The Dutchman was actually the former mining engineer for for the Vulture Mine near Wickenburg, Arizona. Local lore has it that the Dutchman embezzled gold from the Vulture Mine, took it with him Traveled to Apache Junction . Stored the gold in a cabin, went into the superstition mountains, pretending to search for gold.. Came back from the superstition mountains, took a gold from his cabin, went to a local assayer declared he found the gold in the superstition mountains, and then came up with the fictional story of finding gold in the superstition mountains. Therefore, there was never any gold in the superstition mountains, discovered by the Dutchman.

@marcelcicort9671

Күн бұрын

Could be since otherwise they would have found it by now.

Love living next to the beautiful Superstition mountains! We have a Lost Dutchman festival every year.

@Midwest10

9 күн бұрын

But no balls to go looking for it

@dennisstephens4199

6 күн бұрын

​@@Midwest10 Troll

@rockdaddio69

4 күн бұрын

That campground is a work of art. People in that area have strong pride in the austere beauty of nature. They keep the narrow winding blacktop clean and smooth like the back of a snake. Sunrise over the Superstitions comes long after first light.

@nicholaslandolina

3 күн бұрын

Badass story

@Steven-wn2vx

9 сағат бұрын

I would love to visit there sometime

Fantastic video. 👏👏👏 I love these tales. My interest started when we bought our home in 1997. The house was built in 1912 and during some repair work on the main stairs, I found a small wooden box. In it was a folded piece of what I think is parchment, so pretty old. It’s definitely a map and mostly faded but under certain light we can see the name Weiss or Weise? We had it framed and it has pride of place on the stair wall. A friend who is a historian joked it was The Dutchman’s Map and that’s what sparked my interest.

@tw1356

Күн бұрын

The map the Dutchmen gave his friend, the true signature is located bottom right corner looking as a scribel.

@AlphaTheShadowWolf

5 сағат бұрын

have you checked it's authentication? have you looked into finding out more information about that map you have and seeing what the history is behind it? I would definitely the homework

I love these lost treasure stories! I love hearing stories about sunken treasures too! As a kid…. I used to always dream of finding pirates treasures from hundreds of years ago. As an adult, I stack gold and silver but it’s not the same as holding something old that was lost and could now be found. The allure of this story is that the treasure would be in its raw form!

@jacquelinevanderkooij4301

11 күн бұрын

🤣😂🤣😂😁

@adriantowe278

8 күн бұрын

I feel the same it would be nice

LOL - you do NOT lift up a chest full of gold ore as easy as the young snapper did in the movie 😅

@scottsmith5623

13 күн бұрын

EXACTLY what I thought!! But then they did say it was 48 lbs of ore…

@PepeCoinMania

11 күн бұрын

That was full of paper

@JB-rt4mx

8 күн бұрын

You mean like Mike Pence's photo op hand delivering Covid 19 supplies in large empty box's 📦📦📦📦🤣

@dasimparmy2289

5 сағат бұрын

TDS much? ​@@JB-rt4mx

@dasimparmy2289

5 сағат бұрын

​@JB-rt4mxOg yes because a photo op of a political event that happened 5 years ago is so relevant to a legend of a gold mine in Arizona. Lay off the crazy pills. They are living rent free in your head. 😅😂😅

Thanks for covering my state 😊 I grew up on the lost Dutchman mine in the superstitions

@Midwest10

9 күн бұрын

And didn’t find crap

@kc-gl9wv

8 күн бұрын

Grew up on what, dirt..lol

Not many videos I find that I interesting. This is an exception.👍

Az native here, I literally grew up searching for The Lost Dutchman in the early 80’s, as we called it, my Father’s a Prospector, we spent EVERY weekend & holiday out there gold panning & metal detecting, & I do mean EVERY free day, we were out there with the maps. My Father’s a MENSA member, he really thought he could find it, we never did but we sure did find a LOT of trouble!!! I’ve been shot AT, chased, had standoffs with psychotic old prospectors that ‘lived’ on the land… it’s actually VERY dangerous & I do NOT suggest that anyone go looking now either, sht’s only gotten worse with the invention of the internet. AZ is The Wild West, it’s NOT texASS or Montana or any of that WEAK sht, it’s ARIZONA. Don’t go poking around unless you want to find out 🔥

@scottsmith5623

13 күн бұрын

Now THIS is a story worth hearing!

@Thecodexnoir

13 күн бұрын

@@scottsmith5623 That’s funny, I’ve never thought about telling it as a story, it was just everyday life to me 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ll definitely think about that, I’m sure my father would find it entertaining 😆

@robertporch8895

6 күн бұрын

I would loved to have spent some time roaming around Arizona looking for gemstones, precious metals, arrowheads, fossils and stuff. I did spend it dragging my kids over the Southeast looking for Indian artifacts, civil war relics, fossils, rocks, gemstones, plants, antiques and whatever was interesting. My kids could probably relate to you.

@Thecodexnoir

22 сағат бұрын

@@robertporch8895 did y’all ever find anything noteworthy? 👀

@frankedgar6694

7 сағат бұрын

How many active mines in the area are actually productive? As someone who’s too cheap to pay the MENSA testing fees, my question is why? Why search an area where there’s apparently not enough gold to attract large operations. Is gold actually present in any real quantities? How much of the legend about the mine and the miner just Arizona bull s&!t?

I was born in southern AZ, so was my mother and her father. Can't finish this, too melodramatic. Too old news.

Babe get the kids packed n get ready! We’re going west!!!

Watching from Anchorage, Alaska.

I have a book on lost treasures in Colorado. When I lived there, I sometimes casually looked for several of them. I think the real treasure is in the story, the searching and the imagination of discovery. The trouble with all these lost treasures is the constantly evolving mountains. They will probably never look the same as the clues. One such story was the finding of massive gold by a hunter in a snow storm. He carefully marked the spot but never found it again. I heard he died in the state hospital without ever finding the gold again. The mountain had reworked itself over winter and nothing was the same. Have fun and good luck looking for any of them.

Surprised the 'Peralta" stone map wasn't mentioned. U.P.

RIP Dutchman. May you find the peace in death that you weren't afforded in life. 🙏

It’s about time that someone told this story. After all these years it finally came out. Now maybe there will be another gold rush.

@charlenejones68

4 күн бұрын

There's still gold in Alaska. 🙂✌

@jamesrjohanniii774

2 күн бұрын

This is no secret everyone who grows up in AZ has heard of it. There street name sand a state park named "lost Dutchman" Huge sing on the freeway as to drive past the superstion mountains. Every year we go to then Ren festival we drive past it lol..

@bigskunk801

2 күн бұрын

@@jamesrjohanniii774 i get it sarcasm sometimes doesn’t come across in comments.

@deltabluesdavidraye

Күн бұрын

Lol

This is my favorite Myth Hunters episode. Thanks for uploading it

Greetings from the BIG SKY. I SPENT 11 YEARS in Phoenix from 1959. This tale is good.

@Thecodexnoir

13 күн бұрын

Bet you know Doug Stoker 🚮🤡🍼

@rogerdudra178

13 күн бұрын

@@Thecodexnoir Greetings from the BIG SKY. Nope.

Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan

@mattmatt6572

13 күн бұрын

Watch out for trolls you are our first defense.

@Midwest10

9 күн бұрын

Mackinac city would be a better choice. Too tourist. Too cold. Too much snow. Sorry for you

@chadbennett3998

9 күн бұрын

@Midwest10 Not really I love it. Have for 25 year's

@chadbennett3998

9 күн бұрын

@@mattmatt6572 Absolutely

Love how killing the soldiers reenactment was covering them with a fitted sheet..lol goodwill didn't have an old wool blanket or something more realistic i guess.

Sounds like the “Dutchman” may have moved there with the gold and used his excursions to the “mine” to launder it.

I'm gonna keep a chunk of high purity gold ore on me so when I die I can start a legend of a lost gold mine. That's how you make a legacy 😎

@Midwest10

9 күн бұрын

You can’t afford McDonald’s. Good luck with that

@ulknatmelknatu

8 күн бұрын

Then quit your crack habit and put down the meth first. Then go out and pick up some gold.

great story and thank you.

Great basic story with a lot of missing information based on all the clues that treasure hunters have gathered and shared in last century. Fear or greed divided all of them which lead them basically no where near the goldmine. But the sad stories of never finding the goldmine are so true. In fact Brownie was right he took the wrong military trail. But what those that mean? First of all, historians should know by now that the military trails primarily ran from Fort to Fort, such as Fort McDowell to Fort Apache. The Apache claimed the location of the goldmine and part of the military trail to Fort Apache was used in route to San Carlos because it was a safe trail being that Fort Apache was the closest Fort to the town. None of the trails in the superstitious climb a mountain range towards the east except the military trail to Fort Apache. Jacob Waltz explained that when climbing one had to look back at the needle because the needle points to the goldmine. The goldmine’s elevation location had been cipher on two of the Peralta cipher stones to be exactly 1847 feet above sea level which is the same ground level as Aztec Peak. In order to align yourself to the needle you had to reach the saddle peak on top of the Sierra Ancha Mountain Ridge. But you need a spyglass to make sure you’re in line. The saddle peak is the best view cause you can see the Four Peaks line up to the northwest, the needle pointing, the military trail coming from Fort McDowell, and since your above Jacob Waltz’s goldmine, as he mentioned, then by looking downward a mile away towards the East your going to see the hidden canyon that is very visible from above. At ground level you’re going to miss it unless you see it from above first then you where it is. Jacob Waltz did not sealed the goldmine. He sealed an entrance to the north canyon ledge that lead to the goldmine. As the Spaniards once said, you could not bore from above the goldmine or from below the steep ledge because it’s surrounded by hard rock. First of all you must be in the right location and second of all you cannot dig into the ground to cheat the Dutchman’s goldmine.

@ramirovaldez3061

8 күн бұрын

Some of you do not understand how the monumental rock structure called the needle points to the lost Dutchman’s goldmine. The monumental rock structure points like a finger in your hand. It doesn’t point down, up, or straight. It points far away over the highest mountain ridge towards the east. Its size, altitude, based on location can be viewed from many miles away especially with a spyglass. The needle was chosen in the creation of a stone cipher map by a person belonging to a secret organization in the early 1800’s because there was something on the needle that actually points in the direction of the goldmine. The stone cipher map was discovered by a Peralta family member at the foothills of the superstitious mountains which meant that there was no LDM on the superstitious mountains. There was no LDM as far as the needle could see cause the mine was hidden over the highest mountain ridge. He transferred the cipher map onto a ledger. The Peralta member succeeded in finding the goldmine, but that came with a lot of trouble, sacrifice and death brought upon by the Apache. The land soon became the property of the U.S. government. The Peralta member needed an American and contracted Jacob Waltz to help in extracting gold from the secret goldmine somehow Jacob Waltz acquired the cipher map and before he died gave it to Julia Thomas before his death. This map describes what was being used as a pointer which was the left side wall as described by the shadow but you can only see the wall from far away. It is the line of sight that you align yourself to locate the mine. A symbolic structure was needed for leading and deceiving those who don’t understand ciphering?

Good story.

Interesting video, great idea

a great video

If the Lost Dutchman mine is so productive, why are there no other gold mines in the area?

Dutchman's mine forever lost in mist of Time.

Pity that no one seems to know how to read the Peralta Stone Maps... Oh well...

@chadlongnecker630

8 күн бұрын

Peralta stones are bogus fakes

@cadderley100

8 күн бұрын

@@chadlongnecker630 haha, if that's what you think, carry on.

Excellent video

Sounds just like the legend of Lassiter's lost gold reef here in Australia.

I found my Lil daughter a whole set of those spuds from playscool. I actually had a few of the spuds when I was Lil kid

The Legend ❤❤❤

What a great story. Thanks

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John Wayne found it and had a legal claim that is public record. Him and Charles Kenworthy

@jamesrjohanniii774

2 күн бұрын

If you think that was the real actual duthmans mine and not a publicity stunt. Ya got another thing coming

Bob Schoose you look like Eugene Terreblanche of South Africa. Is like your twins 😂😂🤣🤣

Great watch always heard about this living in Arizona maybe one day ill go for a hike .

Jacob Waltz sound more like a Deutsch-man (Germany) 😂😂😂

There are more gold in lost treasure than in known treasure 😂

That’s one hell of a greedy bastard.

11:10 it was at that point,,,,you realise the story was revised sometime in the past 5 years. That was it for me.

Cool story. I wonder if they ever found the gold

@mattmatt6572

13 күн бұрын

Curly got the gold

@sonnyechols5140

12 күн бұрын

There are some mines in the area that some folks claim is it but none of those mines contain the same type of gold that the dutchman was bringing out…I can’t remember the exact details but I think it was just larger nuggets that nobody else has produced since….there are still a few large veins that have been lost to time-the blue bucket mine in Oregan was only found once and they didn’t even know what they had and didn’t know how to get back once they found out-slumachs mine in bc is rumored to hold millions easily but old slumach took the location to his grave…I probably spelled slumach wrong

@mikewood8561

11 күн бұрын

It's crazy. It's been over 100 years and nobody's found it. I think the guy is right by bringing in the technology. I hope he finds it or somebody does. I hope somebody finds it and keeps it to themselves until they get the gold out and to turn it in and get the money. Then tell everybody where it is lol. I guarantee if you find it and you tell somebody it's there, the government will take over

@Midwest10

9 күн бұрын

Yes I did. Beverly Hills resident

This is interesting and I can guarantee it's buried so deep because of an earthquake.

A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar at the bottom .

The Duchmen was a 36th degree Mason ( A judge of men) The legendary death bed map the Dutchmen gave to his friend is a sample pictographs of his intelect/knowledge. His signature is written in a hieroglyphic pictograph that translates "man is a monkey"

@jamesmowles4434

Күн бұрын

🤣🤣

@tw1356

Күн бұрын

@@jamesmowles4434 You will find the signature bottom right corner, looking as a scribel.

Thing is there was a rock slide a few yrs ago , so I doubt anyone will find it because it is covered by tons of sand and rock. I dont think any of the landmarks survived the storm .

The gold was hidden in the Chiricahua mountains by Apache Indians and will likely never be found

The area out there looks so beautiful. Damn the mine idc about that lol I would never find it I am not that lucky lmao but I would definitely go for the beautiful scenery.

He looks like yosemite sam😮

Wow! So interesting! I believe it never will be found.

I thought they already found it?? Isn't it now called the MAMMOTH MINE

Another tall story... Three Mexican strangers showed him their fabulous gold mine ?

@jonsmith6982

10 күн бұрын

i know right ? first thing i thought & they even spoke english ? & were so happy to have found him raiding there camp site & food they showed him the lost city of gold ,he would have been the one killed not the one doing the killing .

I doubt Waltz ever killed anyone? Arizona had such a small population at the Time. It would have definitely been noticeable. I think he was a Claim jumper possibly. I always thought it was suspicious Waltz never filled a Mineral Claim like he did in the Bradshaw Mountains? It just doesn't make any sense otherwise.

i believe that Dick H stole the gold under the dutchmans bed, and i also believes that he didn't even share it with the woman who took care of him nor did the dutchmans sister. NOW that's a thief.

Sound like Lasseter reef in australia. A big find but no one knowns were it is now.

My theory is that the US Government mined it out in secrecy in the early twentieth century and still keeps the legend going for shits and giggles.

The first story has about 1% truth in it.

Wow. Greed is fun

it's so many names and info left out of this story...dick holmes wasn't the only person in the room when the dutchman died it didn't even mention the Patresch brothers

Was found in the early 90's,I knew the man.

He was not Dutch. He was Bavarian.

@darinwink-ou4qk

12 күн бұрын

In the US's early heavy immigrant centuries Deutsch would often be mistranslated over time into Dutch

@Midwest10

9 күн бұрын

Nazi

19 pounds were found. i can attest to it personally. and it wasnt in a mine. was under a mound near the base. got me a new car from it =] but im not the one that found it. just a friend of someone who did. there is more out there. we plan to go fond more next year

The adventure is half the treasure

4800 dollars worth of gold weighed 240 pounds not including the weight of the quartz. It would have took several trips to steal that much gold.

Looking for gold into their golden years.

there is a dam in the area, forget the name,,, there is a road junction just under that dam. I think Dutchman is a place where gold works its way to the surface. I would make a 100 yard circle around that road junction. source is reliable but now dead (of course) be a good picnic maybe

Liked, shared and commented 🍻🗽🤴🏻 52:53

I Know where the mine is.. but im not telling. I gave my word I wouldn't give up the location. 😊

@rexluminus9867

10 күн бұрын

🎉😂❤.

What about the Doichman

tony beets

Julia lookin like precious up in here. Oooga boooga.

Good telling but a lot of details glossed over, some totally missed and some plain misleading. For starters Julia Thomas was not black but of mixed race. She may have only been 1/4 black. Existing photos of her detail as much. There was another man with Dick Holmes at the time Of Jacob Waltz's death. His name was Gideon Roberts and he owned the lot next to Jacob's. Rhinehart Petraesh, a German boy taken in by Julia Thomas is also never mentioned. He played a key role in helping Jacob getting that candle box with the gold ore in it placed under Jacob's bed. There is no doubt that he knew there was gold ore in that box and Julia would have known as well. What is not known is why Jacob had not already given the gold to Julia? It is recorded that Julia claimed Jacob did but she was never able to prove it. The thing is both Julia and Dick had different clues that Jacob had given them. If Dick had shared the gold with Julia they might have also shared their clues and history surrounding the mine would be quite different today for they might have found it working together. However, it was greed that found the mine and now it is greed that keeps it hidden!

With the world's most authority's on the Dutchmen at your disposal, ie, Tom Kollenborn, Ron Feldman, Bob Shoose, & Clay Worst you'd think you'd get the basic facts correct. Its disappointing because you had all the knowledge at your disposal and instead followed a bunch of old narratives from bad fiction on the Lost Dutchman.

@darinwink-ou4qk

12 күн бұрын

The channel doesn't produce these episodes, but rather plays episodes of old "history" series. This episode is from 2013

Too many ads

The Lost Dutchman's Mind and the Curse of Oak Island are both stories. We are a pattern seeking/story telling species. We have an uncanny ability to tell TALL TALES. I'll give you an example of a story told by man. Religion!!! The most deadliest story man has ever told. ....and the world fell for it. Just like the stories we tell about lost gold. Lost mines. Lost .....

The apache were survivalists who didnt know money... Better people

To many holes in this story for it to be true. I say nah... good story though

@Midwest10

9 күн бұрын

Then where exactly did he get all his pure gold? Speak up

None of these stories results in the treasure being found. Rocking chair stories, gives you something to do but gets you absolutely no where.

Can you go out there and dig a mine legally

Who the hell is pipps

@dallaswright7591

11 күн бұрын

I don't believe dick Holmes ever said anything about the 2 soldiers and waltz killing them either.

Renegade Apaches? Please.

no wealth is worth health

Everyone involved with this was trash. Greed really makes people terrible.

Much of this story is pure fabrication... as of time 11:55 the woman "finds" her way out of debt... but it was said everyone knows everyone's business... so did the Dutchman trade ore for CASH and give her the money? Did he normal do that or did he just "trade" in ore? If he sold some or to a banker or towns person who had money, that person who normally wouldn't have rich ore would have had to cash it in at some point... OR, If the Dutchman had given her Gold Ore, she would have had to pay her debts with it and EVERYONE would have heard about it since she wasn't a miner... so with only 3 military trails to follow, finding the grave, but nothing else... how far did he drag the dead man with the chain... LOL... sure...

www.youtube.com/@TheApacheTreasure ... during the 18'60s when the last wars were going on the Dutchman was in the Hub Town in Arizona Territory (now New Mexico) and just outside of Town going down to now Texas is where it is .. The Apache Treasure covers that Mine ... That happened in the 1860's-1870's ....

Um...I know where he died, he was murdered on the way to CA from AZ. He ain't buried, I found his bones & part of a stagecoach near me. Potatoe Patch was his find & he actually used the Superstition Mts. he used as an excuse

@Midwest10

9 күн бұрын

Sure Biden

Drones and lazers will find it

Sounds like bs. But maybe

I know this is real because I seen it on SpongeBob 😂

@RespectMyAuthoritaah

12 күн бұрын

What are you, crazy? Now everyone will know. 🤣

@jamesmowles4434

Күн бұрын

🤪🤣🤪🤣

Unfortunately it is nonsense.The Gold in those mountains has long been mined of course not where the myth is claimed to be located. There is no notable mineralization in that area or side of the range. The other side is a different story.

For FUCK sakes! Is this a musical! It's a documentary!!

What happened to the Mexicans who showed him the mine?

@BionicRusty

6 күн бұрын

He shot them both. It’s only alluded to here with the piece ending with a gun barrel and a shot. Watch from here 15:44

the legend will take you everywhere but not to the mine ...facts don't really work ,because the mine is not a normal ore deposit ,will anyone ever find the mine ... i did !

@MrAspden

13 күн бұрын

thats pretty neat

The birth of qanon. 😆

@mattmatt6572

13 күн бұрын

I think the q is real. That's why the powers that be suppressed it. If they just left the story go id a said this shit is flat earth style crazy.

Utter bollix 🤣

Here are a couple more corrections to the details mentioned in this video. (Details matter!) Jacob did collar the opening to his mine but he did not use cut lumber as shown in this video. Lumbar was scarce in the Phoenix area during the time he lived there. What he used was the materials on hand that could be found in the Superstitions. Growing in the valleys and washes of the mountains is a variety of trees called Desert Ironwood. Jacob would have been quite familiar with it. The wood is very hard and is almost impervious to rot. He used the largest diameter branches he could find to cut into lengths that would fit across the collar he dug around the mine's opening. He reportedly started out with the largest branches then layed smaller ones between. When he was satisfied that it could hold his weight he laid over it a layer of reeds he found growing in the nearby wash to seal it so dirt wouldn't pass through. Once this was done he covered it with rock and dirt. One other detail we know is that the portal of his mine was on a slope of the side on a canyon that ran in a north south direction. This video is correct in saying that the flow direction is never mentioned. Having said this it can be assumed the filled in opening is not on level ground. So here is the gist of the clue. If someone were to find a circlear shaped area in solid rock that looks like it has been excavated at one time, then digging down 3 to 5 feet should reveal that layer of ironwood branches. They would also appear pretty much the same as they did when Jacob placed them there since it would take 10x as long as they have been in the ground to rot. Remove the ironwood branches and the mine and gold ore in it would pretty much be as Jacob left it. 🙂

What a ridiculous story!

I'm out too many commercials

So the lesson is don't be a dick