Help Edwina Margrave find her grandfather`s hidden treasure in this exciting Hidden Object Adventure game! Edwin Margrave was a famed treasure hunter, whose ship disappeared mysteriously over a decade ago. Now, the ship has reappeared and it’s up to Edwina to figure out what happened. Learn about the legendary treasure and follow the clues to discover the secret of Margrave Manor 2: Lost Ship!

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Two years ago, I received a mysterious phone call to my office in Palm Springs.

A man on the line told me he needed to speak to the editor of Dezert Magazine, John Grasson.

'I don't know anyone here by that name,' I said.

The confusion was understandable. Out here in the California desert, there's a historic regional publication Desert Magazine, now defunct, as well as my publication, DESERT magazine, which I oversee as part of the USA TODAY Network.

That day, I learned of a third version: Dezert Magazine, published from 2010 to 2014.

The man asked if I knew about the lost ship of the desert. I didn’t. He said he had a picture of himself sitting on the vessel as a kid.

I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about, and he wouldn’t offer more information since I wasn’t John Grasson. So, we hung up. I haven’t spoken to him since.

But I did track down Grasson — and the legend of the lost ship.

It sounds implausible at first: a ship in the middle of the desert? And yet local lore abounds. Could it be buried beneath the Salton Sea? Imperial Valley?

Theories range from Spanish to Viking, and everything in between.

But what started as a chance encounter eventually turned into a two-year journey across Southern California and down to Baja, as I discovered oral tradition shapes this story differently, depending on where – and who – you are.

To this day, people continue to be pulled in by the tides of the lost ship legend – as much a reflection of the desire for solitude that defines homesteaders in this region as it is a reminder that settlement originally came at a colonial cost.

To forge that connection, I spent time in Baja with Desert Sun photojournalist Omar Ornelas, who has covered the U.S.-Mexico border for 15 years, to conduct interviews in both English and Spanish. As a bilingual Mexican man, Omar holds an innate understanding of culture clashes – and coherence. He has a different view of the past.

Our team also included travel expert Rick Marino, a band tour manager often found in Mexico’s border towns.

Brandy Menefee, a documentary storyteller, captured the entire journey with her cameras.

Mexican journalist Sergio Caro piloted a drone, Rhiannon Cooper offered audio assistance and Karina Castañeda served as an onsite translator.

This story began as a treasure hunt. But for me, a white woman, it ended in lament.

So often, we view the world through the prism of our own experience — our own history, privilege and doubt. Wander far enough out into the desert, and there’s both romance and ruin hidden in the vast expanse.

You might just find what you’re looking for.

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Kristin Scharkey is the features editor at The Desert Sun and the editor of DESERT magazine. Reach her at kristin.scharkey@desertsun.com or on Twitter @kscharkey.