I recently wrote an article on the Mysterious San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado. Now, we have a mysterious death. 

GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Colo. (AP) – A man who was found dead in Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve had previously been rescued after spending nearly a week lost in the rugged terrain.

Park spokeswoman Katherine Faz said Bryan Skilinski’s body was recovered near Milwaukee Peak on Monday. He was last seen alive May 8, and a search was launched after someone noticed that a car had been parked in a backcountry access lot for several days.

http://www.kjct8.com/content/news/Man-found-dead-in-Great-Sand-Dunes-Natl-Park–Preserve-IDd-431563873.html

The man had been rescued just recently after being lost for 5 days. What on earth made him go back up there? This is some very rugged country. Maybe he was looking for the lost gold mine near Deadman Creek?

In 1880, H.A. Melton, E.R. Oliver, and S.J. Harkman were prospecting a few miles north of the headwaters of Deadman Creek when they got caught in a snowstorm. The three men were in sore need of shelter. The small mining camp of Sangre de Cristo was too far away, situated as it was on the western edge of the mountains, near the mouth of Deadman Creek. The mining camp of Cottonwood, which would eventually rise up near the mouth of Cottonwood Creek, was still 13 years in the future. So the three prospectors took refuge beneath an overhanging ledge where they discovered a small cave entrance that widened out into a sizeable chamber. In a small side chamber, they discovered several crudely-smelted gold bars! Had the previous miners found and tapped into the Lost Golden Ledge? The three prospectors gathered up the gold bars and eventually sold them in Silver Cliff, Colorado. But when they tried to return to the cave they were unable to find it. 

http://geologypark.net/treasure/colorado/tales/co023a.jsp

The mountain range is loaded with mysterious caves, and chained up bodies and lost Spanish gold has been reported throughout the range.

Treasure of the Sangre De Cristos Tales and Traditions of the Spanish Southwest

This collection of tales and traditions from the Southwest includes stories of lost mines stacked with bars of gold, mule loads of silver cached away in outlaw hoards, and fabulous Jesuit treasures buried when that order was expelled from New Spain. Some treasure locations would be rediscovered by chance or by an old map-and somehow always lost again.

https://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Cristos-Traditions-Spanish-Southwest/dp/0806111763

http://weekinweird.com/2013/01/08/death-dunes-ufos-start-cattle-mutilation-san-luis-valley/
News of the UFO involvement in “Snippy’s” death eventually reached the Condon Committee, a group funded by the US Air Force from 1966 to 1968 at the University of Colorado. Their purpose was to study reports of UFOs, the number of which had boomed since the 1947 incident in Roswell

The first ever cattle mutilation was actually a horse named Snippy (actually named Lady).

The San Luis Valley, particularly the area surrounding the Great Sand Dunes Park, has long been a hotbed of mysterious lights in the sky for longer than most records have been keeping track. In fact, the Native Americans who dwelled in the land would often tell stories of underground caverns where “ant people” sheltered humans and “flying seed pods” shuttled people back and forth between the stars. 

Could it be the “crypto Jews” secretly living in the area carrying out some form of animal sacrifice?

The ‘Secret Jews’ of San Luis Valley

Some people in the valley were reluctant to confront such questions, at least initially, and a handful even rejected the overtures of physicians, scientists and historians who were suddenly interested in their family histories. But rumors of secret Spanish Jewry had floated around northern New Mexico and the San Luis Valley for years, and now the cold hard facts of DNA appeared to support them. As a result, families in this remote high-desert community have had to come to grips with a kind of knowledge that more and more of us are likely to face. For the story of this wayward gene is the story of modern genetics, a science that increasingly has the power both to predict the future and to illuminate the past in unsettling ways.

Expanding the DNA analysis, Sharon Graw, a University of Denver geneticist, confirmed that the mutation in the Hispanic patients from San Luis Valley exactly matched one previously found in Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. The mutation, 185delAG, is a variant of a gene called BRCA1. When normal and healthy, BRCA1 helps to protect breast and ovarian cells from cancer. An extremely long gene, it has thousands of DNA letters, each corresponding to one of four chemical compounds that make up the genetic code and run down either strand of the DNA double helix; a “misspelling”—a mutation—can occur at virtually any letter.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-secret-jews-of-san-luis-valley-11765512/