John Fletchers buried treasure

Makes you wonder what was inside?

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nice story! sorry you just found some barbed wire!! got plenty of that around here

if you dont mind me asking, how did you go about finding the spot, and why do you feel like it was the correct place?

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Im sorry, this is the first time I've every posted anything anywhere and I started another topic instead of adding to this post. I want to tell you exactly how I came to believe the site I found was the place where John Fletcher buried his treasure. The note that he wrote (because he was the only robber left out of a band of twelve) said that they had buried the cache under a waterfall about 120 yards up a clear running creek just off the trail from Natchitoches, La to Nacadoches, Tx (Nolan's trail) about 15-20 miles west of the Sabine river. I found a website that said Nolan's trail is also called El Camino Real or Kings Highway. I found a website that showed several supposed routes but they all started in the same place in Texas, highway 21. I followed hwy 21 on Google maps about 15-20 miles west and when I zoomed in several times, an obscure little road popped up that connected a curve in hwy 21 that was called Kings road. There was only one creek on the road so when I convinced my husband to take me there for a 'fishing' trip, that was the one place that I wanted to check out. John Fletcher mentioned that there was a horseback ridge to the east. I pictured it in my mind a sway back horse but when we finally got there, the mountain looked like a horses rump. I talked my husband into hiking up the muddy hillside then crossed over to the creek and found the hole. When I found Kings road I also noticed further south Fletchers trail...I figured if his family was from that area...it all made sense. I know there has got to be evidence around there somewhere but I have limited time and resources and a husband that is not interested in treasure hunting. He was there. He saw the hole and read all the corraborative history on all the historical markers in the area and still doubts that it was anything special. He says it was a badger hole but badgers dont dig rectangular holes in a creek bed that floods. And how did I know exactly where it was? How did we walk right to it? It was all in the note! 

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