The Pitt Lake Legend
Gold & Ghosts

Almost every corner of British Columbia has experienced some of this provinces rich and colorful mining history.  With that history comes the inevitable legends.  Legends of murder, mayhem, hidden fortunes and mysterious lost gold mines.  For the most part, legends of hidden fortunes and lost gold mines have had a tendency to incorporate murder, deception, betrayal, and some aspect of the supernatural into their story.

One of the most famous of British Columbia's elusive fortunes that contains a captivating blend of mythological intrigue is the fabled Lost Pitt Lake Mine.  This legendary mother lode is also known by other names such as, The Lost Creek Mine, Slumach's Lost Gold Mine and Jackson's Lost Creek Mine.

According to legend, hidden somewhere in the southwestern region of British Columbia, beyond the head of Pitt Lake, lies a creek so rich in placer gold that it literally defies imagination.  Nestled somewhere in those steep and treacherous mountains with their deceptive unforgiving glaciers is the elusive mother lode of mother lodes.

Since its conception in the late 1880's, countless prospectors and fortune hunters have searched in vain for this elusive creek of gold.  In their quest for fame and fortune at least 25 of these unfortunate souls have died or simply vanished into the wilderness never to be seen or heard from again.
 
In 2004, a feature length documentary film based on R.W. [Rob] Nicholsons' independent research into the Pitt Lake legend was conducted by Mineworks Films, a European film production company. The name of the documentary is Der Fluch des Indianergoldes  'The curse of the Indian Gold'.   For your consideration we have posted Mineworks Film Trailer 'Slumach's Gold'.  There are several site locations on this trailer that may be of further interest to researchers; This film frame copied from the film trailer is a prime example.

  

Several chapters of R.W. (Rob) Nicholsons' book: Lost Creek Mine - Historical Analysis Of The Legendary Gold Deposit Of Pitt Lake has been posted for your review and consideration.