The Mystery Of The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine In Southwest America | Myth Hunters

The Mystery Of The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine In Southwest America | Myth Hunters

The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine (also known by similar names) is, according to legend, a rich gold mine hidden in the southwestern United States. The location is generally believed to be in the Superstition Mountains, near Apache Junction, east of Phoenix, Arizona. There have been many stories about how to find the mine, and each year people search for the mine. Some have died on the search. This documentary explores one treasure hunter’s quest for the gold. Dick Holmes, born in the heart of Arizona’s Gold Rush era, embodies the spirit of the Wild West. From his youth fighting Apache warriors to his relentless pursuit of the Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine, Holmes epitomizes grit and determination in the face of danger, greed, and the allure of hidden treasure.

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50 Comments

  1. @wickedwidget3812 on June 7, 2024 at 11:48 am

    The area out there looks so beautiful. Damn the mine idc about that lol I would never find it I am not that lucky lmao but I would definitely go for the beautiful scenery.

  2. @giogio1716 on June 7, 2024 at 11:49 am

    Come on his not an American, that’s belong to the native Americans.

  3. @paulbowman1762 on June 7, 2024 at 11:52 am

    I BET THE DUTCHMAN IS LAUGHING IN HIS GRAVE COZ THERE WAS INLY THAT GOLD HE HAD UNDER HIS BED AND THERE WAS’NT ANYMORE 🤣 HE SENT THEM ON A WILD GOOSE CHASE FOR ALL THESE YEARS AND STILL IS ? THE MINE HE REALLY HAD HE BLEW IT SHUT WITH DYNAMITE ! HOW DO I KNOW ? THE DUTCHMAN HAD A REAL GOOD FRIEND WHO DIED 1 YEAR AFTER HIM AND HE TOLD HIS SON THE SECRET ? MY GRANDFATHER 🤣👊

  4. @frankedgar6694 on June 7, 2024 at 11:55 am

    If the Lost Dutchman mine is so productive, why are there no other gold mines in the area?

  5. @eBaum96 on June 7, 2024 at 11:56 am

    I live in AZ have lived here for over 40 years in the East valley. Majority of the time I lived in AZ has been in Apache Junction, where this tale is most popular. I recently moved to Prescott, AZ because all of the people fleeing states/cities like; CA, Seattle, WA and Oregon. These people are bringing there problems with them and are destroying our once peaceful and beautiful state. With that said, this tale is nothing, but a tale to generate tourism and money—PERIOD! By all means though go and try to find it, it’s a HUGE find, especially if you’re from CA!

  6. @myriaddsystems on June 7, 2024 at 11:57 am

    McKenna’s Gold?

  7. @salvadordolly712 on June 7, 2024 at 11:57 am

    Don’t waste your time it’s one commercial after another plus their added commercials you suck

  8. @germainewillfixit7785 on June 7, 2024 at 11:59 am

    The flying Dutchman and dick 😂

  9. @figgiefigueroa7372 on June 7, 2024 at 11:59 am

    Why the honorable man didn’t wait for julia the lady? You going to visit someone else house and take whatever?
    Didn’t say goodbye???
    He did what a thief would do. The behavior is clear.
    Theres mo gold 🥇🪙🥇 is just a legend.

  10. @BradfordGuy on June 7, 2024 at 12:02 pm

    Being a native of Phoenix, I grew up hearing all of the tales of the Lost Dutchman’s mine. There have been so many people who have either died or mysteriously gone missing while looking for it that it is a true legend, a mystery, a ghost story, that even just camping in the Superstitions gives one an eerie feeling. The mountains do not look that big, but I’ve hiked them, and you can easily become hopelessly lost if you do not give the mountains their respect.

  11. @AlanThomas-hp3fn on June 7, 2024 at 12:04 pm

    The mine is on flat land which was mined with equipment. The vein shaft is covered by a block house, and it is private property.

  12. @IvanOoze1990 on June 7, 2024 at 12:07 pm

    An old man trolling everyone on his deathbed

  13. @mo6278 on June 7, 2024 at 12:07 pm

    There’s gold in them their hills

  14. @salvadordolly712 on June 7, 2024 at 12:07 pm

    Don’t waste your time it’s one commercial after another plus their added commercials you suck

  15. @lathsingkeo8697 on June 7, 2024 at 12:09 pm

    So basically a white man killed some Mexican people to get rich off the mine the Mexicans had found 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

  16. @patrickbuechel2599 on June 7, 2024 at 12:11 pm

    I’ll tell you this, where the mine is located in the superstition mountains is no pleasant walk, getting there the first time out of the starting point is no easy task. Once there you can look back and see the true path to follow. When you are within a mile of the mine you will see its location, no mistake about it. I have been there, its for real. I am willing to disclose the location, take you there and solve the secret of gold, it may be the dutchmans gold, it might be peralta gold, it may be both,,,but it’s there. All i want is 10 pounds of gold in exchange for my services and information. If your truely interested lemeno,,,😮😊

  17. @CAS.MACKAY on June 7, 2024 at 12:11 pm

    Love those stories about gold and the scary impact of gold fever …

  18. @4WorldPeace2 on June 7, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    Greediness, Greedy, Greed.

  19. @zaboha on June 7, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    the feds fixed the problem by decarring the entire area as federal lands thereby making it a federal government claim.

  20. @peterxd3610 on June 7, 2024 at 12:13 pm

    no wealth is worth health

  21. @arminiusgratis9439 on June 7, 2024 at 12:14 pm

    Where the Hell does the narrator get "the VIOLENT old prospector’ Crappy narration for sure!!

  22. @blakemcleroy4812 on June 7, 2024 at 12:15 pm

    19th century version of losing your bitcoin password

  23. @0ldb1ll on June 7, 2024 at 12:15 pm

    Judging from the title, it was the Dutchman that was lost – not the gold.

  24. @lukenelson2904 on June 7, 2024 at 12:16 pm

    Evil abraham lincoln

  25. @bobcat8439 on June 7, 2024 at 12:17 pm

    I’m out too many commercials

  26. @TheApacheTreasure on June 7, 2024 at 12:18 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/@TheApacheTreasure … during the 18’60s when the last wars were going on the Dutchman was in the Hub Town in Arizona Territory (now New Mexico) and just outside of Town going down to now Texas is where it is .. The Apache Treasure covers that Mine … That happened in the 1860’s-1870’s ….

  27. @johnbethea4505 on June 7, 2024 at 12:20 pm

    Some stories are like a dog chasing his tail, I believe that this is one of those stories. Sometimes, dreams are started not to be found.

  28. @seymourwrasse3321 on June 7, 2024 at 12:22 pm

    Dick Holmes, instead of enlisting Browny, he should have got Sherlock

  29. @mikebacherl2490 on June 7, 2024 at 12:22 pm

    Remember from my Grandfather when I was very young…a story he told me about an Arizona prospector…a German named Gus Schade! We lived back East but my Grandfather, who was also from the Old Country, corresponded with the Prospector from time to time.
    My Grandfather personally knew this man before he moved West.
    I found some strange looking "rocks" on my Grandfather’s back porch one day. When I asked him what they were…he said that Gus Schade had sent them to him…that they may be "gold"! As a kid, they didn’t look like what I would have thought gold looked like…even though I had never seen anything like them. They had a rust/reddish color.
    Some time later, my Grandfather received alot of wooded boxes (very heavy) and he stored them away.
    My Grandfather received information (from Who?) that Gus Schade had committed suicide. Every thing he owned had been sent to my Grandfather…Schade had no family.
    After a while, my Father and Grandfather open the stored wooded boxes…they were filled with some of the most sofisticated tools that I had ever seen. There were other items also which included a beautiful, small .22 caliber rifle. I, later, used it to go hunting.
    I don’t know anything else about Gus Schade, his life, or where his remains were buried!
    My Grandfather would have told me all of this, but I was too young to be interested to inquire.

  30. @bobcat8439 on June 7, 2024 at 12:23 pm

    So the lesson is don’t be a dick

  31. @salanzaldi4551 on June 7, 2024 at 12:24 pm

    Word was he sent a huge amount of money to his sister in Germany.

  32. @homie_made_art on June 7, 2024 at 12:25 pm

    So in 1865 if you want to go float down the Salt River you were more likely to be killed.. dang.. just cuz you wanted to river raft…

  33. @anthonymazar3178 on June 7, 2024 at 12:25 pm

    My advice as an old man is this,first Know JESUS CHRIST know you obey HIS Commandments, seek Apache tribesman as your guide for that Land is HOLY Apache burial grounds,before you go first,FAST n PRAY but also offer the Apache guides 60% for it is better to give then recieve,now peoceed and discover The Lost Dutchmans Mine!

  34. @susanOkie60 on June 7, 2024 at 12:25 pm

    I lived in butte Montana which was a massive gold streak.
    I was told by people that live in Butte long term that they could pan the dirt in the yard and find gold.
    Gold does not stay in a underground streak. There would be gold around the area on the surface.

  35. @DavidC_AZ on June 7, 2024 at 12:26 pm

    Why didn’t Tom Kollenborn get credit in this video? Everyone else got their name and a title flashed on the screen when they were interviewed. Mr. Kollenborn was a remarkable and honorable man.

  36. @t.c.2776 on June 7, 2024 at 12:28 pm

    Much of this story is pure fabrication… as of time 11:55 the woman "finds" her way out of debt… but it was said everyone knows everyone’s business… so did the Dutchman trade ore for
    CASH and give her the money? Did he normal do that or did he just "trade" in ore? If he sold some or to a banker or towns person who had money, that person who normally wouldn’t have rich ore would have had to cash it in at some point… OR, If the Dutchman had given her Gold Ore, she would have had to pay her debts with it and EVERYONE would have heard about it since she wasn’t a miner… so with only 3 military trails to follow, finding the grave, but nothing else… how far did he drag the dead man with the chain… LOL… sure…

  37. @melissasmess2773 on June 7, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Cool story bro! 😂

  38. @Silvercrypto-xk4zy on June 7, 2024 at 12:32 pm

    hell hath moo fury like a woman scorned

  39. @anthonymazar3178 on June 7, 2024 at 12:34 pm

    And furthermore as,THE PROPHET i can solve all unsolved mysteries!(For I know what principles must be followed and obeyed to have a personal audience with The King of Kings and LORD of Lord’s JESUS CHRIST)

  40. @anthonymazar3178 on June 7, 2024 at 12:34 pm

    I am THE PROPHET, i would offer them 90% for I’m only entitled to 10%.

  41. @Whosaids0 on June 7, 2024 at 12:34 pm

    The editor must really like Dick.

  42. @arvettadelashmit9337 on June 7, 2024 at 12:34 pm

    Here in Kentucky a Rock House is a natural formation that most people would call a cliff.

  43. @BasedNoticerOfPatterns on June 7, 2024 at 12:36 pm

    Insane.

  44. @hombreguerro4767 on June 7, 2024 at 12:38 pm

    Why not just look for your own gold for 70 yrs 😮

  45. @mauriziodilorenzo1269 on June 7, 2024 at 12:39 pm

    Drones and lazers will find it

  46. @randalljames1 on June 7, 2024 at 12:40 pm

    I grew up in the shadow of the Superstitions… I have seen more than I can count, guys that got eaten alive by this "Lost" gold.. Guys started with a lot of capitol and zero returns… over and over…… Few can imagine just how rough this country is.. Running around here as a kid? yea, great parents….

  47. @maxlife9721 on June 7, 2024 at 12:41 pm

    rodgers area

  48. @65gtotrips on June 7, 2024 at 12:46 pm

    Ice cream 🍨 and oysters ? 🦪

  49. @anthonymazar3178 on June 7, 2024 at 12:46 pm

    How the LORD saved me was in this manner,i was unarmed but had my gear to survive,after entering the superstitious mountains a tall white man dressed in country attire was following me with a long nosed 357 hand gun in his hand as i was walking out i passed right by him approximately ten feet to my left on my way out and it was though i was invisible to him he didn’t see me. Thank YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST!

  50. @anthonymazar3178 on June 7, 2024 at 12:47 pm

    I looked 4 it,i was there but my life was in danger i was being followwd by an armed white cowboy and the LORD saved me n i made it back to Phoenix safely

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