As from 1941 newspaper articles reported that suspicious prospectors. unsuccessful in the hunt for the bonanza, said that the Lost Creek Mine was cursed and that the gold better be left alone.
Not before 1951, sixty years after his death, the curse became known as “Slumach’s Curse" after an interview with Squamish Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano who also will have provided the Chinook words alleged spoken by Slumach. The chief added that Old Slumach's ghost guarded his mine and that it would be death to a white man to find it.
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