The Claim
There’s a huge stash of gold hidden somewhere in Victoria Peak of the San Andres Mountain range
This one seems to be more of a popular myth as opposed to having any actual evidence, but this hasn’t stopped hundreds of people over the years from trying to find it, and even several well funded expeditions have searched the hill for the gold, but all attempts so far have turned up empty.
Victoria peak is a small hill about 400 feet high that sits in the Hembrillo basin of the San Andres Mountains. There’s nothing really special about the hill and it isn’t even that big, but apparently there’s a stash of what people believe to be Spanish gold hidden somewhere within it.
The story goes that for whatever reason, the Spanish hid a stash of gold within a small cave that went deep within the hill but never came back for it. This gold was then found by people who either disappeared or lost it again, as there’s numerous stories as to how the gold was originally discovered.
The earliest story of the gold comes from 1937 when a man named Milton Noss apparently found the gold along with various artifacts in a small tunnel. He returned 2 years later to recover it but accidentally collapsed the tunnel when trying to widen it, and couldn’t dig it out again.
This story seems highly unlikely in my opinion, as the tunnel wouldn’t need widening since they managed to get it in there in the first place, and also why would you wait for 2 years to come back for a load of gold?
The other stories of how it was found are just as unlikely, with tales such as the discoverer being murdered by an associate before he could recover it, with the killer also somehow going missing, and a claim by the wife of Milton Noss to the government that she was entitled to the hills contents. The government however decided to excavate the gold in secret and took it for themselves.
There’s many other stories of how the gold stash was initially discovered, but not one of them has a single shred of evidence to back them up. The odd thing about this one is that there have been so many people over the years trying to find the gold on nothing more than a bunch of sketchy tales.
As of now it goes without saying that no one has found the gold, and not only that but there are no signs at all of any metal within the hill detected by ground sonar, and no signs of a tunnel ever being dug.
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