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🗓️ 7 June 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Oh, Welcome back everyone to 1001 Heroes, Legends, histories and mysteries. This is your host John Hagenorn and this is |
0:35.6 | part two of Victorio's treasure. In part one to recap a married couple their |
0:41.7 | names Doc and Ovenos, while on a camping trip in the |
0:45.1 | Humbrio Basin area of New Mexico, according to most sources, discovered a |
0:50.0 | treasure in coin, gold bullion, and jewelry sitting in a cavern deep within the |
0:55.6 | bowels of a mountain peak which the army had labeled as Victoria's peak in |
1:00.0 | southwest New Mexico. Legends as to how it got there point back to a renegade monk named Father or Padre Louu, |
1:08.0 | who acting on a tip that he heard from a dying soldier in Mexico City, |
1:12.0 | headed north with a small party of |
1:13.9 | faithfuls to start a new colony of believers and find gold. |
1:19.7 | According to legend, they found a rich gold vein deep within Victoria's peak and |
1:24.4 | smelted it for three years. The result, thousands of 40 pound and larger gold bars. |
1:31.9 | Indians had also located the sub-mountain caverns, and Indian cultures had existed |
1:36.5 | in the Umbrio Basin for the past 8 to 10,000 years. But one band of Renegade Indians |
1:42.2 | in particular, Mescillary Apaches led by Victoria, presumably left a fortune in coin and jewelry stolen from the victims of their raids. |
1:51.0 | Coin and jewelry aside. The gold bars have been documented by dozens of witnesses, some of whom signed affidavits |
1:58.7 | attesting to this fact. Some were family members of Noss who worked to remove some of the gold bars. |
2:05.0 | Others were witnesses who assisted removing a small portion of the gold bars from the mountain. |
2:10.0 | Others included Air Force officers who found a separate entrance to the mountain and a different room also filled with gold bars. |
2:18.0 | One of these men scratched his initials on one of the bars to claim their find so they could guarantee themselves legal |
2:24.1 | rights to the pile if and when they were allowed to come back and claim it. |
2:30.0 | Experts have estimated the value of the gold alone at somewhere between 30 and 60 billion |
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