42(PART 1): Arizona Treasure Hunter CODY DRAKE[Happy Halloween]
42(PART 1): Arizona Treasure Hunter CODY DRAKE[Happy Halloween]
Arizona Treasure Hunter CODY DRAKE shares many experiences and stories of his excursions all across Arizona. He has been hunting treasure and exploring the state for much of his life. He shares some artifacts he has found from before the U.S.A. was a nation. His passion and addiction is to link together the objects, with the stories, and the times they came from, building an amazing picture of the time before us. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and look forward to the next meeting with Cody.
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WEBSITES AND REFERENCES:
https://www.instagram.com/arizonatreasurehunter/
https://www.arizonatreasureadventures.com/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12113394/
https://www.grunge.com/80931/mysteries-superstition-mountains/
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/what-happened-to-khayman-search-continues-for-man-who-disappeared-in-the-tonto-national-forest
https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/khayman-welch
https://www.britannica.com/science/dendrochronology
https://www.history.com/shows/legend-of-the-superstition-mountains
BIO:
Cody Drake is a native Texan and Professional Treasure Hunter. In 1993, his father got a business promotion, and moved to Gilbert, Arizona from Houston, Texas. When they arrived in Arizona, his father became religiously involved with gold prospecting and Cody prospected in every mountain range in Arizona multiple times. From an early age, he was exploring the Arizona desert. He had a gun on his hip, and while his dad was dry washing or dredging, he would just go off exploring alone. Cody doesn’t know how his dad trusted him, but he did. Whenever he was out exploring, he would find Native American ruins, old miners cabins, and old homesteads.
Cody would find these great, boulders that had petroglyphs on them. He would write down the petroglyphs and then go home and go through his books and try to figure out what they meant. As his researching skills developed, he began to discover that some of those petroglyphs were actually Spanish. Cody found Spanish encampments, mines, and their trailheads marked by carvings on rocks. In the early two thousands, he found a site that was a Spanish encampment where he recovered over a thousand gold, silver, and copper coins from the 1700s.
He stayed out in the wilderness for 58 days, 57 nights alone and lived off of rattlesnakes, jack rabbits, prickly pair cactus, cholla cactus fruit & pads, pack rats, scorpions, everything he could find. While out there Cody was also discovering pieces of gold, silver, copper, military artifacts, horse tack, camping implements, mining implements, and much more.
Through the years, Cody has honed those skills, sharpened that blade down to a fine sword. He has improved his ability at the art of recovery artifacts. He’s had plenty of opportunities to learn what not to do, which helped him succeed in teaching others how to avoid costly mistakes.