Treasure Hunters The Mystery of Pitt Lakes Lost Gold Mine
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2014
- The Mystery of Pitt Lakes Lost Gold Mine also known as Slumachs Lost Mine or Lost Creek Mine in British Columbia, Canada - wikipedia org Pitt Lakes Lost Gold Mine
The fellow at 20:50ish is a famous and well known here in BC his name is Bill Barlee (Neville Langrell) he was one hell of a storyteller he also preserved history and a very likeable guy. Bill Barlee died June 14, 2012, several months shy of his 80th birthday. . If you wanted to know anyting about British Columbia's pioneer days he was the man to talk to.
Yeah the world lost a marvelous man that day. Im sad i could never meet him, but atleast his words are on films
“you can get stuck in these mountains” is an understatement. you can get SWALLOWED by them. even the actual lake is so unpredictable, it’s insanely hard to canoe on at certain times of day because the wind picks up with absolutely no warning. even as someone who’s conscious of this and super safe in the outdoors, that lake and the mountains surrounding it have shown me that they could kill me over and over again.
Excellent narration, that guys voice is GOLD,
What a great video! The mountains of B.C. seem so endless to me. I was impressed with the mountains of Montana, they seemed endless (to this Connecticut citizen). These were topped off by the mountains of Glacier National Park, where the mountains are extra-dramatic compared to the rest of the American Rockies. Yet this is NOTHING compared to the vastness and unspoiled beauty of the mountains in B.C.
Ya Alaska and Canada has some beautiful mountains I saw on a cruise. Be fun to drive to Alaska on the road and tour canada.
The southwest is cool to. The mountains aren’t near as grand but in Colorado you can be on a mountain and look and see hundreds of miles away to like central Utah or visa versus. The grand Tetons are probably some of the most dramatic mountains in the lower 48 for how quick they rise up. Travel is great!
I think there are probably many gold caches in that area.Great video thanks. I'd love to run a pan through that river!
R.I.P bill Barlee, no one knew The British Columbia gold rush like him . He did an episode of gold trials and ghost towns on the lost Slumach mine . You tube it its way better then this doc or whatever it is
I have lived no more than 5 miles from Pitt Lake all my life. This guy telling you where Slumach was is full of it....Nobody knows how far in or which direction. But I will tell you this...the fact that he made the journey but once a year is a clue to how many days in....more than a " Few"
Hubcap _ Truth Filter For You Tube why risk that? Going right back out of town, guaranteed you have people following you with shovels. Once you lead them to your mine, they leave you there for good. Come out with all the gold you can carry, take the year off and enjoy. Then after all the times past no one knows when you entered on your next trip out, I'd be leaving at night and taking the long way lol
Great documentary on the pit lake gold thanks for this I love it
I like how the guy in back hikes with his gun pointed at the guy in front. If they find gold there will be an 'accident'.
dickheads
?Perhaps!!!!!!
OMG, that is so funny, I can't quit laughing. Sooooo true.
That's funny☆
AND this is in Canada, where a two day Conservation course AND a firearms license is required by all, including cops.
Very interesting for people like myself, who has spent time hunting fishing in Minnesota. My father was a man of the woods and told all sorts of stories. My uncles had a cabin in the north country of Minnesota and had stories also. While I was spending time hunting and fishing, we would talk with locals who had tales of pioneers. People who walk in the woods and explore nature, always seem to know a great deal about the great creator. Amen
I’d love to go on a treasure hunt, 1 day it’ll happen. Even if I never find anything, the adventure is the treasure💯❤️
If you know what your looking at you can see the vein on Google earth. Its in a national park below a glacier. Happy hunting
@juspete5527 yup I've fallen down in exactly that spot many times and ended up with rocks in my backpack and didn't realize it till I got home
This is fun to watch. The thrill of the big find, the risk of getting lost in the wilderness. Just have to forget for a time about GPS, TOPO maps, etc...
What a magnificent journey, if my health would be better , I would try and walk that journey, such an awesome legend...
Well even metal detecting seems to help people get out side and be active even if people are older. I just watched a video of a gold group in Arizona. A bunch of older retired people go camping and metal detecting. It’d be much better then golfing. Losing health sucks. My dads paralyzed and hasn’t rode a horse since. Then the government continues to close four wheeler roads and shutting down public land. Or they’ll saw an area is a recreational area. It’s basically closed down just with one main road remaining open. The government screws over a lot of disabled people from enjoying public lands.
It may not be a mine. It might be a natural cave with a big vein in it. Hot springs are great for taking a bath in.
Thanks for a really interesting story.
of course there will be new treasure seekers, what adventure loving guy doesnt dream of going off on some trek for lost gold.......heck its on my bucket list..........=) there is two words more powerful than most........"What If".........
Great story, makes me want to explore for it, gold fever is easy to catch.....beware.
Looks like a great place to visit. Obviously no bugs judging by the guy travelling without his shirt. I spent time in Western Alberta and during the summer there, one would be attacked by voracious man eating mosquitos. :)
Stop paddling, and you'll find the skeeters quickly. I've camped up widgeon creek where they're paddling on.
Well if they’re going to charter a chopper they might as well go all out and attach a magnetometer and hire a exploration geologist:) That went from zero to 100 pretty quick compared to them hiking around aimlessly test panning lol.
Legends always start with some truth, like the John swift silver mine very close to where I live , it’s a legend with a lot of awesome facts...,
Late at night you can still hear them cry .... Eureka!
Wow, nice nugget !! Now, find the source and get ready to retire in the manner in which you can become accustomed !!! Good job !! Let us know how the assay turned out !!
Most people are looking for an actual mine a hole in the side of a mountain but that may be all wrong as the Goldmine could be just an open field or a valley.
It's in the creek in-between those double cup moutains in the beginning of the video
Don't forget that this is prime Bigfoot country! This is their home and no doubt have helped men disappear to keep their presence a secret!
GOSH! don't'cha just love a good ghost/gold story? this one is great! wild country, lonely valleys and rivers, big ice flows that kill everyone who walks on them!
The lure of gold is a sickness that when it get's into your blood never leaves you. the flash in your pan of real gold. it doesn't matter how big, or how small that flash is. it's REAL gold and no one in the history of man has ever laid eyes on it until you did! that sets the hook that will NEVER leave you. the draw of the gold calls you for the rest of your life. It calls you unril you can't resist it anymore and you find you HAVE to go look for it whether it is only a day trip. a weekend or an entire summer, you WILL go for how ever long you can stretch it out to, and the time is NEVER enough. It has caused men to leave families, for only a week mind you, or two weeks, but then they find the life doesn't ley them go back to what once was and they end up spending their whole life chasing that elusive yellow metal. There are a lot of guys, and yes also women who never get rid of what they find, they can't bear even the thought of selling so much as a penny weight of it, that is unless it's for more gold finding equipment but even then it makes their backside clench like superman's.
Well, maybe i'll be lucky this next summer and be able to go panning for the entire summer at a few places i know of. there are a few spots now, because of the drought that are closer to get to that have never or at least not for the last hundred years or so been panned or dredged or even snorkled. I think i'm going to hit a few of these and see what in the bottom of my pan by nightfall. To all you gold fever victims like me, happy hunting. May your pan never be empty and your bean pot always be full and hot. \/ peace
Iman American Man, I don't like beans.
@nepafu666, beans it is!
@nepafu666 Well put.
Iman American Man v
I've watched this Slumach gold video a dozen times with that haunting banjo music in the background it fascinates the hell out me how people murdered and lied when bitten by the gold fever. Suppose they were quite hard and lawless times in those old frontier towns back in the day.
The scoped rifle won't remain accurate if you lug it around on your shoulder as depicted.
Check out Bill Barlee in Wikipedia. He is a very interesting guy.
that guy Thats talking the guy that take you to the teepee petter velner is my grandpa he passed awAy
Very sorry to hear about your grandfather Alexia. You must have fond memories of the storeys he told you.
Alexia Chapman share his knowledge with a fellow neechee.
Are you saying that Pete Velner, has passed away? He was a very good friend of mine. I knew him & his family for over 25 yrs. I moved away & lost track of him.
www.gardenhill.ca/peter-illo-velner/
Sad, didn't look so old, could have spent another 20 summers at Pitt River.
THERES A OUT HOUSE AT END OF PIT LAKE BY THE CAMP SITES OK YOU CAN DROP A ROCK IN OUT HOUSE AND LIGHT A SMOKE BEFORE ROCK HITS THE BOTTOM OK I BET THATS A OLD AIR SHAFT FROM THE LOST MINE AT PIT LAKE
BUTT COULD YOU SMOKE ALL YOUR CRACK IN THAT AMOUNT OF TIME?
that's a good way to keep a stash
A helluva lot easier diggin than bedrock for sure!
The video clearly shows the most likely location for the mine in the first 10 minutes!!!
A beautiful place. Very beautiful place.
Excellent
Pitt lake is anamazing lake with unbelieveable camping .. So beautiful ..i canoed qnd boated there lots as a boy eith my father and sisters..many nights we camped around there and on the island.very very cool place
wonderful
Great video
my dad told me in early 50s it was above widgeon reserve whitch is still there 100s of loggers for 70 years worked in alvin know every inch of that area my uncle worked there for 15 years i went there in the 60s i know scotty and boliou
@nepafu666 trained eyes,are needed
It’d be relatively easy to find today, doesn’t mean there’s gold nuggets just lying everywhere but you’re looking for baron bedrock and it’s probably in a canyon or something but the letter gives a pretty good description but it’d be easy to narrow it down to specific places that fit the description with the use of a drone.
Easy and gold seldom go together
Had i heard of that legend when i lived in Juneau,i would have scoured them mountains till i found that glory hole. dang it.
Someone should put out a drone to look for openings.?
going to tipella there is a brige down is a creek the rocks are brun color and there is a trail going up but my car start to slip i know the way now i need 4x4 to go there
your right on top of it the river flowing over ton's of stone cut gold nuggets just have to turn them over and look in the crevises.
The Indian's gold can only be found in the inter when the water is low... That why he came down in the summer to restock his supplies because his gold mind couldn't be reached because the water was to high....
I'd look at the base of the glacier first...any gold scraped up by that ice will accumulate there first, then when water rises, get washed further down at a guess. Maybe in winter, the water is low enough to get to that gold. It would explain alot.
that's exactly what I was thinking of why he would leave it, and come down.
You and I need to go to this place, I will sell my home and go one day.
This is a good story; looking for a lost mine....but I'm halfway through and I didn't see them pan yet. They fish and smoke and hike...but if you're not doing test pans you'll never find it. Small nuggets might lead to large ones. Finally at 16:15 they actually start to pan!
In all of the videos i have seen of people searching for slumach's gold not a single person has brought a shovel..! even in archival photo's people are shown hiking, climbing, camping, riding in helicopters or standing next to tent shaped rocks but no one is pictured with or carries a shovel?
Nobody realize that glacier was probably a mile or more longer than it is now. The area was probably overgrown now with vegetation.
Seems like old lost mines produce more gold than known mines....what's up with that ?
In B.C. I'd say what's up is what's coming down.....a lot of rain and snow.
Great video. I personally do believe in the lost gold although i don't think it would be as high as the glacier itself as way back then the glacier was way lower down and it would take longer to get to than 3 days especially in snow. If it is as high as the glacier was; it's possibly at the end of it at that time as in the letter it states....."the gold is located where the water just ends" Maybe meaning the water disappears into the glacier ?
volcanic brown was eaten by bears or searchers killed him and took his gold
Look for a cave by accent volcano vents that's were you will find gold
how long ago was this made?
Great story i would love to find that gold. I can't believe im #comment666 that is scary.good luck to who ever go's looking for it.God bless all
Good vid but a mistake at 3 : 35, New Westminster is a city, not taken over by Van .
+snoshuz I think he means the old 19th century version.
New Westminster is a historically important city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and is a member municipality of the Greater Vancouver Regional District. It was founded by Major-General Richard Moody as the capital of the new-born Colony of British Columbia in 1858, and continued in that role until the Mainland and Island Colonies were merged in 1866, and was the Mainland's largest city from that year until it was passed in population by Vancouver during the first decade of the 20th Century.
lol, loved how the footage was of New West, while implying it was no more. A little melodramatic at times, like describing it as at the foot of the glaciers....wtf? yah there is some snow there- but its way up the mountains. No one would go that high. You can buy property on Pitt Lake, nice area- but hardly secluded.
Wonderful area, and for sure they did find some gold there, but I don't think there is the Slumachs goldmine. There are always big stories when one guy is lucky and find one or two times a bigger quantity.
thanks
i have been back in that country,it is so vast and so rugged some areas impassible.I believe there is gold most likely in every river in BC..finding it is another story.
I know this is an old video, but the thing about curses, you can release them as fast as they're made. You don't have to accept them, they can be completely eliminated. Even if they don't find this man's gold, there is lots more in those hills. Why not just look for your own? Those hills must be teeming with gold.
Unfortunately (OR fortunately), nearly all of the area around Pitt Lake is Provincial Park-land and you're not allowed to mine or stake mineral claims there. As long a you had a BC Free Miner's Certificate, you MIGHT be able to hand-pan with just a gold-pan and shovel...
Great Todd Huffman from good rush will be there soon lol
TREES ARE THE TREASURE!!
Old slumack he was a legend
Swallowed up by Vancouver? Besides the fact the city of Burnaby sits between Vancouver and New Westminster, it's also a 30min drive.
The whole earth is a treasure from the blue Sky's to grey, from City to town from primeval forest, to Sandy Beach, from hyway, to byways, all beautiful and full of treasure's!!
You know the guy leading this exploration is a real outdoorsman, when he wears sweat pants and sneakers into the wilderness.
That's probably just a reflection of his laid-back nature and lifestyle. His choice, he's not hurting anyone. I noticed the same, with his duffle back instead of a backpack.
Look for the mysterious face in the clouds that form against the face of the mountain peak at 19:20
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This exact same story has been told of a hundred different "lost" Mines. Lost dutchman was exact same story. Different name.
and now it is all but a legend the real gold is the land the beauty of the freedom the piece the tranquillity of being alone in the real wild :)
That's prime Sasquatch country .
Volcanic "Sasquatch" Brown! Now the mystery is finally solved!
Drug off by a female Bigfoot with a human fetish!!!!
Family of them north side of Harrison lake
Having grown up in the Fraser Valley I'm always interested in the history from generations ago.
A few problems with this video though, where it shows Vancouver's location is actually Richmond, Vancouver is about 10 - 15 miles north and 60 miles north of Vancouver puts you west of Whistler ski resort. The start of Pitt Lake is about 23 miles east of Vancouver.
Pitt Lake is 20 feet above sea level, it gets about the same weather as Vancouver, maybe a little wetter.
There are some small glaciers in the upper reaches of the Pitt River, closer to Whistler but Pitt Lake is not at the foot of any, that's why they had to use a helicopter to find them a long ways from Pitt Lake.
They also went up this valley the hard way, there are roads, small settlements in this valley and farther up.... logging roads and clearcuts from logging.
If your going to do a video like this, get the geography and directions right otherwise it calls into questions the accuracy of the rest of the video.
Want to go on some adventures lol, making CZcams videos following ghost towns and gold trails😉
If they decided 2 go it alone who's filming them?
Personally, I think there was no mine. I think that Slumach used the mine story to lure those women into the brush to never be seen again.
That area should be made into a national park. It is so beautifull. Kudos to the Guy, who saved it from the loggers. Save it for comming generations.✌🏻🇺🇸👩🏻🚀🇩🇰✌🏻🌞
New Westminster has NOT been "swallowed up by Vancouver". It is an entirely different city, 45 minutes outside of Vancouver.
maybe he was a trusted trader who was used by many different local indigenous people and his job was to go into town and trade gold for supplies simply for the sole fact that he was more accepted by the towns people than most of the indigenous people at the time that he was getting the gold from . meaning the gold was coming from many different places over the whole area .it would be interesting to know what he was buying when he was in town it might give a clue to were he was going or if im right and he was buying for many different people
man..i rather fly fish for trout in this area
+Romeo Cuerpo Sounds like you discovered the real treasure up there.
The Harrison River is mecca fly fishing in the fall...not far from Pitt lake. It is one of the world's relatively few tidal lakes, and among the largest over 50 species of fin fish as well.
Romeo Cuerpo So True flyfishing is Soul purifying
Jees, someone didn't teach this bloke any muzzle awareness with his rifle... slung over the shoulder, barrel pointing in every which way including at his mate... look at 11:40-11:50
I was just going to say I do not want to be that dude in the front LOL!
@I Dig Ohio
well they keep playing with guns like that, there will be two less tough guys in the world, doesn't matter how tough you think you are get shot in the gut, or in the back see how long you last, guns are not toys to be played with, use some discipline treat them with respect, and you and your
friends will live to see the next day.
the thing I find funny as hell yu get these so called real men (LOL) and as soon as they hurt them selves there the biggest bloody wimps, I have seen grown men reduced to
tears because of a little blister on there instep, funny as, and then you see the RSM, who is a female, take her boot off and it makes you shudder just to look at her foot, I'm a bloke and she made me think she had balls after seeing that.
I do honestly agree, I've never seen anyone carry a firearm around like that.
Never! Loaded or unloaded.
@@rtoguidver3651 In the words of Mark Beaufoy (from the poem "A Fathers Advice")
Never, never let your gun
Pointed be at anyone
That it may unloaded be
Matters not the least to me.
I would imagine that the Location has been Identified . If so . It is within National or Provincial Park Boundries . He did not Register . We Have It BC . In the Perfect Museum . Where it was Formed . One Day We may be able to show it off .
20 prospectors have gone missing as well in decades since. last one in 2010.
hungry bears...
The gold is in Vancouver's sewage leach pond! Happy panning!!
my relative lived in S.F. in the 1800s, and I knew them because I'm old. I have never, heard anyone Call san francisco S.F. - - - never. They say, "the city," or just san francisco. Some from other areas would call it "frisco," but the locals never did.
Rosemarie yes.only outsiders, tourists call it Frisco.
Protrero hill
Slumach's 'curse'?
Sure looks like freedom from the oppression of it all to me.
Who knew this history is so close to us.
I so wanted to be intrigued, but it just didnt happen :(
at 1:26 where it shows you the murder scene and the lost creek gold mine ,, copy and paste this into google maps 49°17'01.4"N 122°39'33.7"W ,, they found it and digging it up ,, Volcanic Brown found a different gold spot and that's the one i want to find
it's a pity, that more people, don't realise what the real treasure is
the hot springs indicate hydro-thermal activities
Hahahahaha.. sister
They never said anything about Slumachs half brother Wild Eye........ That's were this legend really begin's .
Bill barley is great gold trails and ghost towns. On re runs or u tube
since when has new west been swallowed by vancouver?
vancouver was just Stanley park area and new west was the rest until greater vancouver was built into the area of then new west. were talking 80years ago lol not recently
It is said by many that Bill Barlee is not one who lets the truth spoil an exciting story
Bill was a hell of a story teller.
What is the source of this documentary? Or did you shoot it yourself?
+Adam Henkel The original video was part of a series produced for the Discovery Channel in cooperation with the tourism offices of the various countries featured in the series. The collaborative efforts were intended generate profits from the sales of the videos and to stimulate tourism to the places featured - more specifically treasure hunter dollars. Of course, in doing such they invariably leave out many important facts that don't serve those goals. Whenever treasure hunting is the focus, the fact that Slumach was a serial murderer is usually conveniently left out of story. When that fact is included, the question of where Slumach's gold came from seems far less of a mystery.
mine in the same refuge house in side is underground the reason no body found is floor the last person fond gold built this camp next time
luis bito Can anyone translate this into English?
Only way to find that gold is to be a prospector that is skilled and lucky
12:55 >>7 nice salmon ? That's about $250 across the street at Safeway in Medicine Hat .
IETCHX69 .....those fish are a day away from their death spawning....you don't want eat them never mind pay for them.
A good Canadian...wearing his pajamas to work...
A lot of runoff would have to occur to see gold on bare rock in warmer months when the water from run off dried up.
Canadian, like "EH".... Proud to be.
Also, if I was a miner and found gold, I would not go to the nearest town with my gold so it would be even harder to find out the place of origin.
LOL LOL Not run in town like the movies and holler, "I FOUND GOLD, I FOUND GOLD.!!
also,about them wemen.he may not have wanted to go alone then he had to keep secret he hushed them up.that makes sense
How old is this
The scenes as that is being said and for the next 10 seconds actually shows New West
PS. I don't trust the idiot carrying the rifle over his shoulder like that. A tree branch could snag the trigger easily. Two go out, one comes back. An old story when it comes to gold..
Lidar, May help
My guess is there is no mine. If no one knew about gold in these parts back then, the gold in the river would be rich, much like it was during the California gold rush and more recently discovered in the Bering Sea. Typically in a river that is fed by a glacier, it is the glacier that grinds the rock and releases the gold out of it. I didn't once see anyone with a gold pan in the river, which is the first place I would look, there's could still be a lot of gold in there.