Neahkahnie Mountain Pirate Treasure

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Neahkahnie Mountain Pirate Treasure

Lost Treasure OR • Tillamook County County
Description
Oregon Coast legend of sixteenth-century pirates burying a chest at the base of Neahkahnie Mountain near Manzanita — marked with an inscribed rock and guarded in Clatsop oral tradition by a ghost buried with the loot.
Historical Notes
Tillamook and Clatsop traditions describe Spanish or pirate treasure hidden on Neahkahnie slopes in the late 1500s with a carved marker stone. A related legend tells of a Spanish ship lost in a 1679 storm with gold washing ashore at Nehalem Beach, where artifacts have fueled wreck theories. Oswald West State Park and Neahkahnie remain among the Pacific Northwest's best-known buried-treasure landmarks.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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