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Do you know the women in the
picture below? Maybe you should. ***
Lake Michigan underwater and $400,000,000.00 in gold. Does it
contain treasure beyond anyone's imagination? A treasure so vast that
it's value if recovered could change the destiny of thousands of people?
People who would inevitably become interlaced in it's distribution. This
treasure, if found today, could be recovered in it's entirety in days or
weeks. Not in years.
Unlike Mel
Fisher's enormous Florida treasure find of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha
in the mid 1980's it would not take months or years to excavate the
gold. There is no coral encrustation or mountains of sand burying the
treasure. It cost Mel Fisher hundreds of thousands of dollars to uncover
his gold once he found it. Was it worth it? Some say his personal worth
is more than $100,000,000.00 dollars because of his find. Newspaper
reports on his net worth are all over the place. How much he is really
worth is anyone's guess. But, be assured that his income will continue
on long after the gold he recovered has found numerous homes. The spin
off from his find has lead to movies, television specials, books,
endorsements and investments in other treasure hunts.
How hard was it to
find? It took over twenty years for Mr. Fisher to slowly but surly close
in on the location where the treasure had laid undisturbed
for centuries. Why did he find it when no one else could? Because he
was the only one who staked his claim. Above all, he believed that the
treasure was there. Many reporters called him a con artist and flimflam
man. They said he was only taking money from investors to keep his
shoestring dive business going. There were even hints of "salting the
old mine". An article said he might have planted a few silver coins in
just the right spots where his novice treasure hunter investors could
find them. Of course that was all nonsense. "I'm sure Mr. Fisher
remembered all the reporters that spoke poorly of him. I'm also sure
that he invited all the Nay Sayers to the celebration party he had after
finding his treasure.... Right".
That's all fine
but what does it have to do with the treasure of Poverty Island in Lake
Michigan?
There are many similarities that bind legends
together. (1)The stories are over one hundred years old. (2) The legends
emanate from different sources and different geographic locations at
approximately the same time. (3) These sources all have many details
that are exactly the same. Notice the word exactly. They also have many
unsupported facts that complement each other. These facts may not have
much foundation in the whole story but they help to fill in the valleys
and edges when no other ancillary facts are available.
The press has
devoted hundreds of columns of negative and questioning articles. They
have belittled and scorned the treasure hunters, including myself. Still
these stories never seem to go away. Every ten, twenty or thirty years
someone finds a new clue that revives the legend and it's off and
running again.
There is one
outstanding proven fact about sunken treasure no can dispute. In the
last 10 years over a Billion dollars in LOST SUNKEN TREASURE has been
recovered. That's right ! ONE BILLION DOLLARS in GOLD has been found and
recovered. Do you have any idea how much that is?
Folks, if you were
able to spend $1,000,000.00 a year on anything you wanted to without any
thought of some return on your investment, it would take you 1000 years
to spend it all. Those numbers may be exaggerated a little but if they
were puffed up by 100,000,000 million, so what, I for one could live
with that.
OK, you have been
patient and read all the above now you want to know how much?
I have spent thirty-five years or so looking
for this Treasure. I have also spent thousands of dollars on trips to
Door County Wisconsin. I have frozen my butt off, and ,have gone without
food or water for days while trapped on Poverty Island. I have driven
the three hundred plus miles from Milwaukee to our entry point in
Michigan until I know the tar bumps in the road by heart. To date I
haven't found the key that will open the magic door. Hidden in a drawer
or file cabinet somewhere is a piece of paper with the location of this
vast treasure.
A long forgotten
piece of paper with vital information that will lead to the Poverty
Island Treasure. A single piece of paper like the treasure document that
had been filed in a Soviet office. The file that led to the $40,000,000
treasure sunk during World War II. One man's dream to find a most
improbable horde of gold bullion. A yellowing dog-eared file that led to
a joint venture between the Soviet Union, Great Britain and a man who
wouldn't let the dream die.
That said, I'm not
going to give away the information for free. However you won't have to
give up more then one good night of moderate entertainment to gain a
twenty year jump on anyone who might be interested in this Treasure. A
few years ago NBC's UNSOLVED MYSTERIES did a program about me and my
search for the Poverty Island gold. It sparked renewed interest in the
search by thousands of people. Unsolved Mysteries will rerun, rerun and
run again the story of The Poverty Island Treasure. Each time sparking
new interest in the search. Time is of the essence. There are twelve
million people in the world right now that never knew about the
treasure. But they do now!
Stake your claim
now. The complete package of information is only $29.95 plus $5.95
shipping and handling. That's right thirty five years of blood, sweat
and tears for only the price of a cheap meal and a drink. Or a very
cheap date.
Here's what you will
get.
(1) Copies of newspaper articles about the
Treasure of Poverty Island.
(2) Dozens of facts and figures about the dive area. Maps of how to
get there.
(3) A detailed drawing of the tow sled my dive crew
and I used and was featured on the Unsolved Mysteries program.
(4) A detailed Historical Tree of the events as we know
them about the Treasure. (
(5) Newly found facts that may be one of the most important clues to the
origin of the treasure.
CAUTION! One last thing before you
invest your hard earned cash in the oil well speculation road-map of the
twenty first century. Your friends will question you, other people will
say you're dreaming and your spouse will think you are going through
another phase. But one thing is for sure they will all listen. And they
will dream of what they could do with all that money. But most will not
do anything to make the dream happen.
Even if you don't plan to start your own quest for the treasure, keep
the Guide for your own personal library, you will have plenty of stories
to tell.
Ok, Ok, so why
hasn't everyone been looking for the Poverty Island Treasure? Some have,
but few know where to begin. And it's a lot more fun diving in the warm
Caribbean than in the 55 to 75 degree water of Lake Michigan. This
treasure isn't hidden under feet of coral encrustation. It lies in plain
view with only an inch or less of sediment covering the very top of the
chests. What is the value of this treasure? Approximately $400,000,000,
depending on what year you are quoting the price of pure gold. I don't
know of any diver who has dived more, had more articles written about
him, been on more radio and television talk shows about Poverty Island
than I have. The NBC Unsolved Mysteries Television show shot a program
about myself and The Poverty Island Treasure. During the week long shoot
some new and interesting facts came to light from the many people that
wrote to the NBC Network and me.
Most of the facts you may have read about
Poverty Island were quoting something I said or did over the last
thirty-five years. Many of the articles written are right on the money.
But, many are puffed up by the reporter to give their story a little
more edge than the previous one. I want you to know this. I have told
all those reporters exactly what I wanted to tell them. Many times these
reporters have tried to collect information from my friends. I'm never
surprised at the lengths they will go to. You
might ask, Why does the Poverty Island Treasure mystery endure? Is it
pure belief or is it a very elaborate scheme to keep a tall tale alive?
What are the benefits of moving the hoax forward? Hey! Don't look at
me. According to one national newspaper I have spent over $100,000,00
looking for the treasure. "His financial reward is yet to be realized."
I think that means I haven't found dime one until now. Well then, who is
the big conspirator? Are the
people of Door County Wisconsin supporting the legend so that tourism
will thrive? Not hardly. Tourism
on the Door County Peninsula has at least for the last ten years been
growing. Housing has escalated because land is limited. The influx of
weekend vacationers not only from Wisconsin, but also from Illinois is
almost at capacity. At the present time the infusion of sightseers and
vacationers is balanced to accommodations. I doubt any single event or
article could change the already full calendar of tourist attractions.
The Door County Chamber of Commerce has had generations of experience
twicking and fine tuning the natural wonders of nature. Why even in the
fall it is almost impossible to get a room during the color change of
the season.
So where does the conspiracy lie?
Maybe it is on the other side in the state of Michigan. The town of
Escanaba, Michigan is one of the focal points in many of the early
newspaper articles. Many of the dives made by this treasure hunter were
based out of the Escanaba area. The proximity to Poverty Island made it
a shorter boat trip to the dive site. Some
treasure seekers would follow us when we would leave the Door County
launch sites. As often as we changed the launch area they would appear
out of nowhere. After the first nation wide news release in 1986 we
traveled by land, just to avoid the dozens of would be tag-a-long
treasure hunters. As I said earlier that brings us to the third
possibility for bringing the Poverty Island Legend out of obscurity.
What kind of reward have I received for the many hours of diving and the
thousands of hours spent picking through countless bits of information.
Nothing from the treasure itself but from spin off' like the fees paid
to me by an Asian television station for filming my home built mini
submarine. They said it reminded them of a Mazda RX7. Or the fees I
received from NBC Unsolved Mysteries Group for shooting the underwater
scenes used in their 200th Anniversary show. Who should believe there
is a treasure to be found? Anyone who believes they have a chance of
winning their state Lottery. The odds of winning Publishers Clearing
House or Readers Digest is one in 195,000,000 million. People spend
anywhere from $2.00 to $10.00 per week on tickets with those odds. Could
you unlock the secret that has eluded so many for so long? The odds are
you won't. But it is a hell of a lot more fun doing the research then
scratching some black yucky stuff off of a card for $2.00.
Now you can be part of the greatest treasure hunt in history. I will
forward information to you. The facts from the thirty-five years I have
spent searching for this king's ransom. Whether you are an armchair
treasure hunter or a full-fledged treasure hunter you will find this
mystery as intriguing as anything you have read. For the price of a
modern day novel I will send you charts, drawings, interviews, and
personal observations I have gathered over the years, including some of
the newspaper articles that relate to the Treasure of Poverty
Island. Included will be information that I have never given to the
press. If you order during this first printing of the Poverty Island
Treasure Hunters Guide I will enclose a FLOW CHART of dates, places, and
names originally designed by a retired detective from the Milwaukee
Police Department. An officer who's investigative training was
invaluable in the early search criteria of our program.
Well, that's my
sales pitch. Now it's up to you, either you sit back and dream or you
participate.
"Doing, is the
conclusive state of Day Dreaming". RB
Stake your claim now. The complete package of information is only $27.95
plus $3.95 shipping and handling. Send Money Order, Check or Certified
Check. No Card Cards or COD's. Please allow 3-4 weeks for
delivery. That's right, thirty-five years of blood, sweat and tears for
only the price of a cheap meal and a drink. Or a very cheap date.

Send your order to:
Deep Quest Productions Ltd.

11609 W. Vliet Street
Wauwatosa WI. 53226-3247
Sincerely
Richard Bennett
*** Find out who the lady in the
picture at the top of this page is by droppings me an e-mail at
rbennett@execpc.com
You may be surprised.
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