North Carolina: Buried Treasure, Buried Stories | Episode 107
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The episode explores the life of Abraham Kuykendall, a 6x great-grandfather who buried a fortune in gold and became a ghost story in history.
He buried a fortune in gold under a bent white oak. Then he died before anyone could find it. My 6x great-grandfather Abraham Kuykendall lived 93 extraordinary years. He survived colonial America, fought in the Revolution, crossed the frontier with 13 children, and built an empire of 2,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. But when I found him on a Sunday night FaceTime research session with my dad, I discovered that history remembers him as a ghost story. There's still an ...
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