Victorio Peak

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So deep in the mountains of southern New Mexico sits a place called Victorio Peak, and for centuries there have been stories of lost mines and Spanish gold and hidden caches and buried fortunes that have just followed this part of the country.

But in 1937, a man named Doc Noss claimed that he found something that made those old legends seem very real, a hidden passage leading deep inside the mountain, where he said he discovered skeletons, strange artifacts, and thousands of gold bars worth an unimaginable fortune.

So tonight we're gonna dig in to the strange story of the Victorio Peak treasure, and try to figure out whether one of America's greatest lost fortunes is still hidden beneath the mountain, or if somebody has already found it.

Yep.

And Matt and I both love these kind of stories.

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They're real-life treasure hunters, adventurers, and questers.

One of my guests spent 40 years inside Victorio Peak battling government, searching for gold, and doing everything he can to expose something that has been hidden for hundreds of years.

Some of the gold in this mountain even goes back to the Spanish conquistadors, being that they found hundreds of their bodies inside this mountain.

Throughout their adventure, they discovered that this gold conspiracy went way further down the rabbit hole than they could have ever imagined.

What do you think, Jack?

Well, I, I, I think the early intrusion of people at the higher level, levels of our government, I learned from a man by the name of Richard E. Cole.

Richard E. Cole, um, li- lived in the, in the area of Victorio Peak, and I, I'll shrink the story because it's a long one.

He had found what he thought to be an entrance into Victorio Peak.

Oh, these are painful.

We are heading into the American Southwest to look at the Lost Dutchman's gold mine and the Victorio Peak treasure.

The American Southwest breeds a lore centered on individual endurance.

It's about surviving extreme heat, isolation, and often succumbing to paranoia.

It is the ultimate needle in a haystack.

And people still die every decade trying to find it.

It's tragic, but the Victorio Peak treasure, this is the one that makes me wanna just scream at the historical record.

It is infuriating.

that Montezuma took those records, he himself, and took those back to Azatlan, back to their sacred lands, and hid those ancient records.

Yes, there's treasure, and we even have, you know, there's things I could run down and share with you, locations, Victoria Peak, Johnson Canyon, I could just run down places where things have even been discovered, like Coronado following after There's so much evidence, but the bottom line is ancient records.

Records that would really change the world to hope you have a prophecy about when Montezuma's treasure would be found.

And that time, if you go look that prophecy up, it is mind-blowing.