Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
In November 1971 a quiet man in a suit jumped out of a Boeing 727 over the dark timber with $200,000 in marked twenties and was never seen again. In 1980 a boy digging a firepit on Tena Bar, a Columbia River sandbar, turned up $5,800 of those exact bills, rotting in their bands. The other $194,200 has never surfaced: lost in the Washougal drainages, buried in a bank of the Columbia, or long gone. The only unsolved air piracy in American history, and the money is still out there.
Tena Bar, Columbia River below Vancouver (Clark County, WA). Source: FBI case history; the recovered bills are documented fact. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
See every spot on the free map →