1/13/2024 0 Comments Shaffer gold rushI am picturing the villain guy from Wakanda Forever whose name I forget. The divers reported seeing ghostly underwater Aztecs guarding the cave. He purchased some land and hired a dive team, but, he alleged, something truly bizarre happened. Child believed that the real resting place of the treasure was in the underwater caverns in the region. Some of them helped Freddie Crystal break through these seals, but they only found emptiness and disappointment, like Al Capone’s vault when Geraldo Rivero opened it on live TV.ĭecades later, in 1989, a local Kanab, Utah, resident, Brandt Child, theorized that the caves Crystal found were fakes to throw treasure hunters off the trail. Locals chalked him up as a kooky weirdo, but after a few years, Crystal thumbed his nose at them, for he had found a few caves that had been intentionally sealed off. He devoted his time to poking around the nooks of the canyon. In 1914, a treasure hunter named Freddie Crystal (no relation to Billy Crystal) showed up in the area of Johnson Canyon claiming to have a map with a big red X on it. Montezuma’s men probably didn’t want to go THAT far and, as I said, there are lots of nooks and crannies in the canyons and caves of southern Utah. ![]() There are a lot of places north of Mexico, but for some reason, most people believe Montezuma’s treasure is in southern Utah. “Is this too much?” – Montezuma II, probably. So, he got a group of his most trusted men to take the riches of the Aztecs north for safe keeping. Cortés and his men were like, yeah, now we can plunder that booty (in a non-sexual way), but to their dismay, the Aztecs didn’t have piles of gold, silver, and jewels.Īs the story goes, Montezuma could read the Spanish writing on the wall and knew his people were doomed to fall to the Conquistadors. Some epically one-sided battles ensued and, in 1520, Montezuma was killed. Things had been pretty status quo for the Aztecs until the Spanish Conquistadors, led by Hernán Cortés, made an unannounced visit in 1519 and bullied the Aztec people with their guns, armor, Christianity, and smallpox. The year was 1519 and the Aztec emperor, Montezuma II, had reigned over much of what is now Mexico for the last 17 years. ![]() This story pre-dates the Old West-era but, if it is true, it is a trove worth billions of dollars and priceless artifacts that, in the wise words of Indiana Jones, “belong in a museum!” What follows is a list of seven lost treasures that, if the stories are true, are still securely hidden in Utah’s rugged landscapes just waiting to be found. Heck, if I had treasure I wanted to hide, I’d head to the Beehive State.Īccording to legends, I’m not the only one who has thought this. In short, Utah has all sorts of nooks and crannies that could make great hiding places for lost treasures. Within the odd-numbered boundaries of the state, Utah has some diverse geography: rugged mountains, dry deserts, pine-filled valleys, an inland salt-water sea they are trying to pass off as a lake, narrow canyons, an entire meadow made of salt, imposing mesas and buttes, wind-carved sandstone arches and pinnacles, and even sand dunes without the obligatory ocean. Too bad they couldn’t add one more mile … I like even numbers. As the 13 th largest state in the union, Utah covers a total of 84,899 square miles. Come to think of it, Utah would be a great place to hide something.įirst, it is vast.
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