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Welcome to Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains this is Dave Jones I'm normally
on the other end of the camera but I'd like to share a personal story that I had from a dear
friend in the Superstition Mountains this has not didn't happen to me but this is a firsthand story
that happened to an individual that I've known for many years his name was Ron he grew up in
this area a lot of people know him from a pretty large business he had here in town I met him from
doing video production and commercials for his business one day he kind of told me in a quiet
moment a story that is kind of always stuck with me so I'd love to share it and hopefully you'll
enjoy it as much as I did when he was a teenager his father was working at the the Barkley Ranch
there by the word the Peralta trail goes into the into the superstitions and you know this is back
in the 60s and it was pretty open and his dad was going to be there for three days so he asked his
dad if he could come with him and he took his 22 and a little backpack and a sleeping bag and went
up into the the mountains there uh north of the the Barkley Ranch and did a little rabbit hunting
and shooting for a few days and and as the night started to fall in the Superstition Mountains Ron
made himself a camp and it was getting a little cold so he set up a little fire and laid out his
bed roll and made himself some dinner from one of the rabbits that he'd shot and some of the stuff
he had with him and he's eating and he keeps hearing noise and you know it's a Superstition
Mountains it's gonna be scary at night and he's out there all there all by himself and he keeps
hearing noise like someone's walking up the trail he was a is there a donkey loose around here
you know what's just common and uh got a little spook So eventually he kind of built up the fire
a little bit stuck the rest of his gear in his sleeping bag to make it look like he was sleeping
in any kind of eased himself back into the brush little ways with this with this little hunting 22.
and here's some more noise coming up and then all of a sudden jumped into the light
was a man just wearing filthy dirty rags and just oh she said you could you could smell him coming
once he did that he says but he grabbed a big rock and he was gonna you know basically drop it on it
where his head would have been in that bed roll and Ron said stop right there and he pointed his
his 22 and he's just a kid he pointed his 22 at this guy and he made him sit down and the
guy was grumbling and cussing and he made him sit down at the edge of the fire and he held a gun on
him all night long can you imagine all night long trying to keep somebody who's trying to
kill you and he said that you didn't talk to the guy he was scared to talk to him but he was Gruff
looking he was making noises and just just really scary for him so finally the sun started coming up
just enough where he could see well enough and he started Gathering up his equipment and his
held his gun on this guy the whole time and he got the heck out of there and what Ron confided
me he says he says I think that guy was one of the crazy Jakes now we all knew who crazy Jake
was from our stories but other people that were crazy up there were called Jake too from what I
understand but he called him one of the crazy Jakes and Ron wasn't so anxious to go hunting
up there in the mountains by himself anymore so there you go another mystery of the Superstition
Mountains thank you for watching this episode of mysteries of the Superstition Mountains [Music]