Incident at Dogie Springs

Welcome to Mysteries of the Superstition  Mountains I'm Larry Hedrick where we bring   the past into the present for our future viewers  today we have another great story by Hank Sheffer   well as you'll recall the last show that we did we  talked about Bigfoot and at that time I said that   Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains had a  tendency to talk about history or talk about   legends and lore and sometimes we even got right  out there with some of the fantastical things that   may or may not have happened in the mountain in  this particular case we're going to tell another   one of those fantastical stories but as one of  the fellas mentioned back on the Bigfoot piece   he wasn't real happy with talking about tom  Biscarde because tom biscarde had built himself   a set of circumstances that weren't all that  favorable to what he was doing and consequently   he never had anything that backed up what he said  and that's why he wasn't the focus of that show   in this case we're going to be talking  about another fella who told a story by   the name of Richard Bud Lane and Richard  Bud Lane was an old cowboy from out here   I met bud years ago before just before he died  i'd gotten back here in 81 and he died in 87.   but he was a cowboys cowboy people liked him  they trusted him they knew him uh he worked   with a lot of the other ranchers who were out  here there were a lot of Floyd Stone there was   of course Gus Barkley and some of the others  that were out here and they were running cattle   that was really happening in the 80s so at  any rate bud lane had a story that he told   that what I'm going to do is tell that story by  reading it pretty much because it's what he said   Bud Lane had a reputation for telling the truth  he told some tall tales but he also had a tendency   to tell the truth more often than not and when  he told you something was you could bank on it   so this is the story that he told and this is  why we call this story the incident at doggie   springs we were all headed with a group of riders  to the Reavis Ranch from Floyd Stone's iv ranch   as we rounded inspiration point we could look  down into the vast emptiness of Fish Creek Canyon   at the same time we saw a brilliant meteor  tracking north to south across a clear   evening sky in fact it was so bright that  the light was reflected off a castle dome   peak and it's interesting that if you  all want to go and look these up you can   and you'll find them on the maps they're  all marked so you see just where he was   at this point bud spoke up and he told this  story he said you know you wouldn't believe   how many crazies around Apache Junction and these  old mountains keep talking about flying saucers   but made it abundant he made it abundantly  clear he said I am not going to tell you   that i believe in flying saucers and I'm not  going to tell you that I've seen a flying saucer   not even drunk or sober or otherwise I'll tell you  the story but I don't want you to ever repeat it   until after I'm dead and gone even if i had  wanted to admit it i would fear people would   think that i was just crazy they'd think  i was a lunatic and I'm not a lunatic   well bud continued to story something like this  he said he was working some stray Mexican steers   for Floyd Stone near the upper end of Tortilla  Canyon above Doggie springs and that Doggie   springs is about a mile and a half mile and three  quarters a little south southwest of Tortilla   he was headed back toward the tortilla ranch house   close to dusk bud said I heard this whining roar  that was so loud it was deafening it even vibrated   my lungs it made my limbs just shake while I  sat there on a horse all of the sudden back   toward doggy springs i saw this object rise into  the sky so fast I couldn't recognize what it was   bud went on to explain that he had ridden  all around the area trying to confirm some   sort of clues as to what it is he'd seen  and what he'd heard as luck would have it   he found nothing to support what he had seen bud  said he continued to look around the area every   chance he got when he was riding out there chasing  after cattle but he still never found anything   some 10 or 12 years later bud said he was in  the area and found an interesting formation on   the ground on the side of a sandy wash he found  a ring of sandy glass about 10 feet in diameter   he was convinced the sandy glass ring wasn't a  geological occurrence but rather he believed the   glass ring was formed from sudden extreme heat the  heat he believed was produced from a rocket launch   of something or other well now people who knew  bud said he always had been exceptionally truthful   bud was known to tell tales as I told you earlier  and he was often used when he'd go on these   trips that billy crater safari wilderness  trips corporation would take people out on   and so they could go pretty freelance and  tell people pretty much anything they wanted   to and people just ate it up like crazy of  course he could stretch the yarn pretty good   everybody knew that this was another very  puzzling and intriguing story that would be   impossible to prove unless he could find  that glass ring that he was talking about   but indicated it was located somewhere near doggie  springs many curious souls have ridden into doggy   springs over the years but they found nothing Tom  Jarvis Maricopa deputy county medical examiner   and Tom Kollenburn spent an entire day riding  around the area and they were looking bear in   mind we talk about Tom Kollenburn an awful lot but  he's probably one of the foremost historians and   knowledgeable people about the Superstition  Mountains ironically after all of that   several years later a hiker came to town looking  to sell what he said was a piece of melted sand   much like sand that had been melted by a lightning  strike when he told the curious listeners in town   that it came from Doggie Springs everybody's ears  perked up he said it appeared at one time the   piece of melted sand or glass had been part of  a large circular piece of material so this guy   that nobody knew and had never seen before was  coming in and they were confirming something   that bud had said years before he further  stated that he really didn't know what it was   but he was quite convinced it was part of a  lightning strike that must have been what it was   he gave out directions to the site but nothing  was ever found and you can rest assured there   were lots of folks that got the burrows and up the  up the hill they went looking for that glass ring   the story still holds quite a level of curiosity  for lots of the Mufon and UFO alien theory folks   mainly because the folks who knew bud lane knew he  was not prone to tell you a fake story like that   he was around a campfire or a similar situation  he might stretch the truth a little bit   but other than that he was straight  as an arrow and if he said it   you could bank on it but when it came  to this story he never slacked an inch and nobody has ever found anything on that doggone  ring yet either it's terrible and now to close   this so you all don't think that I'm absolutely  out of my mind as for me I kept the promise made   to bud lane bud died in 1987. but I still have  to wonder sometimes what it was that bud really   did see or is this just one more tale that  continues to be told that nobody can explain   i don't know either thank you for watching this  episode of Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains

Channel: Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains

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Keywords: Charlie LeSueur, Superstition Mountains, The Lost Dutchman Mine, Superstition Mountain Museum, Opal Images, Arizona, History, Gold, Treasure, Bud Lane, Cowboy, UFO, Hank Sheffer, Tom Kullenburn, Larry Hedrick

Id: KjuSTK7utXE

Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 20 2021