In the late 1800s, a German miner named Jacob Waltz traveled to the mountains east of Mesa (Arizona) in search of a gold mine that had eluded many. Legend has it that no one ever found the mysterious gold mine and lived to tell about it because the confines were said to have been protected by a curse responsible for several unexplained deaths and disappearances. Long before travelers like Jacob Waltz went looking for the gold mine, the Apache tribe that was native to the area referred to it as "The Devil's Playground," believing that the "God of Thunder" would take vengeance on anyone who dared to seek out the "Seven Golden Cities of Cibola.” But the stories didn't scare Jacob Waltz, who reportedly found the gold mine with the help of a descendant from Don Miguel Peralta of Sonora (one of the original founders of Arizona), despite a near-death experience during an attack by Apache warriors that were trying to protect the area. In the following years, Waltz was spotted with bags of gold, leading many to believe he must have discovered the lost gold mine right before he mysteriously fell fatally ill with pneumonia.
Waltz died in 1891, and since then, people have tried and died while attempting to locate the "Lost Dutchman's Goldmine" at what has become known as the "Superstition Mountains." To add to the mystery surrounding "The Devil's Playground," about twice a year, the sun projects a large shadow of what appears to be a giant cougar that looms over the "Superstition Mountains." The shadow appears for a few seconds, and then...it's gone.
Scroll up and press play to see if you can decipher the cougar's shadow.
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