The following news item is very brief, completely (as far as I can tell) unresolved, and probably even massively unimportant. However, it charms me as just one more snippet of evidence that we live in a very strange world. The "Minneapolis Star Tribune," August 8, 1930, via Newspapers.com:
Amateur detectives of Fort Reno, Okla., are working on a mystery which includes nary a corpse, only a hole in the ground. It is a large hole, about 18 feet deep and was made within a few feet of the place where a hole was dug in 1925 about the same time of the year. A single footprint has been found at the bottom of the hole. Nobody has been able to discover why or who made the excavation. One young man suggested that somebody wanted the hole for his front parlor and then found he couldn't bring it in, so he left it there. But very few take stock in that theory.Feel free to leave your own theories in the comments.
A felon buried his stolen loot in a hole, was incarcerated for five years, then came out to find it again...
ReplyDeleteThe responsible party may be a treasure hunter. The link below documents that Fort Reno has its own legends of buried treasure. (no details, unfortunately) Legends of lost treasure stories were endemic well into the 20th century, especially in the West. A treasure hunter would have dug in secret and might well have dug a second hole if he decided the first site wasn't quite right. Collectively, treasurer hunters did a lot of damage.
ReplyDeleteOne thing is for certain- whoever dug the holes didn't give up easily.
In case I forgot the link: https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2005/07/12/tour-tells-ghost-stories-history-of-fort-reno/61515797007/
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