For 90 years, fortune hunters have been seeking a legendary outcrop of gold in the Australian desert

In 1930 Harold Lasseter claimed he'd discovered an enormous deposit of gold in the remote interior of Australia, and a small group of men set off into the punishing desert in search of a fortune estimated at 66 million pounds. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of Lasseter's reef, one of the most enduring legends of the Australian outback.

We'll also reconsider the mortality rates of presidents and puzzle over an unlocked door.

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