I found a cave here in flagstaff 8 years ago I’ve checked it periodically over the years my foot print is the only one I’ve ever seen in it once you get underground into the entrance it looks man made the walls are perfectly squared I can’t find anyone to check it out with me

Good of Larry to share this with the World while he was still able, otherwise no one would have known about this, or its history.

That’s awesome he lived long enough to make another trip since his first time in 58

You guys are animals! To make that trek at your ages, is outstanding.

Great video, I don't blame you for not going down into that hole. As Clint Eastwood once said: "A man's got to know his limitations."

I hate leaving negative comments but, Man! I really was looking forward to them going down into that mine and recording their adventure! That whole video seems like it was working up to an exciting exploration of the mine! The build up in the beginning. The difficult climb through the brush and boulders! Then, there they were, standing at the entrance! They finally made it! They build up the story a bit more. They talk about the adventures in and near the mine. Tell us about the history of the area and mine; peaking our interests! And then! Just when we think it is time! They are finally going to go in! "well, thanks a lot folks! I hope you enjoyed our video. I'm never coming up here again". What? I mean, did you really invest all that time and effort making that video just to get to the entry and leave? With all due respect to the gentlemen and I did enjoy the story/narrative but, very disappointing video. I was so excited to get a look into a mine that probably hadn't been seen by human eyes in ages! It certainly looked like that's the way this video was going. What a complete let down. Oh, I still gave it a "thumbs up" out of principle but, I was expecting so much more out of this video. I'm bummed. Gonna go drink a beer...

I remember hiking around those mountains with my grandfather when I was 11or 12 years old. That is some rough country..

Thanks for sharing & preserving some of the old history and legends; they're worth much more than gold. I lived in the Superstitions many years ago and have fond memories of our little creek that came down from the hills forming a waterfall, swimming hole, waterfall, swimming hole... OTOH, It would be fun to check the mine with a GPZ 7000 and a little dry-washer!

Great factual history of part of the Superstition Mountains. Thanks for the effort to show it to us !

Thank you for sharing this video sure memories from a long time ago

THANKS guys especially Larry for showing us this. It's to bad that you weren't more prepared because after all that work to get there you don't go in and see what's going on. I know I wouldn't care how tired I was I would still be going inside. I wished that I lived closer. Now we will probably have to wait for some reality show

What everyone seems to forget or just leave out, is the fact the lost Dutchman mine was still producing good gold and it was not fines either. It was chunky gold. So when and of that mine is ever found you would know it because you would still find really great chunky gold there. So if you have a mine in mind and it's not producing according to the stories. Then you have not found it. Logic dictates, your theories on the mine don't. Great find there and always amazing to be able to look back into the past to these old timers and pioneers of the day. True American heroes if you ask me.

Absolutely beautiful!! Thank you gentlemen!! I love historical places like that absolutely amazing!!!

You: *“No one should try to come up here.”* Me: *“Sounds good, I’m on my way.”*

Man Larry is one tough fella. They sure don't make like that any more, broke the mold. Thank you for sharing, looks like a amazing place.

Great Video / Thanks to all of you !!!

Unsolved Mysteries brought me here... I need to enter this mine and continue the search.

drove out that way when we lived out in Phoenix area , but didn't do much hiking , now wishing we had ... but got a different 4x4 now , and will be heading west again very soon... nice presentation guys , tyvm

Thats a helluva trip just to hike up to... Good Job Guys! Larry's a real Trooper!

You said, "I'm advising people to NOT, NOT, NOT, to go up there." Honestly, because you protested so much, I want to go even more!

For some reason the footage of these two gentlemen talking looks straight out of a mid 90s made for TV documentary. If it wasn't for the 16:9 aspect ratio I would have believed this was recorded in the 90s.

Very cool. Thank you for sharing!

That was Interesting though I wish that we could have seen the inside, Thank You for sharing all the same.

Thanks Again For Sharing Your Life

Wouldn't it be funny if this actually was the spot where Waltz found his gold, after we were told "No, this isn't the LDM"...

Such a good mystery remember the show wish they would have brought it back thanks for the video

That's a lot of work and it built a lot of excitement and then.....yep, it's a hole and it's there time to go. Wait what??!!

Amazing!!

Exploring Abandoned Mines Dude would be all over this. You should consider inviting him to explore this for you. Would be great episode.

That mine was cleaned out a long time ago....All these treasure hunters are funny to watch chasing ghost stories

enjoyed it. Ive been through some areas near there and it is dangerous.

Have you thought about using drones to find lost minds instead of going through all those rocks physically. I would try a drone and then maybe get down to it after I found it

One day i am going to film the inside of those drifts for yall

Great video guys!

Many thanks for the video. It is interesting, and a great mystery. Leave it that way.

I have hiked all over that place when I was younger with Pappy Flora and and the Syson clan, and we never found that place, beautiful area and always a treat to hike, God bless you guys!

No ropes, no climbing equipment, few cuts on the arms. “It’s so dangerous lol, sounds like a normal day when I was 9!

Reminds me of a typical Gila County, AZ Coues Deer Hunt! I miss home!

Some day I will be there !!

I would love to see inside the mine.

If you knew exactly what they are show , how these structures were formed , you would be shocked and probably never see this world the same . HUGE AND GIGANTIC

Meerkat enjoys the episodes and the views of the beautiful scenery.

Thanks guys! 👍

Awesome - thanks gents

Thank you,,,,

Wow great show could you please make a drawing of the wheel barrel so wee coul see it thank you sir for sharing some of your child hood memories

I lived out in that desert for several years...it hold amazing secrets and early white guys who went there had to avoid Apaches.

I've lived in Utah now about 30 years. Up in the Uinta's there used to be (may still be?) "Spanish Cross's" cut in to trees supposedly left by the Spanish to find their mines up there. But they enslaved the Indians mining the gold such that when the Spaniards left, the Indians guarded those mines ever afterwards. A couple of shepherds, its said, found some gold nuggets out near Tooele, Utah and came to Brigham Young with it and wanted to go mining. Brigham told them he knew where to get "hat fulls of gold" if the church needed it, and to go back to sheep herding. He was trying to get the people of the church to rely upon each other, not gold. Meanwhile, I read that Brigham had a man who was friendly with some of the Indians who'd let him retrieve gold from the mines from time to time. I used to work with a man, whose brother apparently had one of those Spanish mines out in Nevada some place. But he hated being there because he said it was haunted. Something about all those dead Indians or some such! Fact is, gold and silver mining in the West goes back even further than the Spanish many hundreds of years. But that's a whole other story. Thank you for the post. Very interesting to see and hear. As for those who sound disappointed y'all didnt go further in to the mine itself, we didnt miss much. Just a dark hole in the ground! Lol!

I been through that area. Trust what they say. It is very dangerous and NEVER go alone.

Great video! I just did an episode over there its such an incredible place!

Wow ! On many levels .

probably be a Wal-Mart there by the time I get ready to go !

I found the mine many years ago, then I moved it to a secret location. Took most of the day to carry it.

The mine collapsed in 1873 during an earthquake. The Dutchman said he died with all the gold he had when the mine collapsed. He found one of the 8 active mines the Peralta's had when they tried to abandon the Superstitions when they learned that the Apache Indians were going to attack them. 6 mines were clustered and there were two that were outliers from the clustered mines. It is funny because during hiking season, probably 20 to 30 people walk by the 6 clustered mines an hour and don't even know it is there.

For 6 months I lived in a T-shaped cave just outside the boundaries of "The Lost Dutchman" State park. Kept my gear in there back in there booby trapped with tear gas attached to the shrub branches with a trip wire. I brought in the shrub to act as camouflage in front of my gear. If they persisted and went for the actual gear I had military grenade simulators rigged to the back pack and other gear by thier small cotton string. Pick up the pack then 15 seconds later "BOOM", lol. Fortunately no one ever went in there, of course when I was a way for extended periods I would ripen a dead skunk in the sun for a couple days and then toss it into the caves mouth a few feet. Always kept old dried rattle snake skins littered about too. Anyway I took a few trips back up into the Superstitions , to Weavers Needle, The Massacre Grounds "Peralta and men killed there". I had read where most people killed back in there were foolish and hiked out in the open, kept sky lining themselves, walk across the open valley floor, stay on trails etc. And were thereby easy prey for others back in there who did not want to come pout for new supplies etc. It was easy to watch people enter the area from vantage points and then ambush them for supplies and even their life. Quite a few were killed by beheading. It is said that higher up, the spires are called "People turned to Stone" and are sacred to the White Mountain Apaches even to this day. They were suspected of the beheadings. I was 09 years in the US Army 82nd Abn. and was not going to be foolish back in there. Always walked the military crest, stayed down is washes, stopped to listen for noises etc. When I got to the steep ascents to the spires I came across a skull and bones etched in black on the face of the rock wall with the word "Beware" then the date 1921. After that I had the safety on my HK91 switched off, round in the chamber and moved cautiously. I made camp about sunset, unpacked a few things. Once it was pretty dark I packed everything back up and moved perhaps an 1/8th mile to establish another camp. Just tried to be smart up in there. The next day, a peaceful Sunday morning perhaps about 6:30 standing up on the cliffs edge overlooking the valley floor I took the HK and cranked of 20 rounds of 308 as a great wake up call to all the people down below at the campgrounds and adjacent restaurant areas. LOL, it was pretty loud, then just echoed for a few more long seconds. Found mountain lion tracks about 30 feet from my camp, there is danger all over up there. From swarms of bees, snakes, Gila Monsters, scorpions, Black Widows, People. When I got back to my camp all was good except some joker shot the tires flat on my bicycle I had tucked up to and under a saguaro cactus. Suckers got me, but not my gear. 6 Months there waiting and waiting. Funny thing is a TV station came out there to use the cave for a Gold miner commercial. They brought some old furniture with them and when they were all done they said "Hey Rambo, you want us to leave you this here furniture? So hell, I had a furnished cave to chill in. It was all good excpet they had a large air cannon that they shot a bunch of popcorn from during the filming and I had mice for a couple weeks gorging on popcorn. Ah those were the days, no great pressure, now out here back in the game, fighting the daily fight, ugh. That was 1986 I lived out there. Went in the army at 17 in 73-83. City life and always chasing the dollar trying to keep on top of the bills, sometimes I so hate this mess of a life.

That was pretty cool. Sounds like it was a great place to hide things.

I have probably the best clues to where the Lost Dutchman Mine is located (exactly) . I’m originally from Mesa, Arizona and have always been fascinated with the Superstition Mountains . Now that I’m older I moved to a different state to work and am planning a visit to find and reveal to everyone where that mine is at!

bring a gun with you also, lots of nut jobs still looking for Jacobs Waltz gold

I read a book about this mine-published in the early 1950s-author verified that Waltz found all the gold, nothing was left. It was a small deposit. Waltz got evrything.

Nice video, was hoping to see inside though!

I miss the desert, been over 19 yrs and i feel those mountains call me

That's amazing

Why does the old guy sound like Mr. Haney on Green Acres with Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor....hee hee. You guys are real special and unlike most of us have found yer special purpose. My dad lives on the southwest side of the queen valley green. So when I inherit this mess I guess I will come wander aimlessly out their where dear old dad took his metal detector around the golf course anyway. Don't forget to stop and see Gene and Carolyn ....86 now

Really enjoyed this and 1st timer I guess Ill spend 2 more hours on some others ,thanks from Vegas

I’ve been out that way. Just not up that far. I’d love to come up and mine it

An off road trip like this one requires gloves & long sleeve shirt & good boots and a good rescue rope if you slip down the hole. You guys are a danger to your self with out gear. Great adventure - good hunting

5 hours to get there, don't explore the mine. I'm too spoiled for this.

If you ever visit there, go visit Goldfield Mine Camp. It is right next door to where they are standing. The Superstition Mts. were once a distance, but clear, view from my backdoor and porch. Loved it.

The rocks alone have mystery too

Cool I would explore 😊

Great video

It looked as if the opening down there was still clear though. We'll never know until someone actually goes down and in there.

Very interesting

I just want to tell a little history of what a very reliable source and also a very good friend that is a very knowledgeable and in all words a real mountain man that does not spook very easy untill he was near this exact mind or cave and he was with a few other men of the same caliber of my friend and I have known these men 25 plus years ,so I believe what they tell me they had all types of weird unexplainable things happen they all seen a creature that moved like a shadow and my one buddy said this thing screamed at him when he was approaching this very cave where Larry and the other men went to.They would hear people talking all through the night like they were walking up to there camp and there would not be a person to be found.They had a real good fire going the first night and they were seeing sillowets of men looking at them like 50',60 feet away' and they would focus there eyes and there would not be anything there.It was going to be a 3 day trip let's just say they were all home in there houses by noon the next day. This was 1991 when this all happen this trip changed my friends way of going on overnight trips and the way they prospect .

I can see why they advised against going down there though it's it's there's a reason why a lot of people lost their life trying to Chase gold. Thank you for showing it to us sir

I need gold adventure badly lol awesome country and video

In 1968 I went to work for the Oklahoma City private investigator, Glenn Magill. Soon after I started working for Glenn he showed me a book that had just been published on his exploits, The Killer Mountains by Curt Gentry. He had me read the book and then talked about it extensively. Up until then I'd never heard of the Lost Dutchman gold mine. After being filled in on everything he knew, Glenn wanted my input. He said that even though he'd told Gentry that everything he said was true and he knew exactly where the mine was, he still wasn't sure. One of the first things I learned about the whole thing was that there were a lot of dangerous people looking for that mine. (I quickly determined that Magill was probably the most dangerous of them all.) Magill believed the mine was on Bluff Springs Mountain on the slope facing the Old Military Trail. He said that it would take him several more years to actually prove that because he had to save up the money to finance each trip. I quit working for Magill in '70 and in '72 moved to Phoenix. I didn't do so just to look for the mine myself (by then I'd become a floor-covering installer and had heard there was plenty of work in Phoenix) but in '74 decided to check it out myself. Magill had said that he told everyone who worked for him about his findings and that if he ever caught any of his former employees in those mountains, he would kill them. I took that seriously and went in when I was quite sure he wouldn't be there. I never thought the mine was on Bluff Springs Mountain - never actually came to any personal conclusion about its location - but wanted to check it out anyway. I went to the location where Magill believed it was and became thoroughly convinced that there was no mine there and never had been. I think Magill died in 1993 or '94 and like so many others, wasted a lot of time and money on his quest but never found a thing.

I can relate to the hike. I've been backpacking for 20+ years, I've done similar hikes in similar terrain cross-country (no trails) in Joshua Tree N.P. ... pretty gnarly stuff. It isn't as easy as it looks.

Nice

I love the fake mud splatters and bandage. Means it’s really easy to get to, I mean if they’re pulling those rookie decoy Makeup

I found that mine when I was a kid. My dad and I went camping and when I went exploring by myself I saw all that. I remember the ladder too. Didn’t go in tho cus it looked really dangerous. Very cool to see again after all these years

Best episode ever. Go back and drop a camera down the hole. Do it for Charlie.

I'm pretty dumb about this, but does that shaft look like a place that would have gold to mine? Seems like kind of an odd place to start digging. When I was a young man, we camped out there for a few days. I thought the whole place was kind of creepy. There are a lot of stories about lost gold and silver out there. Out of all that we hiked to, Wolf Creek Pass Colorado was the best. From my old research, I believe the treasure has been found there, but I love the natural not springs in the area. All of these places are exceptionally dangerous. I was with 2 other people that had been there before, and we were all experienced explorers. The interesting part was going with a geologist, and finding layers in the mountains and have him go through everything that happened. While he made his money working claims for different kinds of crystals, back then we were all broke, and dreamed of finding bars and bars of gold or silver. Thank you for posting.

Very deceiving trek. The cave is really interesting. alot of history and stories hidden away.

Gly, from "Abandoned and forgotten places" would do it, he has been checking out, documenting Old mines for quite a while now.

I have hunted in this country many many years, its rough and hard to manage country.

Glad for the story and video ... I agree, no way I'm hiking in there ... why I watch U Tub ...

Never tell anyone to NOT go somewhere, unless you want to guarantee that someone will!.

Fast forward to 12:33 There is a single shot of a huge quartzite deposit, oh and by the way I once saw a picture of an 80lb ingot of gold supposedly found at the lost Dutchman mine, way back in 1979. ( Hard to believe today, but back then it was worth 240k).

Scary words when put together. Mine and superstition.

wow so awesome yet very dangerous, was waiting to see a mountain lion den. great job guys!

I was born and raised in Tucson Arizona, if anyone ever wants a tour guide and think they can do it, I'm happy to lend my services as a Arizona cave spelunker. Have done caving since I was a kid, I am in good enough shape to carry gear or lend a helping hand to those who may need it too!

I FOUND THE SPOT, and ya it definitely is hard to get to. Took me 4 trys, totally worth it.

I don't know about you. but I came that far, I'm pretty sure I'd have rope. I would have went to the bottom I want to see exactly what that drift look like. Too much work not to see the reward....

a wonder right there,,

what really gets me is that's not one of the 7 mines or the 18 mines or even the 31 mines ...lol it is a pit that's about it ! ....lol great find.... great video ...

The irony of that being the actual opening to the dutchman that they covered up would be great! The reason they left the wheel barrow after 30 ft!!??

Way cool I’ll never visit the area I live in Alaska but we have our own lost mines here but would of been cool to actually metal detect the area see what you find bound to find some cool old stuff

I know now & I'm going to go in it myself?

Clearly a drone is the way to explore this area, at least for the first few visits.