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The Desert-Stranded Pearly Galleon
The Desert-Stranded Pearly Galleon, California, USA

Multiple accounts from American Indians claim of a lost Spanish galleon loaded with black pearls in the Mojave or Colorado Desert in California, USA. There are multiple accounts, legends and stories about the lost ship in this desert and some have even claimed sighting it. Some have even claimed taking pearls from the ship but every time a sighting has been reported, it seems to have moved, never to be

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