Legend of the Lost Reno Gang Treasure (Southern Indiana)
Legend of the Lost Reno Gang Treasure (Southern Indiana)
Is there gold hidden somewhere, among the rolling hills of Southern Indiana? Between 1864 and 1868, the infamous Reno Gang stole the equivalent of $3 million dollars, and a large portion of that was in gold!
The Reno Gang committed the first peace time train robbery in US history, and went on to do 4 more: they seemed unstoppable. As the gangs biggest train robbery happened, only 7 months before most were killed, they didn’t have time to spend it all. For over 150 years, treasure hunters have been searching for clues, among southern Indiana’s back country.
This film explores the gangs origin, where and how they obtained their loot, and possibilities of where the treasure could be located. Come along for an adventure, as we trace the steps of Indiana’s most notorious criminals!
MUSIC LICENSES
1. Ice Demon by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
PICTURE LICENSES
1. Kentucky Gold horde— Fair Use
Did the man get to keep the 700+ gold coins? Or did the government come in and just assumed that it was government gold , and take it by force ?? That’s a story you mite do some research on . Because as corrupt as the government is I would bet that they took the gold from the man that found it.
OH….here we go again…bound and determined to get me lost in the woods looking for treasure!
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Wow just wondering why the guy finding the gold would say anything ? 😆 you and I both know the government would take it or at least make his life miserable . Great video Roger loved it . Stealing horses and cheating at card games will get you killed . These men were desperate.
Amazing!
If I found the treasure, I wouldn’t tell a soul.
Good job Roger.
Actually, the Reno train robbery was the first "non-military" train robbery. There were train robberies during the Civil War.
I like the way you tied in the recent Kentucky find to the Reno job. Good work! There may be more! I live in western Kentucky and also swing a metal detector. Always looking and wondering. Keep it coming Roger!
I was wondering if this topic would be covered by the channel at some point. Thank you for the great videos from Hawaii 🤙
I met a girl who lives in Scott county… she said she knows people who say they know where the 🪙 is… who knows… the Reno gang ended up swinging from a 🪢 at the New Albany, Indiana jail…
Another awesome video being from columbus ive heard of this story for years a cowork who from Seymour was talking to me about this last week talk about lets go look for the treasures im down lol but my question if you find it do u keep it or does it becomes the state how that work?
It strikes me that Kentuckiana was sort-of the first "wild west". Not only did the Reno brothers give America the first outlaw gang train robbery, Jesse James was known to frequent the Bardstown area. The Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown recently acquired and put on display a pistol once owned by Jesse, but I have not been to see it (yet!).
Awesome video production.
Another great and fascinating video. There was a movie made about the Reno brothers. It was black and white so I’m guessing it was made in the 40s or 50s. I believe I saw it on TCM.
That’s very interesting. I love history
My hometown, I possibly might have one of the gold bags that might have been used, passed down by my father!
Thank you for another wonderful video. I find it mind boggling that Lexington, Indiana was once large enough to have a jail large enough to hold bank robbers. I can remember my father watching an old movie about the Renos
Wow! So interesting! We have never heard that story! That opening shot on the train tracks was epic!
Thank you for doing this so close to the time my wife and I are headed down that way to camp at starve hollow.
I’m born and raised in Indiana and just wanted to say your videos are great. So glad the algorithm brought me to your channel. Keep up the great work!
Man that would be awesome to find that loot. Roger this was a awesome video!❤
Oh boy 😊 💰💰💰💰 🤑
I can’t believe such violent people were and still are held in my state. Makes you think for sure.
Where at in Ky. ??? It looks like it could be right up or down the river from my home in Wolf Creek???
Wow! I had no idea
Isn’t it strange how money always seems to vanish it even happens within our own government with blacks projects and special access programs but I am willing to bet someone within the law or that vigilante group ended up with that money as odd or unlikely as it might seem because people do strange things when it comes to lots of money!
Another very interesting Indiana legend! Well done Roger ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Great story. Never heard of them before. Thanks Roger
Hey Roger, I’m glad I saw this one. I live in Seymour.
I’m from Seymour and know this story quite well. County court records show that on several occassions when the renos were released on bond, their bonds were posted by prominent buisnessmen of the area. Clearly some payoffs going on.
I have read about the Reno brothers several times but your video is so much better. You always tell a great story. Thank you Roger.
Roger what is that first song? It sounds like where TOTO stole the theme music for Dune from.
it sounds like one of the caches was found in the corn field.
Great video🎉 there was a movie made about the Reno gang in the 50s called rage before dawn!🎉
I noticed your P.O. box was Greenville, l have a Pekin address but am outside Martinsburg coupe minutes. Love your Work, make I’ll catch up with you sometime! 😊🍀
Gold is very heavy. Several million in gold, it’s extremely heavy. I’d say they buried it not far from where they stole it. They didn’t have any other choice.
I live in Scottsburg and I noticed that you used the remodeled railway station in your video. I live close to Marshfield Rd and every time we drove on it my husband would say that he thought the treasure was buried somewhere along that road. IDK why he had such conviction about this but he would just say it was the only thing that made sense. That they couldn’t take the safe to far and would want it close enough to have easy, private access to it when needed. So with the 2023 find across the river in Kentucky, I have to think that’s not easy access. So i think that is probably civil war stash which means……..the Reno money is still out there. Woop Woop.🤑💰💰💰
I went to a Halloween cemetery walk in New Albany called Story behind the stones and this was one of the stones we learned about
Your videos are awesome! Hopefully the pinker tons weren’t as corrupt as the f b I is today.
Is there any record of them going east. If you go east of Seymour you have Hayden then North Vernon
We may have to go on a treasure hunt 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Born in SW Indiana along the Ohio River, and living now near the Wabash River near Merom’s bluff, I’m really enjoying the stories about the things I’d never heard about, even though I know about where they are. You’ve done great research and tell these story. The cave stories and others would make a great one-tank trip to see these places up close and personally. Thank you!
Cool video! 👍
The Kentucky hoard of gold coins was estimated at about 2 million dollars in today’s money. Which puts it right around the same value the Reno gangs stolen treasure. That could definitely be the Reno gang stolen loot
The Pinkerton’s stole the loot
Awesome video once again man. Living in Southern Indiana my whole life 40 years I learned things from u I never had a clue about . Thank u for your time and dedication to making these videos
When you announced that you were putting out a video on the Reno brothers I searched other videos on them. Yours is by far the best one I’ve seen. Thank you for all the great content.
Once again an awesome video. Keep up the good work.
Event memorialized in classic song: the Ballad of a Well Known Gun by Bernie Taupin and Elton John
Great story. I look forward to all your adventures.