You need to go to Oak Island do the research look around and talk to the brothers. My first 35 years of researching I trashed in August 2017 because I was following everyone else in finding nothing. Yes! What they discover may have finally put Wayne on the right path to solving this 150 year old mystery. Relax and chill, you may find out you could actually be entertained. He would stay at his hotel, rest, shower and then head back out a couple of days in, a couple of days out. After five years of research and four expeditions, Arcana Exploration has not only found the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, but has been able to match the most accepted clues with the physical evidence on the ground. So we kind of know what he was thinking and doing there, Cooper said. See more in Season 1, Episode 1, \"Secrets of the Lost Map.\"#LegendoftheSuperstitionMountains Subscribe for more from Legend of the Superstition Mountains and other great The HISTORY Channel shows:https://histv.co/SubscribeToHistoryFind out more about the show and watch full episodes on our site:http://www.history.com/shows/Check out exclusive The HISTORY Channel content:History Newsletter: www.history.com/newsletterWebsite - http://www.history.comFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/HistoryTwitter - https://twitter.com/historyThe HISTORY Channel is the leading destination for award-winning original series and specials that connect viewers with history in an informative, immersive, and entertaining manner across all platforms. all the monuments weavers needle, bullpass, dagger, horse head, are five miles in size. Over the last five years I have read close to 100 books plus other literary and research material regarding the history of the Superstition Mountains and its many inhabitants and visitors. Then, to recoup the cost of the failed expedition, Thomas started selling maps that she claimed would lead people to the mine. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. And people have been hunting for the mine since 1892. Just one day into his journey, he disappeared. Whether it be boulders, bandits, cliffs, the weather, or a curse, no gold is worth the risk. Nickel/Gold and the only parts of natural Gold/Quarts are the inlays. Written documentation, including books, historical documentationboth Jesuit and Spanish records (diaries, journals and secretarial expedition logs). I have been able to piece together much of the overreaching story. Some of these are very important; for now, there are at least six that are extremely relevant. Cooper said Capen's undoing was likely the result of heading out in search of lost gold alone. We do only what is permitted which includes not mining for gold. The Lost Dutchman story actually begins in the 1800s when the wealthy, Mexican Peralta family came to the region to work mines under a Spanish land grant. He said before his partner was killed, they stayed in a cave above and across from the mine either 200 feet or 200 yards. I am not sure of the original source, but it has been said that below the cave is a water tank. So Gary share something with us that you have found that will not give away your site, as we do. A green horn just goes out there and finds the best mine. Recent posts have coincided nicely with the Travel Channel show Ghost Adventures. Id send pics . Waltz said there is trick to his trail and no miner will ever find his mine. "This is beyond obsessed," Burnett told the newspaper. And YES! Ridiculous, your clues dont even jive, they contradict themselves. Note, the 300 or so clues that Everyone says are part of the LDM clues well thats Hogwash. While the remains have yet to be positively identified, Cooper said hes confident the remains are that of Capen based on where the body was found, clothing found nearby and other identifying characteristics. Im sorry to burst your bubble there buddy but the Dutchman has already been found 10 years ago. I cannot and Will not give out locations or coordinates to the location of this canyon, because it it ever got out every yahoo in the country would be running wild and destroying everything inside that is well over 174-200 years old. We know where there are several samples of the actual rich ore from the candlebox under Waltz Death Bed at Julia Thomas Place..and Julia was not at his side when he died. Yes! Then late one night (2am) sitting at my desk alone in a darkened office there it was. Legend of the Superstition Mountains: S1E1 Secrets of the Lost Map. Something that would make sense to only you and I because we have been to the site. Our guys made two attempts to get up to the house but were stymied. 1) the XRF has been done on the matchbox. "As the story goes, Waltz met someone named Peralta who was looking for someone to return to his so-called family mine with him. i found everything, and i got millionaires involved. 11. First, I will list them, and then I will show some images from our site. At the time, "Dutchman" was a catch-all for anyone. It was known by several prospectors along Pinto Creek, in the early days, Beach and Kidd prospected the eastern end of the Superstition Wilderness Area. Its best for hikers and businesses that the mine not be disturbed and be left well enough alone. Hello Jeff, I too am from Ohio and an heir of Jacob Walz. His cadaver was never found. This is true, but there is something most people do not realize about this clue! For sure I will show that reading so there is no skepticism. This again is correct, but you have to see the place to understand what he meant. Lost Dutchman Mine, a 1989 video game for various platforms. After recording we discovered some more information about what happened with Kidd's will. I cannot give you all or most of my information because its best not to trust anyone on this, I might lose everything Ive worked so hard for. This is true and makes sense when you see them. It was loosely named Lost Deutschman or Lost German Mine, and to this day, anyone who researches or tries to find the gold are generally referred to as Dutch hunters. Not available. I thank you for helping keep my uncles spirit alive. and with one day to go (Sundays singles matches). Note, you are in that group of Finders but you havent found the LDM. the I also am a big believer in fate, and I have good feeling. Meanwhile two Canadians, claiming to be blood brothers of Kidd, contested the will. Your email address will not be published. That is when Dick Holmes got the ore from the candlebox. Until now, that is. You will have a different outlook after doing your homework. I am somewhat doing that with our book. I spoke with Greg Davis about asking the owner of the matchbox for a one time XRF scan, and perhaps also the one piece of ore said to be from the mine. Some believe he was slain for his gold, another story tells of a man who dropped him off in the Superstitions and continued to check on him each month until he perished. 10,323 views Nov 10, 2018 227 Dislike Share Save Terry Carter 40.2K subscribers Wayne Tuttle. Yes! 2. At the time, "Dutchman" was a catch-all for anyone. I have been reading up and watching everyones YouTube videos. https://superstitionmountainmuseum.org/exhibits/jacob-waltz-lost-dutchman-exhibit/#:~:text=If%20Waltz%20had%20a%20rich,the%20home%20of%20Julia%20Thomas. I have ran a few buckets of material to confirm if there is a parent gold source up a particular canyon I have explored. Nevertheless, it is there. * The cave Waltz and his partner most likely stayed in is above the mine and to the side. i just love to read about it and see sites that are discovered i was stationed at the army post in 1964 there at sierra vista read the lost dutchman mine book when i was 15 years old in san antonio tx in jr. high got hooked then on the book heard a lot of stories there in az when i was there i just love to read and hear about it true or not does not matter to me henrypoff1945@yahoo.com, Its not in the superstitiions. But our tale will be told honestly, and if we are wrong, that will be shared completely, it would be part of the story. Fences, 24-hour guard, and an onslaught of people wanting to get rich quick. He immigrated to the USA in the 1840s and became a naturalized citizen in 1861. You are exactly correct, about Julia being gone the moment he died, I guess I was thinking of new people to the Dutchman Story, and I was think figuratively, that she was him ( in spirit until the end). And heck yea we want book sales, that is the best way to market and possibly get additional revenue. Thank you Matthew for the kind words and safe wishes. You risk your life anytime you go into any mountain range, but I believe you're gonna go until you can't do it again. Around 2002, I reconnected with a number of people and found a couple of guys who I felt comfortable with and trusted to go back into the mountains with. She was out getting a doctor. If that passes, then we can XRF Test it. Yes! Waltz, who died without revealing the mines location, reportedly shot people who followed him as he returned to it for more gold. In Mrs Corbins book, she mentioned Jacob Waltz saying he covered the tunnel entrance with a large rock inside the canyon so no one could get into the canyon easily. The book is done to this point and I am reaching and writing most everyday. Like Us On Facebook | Follow Us On Twitter | Contact The Author. The clues that are most generally accepted by Dutchman scholars are a good place to start, and it will make the most sense to start with the clues that pertain more directly with Jacob Waltz. I was thinking she was his caretaking during his last six months, until the end, I should have been more specific, she was there for him, just not at the last minutes of his life. We need to bring a golf range finder on our fifth trip, to record distances. More petitions flooded into the court, some of them merely facetious and invalid, others from reputable organizations like the American Society for Psychical Research. His name appears on several California census records. I have no heirs and have not been married in my life and after all my funeral expenses have been paid and one hundred dollars to some preacher of the gospel to say fare well at my grave sell all my property which is all in cash and stocks with E. F. Hutton Co., Phoenix, some in safety deposit box, and have this balance money to go in a research or some scientific proof of a soul of the human body which leaves at death I think in time their can be a Photograph of soul leaving the human at death, James Kidd.". The book is still being added too, we were back there in 2019, and I have not yet shared that trip, that is for a latter date. One good pic would make it so Scotty, Well since the intervention of Google Earth and using the pony for your map you can almost pinpoint it within 500 feet. Thank you Jeff. Me personally, I dont think Jacob had his own mine, he did state no one will ever find my mine. By 1864, Waltz was prospecting in Arizona and is reputed to have found a gold deposit near the Superstition mountain, known now as the legendary Lost Dutchman Mine. We show photos that will not give away the site, but that do correlate things to our site. On Saturday, years after Capens Jeep, wallet, backpack and cellphone were found by hikers, volunteers from the Superstition Search and Rescue finally located what they believe is Capens body. There are many who believe that after a 135+ years that if it exists, it would have been found by now and that the LDGM is nothing more than a fairy tale or that it already has been found and is near the old Goldfield mine. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Barry Storm's book did more than anything yet to perpetuate the mythical Lost Dutchman Mine. I think it is fun to explore the Superstition Wilderness and can be quite challenging. The rich will merely bribe the government and the entire superstition mountains will be ruined. Eventually a decision of October 20, 1967, awarded the Kidd funds to the Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona. But all in all, it is still an intriguing myth/legend. He also said his shaft and the Mexicans shaft were very close together, but when you stood at either shaft you cannot see the other shaft. Back at you buddy boy- So you think from what we have posted that like you we have also found the LDGM, and you want to protect it from the folks. Armed with a new clue that could unearth the location of the famed Lost Dutchman Mine, lifelong Dutch Hunter Wayne Tuttle, leads a team into Arizona's Superstition Mountains in search of. Yes! Apparently this was not possible at the time. If anybody ever did find the mine they would be quietly getting rich and wouldnt ever dream of stringing honest people along like this. You dont have to give away any locations, or show pictures that might give too much info. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. In a map called the Peralta Tesora Mappa (seen in the slideshow below), there are numerous drawings, "x" symbols, arrows and a giant heart. Wayne Tuttle is on Facebook. I knew where it had to be. photo by Reddit user pretzeloverlord. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Department sent a helicopter to the side of the cliff, and deputies rappelled down to a skeleton, which was retrieved in a wire basket. He died on October 13, 1891 and was buried in the Southwest corner of City Cemetery. His parents recognized the teeth they had paid dentists to repair, but they couldn't find their son's dentist. I'll be at peace with it when I get to that point. 0:57. Adolph Ruth likely had the Gonzalez family copies of those two maps. I found the dagger, needle, and horsehead to be over five miles in size. We are going this Winter, so the ending has not yet been written. It had to be up there. Yes! Perhaps we can meet sometime. The fact you have this site is proof to me that you are simply mining for book sales. Ill buy your book as Im in Australia and have been following searchers over the net for years so your book will be enough proof for me thanks very interesting read and well explained how you got to where you are now. In 1868, Jacob Waltz was living as a humble farmer on the North bank of the Salt River which runs through Phoenix. Other than the Hank Dandrea map it is one of the only original surviving maps out there that can be tested. *After our third trip we learned that you can no longer fly drones in the Superstition Mountains; the Tonto National Forest does not allow it. It was loosely named Lost Deutschman or Lost German Mine, and to this day, anyone who researches or tries to find the gold are generally referred to as Dutch hunters. 7. "The Lost Dutchman" Ray Harlan & Sonny, the burro, The grave is located at 1317 W. Jefferson Street in the "Masonic Cemetery" section of Phoenix's historic Pioneer & Military Memorial Park. Yes! Mike do we have the Dutchman mine, I believe, we really do, because of the overall entities we have, but we are not done gathering proof. Do I think we have the LDM,,I do. He has a website on how over 15 years he worked out the historical references plus the geology. Required fields are marked *, Hohokam and the Aztec culture that predates Montezumas era in central Mexico, Welcome to the Lost MineProperty of Jacob Waltz. The Perfill Map is quite real. What they discover may have finally put Wayne on the right path to solving this 150 year . The Latin Heart is a Treasure Trove of individual vaults set in the shape of a Heart, which was made from the tailings of the 9 plus mines in the canyon. There are certain things to look for in the mineralization and the matrix. Maybe don't go looking for lost treasure in the Superstition Mountains. "Delbert Daley of Miami retrieved the bottle but returned it to the river, not connecting the name with the lost prospector. Three years ago, a Denver bellhop ventured into Arizonas Superstition Mountains determined to find the Lost Dutchmans Mine, an elusive, vast gold reserve that has lured prospectors since the 19th century. Even if it passes all of that, it is not 100% that it is LDM Ore. Not 100%, but it will be enough to be taken more seriously than the multitudes of others that appear online claiming to have found the LDM. "Waltz said it was a vein of gold surrounded by hematite in quartz," according to Tuttle. This is one thing the government does not want to have to deal with. Watch on The reported mine was dubbed Lost Dutchman around 1892 after Waltz died. I have been surprised at the volume of the historical information pertaining to the LDGM, and the extent of applicatory information that many of these clues have contained within them, that directly matches our land-site. I will watch for other posts and chatter about the mine and wish good luck and safe prospecting to all who venture forth. Is there any more info about your book? But like Ben Crenshaw said in the 1999 Ryder Cup matches live on TV after Saturdays, matches. The most recent was done this past spring. They allegedly hid one or more caches of gold in the Superstition Mountains. I too an am explorer, member of prospecting clubs and am very connected to the community. Id sure like to known what the results came up with. We do not have a specific identification at this time, Gerchick said. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Explorers traveled to the New World in search of gold, jewels, the fountain of youth, and much more, and it seems as though - along with the plague and theft of native lands - treasure hunting it in our blood. Let me guess Copper/Gold We took a compass reading, and when looking directly out of the mine opening, it reads 220 degrees, and late in the day the sun does shine into the mine. In THE LEGEND OF THE SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS, veteran Dutch Hunter, Wayne Tuttle, continues his 40-year search for the Lost Dutchman mine, but this time he's taking on partners in order to follow a . Yes! Meet Wayne Tuttle. Arcana Exploration has done this; keep in mind that we continue to find new things that match. At the age of 13, Trevor Tuttle sat at a campfire at the base of the Superstition Mountains, listening intently to the lore of the Lost Dutchman Mine's legendary, cache of gold. They won almost every match on Sunday. He and his son had searched California's Borrego Desert for gold, but they found none. It was never Peraltas Mining the North Trending Canyon, it has been Jesuit Priests and there is way more Jesuit Treasure than just a few Holy Artifacts. On History channel's series "Legend of the Superstition Mountains," a team of adventurers led by hunter Wayne Tuttle (pictured above) is following clues, including those on a mysterious map, hoping they'll hit pay dirt of what's considered America's most famous and deadliest buried treasure. On our next trip in October of 2016 we got one of the drones up the canyon and have some great 4k images, but they are proprietary for now and will be used in our book. The window to find it is rapidly closing. Lost Dutchman Gold Mine: Does 'X' Mark The Spot? Eric "the real deal" Deleel is original from a little town in northern New York called Massena. They were all but toast and went on to pull -off a huge upset. Legal Statement. Read more. Tom Kollenborn, a cowboy, prospector, author, scholar and Renaissance man whose encyclopedic knowledge of the Superstition Mountains made him one of the world's foremost experts on the . Our team did make two attempts to reach the stone house at the head of the north trending canyon, but they were repelled. This makes sense, but there is also a time line here. It's considered to be the most famous "lost mine" in the U.S. and yet, it's never been found. Today people want to travel vicariously, hence, Gold Rush and all these reality shows. And in the Superstition Mountains outside Phoenix Arizona, rockhounds and treasure hunters have been searching for the Lost Dutchman Mine since 1892. Thousands have searched, some have died, all in pursuit of one thing: treasure. He prospected and worked as a miner in the mother lode country of California for eleven years. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. "..Jack Sanfelice's Lost Duchman story among the most read stories of 2014 of East Valley Independent Newspaper " Read more The lost Breyfogle mine, also one of the most famous lost mines of all, was found and is today known as the Amargosa mine in CA. We get at least three or four every year. You cannot see the tank from the mine. Armed with a new clue that could unearth the location of the famed Lost Dutchman Mine, lifelong Dutch Hunter Wayne Tuttle, leads a team into Arizona's Superstition Mountains in search of America's deadliest treasure. Well, if you did then you would know that Jacob Waltz used a tunnel to climb inside of that took him into the canyon, not his canyon but Jesuit Priests Canyon. There was no sign that Jesse had been shot. ggriffin@flprospects.com. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Just because no one has found the lost Dutchman . Part of the reason for this is that the topography immediately surrounding the mine is so severe and dangerous that it can take days to explore short distances. "Waltz said it was a vein of gold surrounded by hematite in quartz," according to Tuttle. We call em Dutch hunters out here, said Superstition Search and Rescue Director Robert Cooper.