Need help on this one. Have old documents that tell of a group of Spanish Masons who quietly left Spain in 1666 to escape the Inquistion against them. The story says 800 Spainsh nobles and their families led by nine priests sailed to the New World. Before boarding the ship the group rifled two huge cathedrals of their jewels and services and brought the wealth to the New World. (U.S. area?) Some of the information is very similar to the story of the Lost Louisiana Mines. Mainly the reference to numerous mines and Indian predications on the miners. This document gives details about the area where the mines were to have been. Two quotes of old Spanish men, from Mexico, coming to the area with ancient maps and searching for the buried wealth. Even mentions some for the symbols left to direct searchers to the treasure areas, ie, Heart, snake, half moon, jabobs ladder, all seeing eye, kidney rocks, turky track, and Solomon's crown. We have searched an area much like the one described and found most of the symbols mentioned. Even found near the symbols hard evidence of habitation in the region by early colonial era people. Pottery shards dated 1650 by Archaologists were found as well as a shoe buckle from the same era. Looking for anyone who has more information of this story. It appears to be true, at least to some extent. The site found is in the midwest and near a navigatable river. Mel Fisher and company once investigated the region for treasure, I been told. Who knows? dutch

• Tell us more Steve (NM) 10:07:53 3/11/2001 (1)
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