( howling ) (gunshot) ( barking ) NARRATOR:<i> A cursed mountain</i> <i>hiding 200 million dollars
in gold.</i> <i>Two hundred fifty lives
had been lost.</i> <i>But now,
five treasure hunters...</i> <i>will defy the curse...</i> <i>in search of...</i> <i>America's deadliest
treasure.</i> ( music ) So, we're gonna be straight
out that way. Are those wild horses? MAN: Those are wild mustangs. ERIC: Awesome. MAN: We're getting
in the area now, guys. ERIC: Yes, continue
as far as the canyon. MAN: We're coming up on one. ERIC: Right there.
There it is, man. MAN: Yeah. NARRATOR:<i> Arizona's
Superstition Mountains,</i> <i>the hunt to solve
a 125-year-old mystery
is underway.</i> <i>Wayne Tuttle has spent
his life chasing a legend,</i> <i>the Lost Dutchman Mine,
rumored to contain</i> <i>one of America's
biggest treasures,</i> <i>200 million dollars
worth of gold.</i> <i>Thousands have tried
and failed to decipher</i> <i>the Dutchman's secrets.</i> <i>Hundreds have paid
with their lives.</i> <i>But Wayne and his team
have a new clue,</i> <i>a secret map.</i> FRANK: We have information
that no one else had. NARRATOR:<i>
That led to a discovery
of a heart-shaped stone</i> <i>marked with
a hand-carved X.</i> Those hearts are
all over those mountains. NARRATOR:<i>
A tip from a veteran
Dutch hunter revealed</i> <i>that there could be marked
heart-shaped stones</i> <i>all over the mountains.</i> I got one. We're coming up on
one on the right, right now. MAN: Yeah, look right there,
right below us. WAYNE: Yeah, I see it. NARRATOR:<i>
Wayne and Eric Magnuson
have taken to the air</i> <i>to investigate.</i> WAYNE: That makes five. In my experience, most
people who have followed the Peralta Stone maps
have believed that this giant heart symbol
was used to mark a mine. We've just found five more
heart stones from the air. Formations that appeared
to have been carved into that shape by hand. This has really
flipped my perspective
on the whole thing. Maybe it's not just
about that one heart
on Frank's map. Maybe all this hearts
are like dots that need to be connected. ( barking ) ERIC: Now that I have all
the GPS coordinates of the heart stones,
I can plot those on a map and see if their location
reveals anything. When treasure hunters
get stuck, there's a lot of
different techniques you can use to try
to find a new lead. What we're looking for
is lines that intersect
each other, and create some sort
of pattern and can point us
on the right direction. WAYNE: While Eric's trying
to decode the heart stones, I have Deal meeting
with an assayer and he's going to
determine whether or not the heart on Frank's map
is sitting on a motherload of gold. So here's what's going on,
I have this sample of ore that I took from a cave
in the Superstition Mountains. I basically have
a mineral sample I need to reference
this with and so that's where
you come in. So, what are you looking
for right now? Right now,
I'm looking at what maybe either a limonite
or small bits of gold. This has some ambiguities. The yellow is, again,
your limonite, black manganese oxide,
red pyrite oxidized. DEAL: An ore sample is a lot
like a fingerprint, they're all unique,
and an expert assayer can easily tell you
what may be in that sample. What we wanna find
in our sample is gold. And we wanna match that,
cross-reference it to the sample of ore
from the Dutchman Mine that Clay Worst
showed to us. JACK: There is a small
lens of gold that's barely visible even under the 30 X. In reality, you would
have to crush this sample - in order to prove it up.
- DEAL: Mm-hmm. Failing that, it would have
to go to a laboratory. You know, from your
experience, as far
as gold goes, what's the amount that
needs to be had per ton? A satisfying solution
of one ounce per ton,
plus or minus, - seems to attract attention.
- DEAL: Yeah, an ounce
per ton, of course. Unfortunately,
that's not always the case. NARRATOR:<i> Assayers examine
minerals for gold</i> <i>by first checking
the stone for evidence</i> <i>of any surface minerals,
like quartz or silver.</i> <i>Then the sample
is pulverized</i> <i>to find the approximate
amount of gold per ton.</i> I'm convinced though
that the rock shows some potential
for gold. DEAL:
We're looking for a goldmine that's well over a hundred
ounces per ton. I'm going to leave these
samples of ore with Jack and he's going to crush
them up and analyze them. If he finds a good vein
of gold in these samples or high percentage of gold, then we know we could be on
to the Lost Dutchman Mine. All right, Jack, I look forward
to seeing you again, man, and thank you
for everything. Affirmative.
My pleasure. - Take care now.
- You take care. I'm looking forward to
seeing what the results say and hopefully
finding out that we're on the right trail. - What's up, Magnuson?
- Hey, man. What's going on, guys? I brought the team back
to the Quarter Circle U so we could sit down and
discuss our latest findings. - Hey, Wayne.
- Hey, what's up, Eric? ERIC: All right.
Well... I do have some--so,
I started out, I got all the locations
of the heart-shaped stones we know about plotted
on the map. Nothing popped out
at me at first until I started
triangulating these. So, I plotted lines
that intersected through these locations, this location, here, here, and then this
last one, these. And if you'll notice, they all point
towards there. You got to keep in mind
that it could be incomplete because there could be
heart stones out there that we haven't
even found yet. But from
the evidence I see, all of these heart stones are
pointing in one direction. Triangulation, man,
it's really, really important
to any treasure hunter. And check it out,
that's just--that
can't be a coincidence. Nice job. I'm very confident
I have a good idea where this point leads. FRANK: Goldfield. NARRATOR:<i> In the
Western Superstitions,</i> <i>Goldfield, Arizona,
sits atop</i> <i>one the most productive
goldfields in the country.</i> <i>Prospectors descended
on the town in 1893</i> <i>when a rich vein
was uncovered.</i> ( explosion ) NARRATOR:<i> And over
the next five years,</i> <i>they pulled more than
one million dollars worth</i> <i>of gold from the mountains,</i> <i>a value of thirty
million dollars today.</i> <i>Most of the gold came
from three large mines,</i> <i>Mammoth, Black Queen,
and Bull Dog.</i> <i>Put together, the $30 million
worth of gold</i> <i>these mines produced
is just a fraction</i> <i>of the Dutchman's
legendary</i> <i>$200 million fortune.</i> <i>Could the Dutchman Mine
or stash</i> <i>still be hidden
untouched here in Goldfield?</i> <i>To find out, Wayne
has to pay his respects</i> <i>to the man in charge,
Bob Schoose.</i> Ah, you wanted to talk
about something? Yeah. Thanks
for having us out, Bob. If you're doing history
on the area on the side of Goldfield,
you go to Bob Schoose. NARRATOR:<i>
Like Wayne, Bob Schoose
is a veteran Dutch hunter.</i> <i>He arrived
in the Superstitions</i> <i>in the early 1970s</i> <i>to hunt
for the Lost Dutchman.</i> <i>In 1986, he bought the
entire area of Goldfield</i> <i>and created a successful
tourist site known as
Ghost Town.</i> <i>He's considered one
of the most respected</i> <i>and true Dutch
hunters around.</i> So, Bob, thanks
for taking the time. I know we've known
each other off and
on for a while. What do you got
on your mind? Well, we found
cut stone in the mountains with a heart, and
it's a very large one. And it has an X up in the
right-hand corner of it. When you get out
in the mountains,
you're looking for that connectivity
between things. A connection between
these hearts in the
mines possibly. Definitely,
you're a man in the know. If I was looking for
someone to kind of give me a little guidance,
that would be you. Yeah. What exactly
do you wanna know? Well, is there
an interrelation between these things? There's stuff
that I'll talk to you about and there's stuff I won't. Yeah. But we're just... And I don't know this
guy from Adam. And I understand
with all due respect there. It takes a while to... pay your dues
around here, you know. Yup, I understand that. He's kind of green
looks like to me. Well, you know,
my grandfather, it was his dream
for a long time to come out here
and hunt the Dutchman, and I'm just kind
of out here following his footsteps. Well, I'd give you
a little advice a third generation
hard rock miner gave me. - All right.
- He said, "If you have a dumb head,
your whole body suffers." All right.
I'll take that to heart. Keep that in mind. Wayne ought to know better
than to bring in a newbie like that unannounced. But the kid got to me
a little bit when he started talking
about his grandfather. So, I think
he's got a heart. I just hope he has brains. WAYNE: Bob has a lot
of reasons not to give me any information,
about 200 million of them. Sometimes, careful
negotiations, you'd sit down,
you play your cards right, you can get a great nugget
of information. Luckily, he decided
to take us to the mountains and show us around. BOB: You wanna
see the Bull Dog? WAYNE: I definitely
wanna see the Bull Dog. BOB: At least where it was. WAYNE: Yeah.
That sounds good. This is where
the old Bull Dog was. That little--that little
knoll in the middle
of the canyon. There ain't much
of it left. They've dozed
the hell out of it. There was a lot of mines
out here when they first
hit the gold, over 50 of them were claimed
but only a handful paid off. When did they locate
this, about what time? This mine
was staked nine months after the Dutchman died. WAYNE: What else can we be
looking for around here? You know, you got to
find gold, where it exists. And gold is where
you find it, right, Bob? That's right. Did you find it, Bob? BOB: You got to find gold,
where it exists. And gold is where you
find it, right, Bob? That's right. Did you find it, Bob? You know I ain't gonna
answer that, Wayne. I am absolutely,
definitely 100% sure that Bob has plenty
of secrets he's not going
to share with me. NARRATOR:<i> Wayne Tuttle's
quest to unravel the mystery</i> <i>of the Dutchman's gold
has led him to a place</i> <i>called Goldfield, Arizona.</i> <i>He's followed a trail
of clues and now must search</i> <i>for the truth about
whether this area</i> <i>might be hiding
the long lost mine.</i> WAYNE: Is there any gold
coming out of there still? Still are they finding
any placer or anything
coming out of here? There ain't nothing left,
it's been picked clean, they've dozed it,
buried it, cut it up, hauled the granite away,
totaled out in about three,
four years. WAYNE: What did they pull
out of it, per ton? I have no idea
what per ton but I know they--the
total they mined out was close to a million. WAYNE: Bob has been telling
me that the Goldfield area is completely
cashed out. That means the
heart stone pattern, it sent us
to a motherload but just not the motherload
we're looking for. The Bull Dog,
it produced over
a million dollars in gold but it's
not the Dutchman. The Dutchman is said to be
worth over 200 times that. I just don't know
what to make of this. Thank you for your time
and everything. It's always a pleasure. Anytime, partner. DEAL: We've met
with Bob Schoose and I kind of got to be
the bearer of bad news to tell the guys that,
you know, there's nothing
in Goldfield. It's gone,
it's played out. FRANK: Well, about time
you guys got back. WAYNE: Yeah.
What's up, guys? FRANK: What happened? DEAL: Well, we kind of got
good news and bad news. Frank's heart stones,
it led us to Goldfield. But, you know, Wayne
and I checked it out and it's just
played out. It's all been mined. We're a hundred
years too late. I mean,
there's nothing there. FRANK: Ah! WAYNE: Bob
made it pretty clear,
the Bull Dog's cashed out. It's covered up. MAN: Well, what you
got from him? DEAL: You know,
I don't think Bob was telling us
everything he knows. I don't know
if he doesn't like me or if he just thinks
I'm a greenhorn or what. It was pretty detrimental
that I was there. It wasn't a good thing. WAYNE: I just think Bob
is gonna be distressful of anyone I would
have brought in there. I figure it's just bringing
anyone outside. We're dealing with
Dutch hunters in this sense, so it's very secretive. Can you go back
and talk to him alone? That's probably the best
thing we got going for us. It's me just
one on one with Bob. So, it definitely is
something to put on the table with him is to make
him an offer and see if he's got
something there for us. I mean, we are out
of leads at this point. MAN: Maybe if we offer
him a percentage
of what we find, he'll have a stake
in it and he'd be
more open to us and, you know,
be a lot more help. FRANK: He knows a lot
and he keeps a closed hand. So, to get something
out of Bob, there's got to be
something else for him. WAYNE: And he's obviously
a businessman. And if you want something
from a businessman, - you pay for it.
- ERIC: Right. Well, at least from my
perspective, I can tell you, I'd absolutely be willing
to give him a cut as long as
it's a legit lead. How much of a cut? ERIC: If it's real,
whatever it takes. I don't know,
five percent each, maybe offer him
twenty-five percent. FRANK: Wait a minute. He hasn't
told us anything yet like what
the target would be or where we're going
for this thing. Where does this 25%
come from, from him or from us? DEAL: I mean, we're all
in one-fifth split here. FRANK: 15%.
If we start lower, he can always
go up, If we start up,
he can't ever go lower. ERIC: Yup.
Maybe we do offer
10% or something. DEAL: Bob's not gonna deal
with a lowball offer. If you lowball Bob,
he's not even gonna
talk to you. He could give us a lead
and let's just find the
Lost Dutchman. MAN: If we don't
offer him nothing. - DEAL: Exactly.
- MAN: At least,
we--he'll feel like we're trying
to share with him and not just take
everything away from him. WAYNE: I mean,
let's face it, guys, Bob Schoose is not a man to screw around with. He puts it out there
and says, this is a lead, this is something
I wanna follow. And if he has that, we're
able to get that out of him, that's pretty solid.
I think it's all
worth a shot. I mean, if there's someone
that's gonna be able to give
us a pretty solid lead that has the track record, I think it would be
Bob Schoose. So, you guys all in on this? That's it, right, 25%? Cut Bob in as a partner,
and this needs to be definite right now
before I walk out of here. Right now, we got
nowhere else to go,
I say we do it. - DEAL: Absolutely, yeah.
- I agree. WAYNE: When you're looking
to get information from a Dutch hunter, you have to put
something on the table. I hope this strategy works. I hope Bob has something
to offer us because that's where
I'm going next. Money talks -- walks. NARRATOR:<i> After a major
clue turned up empty,</i> <i>Wayne Tuttle's search
for the Lost Dutchman Mine</i> <i>hangs in the balance.</i> <i>Now, in order to gain
valuable information,</i> <i>he will attempt to offer up
a partnership</i> <i>to one of the most
powerful and secretive</i> <i>Dutch hunter's alive,
Bob Schoose.</i> - Is Bob in?
- Yeah, I think
he's in the back. Mr. Schoose. How's it going? You're still
sniffing around, huh? Still sniffing around. My team got access
to the matchbox, obviously
that ore sample. We got a possible solution
to the Peralta maps, a pattern with stone hearts
through the Superstitions, the pathway that led us
out here through Goldfield. We feel we're
on a hot trail. And I came alone today because I know
you know more. I need your experience,
your knowledge, and if it's necessary,
I'll cut you in. If that's the way
to bring you, Bob, is partner up, that's what I'm here to do. Yeah. We need to go
some place else to talk. - Have a seat.
- All right. BOB: I'll put my guns
on the table for... WAYNE: I'll tell you what.
I'll give you 25% if you tell me
what you know. Okay. Let me show you
a few things. You've seen this
map before, I think. It's a Peralta. But there's another map that lays credence
to this one. Are you familiar
with this? I'm not familiar
with it, Bob. BOB:
This is the Gonzales map. You know,
the Gonzales family and the Peralta family formed the expedition
together, kind of. WAYNE: Yeah. NARRATOR:<i> The Peralta
family controlled</i> <i>the mining territory
of the Superstitions</i> <i>as far back as the 1700s
and created coded maps</i> <i>to conceal the locations</i> <i>of their most
valuable mines.</i> <i>But the Peraltas didn't
work these mountains alone,</i> <i>they partnered
with another family,</i> <i>the Gonzaleses who created
their own maps</i> <i>giving them directions</i> <i>to the Peralta's
secret mines.</i> <i>Some say,
it was the Peralta's map</i> <i>that lead
the Dutchman himself</i> <i>to find his
legendary lost mine.</i> <i>Could it be that these
treasure hunters</i> <i>had been looking
in the wrong place?</i> <i>Could the Gonzales map
be the secret key</i> <i>to decoding
the Dutchman?</i> BOB:
This was given to me... by a member of the Peralta
family that's still alive. He's one of the last
known descendants. WAYNE: So, I have two
different maps from two different
known mining families that have similar landmarks,
so when that happens, you need to see
what's similar, you need to find out
what's different, and you need
to compare them to see where the gold might be. If you look
at this map, you got the Salt River, you got a canyon going
south off the Salt River. You look at this map, you got the Salt River, you got a canyon
going south. This map helps
align this map. Absolutely. NARRATOR:<i> When compared
side by side,</i> <i>these two maps show
very similar features.</i> <i>Four mountain peaks,
a butte,</i> <i>a canyon that splits,
and the Rio Salado.</i> <i>But there is one major
difference,</i> <i>the Gonzales map
shows the word, Mina,</i> <i>Spanish for mine
around the cluster of Xs.</i> <i>Could one of those Xs
be the Lost Dutchman Mine?</i> But look at this line
that crosses from Weaver's Needle
to the middle of four peaks. I can take you to this spot. I'll show you where
this crosses the river, and then
you're on your own. WAYNE: The challenge
in trying to get to those Xs in the map is taking the map
and lining up the map with the territory. We might have landmarks
but that's a lot of territory to cover. So Bob's secret
is that he's found the actual location that
the maps are representing, and most importantly,
the place to start the hunt. BOB: But that's where
I would tell you to look. I gave Wayne the map
because he wanted something. And I gave him what
I thought he'd have the best chance of finding. I'm getting too old to look
for this thing, you know? I don't care
who finds it just so somebody does. WAYNE: When you're chasing
a big old payday, especially one this old, it means there are
lots of different maps to lots of different
potential honey holes because historically,
there's been so much gold coming out of the mountains
and there's so much evidence of what's
been left behind. Well, thank you, Bob,
for everything. The hardest part with any
of these treasure maps is finding
the starting point. Bob just told me,
using the symbols, he knows the exact location
where we need to start. That's a huge breakthrough
for me and the group. The decision to cut
Bob in was a big deal. It's probably the best move
we've made so far. But now I'm back here
at the ranch, I have something more
pressing in my mind, and I need to talk
to Frank about it. Frank, I think you know
why I called you out here. It's Woody. Yeah. We got our butts kicked. He got his handed to him. You all right? I feel like I wanna fall down. It's dizzying
a little bit, right? I don't know how much
more he can take. He doesn't look good,
it doesn't feel right. I know you guys are close. Woody really believes
these mountains are cursed, and that something put
a curse on him. He's got a big heart. I know he doesn't
wanna give up. But there's places
that we can't take him. I think something bad
will happen. Like, I just get a bad,
bad feeling moving forward. Do you think he
can finish this thing? I don't know. Jack Peskin, our assayer,
he just gave me a call. I'm gonna go back and meet him
and see what he's found out about our ore samples. Now, this is gonna either be a big breakthrough
or a huge letdown. But either way,
we're gonna find out whether Frank's heart stone
is just a big bust or if it's worth
more investigation. From a quantitative estimate, this sample is probably
may or may not go up to one quarter
ounce per ton. Overall, it's very low-grade. We're looking for one
of the richest goldmines
that there ever was, well over a hundred
ounces per ton. This sample is nowhere
close to that. That is correct. This is a very low-grade mine with minor traces of micron
or flour gold. I mean, I know my crew
is waiting to hear
back from me, so, unfortunately, I probably
have to give them the bad news that we're not looking
in the right place. Jack, I really appreciate
the quick turnaround. If I have any more samples,
you're the man I'm gonna call. I'm looking forward to it.
Take care. Thanks. You do the same, Jack. It's obvious that Frank
and Woody believe the heart
stone is the mine. We needed proof,
and now we have it. The chances of the heart stone being the Lost Dutchman Mine
are a million to one. Now we can put an end
to that part of the hunt and we can put our full
attention to new the leads that the heart stones
are pointing us to. Well, I got bad news
from the assayer. We didn't get any gold out
of those samples we sent in. We got some trace amounts
of tungsten, copper, and silver, that was it. And that does not match
the ore from the Dutchman. I was really disappointed that we didn't find any gold in the cave at the heart stone. I really thought with
my feelings that there was-- something will be there. But how can you argue
with science? All right, boys, I just
came out from talking privately with Bob Schoose. He got a hold of this what's
called the Gonzales Map. Now, the Gonzales Family worked
with the Peralta Family. Bob believes he's deciphered
the location of these two maps which will give us
our exact starting point. From there, we're going
to be following a creek to a split on a the trail, which according
to the Xs on the map, we should see signs of mines. Once we hit that spot, that area could be very rich
with mineralization. Gold could really be anywhere. I will tell you guys,
I looked at this terrain. It's rugged. It's hell. But I gotta know
how you guys are feeling, if you guys are up to it, if you guys are ready
to pack it up and go? You know what? I'm in this
for the long haul, and I'll do it. Deal, what about you? We just got done the first
leg of our trip. We had no shortage
of close calls. I mean, rattlesnakes,
rough trails, almost impassable trails, and now you're saying this
is gonna be even more difficult. You're in, you're out. The door's right there. Yeah, I'm in. Magnuson, what about you? I think it's a good lead. It sounds plausible,
so absolutely. Woody, you're where
my worry lies. I'm worried about
taking you out there again. So I need to know you--
in your heart, man, is... No. I didn't came here
for a cakewalk. - I know.
- I came here for the real deal. I started this thing.
I wanna finish it. This is a really
big thing for me. I don't want to quit. I'm not a quitter. Woody, as the EMT in the group, my thing is the liability issue. If you gotta sit this one out, we'd rather find that out
here than out there. Considering some
of your health issues, it may not be the
smartest thing to do because we get back
at Fish Canyon, something happens,
we're in trouble. We get back in there
and a day or two in, we gotta pack it, bag out,
and we gotta start all over. - You know what, we don't...
- That's more expenses. That's your health.
Hey, Woody, look at me, you got a family at home, too. I'm not a baby. I know I can do it. I don't wanna quit. I don't wanna be left behind. I started it with you guys
and I want to finish it. So don't dump me.
This is my call. If I die out there, that's
where I want to be anyway. We're all gonna carry that,
if something happens to you. You understand that,
clear and simple? I understand that,
but this is the biggest
thing in my life. For me to walk away from it, you might as well just put
a bullet in my head. So be it. Listen, guys,
let me reassure you, I've seen what he can do. If he says he can do it,
he'll do it. If Woody quit now, if we had to leave him behind,
it'd kill him. If it gets to the point,
you just promise me that you'll say
"Hey, that's it," please. - That's fine.
- Okay. But I gotta go. You can't just leave me behind. It's just--that's not right. Okay. That's it. Okay? So, guys, that being
said and done, this is our new lead, this is what we're following up. - Is everybody in?
- I'm in. - I'm in.
- I'm in. - Yeah, of course.
- All right. We're going up on the hill here. A little bit further.
You're gonna make it? Oh, yeah. You ought to be able to spot about five different
things from here. Well, I do see the alignment
of the needle with the Gonzales Map,
Four Peaks. - Yeah.
- See that? And I see the intersection
with the creek coming over and hitting Salt River
right there. But I want you to focus
on a few closer things because wherever they had
a map fit like this, they would put other markings - in the area.
- Yeah. So take a--let's focus
a little closer. It looks like
the cactus has a mark. Look at this blazed cactus
right on the line. This blaze ain't no mistake. Spanish and Mexican miners
would blaze cactus as markers. It might be a side hole,
it might be a cross. They would use this
as indicators to find their way along the trail
without utilizing a map. NARRATOR:<i>
The Saguaro cactus can grow</i> <i>to be over 200 years old</i> <i>and more than 40 feet tall.</i> <i>They're extremely slow-growing</i> <i>and don't generally
begin to sprout arms</i> <i>until they're 65 years old.</i> <i>Judging by its size,
this blazed cactus</i> <i>is well over 150,</i> <i>dating its marking
to the time of Jacob Waltz.</i> The fact that Bob's
found one here, it definitely means we could
be on the right trail. See, that looks like a century
plant over here, isn't it? Yeah, there's--in fact,
there's no others around here. Take a look at this row
of rocks over here. I was kind of looking at that. It isn't natural. It was definitely
put there by a man. The bottom line
is there's Weavers Needle, there's Four Peaks.
We are on the line. The Gonzaleses had
to be standing here when they drew this map. I definitely not only see it but I feel it, Bob. And that's bigger things, feeling it when you're there. Good luck, partner. I can't thank you enough, Bob. People get killed out here. In the old days
it was people encroaching on other people's areas. They were crazy. When I first came out here, they were killing each other. Talk to you later. Take care. The most dangerous thing
they got to watch out for is themselves. NARRATOR:<i> With two new maps</i> <i>giving Wayne Tuttle
and his team the key</i> <i>to their starting point,</i> <i>the Dutch hunters could
be one step closer</i> <i>to solving
a 125-year-old mystery.</i> If we're on the right trail, our destination is the fork at the end of the canyon. There, we should find
a cluster of mines, one of which could be
the Lost Dutchman. But there's also a chance
the entire area's our target, that it's just not about the Xs. So I'm going to keep my eye out for any signs that match up with the Dutchman's riddles, because the more of these things
that start lining up, the more I have to believe
we're on the right track. You guys see this? Yeah.
A grinding hole. Is that what that is? What would they grind with it? They take a rock ( speaks
Spanish ) and they grind. And they take the mesquite beans
off of mesquite trees, they ground it up,
make a flour out of that. Was that--the Apache do that? No. That would've been
the Hohokam or the Salado tribes which existed over
a thousand years ago. NARRATOR:<i>
The Hohokam and the Salado,</i> <i>ancient Southern Arizona tribes</i> <i>that pre-date the Apaches</i> <i>were native farmers
known for making flour</i> <i>from naturally-occurring
grains.</i> <i>The depth of these
grinding holes</i> <i>from generations of daily use</i> <i>showed that a reach
civilization</i> <i>thrived here for centuries</i> <i>before any white man
ever set foot in the area.</i> There's like five of them. I've never seen
anything like that. To know those people were there and how much time
they had to spend there to make those
grind holes, that deep, I mean, it just blows me away. Hey, guys,
we got petroglyphs up here. Wow. These symbols are on
the Peralta and Cicero Map, exact same symbols. These could be original
petroglyphs or could be something
that was added next to some petroglyphs so that they're not
as noticeable. What better place to put some is right next
to some petroglyphs. NARRATOR:<i> Petroglyphs
are the oldest form</i> <i>of recorded human
communication.</i> <i>Geologist believe that ancient
natives used these symbols</i> <i>to represent ideas
that were basic</i> <i>to the tribe's survival,</i> <i>like tracking astronomical
phenomena,</i> <i>marking the best
hunting trails,</i> <i>or charting directions
to important landmarks</i> <i>like sources of water.</i> Definitely someone
GPSed this spot, take a picture and
get a GPS coordinate of it. NARRATOR:<i> In the southwest,</i> <i>treasure hunters
have been known</i> <i>to hijack these
ancient roadmaps</i> <i>by adding symbols
of their own,</i> <i>hiding the secrets of their
treasure in plain sight.</i> <i>Could there be a clue
to the Dutchman</i> <i>hidden in the petroglyphs?</i> What do you think, Wayne? It--it's a valid thought. I mean, I'm going
with the knife. The knife is a little different. You normally don't see
something like that in ancient petroglyphs. It seems a little
too modern to me. If you see a knife,
it's pointing which direction you go on a treasure map. So the knife with
the hilt down there and the knife pointed this way, and, again,
we're looking at north. You know, I hate to say it,
but Wayne might be right. We came across some petroglyphs, one's a double circle,
which means water nearby. The other's a knife.
That could mean one
of two things, one, go the way
the knife's pointing, or two, we're
in a dangerous spot.
We got to be careful. But we don't have any...
( speaks Spanish ) any distance,
any measurement. As much as I look at it, there's nothing
indicating how far. Now, it's a reference tool
to the map and continuing. There's no way to be sure
whether the petroglyphs are ancient or some treasure
hunter's secret directions. What we know is the knife
is pointing us in a direction. It could be gold. It could be danger. ( whispering ) Where are you? I saw you. One of the things
you always look for is areas where there
would be natural or manmade holes. See straight across
the two dots? - Yeah.
- I've been eyeballing something up on the ridge, and those two little holes
kind of caught my eye. That's straight across.
It looks like a big set of eyes right in the face of the wall. Waltz said there was a rock
face facing his mine. NARRATOR:<i> On his deathbed,</i> <i>the Dutchman left
a series of clues</i> <i>leading to the location
of his mine.</i> <i>125 years later,</i> <i>the riddles
are still unsolved.</i> Rather that everybody waste
their time running over there, I was trying to get Eric at a position to get
a look at it. Your interpretation of what
a rock face could be and what Waltz said,
it's anybody's choice. You have to follow it up. If there's something else
that pulls you there, you go investigate it.
You don't ignore it. That's what you'd be looking
for, a cache hole. Looking over and seeing
something like that, the first thing I wanna
know, is it manmade?
Is it natural? Does it look like it has
been used to store anything? They might put gold, supplies. There could be maps.
You'll never know what. There's been things
like this found. It's about four
or five feet deep. Can you see
the back end of it? Yeah, but it's a big cavity. There could be something
sitting up in there. Go check it out. So what you're looking
for then, in this situation, is the Spanish-Mexican miners, if they were mining or doing
something in the area, they would use holes like this and seal 'em up. Now, it could
be holes they used and they've emptied
anything possible in something like that. I wish I had my axe. It's like a three--four-- three-foot-deep cavity. There's actually a pretty
decent little shelf in there. It'd be perfect for somebody
to stick in something. I just wanna--okay, I'm gonna see
if we can reach in there to see if we can feel anything. ( rattlesnake rattles ) Holy Jesus. Whoo, boy. I think I see
a snake down there. There's just tons of spiders, some bird feathers. That ain't gonna be-- no. No. Nobody stuck
nothing in here. It's a perfect spot, though,
have to check it. The reason I have Magnuson
look into something like that and it proved out
to be nothing, it's still important to me.
I reference in the back
of my head. It could've been a base camp. There could be mine,
a covered mine nearby. Later on, there might
be information that comes into play
that makes me return to this because everything
falls into place for the Lost Dutchman
or something else. Hey, Wayne, that looks like
an old foundation up there. It does like look like
something poking through. Let's check it out. - Wow.
- Look at this. What do you think
this is, Wayne? - Prospector's cabin probably.
- Yeah. Waltz said there
was a remains of a cabin at the head of the canyon. Waltz was very clear
about that, that there'd be
something like this similar going to his mine. Waltz said there was
a cabin--remains of a cabin, a foundation at the head
of the canyon going to his mine. And Waltz was very clear
about that, that there'd be something
like this similar. I've been hunting for
the Lost Dutchman my whole life. There's 200 million dollars
on the line. And now, the stuff
we're finding along the trail keeps lining up
with the Dutchman's clues. I don't know if I've ever
been this close before. Well, we have Eric to cover
this with his detector. We may find an artifact
that we can date, give us an idea
how old this thing is. And we can check around
the outskirts here and this is what
we'll run into. We'll do. We're looking for some
sort of evidence that this stone foundation
could be the one that the Dutchman
was talking about. For that to be even
be possible, we need to find
some sort of evidence that this site dates back to the 1870s or earlier, because that's when
the Dutchman found his mine. - Oh, yeah?
- Yeah. ( metal detector beeping ) There it is. Hey, Wayne. - What you got, Magnuson?
- Old belt buckle. - What do you got?
- Old belt buckle. That's pretty cool. - Look at that.
- Tin? Steel? - Yeah. It's--no.
- Is that military or... No. I scratched it
coming out of the ground. It actually looks like
a little bit of copper. But look how ornate
it is on there. Any writing on it or anything? No. It's more like a pack buckle,
though, too doesn't it? I was thinking
maybe it was tack, but that's really
thin for tack. Thin but some sort of pack,
or a satchel, or something, because you see
the serrations here where you would run
the straps to grab. Yeah. A good find. The point you put
through the leather, how that's made, that's old. - Yeah.
- That's definitely old. That's late 1800s. What do you think?
Late 1800s? It's 19th Century
for sure, I'd say. It's a nice find. If we're able to date
this belt buckle pre-1870, that could mean this stone house is one of Jacob Waltz's clues. And that's exciting
stuff for us, because that means we got
the first piece of the puzzle. I'd have to clean it up.
Yeah. Hold on to that. - That's a nice piece.
- Hold on to that. Sometimes in a hunt
for gold like this, you just need a small
degree of possibility and a little faith. We found the stone house and that fits
with Waltz's clues. It's time to gear up,
get our stuff together, - and get down.
- Yeah. Are we good to go? All right, let's go. It's a nice flat ground here. We can put a fire right
on this bedrock right here. We don't need a ring
or anything. - Yeah.
- Good. - It's dark.
- Yeah, we don't want
a lot of flame. Because we'll be
signaling everybody on every canyon
around here we're here. Right. This is a beautiful spot here. I hope we can actually find
what everybody's been looking for for so long. You know, how far we've gone
in on this mission, I mean, do you feel like
we're any closer to finding the Lost Dutchman
than we were two weeks ago? Yeah. I think--I think
we're far better on the trail than we
were two weeks ago. Doesn't it just seem like
each map leads to another map that's gonna lead
eventually to another map? - I mean...
- Well, you know what, Deal, that's how you find things. We're in a good spot. We're in a
highly-mineralized area. You can't beat this. We're exactly where
we wanna be right now. You know, this has been our
best day so far though, guys if you stop and think about it. We got a lot done today. Nothing sweeter than the sound of the desert at night. I don't know what that is,
but I hear something. Sounds like an animal. Hey, Wayne, I ain't even tired and I'm kind of anxious
to keep swinging. So, if you don't mind,
I'll take first watch, throw my headlamps on
and get going. All right, stay close. Stay away from the cliff, okay? You know what, Bob,
I think I'll keep you company, - take a look around.
- Yeah, man. No worries. God. Don't make
too much noise. I'm gonna try
to get some sleep. Yeah. You won't hear me.
I got the Bluetooth
set up, going, so you'll hear me if I find
something cool, though. Can you guys be a little
quieter please? ( beeps ) Son of a -- Yeah, it's like probably
a bullet or something. It could be. ( mutters ) - Looks good to me. Careful.
- ( loud bang ) - Look out!
- Holy -- NARRATOR:<i> Next time on "Legend
of The Superstition Mountains."</i> Badass, dude, look at that. That's a medicine wheel. Wow. Hey, guys,
check this out. This is a good area. I got a mine up here, guys. - You got what?
- We got a vein. You got to admit, it's pretty as hell, right?
