The Kruger Millions: The Mystery of South Africa's Buried Gold | Myth Hunters | Absolute History
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2024
- The Kruger Millions is a hoard of gold reputed to have been hidden in South Africa by or on behalf of President Paul Kruger to avoid it being captured by the British during the Second Boer War. According to legend, about two million pounds in buried gold and diamonds lie hidden, but whereabouts? And why has the Kruger Millions never been found?
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I grew up on a small farm near Waterval Onder, the place where Paul Kruger spent his last nights in Africa while escaping from the British, I always heard the stories of the gold being hidden somewhere in those hills and imagined finding it one day while exploring the farm as a child, good memories!
We have some of this gold in Zimbabwe.
Grew up in the area too and I can confirm that 👍🏼
@@ansonayeeye where
Àfrikaners/beers took south africa and British came 18nth century to fight them,they both came here for same reasons to enrich themselves with gold.when I was crowing up I heart about thatstory of a lost gold or goldy money.golden gŕuger pounds,I hate south african history it's full of lies and myth and fiction.
@@ansonayeeye i trust you
They should give Kruger more credit than they do - he did beat the British in standard combat - every man 16-60 had an 8mm German Mauser and a horse , they were accurate to 1000 yards while the British soldier of that time was taught to value quantity of fire over accuracy and to March in quarter column . The boers would fortify positions and meet the enemies advance . The boers whipped the British for the first year plus of the war . It wasn’t until the British had changed generals and brought some 250k soldiers to the cape that the Boers went to true guerrilla tactics. Put some respect on that old man’s name . He was over 70 years old and leading a serious attempt at freedom from the crown
7mm mauser's
The Brits did not beat the Boers. They beat their women and children..... in concentration camps.
Excellent comment was interesting as thanks :)
If Fritz really knew where the treasure was, why did he not make his way back to South Africa to find it and turn his fortunes around?
All eyes were on him.
South Africa is controlled by whites the reasons why is resources but now the biggest problem is crippleling indigenous people just like DRC very Ritch in resources but very poor more than those they don't have resources
Did you not watch the video?
My great grandfather was personal secretary to Kruger. I have an article he wrote where he says that the amount lost is greatly exaggerated. The rest of the money was spent on diplomatic missions in Europe. Certainly, the money lost was nowhere near the millions the legend has become.
Thanks tips. If you watched the whole video they said there’s no such thing.
How people go around stealing things that do not belong to them and call is discovery. Why did nature not give same to you?
If someone did find it they wouldn't declare it because it'll go straight to the ANC
That's a LOT of Streetwise Two... 😂😂😂
ANC is indigene even if they steal it it's theirs not settlers
Classis,but true😂😂😂
Had tears rolling down laughing at ur good comm😂nt.love it😂😂😂😂
and disappear
The story is a load of crap. Where is the 42 coins he received the first time and how and where did he sell the first thousands for the Zulu family.
Did you actually watch this? He says he sold them and likely they were sold to the same collector the Zulu coins went to. Not hard to figure out.
I have two of them
The Kruger gold probably ended up in America. I had Boer War diaries written by 2 boers, Schickerling (Commando courageous) and Rootman (Oorlog dagboek). Both these men happened to be members of genl Ben Viljoen's commando, and both were part of the Boer forces escorting Kruger to the Mocambique border. Rootman wrote in his diary: "At Hectorspruit we buried stuff that will probably be dug up by later generations" (translated from Afrikaans). Schickerling wrote something to the same effect, but I do not remember his exact words. I lost both diaries by lending them to an uncle who developed Alzheimers before I could get them back, and I never got them back from his family. Now the story gets interesting. I speculate that 1) Kruger would not have been allowed to take a state asset across border to Mocambique, and 2) The boers would have moved it as far as possible from the British. 3) What was buried would not be much needed arms and ammo, nor food supplies, nor clothing. It must be noted that the diaries also mention damaged artillery pieces were dumped into the Hector spruit stream. It could be documents and archives, possibly with the gold hidden in between so none of the Boer fighters knew about it. 4) One person must have known though: the commander Ben Viljoen, maybe the ONLY person to know what happened to the gold. 5) Ben Viljoen was tasked with, or took it on himself to protect the gold, because his commando stayed in the area untill the war's end, effectively taking them out of the fighting. After the war, Ben Viljoen was shunned by the other Boer leaders, who, uncharacteristically, would have nothing to do with him. My guess would be because he refused to tell the others where the gold was. Ben Viljoen then moved to America, where he ended up in such high social circles that he later became a millitary advisor to Pres. Theodore Rooseveldt. To get accepted in that society he would have needed a lot of money, and the type of influence only money can buy, maybe with the Kruger gold?. My ten cents worth of info regarding this gold: It is gone.
Did you know the Boer community in Zimbabwe boke away from the main group when Kruger crossed into Zimbabwe heading for now Mozambique!
That Athol dude is not the smartest tool in the box.
John Wayne : Life is tough - it's tougher when you are stupid.
Oh poor Athol especially after aaaall that work that he had done to find them
Sharpest.. tool in the box? 😂
Greed
Athol’s wife was a real Athol
Yeah, what an Athol!!!!!!
@@negotiator96 Mike Tyson even said she was an Athol
😂
@@3cardmonty602😂😂
Yeah but no 😅😅she just wasn't well informed, most of the time Zulu people use spirits to find these coins so there are certain rules and rites that must followed which have serious consequences if contravened. I blame Athol's guys for not clarifying this, she could've just taken a picture of these after they had gotten their cut.
Well currently South Africa has silver fever. Apparently SA just won a case to claim the silver cargo that was sunk with the SS Tilawa in 1942
So where is that silver?
@@levytjale889 The ship was sunk near the Seychelles Islands and some British salvage company recovered it. The court only made it's ruling in May 2024 so it might still be in the UK
Crazy how the British was never accused of apartheid
I have been asking myself the same questions. It was the British who created apartheid blame the Afrikaans
Narrative was controlled
don't believe everything you hear on the internet.just like Britian ruling India how did a small country like Britian take over a massive country like India with the help of Indian elite willing to look India of its wealth.howdid Britian sell opium to China quite easily the market was well established by arab traders and Chinese traders well before Britian America Dutch and many others sold a commodity to a thriving market how did British win ww1 and ww2 they didn't Germany made many mistakes and Russia won the war the last one into the war America was in a position to enjoy the spoils of these wars . history has lies on both sides the truth is plain to see if you look for it
They are the masters of Apartheid
They used the Afrikaners to push their Agenda
Apartheid is a postcolonial concept, because during the colonial era, it was expected as a natural consequence of conquest
Let's be honest if you watched the entire podcast Duquesne would have actually gone back to South Africa in 1902 if there was really any hidden Kruger Millions - there is no way that he would have died in poverty 1956 if there was any truth to the stories that we still hear even today. Thats my opinion. I thoughly enjoyed watching this even so.
absolutely correct
Don't urinate on the best story feast told by the best narrator I've listened to in a looong time.dying of laughter in my lonely house🤣🤣.if it wasn't for their apartheid I think Boers would all have gone to heaven.seriously!!tough stay put in Afrika pioneers, and who like my Kikuyu nation dared the British military while everybody else was mother skirt tugging
I know of a old man in hoedspruit who have found an undisclosed amount of kruger pound in the dry river bed in the blyde river on top of a old carriage buried under the sand
I followed the train trail, they went down river in canoe with the treasure
This doesn’t sound like the whole story. What problems did they have selling the coins and what about his help solved those problems.
Correct.... the coins are still laying in the ground. The rest went with Paul Kruger....if there were any found it would have been news... this oke is a claimed... riding off the story....
Could be because it was 1999, fairly early after the fall of apartheid and there might have been distrust of the givernment from the older family members? Or they just did not know how to go about sellings such coins as they never could sell it under apartheid?
Yeah I understand the need to take this with a grain of salt
There's more to this conspiracy, because there's no way the Transvaal could've extracted the amount of gold that left by train, it's not that the gold didn't exist but that the Boers had discovered a large amount of already mined gold that someone before them had mined and it was this gold rather than the coins that was the real treasure.
It's a cool story anyway and there are people that expand on the myths that once there were believed to be a civilisation in the area that was mining gold long before the white man arrived and obviously that gets related to the Anunnaki stories and apparently there's been reports of discoveries of deep tunnel systems that we didn't make.
So depending how far you want to go into these conspiracies, whether true or not, it is quite fascinating all the same.
I am on board with this. Pretty sure the history of the world is much different from what we've been told. Look to the Voortrekker monument and the Union Buildings for clues of this previous culture. Those were already here when the Ancestors got here.
The mining companies have found lots of shafts dug deep into the ground that they simply covered up because they could not build or make those shafts with todays technology. See Michael Tellingers series on what was going on in SA. There were mines found where apparently the gold oozed out of the veins like in some molten factory and there was talk of coins already found minted but simply buried that Kruger came across - that matches the amount of coins he found
@@DJ-st4rs very interesting, thank you, I'll check that out :)
Why does he not show the original SABC footage of his interview on the news....I am from South Africa and I have never heard of this story - I cannot remember it being on the news...where is the original news footage? I do not believe this...
This story is almost the same as nazi gold...
Whether you do or don't believe it, it's true but let it go it doesn't affect you in any way.
If this plays at SABC that will make you to change all what you been told meaning what they programmed you with will be lost now.
Been living in SA all my life and do not recall this being a nation wide story or even a gold searching frenzy, the SABC would have pumped this story Six - Love.
They showed some of the news footage. He was wearing the ridiculous toque and Ms South Africa was there in her gold coin dress. How did you miss that?
As a South African, I approve of this video, keep up the marvellous work!
That money is long gone what’s not in museums has been melted down and turned into something that could be sold.
That is what I always think about these hidden treasures stories. Someone recovered it long ago and kept it quiet.
Well, a lot of the Krugerrands we're confiscated in the 1980s by The Los Angeles Police Department. Specifically under the renown detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh! During their investigations into The South African consulate and it's nefarious drug smuggling and currency manipulation endeavors! Which were finally brought down thanks to an informant and key witness, Leo Getz; who was also the money laundering accountant for the South African Drug Dealers! In the end the South African consulate's "diplomatic immunity" did not save them!.... "Its Just Been Revoked!!!" 😁🤣😆😂
Or at the bottom of the oceans in a ship somewhere
The British took it all
What people don't know is when the railway station master of Colenso Natal went on pension years go, I can't remember what year - my memory tells me late 1970s. - The new station master was doing an inventory and found a chest that workers used to sit on - the chest had no paper work that the station master could find - it was heavy - took a couple of workers to move it to the station masters office - when the station master broke the lock - inside was full gold coins - the station master filed out a report - that was the last heard of the chest - probably the Kruger millions everyone is looking for.
It's only a part of the millions they're all over KZN and former Afrikaner settlements, I'm Zulu and happen to know a few sites. It's said that many Boers used Zulu witch doctors to enchant these sites to keep neighboring Zulu clans and farm workers from accessing it, which is what surprised me about Athol's story that they used used izangoma to locate that stash
Always the interesting content that you don’t often see. I might have to take a few tips.
Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan.
I grew up on a farm in Botha's Hill and lived there for 21 years. We often had people coming to the farm, claiming they knew that gold was buried there. Our neighbors farmed vegetables, and it was rumored that they had dug up their whole farm looking for it.
long ago i was working at a restaurant next to the highway N4. one day a black man came to me and showed me a kruger gold coin. He said he picked it up nearby and was shown where it is in a dream. He didnt want to sell it to me. And left.
Wow
I wish we knew each other I would have talked to him and had a few beers and he would have up the secret and you and I would be rich tosay😂
Voetsek with this Kruger “pound” this is the Kruger RAND
Don’t show your ignorance, you ate embarrassing yourself. At that time the country was using British coinage - POUNDS.
It was pounds. Ur wrong
These types of comments and their replies make my day😂
KRUGER POUNDS ----- forever you fool
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My brother used to stayed in Waterval Boven, and he had the idea that the Kruger Millions were buried in the grave yard of Waterval Boven.
I really enjoyed the story as i was not aware of it. Thanks for allowing me to learn something new today.
Klomp twak man
What about the ones found in Sabie and Graskop and Pilgrims Rest and Lydenburg and Dullstroom and White River And Hazyview what about the POTS of Gold found there? You guys only have half of the info i see
I think there’s a particular mountain with meths in Hazyview. I think imma buy a drone and go search
What do you mean by "the one's found at...."?
@@denk4915what's meths
That's what many people in these comments seem to keep missing, there's a whole other part of this story that lies with us Africans that was only briefly touched upon on this documentary.
There was no Kruger millions.
The Boers was fighting a war,and need to buy guns,ammunition and supplies.
They have used the gold for that.
greed is the seed of evil
Anglosaxons rasised it to the 9th power.
This was amazing to watch. Well researched, written and executed 😇😇😇
Nice delivery
Now im going to go look for it. I live near it
That's a great gold story.
Nice documentary
Halfway through and I’m already hooked
New theory: The black servants who buried the boxes went back and took them. However, they were in a bind. If a black person in those days, up until after the end of apartheid, just showed up with a bunch of gold coins, they would certainly have been targeted by the authorities. So they stashed it themselves somewhere for many decades, until some of their descendants perhaps found them.
Holy crap, I just found out that that Fritz guy was sent here to Bermuda. There were several concentration camps set up here for the purpose. There is a legend that a certain local family had Dutch ancestry and would help out those who escaped form the camps. However, I spoke with a local descendant of that family and he claimed they had English ancestry, so that's a bit up in the air...
Nice documentary, but as a South African it’s the very first time I hear of this. Great tale though
Anyone who knows where a fortune is is going to for sure get it themselves or tell a loved one where it is.. it doesn’t just stay there. Strike it rich by ripping this dude off
Fascinating.
Cool mystery 😎
All left with kruger on a ship called"Gelderland". Gelderland? It speaks for itself.
41:49 did anyone else notice the Hyena in the background near the tree? 😂
Ilike these type of folklore stories.Reminds me when i was a kiddo stuck up in my grandfathers Varanda surrounded by fiction books of this genre and others.
I heard a rumour that the Brandwag had the gold, then transported it to Germany in the 30s where it was sent to Argentina after the war. Strangely enought, this is the least unbelievable theory out there.
Krugermillions..he took it with overseas
He ripped them off so hard
I know a secret.. and I know direct Family Blood line and I know what happened with the missing Kriger Rands... The story is half on par....
really...
Yes
I knw about your family
The Kruger millions or at least a part of it was found.
A Kruger rand is one of the most valuable and well known bullion coins worldwide. Oom Kruger can talk every language in the world.
I love the reenactments in this 😅
my great uncle on my mother's side of the family (my grandmother's brother) owned a big sheep farm in ermelo. There was always talk of the kruger fortune being buried on this farm, but honestly if it was, they wouldnt have had to sell the farm due to financial reasons as they did... still, there were no metal detectors in their time, so it may well have been buried somewhere on the farm.
That is the only Man in the world that could Win any argument for life, " excuse me Honey, Who took the the photograph "🤣🤣
I used to buy old coins. I was contacted by a young guy through my Facebook post. I went to see him in Pretoria in Mabopane. His grandfather was a sangoma. They showed me a lot of Kruger rands that I have never seen. They were Swati speaking original from Mpumalanga. They wanted 2 000 000 in cash for all of them.
Kruger Rands are not Kurger Pond. Kruger Rands are modern mintages.
the ZooLoo's got it all!
The Boer men were never sent to Bermuda 😂😂😂😂 they were sent to St Helena and Ceylon. What an entertaining story 😂😂😂
Actually they were also sent to Bermuda, go do some research...
The British sent about 4,619 Boer prisoners of war to Bermuda, where they were held on five islands in the Great Sound:
Darrell's Island: Held 1,100 men, including 27 officers, who believed the war should continue against the British
Morgan's Island: Held 884 men, including 27 officers
Tucker's Island: Held 809 men
Burt's Island: Held 607 men
Port's Island: Held 35 men and had hospital facilities
Some were definitely sent to Bermuda.
Seriously people the gold is long gone now you honestly think for a single moment that his families didn't know where the gold was put 🤔 and this just goes to show that he was never a trusted man of the Boer people and it was very much about his own benefits and interests of wealth and power and more than ever if his family does not know where the gold was put his 33rd freemason brother's will absolutely definitely know where the gold is and that gold will be very much long gone now.
South Africa has so much history but at schools children learn more about foreign history.Our education system is a mess.
Lets have more Boer history content! Fascinating! My husbands grandmother was captive in one of the concentration camps that were just as bad as those of WW2
Trust me, the Nazi concentration camps were a lot worse than the boer war ones! The Nazis gassed, shot, beat people to death on a regular basis! In the boer camps, it was more starvation and illness.
Dankie vir alles oom Kruger❤
He said he thought he was going to get robbed,, I thought he was going to rob them and term it business haha
The Kruger millions was hidden in the mountains near Barberton. It will cost alot of money to take it out.
Absolutely ruins the coins by wiping them with a cloth . This will give them hairlines wich is not wanted if your looking for any numismatic value
It went to Switzerland with Kruger 😅
That would not surprise anyone
@@acmlsrtvxacmlsrtvx3059 you think Switzerland is cheap ? Where did Kruger get the money to stay in Switzerland. Kruger was a crook he started a war against the greatest empire of the time with no hope of winning, and then went to live comfortably in Switzerland while his Volk was suffering from all the trouble he caused , he should have waited for WW 1 to happen and then started the Boer war just like Michael Colin's of the IRA and then got independence
@@wijpkeKruger started the war? While British troops were building on the Republic's borders?
@@georgekrause5661 Why would you make war against the greatest superpower of the time??They should have hidden all the gold and negotiated with the British. In 1914 just slightly more than 10 years later , without a doubt the Kaiser would have helped them.... Taking up arms is making war..
How did he drop the bag TWICE???? Never been so angry with a documentary before
Wherever Kruger is buried 😶 Switzerland
Kruger Rand is still the worlds highest Currency
It is possable that there is som of the coins somewhere. But I think, even if they try to ceep it secret it would leak ou somewhere, and we would hear of it. And if I found it, the anc will get 0.0000000000% of it. 😁
No one is taking about the slaves that buried the gold, why? They could have come back to dig it up.
I think they would done what the Nazis used to do
When they buried gold and other stuff in caves they would then execute the soldiers they used
@southernafricanboy4148 they may have. The Egyptians killed the burial group back a few times until no one knew. If you know too much, the mafia and the government black ops still do if you know the secrets.
There were no slaves at that time anymore. Slavery in SA had been abolished about 70 years earlier. Additionally, it was very rare for indigenous people to be enslaved (by the white settlers, at least). The East India Company in the 17th & 18th century brought slaves mostly from other parts of Africa, India, and the Far East.
@oubaas49 you are probably right, but I thought that I heard him say that the man released them. Could they have been in servitude?? I have studied the Boor War and the Zulu War many years ago. Anyway, this was an exciting story. Thanks for correcting me.
@@johnbethea4505 It is strange to say they were released from servitude; maybe they were indentured labourers. Who knows! But slaves - I don't think so. Anyway, I'm just an armchair historian! 😄 And let's not ruin a good story with facts.
I bet R1000... That Cool Story Bru.. Will use this within the next week or two 😂
I did my own research, lots and lots of new leads.
If there was a fabulous treasure, why didn't Duquesne return to SA and recover it? Hmmm Because maybe there wasn't a treasure. Alledgedly, he was one of the last people to actually see the treasure before it was removed from the train and buried.
The Kruger Millions have been found? Back in 2021if 1 remember correctly. They were dubbed "the lost hoard" and found in a swiss vault. Currently in possession of the SA Mint.
Why didn't they just keep it quiet until he found it
There were 60 burial locations, buried in a clock system around the lake
its Kruggers Rand not pounds, but what is sad is that they were fighting for resources in a continent of native Africans.
Where can i find this Sangomq😂😂😂
The Kruger coins are still there buried but now they are under water and soon will be discovered.
Rubbish. The market would have been flooded with Kruger Pounds during that time. Ermelo is also too far away from Machadadorp. Gold is heavy and a logistical challenge. Moving it to Ermelo under the circumstances at the time is highly questionable. It may be that a local Bank hid their cash around the small lake.
Ask Jan van Riebeeck 😅
WAR IS EVIL
It's the people who create them who are evil.
"His african servants" lol
Mmmmm... interesting - but, questions remain. Why were the coins only scattered around the Ermelo area... where is the photo taken by the wife?
What happened to those who had the gold depicted in this video - they seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth...
However, thanks for this video... it has reminded me of an unpublished tale I wrote some years ago that tells of the gold - I think I shall go and revisit that story and maybe revive it as a short story...
😮you can say that again
We dont get the beginning when the gentleman need a loan jus saying. )
The British invaded Transvaal not South Africa.South Africa came into existance in 1910 after the gold firlds of the Republic of tbe Transvaal was stolen.
One of South Africa founding fathers,what did he find exactly since South Africa has been here with it's inhabitants from the beginning of time
There is such a thing as society, he founded the boer country
He founded the Boër republic.
Which inhabitants? They are not all bantu - Western portion was bushman territory, Xhosa only entered Eastern Cape in 1700s, Bantu not from South Africa - Portuguese only found Bushmen in Natal, Natal was Bushman territory then the Zulu entered, called them San which means "Thief" in Zulu, chased the bushman out calling them thieves while being the thief and stealing their land. Today they do the same thing, Western Cape was NEVER, EVER bantu - tell us the name of the bantu kings from Western portion of South Africa - you cant, they dont exist, they never existed.
@@DJ-st4rsthe Portuguese found the Xhosa speaking people in Cape 14th century two hundred years before the Dutch bundits arrived. Ever heard of Bartholomew Dias?
A kruger pound weighs 7.98g if the zulu family picked up over 14700 coins thats over 117kg. And ran out? The gold as per its weight would be 4.7million at the R6000 per coin mensioned thats 88million.
Pound…Rand!
It was pound then
Rand only came into existence in 1961.
Also a Kruger rand and a Kruger pound are very different in size, gold percent and design
Just look at the books- Kruger earned vast amounts taxing the mining and related activities. Mining property, dynamite, alcohol, transport and even apricot jam were taxed. But on the other hand vast sums were spent on fortifications, railway infrastructure, explosives, armaments, cannon, rifles and other military equipment as well as the cost of waging war. I think Kruger, if he had the treasure, would have spent it on the Boers. I'm sure it was all used up waging war.
Interesting documentary, but I honestly don’t think that the gold existed…it would’ve been found years back more especially with our advanced technology, nonetheless I’m happy to have learned more about our rich history
Wives always have to be taking pictures at the worst time.
"Paul Kruger, one of South Africa's founding fathers" - What did he find???
The Union of the Boer Republics
I have 1 I'm a collector i bought it 4 or 5 years ago
A Sangoma is not a witchdoctor...that is a derogatory term....
Oh my lord it's hilarious how the world works. The other day I was having a conversation with someone about people who use salt to ward off bad energy, spirits and/or demons, etc.
And the whole conversation went down a rabbit hole where we eventually spoke about everything from priests to sangomas..layer the day it occurred to me that the word witch doctor is actually a little derogatory. But I also thought a bit about the origin of the word, I mean, back then the English were very Christian, and the idea of someone following any methodology of healing or spirituality other than Christianity and western medicine was categorized by the nearest proxy in Europe; Witches, or wiccans or however you prefer. So when Christian Europeans encountered the native healers of African tribes, the closest approximation they could make at first was _well obviously, he's their doctor, but he has methods that witches would use, and just like a witch, he's not Christian..so he's, uh, a witch-doctor_
Obviously I'm over simplifying and I'm definitely inaccurate on a ton of the subject matter, but it is interesting to speculate on the origins of these names and words.
Anyways, when I read your comment I just had to respond
Its on naburu
Where did the gold come from to make the coins
Africans Gold was shipped out to make the coins.
No they made it in Pretoria
That gold ended up in Britain......
I have 2 of those coins
Oh women ....she messed it up with the photo
i have seen them thousand of them we brought to me