Hooch is that a serious question? If so, then perhaps it will help to understand that it is possible to find landmarks (real ones) that match the markings on the Peralta stone maps. They are real maps, you can prove it beyond any doubt if you just go do some hiking, you will find monuments and markers at the places where the map indicates you should find them. But no one has found the 'pot o gold' at the end of the rainbow, which raises questions. Did someone find the treasure and remove it, long ago, and then threw away the stone maps that later would be found? Or are they just a modern fraud?
Even if they are a modern work (and there is evidence to point that way) then it is still possible that they could lead to a treasure worth millions of dollars. As in the lost artwork of a very famous Arizona artist named Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia. When he learned that his family would be taxed millions of dollars for inheritance tax when he died, in protest he packed up most of his paintings and took them into the Superstition mountains and burned them, rather than have his heirs be forced to sell everything just to pay the inheritance tax.
Ettore DeGrazia, 73, Burned Paintings to Protest Taxes - NYTimes.com
The kicker is that he almost certainly did NOT burn the real paintings, as he filmed the burning for the IRS, instead he probably hid them in some secret hiding place in the Superstition mountains that he loved, and left cryptic clues to help someone find them one day. The Peralta stone maps MAY show the way to find that stash which is today worth millions $$$$$$$$$.
Anyway you don't need to be convinced, no one is going to try to coax you into going along to search using the Peralta stone maps, however it is a certainty that only those that will search, have any chance to ever find anything. Just the fact that they are going out hunting and looking, greatly increases the chances that they just mind find SOMETHING valuable, while people that sit at home and sneer at others for going out treasure hunting based on "horseshit" will never find anything sitting at home. Just something to consider, and perhaps one other thing, you are certainly welcome to your opinion about this, I don't intend to try to change your mind as I do not believe in the stone maps (or 99% of all treasure maps that have been in public circulation, so amigos don't start throwing 'stones' at me for not trusting in the Peralta stone maps) but if you keep an open mind, you might find it interesting, perhaps even interesting enough to go on a 'wild goose chase' yourself. What would you stand to lose, to go spend a couple of weeks exploring in some of the most beautiful country in the US, and the world for that matter, the Superstition mountains?
Something definitely happened in that mysterious range of rugged mountains, that is not recorded in history books. There is simply too much evidence that some kind of events took place there to ignore it. There are even other lost mines to hunt for in the same area, and at least two treasures that I know of which have never been found (one a stage robbery loot, another a cache of valuable rifles) so even if you have zero interest in the stone maps, you just might find something great. Think it over some time amigo, you might have a blast. Good to see you posting again, have not seen any of your posts in some time Hooch, hope you have simply been too busy digging up treasures.
Wishing you and everyone reading this a very Happy and prosperous New Year, good luck and good hunting - and I hope you find the treasures that you seek.
Oroblanco
