Yes, Arizona is a very strange and beautiful place, you just can't dream up stuff that go's on here, I live in Reo Rico Arizona, it's right on the Mexican border, one of my favorite places is the Salt river canyon by Show low Arizona, my family has places there and Tucson , so the Mexican's have strange things too ? Arizona natives have a great history also... Keep in touch with Arizonans my friend...
My wife, child and I just visited Arizona. We're from the Cincinnati, OH area and spent a week out there. Flew into Phoenix, went to Sedona, then to Williams, then to Grand Canyon. From Grand Canyon we went up to Horse Shoe Bend and Monument Valley (Yes, in UT). What's crazy is the different landscapes you see as you drive through AZ. You wouldn't believe you were in the same state as you move from 1 type to the other. The feeling you have out there and the energy you feel is hard to describe. I hate to sound corny, but it is almost mystical in a way. I can't wait to go back. My son is only 8 - so I definitely want to take him again when he's older and more capable of taking it all on.
Hank, Larry and Dave, Thank You For Keeping Local History Alive, We All Have Stories - Just Remember If You Don't Know Your Past History, You Can't Move Forward, Without Questions - Dave...
It's important work preserving the tales and histories and memories of the folks who've gone before us. It's doubly important to share them and pass them down so that they'll live on even after we have faded away. I very much appreciate what y'all are doing and I know there are plenty of folks who share my gratitude. Hat's off to ya.
This channel is fascinating. Thank you Larry, Hank, and Jack, for all you do to to bring these stories to us. I'm a native of Arizona for 57 years and it's neat to learn about the history of Arizona. Thanks for keeping it alive!
I walked about 6 hours in a few years back, sat down for a break, looked across the dry creek bed I was in and saw a pile of sticks and stuff at a bend in the creek. In the middle of the sticks was a small doll that was made out of white cloth with black hair, eyes, and mouth, and looked old, something like a Kachina doll. I was instantly gripped by the most intense fear I have ever felt, the thing was SPOOKY! I got up and started walking again like, holy sh!t I gotta move. Next time I sat down, the rock wall that I was sitting next to became the face of a woman out of the corner of my eye, a very kind motherly type of woman. I tried to look directly but her face only came through when I looked slightly away. This might sound nuts, but I could almost hear her voice in a way. At one point in the journey I climbed to the top of a hill and as I looked around I thought I saw someone across a canyon on another hill looking toward me. Again, I had been walking for hours and hours into the wilderness so to suddenly see someone looking at me from across a ravine kind of shook me. As I focused in on the figure I could see that it was a woman, with long black hair almost covering her face, wearing a buckskin dress. Thinking to myself, am I really seeing this? I stared for what felt like an eternity of a few more seconds trying to be sure because wtf right? That's when I saw her chest move like as if she was taking a big breath. Fighting the fear and feeling like I had again entered another dimension or something, I pulled the most positive energy I could from within myself, raised my hand to wave and greet them and like a cloud they dissipated into the air. If you go out there, don't go to take, and go with respect.
To gain some knowledge of the Superstitions look for these three books Superstition Wilderness Trails West and & East by Jack Carlson & Elizabeth Stewart and Lost El Dorado of Jacob Waltz by Jack San Felice-also Jacobs Trail by Jesse Feldman also the Superstition Mountain Museum open now Thur thru Sunday of the Apache Trail about 3 miles north of Apache Junction has a great selection of Lost Dutchman Books. As to gold taken out of the Superstitions that is a tricky question because there were no records during the 1800s and early 1900s however the Woodbury Family and others took gold out of the eastern Superstitions and much gold was taked from Goldfield during the late 1890s. Currently there is no info on amount taken however these books mentioned above are very helpful and arer usually at the museum bookstore. phone number 480-983-4888 also wwwsuperstitionmountainmuseum.org good luck Jack San Felice look for me on the web by my name
@@jacksanfelice8840 I am an older guy like you and I would like to get out there and meet you before one of us die. And I am almost sure that I am going to be the one to go first.
WONDERFUL STORY This story sufficiently answers my query of why these are named, The Superstition Mountains and many thanks for sharing it. Think I'll go make a cup of coffee..... 🥰
You guys are just amazing to listen to. You’re doing a great thing making these. Stories don’t get any better than this format coming from you guys! 👍👍🇺🇸
I’m from Scotland and I’ve always been fascinated with the Superstition Mountains. It seems a truly amazing, mysterious and bizarre place. I would love to go on a well provisioned hike deep into the mountains. Have some experiences like you guys tell us about. America is an amazing country. God bless America from your British brothers. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
I really enjoy everything you all do. Great stories and well told. I gotta add that I live in the Adirondack Mtns in most Northern NY. The wind is howling and it's spitting snow ... 6 degrees with the wind chill. A warm house and great stories. Thank You Much.
@ Andrew David And I grew up on a dairy farm in Hobart, an hour from Oneonta. Ain't no Mountains like the Catskill Mountains. You will find me outside in the most inclement of weather 🤗 Enjoy ❣
@@lizziesangi1602 I also know the Catsikill's very well. Had a Family old farm in Schoharie County in the foothills. Beautiful mtns. And of course really nice folks. I am in Saranac NY. Nice chatting. This is one of the best weather channels.
@@tattoofthesunn795 I love the seasons. I know the winters are long but we still have the greatest rest of the year weather. Try to tell folks that NY isn't NYC. Mostly woods and green with nice upstate folks. Nice Chatting. Eli has the best weather channel.
I keep an eye on this channel because I LOVE the stories, and Hank, Larry, Ron, Jack and Charlie are living legends, looking the part alright too. I always seem to want more stories about who and how is actively out there looking and more stories about Walz, Julia Thomas, the Peralta history, who's actually pulled gold out of there but keeps really quiet about it, all that stuff. It would be great if you guys could do a whole episode on the geology of the mountain range, and walk us through the map and where trails are and where sites are, where on the map someone who knows the stories would want to go if they had a day or two out there to explore.... where to go your first time out there, second time, etc. Thanks for all that you do, gentlemen. Onwards!!!!
Very intriguing that the spirits would go through so much trouble as to play tricks on you and your friends. I find it interesting. Thank you for the stories 😊
Growing up in a very rural area you hear lots of stories, and like the fellow said bits of truth bits of confusion, bits of color for the benefit of the listener. I like that these guys sift through it all and try out the truth.
Oh, l would love to see that, but it is scary and you sure tell very good stories...l am so tired tonight, but l cannot turn these videos off, they are excellent and spooky and such great storytellers..l live in Eastern Canada, so l will never see them as much as l would love to
+Rey DeGuerra I recall Wayne Tuttle telling that story. He called the video "Bob Ward's Banshee" indicating that he wasn't involved in the actual story but was rather retelling it from the perspective of this Bob Ward fella who was accompanied by a fella named Randy Wright. Most likely Mr. Tuttle had, like Mr. Hank Sheffer said, most likely heard or read the same story and simply told it from the perspective of this Bob Ward. +Hank Sheffer Mr. Sheffer, your version is good and I really enjoyed it, but I liked Mr. Tuttle's telling a little better, he's just seemed creepier to me. I'll be looking forward to hearing these other stories you plain on telling in the future. And your right, Mr. Tuttle doesn't seem like the kind of guy to "blast away at ghosts".
I lived in Arizona Apache Junction, 1969-70. Saw many "spirit " beings, I loved it when seen by the cat and dog. I'd laugh at the pets and say, " you guys think I can save you " Get off my chair and go check out my visitor. I felt it was great that it was real. That mountain is fantastic.
It's said that people that die in a structure they're real attached to stay on as a ghost. They do many things to frighten and drive interlopers away. Those old hand made structures in the wilderness would be exactly that type of place.
I was told in '05 by an Apache park ranger that there is still a tribe of Apache that live in the mountains & watch over them!!! My father was there between '48 & '52 and he told me Chuck Ahler knew where the mines where & when they got close someone would start shooting at them !!! I have many photo's he took of Chuck & his burro's & camps & cliff dwellings and Weavers Needle--with a strange fog swirling around it!!!!
I'm not sure why but watching this made me think about how we are all born losers but it does not mean you have to stay that way your whole existence and that's how things will end for any of us. We become kings and champions if we want to.
I just left Arizona after a year and a half but I was naturally hesitant of venturing into the mountains or the desert. I'm captivated by the storytelling but now I wanna know what you meant by a squaw talking too much ? Or do I wanna know too much ? Lol
T O . MYSTERIES OF THE SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS . " ITS GOLD GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS " & ^ SOMEONE'S ALWAYS WATCHING " . GO < TOGETHER > : LIKE < PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY > SANDWICH . THEM < HILLS > HAVE ^ EYES ^ . & ^ THEY > ARE ALWAYS WATCHING < YOU > . THANKS . SALVADOR < V 3 > DELGADILLO . FULL TIME TREASURE HUNTER . DECEMBER 0 6 - 2 0 2 0
Squaw? Squaw? I've seen Indian ladies and Indian women but never an Indian squaw. You can take that to the bank. I'm from Oklahoma where the Indians and Whites were fighting each other through the 1990s, and I should know. My mom married one. There just ain't no such thing as a squaw.
The fake fire again you were getting close to some gold and the indian spirit's took your attention away so you can't find the gold. Don't let the fake signs fool you. Continue looking ehere you were you were probably within 50 feet of a treasure of a lifetime
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Thank goodness you have taped as much as you have. They're just wonderful to watch and rewatch.
Thank you.
Thank you for watching
Watching this in London , I can't get enough of these tales from the Superstitions, Arizona is magical.
Yes, Arizona is a very strange and beautiful place, you just can't dream up stuff that go's on here, I live in Reo Rico Arizona, it's right on the Mexican border, one of my favorite places is the Salt river canyon by Show low Arizona, my family has places there and Tucson , so the Mexican's have strange things too ? Arizona natives have a great history also... Keep in touch with Arizonans my friend...
Same I want all the stories ..I'm from Holland
My wife, child and I just visited Arizona. We're from the Cincinnati, OH area and spent a week out there. Flew into Phoenix, went to Sedona, then to Williams, then to Grand Canyon. From Grand Canyon we went up to Horse Shoe Bend and Monument Valley (Yes, in UT). What's crazy is the different landscapes you see as you drive through AZ. You wouldn't believe you were in the same state as you move from 1 type to the other. The feeling you have out there and the energy you feel is hard to describe. I hate to sound corny, but it is almost mystical in a way.
I can't wait to go back. My son is only 8 - so I definitely want to take him again when he's older and more capable of taking it all on.
Hank, Larry and Dave, Thank You For Keeping Local History Alive, We All Have Stories - Just Remember If You Don't Know Your Past History, You Can't Move Forward, Without Questions - Dave...
Thank you for sharing these! These are some of the most interesting stories ever!❤💕
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a better story teller than Hank. Thanks guys!
It's important work preserving the tales and histories and memories of the folks who've gone before us. It's doubly important to share them and pass them down so that they'll live on even after we have faded away. I very much appreciate what y'all are doing and I know there are plenty of folks who share my gratitude. Hat's off to ya.
Great! love all of you! Thank you for sharing.
This channel is fascinating. Thank you Larry, Hank, and Jack, for all you do to to bring these stories to us. I'm a native of Arizona for 57 years and it's neat to learn about the history of Arizona. Thanks for keeping it alive!
I walked about 6 hours in a few years back, sat down for a break, looked across the dry creek bed I was in and saw a pile of sticks and stuff at a bend in the creek. In the middle of the sticks was a small doll that was made out of white cloth with black hair, eyes, and mouth, and looked old, something like a Kachina doll. I was instantly gripped by the most intense fear I have ever felt, the thing was SPOOKY! I got up and started walking again like, holy sh!t I gotta move. Next time I sat down, the rock wall that I was sitting next to became the face of a woman out of the corner of my eye, a very kind motherly type of woman. I tried to look directly but her face only came through when I looked slightly away. This might sound nuts, but I could almost hear her voice in a way. At one point in the journey I climbed to the top of a hill and as I looked around I thought I saw someone across a canyon on another hill looking toward me. Again, I had been walking for hours and hours into the wilderness so to suddenly see someone looking at me from across a ravine kind of shook me. As I focused in on the figure I could see that it was a woman, with long black hair almost covering her face, wearing a buckskin dress. Thinking to myself, am I really seeing this? I stared for what felt like an eternity of a few more seconds trying to be sure because wtf right? That's when I saw her chest move like as if she was taking a big breath. Fighting the fear and feeling like I had again entered another dimension or something, I pulled the most positive energy I could from within myself, raised my hand to wave and greet them and like a cloud they dissipated into the air. If you go out there, don't go to take, and go with respect.
Maybe you accidentally took in some peyote or wacky weed..hehe
I get it, I see mermaids
I believe you..and you are absolutely right dont go to take go to give a prayer a tribute to the souls before us..respect never dies.
Wow I believe you saw this without a doubt
I sure appreciate all the efforts you gents put in to sharing stories and videos!
I dunno but I think we should stick together
To gain some knowledge of the Superstitions look for these three books Superstition Wilderness Trails West and & East by Jack Carlson & Elizabeth Stewart and Lost El Dorado of Jacob Waltz by Jack San Felice-also Jacobs Trail by Jesse Feldman also the Superstition Mountain Museum open now Thur thru Sunday of the Apache Trail about 3 miles north of Apache Junction has a great selection of Lost Dutchman Books. As to gold taken out of the Superstitions that is a tricky question because there were no records during the 1800s and early 1900s however the Woodbury Family and others took gold out of the eastern Superstitions and much gold was taked from Goldfield during the late 1890s. Currently there is no info on amount taken however these books mentioned above are very helpful and arer usually at the museum bookstore. phone number 480-983-4888 also wwwsuperstitionmountainmuseum.org good luck Jack San Felice look for me on the web by my name
@@jacksanfelice8840 Mr Jack I would love to involve you in this historical event. I believe you respect the land & the people. JACK THIS IS NOT A JOKE
@@jacksanfelice8840 I am an older guy like you and I would like to get out there and meet you before one of us die. And I am almost sure that I am going to be the one to go first.
I love everything you do ! Have a great Sunday while someone watch's you ! 👍💪✌👏👊🔫🌐❤
Always great to see Hank..Love his stories! I could listen for hours.Well done! God Bless you and Larry
Fascinating stories! Thank you..
WONDERFUL STORY
This story sufficiently answers my query of why these are named, The Superstition Mountains and many thanks for sharing it. Think I'll go make a cup of coffee..... 🥰
Get a beer too
I'm glad you fellas are doing this . ✌😀👌
I'm from Arizona 35/40 years ago and walked all over the superstition foothills rabbit hunting and deer hunting and never get tired of the stories
Wow great story
...wow... great story...!!!
Il be back to Apache junction for sure. Your museum has some of the best artifacts and taxidermy in Arizona.
I love the way you tell these stories!
Awesome, can’t get enough of those mountains
breakfast and coffee sounds great! ..boo... ...happy trails always.....
You guys are just amazing to listen to. You’re doing a great thing making these. Stories don’t get any better than this format coming from you guys! 👍👍🇺🇸
Wow, thank you!
Once again, Thanks for a couple of great stories!
These stories are strange and awesome!
Cool spooky stories Hank and Larry! Well done!!
Wow Hank. Those are a couple of the best campfire stories I've heard in many years. Thanks.
There is gold in them there hills and lots of stories also..thank you very much 🤗😀
Thank you for a chilling story. Things do happen out in the wilds.
Glad you enjoyed it
We need more stories in the FUTURE please ! :)
Excellent stories and so well told! I am a fan.
This is a fantastic video.
Great stories!
One never knows what they will see in the desert at night.... I have seen my share.
Love this show
great stories
used to live in Phoenix love this channel
Another couple of great stories. You folks sure know how to make alot of our weeks. Thanks again. Take care.
Ron
Your channel was recommended and I came over and subscribed! 💜
I’m from Scotland and I’ve always been fascinated with the Superstition Mountains. It seems a truly amazing, mysterious and bizarre place. I would love to go on a well provisioned hike deep into the mountains. Have some experiences like you guys tell us about. America is an amazing country. God bless America from your British brothers. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Thank you for that
I really enjoy everything you all do. Great stories and well told. I gotta add that I live in the Adirondack Mtns in most Northern NY. The wind is howling and it's spitting snow ... 6 degrees with the wind chill. A warm house and great stories. Thank You Much.
@ Andrew David
And I grew up on a dairy farm in Hobart, an hour from Oneonta. Ain't no Mountains like the Catskill Mountains. You will find me outside in the most inclement of weather 🤗 Enjoy ❣
wasssup from 585, Rochester NY!!! used to live in Tucson but had to come back to where we see the trees change and there's a little more green
@@lizziesangi1602 I also know the Catsikill's very well. Had a Family old farm in Schoharie County in the foothills. Beautiful mtns. And of course really nice folks. I am in Saranac NY. Nice chatting. This is one of the best weather channels.
@@tattoofthesunn795 I love the seasons. I know the winters are long but we still have the greatest rest of the year weather. Try to tell folks that NY isn't NYC. Mostly woods and green with nice upstate folks. Nice Chatting. Eli has the best weather channel.
Just found your channel and I love it!!!
@Hank Sheffer thanks brother this is my style in life!!!
Absolutely love the stories, have a lot of family around the area
Awesome stories, keep em coming!
Thanks! Will do!
Good story, Keep them coming.
Thanks, will do!
Love Hanks story telling. 🙂
Great videos!
I need to get out there.
That was a good one
I keep an eye on this channel because I LOVE the stories, and Hank, Larry, Ron, Jack and Charlie are living legends, looking the part alright too. I always seem to want more stories about who and how is actively out there looking and more stories about Walz, Julia Thomas, the Peralta history, who's actually pulled gold out of there but keeps really quiet about it, all that stuff. It would be great if you guys could do a whole episode on the geology of the mountain range, and walk us through the map and where trails are and where sites are, where on the map someone who knows the stories would want to go if they had a day or two out there to explore.... where to go your first time out there, second time, etc. Thanks for all that you do, gentlemen. Onwards!!!!
Love these videos, would be great to hear from some of the native Americans in the area. There is more to this place than gold no doubt
Some more great stories from the folks at Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains!
Wow, this lady really spooked those two seasoned outdoorsy men.
I love these stories!
Very intriguing that the spirits would go through so much trouble as to play tricks on you and your friends. I find it interesting. Thank you for the stories 😊
Growing up in a very rural area you hear lots of stories, and like the fellow said bits of truth bits of confusion, bits of color for the benefit of the listener. I like that these guys sift through it all and try out the truth.
Oh, l would love to see that, but it is scary and you sure tell very good stories...l am so tired tonight, but l cannot turn these videos off, they are excellent and spooky and such great storytellers..l live in Eastern Canada, so l will never see them as much as l would love to
More like this
Cool as heck.
I surely live this videos.
Good stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it
Wayne Tuttle, Legends of the Superstition Mountains, tells the same story of the floating banshee woman. It was Wayne that shot at the floating woman.
+Rey DeGuerra I recall Wayne Tuttle telling that story. He called the video "Bob Ward's Banshee" indicating that he wasn't involved in the actual story but was rather retelling it from the perspective of this Bob Ward fella who was accompanied by a fella named Randy Wright. Most likely Mr. Tuttle had, like Mr. Hank Sheffer said, most likely heard or read the same story and simply told it from the perspective of this Bob Ward.
+Hank Sheffer Mr. Sheffer, your version is good and I really enjoyed it, but I liked Mr. Tuttle's telling a little better, he's just seemed creepier to me. I'll be looking forward to hearing these other stories you plain on telling in the future. And your right, Mr. Tuttle doesn't seem like the kind of guy to "blast away at ghosts".
I lived in Arizona Apache Junction, 1969-70.
Saw many "spirit " beings, I loved it when seen by the cat and dog.
I'd laugh at the pets and say, " you guys think I can save you "
Get off my chair and go check out my visitor.
I felt it was great that it was real.
That mountain is fantastic.
I will forever keep these stories with me, even though I'm from Asia
Do you gys tell these stories at events or to the Public? Id love to hear these stories in person!
@ FenixDown
😂 This forum would be considered a mighty big "public" forum - ya think?
@@lizziesangi1602 🤣👍🏻
Got to have Coffee!
Always.
Maybe the gold exists in another dimension? Just as solid; just as valuable.
I ,love these tails got me to Subscribe 👍
Hahahah awesome story.
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Puts me in mind of the spirits in the books by Carlos Costenada. Any other readers of those? (Or La Llorona, the ghost lady!)
Oh! This was a good one! Especially about us women? Hhhmmm???
It's said that people that die in a structure they're real attached to stay on as a ghost. They do many things to frighten and drive interlopers away. Those old hand made structures in the wilderness would be exactly that type of place.
Histórias fantásticas que nos transprtam para um mundo que se funde entre o real e o fantástico mesterioso. Nem sempre tudo tem uma explicação lógica.
I was told in '05 by an Apache park ranger that there is still a tribe of Apache that live in the mountains & watch over them!!! My father was there between '48 & '52 and he told me Chuck Ahler knew where the mines where & when they got close someone would start shooting at them !!! I have many photo's he took of Chuck & his burro's & camps & cliff dwellings and Weavers Needle--with a strange fog swirling around it!!!!
Expect the unexpected.... mysterious ways of the MTN.... it's magic I'm telling ya.... MAGIC!
Aldi's putting a store in the superstitious foothills. Bout time
A floating squaw??
Me:.... Nope..
I'm out..🤣🤣🤣🤣
He wishes 😂🙉
I'm not sure why but watching this made me think about how we are all born losers but it does not mean you have to stay that way your whole existence and that's how things will end for any of us. We become kings and champions if we want to.
I just left Arizona after a year and a half but I was naturally hesitant of venturing into the mountains or the desert. I'm captivated by the storytelling but now I wanna know what you meant by a squaw talking too much ? Or do I wanna know too much ? Lol
T O . MYSTERIES OF THE SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS . " ITS GOLD GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS " & ^ SOMEONE'S ALWAYS WATCHING " . GO < TOGETHER > : LIKE < PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY > SANDWICH . THEM < HILLS > HAVE ^ EYES ^ . & ^ THEY > ARE ALWAYS WATCHING < YOU > . THANKS . SALVADOR < V 3 > DELGADILLO . FULL TIME TREASURE HUNTER . DECEMBER 0 6 - 2 0 2 0
2020 election = "just another mystery of the superstition mountains" lol,just joshin' y'all
truth in that. no joke...
@@MsNevadakid yea your right, election theft isn't really funny.
@Kris Radke I heard there was a whole mine of em out there!!! Where's Rudy??? Rudy could hike out there and get em!!
Y'ALL Stayed in the Cowboy Hotel in that Rain HANK
Is Clay Worst still around? Anyone know? Thanks
Clay is very much alive and still kicking. He is in his 90s.
La llorona/ cihuapipiltin. She wonders the crossroads. Looking for men and children ... And I feal u about that coffee!!
Lol 😂 no women in the bushes
Squaw? Squaw? I've seen Indian ladies and Indian women but never an Indian squaw. You can take that to the bank. I'm from Oklahoma where the Indians and Whites were fighting each other through the 1990s, and I should know. My mom married one. There just ain't no such thing as a squaw.
i found that the west is/was full of them kind of stories they are fun to listen to but not take them as gospel
let's go Brandon 🤪
These are exactly the kind of stories that originally drew me to your channel. Thanks much!
The fake fire again you were getting close to some gold and the indian spirit's took your attention away so you can't find the gold. Don't let the fake signs fool you. Continue looking ehere you were you were probably within 50 feet of a treasure of a lifetime
Skin walkers are scary
Miss you Hank. Rest in peace 🙏🏻