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I am the creator and administrator of this site,
TreasureNet.com. I hope you take the time to read this entire story, because it MAY contain important information about our future!
I created TreasureNet in late 1994 out of the frustration of having found a REAL buried treasure - 3 chests of gold coins, flint lock pistols, and land grants - buried by Juan Baptista de las Casas in January 1811, just outside of San Antonio Texas - but not having the resources to do a proper archaeological survey and recovery of the burials.
Sadly, in late 1995, based on my research, and after having opened my big mouth to unethical historians and attorneys, the site was looted.
After the site was looted, I found these flint lock pistols for sale on the open market, which I STRONGLY suspect came from this site...
http://forum.treasurenet.com/i/artifacts.jpg (I would love to be proved wrong!) Note that shortly after I confronted these people who set up this website called richestreasures.com - out of sebastian Florida, this website was completely removed)
I spent 19 YEARS searching for the burial sites... from 1975 to 1994... I located the burial sites (shown below) by taking a series of low altitude aerial near infrared photos (on my own, in the spring of 1994) of the suspected location of the treasure. I spent the better part of 1994 analyzing these photos.
After locating the burials, I tried to do things legally and ethically... I tried to get permission from the land owner, and the help of the University of Texas. In those efforts, unfortunately, I shared the LOCATION of the burials. (BAD MOVE)
Texas lost a MAJOR treasure and a HUGE part of their history.
(not to mention the fact that I lost my life's work!)
One of the side benefits of my search was locating a Spanish Colonial fort site... I found a dropped musket ball at the door of this building as well as small pieces of iron...
The site is so old, only tiny pieces of iron remain. For the record, these pieces of iron DO stick to a magnet so I KNOW they are not pyrite!
One of the more telling artifacts found at the site was this Spanish Colonial "Beak Point" knife...
Through my research, I learned how the Battle of the Alamo was merely the end of a 25 year process of Spanish loss of control of Texas.
What Texans need to ask themselves is "why were
Texians defending the Alamo in the first place?" In 1810 it was defended by Spanish soldiers.
The answer to that question is the Hidalgo revolution of 1810-1811... It began with "El Grito" (Cry For Freedom) of Father Hidalgo, and a subsequent revolutionary raid on the treasury of Guanajuato Mexico in September of 1810, and the "Casas Revolution" which started January 22nd, 1811.
Juan Casas was eventually overthrown and tried for treason... he was executed in Monclova Mexico, August 3rd, 1811, and his head was shipped back to San Antonio and put on a pole to deter others with similar motives. He never directly revealed the location of his treasure, which I can only assume was gained through the raid on Guanajuato.
After this debacle, the Spanish Crown lost confidence in the security of Texas, and it's capital San Antonio.
A GREAT history lesson can be found
here and
here.
Jose Antonio Navarro, a resident of San Antonio was 16 years old in 1811.. meaning he was 41 at the time of the battle of the Alamo. He was THERE. In his own words he says "forget the Battle of the Alamo" the real event in Texas history occurred January 22nd, 1811... prior to that HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of pesos were being shipped into San Antonio EVERY month to pay the troops. After the Hidalgo-Casas revolution, that money stopped.
That is why "Texians" "defended" the Alamo.
(I CAN"T BELIEVE YOU READ ALL THAT! ;-))Anyway, now an interesting and important fact... (that sometimes I wish I could change)I learned about those burials through the use of a Ouija Board.
TRUE STORY - READ ON!
In 1975 my folks were looking for a house to buy...
We had looked at several properties, and for some reason, which I may never understand (well, it was the 1970's!) my folks decided to ask the Ouija Board what to do.
They sat down and it immediately started spelling out...
"Spanish riches Juan Casas 1811 - Down to face of big tree - questions confuse me - mind transmits my sight does not - help me - cannot say more than I know - stood face north shot back and head fell over trunk - behind u cedar - I knew 2 months ago u would come - 1811 needed land papers - none believed him - Juan Casas - I dug hole - chest went - shot - fell over cedar tree trunk - drug and thrown on chest - facing north east of hill - bags skins and papers - sacks 93 coins mex - Texas would be Mexico owned"
(it actually spelled out a lot more, but I can't talk about it!)
We had NO idea who "Juan Casas" was!After that session, I started obsessing over this information... "Who was Juan Casas?" - "is this info possibly true?" etc. etc. etc. I was only 13 at the time, and began looking in the school library for any information on "Juan Casas". For about a week I found nothing... but then one day I found ONE paragraph in a large reference book on Texas history "Juan Baptista de las Casas - insurgent Spanish Governor, marched into San Antonio January 22nd, 1811, and arrested the Governors and appointed himself Governor". (or at least something to that effect.)
I started shaking.
After that incredible session, we (my now deceased Father and Sister-In-Law actually worked the Board - I never worked it - I was just a witness) started "working the board" on a regular basis. I now have a stack of "
writings" about an inch thick.
One session that I was completely unable to rationalize away (believe me I TRIED!) ... went like this..... letter for letter!!!!!!
(this changed my life and my perspective FOREVER!)"Massive trullo - not near as small forms of Italy - basically from style of undershelters made of stone and patchwork designed by earliest masons - massive trullo not near as small as found in Italy - built early AD cliffside underground stone dwellings - these found varied in depth and were much smaller - Edward Allen has in depth book early stone shelters - Italy trulli and trullos - have square stone covering entrance flush to ground - nontranslinear - illustrations in book - shaft straight down - big room built with fireplace for cooking and warmth - straight down shaft walls nontranslinear to caves will same patch find - down simple path left for u - dig where simple sign was left for u - to get out simply side of slab otherwise may fall to bottom - u fall - potash all around slab - not completely factual to these indians but close - nontranslinear - watch closely will draw - follow closely piramid shaped chimney with stone"
At this point the planchette began moving in a peculiar way, as if it was trying to draw something. So we followed that movement and drew this... (this is the actual session!)
Well,
we had no idea what a trullo was, who Edward Allen was, or if a book called Early Stone Shelters even existed!. So, we called the book store and asked "do you have a book called Early Stone Shelters by Edward Allen" The response was "there is a book called Stone Shelters by Edward Allen, would you like us to order it for you"? Of course we said yes!
Now... ready for what happened next? The book took two weeks to arrive, and when it did, I was the first one to pick it up, and again, shaking, I opened it.
Guess what was on the very first page! The very same picture the Ouija Board had drawn two weeks earlier! A TRULLO! This is the VERY page I opened to...
Something I just realized as I was typing this... in the original session it spelled "nontranslinear" a couple of times... it is interesting to note the word "nonrectilinear" in the photo caption above! $%$#!@!
UPDATED October 18th, 2006!!!I believe, the reason we were "told" to get the book Stone Shelters, (geesh as a skeptic - I have a hard time accepting my own words!!!) is because the book has one chapter on caves that have been refinished to be livable.
In 2002, I FOUND the underground "nontranslinear" shelters mentioned above!!!!
Look at this picture - the top image (I apologize for the fuzziness) is from the book... the lower, color image at the bottom is of a stone shelter found VERY close to where we worked the board!!!!
NOW Houston we have a problem... (these sessions occurred in Texas)in a couple more sessions it spelled.... (letter for letter - I HAVE the originals!)
"Nerve clouds penetrate all waters all bases blown up who will be left will fight and kill for food have plenty food water and diarrhea medicine".Recently my girlfriend found this passage in the Writings... (written in 1985!)
"New York City crumbling will cause chain reaction across the state of Texas FAITH CAN NOT BE CHANGED."I find that last passage extremely poignant and disturbing. I believe "New York City crumbling" was 9-11, and our war in Iraq is part of the "chain reaction".... If I hadn't found the burials (exactly where we were told they were btw!) - and opened that book to a TRULLO - among other amazing things I haven't mentioned, I could rationalize this away. But with the current "War on Terror" I KNOW a nerve agent attack is coming to Texas... (at least!) I am very sorry to say.
For those of you who think the Ouija Board is satanic, consider this passage... "all time spent on material fortunes spare time for Christ you shall furnish a church here with these treasures and will not fail people will pay to see your church artifacts in donations". Believe it or not, I feel destined to start that Church!
I don't expect anyone to believe my story - if I had not had the experiences, I would be skeptical too...
Where does my search stand today? It DOES continue, there IS more to the story, and I hope to make an important announcement soon. I would love to get some help, but after my experiences in 1994, I'm not sure I can trust anyone again.
Of course,
becoming a Charter Member always helps, and you can contribute as much as you want. (becoming a Charter Member does NOT guarantee access to my personal project information, but I will make public announcements to Charter Members first)
I hope you found my personal experiences enlightening. ;) If you did, feel free to
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Marc
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