Chasing Legends 282: The Murderous Jacob Waltz

Today on Chasing Legends of the Superstition Mountains, Wayne Tuttle discusses an article describing a story that may be a clue as to the development of the story of Jacob Waltz being a murderer and whether the Lost Dutchman Mine existed.

The Superstition Mountains are located in Apache Junction, Arizona. Within the wilderness, the Lost Dutchman Mine has remained hidden, with up to $200 million in gold. Wayne Tuttle, Frank Augustine, Woody Wampler, Eric Deleel, and Eric Magnuson set out into the Superstition Mountains on History Channel’s Legend of the Superstition Mountains to search for the infamous gold mine in 2015. Growing restless waiting for a second season, Wayne and Frank decided to continue their search in the Superstition Mountains on YouTube, filming videos of their treks into the mountains. The team now engages in treasure hunting and gold prospecting in the Superstition Mountains, searching for Ted DeGrazia’s lost paintings and investigating strange stories and mysteries of the Superstition Mountains.

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[artcflowers]

Waltzing Jacob Waltz. All the embellishments make for juicy around the campfire fodder. Thanks for the stories Wayne.

[leeify]

Mr. Tuttle, Thanks for being a great archivist, for these stories (whether true or not)

[glennwebster]

Hay It's one way to get gold outa the 👍

[maikailoa]

Good story wayne
Thanks. Take care
Ron

[susanwaliczek]

Very interesting show Wayne !! Happy hunting !!!

[spirittalkers]

Always enjoy the stories….keep’ ‘em coming

[davidj.lebaron]

Marice Kildare was a prolific writer. He told Apache Jim about the Clevenger Cache, who recovered it.

[JohnD-bsqi]

Thanks for this story Wayne! Do you think the skin walker ranch show embellishes like the first season of LOTSM did?

[keithharris]

What is the best book about the Dutchman

[richardminer]

Do you think it is possible that Jacob's ore came from a stash he found and not his mine? That he himself spent years trying to find the source and never did? Does not seem he had much wealth over a long period of time, just the last few year of his life had some money? Is there any record of him selling large amounts of ore, or just handfuls at a time? Wonder if the ore was not even from the area, but further north and mined many decades earlier? Seems more likely to me as the gold does not match what is found in the superstition mountains? Your thoughts?

[MajorCavendish]

Waltz the murdering miner does sound more dramatic than the kindly old man who paid off Julia Thomas’ debts and was allowed to live in her home while he was sick. However, there are still questions about the Mexican that was killed at his home with his shotgun and the miners that he and Weiser shot while working in the mine that he took possession of that still makes you wonder. Great story!

[WhiteSandsMbuna]

Ive been to two guns and the death cave

[TheRBW]

Hi Wayne, You are Wayne Tuttle, great researcher and story teller. Yes this legend is Like Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and the rest. Dime Store fodder. I am still Bruce Wayne and you Ain't

[sidneyglosup]

Is it Sim Zealy or Sims Ealy?? Is he an author??

[patmadden]

Tht was a good story. But what was there to gain by saying those thing? As always. Thanks.

[michaelfercik]

All fabled lost treasure stories have so much embellishment through time that it has corroded the story's facts to the point of the rusty opinions camouflage any facts still left in the stories.

[wilfredwachira]

One of the most boring narrations I ever saw