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He was the star of History Channel's Treasure Trader. He was also a world-famous dealer of tribal art, described as having "a taste for the bizarre", [3] and as "Indiana Jones meets Gene Simmons". [4] He was also described as a treasure hunter who "is Indiana Jones, minus the rolling boulders, aliens and savage tribesmen". [5]
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Frederick G. Nolan (July 5, 1927 – June 4, 2016) was a Canadian land surveyor as well as a known Oak Island treasure hunter. He appeared on the History Channel 's TV series about the island, The Curse of Oak Island , in episodes 7 and 8 of season 3.
Scrap is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Stacey Tenenbaum and released in 2022. [1] The film profiles various people around the world whose lives revolve around finding new uses for abandoned scrap objects, such as living in abandoned vehicles or recycling scrap objects into art or building materials.
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Oak Island has been intermittently owned by treasure hunters ever since old legends were first published in 1857. [14] The hunt for treasure got so extensive that in 1965 a causeway was built from the western end of the island to Crandall's Point on the mainland, two hundred metres away in order to bring heavy machinery onto the island. [15]
Fred C. Dobbs, the protagonist of B. Traven's 1927 novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and the movie of the same name. Bilbo Baggins, protagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit; Rouge the Bat, A treasure hunter from the Sonic the Hedgehog series, often tries to steal Master Emerald and works for G.U.N.
They were also looking for a treasure of placer gold buried under a rock by a prospector called Shotwell—the man named Walter Jackson in Armstrong's story. Shotwell came out of the Pitt Lake area in the fall of 1901 and went to San Francisco where, according to the records at the United States mint, he deposited more than $8,000 in placer gold.