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Tue. Jul 31, 2001

Montezuma's Treasure

Montezuma’s Treasure – I was surfing about the other night, daydreaming about a much needed vacation out west, when I stumbled across this interesting tale: ”Legend has it that when the Aztec king, Montezuma was killed by his own people in Mexico in the 1500’s, and the spanish Conquistadors were driven from Tenotchitlan, the Aztecs took their treasure and hid it from the Spaniards. That was 400 years ago.”

Many have looked for that loot in this century, obviously with no success. But there’s one place they think it might be that they can’t look; in an underwater cave in South Utah. ”The divers got 70 feet back in the tunnel. Their sonar equipment showed the tunnel was 100 feet long and ended in a room 80 feet in diameter. Detectors registered heavy metal at the end of the tunnel. It was late, so they quit for the day …. Russ was the first to go down the next morning. At a certain point in the tunnel, he started screaming that someone was grabbing and choking him. As he was pulled from the water he appeared white as a sheet. Another diver went down and had the same experience. The divers left and returned in two weeks. They experienced the same choking sensation in the tunnel and had to be pulled up. The diving crew did not dive in the lake anymore.”

That certainly adds to the daydreaming….