MILAM COUNTY – There are two tales from Milam County that sound very similar. Both involve a group of Mexicans who are trying to protect their gold. Both events are said to have occurred in the vicinity of Thorndale, and both involve the murder of an uninvolved third party whose corpse is buried with the treasure so that its restless spirit can guard the hoard.
The best account involves an old timer named Snively who owned a large tract of land along the San Gabriel River. One night a group of Mexicans with nine jack loads of freebooted gold passed the Snively home, heading south for Mexico. At river’s edge, the Mexicans decided to bury the treasure since the road ahead had been plagued by highwaymen and Indians in recent months.
They dug a hole and deposited the hoard inside, covering it over with isinglass to prevent a mineral rod from discovering it. Believing the only way to truly protect the gold was to bury a man with the treasure, they returned to the Snively home and kidnapped him.
Snively was forced to ride to the cache site where he was murdered and his lifeless corpse tossed into the hole.
The excavation was then camouflaged and marked by the Mexicans, who then continued onto Mexico. Their plan was to recover the gold at a safer time, however, nothing more was ever heard of them.
In the second account, a priest is killed and buried with the treasure. Whenever anyone approaches the cache site the apparition of an angry bull appears with fire exploding from its nostrils chasing away any would-be fortune hunters.
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