Corral
de Majoma
I
am sharing the following for the primary purpose of finding a serious
financial partner, one who wishes to be a part, even physically if
desired, in this incredible project that some times seems impossible.
There are many more details that can be shared but only after I have
determined we have found the right person. Male or female I don't
care, the following is written to give an overall idea and feeling of
the project. It is not intended to have monies deposited with I or
any other, with an exception of a possible small buy in, and cover
costs on another more extensive trip, we just need to know that IF
and WHEN the need arises that it is available to accomplish the
recovery, keep in mind that technically once we have laid eyes on the
target[s], we no longer need a financial partner, all those who have
helped with this effort over the years will be compensated generously
or as discussed. Records indicate that there is no other treasure
that comes close to rivaling this potential discovery on this
continent or off but near its shore lines.
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Quite
possibly the largest cache of Gold and Silver on this continent.
Sometime
in the 1970's, A semi-well-known treasure Hunter by the name of
Jim Phillips was working on an offshore treasure project down on the
Gulf Coast somewhere near Veracruz. One particular day when they came
ashore for supplies a middle-aged man approached Jim near the docks
and asked him if he was a treasure hunter of which he responded that
he was.. he explained to him a little bit about a treasure that was
near his village and that it was his family's Fortune and he was
asking if he could help them figure out where it was based on his
documents along with a hand drawn map.. after the man explained more
of the details Jim, accepted the offer but in order for him to see
the documents he had to travel far inland to the village. This didn't
seem to bother Jim much.
Image
of the actual map with a few details removed...
After
Jim arrived at the village, the man took him to his home, invited him
in and pulled from his shelf some old documents that was clearly in
poor shape. Now this being back in the 1970s the only copy machines
that existed were Xerox machines and the closest one was miles away..
after a week or so they were able find one to get copies of the
documents and after which Jim returned home to cedar City, Utah.
Jim
spent some time with the documents as evidenced by some of his papers
that accompanied the old document and the map when I received them..
Apparently Jim either grew uninterested or just getting old resorted
to taking the documents and the map to Steve Shaffer another
well-known treasure Hunter in the Utah area seeking his help.. Jim
was not a very trusting man. However, he decided to leave the map and
the documents with Steve and drove away from his home, but he said
that 15 minutes later he decided that was not a good idea So he
turned the car around and went back to Steve's home and told him that
he was sorry but he could not leave the documents.. Steve never told
him but it was too late, Steve had already made copies.. this would
likely be in the 1980s.
I
don't know how much time Steve spent on these documents. I think the
project being in Mexico seemed difficult for Steve to do anything
with, but as it would seem he simply used the story for a historical
fiction that he would later write called “Nachi.” I'm assuming
that Steve was pretty much done with the documents when he gave them
to me in the early 2000s, handing them to me and asking me to take
them home to see what I thought of them..
I
never did report back to Steve as to what I thought of the documents
due to the following...
About
the same time, I met a guy by the name of Gary.. Gary was a former
partner of Jim Phillips and whom I found out later had held and seen
the original map copy along with the hand written document copy that
Jim had brought back from Mexico.. I would later find out. Also that
all Gary had in his possession was a copy of Jim's translation..
which was the same document in which he had shared with Steve years
prior.. One day Gary pulled the document out and handed it to me and
I asked him what's this and he says It's a translation of an old
document that I would like you to look through and see what you
think. At that time I noticed in the translation that he had a lot of
the place names blanked out.. Gary was not a trusting individual like
Jim, but as the years went on we became good friend and we remain as
such. In looking at the translation I immediately recognize the
document and told him that I was familiar with it... He told me
that's impossible and I said no, I've seen this before and I said
would you like me to fill in the blanks and he says Yes so I began to
read the document and filled in the blanks as I went.... The next
thing I knew Gary was cussing up a storm because he immediately knew
what had happened.. he later reported to Jim Phillips that Steve had
made a copy of it and Jim to say the least was cussing a storm worse
than Gary was, even a few death threats, but then when he finally
settled down he said oh well. I don't think he could ever find this
anyway..Not many years later Jim passed away and his wife who
despised his hobby burned all Jim's research.
I
shared with Gary for the purpose of him sharing with Jim Phillips
what I thought of the document and I let him know that based on the
information, given that I believed that I could find it.. Little did
I know but that time would come much sooner than I thought it would
which was just a few months later.
I
think I understand why Jim had not found the location simply because
of the tools that were not available to him back in the
late '70s.. he did have some maps and I will say that he came close
but Jim never found the Corral location.. I remember after receiving
the documents of going online and finding a company in Mexico that
had the equivalency of our topo maps about 1:50,000 scale... not much
worse than our 30 Minute maps edition. These maps were the first topo
maps made in Mexico in 1986.. I remember receiving them in the mail
but I did not open them and put them behind my rear seat in my truck
and decided that I would look at them down in salt lake in my leisure
time in between meeting with subcontractors which I did about 3 days
a week in order to pay the subcontractors in our company..
On
this particular day I remember meeting with one of my subs. Many of
the subs were from south of the border. There were approximately 200
subcontractors that we were working with at that time. This
individual whose first name is Jose.. I had not yet got to know him
very well. So when he came in to the coffee shop where I like to meet
these guys.. I asked him what part of Mexico he was from. He told me
Durango..... My eyes lit up a little bit and I asked him if he had
ever heard of the little town called Nombre de Dios of which he
responded was his hometown.. My eyes got a little wider, then I asked
him if he was familiar with the village of Tuitan.... He acknowledged
saying that he was very familiar with it.. at that point and
recognizing this coincidence.. I asked him if he had time to look at
some maps with me.. he agreed and I went out to my truck and brought
the cylinder in and opened it... And pulled out one specific map..
And rolled it out on the table in front of us.. when I did that his
eyes popped opened up and he said somewhat astonished.. where you get
deese maps? I told him that I had ordered them from an online
service. Why I asked... He said before I come to the States I used to
work for the company that made these maps. Really? I asked he said
that his job in making these maps was field checking the place
names... He explained that sometimes he had to go to Old parishes and
other places in the area to verify place names.. at this point it was
far beyond coincidence.. then I threw some place names out at him
that was in the old document.. asking him if he'd ever heard of it,
most of which he said. Yes this is right here And he would point to
the map and then the next one and the next one. But when I asked him
if he'd ever heard of corral de Majoma.... He said he had never heard
of it.. now what? I didn't know at that time because of the quality
of the maps but the names that I did ask him about were actually on
the map. However, the words were very hard to see because of the
other printing on the map showing heavily brushed areas and other
landscape features on the map..
It
wasn't too long after this that I had ordered PDF copies of the same
maps of which the writing was very clear and the maps were OCR
searchable.. this is when I saw that Jose was indeed familiar with
those maps..
I
have always believed that every man on this planet has a calling or
something they are supposed to do in this lifetime and one of the
ways that I had always been taught to know whether you were on the
right path or not as to watch for coincidences.. so far this project
did not disappoint.. I recall sometime in 2002 or 2003. Doing an
Internet search, I discovered a well-known treasure forum in Mexico.
Much like the one that we have here called treasure net, now very
much infested with what we call shadow chasers or Pareidolia
people... I searched for any information regarding “Majoma” And
discovered several conversations regarding it.. it was clear that the
story itself was known in Mexico and as a result I found four other
documents, two of which had been published in Old Mexico treasure
books. But these were clearly not original source material and were
not full of the details as in the main Spanish document which I had
not yet even received... All I had was an English translation that I
received a copy from Steve Shaffer and Gary.. The other four
documents, two of which told by two different captains other than
Captain Valentine Castrellon, author of the primary document..
basically telling the same story. However, one was quite short and
devoid of details and the other was a bit longer with a few more
details but not the clarity of details found in the primary
document.. which left the corral's location quite speculative... In
reading through these documents and the conversations and comments of
the forum regarding Majoma, I learned several things about the people
who were actively or casually searching for it and where they were
searching and why.. Even at this point of only having the English
translation of the primary document, I knew that I had an advantage
because of some misconceptions that the primary document reveals.. I
monitored this forum and other sources for about the next 10 years..
Now,
to be completely transparent, I will say that during this time frame
I discovered an old newspaper article in a New York newspaper
announcing that a bandito cash had been discovered down in the same
area in which Majoma was known.. but it was very clear that it was
not one in the same as the ones described in the primary document and
the other documents that I pulled from the treasure forum in
Mexico... In fact, it was quite small in comparisons to others
mentioned.. but I have no doubt that of the many cash sites that are
mentioned in these documents that someone indeed found one of them
and there are many in the brena...
Keeping
my little secrets to myself and using the translated document of the
primary.. I continued searching using my resources and established
what I know to be the actual trail was located where the famous
assault took place and there was only one between the mention
locations and to this day, only one still.. The place names between
the two points mentioned in the document.. at this time, after
receiving the PDF maps, I could see the very names that were
described in the English translated document.. so I knew I was in the
right place.. there was only one place name that I was uncertain of
so I established a line of travel based on the descriptions given in
the document and I remember the very moment when I laid eyes the
corrals of Majoma.. And then at that moment I understood as in part
why it has remained hidden all these years.. One of the primary
reasons that it has remained hidden is because the bandidos, although
they are portrayed as reckless bloodthirsty Killers, just like the
Southern soldiers of our own civil war.. They were in fact highly
disciplined and organized groups who existed solely for the purpose
of weekending the Spaniards and hitting them where it hurt most for
the sole purpose of getting them out of their country.. They banditos
were not allowed to take from the spoils of the caches they
commandeered.. They were allowed to take from the dead... But most
bandidos were highly respected men in their own States and villages
and had their own regular jobs that they attended to other than when
a robbery was being organized.... And when these opportunities came,
the bandidos would have called to order and organize to prepare for
the shipment to pass through their favorite assault site and to cash
it in their favorite depository... Another small reason for these
cashes to remain Is that the Mexican people being native American are
highly superstitious.. And you need to remember that they had been
converted many years earlier to the very same Faith in which the
Spanish belonged.. this created several conflicting issues in many of
the robberies...
In
the years following 2003-2004 which is when I believe I made the
discovery of the primary location of the corrals.. this project
pretty much sat in my files, occasionally monitoring the forums and
so forth. Keep in mind my motive was largely driven, not by the
potential Discovery of the actual gold and silver secreted over a
period of 200 years.. it was more about my satisfaction of knowing
that I had done what others could not do.. in these days and
following years from 2004, I was very well to do with a very
successful company that would later be taken out from under me by two
greedy men who were once my friends... But we're not going to go
there...
In
about 2015, a good friend of mine sent me an email asking me if I had
ever heard of Corral Falso... Corral Falso is mentioned only once in
the primary document and is used in comparisons to Majoma in several
ways.. And apparently is another vast depository used in another part
of Mexico and largely connected to the bandidos known as the Lauriano
Brothers who were famous bandidos in the area of Nayarit? Mexico... I
asked my friend Randy why he had asked and he said that he had some
documents that he really believed that I needed to see.. And so he
sent me the research papers of an archaeologist from Arizona who had
stumbled across a reddotero written by one of the brothers that was
found in the garden of a elderly illiterate woman who lived in San
blas.. as it would seem one day while she was digging in her garden,
she uncovered a small metal box with a latch and a lock.. she managed
to open the box and found an old parchment paper of sort but not
having the ability to read it she unfolded or unrolled the document
and placed it with her other papers which she would use to make
patterns for clothing.. One day when a friend of hers came over to
help her make dresses, she told her to grab some of the papers to
make patterns with of which one of the papers she grabbed was the old
document.. she got out the scissors and was about to cut it when she
started reading some of the content.. And she told her we shouldn't
use this because this document appears to be very important.. this
document would eventually make its way to the archaeologist whom I
forget his name from Arizona (Donald William Page) who spent many
years searching to try to find this vast horde called Falso..
Now,
without explanation. I will simply say that this was helpful in many
ways in understanding. Majoma and part of revealing one of the most
important clues as to what we should be looking for.. And what is
unknown to a majority if not all other treasure hunters of this
project... I spent a lot of time on this project as well with the
same drive and motive of understanding where it was located, knowing
well and good that I had better resources than the archaeologist of
the early -1900s. I believe I found it and was convinced even enough
to arrange for a trip down for the purpose of recon.. And a later
trip with the purpose of following up on additional information given
to us. From what we didn't know at the time was a shady source
supposedly using satellite technology, which supposedly had the
ability to identify hidden targets.. needless to say, this was an
unsuccessful trip, although I still believe we have the right
location, but until I feel motivated to dig into this project again,
we will not know.
One
of the things or reasons why I was hesitant to send a team down on
the second trip was because I was bound and determined to find a copy
of the original document, which in this case once again, I only had
an English translation done by the archaeologist from Arizona.. A
copy of this original written Spanish document. There is a slim
chance is located in his research documents which can be found in
Berkeley, California. In what was described as 3 and 1/2 boxes of his
research papers.. his name came to my mind and it is William Page.
Having
failed to get a copy of the original document I chose to send the
boys as I call them down anyway.. up on their return and within just
a day or two. A Mexican citizen contacted me as a result of my
questions asked in the Mexican treasure forum.. Of course he spoke
only Spanish but using a translator I was able to communicate with
him.. he explained to me that he had heard me mention the lauriano
Brothers.. And that he was not a treasure hunter. However, while
doing research at the archives in Mexico that he came across some
papers that he thought was pretty interesting and so he made copies
of 21 pages of what we would later find out where copies of originals
that were occasionally updated in the archives due to the fact that
some of these documents get so old that they become brittle and
because of this they make handwritten copies.. The copies that he had
were his second copy.. he asked me if I would be interested in them
of which of course I said definitely.. much to my surprise, the first
half of these 21 pages was the exact documents I was looking for, of
which I only had the English translation that of William Page.. The
second half of the document was more of what the second half
contained which is what I call a trail of treasure.. as I recall,
over 40 sites are identified and explained on how to find each of
them beginning in a small town in Jalisco called tequila and ending
near Corral Falso near Tepic in Nayarit.. another obvious
coincidence.
A
clip of one of the 21 pages
Not
too long after this incident I got a wild idea and decided because I
had not heard anyone mention the captain's name Valentine.. who was
the captain who wrote the primary document.. I decided to ask in the
forum if anybody had heard of Captain Valentin Castrellon... I
watched for responses to my question for about a week and nothing.. I
pretty much knew at that point that what I had was indeed unique..
but then I received a private message in Spanish of course from a man
named Ricardo.. he explained to me that he worked as an engineer for
the government and he was not a treasure hunter. However, he had a
friend, an elderly gentleman who lived with his granddaughter.. And
one day while visiting him he noticed an old frail document sitting
on his shelf at his home... He asked him what it was then the elderly
man told him to carefully pick it up and read it what he did..
Ricardo asked him if he had ever made copies of this document and he
told him no. He had not and he said You really need to... Of which
the old man said. What do you suggest... Ricardo told him that he
could type the document verbatim preserving the information that
apparently was very important.. I'm not certain when Ricardo did this
but likely sometime in the late '70s.. And by the way, I'm pretty
sure that this elderly man is the same man who met with Jim Phillips
near 20 years prior..
As
I exchanged messages with Ricardo, we decided to check to see if we
had the same document.. Ricardo explained to me that he is the one
who hand typed from the original, the document which he had and we
decided to see if they were the same document by sending each other.
The first paragraph of each document that we had his was in of course
Spanish and mine was in English.. after making this exchange, we
could see that we most likely had the exact same story and from the
same source of Valentine.. I asked him if it were possible to get a
copy from him and asked him if he wanted a copy of mine to which he
agreed and we swapped documents.. I have since had it professionally
translated by a young gal from Peru who apparently is very good at
this sort of thing, especially old Spanish.. having personal
knowledge of many things within the document, I could see that she
was quite good at what she does.. And hers is the translation which I
use today.. Ricardo sent me JPEG images of all four pages of his
typed document. He told me that there was a few places within that he
had a hard time with, but he said as you can see I found the correct
words and inserted them with pencil.. I could not believe that I was
this close and had received a typed copy from the original.. to me.
This was another one of those coincidence.
Comparing
the translation of the typed copy to Jim Phillips's translation, it
was clear that Jim was not versed well in Spanish or Old Spanish...
Many corrections were noted and information revealed that had been
omitted in his copy with the words unintelligible.. I now had a
complete copy of an original typed from the original handwritten and
a translation that I believe that I can rely upon and new information
was revealed... In this document is mentioned 14 other cash sites..
at this point I will say that I have discovered the location of six
of them.. One is a cash from an entirely different robbery. Another
is from another robbery conducted in 1727 where as the primary
robbery took place in I believe 1778?... However, it also was cashed
at Majoma just as many others had been of the past 200 years.. How
many robberies have been secreted at Majoma I don't know.... But if
only one robbery took place every 10 years that was comparable to the
primary and last robbery.. The amount that is secreted there would be
well into the billions.
In
one of the documents it is mentioned as I recall somewhat of a joke
made many years prior that they would fill the cavern with gold only
and that the silver would be cashed in separate location.. this they
managed to do in the last robbery.. there was so much silver that
they filled the cave that they had previously been using for the last
200 years. Closed it up and dug a trench to receive the remainder..
in addition, there was a crevice somewhere in the Corral which they
also filled and with their Method of making concrete cover the
crevice up.
It
is said in the document that they finally filled the cavern selected
for gold only. In fact, it had so much that they had to remove some
of it in order to get the lid to fit that they had fashioned much
like a grinding stone which they had taken from a Red mountain
nearby... The excess gold was thrown into the trench haphazardly and
it was noted that some of it was even sticking out of the ground when
they left.. this last and final robbery in which they believed
afterwards they had been cursed.. contained 80 Red Dunn mules
carrying gold only and 400 mules carrying silver only.
In
one of the other old documents that I found a copy of online.. I
noticed that there was one small detail lacking which had prevented
the particular cash described by Captain Francisco Iberio.. A detail
that if you do not know the location would certainly prevent you from
finding it, but because of the clarity of the primary document or
shall we say now the typed document? I was able to find the place
name that has escaped so many allowing me now to know exactly where
the trail traveled from and to.. now I cannot say that I know exactly
where this one is, but I can say that it is within the parameters of
about 90 yard circle.. it will take a little bit of searching, but at
least we know the parameters.. in this particular cash it names and
undetermined amount of silver and 35 boxes of gold “unsealed”..
If they are boxes they are likely a box that would set on each side
of a mule. Likely carrying 125 to 150 lb per side.. made for two men
to carry.
Over
the past 10 years I believe we have made three trips to Majoma... One
trip was basically recon.. another trip.. let's just say unforeseen
circumstances which prevented us from getting to the site.. And the
last trip again although they made it to the site encountered another
unforeseen issue.. these experiences have opened our eyes to certain
issues that should be resolved before we go again.. We have
established a very good relationship with the landowner who
acknowledged early on that they know the basic story of Majoma and
they know it's out there, they just don't know where it is.... They
don't have any written documents but they have heard the stories and
they are just as clueless as to the place names as anyone would be if
they didn't even have the topo maps.,. One individual resident in
Mexico stated his amazement as to how this man in the States was able
to get a copy of a document that no one seems to have down in
Mexico.. I told him I have a couple more as well..
The
last trip down into Mexico was in the first months of 2026.. due to
an unforeseen circumstance when the boys returned home, I was
compelled to take a hard look at everything once again and as I
looked at the old map, I noticed two things that I had not seen on
those maps in 23 years. As much as I have looked at them as much as I
understood them, I did not notice these two things.. now because of
this, I can confidently say that I know exactly where three of the
cash's are located within the corrals.. A fourth one exists as well.
However, we will need to do some searching for it but we know the
parameters it is within.....
There
are many other identifying non-essential however details that I am
willing to disclose... But one would have to read the five documents
and then managed to put it all together in your mind.. We have
decided at this point that before we organize another trip that we
need to be better prepared in certain ways, but primarily financially
because we need to be prepared for that moment. When we lay eyes upon
it it needs to be removed and we need the quickest and safest way to
remove it and relocate it.. should we be able to find that one
qualified individual whom we can consider as a financial partner.. We
can discuss further details.
In
conclusion, let me say that I Daniel Lowe testify that everything I
have said regarding the above project is true and correct to the best
of my knowledge. tuscoro@gmail.com
