However, Tony Jolly, the man who helped him hide the bars, went back years later and retrieved ten of them. Babe's grandson Terry Delonas questioned the Erwins about their story. Eventually she brought her case to the military, but the alleged bonanza had vanished. Babe asked him to bring out some of those bars. In fact, there was such an interest and public fervor that the Army consented to ⦠Lost Gold of Victorio Peak. Others have come forward to also claim the government removed all of the treasure as well, including security guards and officers at the base. Did the treasure ever really exist at all, and if so who put it there? On the night of March 4, 1949, I went with Doc Noss and dug up 20 bars of gold at a windmill in the desert east of Hatch, New Mexico, and reburied them in the basin where Victorio Peak is. Nineteen years after the cave-in, in November 1958, U.S. Air Force Captain Leonard V. Fiege led a team of treasure hunters who discovered a second, smaller treasure in another Victorio Peak cavern. These are things we will perhaps never know, and the Victorio Peak treasure has remained shrouded in mysteries and unanswered questions to this day. It is still available and was being sold by the Ova Noss Family Partnership in January. Moreland reported the Army activity on Victorio Peak to Babe Noss. The determined Noss knew he needed help, but was extremely careful about who he chose to bring back to the peak with him, taking along only close family and friends to help him remove the the heavy gold bars, which could weigh up to 100 pounds each. The others were employees from the Pentagon. Doc found that the passageways in the mountain led to several caverns. Additionally, gold prospector Milton "Doc" Noss claimed to have found hidden treasure inside the Mountains in the late 1930s. The Treasure of Victoria Peak presents the true story of a billion-dollar discovery of gold bars and ancient coins at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Get the MegaPack collection now for this great price. He told them that he had not only seen the treasure, but also had been ordered to remove it during a top secret operation. He operated gold mines near Victorio Peak in 1797 and stored his gold in a cavern there. One hundred tons of gold by David Leon Chandler (Sometimes called 100 tons of gold), Hardcover, 200 pages.Published by Doubleday. The mining effort began in July of 1992. In a cavern in that mountain, it is rumored that billions of dollarsâ worth of artifacts and thousands of gold and silver ingots and coins have been cached for decades, a treasure that dwarfs all others. According to her, there were 243 diamonds and one pigeon blood ruby in the crown. In the meantime, there would be signs of some sort of sinister cover-up when several people who had claimed to have seen Army personnel removing gold from the peak received death threats, and those who got anywhere near the peak were met with armed military escorts out. : Did 'Doc' Noss Really Find Caverns of Gold or Did He Pull Off a Hoax That Has Plagued His Kin for Years? They removed one of the smaller bars, at only 40 pounds, in order to keep as evidence for seeking permission to mine the area at a future date. He then proceeded to hide the bars from everyone, including his own family. While there have been multiple documented expeditions to the peak, no gold has been officially recorded as being recovered from the site. ISBN-10: 0385127383 ISBN-13: 978-0385127387. 1875-1891, July 01, 1877, Page 193, Image 5, brought to you by University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR, and the National Digital Newspaper Program. According to C.G., Captain Swanner left evidence of his presence in one of the caves at Victorio Peak. The sombrero-shaped peak, rising about 450 feet from the floor of the Hembrillo Basin in the San Andres Mountains, has held sway over the feverish yearnings of treasure seekers since 1939. However, he said they were too heavy to get out of there. By that point, it was totally deserted. They were the ones that stumbled upon a back door entrance to the cave and the treasure within it. Doc fled the home and went towards his truck. Rather than widening the passage, the blast caused a cave-in, bringing the entire tunnel down in a heap of rock and rubble, much to the utter shock of Noss. They then removed the gold by helicopter and truck. "Chiara has always dreamed of finding love. He would then spend the next decade selling some of the treasure he did have on the black market and trying to regain access to no avail, the thousands of remaining gold bars out of his reach. In 1937, Doc Noss--part-adventurer, part-conman--discovered fabulous treasure inside the caverns of New Mexico's Victorio Peak. In his affidavit, Moreland said that he and his group actually talked to Captain Swanner. Unsolved Mysteries contacted the Pentagon. [2], "Following 1937 Story of Buried Gold, Family Searches New Mexico's Sands", What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak, "Treasure or Treachery? The Victorio Peak treasure (also seen in print as Treasure of Victorio Peak, Treasure of San Andres) describes a cache of gold found inside Victorio Peak in southern New Mexico. The title tells you what Koury calls the peak. Found insideTolkien himself said that The Story of Kullervo was âthe germ of my attempt to write legends of my own,â and was âa major matter in the legends of the First Age.â Tolkienâs Kullervo is the clear ancestor of Túrin Turambar, the ... Indeed, there is no solid physical evidence that the treasure ever even existed at all other than the claims, documents, photographs, and affidavits of those who say they saw it, and the Army has always been vague and ambiguous as to whether such a thing ever was at Victorio Peak. He claimed that there were no records that said that the secret mission and removal of gold took place. She told Oscar Jordan, a lawyer with the New Mexico State Land Office. One theory is that it is the lost treasure of Juan de Onate, the man who founded New Mexico as a Spanish colony. Where are the various stashes that Doc Noss supposedly hid all over the desert? In the fall of 1939, Noss was starting to think that the rate of pulling up the heavy bars was not as fast as he would have liked, and so he came up with the idea of widening the main passage. Besides coins and bars, there were apparently other valuables down there as well, including documents dated to 1797 written by Pope Pius III, but mostly Doc was all about the gold and the coins, concentrating on all of that loot hidden down there in the earth and ignoring many of the other artifacts. Perfect for a bedtime story for kids Excellent for early and beginner readers Includes a coloring book Bright and colorful images for early and younger readers This book is great for quick bedtime story or to be read aloud with friends and ... Then in 1961 Fiege and three other men from the base headed to the Peak for an unauthorized exploration. To think that there is a vast hoard of loot or priceless artifacts just lying around out in the wilds has driven people to the point of madness and obsession, and there seems to always be room for a good treasure story. There is still more evidence that suggests that the gold was removed from Victorio Peak in a clandestine operation. Victorio Peak is a high rocky outcropping in the Hembrillo Basin in southern New Mexico. Tags Bizarre buried treasure lost treasure modern mysteries mysterious people mysterious places unsolved mystery. The purpose of this field manual is to provide a standardized source document for Armywide reference on map reading and land navigation. It applies to every soldier in the Army regardless of service branch, MOS, or rank. Captain Leonard V. Fiege and Airman First Class Thomas Berlett took a group of others to Victorio Peak under the pretense of a hunting trip, during which time they stumbled across a natural passage that led within the peak and ended up at a chamber filled with stacks of the gold bars. Moreland believes that the government still has possession of it. The third book is Treasure of Victoria Peak by Phil Koury. Babe and the Noss family were forced off the land by the army. In November 1937, a deer hunter and former medicine showman known as Doc Noss went searching for fresh water near the peak and discovered the hidden entrance to a tunnel. In 1961, Babe, along with the state of New Mexico, filed an injunction against the Army to stop them from excavating Victorio Peak. [citation needed], The treasure was featured twice on the show Unsolved Mysteries. This was just the beginning. Past this was a dank room with what seemed to be just worthless bars of iron stacked against a wall, and by this time he was eager to get back to the surface and tell his wife what he had found. Indeed, a man by the name of Captain Swanner, who had been stationed at White Sands Missile Base, would later claim that the military had managed to find and remove all of the gold to Fort Knox. Case File: Victorio Peak Treasure His obsession with this spelled the end of his marriage, and still he was undeterred to re-access his hoard. While out scouting the area, Noss did not manage to find any deer, but he did find something rather strange out there in those badlands, which would start one of the biggest mysteries in New Mexico history. Found insideKatie Bonner and the rest of the locals from Victoria Square invite you into their kitchens to share tantalizing recipes and intimate stories about food, family, and life. Thirty days later, under cover of darkness, Moreland and his friends returned to the peak. Victorio Peak, a craggy outcropping of rock barely five hundred feet tall, lies in the center of a dry desert lake known as the Hembrillo Basin. He would dig at this anomalous stone to find that it was loose, and that it was situated over a shaft that led down into the gloom, along with a wooden pole fastened to its side. As Doc and Babe solicited more help from friends and neighbors, they became more paranoid that someone would steal the treasure. The Erwins' story was corroborated by another caller, Russell Dunn. In 1963, the Army sought exclusive rights to the peak, including mineral rights. Even so, he was extremely paranoid, and continued to hide secret stashes of gold amounting to millions of dollars out in the desert wilds. Independent of Shriver, another source traced a number of large removals from Victorio Peak. He assumed that he had found an old mining shaft, but as he did not have the proper equipment to investigate it, he went back to the camp to tell his wife, but the two kept it to themselves, planning to come back and explore that mysterious tunnel into the dark on their own. The Noss family, who have claimed the treasure since the 20th century, allege in the series a secret meeting between Ova Noss and JFK was to take place in Denver after his Dallas tour. Location: White Sands, New Mexico Although it did indeed look to be just a tarnished hunk of worthless metal, Ova suspected differently, and after buffing away the layer of grime she found what she was looking for. He had shut himself out of his own mine. How had this enormous treasure come to be deep inside the caverns of Victorio Peak? He discovered echoes that were at least 300 to 400 feet deep; this led him to conclude that there was indeed a large cavern at the base of the mountain. Light wear, clean and unmarked, complete. He demanded that they discuss the whereabouts of the gold. A few days later, Noss and Ova came back to the mystery shaft, this time prepared with ropes and flashlights. asked him what they did with the gold. Not long after this, the Army began a covert mining operation in the area, despite the fact that the New Mexico government had denied their requests to do so. She would vehemently challenge this over the years, but was unable to regain access to the treasure. In the fall of 1939, Doc decided to try and open a larger passageway into Victorio Peak. Located in the Sierra Diablo Mountains. Once Noss blew up the entrance to the treasure room the story of the peak gets more complicated with a variety of helpers, witnesses and financial backers. C.G. Named after Englandâs Queen Victoria, it is the highest hill on Hong Kong island. He believed that they took it to Fort Knox. History: The Victorio Peak Treasure is one of the most famous treasures in the United States, second only perhaps to the Lost Dutchman Mine. Found insidePearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Coleâs Book Arcade in Melbourne isthe grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak. Some artifacts from Indian battles were found, but no gold. Stunning re-issue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller. Angela's Ashes is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, from Brooklyn tenements to Limerick slums, of courage and survival against seemingly overwhelming odds. There is an increasing demand for treatment for cannabis-use disorders and associated health conditions in high- and middle-income countries. "Once the top levels of the federal government learned about Victorio Peak, the area became quite inaccessible" comments John Clarence. This book uniquely captures and distills the lively and frequently forgotten accounts of the pioneering climbers and their various routes. In the spring of 1938 he and his wife made a trip to Santa Fe in order to apply for legal ownership of the land, several mining claims, and a treasure trove claim, which he successfully acquired, making his claim on the treasure legal. They also noticed that there was some yellow on it. With the murder of Doc Noss, his claim fell to his heirs; for three years, they struggled to reopen the passageway to the treasure. The first call came from C.G. The Victorio Peak Treasure is one of the most famous treasures in the United States, second only perhaps to the Lost Dutchman Mine. He was able to find a small one and bring it out to show her. They confirmed that Captain Swanner had indeed served as an officer assigned to security at the White Sands Missile Range in 1961. He estimated the total amount of gold coming from the peak at a staggering 96 million troy ounces, worth, at $320 an ounce, nearly $31 billion. Interestingly, some of the personnel from Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range inadvertently stumbled into a cavern on Victorio Peak and reported finding a room stacked full of gold bullion. Each country likes to see its own gold rush as the one that either shaped those that followed or epitomized all the rest. In The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929, Douglas Fetherling takes a different approach. He brought a couple of swords and knives out. Seventy-nine skeletons were described in an adjacent cavern. The Treasure of Victorio Peak is (or was) a supposed cache of gold bullion that was said to have been stored within a cavern in Victorio Peak, a basalt outcropping in the Hembrillo Basin, part of the San Andres Mountains of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, now part of the White Sands Missile Range. The Treasure of Victoria Peak presents the true story of a billion-dollar discovery of gold bars and ancient coins at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Aside from UFO's, the treasure of Victorio Peak is probably the most notorious. Reportedly, he had amassed an Aztec treasure of gold, silver, and jewels. They supposedly found no sign of the treasure. If one were to write a mystery/thriller incorporating colorful characters, murder, unexplained deaths, intrigue, theft, deceit, and political and legal machinations, one need not look any further than the incredible treasure mystery ... In September of 1968, a civilian security guard from White Sands Missile Range named Clarence McDonald went out to the peak with businessman Lynn Porter and Porter’s friend on a hunting trip to the peak, and would purportedly find a passage into the peak that led to stacks of gold bars in a chamber. Results: Unresolved. Charlie shot and killed him; his body landed on the truck's front bumper. Friday Fables: The Treasure of Victorio Peak. Koury was once Ova Noss´ lawyer and his book went on sale in 1986. The next day, March 5, 1949, Doc and Charlie got into an argument. In one chamber the wavering light of his beam danced over a row of skeletons down there in the gloom, all of them having had their hands bound behind their backs and tied to immense wooden stakes driven into the ground, the dead, empty sockets of their skulls looking lifelessly out onto their subterranean domain. They claim any gold found in the peak rightly belongs to them since they stole it and then hid it in the peak during the 19th Century for safekeeping. He would forge a business partnership with a Texas oil man named Charlie Ryan, and in the meantime his growing paranoia in the face of increased media coverage of his discovery had him decide to move a good portion of his hidden stash. The peak is riddled with a network of tunnels. After the broadcast, two viewers called the telecenter to report information about the treasure that had been told to them by an Army captain assigned to security at White Sands Missile Range. Jolley would later say of the operation: In March of 1949 I handled 110 rough poured bars of gold in the area which is now White Sands Missile Range which is now the area of Victorio Peak. In a deeper cavern, Doc found what appeared to be a stack of worthless iron bars. There were roads, scaffolds, and tunnels. The Victorio Peak treasure (also seen in print as Treasure of Victorio Peak, Treasure of San Andres) describes a cache of gold found inside Victorio Peak in southern New Mexico. Amerikanske Revolution; Amerikanske Borgerkrig; Første verdenskrig; Anden Verdenskrig; Koreakrigen; Vietnamkrigen; Krigen mod Mexico; Spansk-amerikanske krig; Another theory is that it belonged to a Catholic missionary named Father LaRue. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victorio_Peak_treasure&oldid=983705518, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 15 October 2020, at 19:39. It was never seen again. Russell is convinced that Swanner was telling the truth. However, long before Victoria Peak was encompassed by the government, a man by the name of Milton Ernest "Doc" Noss spent some time exploring Victorio Peak while on a deer hunt. They were re-hidden in a variety of locations all over the desert. Some were dropped in horse tanks at the nearby ranches. They filed a lease with the state of New Mexico for the entire section of land surrounding Victorio Peak. To fully realise this potential, much work needs to be done by a wide range of stakeholders. He claims that the government has been refuting this claim for decades. Witnesses say he took out more than 200 gold bars from the cavern. At the same time that people were talking about where the treasure came from, they were talking about where it went. Date: November 1937 But with all that gold to be extracted, assuming the U.S. Government hadn't already looted the peak, Ova and others were still on the hunt, perhaps in part because the price of gold was going up. Gold and Treasure of Victorio Peak Bibliography. They were eventually shut down from further excavations, but in 1963 the Gaddis Mining Company of Denver, Colorado, was given legal rights to work the site. After decades of controversy, legend, and intrigue, the heirs of Babe and Doc Noss are still fighting for their rights. The task force inventoried the treasure within the multiple caverns. He calls the peak Victorio and his book is probably out of print. He asked an acquaintance, Tony Jolly, to help him rebury the gold in a new hiding place. Background: The origin of the treasure is unrevealed; there are four theories to explain its origins. In another cave, he found amazing riches - jewels, coins, and priceless artifacts. The Victorio Peak Treasure is one of the most famous treasures in the United States, second only perhaps to the Lost Dutchman Mine. Description: Victorio Peak is surrounded by inhospitable environment near Hot Springs, New Mexico. Doc would soon discover a treasure that was estimated (in 1989) to be worth around $1.7 billion. It was a legend that turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumachâthe hanged criminalâwas mysteriously linked to gold nuggets âthe size of walnuts.â The stories claimed that Slumach had placed a curse on a hidden ... Texas lost treasure may be located in ghost towns. One of the problems Noss faced at the time was that this was all highly illegal, as the Gold Act passed just a few years before his discovery had forbidden private owner ship of gold, but he meant to remedy this. Victorio Peak treasure. The Victorio Peak treasure (also seen in print as Treasure of Victorio Peak, Treasure of San Andres), describes a cache of gold found inside Victorio Peak in Southern New Mexico. Two fierce Amazon pirates, Nancy and Peggy, challenge them to war and a summer of battles and alliances ensues. 'My childhood simply would not have been the same without this book. Since time unremembered there has been a certain allure to the idea of lost treasure. At one point, Charlie pulled a gun on him. Some years after Doc Noss was killed, his wife Ova asserted a claim that she was entitled access to the cave in Victorio Peak and its contents. Eventually she brought her case to the military, but the alleged bonanza had vanished. Parts of the treasure were described as gold, silver, jewels and as many as 16,000 gold bars estimated around $1.7 billion dollars. and Juanita Erwin, a retired couple living in Baytown, Texas. Mysterious Universe is a property of 8th Kind Pty Ltd, Mini Michelangelo, Handstanding Skunks, Molecular Cameras and More Mysterious News Briefly — September 6, 2021, Go Un-Fly a Kite — The Real Mission of the Crashed Firefly Rocket, From Headless Horses to a Crazy Bride – UK’s September Ghost Sightings, Pokémon Go, Area 51 and Alien Mind Control, Mysterious Vanishings and Strange Deaths at Death Valley, Totally Bizarre Out of Place Animal Populations, What is the Nature of Ghosts? She was told that she would be allowed to return to the site as soon as it was convenient and not an interference to national security. According to Swanner, it was worth over $3 million (in 1961). The EXPLOSIVE events in world history may in fact make the legend of the "Victoria Peak Gold Treasure," from ever being captured. 1st edition released 1st January 1978. Victoria Peak. The first of these were airmen from the nearby employees at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, who went out to poke around the peak and see what they could find. The bar was given to an Army major at Fort Bliss who was a friend of Porter’s for safekeeping, but this major was soon reassigned without warning to move off with his family and the bar of gold. In 1933, he married Ova Beckwith, whom he nicknamed "Babe". History: The Victorio Peak Treasure is one of the most famous treasures in the United States, second only perhaps to the Lost Dutchman Mine. The west shore. Mexican miners buried approximately $300,000 in gold bullion near Victoria Peak. In southern New Mexico, just northeast of Las Cruces, there is a 3,200 square mile expanse of desert. Metal detectors were used around the Peakâs base in hopes to locate some of Doc Nossâ secret gold stashes. In 1948, he entered into a partnership with Charlie Ryan. The theories on why so much gold and other artifacts and valuables would be stashed at this remote peak has seen many theories spring up, such as that it was treasure that the Apaches had stolen, the hoard of the founder of New Mexico as a Spanish colony, Don Juan de Onate, or the missing wealth of Emperor Maxmillian, who served as Mexicoâs emperor in the 1860s. Links: Unsolved Mysteries Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. . Yet another theory is that the treasure belonged to Maximilian, the Emperor of Mexico during the 1860s. Word of Doc's hidden gold leaked to other treasure hunters. The Pentagon sent a task force, which included Captain Swanner, to the peak. Swanner's military serial number was also included. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation's colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.This book, authored by a ... Doc was known to love adventure and history. What was the meaning of the skeletons and other oddities to be found within this dim place? Cross symbol chiseled or as a result of weathering on a hung symbol located on a high spire on Victorio peak. He would mine the chambers of Victorio Peak nearly every day, bringing up an estimated 200 to 350 bars of gold, but things were about to take a turn for the worse, and bring the dig grinding to a halt. Bailey and his group, which consisted of several military and ex-military people, had a vast treasure in gold bars, located somewhere in the Southwest. An old ladder led into a maze of tunnels around a large cavern containing an old chest inscribed with the words "Sealed Silver" in Old English. From the moment Doc discovered the treasure at Victorio Peak, he and Babe spent every free moment exploring the tunnels that led deep inside the mountain. He told Russell that the Sercet Service and another government agency were involved in removing the gold. Inside the peak, they found some military debris and battery packs. However, she was repeatedly denied access to the peak. Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.7 Accelerated Reader Points: 2 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 111602 Lexile Measure: 710 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q ... In My Aspartame Experiment: Report from a Private Citizen, author Victoria Inness-Brown recounts her controversial 2-1/2 year study of the effects of the artificial sweetener aspartame. In 1977, professional treasure hunter Norman Scott was able to determine through ground penetrating radar that there were indeed large chambers down beneath the peak exactly where Noss had said they would be, but that was as far as he got, and he was unable to find any of the actual gold. Over a period of two years, Doc mined the peak. Found insideUPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR In The Curse of Oak Island, longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan explored the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of people who tried and failed ... The two most incredible allegations in the book are that presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon had a hand in stealing gold. âThey filed a treasure trove claim, which has become the historic Noss family claim to the treasure in Victorio Peak.â Over a period of two years, Doc mined the peak. Witnesses say he took out more than 200 gold bars, and then hid them from everyone, even his family. In the spring of 1938, six months after Doc made his discovery, he and Babe went to Santa Fe to establish legal ownership of his find. In November 1937, a deer hunter and former medicine showman known as Doc Noss went searching for fresh water near the peak and discovered the hidden entrance to a tunnel. Theories abound on the origins of the alleged treasure, from eighteenth-century Spanish missionaries to wealth pilfered from Mexico during the reign of the Austrian puppet Emperor Maximilian. The theories on why so much gold and other artifacts and valuables would be stashed at this remote peak has seen many theories spring up, such as that it was treasure that the Apaches had stolen, the hoard of the founder of New Mexico as a Spanish colony, Don Juan de Onate, or the missing wealth of Emperor Maxmillian, who served as Mexico’s emperor in the 1860s. Gordon Hobbs from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army responded to Swanner's allegations. Looking about the barren landscape around them and paranoid of anyone else seeing what they were up to, they carefully replaced the boulder over the shaft and were determined to come back with what they would need to remove all of that loot. But letâs examine this book sell as a treasure story. 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