Anyone check out the HINT channel yesterday?

[Don in South Jersey]

I was flipping though channels & they had a show on Jesse James & his reported buried treasure in Kansas. The treasure hunters armed with detectors found a dozen or so targets & marked them to dig later in the show,(just to keep you tuned in). The treasure hunters found 1 mason jar filled with Morgan silver dollars & later in the show, they found a 6 ounce gold bar buried in-between the V of a tree trunk. There was also a big crate about 12 feet down or so in the ground on the side of a hillside they found using one of those square devices that find deep buried objects.

With 2 minutes left in the show & 4 feet more to dig on this buried treasure chest they had found on the deep detector (they kept on telling you that it could be the mother load treasure of Jesse James), they said they had ran out of funding & were looking to complete this in the coming months when more funding was available. Also it appears that Jesse James lived to be in his 80's & they faked his death. Pretty interesting show, they probably would of done better though if they used Mine-lab detectors...

 

[bcoop]

I've seen the show played at least 2 times in the last couple of months.

BCOOP

 

[montanagold]

I have seen it, they found some great stuff but wish they would have detected more. I was just saying the other day some of the shows they put out are pretty dumb, I cant believe that they haven't put out a metal detecting show. You could get so many episodes from the different things there are to hunt for. But no they do a show about meteorite hunters, which don't get me wrong its fun to watch but where is the variety. "Oh look I found another meteorite" Kristin's show was great they could have done so much more with relic hunting, coin hunting and gold prospecting. and Gold Fever although is very entertaining sometimes has become more of a commercial and a mine and ghost town exploration show. I would love to see a show just dedicated to finding stuff with a detector, Beach, coins, meteorites,gold,relics and so on. I would definitely set my recorder for that.

 

[Razorback]

I play a lot of computer games.

20 years ago I was considered basically a freak. Someone who huddled in a dark room and spent time deteriorating into a social retard (basically true but thats not the point :blush

Now computer games are not only mainstream, they are bigger than Hollywood. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is the second biggest selling entertainment product ever, and was only just knocked off by Avatar this week.

So my point...? My point is that the quality of games and the quality of players has deteriorated badly since it became mainstream. For my money... the longer detecting, treasure hunting and prospecting remain in the eyes of the public as the realm of geeks, nerds, boffins and the socially retarded... the better for us.

So while Id love to see a show on detecting (and I think there is a computer game in there too), Im happy just doing it.

 

[Jason in Enid]

This has been hashed out for a couple months now, since the original airing. The consenus is that the finds are faked, staged. Too many things not right about them. Do a search here about the show. Do a search about the shows people. The "group" is a sham and the lead guy is a complete flake.

 

[montanagold]

I would also be just as happy out detecting but up here in Montana I have about 3 or 4 months I cant even look outside without my whiskers freezing so I sit in the house and salivate over you tube and watch all of the metal detecting DVDs that I have watched a million times. so anything new would be very welcome.

 

[mikeeatsbugs]

quote razorback: For my money... the longer detecting, treasure hunting and prospecting remain in the eyes of the public as the realm of geeks, nerds, boffins and the socially retarded...


are you suggesting that we are socially retarded? ...or are you just speakin for yourself?

 

[Razorback]

I am definately speaking for myself

 

[mikeeatsbugs]

well you seem allright to me....but feel free to get a second opinion.

 

[digitrich]

I watched it, very interesting. However, I didn't get their premise that those finds were Jesse James' loot. Not like his name was on the mason jar. I have found mason jars with coins in them, so I guess now I have located Jesse James' loot....AND the most important point...some of the coins were dated in the 1900's which now proves he faked his death and was secretly stashing money for a forgotten civil war cause. It was a cool show and I enjoyed it, but the whole connection to Jesse James thing, I just didn't understand. Many people buried coins at that time..... in mason jars...so until one shows up with some kind of hard evidence tying it directly to Jesse James it could just have well been anybody's stash and I think I would be quite slow to go on national TV and say it was some one's specifically. That part was kind of silly, to say it was his and then because there were coins dated after his death, they now had evidence that he faked it. Maybe he did fake his death, and maybe that older guy was really him, but I severely doubt the mason jar was definitely his.

 

[txbluzman]

I watched it and didn't understand certain parts. Why were they wearing badges and carrying guns? Are they law enforcement officers? Do they think that someone is going to ambush them? Another confusing part is the end. They are close to uncovering the "mother load" and then the show ends due to funding and pending winter weather? If I had reasonable proof that a large container was under ground and I had the equipment to dig I would dig no matter what. Inclimate weather has never kept me from detecting a good spot.

There have been other people that followed the KGC signs / hints and found mason jars of coins but they weren't mentioned or shown. Hard to say if it was real or not. Hopefully someone will bring back a decent treasure hunting show.

 

[coindude]

I am from Kansas (now living in Colorado) and am familiar with the various terrains in the state. Who knows if the show and finds are real or faked, but it was entertaining to see and to know that such searches are going on. I say anybody that dismisses this as a farce is probably just suffering from sour grapes because they are not involved, or just do not understand western history. Jesse James could possibly have faked his own death to get the law off his back. After all, the Pinkertons were closing in on him fast.. A known fact was that he was associated with the Knights of the Golden Circle and possibly faked his death to help that southern cause. The mason jars were placed(burried) with coins as payment to the members for services rendered.
Why in the world did they not finish the big dig at the end of the show is beyond me. They stated something about the weather, but that should not have stopped the dig. The trees and grasses were still green so it wasn't that late in the fall. I guess to get more money from the History Channel.
The terrain looked to be from anywhere around Councel Grove west to around Ellsworth. A lot of open prairie broken by deep ravines.
Pinkertons state that the James gang stole somewhere around 1.5 million dollars. Some has been found in Oklahoma, but nobody knows how much for certain. I say there is still much more to be found. I for one will be following this story. Just my 2 cents worth.

 

[jbow]

n/t

 

[RBWDharma]

Hi There,

I was so disappointed when I finally saw the whole show on finding Jesse james gold that I really got upset because when I just saw part of it I went out and bought a metal detector! when I saw the rest of the show I saw the total farce of all the pre planted gold that I really got upset that The History Channel would have such dumb directors/planners for this thing!

To be showing how these nimrods were looking at drunken kids scratchings on walls and to watch them apparently use them as directions to fins buried gold was hilarious! When I saw that the guy actually had a book he was trying to promote it finally make sense.

Oh, and after 'finding' probably $30,000.00 in gold, not to mention the far more valuable historic value of the years of the gold coins and to say that they lacked funding for the dig they were only 4 ft. from was just plain stupid. For them to wear guns and fake badges seemed rather corney too.

The KGC was unfortunately only some real small, never successful group of a scattered few who never even had enough money to do anything let along plant millions of dollars in gold that they wouldn't have simply spent instead.

I guess my thrill for The History Channel seems to have dwindled too. To think that people from The History Channel actually got paid for believing this guy is the real joke too!

It's also kind of sad that this guy just doesn't want to believe that Jesse James was just some thief who got shot by another thief a long time ago. He seems kind of similar to Bob Ford and his rather dubious obscession with Jesse James himself.

Well, if anyone actually does have some suggestions to where some real gold would be and from whom it would actually have been buried.... please make that one public! At least we can give up on fantasizing that the Famous KGC was even known to even exhist beyond the really sad fantasy of those poor people in the South before the North just won the war! The funny thing is that the only reason the North won the was is because they had three times the people, ten times the money, and good old Lincoln also stopped exchanging prisoners after the battles too!

Did you know that? Lincoln is the one responsible for almost a million people dying of starvation, dissentary, and disease because he won the war by keeping prisoners of war in concentration camps! Lincoln also planned to send all the blacks back to Afrika too, but he died and was never able to follow through on his plans. Well, it's o.k. anyway. The public has had so much propaganda on Lincoln that now we all believe that the Civil War was fought because of slavery! That is so hillarious that it's sad. But since we now have Obama for a president.... we'll finally find out that He was actually planned by Lincoln too!

Good luck!

 

[silvereagle]

they ran out of funds?can you beleive that?damn i think we can take up a collection to help them and we will even come out and help them dig up the stuff,no prob.for a little piece we will all help out.lol