Legend of the Superstition Mountains (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - The Dutchman's Code - full transcript
The team trades a valuable percentage of their stake in return for a new clue, which leads them into the heart of ancient Apache territory and on the trail to decode the Dutchman's deathbed riddles.
( howling )
(gunshot)
( barking )
NARRATOR: A cursed mountain
hiding 200 million dollars in gold.
Two hundred fifty lives had been lost.
But now, five treasure hunters...
will defy the curse...
in search of...
America's deadliest treasure.
( 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: Arizona's Superstition Mountains,
the hunt to solve a 125-year-old
mystery is underway.
Wayne Tuttle has spent
his life chasing a legend,
the Lost Dutchman Mine, rumored to contain
one of America's biggest treasures,
200 million dollars worth of gold.
Thousands have tried and failed to decipher
the Dutchman's secrets.
Hundreds have paid with their lives.
But Wayne and his team have a new clue,
a secret map.
FRANK: We have information
that no one else had.
NARRATOR: That led to a
discovery of a heart-shaped stone
marked with a hand-carved X.
Those hearts are all over those mountains.
NARRATOR: A tip from a
veteran Dutch hunter revealed
that there could be
marked heart-shaped stones
all over the mountains.
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: Wayne and Eric
Magnuson have taken to the air
to investigate.
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: Assayers
examine minerals for gold
by first checking the stone for evidence
of any surface miners,
like quartz or silver.
Then the sample is pulverized
to find the approximate
amount of gold per ton.
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: In the Western Superstitions,
Goldfield, Arizona, sits atop
one the most productive
goldfields in the country.
Prospectors descended on the town in 1893
when a rich vein was uncovered.
( explosion )
NARRATOR: And over the next five years,
they pulled more than
one million dollars worth
of gold from the mountains,
a value of thirty million dollars today.
Most of the gold came
from three large mines,
Mammoth, Black Queen, and Bull Dog.
Put together, the $30 million worth of gold
these mines produced is just a fraction
of the Dutchman's legendary
$200 million fortune.
Could the Dutchman Mine or stash
still be hidden untouched
here in Goldfield?
To find out, Wayne has to pay his respects
to the man in charge, Bob Schoose.
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: Like Wayne, Bob
Schoose is a veteran Dutch hunter.
He arrived in the Superstitions
in the early 1970s
to hunt for the Lost Dutchman.
In 1986, he bought the
entire area of Goldfield
and created a successful
tourist site known as Ghost Town.
He's considered one of the most respected
and true Dutch hunters around.
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: Wayne Tuttle's
quest to unravel the mystery
of the Dutchman's gold
has led him to a place
called Goldfield, Arizona.
He's followed a trail of
clues and now must search
for the truth about whether this area
might be hiding the long lost mine.
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: After a
major clue turned up empty,
Wayne Tuttle's search
for the Lost Dutchman Mine
hangs in the balance.
Now, in order to gain valuable information,
he will attempt to offer up a partnership
to one of the most powerful and secretive
Dutch hunter's alive, Bob Schoose.
- 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: The Peralta family controlled
the mining territory of the Superstitions
as far back as the 1700s
and created coded maps
to conceal the locations
of their most valuable mines.
But the Peraltas didn't
work these mountains alone,
they partnered with another family,
the Gonzaleses who created their own maps
giving them directions
to the Peralta's secret mines.
Some say, it was the Peralta's map
that lead the Dutchman himself
to find his legendary lost mine.
Could it be that these treasure hunters
had been looking in the wrong place?
Could the Gonzales map be the secret key
to decoding the Dutchman?
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: When compared side by side,
these two maps show very similar features.
Four mountain peaks, a butte,
a canyon that splits, and the Rio Salado.
But there is one major difference,
the Gonzales map shows the word, Mina,
Spanish for mine around the cluster of Xs.
Could one of those Xs be
the Lost Dutchman Mine?
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: The Saguaro cactus can grow
to be over 200 years old
and more than 40 feet tall.
They're extremely slow-growing
and don't generally begin to sprout arms
until they're 65 years old.
Judging by its size, this blazed cactus
is well over 150,
dating its marking to
the time of Jacob Waltz.
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: With two new maps
giving Wayne Tuttle and his team the key
to their starting point,
the Dutch hunters could be one step closer
to solving a 125-year-old mystery.
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: The Hohokam and the Salado,
ancient Southern Arizona tribes
that pre-date the Apaches
were native farmers known for making flour
from naturally-occurring grains.
The depth of these grinding holes
from generations of daily use
showed that a reach civilization
thrived here for centuries
before any white man
ever set foot in the area.
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: Petroglyphs are the oldest form
of recorded human communication.
Geologist believe that ancient
natives used these symbols
to represent ideas that were basic
to the tribe's survival,
like tracking astronomical phenomena,
marking the best hunting trails,
or charting directions
to important landmarks
like sources of water.
Definitely someone GPSed this spot,
take a picture and get
a GPS coordinate of it.
NARRATOR: In the southwest,
treasure hunters have been known
to hijack these ancient roadmaps
by adding symbols of their own,
hiding the secrets of
their treasure in plain sight.
Could there be a clue to the Dutchman
hidden in the petroglyphs?
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: On his deathbed,
the Dutchman left a series of clues
leading to the location of his mine.
125 years later,
the riddles are still unsolved.
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: Next time on "Legend
of The Superstition Mountains."
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?
(gunshot)
( barking )
NARRATOR: A cursed mountain
hiding 200 million dollars in gold.
Two hundred fifty lives had been lost.
But now, five treasure hunters...
will defy the curse...
in search of...
America's deadliest treasure.
( 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: Arizona's Superstition Mountains,
the hunt to solve a 125-year-old
mystery is underway.
Wayne Tuttle has spent
his life chasing a legend,
the Lost Dutchman Mine, rumored to contain
one of America's biggest treasures,
200 million dollars worth of gold.
Thousands have tried and failed to decipher
the Dutchman's secrets.
Hundreds have paid with their lives.
But Wayne and his team have a new clue,
a secret map.
FRANK: We have information
that no one else had.
NARRATOR: That led to a
discovery of a heart-shaped stone
marked with a hand-carved X.
Those hearts are all over those mountains.
NARRATOR: A tip from a
veteran Dutch hunter revealed
that there could be
marked heart-shaped stones
all over the mountains.
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: Wayne and Eric
Magnuson have taken to the air
to investigate.
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: Assayers
examine minerals for gold
by first checking the stone for evidence
of any surface miners,
like quartz or silver.
Then the sample is pulverized
to find the approximate
amount of gold per ton.
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: In the Western Superstitions,
Goldfield, Arizona, sits atop
one the most productive
goldfields in the country.
Prospectors descended on the town in 1893
when a rich vein was uncovered.
( explosion )
NARRATOR: And over the next five years,
they pulled more than
one million dollars worth
of gold from the mountains,
a value of thirty million dollars today.
Most of the gold came
from three large mines,
Mammoth, Black Queen, and Bull Dog.
Put together, the $30 million worth of gold
these mines produced is just a fraction
of the Dutchman's legendary
$200 million fortune.
Could the Dutchman Mine or stash
still be hidden untouched
here in Goldfield?
To find out, Wayne has to pay his respects
to the man in charge, Bob Schoose.
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: Like Wayne, Bob
Schoose is a veteran Dutch hunter.
He arrived in the Superstitions
in the early 1970s
to hunt for the Lost Dutchman.
In 1986, he bought the
entire area of Goldfield
and created a successful
tourist site known as Ghost Town.
He's considered one of the most respected
and true Dutch hunters around.
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: Wayne Tuttle's
quest to unravel the mystery
of the Dutchman's gold
has led him to a place
called Goldfield, Arizona.
He's followed a trail of
clues and now must search
for the truth about whether this area
might be hiding the long lost mine.
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: After a
major clue turned up empty,
Wayne Tuttle's search
for the Lost Dutchman Mine
hangs in the balance.
Now, in order to gain valuable information,
he will attempt to offer up a partnership
to one of the most powerful and secretive
Dutch hunter's alive, Bob Schoose.
- 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: The Peralta family controlled
the mining territory of the Superstitions
as far back as the 1700s
and created coded maps
to conceal the locations
of their most valuable mines.
But the Peraltas didn't
work these mountains alone,
they partnered with another family,
the Gonzaleses who created their own maps
giving them directions
to the Peralta's secret mines.
Some say, it was the Peralta's map
that lead the Dutchman himself
to find his legendary lost mine.
Could it be that these treasure hunters
had been looking in the wrong place?
Could the Gonzales map be the secret key
to decoding the Dutchman?
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: When compared side by side,
these two maps show very similar features.
Four mountain peaks, a butte,
a canyon that splits, and the Rio Salado.
But there is one major difference,
the Gonzales map shows the word, Mina,
Spanish for mine around the cluster of Xs.
Could one of those Xs be
the Lost Dutchman Mine?
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: The Saguaro cactus can grow
to be over 200 years old
and more than 40 feet tall.
They're extremely slow-growing
and don't generally begin to sprout arms
until they're 65 years old.
Judging by its size, this blazed cactus
is well over 150,
dating its marking to
the time of Jacob Waltz.
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: With two new maps
giving Wayne Tuttle and his team the key
to their starting point,
the Dutch hunters could be one step closer
to solving a 125-year-old mystery.
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: The Hohokam and the Salado,
ancient Southern Arizona tribes
that pre-date the Apaches
were native farmers known for making flour
from naturally-occurring grains.
The depth of these grinding holes
from generations of daily use
showed that a reach civilization
thrived here for centuries
before any white man
ever set foot in the area.
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: Petroglyphs are the oldest form
of recorded human communication.
Geologist believe that ancient
natives used these symbols
to represent ideas that were basic
to the tribe's survival,
like tracking astronomical phenomena,
marking the best hunting trails,
or charting directions
to important landmarks
like sources of water.
Definitely someone GPSed this spot,
take a picture and get
a GPS coordinate of it.
NARRATOR: In the southwest,
treasure hunters have been known
to hijack these ancient roadmaps
by adding symbols of their own,
hiding the secrets of
their treasure in plain sight.
Could there be a clue to the Dutchman
hidden in the petroglyphs?
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: On his deathbed,
the Dutchman left a series of clues
leading to the location of his mine.
125 years later,
the riddles are still unsolved.
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: Next time on "Legend
of The Superstition Mountains."
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?