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The Lost Ship of the Desert

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

Since at least an 1870 Los Angeles Star account, travelers have sworn a Spanish galleon lies keeled over in the sands beyond the Salton Sea, its hold full of pearls, left behind when an ancient arm of the Gulf dried out from under it. Every big blow that reshapes the dunes revives the story. None of the pearls have ever come to town.

The ground it haunts

Colorado Desert, northeast of the Salton Sea. Source: Desert folklore documented since the 1870 Los Angeles Star. 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.

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