John Tornow Oxbow Strongbox — Wynoochee

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John Tornow Oxbow Strongbox — Wynoochee

Lost Treasure WA • Grays Harbor County County
Description
1912 Olympic Peninsula legend of "Wild Man of the Wynoochee" John Tornow burying a $15,000 strongbox from Jackson's Grocery near a fish-fin boulder at Oxbow — searched endlessly after his death, never found.
Historical Notes
John Tornow lived as a wilderness hermit in the Wynoochee and Satsop country before a 1911 shooting incident made him the most hunted man in western Washington. He robbed Jackson's Country Grocery strongbox and told Deputy Quimby before dying that it was buried at Oxbow by a fin-shaped boulder on the horseshoe bend of the Wynoochee. Dam construction may have altered the river; Legends of America notes the cache lies within Olympic National Forest country.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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