Ghost at cache sites

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	I have been a cache hunter since I started detecting back in april of 1970. I have dug up some small caches and have witnessed ghosts at certain cites i've been at was wondering if this is a common thing especially out west in western states with a lot of indian and spanish sites their? Guess they won't hurt you but makes me feel uneasy as don't know if site is posessed or booby trapped? shortribs

I always carry large plastic bags and a battery operated "Seal-A-Meal" bag sealer with me just for them. After I capture and bag them, I take them to a cave deep inside a mountain where I have a big pile gathered now. Somebody with a needle could do some real damage! This is why I don't put markers out there to show anyone else where it is. I also avoid making ghost maps for that very same reason.

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OK, Seldom! If you're so smart, where would YOU put them?

It's quite hard to sneak up behind them and get them into the bag you know. Then you have to hold it closed while you seal it. And they bite!

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We'd better knock it off now or Shortribs may never come back by again. I'm going to go and let out all my captive ghosts now. Back in a few.

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Whew you guys were putting it on, Thought ya might be spreading it a little thick,  I live in SW missouri and have been to places that I have seen ghost but they say they won't hurt ya just you will hurt yourself getting out of the way. Didn't know if that has happened to anyone out west,as the spaniards hoaxed some of their sites.  Thanks (shortribs)

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I found this while looking for another story thought it kind of fit'


Jean Lafitte: Gentleman Pirate

Periodically, and with a certain degree of regularity, groups of men with big money behind them find their way to Galveston Texas and the surrounding areas carrying with them secret maps and specialized equipment for the sole purpose of finding buried treasure.  The treasure they are looking for is that which once belonged to the legendary real-life pirate Captain Jean LaFitte.  For almost 5 years, from 1817 to 1821, Captain Jean LaFitte and his band of pirates made their headquarters on Galveston Island, conducting raids all across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean seizing treasure wherever they went.  Leaving in a hurry and at the insistence of the U.S. Navy, legend has it that most of the looted treasure he has taken over his career was left behind somewhere in Galveston.

The sheer number of legends surrounding the life and death of Jean Lafitte can be compared to those about King Arthur and Robin Hood.  Lafitte is rumored to have buried treasure at many locations, including Galveston and the long, lonely coasts of southern Louisiana, such as Contraband Bayou in Lake Charles.  Around 1820 LaFitte married Madeline Rigaud, the widow of a French settler, but she herself died in 1820.  It was rumored that she was buried beneath his House with a great quantity of gold, and well into the 20th Century the site of the house was excavated time and time again by treasure seekers over the years.

In May 1821, after an attack on an American ship by one of his agents, Lafitte was forced to abandon his operations in Galveston.  Before leaving, he hosted a huge party for his pirates with wine and whiskey and afterward burned his settlement.  It is believed that he had buried treasure on the Island which he had not the time to reclaim.  If so, all this gold is still buried.  None of it has ever been reported to be found.  Certainly, shifting sands and vanishing islands in Galveston and West Bays have hidden a great deal of it forever.  But somewhere, perhaps beneath a highway, or under a fire station, in somebody's backyard, or perhaps only inches beneath the salt grass, untold riches wait patiently to be uncovered.

Workers on oil platforms that sit in the Gulf of Mexico claim to regularly see a billow of sails on the horizon just before sunset, always heading east into the gloom. Crews of offshore supply vessels claim that in the middle watch they have heard the flapping of sail riggings and the cry of phantom voices, calling out in the Creole patois once spoken in Barataria commands to a ghostly crew. Small boats, it is said, have been almost swamped by the passage of the ghostly fleet that is said to produce visible white foam where the bows break
the waves and make a tremendous wake in the dark waters.

The ghostly floatilla and an apparition believed to be that of Captain Jean Lafitte himself was spotted just before the disastrous Hurricane Katrina.  Many have come to believe that seeing Lafitte or his ships is a warning that something evil is about to befall his beloved Louisiana coast.  So far, nothing supernatural has been reported in connection with the recent BP oil rig explosion, but eleven men are dead because of it, and what could they have told us if they had not been killed in the accident?   To this day legends persist throughout south Louisiana and Texas.  In these legends it is believed that Lafitte is coming back for his treasure.  Perhaps one day he will.

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