Mel Fisher Hit The Mother Load!

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Let’s keep up the faith and one day we will hit our mother load. “Down in the Florida Keys, there was a treasure hunter whose motto was “Today’s the day”. For years Mel Fisher would send his divers with those encouraging words and armed with underwater metal detectors to find a Spanish ship that sank off the keys in 1622. He often had to pay his men in promises while dodging bill collectors. He and his family lived on a leaky houseboat for years. One of his sons and a daughter-in-law got lost at sea as they searched for the treasure, this alone would probably make most people stop looking. Still, Fisher never gave up. He refused to abandon his dream or to give in to critics and doubters. He held on by declaring that each day would be the day. Then in 1985, Mel’s divers found the “mother load” of gold and silver and jewelry from the wreckage of the Spanish galleon. Nearly thirty years later, divers were still bringing up treasure from that site.”
There are tales of large buried treasure on land too not just in the sea. There is the tale of Pancho Villa, who during the Mexican Revolution stole huge ...
... amounts of gold and silver as well as jewels. He amassed so much of it, in fact, that he was forced to bury most of it while the revolution was in full swing. It is said that one day he spoke to one of his generals and gave him a secret mission. The mission was to take gold and bury it in the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, Tx. The general took a few men and when he reached his destination made the men dig a hole, put the gold in the hole and when they were done he shot them and buried them with the gold. When he was finished he carved the word “ORO” on a rock as a marker so that he could use to find the gold later when they went back to retrieve it. It is said that the general made a map and handed it to Villa when he got back from El Paso and died quietly that night in his bed. There is no way of knowing if Villa ever came back for the gold. It’s up to the reader to believe whether or not there is a vast amount of gold in the Franklin Mountains. Why would the El Paso Chamber of commerce invite the nation to El Paso to hunt for gold up in the mountains back in 1959? So if you get discouraged when you go out and don’t find a treasure your first or second time, remember Mel Fisher. He never gave up until he hit the mother loa