What do you think about this?
In 1891, a German immigrant named Jacob Waltz died telling stories of a gold mine hidden in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains. He drew maps. He named landmarks. He described ore so rich a single shovelful could change a life. Then he was gone, and the mine was never confirmed found.
Six months. That is how long Adolph Ruth’s body was lost in those mountains in 1931 before searchers found his skull. A bullet hole drilled clean through it. His skeleton was found later, in a separate place. No murderer was ever named.
Since then, dozens of seekers have gone in and not come back. Some claim they found the mine and could not return to it. Others claim they were chased out by figures in the cliffs. The Apache called the range sacred long before Waltz arrived, and their warning was clear. Do not dig where the mountain does not want to be touched.
More lives lost than any single gold find in American history. Yet people keep going.
Could it be the mine is real, and something out there is making sure no one ever takes it? Or is the mountain just a mountain, and we keep mistaking accident for curse?
What do you think about this? On May 20, 1967, a prospector in Manitoba walked up to a landed craft near Falcon Lake. It blasted him with hot gas and left a grid of burns on his chest matching its vents. Three governments investigated. Canada put it on a coin. Hoax, or the real thing?
What do you think about this? Serpent Mound in Ohio is a 1,348 foot snake of earth, its head aimed at the summer solstice sunset, its body built on the rim of an ancient meteor crater. One dating puts it right after Halley’s Comet in 1066. Sacred art, or a message for the sky?
What do you think about this? Since the early 1990s about two percent of people in Taos, New Mexico, hear a low hum like a distant diesel that never shuts off. In 1993 Los Alamos and Sandia scientists came to find it. Their instruments found nothing. Trick of the ear, or a hidden signal?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a retired air traffic controller cast footprints in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp: three webbed toes, a foot long. He had reported a seven foot gray haired creature with yellow eyes standing over a dead boar in 1963. Hoax, or the Letiche?
What do you think about this? For nearly three years beginning April 2, 1968, a glowing figure of a woman appeared on the roof of a church in Cairo, seen by crowds of tens of thousands, Christians and Muslims together, and caught in press photographs. Mass illusion, or a visitation?
What do you think about this? A 2,200 year old wooden bird dug up at Saqqara in 1898 has no legs, no feathers, straight wings and a tail that stands upright like the fin of an airplane. Some replicas glide. A child’s toy that looks like a plane, or a memory of something that flew?
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They told the tracker all he would find is his tombstone. But he kept looking and found gold. He named the town tombstone and legend is historical fact.
I think that Dan and Matt need a road trip????
the curse is real ,the mine is real … and people like to shot at other people out there . 6 great expedition , soon i will go back on my 7th expedition ,i have over 700 highspeed 800 FPS pictures of the mountain range ,you can no longer take film photo of the mountains …i also have a rare Aug 22 1895 news paper when the legend was first being hunted … stay safe stay free ,…..the Blindbowman ! Dutch hunter of 54 years …