Friends and neighbors; Thank you for allowing us, the wife and I, to be a part of your community I'm sure I will learn from you and I hope these files will not only increase you curiosity. My wife's name is Aggy and we both are novist to this exciting and new adventure. So without further ado lets get started with the first meeting of Tom and his wife Clarece.
It's Saturday, August 1, 2015 at around 7:30 a.m. when we arrived at a little country setting in Quitman, LA. It was a cool morning, birds were feeding out of homemade feeders that Tom made and had hanging all about the porch and yard. This was the first time meeting Tom and Clarece Caughlin who introduced us to a world of wonderment and fun. Tom is the Director of the GPAA in Louisiana and has been a prospector and treasure seeker since 2000, and this is our good fortune, and anyone else's that wants to know how to find treasure. Tom has a world of knowledge stored in his mind, and what's more surprising he is willing to share if you are willing to listen and work. Nothing is easy for sure, but in this case it was a delight to be in his company.
After the introductions, nothing doing, but we had to have coffee on their porch where the women got along famously, Ms Clarece is not shy in giving up information and stories herself. During the coffee our instructions became a mind blowing, jaw dropping experience and we hadn't even left the porch yet. Mr. Tom not only explained how he found gold and minerals, he showed us. I know some of you will be skeptical, I totally understand but once you hear what he did it will blow your mind. And folks I seen this work first hand. A few years back he went to Az for a competition for finding and locating gold. There was three of them in the finals. The other two had the highest price metal detectors on the market at the time and all Mr. Tom had was a pair of dowels and a pendulum, He won the competition because these two items only locate what you're looking for.
He is re-known his finding mines and treasure that has been actually located, but they had to use machetes to cut away the foliage. They would ask him when had been to these locations and his reply was," I've never been there!" He has found lead here in the state of Louisiana, where experts have declared there isn't any gold, lead or minerals in the state. Tom took his tool and using only a topi map not only located all of the above but also put an X where it could be found. All except the lead, for that he just circled the whole hill. Incase you've never heard of " The Lost Dutchman" in the Superstitions of Arizona this has been a theory that the mountain has so many mineral deposits even a compass won't give a true reading. And if you stand in Apache Junction and look at the mountain you will see a blue haze coming from the ground.