
Three weeks later, his wife died,” Child said. He went home that night and had a heart attack and died. They got down 50 feet and the drill bit broke off, so they had to quit. “The well driller went home, came back the next day and started drilling down with a 10-inch drill down the same hole. They drilled a 4-inch hole on top of the cavern and when they pulled the drill up, it had gold flakes on top of the drill so they wanted to try again with a bigger drill.

In 1998, Child’s father hired a well driller to attempt another way in. We had a well driller that died,” Child said. “As they’re are swimming back in there, all of a sudden, the divers started screaming – I’m being choked down, I’m seeing ghosts, I’m seeing ghosts,” Child explained. He said treasure hunters have spent more than a $100,000 worth of equipment to dive into the lake but strange situations would stop them. Every time there’s been an attempt, bad things would happen,” Child said.Ī frozen secret: how Team Canada placed a bit of luck in 2002 Olympic ice


Since then, they’ve tried to look for the treasure. His father bought the property for $1,500 after suspecting the gold may have been there. Lonn Child’s family has owned the Three Lake Ranch for thirty years. “Some believe they may even be inside the cave where the gold was because they would have tried to obviously get up where they could breathe and die,” said Brown. Then historians say, the Aztecs killed each other on the spot so that their spirits could protect the gold. “They created a room that would’ve been higher than the water level so, = they drain the lake out and they go back in the cavern, put the gold back in there and they fill the water back up,” Brown explained. The trap would’ve have required them to dig 35 feet deep under the water and then build a tunnel that would lead inside a cavern next to the pond.

It’s said that the Aztecs may have used a clever strategy called a water trap to hide their precious jewels. Utah fire burning underground can’t be extinguished
