Gold Beneath the Mountain

In 1983, three men searching for a lost Spanish treasure witnessed a mysterious green aura above a ridge in Oklahoma's Arbuckle Mountains. Roy Sheen was one of them. More than forty years later, he still believes the treasure is there.

It began with a stranger walking into Roy's detector shop, looking for equipment that could find metal deep underground. That encounter drew him into an expedition where the promise of buried gold tested the men's judgment, strained their friendships, and put their safety at risk.

Roy carried a cassette recorder throughout the hunt. Nearly two hundred hours of recordings preserved the voices of people caught between belief and doubt-their arguments, excitement, fears, and determination to keep searching.

Decades later, those aging tapes began to break. Restoring them saved the conversations that helped Roy bring this story to the page.

Gold Beneath the Mountain is his firsthand account of an extraordinary search, told through his memories and the voices recorded along the way. It follows the men up the mountain, into danger, and through the moments that made walking away so difficult.

The expedition ended. The hunt never did.