User:James Stuart Lindsay

Ghostship in a Ghost Town     The True Story of Lost Treasure Galleon of the Mojave Desert          By James Stuart Lindsay My Story starts 10/1/2008 when I became a member to the G.P.A.A. That's the Gold Prospectors Association of America with that I recieved a one year membership, a Gold pan for panning Gold, a magizine subscription, a Miners guide, and more. Well in the first magizine that they sent me the Nov. - Dec. issue. On the cover was the words  Lost Treasure Galleon of the Mojave, well that got me interested right off the bat, after reading the story I started putting the clues together. The first clue was that a man named Gil Riggs had found a 1500's sword in the San Felipe wash witch had promped the story in the first place. The second clue was that a prospector had came in to Kane Springs in 1890 and reported the he found a old ship near by but when he went back to find it he could not find it. The third clue was that it had been flooded at that time where talking major flooding. Then I found a forth clue in the miners guide that I had also recieved from the G.P.A.A. it said that in Kern county some desert prospectors had found 1500's Spanish armour, weapons, cooking utensils, and coins, so that was were they had walked out of the desert. Then I got on Google maps and started looking at the area thats when I found the fifth clue the Mojave River so I figuered that they got in that river so if it was flood too and near the top above Kane Springs I found it on Google satilite, Inever thought that i would actually find it on 4/2/2009 thats six months and one day from when I started looking for it. I know that this is in fact the Lost Treasure Galleon of the Mojave because there is a serpent necked canoe on the ship,a phenoix,spanish cross's, a statue on front of the ship that would have a Maltize cross on it's left shoulder but it is laying beside the ship, a second statue right next to the statue on the fronts head in a crows nest and it is Jesus looking down and towards the back of the ship , afan on the back of the ship shaped like two angle wings strected out with a Kings Crown in the middle and most importantly a picture of King Phillip lll next to the ship on the desert floor, so I went to California to see if it was still there. Well Ilive in Wichita Falls, Texas we found the exact spot a large oval area with loose sand but no ship so we came home and i got back on the internet and found out that a man named WALTER KNOTTS bought 70 acers there in 1956,then found out that the satilite image first came out in 1961 and that Walter Knotts was Knotts Berry Farm WALTER KNOTTS AND THAT HE HAD BOUGHT THE LAND TO build a Ghost Town on the old mining Town that was already there,then I found out that he donated his land to San Bernadino county in 1966 and the street closest to were the ship was is a sandy street and called Treasure Ave. If you want to see the Lost Spanish Galleon you can see it on Google maps but I upgraded to Google Earth thats better. Here's how get on Google click on the satilite mode and in the sretch window put in Calico Ghost Town, Yermo,Ca. then click the sretch little pin points will come up on the map then zoom in a little until you see lake bed next to the Ghost Town it is the only thing on the lake bed. Hope this will put an end of people searching invane. THE END