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yurt_boy
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I just ran across a brief mention of a lost cache story. According to the article, about a paragraph long, several million dollars' worth of Nazi loot was cached near the ghost town of Chloride, AZ. Being from AZ, the story piqued my interest. It's an odd story for several reasons, but that's what makes me wonder if there's some semblance of truth to it. Here in the SW, all the lost treasure legends involve A) Spanish mines or B) robbed trains/stages/banks. If someone were to make up a story, why Nazis? Secondly, next to no one has ever heard of Chloride, AZ. Now for the plausibility angle ... There was a lot of Nazi activity in northern Mexico, which isn't all that far from Chloride. I'm not yet all that read-up on it, but I do recall reading once that the Nazis were cultivating sympathizers in Sonora, Mex. for a possible US invasion. Second; a ghost town like Chloride would be an ideal place to stash a crap-load of gold. All you'd have to do is find an abandoned mine shaft (dime a dozen out here), fill it with the loot and then dynamite the entrance closed. I don't know, it's probably all made up, but interesting nonetheless. Have any of you heard of this? I sure hadn't, and I've been researching lost AZ treasure for years now. Thanks