Lost Meteorite- Update!
Greg Hawk • June 22, 2020
While driving around the edge of the Chuckwalla Mountains and filming for the video on YouTube, I started looking closer at the mountains and terrain pertaining to the story.
In my book I talked about old John who told me about this story and many others. Over the years I researched and searched for the treasures in many of his stories. In hindsight, it seems old John had his way of telling a story and it usually was told in a way that firmed up the location of where he thought the treasure to be.
Several of the stories, after searching for the treasures, I stepped back and reassessed the story and the possibilities of where the lost treasure could actually be. When doing this I assumed the basic parts of the story were correct and John's interpretation of where the treasure was, may have been off.
Well, after returning to the search area of the lost meteorite, I noticed another rock outcrop setting out from the mountains by itself. It started me thinking again about the story as to how old John told it to me. Could he have been looking at the wrong outcropping?
He said he visited a ranch and talked with the lady there who told him that her husband had found some small fragments of shiny rock that turned out to be platinum. John thought to himself that these fragments were most likely drippings off the meteorite as it went over.
John led me to believe that the old ranch house was not far from Desert Center. In thinking about this, could the meteorite have had a little bit different flight path then old John thought? Could have the meteorite collided with the top of the mountain at a different location? Could have the meteorite have broken apart prior to going over the mountains thus creating a meteorite field and not have hit the mountain at all?
If I was to go back and have a look, I would look at other outcropping that lay away from the main mountain, such as the one we filmed in the video. If this area is a meteorite field then there could be numerous pieces yet to be discovered.
Good Hunting,
Greg Hawk
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