Lost Gold of WW2 (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 4 - A Bone to Pick - full transcript
...the "Lost Gold
of World War II..."
‐ Keep going till you can't.
‐ I've run into bedrock.
I can't dig any deeper.
‐ I want to see the target.
‐ What about a horizontal drill?
‐ It's the best bet
we've got right now.
‐ You guys might want
to come look at this.
‐ Looks like charcoal.
‐ We need to take another look
at these tapes
we've got from Bob Curtis.
‐ Charcoal at 10 feet.
We got charcoal at 10 feet.
‐ We did write about a fellow
by the name of Chuck McDougald.
He's probably the only
living expert right now.
If you can find him,
I'm sure he can help you.
‐ Keep it coming!
‐ John Casey and Rick Hurt
are back in the Philippines
with a new team,
continuing their search
for Yamashita's gold.
‐ We're gonna find a way
to get to this treasure.
‐ Like many others,
John believes
Japanese general
Tomoyuki Yamashita
took billions of dollars
in treasure
looted by Japan
during World War II,
and buried it
in the Philippines,
including somewhere
in this mountain.
Following a series
of mysterious symbols
they believe were left
by Yamashita,
the team is investigating
three sites
a waterfall...
This waterfall
is hiding something.
‐ ...a crater
known as Breach 6...
‐ I've never seen
anything like this.
‐ ...and a camouflaged tunnel
they uncovered last year.
‐ We are in the mountain, boys!
‐ Can they finally
discover the...
As a new day dawns
on the mountain...
the team adds another machine
they hope will finally
get them into the waterfall
a horizontal drill.
‐ This horizontal drill
may be our best bet
to send the camera
all the way down there
and see inside this mountain.
‐ They are determined
to reach metal deposits
that could be treasure
in a void space
beneath the waterfall.
‐ We think we've got
either a tunnel,
or some type of void space,
and it's quite deep. ‐ Wow.
‐ It's like about 300 feet down.
‐ Wow.
‐ After a frustrating setback...
‐ I've run into bedrock.
I can't dig any deeper.
...the plan is to drill 930 feet
horizontally
through the mountain
and an altitude of 300 feet
below the waterfall
so they can feed in
a borehole camera.
But drill operator Andrew
is having a tough time
getting the machine
to the new site.
Andrew is navigating
this 4‐ton rig
up 3 miles of muddy,
steep terrain.
‐ The road is absolute crap.
Every day we're losing
time and money.
It's a long shot,
but were gonna take it.
It's the only shot we got.
‐ Over at the tunnel site...
miners Levi and Geo
venture further
into this underground mystery.
‐ Watch yourself.
‐ The tunnels already revealed
evidence of both American...
‐ This is, without a doubt,
an American knife.
‐ ...and Japanese presence.
‐ It's a Japanese A3 land mine.
‐ Though they're anxious
to explore what lies ahead,
they're moving cautiously.
‐ We've used metal detectors.
We've used dogs.
We're putting everything
in our corner that we can
to make this
as safe as possible.
But the Imperial Army was smart.
There's different techniques
they used
to booby trap these mines,
so we have to be careful
when we go in there.
Holy.
‐ Oh man, we got a
we got a major, major cave‐in.
Hey, Levi!
You gotta come check this out.
Look at this mess.
‐ Wow! It looks like
the whole world come in.
You get so many different things
that can cause a collapse
like this.
Somebody could've tried
to blast it shut.
There could've been a booby
trap that was set off.
It could've just been erosion,
the earth gave out.
There can be
multiple different reasons.
When you come
to the collapse like this,
there's times that you go
through these things,
and there's times
to go around them.
The big thing is,
is we're not gonna know
until I can climb up
on top of this
and try to poke a hole in there
and see over the top of it
and see how long it goes.
This is a mess.
‐ In the U. S.,
head researcher Bingo Minerva
is chasing down
a promising lead.
‐ I'm in San Francisco today,
on my way to meet
Chuck McDougald.
Now, this is huge for us
because we have not found
any other person
that is still alive today
that knows Robert Curtis.
And he might even have
some maps that
that are related
to our mountain.
‐ While meeting with
Las Vegas Sun editor‐in‐chief
Brian Greenspun,
Bingo asked about other
American treasure hunters
connected to Robert Curtis.
The newspaper chronicled
a 1988 treasure expedition
led by Robert Curtis
in the Philippines.
Chuck McDougald was with him.
‐ I mean, Chuck could really
be the missing link
that helps us find the gold.
‐ Good morning. ‐ Morning, sir.
‐ You must be Bingo.
‐ Chuck,
pleasure to finally meet you.
‐ Same here. Please come in.
‐ Thank you, sir.
So, Chuck, I'm really excited
to be able
to just pick your brain.
And really,
I just was wondering,
how did you even get
your start in the Philippines?
What brought you there?
‐ I moved there
from Hong Kong in 1972.
I wound up staying there
10 years
and going to school
and getting my PhD
at University
of the Philippines.
While I was working
on my doctoral dissertation
it was about corruption
in the Philippines.
This was during the Marcos era.
‐ Ferdinand Marcos ruled
the Philippines
from 1965 to 1986.
He allegedly killed
a thousand of his own citizens
and stole over 5 billion
from the National Treasury.
But Marcos's reign of brutality
reached a tipping point
with the assassination
of political rival
Benigno Aquino in 1983.
What's that?
‐ Senator Aquino was
assassinated
on the tarmac at Manila Airport,
and we all knew
what that meant
that Marcos did it.
‐ Although it was never proven,
many believe
that Marcos gave the order
for the assassination.
‐ I started keeping a file
on Marcos
about the corruption.
‐ McDougald shared his file
with one of his professors,
Dr. Emanuel Soriano.
‐ Dr. Soriano was chancellor at
University of the Philippines,
and he was part of a group
that helped overthrow Marcos,
and they encouraged me
to write the Marcos file
showing what he had done
to the country.
‐ After he was ousted
from power,
Marcos was replaced
by Benigno's wife,
Corazon Aquino.
While McDougald was
documenting evidence
of Marcos corruption,
he came across the name
of someone hired
by the former leader
to locate
the Golden Lily treasure
Robert Curtis.
‐ And the next thing I know,
I'm calling Curtis and going
to Las Vegas to talk to him.
‐ Wow.
‐ I talked to him for two days,
and Curtis said, "All I want is
to go back to the Philippines
and resume looking
for the treasure."
Curtis kept claiming
he had the maps.
That sounded
like it might be real.
It might be interesting.
‐ A bit more tangible, yeah.
‐ So for
for that reason alone,
I said, "Let's just take
a look at it."
‐ With Curtis's knowledge
and McDougald's connections,
the two struck a deal
to find the lost fortune.
‐ I flew back to the Philippines
and saw Dr. Soriano,
who had been appointed
National Security Director,
and I said, "I think I've got
some information for you here
you might be interested in."
He called the president, Aquino,
and said, "Ma'am,
we need to give Curtis
a permit to hunt
for the treasure,"
and they did.
And we began searching for gold
in Fort Santiago
on February 8, 1988.
‐ For over four centuries,
Fort Santiago in the Philippines
was a stronghold for Spanish,
British, and American armies.
The Japanese seized it in 1941
and possibly used it
as a treasure site.
According to Curtis's research,
the labyrinth
of tunnels and dungeons
running under Fort Santiago
holds portions
of General Yamashita's fortune.
‐ We have photographs of maps.
We have engineering drawings,
other photographic evidence
to determine, uh, the location,
the exact location.
‐ Was there any point where you
actually found any treasure?
‐ Yeah.
During the dig at Fort Santiago,
at the 40‐meter level,
we encountered marble
and gold flecks on our drill,
on our drill bit.
Flecks of gold and marble.
It was already in the maps
that they built
the marble fortifications
before bringing in the treasure.
‐ I mean, that's incredible.
I mean, that in itself
isis huge.
Not only are you getting marble
and gold in the same spot,
I mean, what more evidence
do you need?
‐ Yep.
‐ Why'd you stop there?
Because the president said
that, uh,
we had to leave the fort.
All of a sudden,
the head of the construction
company comes to me,
and he says, "Charlie,
we've been ordered
to shut down."
‐ In San Francisco,
Chuck McDougald
recalls the abrupt end
of his treasure hunt
in the Philippines.
‐ All of a sudden,
the head of the construction
company comes to me,
and he says, "Charlie,
we've been ordered
to shut down."
Because the president said
that, uh,
we had to leave the fort.
That came out of the blue,
shocked everybody.
But we couldn't do anything
but pack up and leave.
‐ Um, do you have any theories
as to why Aquino would, again,
seemingly out of nowhere,
just stop you in your tracks
from digging at Fort Santiago?
‐ Well, at the time,
she was under enormous
political pressure.
We surmised
that there were senators
more powerful
than we ever would be
that went to President Aquino
and said,
"These people have to go."
And after we were gone,
they would go back in there
and recover the treasure
for themselves.
‐ I mean,
if it's really the senators
having enough power
to shut the president down,
to stop you
from your excavation,
I mean, really,
how far does it go?
‐ The closer you get
to the treasure,
the more careful you have to be.
There are people
that are gonna secretly
observe everything you do,
and if and when they think
you've found a treasure,
theythey might step in
and, uh,
either steal it from you
or just kill you
right then and there.
‐ I mean, that's
a very good indication
that you're on
the right path, then.
‐ Yeah.
‐ Is there a possibility that
Do you have any actual maps
during the time you were
searching for treasure
in the Philippines?
‐ During the dig,
Dr. Soriano was called
to the palace
and returned with a file
holding about 30 or 40
original maps of the treasure
found in Marcos's office.
I had two originals
that I retained,
and I photocopied 24 more.
‐ I'd love to look at the maps.
There's never been
any tangible evidence
ofof any kind of maps
that were real,
and the fact that you've gotten
these from Marcos's office
I mean, in this whole story,
he's the only one
thatthat I'm aware of,
at least,
that has actually cashed out
and found some gold.
Do you still have the maps?
‐ Yes, I do.
‐ Meanwhile,
back in the Philippines,
the team continues
excavating Breach 6,
based on a promising find...
‐ Looks like charcoal.
‐ ...and the Curtis tapes.
‐ Charcoal at 10 feet.
We got charcoal at 10 feet.
‐ ...Rick checks the area
for other materials
that could indicate
they're heading towards
the metal deposit
revealed by the tech scans.
‐ I want to keep doing this
as we work our way down...
to find something.
To begin with,
when we started this shaft,
we lined it up on top
of a ferrous metal line
that we were picking up
all across this whole ridge.
We're down in the ground
a long ways at this point.
We're gonna be scanning
the dirt outside of the hole.
We've got something
going on here.
Yeah, that's a definite hit.
Whatohohthere it is.
What the heck is that?
I can't say for sure
what this is.
That is surprisingly
well intact,
but it's underneath
an awful lot of dirt.
Hey, Brent, Farrell,
I found something.
‐ What you got, man?
‐ Take a look at this, man.
I found it metal detecting
that last bucket
that came up out of there.
‐ That's a pretty old piece
of equipment, whatever it is.
‐ Yeah, yeah. It really is.
‐ You know what it looks like?
It looks like the bands
on our fin hoes,
like off a tool,
like a band around the handle
of a tool or something, too.
‐ Oh, yeah.
‐ Well, there's a possibility.
That looks like a magazine
off a rifle.
I've had enough dealing
with firearms in my lifetime.
I know what a magazine
looks like,
the part that slides up
underneath
either to hold a clip
or to pop shells down in.
I really do need to have
somebody look at this
that knows more about it
than I do.
‐ While Rick awaits answers
to what this is
and who it belonged to...
miners Levi and Geo
are clearing out
the collapsed tunnel.
‐ What is that?
‐ That ain't no rock dude.
Whoa, dude, what is that?
There's another one.
What is that?
‐ Is that a tooth?
I don't know what
or who these belong to,
but at this point
we're pulling out.
We're gonna get John down here
and have him take a look
and see what he thinks.
Check this out. ‐ Ooh.
‐ There's more in there too,
John.
‐ Yeah, it's right
at the edge of a collapse.
Let's grab our stuff.
I'll take you in there
and show you
where we found it at.
‐ Oh, man.
‐ I found that tooth
right in here.
I didn't even notice
these before.
There's more teeth.
We dug these out.
I don't know if those
belong to a shoulder blade
or a rib or what that is.
Do you think it could
possibly be a human?
‐ Oh, my God, I hope not.
Well, you know,
the Japanese were notorious
for leaving their engineers
and all the slaves
inside the tunnel.
I'm hoping this isn't that.
‐ Once you find bones like this,
we've got to get it checked out.
We can't do anything else
in here until then.
Let's get somebody out here,
check this out
and make sure it's
not a human, let's pray.
This is aThis is a problem.
You know, right now
we're shut down
till we can figure out
what this is.
Gotta get a specialist out here
and find out
what these bones are about.
Not knowing if these are human,
it's only right
to shut down this location
until we figure out exactly
what these bones are.
So yeah, no more digging.
‐ That works for me.
I don't want
to dig up no gravesite.
In San Francisco,
Bingo is meeting
with Chuck McDougald,
who claims to have maps
to Yamashita treasure sites.
‐ Do you have the maps here
that I can look at?
I mean, I'dI'd love
to look at the maps.
‐ Come with me.
Well, this is everything I have.
‐ Is this all your research
from your whole time
spent in the Philippines?
‐ Yes.
They've been sitting
in the attic for 25 years.
Ah, here
‐ Let me help you with this.
‐ Okay.
‐ Just here? ‐ Uh, yeah.
This contains the maps
that were given to me
in the Philippines.
‐ Wow.
Are these the original
maps here?
‐ Those two are
the original maps.
‐ These are incredible.
I've never seen
anything like this
in any of my research. ‐ Yeah.
This is rice paper waxed over.
‐ It has a wax feel
to them, yes.
‐ Yeah.
‐ Let's see,
what else do we have?
‐ This is Camp McKinley,
now called Fort Bonifacio.
This is a circle driveway
in Camp McKinley.
In the center is a shaft.
There are 14 tunnels
that lead to treasure
buried by the Japanese.
I think Marcos recovered this.
‐ If Marcos did in fact extract
treasure from this site,
I mean, that's very valid proof
that a number of these maps
could potentially be
actual treasure sites.
‐ Correct.
‐ What is the value here
that's listed at the bottom
of these maps?
‐ That's the value of the map
in the 1940s.
‐ So of each site,
that's how much is potentially
buried in that spot.
‐ Yes.
‐ I mean,
that's nine zeros there.
So 555 billion yen,
roughly $5 billion U. S.
At the time.
‐ Yes.
‐ That's astronomical.
We're literally holding
pieces of history right here.
So why didn't you go back to
the Philippines
to try and recover any of these?
‐ Well, I tried,
but they asked me to leave,
and I didn't think I was
welcome back there anymore.
‐ Maybe, if you were open to it,
I mean, we can have this
authenticated by some experts
and figure out
the authenticity of it,
seeing if these are in fact
of the time period, of the era.
Would you be open
to something like that?
‐ Absolutely.
‐ Back in the Philippines,
the horizontal drill
is still fighting its way
up the mountain.
‐ Not looking too good.
‐ It looks like we had some
pretty deep mud again
from some more rains.
‐ Who do we have
on excavator right now?
‐ I think Michele's over there
running right now.
I can probably
get her over here.
Do you want me to try? ‐ Yeah.
‐ Michele tries using
the excavator
to life the drill
out of the mud.
‐ Got the strap there?
‐ Yeah, we have it.
‐ The shackles?
‐ It's just critical right now
that we get this there.
John is anxious. I'm anxious.
We want to see if we can
punch into this cavity,
and if we can get a camera
and see this treasure.
We have to do this.
‐ Whoo‐hoo!
You're out, guys, you're out.
‐ At basecamp...
‐ Hey, Rick, how are you?
‐ ...Rick checks in
with military expert
Craig Gottlieb
about the mysterious
metal artifact
he discovered at Breach 6.
‐ Well, I am really excited
to see what you think.
‐ Well, it's part of a rifle.
What you've got is
the magazine body
of a Japanese Type 99
Arisaka rifle.
‐ Wow, man, that's awesome.
The Type 99 Arisaka rifle
was one of the premier
combat weapons
of the Japanese Imperial Army,
built to the same
rugged standards
of America's M1 Garand
and Germany's Carabiner 98.
‐ So this is
a later‐in‐the‐war rifle.
Uh, they started
producing them in 1941,
and they produced them
on through 1945.
‐ The Arisaka Type 99
was considered
one of the strongest
military rifles ever made.
‐ So it is Japanese,
and it was used during
the Second World War.
‐ Absolutely.
I am a gun collector.
I happen to have one right here.
I want to show it to you
because I want to show you
where your part goes.
Here is my Type 99 Japanese
Arisaka rifle,
and I'm gonna actually take
the bolt off
comes out
and here's what you've got.
If you look inside the rifle,
you have that follower
in there, okay?
Which is where you
you load your cartridges, okay?
But, if you look
on the bottom here,
you've got a little plate.
And if you pull
this little lever here,
the bottom plate rotates out,
and it's sort of hard to see,
but if you look down
in this well here,
you'll see your part.
Your part is part of the rifle,
and it doesn't just come out.
And what's really interesting
is that you only found
this piece.
The question is, how did it
get outside the rifle?
'Cause, as I said before,
it's not something you drop
when you're out of ammo.
‐ Does it come out at all,
or does the rifle have to be
broken for it to come out?
‐ It either has to be
broken or disassembled.
This part does not come out,
and that's why I say
it's not part of a magazine.
It's part of the rifle itself,
and it's inside the rifle.
‐ Uh, it's getting
kind of exciting
when you start finding
Japanese rifle parts
in the bottom of your shaft
and you're looking
for Japanese buried treasure.
‐ It tells you more
than the knife you found
tells you, in my opinion.
I don't think a civilian
carried a rifle like this
into your breach and dropped it,
like may have happened
with the knife.
I really think that this part
was dropped there
sometime prior to 1945.
‐ So what we do know
for a fact now
is somebody
with a Japanese rifle,
probably a Japanese soldier,
was in Breach 6.
That tells me
we're getting really close.
‐ As the sun rises
over basecamp,
a local scientist arrives
to investigate
a macabre discovery
the team uncovered
deep inside the tunnel.
‐ Morning, sir. John Casey.
‐ Hi, good morning. I'm Phillip.
‐ While clearing out
debris from a collapse,
miners Levi and Geo found
bones and teeth.
If they are human,
the team must stop
exploring here
and call in local authorities.
‐ John called me
to help him out
identify the bones
that he found
inside the mine tunnel.
In my line of work,
I've done several identification
of bone fragments.
I've worked with
describing new species
based on bone morphology
for several years now.
Wow.
I'm here to figure out
if the bones that were found
in the tunnel would be human.
‐ Right here.
There are some teeth.
‐ Oh, okay, so we have here...
Oh, I see some molars.
‐ You can see, we got
some bone fragments here.
‐ Oh. Wow. Huh.
Yeah, so one of
the vertebral column.
Probably along the lumbar area.
‐ Mm‐hmm.
‐ Uh, this one...
not entirely sure.
Well, at this point now,
it's pretty difficult to tell
what kind of bone is it.
‐ You don't think
they're possibly human bones.
‐ I have no idea,
pending tests.
‐ Anything that you can do
to test this
and let us know definitively
is gonna be major
to us doing any other work
in this tunnel.
‐ Uh, well, first I'm gonna do
is take photographs at the site.
I just found nine different
bone fragments in there
and surprisingly
in fairly good condition.
I found several
pieces of vertebrae,
different parts of a scapula,
or your shoulder blades,
and I found
three pieces of teeth.
We're gonna get
these bones tested.
The tunnel is now shut down
until further notice.
‐ Later that day,
Bingo updates John and Rick
about his meeting
with treasure hunter
Chuck McDougald,
who holds what could be
game‐changing treasure maps
he obtained in the Philippines.
‐ I got some incredible
news for you.
I just found Chuck.
He's in San Francisco.
Chuck McDougald has
20‐some‐odd
Yamashita treasure maps.
Wow.
‐ Two of the maps
were originals.
‐ Did he say
where he got these things?
‐ He got them from Dr. Soriano,
who was the chancellor
of the University
of the Philippines at the time.
He got them out
of President Marcos's office.
So me and Chuck,
we brought these
to be authenticated
to Gerry LaPorte,
who's a forensic chemist
and document dating specialist.
We wanted to see if we could
anything about the origin
or even the validity of the map.
We did a number of tests.
Some of them,
they were ink impression,
the medium used,
even the ink itself.
The conclusion we came to
is that the creation
of this document,
um, and the technology
used to create it
is from the 1970s.
Not an original,
but likely a copy
that was used in the field.
‐ Totally makes sense
that it's a copy.
I wouldn't want to take the
original map into the field,
even if we had it.
‐ Have you got the thing
in your hands?
‐ You know, unfortunately,
he wouldn't let any of them
out of his sight.
What are you guys thinking?
Should we try and set up
a partnership with Chuck
so we can get access
to the maps?
‐ If these are real maps
and there's a real map
of our mountain,
it could be the thing
that cracks this mountain
wide open.
‐ Let's figure out
what he needs,
make sure that it's reasonable,
but let's do a deal.
‐ Sounds good, gentlemen.
I'll get it set up.
I'm gonna get in touch
with Chuck.
As soon as I make
any headway with that,
I'll let you know.
That evening,
John checks on the progress
of the horizontal drill.
‐ I don't know
if he's gonna make it.
‐ I think he will.
‐ It's pretty steep.
‐ He gets further every time.
I think he should keep trying.
‐ So close.
‐ You just about had it.
‐ Man, you were
you were getting so close.
You know, as soon as you got
the slop out of the way
and got some purchase,
she was coming.
‐ Yeah.
‐ And once you hit
the slop again,
it was just back down.
‐ That rain didn't help.
‐ With the rig stuck fast,
the team calls in
the excavator to help.
‐ Hey, Michelle, you got a copy?
‐ Using a heavy‐duty
cargo strap,
Michele lifts the back end
of the drill
with the excavator bucket,
hoping to nudge it up the road.
‐ It's gonna make it.
‐ Broke the strap.
‐ Cheers, mate.
Ohh!
It keeps sliding.
‐ Yeah, it keeps sliding
sideways,
so we just can't get
enough purchase there.
We'll, uh, we'll get Michele
to plant the bucket
behind the machine.
It can't go nowhere.
It can'tBoth machines
don't go nowhere tonight.
Pick this up at daylight.
This is getting
too dangerous for us
to do anything here
in this slop.
Fair enough?
‐ All right. ‐ Cool. Thanks.
All right, 'chele,
we're gonna put the bucket
to brace the drill
and make sure it can't go
anywhere for the night,
and we're gonna call it quits
and come back when we can see.
I gotta tell you,
I don't know
if it's gonna be worth it.
It's such a long shot
to get this drill
to this target to begin with.
We're going through all this
aggravation and danger
possibly for nothing.
‐ You know, I can't think
of any other way
to get to that waterfall.
You know what? We're all tired.
We're all discouraged,
I'm discouraged.
Tomorrow's another day.
Tomorrow.
‐ All right, good deal.
Thanks, guys.
The only way to keep
the morale up on the team
is just, you know, tell them,
we're gonna persevere,
and don't let this stop you.
I don't let anything stop me.
No people, no mountain,
no rain is going to stop me.
Once my mind is set
on something,
I'm going to do it.
I don't care what it takes.
‐ As morning arrives,
Rob assesses
how to get the drill rig
over the final incline.
‐ Well, this whole situation
is dangerous in general.
We have several tons
of machinery
that we have humans
standing in between.
Just about anything
can go wrong,
and if it does, it would be
catastrophically wrong.
I don't think there's
a whole lot of margin
for just a couple of bumps
and scrapes here.
‐ Okay, Michele,
that should be okay.
Just back it out
from there, please.
‐ So the plan is to have Michele
move the excavator
out of the way,
and Andrew's gonna get
on the drill rig
and back it down
somewhere stable
while we clean up the path
and get it to be something
that he could drive over
and get it to this drill pad.
‐ The plan is
to clear away the mud,
then lay down a mixture of sand
and fine gravel on top
for the rig to gain traction.
‐ It's gonna be tough.
‐ Later, at basecamp,
Levi, Geo, and John
eagerly await the results
from the local scientists'
bone analysis.
If the remains are human,
the tunnel will be shut down
as local officials investigate.
‐ Hey, Phillip. So I'm hoping
that you have some news for us.
‐ Oh. Good to hear, man.
‐ Thank God.
What are they from, though?
‐ Towards the end
of World War II,
as Japanese rations grew scarce,
the Imperial Army slaughtered
nearly 2 million
Philippine livestock
to feed their starving troops.
‐ Based on those samples,
is it possible to know
how old those bones are?
So it could date
from the time of the war.
‐ You know,
this is great news for us
because now that the bones
have been deemed nonhuman,
they can continue
working in the tunnel.
‐ Back in San Francisco,
Bingo negotiates
a partnership with Chuck
that includes
access to his maps.
‐ Personally,
based on what I've seen,
I believe a lot
of these maps are real,
and I really think
that there is something here
that could help us
on our search.
‐ They're the most sophisticated
maps of treasure
I have ever encountered.
So many codes, so many symbols,
but I never expected
to be back in this business.
‐ I mean, really,
at the end of the day,
we need access to these maps.
You know, I think, between
just the two of us alone
and my team in the Philippines,
I think we have
a winning formula here.
We have what it takes
to get this treasure.
And, I mean, to that end,
what's it gonna take
to get you on board?
‐ I don't think it's an accident
that, uh, we stumbled
on each other...
after my stuff being
hidden away in the attic
for 25 years.
I think
if these maps are used
to successfully conclude
a treasure hunt,
if treasure is found...
‐ Mm‐hmm.
‐ ...then, uh,
I would share in that.
I'm not trying to be greedy.
1% of the gross proceeds
would be enough.
‐ If that's what it takes,
then let's do it.
Getting these maps
is huge for us.
If one of these maps
is of our mountain,
then that takes the guesswork
out of a lot
of what we've been doing.
I mean, the guys are gonna
be excited as hell
to see this stuff.
‐ In the Philippines,
it's all hands on deck
to help the horizontal drill
get over the final incline.
‐ He digs more, twice as fast
as everybody else.
‐ Well, you guys told me
to come down here, man.
‐ We got a job to do.
‐ After the loose mud
is shoveled away,
Michele brings in nearly
1 ton of sand and gravel bags
for the team to lay down
by hand.
‐ This is our best shot
at getting to this gold.
‐ Give me one more.
‐ If this fails,
I really don't know
how we're going to get there.
We know the target's there.
Now we just gotta get to it.
Pray. We got another
maybe half an hour
before thunderstorms
roll through here.
If that sky opens up right now
and was starting to pour,
we'd lose all the work
we just put into this.
‐ Frickin' madman.
If I carried two,
I'd frickin' be on my knees.
Come on, Levi,
don't do too much.
I need you in one piece.
‐ Ultimately, we have to
start drilling here.
This is our best shot
at seeing what's underneath
that waterfall.
This isn't good.
It's coming, boys.
Come on, baby!
Come on, come on!
Look out, Steve!
‐ Yeah! ‐ All right! Yo!
Yeah!
‐ Whoo‐hoo! ‐ Yay!
‐ Whoo‐hoo!
‐ Yeah!
‐ Andrew, you're the man.
Yeah. Whoo‐hoo! ‐ Yo, Andrew!
Today is one small victory,
but getting the drill here
probably should've been
the easy part.
Drilling and hitting our target,
I guess that's yet to be seen.
‐ They're finally ready
to start drilling
through 930 feet of hard rock
to see what lies
beneath the waterfall.
‐ Now it's time
to aim this drill,
and that is critical.
I mean, 930 feet
is a really long way to go,
so all we can really do
is aim it our best
from the get‐go.
We want to go
as straight as an arrow
and go right into this void.
‐ It's gotta be right.
‐ Let's pray that it gets there
and it doesn't stray too far.
‐ Here we go, John! Here we go!
It's hard to believe
we're at this point.
It's gotta make it.
‐ Hopefully we can get
drilled into it,
we can get a camera
in this void space,
and actually have a look
at what's inside this mountain.
‐ On the next
"Lost Gold of World War II"...
‐ Helicopter coming in.
There's no reason
for that helicopter
to be circling around here.
We're the only people
on this mountain.
‐ What you got, Rick?
‐ Well, I got some timber,
I think.
‐ That sounds hollow to me.
‐ Ooh, ooh, it's hollow.
‐ Moment of truth.
Are you ready?
‐ I'm way ready.
See what this thing can do!
‐ What is that?
‐ That looks like a huge space.
‐ Oh my God.
Subtitled by Diego Moraes
www.oakisland.tk
of World War II..."
‐ Keep going till you can't.
‐ I've run into bedrock.
I can't dig any deeper.
‐ I want to see the target.
‐ What about a horizontal drill?
‐ It's the best bet
we've got right now.
‐ You guys might want
to come look at this.
‐ Looks like charcoal.
‐ We need to take another look
at these tapes
we've got from Bob Curtis.
‐ Charcoal at 10 feet.
We got charcoal at 10 feet.
‐ We did write about a fellow
by the name of Chuck McDougald.
He's probably the only
living expert right now.
If you can find him,
I'm sure he can help you.
‐ Keep it coming!
‐ John Casey and Rick Hurt
are back in the Philippines
with a new team,
continuing their search
for Yamashita's gold.
‐ We're gonna find a way
to get to this treasure.
‐ Like many others,
John believes
Japanese general
Tomoyuki Yamashita
took billions of dollars
in treasure
looted by Japan
during World War II,
and buried it
in the Philippines,
including somewhere
in this mountain.
Following a series
of mysterious symbols
they believe were left
by Yamashita,
the team is investigating
three sites
a waterfall...
This waterfall
is hiding something.
‐ ...a crater
known as Breach 6...
‐ I've never seen
anything like this.
‐ ...and a camouflaged tunnel
they uncovered last year.
‐ We are in the mountain, boys!
‐ Can they finally
discover the...
As a new day dawns
on the mountain...
the team adds another machine
they hope will finally
get them into the waterfall
a horizontal drill.
‐ This horizontal drill
may be our best bet
to send the camera
all the way down there
and see inside this mountain.
‐ They are determined
to reach metal deposits
that could be treasure
in a void space
beneath the waterfall.
‐ We think we've got
either a tunnel,
or some type of void space,
and it's quite deep. ‐ Wow.
‐ It's like about 300 feet down.
‐ Wow.
‐ After a frustrating setback...
‐ I've run into bedrock.
I can't dig any deeper.
...the plan is to drill 930 feet
horizontally
through the mountain
and an altitude of 300 feet
below the waterfall
so they can feed in
a borehole camera.
But drill operator Andrew
is having a tough time
getting the machine
to the new site.
Andrew is navigating
this 4‐ton rig
up 3 miles of muddy,
steep terrain.
‐ The road is absolute crap.
Every day we're losing
time and money.
It's a long shot,
but were gonna take it.
It's the only shot we got.
‐ Over at the tunnel site...
miners Levi and Geo
venture further
into this underground mystery.
‐ Watch yourself.
‐ The tunnels already revealed
evidence of both American...
‐ This is, without a doubt,
an American knife.
‐ ...and Japanese presence.
‐ It's a Japanese A3 land mine.
‐ Though they're anxious
to explore what lies ahead,
they're moving cautiously.
‐ We've used metal detectors.
We've used dogs.
We're putting everything
in our corner that we can
to make this
as safe as possible.
But the Imperial Army was smart.
There's different techniques
they used
to booby trap these mines,
so we have to be careful
when we go in there.
Holy.
‐ Oh man, we got a
we got a major, major cave‐in.
Hey, Levi!
You gotta come check this out.
Look at this mess.
‐ Wow! It looks like
the whole world come in.
You get so many different things
that can cause a collapse
like this.
Somebody could've tried
to blast it shut.
There could've been a booby
trap that was set off.
It could've just been erosion,
the earth gave out.
There can be
multiple different reasons.
When you come
to the collapse like this,
there's times that you go
through these things,
and there's times
to go around them.
The big thing is,
is we're not gonna know
until I can climb up
on top of this
and try to poke a hole in there
and see over the top of it
and see how long it goes.
This is a mess.
‐ In the U. S.,
head researcher Bingo Minerva
is chasing down
a promising lead.
‐ I'm in San Francisco today,
on my way to meet
Chuck McDougald.
Now, this is huge for us
because we have not found
any other person
that is still alive today
that knows Robert Curtis.
And he might even have
some maps that
that are related
to our mountain.
‐ While meeting with
Las Vegas Sun editor‐in‐chief
Brian Greenspun,
Bingo asked about other
American treasure hunters
connected to Robert Curtis.
The newspaper chronicled
a 1988 treasure expedition
led by Robert Curtis
in the Philippines.
Chuck McDougald was with him.
‐ I mean, Chuck could really
be the missing link
that helps us find the gold.
‐ Good morning. ‐ Morning, sir.
‐ You must be Bingo.
‐ Chuck,
pleasure to finally meet you.
‐ Same here. Please come in.
‐ Thank you, sir.
So, Chuck, I'm really excited
to be able
to just pick your brain.
And really,
I just was wondering,
how did you even get
your start in the Philippines?
What brought you there?
‐ I moved there
from Hong Kong in 1972.
I wound up staying there
10 years
and going to school
and getting my PhD
at University
of the Philippines.
While I was working
on my doctoral dissertation
it was about corruption
in the Philippines.
This was during the Marcos era.
‐ Ferdinand Marcos ruled
the Philippines
from 1965 to 1986.
He allegedly killed
a thousand of his own citizens
and stole over 5 billion
from the National Treasury.
But Marcos's reign of brutality
reached a tipping point
with the assassination
of political rival
Benigno Aquino in 1983.
What's that?
‐ Senator Aquino was
assassinated
on the tarmac at Manila Airport,
and we all knew
what that meant
that Marcos did it.
‐ Although it was never proven,
many believe
that Marcos gave the order
for the assassination.
‐ I started keeping a file
on Marcos
about the corruption.
‐ McDougald shared his file
with one of his professors,
Dr. Emanuel Soriano.
‐ Dr. Soriano was chancellor at
University of the Philippines,
and he was part of a group
that helped overthrow Marcos,
and they encouraged me
to write the Marcos file
showing what he had done
to the country.
‐ After he was ousted
from power,
Marcos was replaced
by Benigno's wife,
Corazon Aquino.
While McDougald was
documenting evidence
of Marcos corruption,
he came across the name
of someone hired
by the former leader
to locate
the Golden Lily treasure
Robert Curtis.
‐ And the next thing I know,
I'm calling Curtis and going
to Las Vegas to talk to him.
‐ Wow.
‐ I talked to him for two days,
and Curtis said, "All I want is
to go back to the Philippines
and resume looking
for the treasure."
Curtis kept claiming
he had the maps.
That sounded
like it might be real.
It might be interesting.
‐ A bit more tangible, yeah.
‐ So for
for that reason alone,
I said, "Let's just take
a look at it."
‐ With Curtis's knowledge
and McDougald's connections,
the two struck a deal
to find the lost fortune.
‐ I flew back to the Philippines
and saw Dr. Soriano,
who had been appointed
National Security Director,
and I said, "I think I've got
some information for you here
you might be interested in."
He called the president, Aquino,
and said, "Ma'am,
we need to give Curtis
a permit to hunt
for the treasure,"
and they did.
And we began searching for gold
in Fort Santiago
on February 8, 1988.
‐ For over four centuries,
Fort Santiago in the Philippines
was a stronghold for Spanish,
British, and American armies.
The Japanese seized it in 1941
and possibly used it
as a treasure site.
According to Curtis's research,
the labyrinth
of tunnels and dungeons
running under Fort Santiago
holds portions
of General Yamashita's fortune.
‐ We have photographs of maps.
We have engineering drawings,
other photographic evidence
to determine, uh, the location,
the exact location.
‐ Was there any point where you
actually found any treasure?
‐ Yeah.
During the dig at Fort Santiago,
at the 40‐meter level,
we encountered marble
and gold flecks on our drill,
on our drill bit.
Flecks of gold and marble.
It was already in the maps
that they built
the marble fortifications
before bringing in the treasure.
‐ I mean, that's incredible.
I mean, that in itself
isis huge.
Not only are you getting marble
and gold in the same spot,
I mean, what more evidence
do you need?
‐ Yep.
‐ Why'd you stop there?
Because the president said
that, uh,
we had to leave the fort.
All of a sudden,
the head of the construction
company comes to me,
and he says, "Charlie,
we've been ordered
to shut down."
‐ In San Francisco,
Chuck McDougald
recalls the abrupt end
of his treasure hunt
in the Philippines.
‐ All of a sudden,
the head of the construction
company comes to me,
and he says, "Charlie,
we've been ordered
to shut down."
Because the president said
that, uh,
we had to leave the fort.
That came out of the blue,
shocked everybody.
But we couldn't do anything
but pack up and leave.
‐ Um, do you have any theories
as to why Aquino would, again,
seemingly out of nowhere,
just stop you in your tracks
from digging at Fort Santiago?
‐ Well, at the time,
she was under enormous
political pressure.
We surmised
that there were senators
more powerful
than we ever would be
that went to President Aquino
and said,
"These people have to go."
And after we were gone,
they would go back in there
and recover the treasure
for themselves.
‐ I mean,
if it's really the senators
having enough power
to shut the president down,
to stop you
from your excavation,
I mean, really,
how far does it go?
‐ The closer you get
to the treasure,
the more careful you have to be.
There are people
that are gonna secretly
observe everything you do,
and if and when they think
you've found a treasure,
theythey might step in
and, uh,
either steal it from you
or just kill you
right then and there.
‐ I mean, that's
a very good indication
that you're on
the right path, then.
‐ Yeah.
‐ Is there a possibility that
Do you have any actual maps
during the time you were
searching for treasure
in the Philippines?
‐ During the dig,
Dr. Soriano was called
to the palace
and returned with a file
holding about 30 or 40
original maps of the treasure
found in Marcos's office.
I had two originals
that I retained,
and I photocopied 24 more.
‐ I'd love to look at the maps.
There's never been
any tangible evidence
ofof any kind of maps
that were real,
and the fact that you've gotten
these from Marcos's office
I mean, in this whole story,
he's the only one
thatthat I'm aware of,
at least,
that has actually cashed out
and found some gold.
Do you still have the maps?
‐ Yes, I do.
‐ Meanwhile,
back in the Philippines,
the team continues
excavating Breach 6,
based on a promising find...
‐ Looks like charcoal.
‐ ...and the Curtis tapes.
‐ Charcoal at 10 feet.
We got charcoal at 10 feet.
‐ ...Rick checks the area
for other materials
that could indicate
they're heading towards
the metal deposit
revealed by the tech scans.
‐ I want to keep doing this
as we work our way down...
to find something.
To begin with,
when we started this shaft,
we lined it up on top
of a ferrous metal line
that we were picking up
all across this whole ridge.
We're down in the ground
a long ways at this point.
We're gonna be scanning
the dirt outside of the hole.
We've got something
going on here.
Yeah, that's a definite hit.
Whatohohthere it is.
What the heck is that?
I can't say for sure
what this is.
That is surprisingly
well intact,
but it's underneath
an awful lot of dirt.
Hey, Brent, Farrell,
I found something.
‐ What you got, man?
‐ Take a look at this, man.
I found it metal detecting
that last bucket
that came up out of there.
‐ That's a pretty old piece
of equipment, whatever it is.
‐ Yeah, yeah. It really is.
‐ You know what it looks like?
It looks like the bands
on our fin hoes,
like off a tool,
like a band around the handle
of a tool or something, too.
‐ Oh, yeah.
‐ Well, there's a possibility.
That looks like a magazine
off a rifle.
I've had enough dealing
with firearms in my lifetime.
I know what a magazine
looks like,
the part that slides up
underneath
either to hold a clip
or to pop shells down in.
I really do need to have
somebody look at this
that knows more about it
than I do.
‐ While Rick awaits answers
to what this is
and who it belonged to...
miners Levi and Geo
are clearing out
the collapsed tunnel.
‐ What is that?
‐ That ain't no rock dude.
Whoa, dude, what is that?
There's another one.
What is that?
‐ Is that a tooth?
I don't know what
or who these belong to,
but at this point
we're pulling out.
We're gonna get John down here
and have him take a look
and see what he thinks.
Check this out. ‐ Ooh.
‐ There's more in there too,
John.
‐ Yeah, it's right
at the edge of a collapse.
Let's grab our stuff.
I'll take you in there
and show you
where we found it at.
‐ Oh, man.
‐ I found that tooth
right in here.
I didn't even notice
these before.
There's more teeth.
We dug these out.
I don't know if those
belong to a shoulder blade
or a rib or what that is.
Do you think it could
possibly be a human?
‐ Oh, my God, I hope not.
Well, you know,
the Japanese were notorious
for leaving their engineers
and all the slaves
inside the tunnel.
I'm hoping this isn't that.
‐ Once you find bones like this,
we've got to get it checked out.
We can't do anything else
in here until then.
Let's get somebody out here,
check this out
and make sure it's
not a human, let's pray.
This is aThis is a problem.
You know, right now
we're shut down
till we can figure out
what this is.
Gotta get a specialist out here
and find out
what these bones are about.
Not knowing if these are human,
it's only right
to shut down this location
until we figure out exactly
what these bones are.
So yeah, no more digging.
‐ That works for me.
I don't want
to dig up no gravesite.
In San Francisco,
Bingo is meeting
with Chuck McDougald,
who claims to have maps
to Yamashita treasure sites.
‐ Do you have the maps here
that I can look at?
I mean, I'dI'd love
to look at the maps.
‐ Come with me.
Well, this is everything I have.
‐ Is this all your research
from your whole time
spent in the Philippines?
‐ Yes.
They've been sitting
in the attic for 25 years.
Ah, here
‐ Let me help you with this.
‐ Okay.
‐ Just here? ‐ Uh, yeah.
This contains the maps
that were given to me
in the Philippines.
‐ Wow.
Are these the original
maps here?
‐ Those two are
the original maps.
‐ These are incredible.
I've never seen
anything like this
in any of my research. ‐ Yeah.
This is rice paper waxed over.
‐ It has a wax feel
to them, yes.
‐ Yeah.
‐ Let's see,
what else do we have?
‐ This is Camp McKinley,
now called Fort Bonifacio.
This is a circle driveway
in Camp McKinley.
In the center is a shaft.
There are 14 tunnels
that lead to treasure
buried by the Japanese.
I think Marcos recovered this.
‐ If Marcos did in fact extract
treasure from this site,
I mean, that's very valid proof
that a number of these maps
could potentially be
actual treasure sites.
‐ Correct.
‐ What is the value here
that's listed at the bottom
of these maps?
‐ That's the value of the map
in the 1940s.
‐ So of each site,
that's how much is potentially
buried in that spot.
‐ Yes.
‐ I mean,
that's nine zeros there.
So 555 billion yen,
roughly $5 billion U. S.
At the time.
‐ Yes.
‐ That's astronomical.
We're literally holding
pieces of history right here.
So why didn't you go back to
the Philippines
to try and recover any of these?
‐ Well, I tried,
but they asked me to leave,
and I didn't think I was
welcome back there anymore.
‐ Maybe, if you were open to it,
I mean, we can have this
authenticated by some experts
and figure out
the authenticity of it,
seeing if these are in fact
of the time period, of the era.
Would you be open
to something like that?
‐ Absolutely.
‐ Back in the Philippines,
the horizontal drill
is still fighting its way
up the mountain.
‐ Not looking too good.
‐ It looks like we had some
pretty deep mud again
from some more rains.
‐ Who do we have
on excavator right now?
‐ I think Michele's over there
running right now.
I can probably
get her over here.
Do you want me to try? ‐ Yeah.
‐ Michele tries using
the excavator
to life the drill
out of the mud.
‐ Got the strap there?
‐ Yeah, we have it.
‐ The shackles?
‐ It's just critical right now
that we get this there.
John is anxious. I'm anxious.
We want to see if we can
punch into this cavity,
and if we can get a camera
and see this treasure.
We have to do this.
‐ Whoo‐hoo!
You're out, guys, you're out.
‐ At basecamp...
‐ Hey, Rick, how are you?
‐ ...Rick checks in
with military expert
Craig Gottlieb
about the mysterious
metal artifact
he discovered at Breach 6.
‐ Well, I am really excited
to see what you think.
‐ Well, it's part of a rifle.
What you've got is
the magazine body
of a Japanese Type 99
Arisaka rifle.
‐ Wow, man, that's awesome.
The Type 99 Arisaka rifle
was one of the premier
combat weapons
of the Japanese Imperial Army,
built to the same
rugged standards
of America's M1 Garand
and Germany's Carabiner 98.
‐ So this is
a later‐in‐the‐war rifle.
Uh, they started
producing them in 1941,
and they produced them
on through 1945.
‐ The Arisaka Type 99
was considered
one of the strongest
military rifles ever made.
‐ So it is Japanese,
and it was used during
the Second World War.
‐ Absolutely.
I am a gun collector.
I happen to have one right here.
I want to show it to you
because I want to show you
where your part goes.
Here is my Type 99 Japanese
Arisaka rifle,
and I'm gonna actually take
the bolt off
comes out
and here's what you've got.
If you look inside the rifle,
you have that follower
in there, okay?
Which is where you
you load your cartridges, okay?
But, if you look
on the bottom here,
you've got a little plate.
And if you pull
this little lever here,
the bottom plate rotates out,
and it's sort of hard to see,
but if you look down
in this well here,
you'll see your part.
Your part is part of the rifle,
and it doesn't just come out.
And what's really interesting
is that you only found
this piece.
The question is, how did it
get outside the rifle?
'Cause, as I said before,
it's not something you drop
when you're out of ammo.
‐ Does it come out at all,
or does the rifle have to be
broken for it to come out?
‐ It either has to be
broken or disassembled.
This part does not come out,
and that's why I say
it's not part of a magazine.
It's part of the rifle itself,
and it's inside the rifle.
‐ Uh, it's getting
kind of exciting
when you start finding
Japanese rifle parts
in the bottom of your shaft
and you're looking
for Japanese buried treasure.
‐ It tells you more
than the knife you found
tells you, in my opinion.
I don't think a civilian
carried a rifle like this
into your breach and dropped it,
like may have happened
with the knife.
I really think that this part
was dropped there
sometime prior to 1945.
‐ So what we do know
for a fact now
is somebody
with a Japanese rifle,
probably a Japanese soldier,
was in Breach 6.
That tells me
we're getting really close.
‐ As the sun rises
over basecamp,
a local scientist arrives
to investigate
a macabre discovery
the team uncovered
deep inside the tunnel.
‐ Morning, sir. John Casey.
‐ Hi, good morning. I'm Phillip.
‐ While clearing out
debris from a collapse,
miners Levi and Geo found
bones and teeth.
If they are human,
the team must stop
exploring here
and call in local authorities.
‐ John called me
to help him out
identify the bones
that he found
inside the mine tunnel.
In my line of work,
I've done several identification
of bone fragments.
I've worked with
describing new species
based on bone morphology
for several years now.
Wow.
I'm here to figure out
if the bones that were found
in the tunnel would be human.
‐ Right here.
There are some teeth.
‐ Oh, okay, so we have here...
Oh, I see some molars.
‐ You can see, we got
some bone fragments here.
‐ Oh. Wow. Huh.
Yeah, so one of
the vertebral column.
Probably along the lumbar area.
‐ Mm‐hmm.
‐ Uh, this one...
not entirely sure.
Well, at this point now,
it's pretty difficult to tell
what kind of bone is it.
‐ You don't think
they're possibly human bones.
‐ I have no idea,
pending tests.
‐ Anything that you can do
to test this
and let us know definitively
is gonna be major
to us doing any other work
in this tunnel.
‐ Uh, well, first I'm gonna do
is take photographs at the site.
I just found nine different
bone fragments in there
and surprisingly
in fairly good condition.
I found several
pieces of vertebrae,
different parts of a scapula,
or your shoulder blades,
and I found
three pieces of teeth.
We're gonna get
these bones tested.
The tunnel is now shut down
until further notice.
‐ Later that day,
Bingo updates John and Rick
about his meeting
with treasure hunter
Chuck McDougald,
who holds what could be
game‐changing treasure maps
he obtained in the Philippines.
‐ I got some incredible
news for you.
I just found Chuck.
He's in San Francisco.
Chuck McDougald has
20‐some‐odd
Yamashita treasure maps.
Wow.
‐ Two of the maps
were originals.
‐ Did he say
where he got these things?
‐ He got them from Dr. Soriano,
who was the chancellor
of the University
of the Philippines at the time.
He got them out
of President Marcos's office.
So me and Chuck,
we brought these
to be authenticated
to Gerry LaPorte,
who's a forensic chemist
and document dating specialist.
We wanted to see if we could
anything about the origin
or even the validity of the map.
We did a number of tests.
Some of them,
they were ink impression,
the medium used,
even the ink itself.
The conclusion we came to
is that the creation
of this document,
um, and the technology
used to create it
is from the 1970s.
Not an original,
but likely a copy
that was used in the field.
‐ Totally makes sense
that it's a copy.
I wouldn't want to take the
original map into the field,
even if we had it.
‐ Have you got the thing
in your hands?
‐ You know, unfortunately,
he wouldn't let any of them
out of his sight.
What are you guys thinking?
Should we try and set up
a partnership with Chuck
so we can get access
to the maps?
‐ If these are real maps
and there's a real map
of our mountain,
it could be the thing
that cracks this mountain
wide open.
‐ Let's figure out
what he needs,
make sure that it's reasonable,
but let's do a deal.
‐ Sounds good, gentlemen.
I'll get it set up.
I'm gonna get in touch
with Chuck.
As soon as I make
any headway with that,
I'll let you know.
That evening,
John checks on the progress
of the horizontal drill.
‐ I don't know
if he's gonna make it.
‐ I think he will.
‐ It's pretty steep.
‐ He gets further every time.
I think he should keep trying.
‐ So close.
‐ You just about had it.
‐ Man, you were
you were getting so close.
You know, as soon as you got
the slop out of the way
and got some purchase,
she was coming.
‐ Yeah.
‐ And once you hit
the slop again,
it was just back down.
‐ That rain didn't help.
‐ With the rig stuck fast,
the team calls in
the excavator to help.
‐ Hey, Michelle, you got a copy?
‐ Using a heavy‐duty
cargo strap,
Michele lifts the back end
of the drill
with the excavator bucket,
hoping to nudge it up the road.
‐ It's gonna make it.
‐ Broke the strap.
‐ Cheers, mate.
Ohh!
It keeps sliding.
‐ Yeah, it keeps sliding
sideways,
so we just can't get
enough purchase there.
We'll, uh, we'll get Michele
to plant the bucket
behind the machine.
It can't go nowhere.
It can'tBoth machines
don't go nowhere tonight.
Pick this up at daylight.
This is getting
too dangerous for us
to do anything here
in this slop.
Fair enough?
‐ All right. ‐ Cool. Thanks.
All right, 'chele,
we're gonna put the bucket
to brace the drill
and make sure it can't go
anywhere for the night,
and we're gonna call it quits
and come back when we can see.
I gotta tell you,
I don't know
if it's gonna be worth it.
It's such a long shot
to get this drill
to this target to begin with.
We're going through all this
aggravation and danger
possibly for nothing.
‐ You know, I can't think
of any other way
to get to that waterfall.
You know what? We're all tired.
We're all discouraged,
I'm discouraged.
Tomorrow's another day.
Tomorrow.
‐ All right, good deal.
Thanks, guys.
The only way to keep
the morale up on the team
is just, you know, tell them,
we're gonna persevere,
and don't let this stop you.
I don't let anything stop me.
No people, no mountain,
no rain is going to stop me.
Once my mind is set
on something,
I'm going to do it.
I don't care what it takes.
‐ As morning arrives,
Rob assesses
how to get the drill rig
over the final incline.
‐ Well, this whole situation
is dangerous in general.
We have several tons
of machinery
that we have humans
standing in between.
Just about anything
can go wrong,
and if it does, it would be
catastrophically wrong.
I don't think there's
a whole lot of margin
for just a couple of bumps
and scrapes here.
‐ Okay, Michele,
that should be okay.
Just back it out
from there, please.
‐ So the plan is to have Michele
move the excavator
out of the way,
and Andrew's gonna get
on the drill rig
and back it down
somewhere stable
while we clean up the path
and get it to be something
that he could drive over
and get it to this drill pad.
‐ The plan is
to clear away the mud,
then lay down a mixture of sand
and fine gravel on top
for the rig to gain traction.
‐ It's gonna be tough.
‐ Later, at basecamp,
Levi, Geo, and John
eagerly await the results
from the local scientists'
bone analysis.
If the remains are human,
the tunnel will be shut down
as local officials investigate.
‐ Hey, Phillip. So I'm hoping
that you have some news for us.
‐ Oh. Good to hear, man.
‐ Thank God.
What are they from, though?
‐ Towards the end
of World War II,
as Japanese rations grew scarce,
the Imperial Army slaughtered
nearly 2 million
Philippine livestock
to feed their starving troops.
‐ Based on those samples,
is it possible to know
how old those bones are?
So it could date
from the time of the war.
‐ You know,
this is great news for us
because now that the bones
have been deemed nonhuman,
they can continue
working in the tunnel.
‐ Back in San Francisco,
Bingo negotiates
a partnership with Chuck
that includes
access to his maps.
‐ Personally,
based on what I've seen,
I believe a lot
of these maps are real,
and I really think
that there is something here
that could help us
on our search.
‐ They're the most sophisticated
maps of treasure
I have ever encountered.
So many codes, so many symbols,
but I never expected
to be back in this business.
‐ I mean, really,
at the end of the day,
we need access to these maps.
You know, I think, between
just the two of us alone
and my team in the Philippines,
I think we have
a winning formula here.
We have what it takes
to get this treasure.
And, I mean, to that end,
what's it gonna take
to get you on board?
‐ I don't think it's an accident
that, uh, we stumbled
on each other...
after my stuff being
hidden away in the attic
for 25 years.
I think
if these maps are used
to successfully conclude
a treasure hunt,
if treasure is found...
‐ Mm‐hmm.
‐ ...then, uh,
I would share in that.
I'm not trying to be greedy.
1% of the gross proceeds
would be enough.
‐ If that's what it takes,
then let's do it.
Getting these maps
is huge for us.
If one of these maps
is of our mountain,
then that takes the guesswork
out of a lot
of what we've been doing.
I mean, the guys are gonna
be excited as hell
to see this stuff.
‐ In the Philippines,
it's all hands on deck
to help the horizontal drill
get over the final incline.
‐ He digs more, twice as fast
as everybody else.
‐ Well, you guys told me
to come down here, man.
‐ We got a job to do.
‐ After the loose mud
is shoveled away,
Michele brings in nearly
1 ton of sand and gravel bags
for the team to lay down
by hand.
‐ This is our best shot
at getting to this gold.
‐ Give me one more.
‐ If this fails,
I really don't know
how we're going to get there.
We know the target's there.
Now we just gotta get to it.
Pray. We got another
maybe half an hour
before thunderstorms
roll through here.
If that sky opens up right now
and was starting to pour,
we'd lose all the work
we just put into this.
‐ Frickin' madman.
If I carried two,
I'd frickin' be on my knees.
Come on, Levi,
don't do too much.
I need you in one piece.
‐ Ultimately, we have to
start drilling here.
This is our best shot
at seeing what's underneath
that waterfall.
This isn't good.
It's coming, boys.
Come on, baby!
Come on, come on!
Look out, Steve!
‐ Yeah! ‐ All right! Yo!
Yeah!
‐ Whoo‐hoo! ‐ Yay!
‐ Whoo‐hoo!
‐ Yeah!
‐ Andrew, you're the man.
Yeah. Whoo‐hoo! ‐ Yo, Andrew!
Today is one small victory,
but getting the drill here
probably should've been
the easy part.
Drilling and hitting our target,
I guess that's yet to be seen.
‐ They're finally ready
to start drilling
through 930 feet of hard rock
to see what lies
beneath the waterfall.
‐ Now it's time
to aim this drill,
and that is critical.
I mean, 930 feet
is a really long way to go,
so all we can really do
is aim it our best
from the get‐go.
We want to go
as straight as an arrow
and go right into this void.
‐ It's gotta be right.
‐ Let's pray that it gets there
and it doesn't stray too far.
‐ Here we go, John! Here we go!
It's hard to believe
we're at this point.
It's gotta make it.
‐ Hopefully we can get
drilled into it,
we can get a camera
in this void space,
and actually have a look
at what's inside this mountain.
‐ On the next
"Lost Gold of World War II"...
‐ Helicopter coming in.
There's no reason
for that helicopter
to be circling around here.
We're the only people
on this mountain.
‐ What you got, Rick?
‐ Well, I got some timber,
I think.
‐ That sounds hollow to me.
‐ Ooh, ooh, it's hollow.
‐ Moment of truth.
Are you ready?
‐ I'm way ready.
See what this thing can do!
‐ What is that?
‐ That looks like a huge space.
‐ Oh my God.
Subtitled by Diego Moraes
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