts was also a skirmish site

in chase rebellion salisbury beach massachusetts the schooner jenny m carter wrecked of salisbury beach in 1894 actually grace ledge is also known as salisbury pinnacle and so there goes the legend a very good clue for us that about 175 thousand dollars was buried in salisbury

the details however are fairly vague

as far as what exactly or who buried that ipswich bay

massachusetts the schooner mexican wrecked at ipswich bay in 1890 and coins were found washed ashore west lanesboro massachusetts

so in west lanesboro baker's quarry cave is located and it is a marble cave so the solid marble cave is considered one of the most beautiful caves in new england

along the border of massachusetts and new york there are three caves in the so-called taconic range and the reason why i'm referring to them is because they were used by counterfeiters

and especially the one near lanesboro

on the western shoulder of a constitutional hill

the names of the caves are crevice cave counterfeiters cave and belcher's cave

the road that leads to those caves is called silver street because of obviously the fake silver coins that were produced there now counterfeiters cave is very interesting because there is a 75 foot tall waterfall which guards the entrance to that cave now the cave actually crumbled and it's inaccessible right now and it's considered the lost cave

located in pittsfield state forest now in 1890s counterfeiters used to melt silver uh to make their fake coins uh and during a flood a slob of rock fell over the entrance of the cave and it is possible that there still might be fake silver coins left in the cave

now crevice cave is basically a one large opening above a brook

constitutional hell got its name from the historical speech given there by jonathan smith which is said to change the history of massachusetts adopting a national convention belcher's cave is a 30 feet long cave located on bang hill

now this cave is especially of interest because

this was the cave where the most brazen counterfeiters and the most important counterfeiters at that time in new england history worked there this is where they set up shop it is where the fake money was made and they actually named it for the leader of the group gail belcher fake coins dated 1834

Groton - Berkshire Cave - Hatfield - Hingham - Holyoke - Ipswich Bay  - Salisbury Beach

lowminster or leominster massachusetts native americans relics have been found in leominster and there is also a claim to this town that it is a landing site of vikings lynn massachusetts lin was

settled in 1629 and actually is named after a famous britain

meaning the place of spreading waters lynn beach was the place where the native americans guarded to prove the skill and the strength and it is also a site where many shipwrecks uh occurred not only the park vernon in 1859 or the english merchant man pembroke in 1766

that ship along carried 200 000 sterling in silver coins and the coin still can be found on the beach after a high tide or a large ocean storm

dungeon rock is super interesting place it's where the pirates

set to bury many treasures today it is a park and officially searching and digging uh for this treasure is highly discouraged so you really have to work with the local officials make sure you obey every law or regulations there the legend is that a huge cave used to be at the mouth of sagas river and it was destroyed uh most likely by the earthquake in 1658 it is said that pirates hung light signals from the latter rock you know to fool the small boats and the big boats doing their own ranking but it is also said that they would give the signals for the comrades to come to secretly hide their loot now the pirate the very famous pirate thomas veal

is said that he has been buried alive or crushed by the big rocks that tip over the entrance of the cave during an earthquake and they say that his ghost is guarding the treasure that to be sure is that in that cave

before 1658

in order to disguise his uh format pirate life he set up uh a coupler shop schumacher shop as cover now view was the only one of four pirates who who came who escaped uh the british forces

he was the only one who survived because the the three of his comrades were captured and hanged

now that shoemaker shop could still be seen as late as 1844.

there are many stories of outlaws who hung out in that area one of them says that they captured an english princess and murdered her there

so as a side note that claims that the earthquake the great earthquake of 1658 happened right in the middle of hurricane

and something catastrophic happened in that spot

now in 1830s there were two attempts to blow up the rock covering the entrance to the to the to the cave but all they did was destroy totally completely the entrance to that cave

but again it is interesting place to to do some um exploring nevertheless many years ago four men are said to have sailed this saugus river and stopped at sergus iron works to buy tubes shovels

and other digging tools and they asked that the tools be delivered at the place called pirates glen and the payment would be waiting for them in silver bars and so the tools were delivered but no one was there you know to claim them so they just they just left them there the money was there they left the tools and no one ever saw those men again

marble had massachusetts so many privateers and mooncasters records as they are called made a living in barneygat district b-a-r-n-e-g-a-t

district and many pirates smugglers were actually welcomed there and it would they were actually hiding at fountain inn in 1722

very well known pirate edward law plundered at least 13 ships near marblehead john quelch also suppose as we talked i think before already we mentioned that have buried treasure here on snake island nearby there is uh an offshore island called satan rock a place where many wrecks occurred and treasure hunters have found large amounts of 18th century english spanish and other coins in that era they also in that area the steamer norsemen wrecked right off tom moore rock in 1899

the story of a screaming or a screeching woman i started on ocom beach o-a-k-u-m beach in 1680 now the story goes a strange spanish loaded with trea

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the yellow reason the settlers first came to the new world was of course also known as gold and gold has been found right in beacon hill brook in new haven county spruce brook is one of the most beautiful ravines in the state and under the cliff along the pagasa trail are the remains of a native american chipping ground where they made arrowheads a lot of arrowheads are found right there it is an interesting that a shipping place for native americans is where thomas sanford invented matches the diamond match company the invention for ten dollars the temple islands just offshore in branford

contain over 100 small islands there but the most are just rocks protruding from the water basically a boring castle more than anything native american name for these islands meant beautiful sea rocks however there are some islands that are just large enough to have some lost loot buried on them one of those islands is called high island it is here that a kid treasure was buried in 1699. he said to have hidden his ship near this island in the natural harbor and that he used it for his connecticut headquarters another island that harbors kids treasure is money island here he buried treasure in an underwater cavern now of course bear in mind whether this was kids or another pirates that was attributed to kid it doesn't really matter the fact is the clues are pointing us there

now in socket's cave in north brantford valuable native american artifacts were discovered however the use of dynamite perhaps to open the cavern has blocked part of the main entrance unfortunately to the main cave

bridgeport now in this town which is also known as newfield and stratfield is located in fairfield county and the native american names which are important are

which means cleared field a battle with the pequots is said to have been fought near paris rock parker's rock p o r t e r apostrophe s rock this was the side of a native american village as well during the revolutionary revolutionary war and also in the war of 1812 grover's hill ford protected the harbor old ruins are found throughout the area the american steamer lexington was shipwrecked here bridgeport also claims to be the landing site for the norsemen they landed on the mouth of pequena river so as you can see a lot is going on historically speaking in bridgeport so it's certainly a good idea to explore this area as well

now let's talk a little bit about something called bristol mines which obviously they are uh located in bristol uh this town was also known if you look historically it was also known as new cambridge one of the minds was called penny pat named after one of the girlfriends of a miner and it is considered a very rich side but very hard to get to and two of the most distinguished mineralogists in that time uh professor stillman professor uh james dana whitney broughton both from yale examined the mine in 1855 and were amazed at the great quality of copper there and led also was founder and the reason why this is very exciting is because led because led is usually found with gold and silver and so everybody was hoping the gold is going to be found over there as well and it was found about 23 feet underground in the adjoining metal by everett horton in 1896 near his shop on oak street uh in 1907 so workmen escave excavating for the wallace barnes plant found six gold nuggets this was on west oak street so perhaps nuggets were washed down from the south mountain by ivybrook there was also soapstone quarry there according to native american legend on goose street relics of unfinished soapstone pieces were found native americans relics are basically arrowheads were found on grove street grove street and on top of kelly's hill and these uh were thought to be the artifacts of the uh tung six tribe which uh it was non-work non-war-like tribe but they used the arrow heads as protection from the ever feared mohawks of new york

Connecticut Beacon Hill Falls-Branford-Branford Treasure Hunting

Treasure Hunting in Connecticut East Hartford-Silver Lane -Money Island-Connecticut River gillette castle - sackets cave - east glastonbury ct forest lane - East Granby, Connecticut - fort hill - glastonbury - greenwich - groton fort hill - haddam island - lord's island - roger lake - selden island - strickland brook

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florida, massachusetts Norman's Woe
it's not a public area right now and it's also known as easter point lighthouse it was a place for wreckers and smugglers and those days wreckers were people
that would lure the ships onto the rocks by displaying false lights tricking the ships to wreck and to be destroyed and for the uh sailors and people on the ship basically would die and in most cases if they would not they would be killed by the wreckers it was a horrible horrible  trade
and it often was a community affair it was the culture from which the saying was coined finders keepers losers reapers and as an interesting side note the term wrecker was used in the old days originally it was a person who would search for ships that were already wrecked would not cause them to to be wrecked
but the term ended up wreckers for people who would lure the ships and murder the survivors unfortunately it was widespread in this area and this is the reason why there was a great resistance to the building of lighthouses because it would cut down on the wrecking economic boom that many coastal towns villages communities so right in the same area of cape n was north atlantic grand banks those are considered the most dangerous waters in the world over 10 000 men have been lost at sea here and mostly fishermen from gloucester massachusetts work those dangerous waters and so it is no wonder that many tales of hunting and lost treasure
occur in those lonely but very important shores in 1899 we know that three schooners were wrecked on norman's wall
which is another name for north atlantic ground banks
we know that hespers the ellen m gleeson and the lcm smith were wrecked there
now we're gonna stay in this stay in this area of uh cape ann
and another interesting place is called snake island now snake island we have some historical evidence that in 1704 pirate john quelch have buried a large amount of gold right on snake island off of k n and treasure hunters did find a small amount of coins
however the coins they found did not date from the era of the pirates uh alleged buried treasure so they were not dating from 1704 so there is a huge potential there
staying around the same area we will go to uh tarpaulin cove t-a-r-p-a
cove uh which is located on the east shore of nashon island n-a-u-s-h-o-n island so there is a story that captain kidd stopped here
on one of his last voyages before he was captured and that he buried treasure there
nation island is privately owned now there is a place right in this area called the french watering place which is found southeast of that cove
in its name for the french privateers who are based there so this is again all in the same area a great great place to explore of course if you get the permission from the owners if you enjoy this program please subscribe like it and share it great barrington massachusetts
a great road also called mohawk trail went through this town it was a road used by the french and indian war expeditions near the house atonic river presently ridge street was the site of an old native american fort which existed in 1676 it was called great wigwam
this also was a place of the main mechanic cancel fire by native american the village name was mahaliwe which is borrowed from the word nehawi
the native american ward which means placed downstream the hasseltonic river is native american word meaning the river beyond the mountain so here the narragansett
lost in the battle to major telco in 1676 so this town was the side of skirmish of shea's rebellion there is a very uh well-known native american legend and there are different versions of this legend the first one is that the girl threw herself off the cliff on monument mountain when her love was not returned now this place is found in the north part of town and it's really a rock cane it is an old native american footpath
now there is another darker version of this story which says that this native american girlfriend fell in love with her cousin

Treasure Hunting in Massachussetts Florida - Great Barrington

when searching for native american artifacts always search where the tribes would meet or where something unusually said to have happened the story that i will tell you now is one area definitely to search a native american legend about the region is about the birth of loon island in alexander lake the native american name for the lake was lake marsh park m-a-s-h-a-p-a-u-g

the story goes that there was once a mountain called lake mashpal and that it rose where the lake is today it was submerged quickly by the great spirit as a partnership as a punishment for those tribe members who were engaged in drunken dances on the summer just the top remained and that is the island today pines could be seen under the lake for many years the question arises as to why this particular legend exists what happened here was there once a mountain did something catastrophic occurred very quickly whatever happened there were once native americans living in the area the mohigan and piqua tribes are closely related by blood and royal marriage they lived on the banks of the thames river in the ladyard region the native american name for river was mashapen kotak

it's m-a-s-h-a-p-e-q-u-o-t-t-u-c-k

this is a mohegan word meaning great pickup river or river of the great destroyers of men the pequot war began the mohigans and naragan said aligned with the english setter settlers and in 1637 war was declared so the piqua village here was called mashan taksit or martian toxin there is a pick-what legend about this region there is a treasure buried in a swamp here and a native american ghost protect and guards the loot there is gold and other types of treasures to be found but the exact swamp location is not clear it could be kappa ko mak or shomo waki which means owls owl's nest due to the large number of owls who lived here or to shelter here and kappa ko mak means place of refuge or where we hide from enemies it was here that the last battle of piquat were occurred perhaps the treasure is in must swamp m-a-s-t swamp must-want covered much of eastern connecticut the swamp is also known as pine swamp or lead yards flower garden only in this place does a rare flower grow a red heart rhododendron the flower has a dark crimson heart instead of the usual gold and center this place in an enclosed grove was the last refuge of the pequod when they were hiding from the english after the destruction of the fourth in mystic actually the piqua tried to hide here after major mason destroyed the fort but they were followed in the late june 1637 just as the flower was blooming the peak was starved and captured here most died never leaving the swamp on july 13 1637 that piquate saitrim patak quak was captured and taken to the swamped and killed it is said that he died lying in the blossoms and he added the curse curse upon the swamp because of the starvation of his people and on the settlers who killed the pequots the swan blossoms lost the golden center and became blood red forever not only the native american coast guard the lost treasure but also any personal property that has been left there it is said that if the visitor sees swamp or willow the wisp lights those are the spirits who guard the treasure workers at the spring in the swamp are said to have found some of the gold that was said to be here and perhaps still more was left to be found the mohegans are said to have dreamt about captain kid and that he was to bear gold on the thames river banks tribe members supposedly found that gold but was scared away by a large black dog or sometimes a pig or sometimes a pirate himself will scare them away from the gold the location of the salute will only be told to the seeker in a dream and the only way to retrieve the gold is by driving a stake into the being that chases them away perhaps some of the gold that was found on the banks of the thames was buried in a swamp

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