Dusty Desert Trails - E2 - Exploring Barker Ranch
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2018
- Staring Ed Czajka (My Dad)
This is a History Mini-Series covering the desert near Balarat, CA. So much history is overlooked in this area especially related to the 49'rs that escaped Death Valley through the area.
Full series episode list can be found here:
edwardczajka.blogspot.com/201...
On this adventure, we tour the Barker Ranch where Charlie Manson was captured on October 12, 1969. We also explore the area around the ranch where the family had several bunkers to observe the area. We also show what the area looked like before it burned down in 2009.
Still pictures by Jim Mcleese
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Original Building History:
Bluch and Helen Thomason began construction of Barker Ranch around 1940. It was originally used as a storage and shop facility to support their mining activity in the area. They constructed a small cabin and out building, with electricity provided by a windmill and generator, and drinking water from a nearby spring. In 1950, Bluch Thomason died and the ranch became a seasonal vacation property.
The ranch was sold to James and Arlene Barker of Oklahoma in 1955. The Barkers engaged in gold and uranium mining in the area through the rest of the 1950s and the 1960s. To accommodate their family gatherings, the Barkers enlarged the house and constructed more buildings.
My dad had a mine in the area at the time. He ran into Charlie a few times on the road. They knew each other by name. I was with him once but to young to remember. He talked about them acting crazy and running around naked. Scary times. Thanks for sharing this.
Wow, was your dad surprised when they were arrested? When he found out what the girls and them did, I mean.
Sad to see the ranch destroyed, I was there in the 90’s and it was in good shape, spent the night. There was spring water piped down to the front and watering an orchard and I fixed some of the piping to continue watering all the trees. The tile was on the floor and you can see the shotgun blast in the floor that a sheriff had an unsafe discharge. Glad I got a lot of photos of the ranch before the fire.
Could you post them please would be good to see the house
yes, please post the photos..leave a link.thanks
I became obsessed with the Helter Skelter crap when I was 16, back in 1990. I couldn't get the information from my mind for YEARS. Watching this footage gives me chills.
I guess that's why I re-visit the Spahn Ranch and death valley every so often. Also, because in my mind, I am so intrigued to go back in that time. I still watch old videos of Sharon Tate as well.
Maybe it's because of that era that draws me. THIS is the FIRST video that has actually shown Way more artifacts than I could have ever asked for. Thank you SO MUCH!!!!
I read the books by Susan and Tex in 1988. Those books reveal the parts that people are still afraid to talk about. The part where Manson mentions Fard's cult. The master mind is W.D. Fard. L. Ron Hubbard developed Fard's theology into Dianetics. Manson and the NOI were the first to be audited and Manson was released after becoming OT Clear. The Manson Family carried out orders given through Fard's teachings. The first slayings began in Detroit, 1933. Zebra, Zodiac, and Helter Skelter are all connected to the same network. The call to activate Fard's plan was given in Harlem by Amiri Baraka and Sun Ra in 1968. It's called A Black Mass. Helter Skelter was only a cover up for Zebra, which is an obvious code for black on white provocation.
I would LOVE to go there🤭 unfortunately I live in Alabama (town with 2,000 people) I’ve been trying to get out and make my way to California since I was first saw the beautiful landscape when I was looking at pictures of the Manson family, I’ve been interested since I was a kid! I’m 19 now and still trying to get free. I also think about Sharon a lot, she was very beautiful and had a fruitful life ahead of her I’m sure. Also have you read the book “my life with Charles Manson” by Paul Watkins? It’s amazing and gives so many new details, and it’s in audio form on UA-cam! Or goodbye helter skelter is another good one.
Best video of the area to date.
In younger years I made a few trips exploring around death valley. About 1991 after a trip to oregon, on my way back to colorado, I drove from Lone Pine through Keeler, stopped to check out Ballarat town site, then drove up Goler wash, found an old vw beetle body at a turnout that led to the Barker ranch main house maybe 100-150 feet beyond. At that time the main house looked in relatively good shape with a fresh exterior paint job. Continuing up the road to Mengel pass I noticed what looked like a dumping site in a ravine behind the house, with lots of tin cans, old pipe, mattress springs, other junk. After reading a couple books about the manson family when I was a teenager, it was interesting to get out to see that area.
You are an excellent tour guide thank you for sharing this with us!!
It's real cool of you to leave the items you found behind where you found them.
Too bad others have not done so. - Have a beautiful day!
Thanks to Ed's wife and son for maintaining this history. Loved hearing Ed's stories again. Thank you.
Thanks for the video.
I enjoyed watching it.🤠👍🌞
This is absolutely FANTASTIC , thanks for sharing !!! New Subscriber
So interesting. Thank you.
You're a great tour guide. Fun and interesting to watch and listen to.
Awesome video!! 1 of the best!! 👏👏
Finally the best most complete picture and story of the people and area around the barker ranch. I always wanted to know more and it finally happened. Thank you very much for probably the most complete facts
Absolutely loved this video!!!!!! So informative!!! The video was clear and the sound excellent!!! Thank You!!!!!😘
An interesting story about the Manson family.
My mother was a nurse at Goleta Valley General Hospital in the 1970's.
I don't remember the year except early '70's. Anyway, 3 people were sleeping on the beach in Isla Vista and they were attacked by someone or someones with a hachet. Two died on the beach, the other died a day later in the ward my mother worked. She said his brain had sand in it.
There were no clues to the murders. Years later some Manson members claimed that they had done it but then refused to talk.
The case has never been solved as far as I know.
On July 5th 1970, three young men, Thomas Victor Dolan (17) of Manhattan Beach, Thomas Hayes (19) of Hermosa Beach and Homer Clyde Shadwick (19) of Saginaw, Michigan were discovered by a passer-by on a beach in Santa Barbara, that straddled the University of California Santa Barbara building at Campus Point. Two of the young men had succumbed to their injuries, while the third, Thomas Hayes had been rushed to hospital in nearby Goleta in critical condition, after the three appeared to have been subjected to a frenzied attack with a bladed weapon while camping out in their sleeping bags on the night of the July 4th 1970. Fortunately for Thomas Hayes, he survived the brutal assault.
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My friend and I visited the ranch in September of 1970 and it looked like they had just left. Fantastic trip.
I already saw a video on the barker ranch, the ranch was not covered as extensively as your video.
This is the best I have seen on the ranch very interesting thank you 🌸
Outstanding video and great storytelling!
Great knowledge and best video of Barker Ranch.
I really enjoyed that the man knows his shit i live 3 miles west of where the old sphan movie ranch was now that place has a lot of history from the late 30s up to mid 70s.
EXCELLENT! Really enjoy, thanks. Waiting for more episodes.
Great tour guide , this is the best video of this area and very informative, thank you so much
Thanks for the History story very interesting
I ''Love'' this Video!!
It really capture's the History of the Manson Family when I was a small Child..
The best video of Barker Ranch on UA-cam. Thank you for the awesome tour! ✌🏻
Very interesting tour. Thank you... 👍
Red shirt guy is a great story teller! ❤️
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Awesome video...very informative...Thank you.
Excellent video. Thanks for the tour.
Really looking forward to your next episodes. Grew up in Ridgecrest. Spent plenty of time around Death Valley. Thanks for the efforts!
Next episode is highlighting Surprise Canyon, and the stagecoach stops.
That was cool to watch👍🏻
Great video series, thank you. Look forward to more. Love the story of you and Grandpa and the IT on the lake bed, I Rode and IT 400 as well. Awesome description of the ranch.
Thank you for this tour!❤️❤️
I like mining stories glad you know your stuff I really enjoyed you showing all of this and your information I just subscribed to you also ❤️
Fantastic mini series, thanks! I've visited Ballarat and many of the mining areas in the Panamint mountains but these videos really shined the light on much of the history. Really cool seeing the dirt bikes going up Surprise Canyon and also the background info on Barker Ranch. It would be great to learn a bit of history about your dad and his knowing the Ballarat area really well!
Thanks for your tour and stories of the Barker Ranch. We love to camp in Death Valley in our 4x4 truck camper, as there is so much to explore and see. I'm glad I got photos of the inside of the ranch house in 2007. I blog about places to camp in Death Valley at Making Trax Camping and have shared your link to this informative video, thanks.
Very, very informative, thanks.
Excellent Video Thank You So Much 😊
Great video!
Great video Sir that was interesting and fun.
Great video
Very interesting video.
nice work !
Thanks!
nice video, wish I could do a tour to Barker Ranch and Spahn Ranch with you hahahah Cheers from Brazil !
Good video. Thanks
I hope they find the body's their family's need closure, I lost my 20 year old daughter in a auto accident she was killed 8n impact...I thank the LORD GOD we had closure. People come up missing daily it's like they're there one min gone the next never to be seen again. I am heartbroken for their family's it matter's not how old a person is they are still sons/daughter's; aunt's/ uncle's; sibling's; husband's/ wife's and I'm positive they have never stopped looking regardless of year's gone. Its when one files Absentia paper's that reality hits home they may very well be dead. I pray for ALL who had a loved one go missing. Here's wisdom...the LORD GOD knows and HE shall vindicate those responsible. GOD BLESS YOU I pray you can have peace within, I know a way to truly have it too..CHRIST JESUS. 💓
Great vid
Nice video been there but never seen all that thanks
I loved this. Subscribed.
Satisfactory!
Great guide
great video
Fascinating.
Awesome video never seen this one Barker ranch looks like it definitely been a good place to get away
There was a lot of miners up there from the 1920’s..including Barker Ranch, which was way before Manson family
I remember when that truck in the ravine still had the doors on it. I have photos of it.
wow thanks great video
Darn good host !
Their bunkers didn’t do much to help them I guess🤣. I enjoyed the explanations about the mining. Now those guys must have been interesting characters
That's a good looking truck the star is driving.
Excellent video! Great quality and very informative vs the many amateur postings using iPhones and cameras they don't know how to use.
By the way, I don't see a wireless mic on the tour guy, you must have used a decent shotgun type of mic to capture the sound quality. When he turns away from the camera, the sound is diminished...great effort and tour nonetheless...
@@drewlosch I noticed that diminishing of volume when the camera turned away too. Camcorders (probably since the 20-teens) often have a setting designed to greatly diminish the volume/boominess of the voice of the person operating the camera. I suspect such a setting was enabled.
@@drewlosch DSLR Camera with a shotgun mic and a wind filter, you are correct. I appreciate the comments
Really enjoyed this. Informative and good natured. Great to see the surrounding area. Any chance of a closer look at Myers Ranch? Looking forward to future instalments.
Myers Ranch is private property, and we were unable to reach the owners when we were there. Sorry.
WOW out of anything out there and I am even talking professionally made this has to be the most informative, entertaining and educational video! Thanks for making it. I am left at an awe moment
Manson was 5’2 - he was tiny
He shoulda gone to "Nam and fought the real "Charlie," running after them in their tunnels that could only accommodate little people. Edited to ask, what's the dif 'tween Spahn Ranch and Barker Ranch. I wonder also, who actually built it/when/before it was a movie set? So, it was a gold::0mit was a:'( Also, prehistory of that evil place. Ever been an archeological dig there? So,, it was a gold min? And some minion of Charlie left that booze for him in the canyon, for when he got out?
Ed, pleasure to meet you in Balarat last weeknd lotsd of fun with the cowboys pictures.Great job bringing back to life the History of this side of the Valley. Best Regards from Carmen, Miki, Sam and Gonzalo and thank you for the pictures, they look rad!
Damn good job bro, info I wasn't aware of watching from Ohio great job Smitty out 🙃
Interesting....a part of the story I didn't know about,I did know that there was a desert hideout but never seen it...
Great breakdown and archival of history.
I was there before the fire and filmed most of the area but it was an SD camcorder...
I walked past the big rock bunker, after it narrows up to the side canyon that goes up to the left. I got a really weird intuitive prompt to head up that canyon. It was dusk. At about 100' up I saw an old weathered S L 42 shell casing and some odd bones that had recently been uncovered by rain.
I didn't recognize anything that would confirm it was human so I assumed it was an animal taken by a hunter.
It was a bit freaky how I was led to that spot though. I wonder if that meant something considering the alleged past?
A month later I hear it was burnt down.
I thought those might be miner camps on the out skirts. I appreciate your sharing info on their operation.
Where did they get the gear and knowledge top set up a system like that?
Tex Watson: it’s not too late to fry his sad ass!🤬
But he is minister for God now! So he says !! 😮
I was up there in 79. Thought is was weird, didn't find out the history till the next day at work in Trona, co-workers filled me in on the history. The school bus was still there.
very interesting video..wonder if the park service offers tours....and if they don't , I wonder why they don't clean it up ..could make a museum with some of the bits and picecs and photos of the area...
I don’t think we need to spend tax dollars on a museum commemorating the madness and paranoia of Charles Manson.
Those bottles you show....look to be from the early 90's.
Looks like the "ole Dodge power wagon" was used as a target, I see some bullet holes in it.
This was the best video of the Barker Ranch I've seen. I don't care anything about CM, but the place is certainly interesting. It's depressing when you talk about the manson "family".
You should do a video about White Hills AZ
I'm a little late to the game. I just discovered your channel. Your dad is fascinating with his knowledge of history.
If you read this, could you tell me how to pronounce your last name phonetically?
Footage of the Manson Family at Barker Ranch circa 1970 (including, I think, the Orange Jeep shown in the old junk pile of old car parts): ua-cam.com/video/PrckZpSoRrQ/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Hey Ed. Is there any way to contact you. ? I want to make an amateur documentary on this. You seem really knowledgeable on the whole Manson family saga and their activities. Would love to talk to you. Thanks and let me know 👍👍
Could some one please explain the barcode thing to me. If 86 was the first 2 digits, and they depict the year, how did Manson get a hold of those bottles in 1971? They weren't even made. Or did he have someone buy those bottles in 86 and put them there?
It's BS !
I interpreted it as Manson said he figured he'd be out in 15 years, so the remaining Manson members not incarcerated bought the liquor and buried the bottles in or just after 1986 in anticipation of his release and return to Barker. Just a guess though.
Oh, that wacky, crazy family. I get the feeling that certain people thought they were a hoot...they were not.
Do you guys offer any tours of the area?
There was/is a group of Mansion followers who would meet up there on Halloween. There was also another Ranch owned by a Canadian which was close by. The Holloween just prior to me
visiting had been marked by the burning down of the Canadian Ranch House. Many strange things have happened up there I could FEEL it! When the Police etc. went back there some years ago
THEY knew full well other bodies had been disposed of but it had been TOO long to prove inconclusively (not to mention old Charlie had used some lime) not the type of lime used with Tequila either.
1986 is the year I moved to L.A. what a coincidence.....
Imagine how many times the cadaver dogs messed up on so many cases 😏😏
Was that a faded and bullet riddled "Helter Skelter" painted on the back of the power wagon box?
Manson would not have had liquor stashed in anticipation of his released. He didn't drink and frowned on those who did.
What caused the fire to burn the ranch?
Good morning.
Pancakes-YUM!
Do you know the history of Rita's cabin in Pleasant valley loop?
How did the ranch burn?
Why do you call them little look out spots bunkers? Was there armed people in them?
Where's the Bus???
Because it is in a national park you can not take or even move anything maybe that’s a good thing that has historical significance
Is there a well located at the ranch?
There is a spring nearby that was used to water the trees and everything else.
I can't believe he didn't mention that the back of the old truck read "Helter Skelter". It was aimed right at the camera.
Lots of errors in his version of the Manson Family at Barker. Too many to list, but the buried bottles of booze would not have been for any of the family as they actually didn't drink alcohol.
He needs to read some of the autobiographies of family members for more accurate info.
I don't think the family wrote that Helter Skelter on that truck. I think ranch visitors in later years added that.
@@sharonkrikorian5609 they drank.. so the alcohol that was left behind because manson thought when he got out he would return and had his drinks..
@@Regina0964 that's BS !
So just wondering why they chose the barker ranch to take over
They used both Meyer's Ranch (a little ways above and it belonged to the grandmother of a family member) and Barker. Charlie actually went down into the valley and gave the old woman who owned Barker's one of the Beach Boys framed gold records and a promise to take care of the ranch in exchange for her allowing the family to stay there. Technically, only Charlie and the family had the owner's permission to be there.
does anyone know anything about myers ranch? Is it still standing?
It is still up, Private Property
We also had wonderful happy carefree days out there. The family is old and dying off - Susan (Sadie) is gone, she was adorable and the memories of our very special times together are never far off, even if they were so long ago. It felt like we'd be young and live forever.
Who was your fav? Wasn’t this Cappy’s suggestion with family close by?
@@danielleward5770 Cappy suggested her grandmothers ranch Myers Ranch but they had to leave because her grand mother was coming back. It was then that they decided on Barker Ranch. Manson sweet talked the owner into letting him stay by giving her one of Dennis Wilson gold records.
nasty sadie
Did you know Susan Atkins personally?
It’s been 50 years so I’m surprised if you find any mattresses
What happened to the school bus