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Deadman's Curse: Volcanic Gold

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In 1931 On a night cold enough to freeze your bones, a larger than life prospector, in search of a legendary lost gold mine in the wilderness of British Columbia, disappears withou...

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Episode list

19

  • August 20, 2024

    28 min

    Curses, Foiled Again | 12

    Slumach’s lost mine isn’t the only tale of gold hidden in Western Canada with a dubious history. There is a trail of treasures in and around BC with wild stories, danger, and legen...

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  • August 13, 2024

    37 min

    Jack Mould and Slumach’s Gold | 11

    The Spanish were known for keeping records of their colonial exploits around the world, but they were also known for privateering, profiteering and piracy. What might have been abo...

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  • August 6, 2024

    35 min

    Charlie Mould and Spanish Gold | 10

    Charlie Mould believed that Spanish explorers began mining and processing gold in the years before the British officially claimed what became British Columbia and that that gold wa...

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  • July 30, 2024

    37 min

    Jack Mould and Spanish Gold | 9

    Passed down to a young Jack Mould by his father Charlie, were tales of Spanish explorers mining for gold in the mountains high above the icy waters of Bute Inlet. For decades fathe...

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  • July 23, 2024

    35 min

    Desperately Seeking Slumach | 8

    Claiming to have found Slumach’s legendary motherlode, WWII veteran and German POW survivor, Stu Brown, allegedly hauls ten pounds of gold nuggets out of the Upper Pitt and spends ...

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  • July 16, 2024

    33 min

    The British Columbia Triangle | 7

    Volcanic Brown vanished without a trace - but how? Why? Was he murdered? Did he fake his own death? Did he slip into another dimension? Articles have mentioned there have been at l...

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