Search for the Lost Giants (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 6 - Moment of Truth - full transcript
The Vieira brothers and a team of archaeologists find new evidence about the Goshen Mystery Tunnel; Jim investigates a giant account unlike anything he has seen before.
Male announcer: TONIGHT ON
SEARCH FOR THE LOST GIANTS...
BREAKING GROUND, BROTHER.
IT'S GONNA GET REALLY FREAKY.
WHAT I FOUND THERE WAS
ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING.
THIS IS CLOSE TO NINE FEET.
WOW.
THIS ENORMOUS SKULL, DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH,
COULD BE RIGHT HERE.
GONNA TRY TO THREAD THIS
THROUGH THAT ZIPPER.
AND SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING
ON THE OTHER SIDE.
WHOA.
HOLY [bleep].
Announcer: FOR MILLENNIA,
HUMANKIND HAS TOLD TALES OF
GIANTS THAT ONCE WALKED THE EARTH.
OZARK CAVES IN ARKANSAS:
NINE FOOT.
PROVO, UTAH: 8'6".
Announcer: JIM VIEIRA
BELIEVES IT MAY BE MORE THAN JUST MYTH.
THE BIG MYSTERY: WHERE ARE THE BONES?
Announcer: JIM AND HIS BROTHER BILL...
HERE WE GO, BROTHER.
Announcer: WANT TO GET TO THE TRUTH.
IT JUST SEEMS IT'S SLIPPED
THROUGH THE HANDS OF HISTORY.
WHOA!
HOLY [bleep].
WOW.
THAT'S WICKED COOL.
UNBELIEVABLE.
WHOA.
LET'S DO IT.
ONE LEVEL, 10 CENTIMETERS AT A TIME?
YES, YEP.
BREAKING GROUND, BROTHER.
THIS IS WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD.
CAN I GO BACK?
I DON'T WANT TO SEE.
I KNOW, I'M NERVOUS TOO.
Announcer: JIM AND BILL
VIEIRA ARE ABOUT TO TAKE THEIR
QUEST FOR EVIDENCE OF GIANTS
TO A NEW LEVEL.
HOW YOU DOING, GUYS?
GOOD MORNING.
NICE TO SEE YOU.
Announcer: AT THE GOSHEN TUNNEL SITE,
THEY'VE BROUGHT ON AN
ARCHEOLOGICAL TEAM FROM THE
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS,
WHO WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE AND THEN UNEARTH
WHAT THE VIEIRAS BELIEVE IS A
HIDDEN CHAMBER.
A CHAMBER THAT COULD CONTAIN
THE REMAINS OF A GIANT.
IF THE CHAMBER'S HERE... >> RIGHT.
WE WANT TO BISECT IT TO THE SOUTH.
I'M NOT AFRAID TO BE WRONG.
I'M PROUD OF JIMMY FOR PUTTING
HIS NAME ON THIS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST WANNA
REMAIN ON THE FRINGE
AND HYPOTHESIZE, BUT NEVER
WANT TO REALLY HAVE IT TESTED.
LOOKS GOOD TO ME.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE WANNA BE DIFFERENT.
THAT'S THE SPOT, HUH?
THAT'S THE ONE.
SO, THIS IS IT.
AND I MUST SAY, I'M REALLY
KIND OF... I'M NERVOUS ABOUT
THE WHOLE PROSPECTS.
I CANT' FEEL BAD STICKING OUR NECKS OUT.
WE HAVE ABOUT SIX DIFFERENT
THINGS POINTING TO A CHAMBER DOWN THERE.
Announcer: SO FAR,
THE BROTHERS' NON-INVASIVE
INVESTIGATIONS AT THE GOSHEN
SITE HAVE YIELDED TANTALIZING
CLUES THAT THEY MAY HAVE FOUND
THE ALLEGED HIDDEN CHAMBER.
AT 47 FEET, WE FOUND WHAT
WE CALL A ZIPPER.
IT COULD BE A SPOT WHERE
CONSTRUCTION WAS STARTED
AND STOPPED, OR IT COULD BE
SOMETHING BEING WALLED OFF.
SO WE BROUGHT IN A GEOPROBE.
AND AT TEN FEET,
WHICH IS JUST ABOUT THE LEVEL OF
WHERE THIS TUNNEL IS RIGHT NOW, WE HIT...
[drilling tool dings]
STONE.
Announcer: SITTING ON TOP OF
THIS STONE WAS SAND.
SAND COMPOSED PRIMARILY OF QUARTZ,
WHICH SUGGESTED THAT IT WAS
BROUGHT TO THE SITE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
WE'RE READY TO GET STARTED.
ALL RIGHT.
Announcer: COULD THE VIEIRAS
AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM
BE ON THE VERGE OF A DISCOVERY
THAT WILL SHAKE MODERN SCIENCE?
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
GONNA FIND UNTIL YOU DIG IT.
HERE WE GO.
LET'S DO IT.
HERE'S WHERE IT GETS REAL.
IF THERE'S A BUILDER'S TRENCH
HERE, IT'S GONNA GET REALLY FREAKY.
Announcer: BILL AND JIM WILL
MONITOR THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS'
PROGRESS, BUT BECAUSE OF THE
METICULOUS NATURE OF THE WORK,
IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL DAYS
BEFORE THEY HAVE ANY RESULTS.
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, WE'RE
GONNA GET A RESOLUTION.
YEP, I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT
WE'LL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT.
Announcer: IN THE MEANTIME,
THE BROTHERS HAVE A COUPLE OF
LEADS TO FOLLOW.
IT WOULD BE INCREDIBLE TO
FIND SOMETHING IN GOSHEN.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE
SITE HOLDS, BUT I'M NOT PUTTING
ALL MY EGGS IN ONE BASKET.
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF ACCOUNTS
TO EVALUATE.
WOW.
Announcer: FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS...
BEAUTIFUL.
Announcer: THE VIEIRAS HAVE
INVESTIGATED NUMEROUS GIANT
SKELETON ACCOUNTS,
FROM VERMONT TO CALIFORNIA.
WHOO! CHECK IT OUT!
Announcer: FORENSIC ANALYSIS
OF A TOOTH FOUND IN AN OZARK
CAVE SHOWED THAT IT WAS NOT
THAT OF A HOMINID.
BUT THE BROTHERS HAVE UNCOVERED
COMPELLING EVIDENCE...
THAT SKULL IS HUGE.
Announcer: MEASUREMENTS, EYEWITNESSES,
AND PHOTOGRAPHS.
LIKE THE ONE THEY FOUND WHILE
EXAMINING THE ARCHIVES
OF AMATEUR ARCHAEOLOGIST RALPH GLIDDEN.
NOW, THE VIEIRAS ARE ABOUT TO
COMPARE NOTES WITH FELLOW GIANT
RESEARCHER L.A. MARZULLI.
L.A.
HEY, JIM, HOW YOU DOING, MAN?
GOOD, HOW YOU DOING?
I GOT MY BROTHER BILL HERE.
HEY, BILL.
HOW'S IT GOING, L.A.?
Announcer: MARZULLI ALSO
STUDIED GLIDDEN'S ARCHIVES.
WHAT I FOUND THERE WAS
ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING, IN MY OPINION.
Announcer: AND HAD THE PHOTO ANALYZED.
THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW
PHOTOGRAPHS WHERE GLIDDEN
ACTUALLY IS STANDING IN THE PIT.
LIKE HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT.
I THINK THE SKELETON IS
LAYING EXACTLY THE WAY HE'S UNCOVERED IT.
IT'S NOT A DISARTICULATED BONE PILE.
AND I FOUND THIS PICTURE,
AND I JUST WENT, "WHOA."
announcer: MARZULLI HAD FOUR
DIFFERENT ANALYSTS USE COMPUTER
SOFTWARE TO DIGITALLY EXTEND
BOTH GLIDDEN AND THE SKELETON
INTO AN UPRIGHT POSTURE.
I JUST GAVE THE SAME
PHOTOGRAPH, TOLD THEM WHERE IT
WAS FROM, THAT'S IT,
AND GAVE THEM THE HEIGHT OF
RALPH GLIDDEN, WHICH WE KNOW IS 5'8".
I GOT BACK THE INFORMATION, AND
THAT'S WHEN IT STARTED TO GET
REALLY INTERESTING.
[both laughing]
EVERYONE, ALL FOUR, PUT THAT...
PUT THAT PHOTOGRAPH AT 8 1/2'
TO 9 1/2'.
SOMEWHERE IN THERE.
AT THIS POINT, IT BECOMES VERY
OBVIOUS THAT THERE'S A REAL DISPARITY.
WOW.
OH, MY GOD.
LOOK AT THE SKULL SIZE.
UNBELIEVABLE.
YEAH, IT'S HUGE.
ABSOLUTELY HUGE.
WOW.
[laughs]
YES.
SO WE THINK IT'S A SMOKING GUN.
I THINK IT'S A SMOKING GUN.
WHAT'S THE TAKEAWAY?
WELL, MY TAKEAWAY IS THIS...
IN MY OPINION, THIS SKELETON
DOES TWO THINGS.
FIRST, IT POINTS BACK TO THE
VERACITY OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN
ORAL TRADITION THAT THERE WERE GIANTS HERE.
SECOND, IT POINTS BACK
TO THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE OF
THE NEPHILIM BEING ON THE EARTH.
I FIND THAT ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING.
THE NEPHILIM ARE IN FACT
THE PROGENY OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES.
THE BIBLICAL PASSAGE IS ABOUT
THE NEPHILIM BEING A CREATION OF
THE SONS OF GOD INTERBREEDING
WITH THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN.
SO THIS INTERBREEDING OF ACTION
CREATED A RACE OF GIANTS,
WHO I BELIEVE WERE PORTRAYED AS MALEVOLENT.
Announcer: COULD THIS
BIBLICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SONS OF
GOD INTERBREEDING WITH THE
DAUGHTERS OF MEN TO CREATE
THE GIANT NEPHILIM
BE ROOTED IN AN ANCIENT TRUTH?
COULD ALL THIS HAVE A
SUPERNATURAL EXPLANATION, LIKE
L.A. MARZULLI SUGGESTS?
I'M NOT SURE.
I CAN THINK OF ANOTHER SCENARIO.
Announcer: JIM BELIEVES
IT COULD BE AN ANCIENT ACCOUNT
OF INTERBREEDING BETWEEN TWO
SPECIES OF EARLY MAN.
IT SOUNDS PRETTY FREAKY, BUT
THE IDEA OF INTERBREEDING IS A REALITY.
YOU HAVE NEANDERTHALS AND HUMANS
INTERBREEDING.
YOU HAVE DENISOVANS 40,000 YEARS
AGO INTERBREEDING WITH
NEANDERTHALS AND HUMANS.
IT'S A PROVEN FACT, ACTUALLY,
BY SCIENCE, THAT YOU HAVE THESE
DIFFERENT SPECIES INTERBREEDING.
BUT THERE MIGHT BE A MYSTERY
SPECIES THAT IS... IS MIXED IN THERE.
Announcer: FOR JIM,
RECENT DISCOVERIES MAKE THIS
POSSIBILITY VERY REAL.
IN THE EARLY 2000s,
RUSSIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND
FRAGMENTS OF BONE AND A TOOTH
IN A SIBERIAN CAVE.
DNA ANALYSIS AT THE MAX PLANCK
INSTITUTE IN GERMANY
REVEALED THAT THEY BELONG TO A
PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN SPECIES OF ANCIENT HUMAN
NOW CALLED DENISOVAN.
TO HAVE ALL WE KNOW ABOUT THE
DENISOVANS BEING JUST TWO PIECES
OF BONE FINDS, YOU KNOW, TELLS YOU THAT,
YOU KNOW, WHO KNOWS?
THERE COULD BE A NEW, STARTLING FIND.
WHY NOT ANCIENT HUMANS
AND SOME UNDISCOVERED AS OF YET
SPECIES OF GIANT HOMINID?
GREAT, GREAT WORK.
THANKS, GUYS.
THAT'S WHY I'M ON THE TRAIL.
NICE, WAY TO GO, BROTHER.
APPRECIATE IT.
ALL RIGHT, TAKE CARE.
SEE YOU LATER, L.A.
announcer: BUT IS THERE A
CONNECTION BETWEEN MARZULLI'S
THEORY OF THE ANCIENT NEPHILIM
AND JIM'S RESEARCH?
IT'S A FASCINATING POSSIBILITY.
DID THE DNA OF A GIANT SPECIES
FIND ITS WAY THROUGH THE
MILLENNIA ALMOST TO MODERN TIMES?
THE REALITY IS, I FOUND AN
ACCOUNT RECENTLY THAT SEEMS TO SUPPORT IT.
Announcer: WHILE BILL STAYS IN GOSHEN,
JIM HEADS TO NEARBY RHODE ISLAND
WITH HUGH NEWMAN... >> THE QUEST IS ON.
Announcer: TO INVESTIGATE A
GIANT ACCOUNT THAT'S UNLIKE ANY
HE'S LOOKED INTO BEFORE.
THE ACCOUNT SAYS THAT
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND WAS A GIANT
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
NOW, THAT'S PARTICULARLY ODD
'CAUSE BENJAMIN BUCKLAND WAS A COLONIST.
THAT'S VERY WEIRD.
Announcer: WHILE AN
ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM IS AT WORK
EXCAVATING THE GOSHEN TUNNEL SITE,
JIM VIEIRA SETS OUT WITH HUGH NEWMAN.
THE QUEST IS ON.
Announcer: TO TRACK DOWN
LEADS REGARDING A GIANT UNLIKE
ANY OTHER HE'S INVESTIGATED TO DATE.
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND WAS A COLONIST.
WE'RE TALKING OVER 300 YEARS AGO.
SO IT'S THAT FOG OF MYSTERY
OF EARLY COLONIAL TIMES.
THE CASE OF BENJAMIN BUCKLAND.
HE'S ONE OF THE FIRST EUROPEANS
BORN IN THE UNITED STATES.
IN THE 1600s.
HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE
RHODE ISLAND MILITIA TO FIGHT
IN KING PHILIP'S WAR IN THE 1670s
HE ENDED UP BATTLING THE NATIVE
AMERICANS AT PIERCE'S FIGHT,
AND THEN WAS CAPTURED ALONG WITH
EIGHT SOLDIERS AND KILLED AT THE SITE OF
NINE MEN'S MISERY.
[stabbing]
AAH!
Announcer: JUST A FEW MILES
AWAY FROM THE SITE OF THE
BATTLE WERE BUCKLAND WAS KILLED,
JIM AND HUGH ARRIVE AT THE
PAWTUCKET LIBRARY,
ATTEMPTING TO DIG UP LEADS
ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE REMAINS.
THE BOOKS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
WILL BE HERE.
YES, YES, YES.
LET'S GRAB THEM ALL.
YEAH.
IT'S PIERCE'S FIGHT, NINE MEN'S MISERY,
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND.
KING PHILIP'S WAR, YEAH.
OH, YEAH, RIGHT HERE.
I THINK THIS IS 1820.
"THE BONES OF THESE MEN WERE
DISINTERRED BY SOME PHYSICIANS
FOR ANATOMICAL PURPOSES,
AND THEY WERE FOUND TO BE NEARLY PERFECT."
IN 1820, A DR. BOWEN,
WITH MEDICAL STUDENTS, DUG UP HIS REMAINS.
"BUT THE PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY
INSISTED UPON THEIR BEING
RETURNED TO THEIR GRAVES,
WHICH WAS ACCORDINGLY DONE."
SO THEN THE TOWN PEOPLE GOT
THEIR PITCHFORKS OUT,
AND FORCED THEM TO PUT THEM BACK
IN THE GROUND.
WHY WAS DR. BOWEN UNEARTHING THESE REMAINS?
WHAT WAS HE GETTING AT?
"ONE OF THE SKELETONS DUG UP WAS
OF EXTRAORDINARY SIZE.
AND BY THE FACT THAT IT HAD A
DOUBLE SET OF TEETH ALL THE WAY
AROUND, WAS RECOGNIZED AS
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND OF REHOBOTH."
LOOKS LIKE HE WAS GOING AFTER
IT BECAUSE BUCKLAND WAS GIANT
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
SO, WAS DR. BOWEN JUST CURIOUS?
WE DON'T KNOW.
IT REMAINS A MYSTERY.
MINE IS NOT TO REASON WHY.
MINE IS JUST TO DIG OR DIE.
Announcer: MEANWHILE,
BACK IN RURAL MASSACHUSETTS,
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION
OF THE GOSHEN MYSTERY TUNNEL
ENTERS ITS SECOND DAY.
I'M SUPER EXCITED.
IT'S REAL SCIENCE HAPPENING
RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
Announcer: THEIR PLAN TO
LOCATE AND FIND THE POTENTIAL
HIDDEN CHAMBER
IS BASED ON THE THEORY OF HOW
THE TUNNEL WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT,
A THEORY SHARED BY THE VIEIRAS.
THE ONLY WAY I CAN
IMAGINE THIS BEING BUILT
IS IF THEY ACTUALLY DUG ALL THE
WAY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM.
A TRENCH 19 FEET DOWN
AND PROBABLY 200 FEET LONG.
THEN YOU HAVE TO GET THE STONES,
AND THEN YOU START BUILDING YOUR WALLS,
AND PUTTING YOUR CAPS ON TOP.
AND THEN YOU HAVE TO BACKFILL IT.
JUST CRAZY.
AN INCREDIBLE PIECE OF WORK.
YOU KNOW, MICHELLE, I'M
SEEING A DIFFERENCE ALREADY.
Announcer: THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
WILL DIG A FEW EXPLORATORY TRENCHES.
THE FIRST, OVER THE KNOWN SOUTH TUNNEL.
THE GOAL BEING TO FIND THE
ORIGINAL BUILDER'S TRENCH.
ONCE THEY IDENTIFY THIS TRENCH,
THEY SHOULD HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW
THE TUNNEL WAS CONSTRUCTED.
I THINK THIS WAY IS
OUR NATURAL B HORIZON.
Announcer: THEN, THEY PLAN TO
DIG TRENCHES OVER THE
HYPOTHETICAL SIDE TUNNEL,
OR SECRET CHAMBER.
EVIDENCE OF ANOTHER BUILDER'S
TRENCH WILL BE PROOF THAT
THEY'VE LOCATED THE HIDDEN CHAMBER.
ALONG THE WAY,
THEY WILL METICULOUSLY SEARCH
THROUGH EVERY LAYER OF DIRT FOR ARTIFACTS.
THEY GOD OWN TEN CENTIMETERS AT A TIME,
SIFTING THROUGH ALL THE MATERIAL,
CAREFULLY LOOKING FOR CLUES.
Announcer: CLUES LIKE THOSE
FOUND IN THE PREVIOUS EXCAVATION.
IN 1980, MAVERICK ARCHAEOLOGIST
JIM WHITTAL FOUND SEVERAL
ARTIFACTS THAT HE BELIEVED
COULD BE ANCIENT IN ORIGIN.
ONE OF WHICH WAS VERIFIED AS
AN ANCIENT NATIVE TOOL:
A STONE HAMMER.
BILL AND JIM HOPE THAT THIS
EXCAVATION MIGHT REVEAL
ARTIFACTS OF AN EVEN GREATER SCALE.
IN 2006, OXFORD ARCHAEOLOGISTS
IN SOUTH AFRICA DISCOVERED
SEVERAL GIANT HAND AXES THAT
DATE BACK AS FAR AS 150,000 YEARS.
WERE THESE TWO-HANDED AXES FOR
NORMAL-SIZED MODERN HUMANS?
OR, WHERE THEY MADE BY SOMEONE LARGER?
WITH EVERY TEN CENTIMETERS
THEY DIG DOWN, IT SEEMS LIKE
THEY'RE MOVING FURTHER AND
FURTHER BACK IN TIME.
HUH.
OH, BOY.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT.
WOW, THAT'S KIND OF COOL.
IN THE FIRST 20 CENTIMETERS,
THEY START TO MAKE FINDS.
THESE TINY LITTLE FRAGMENTS,
THEY'RE PICKING OUT PIECES OF CERAMIC.
THIS IS ACTUALLY A CREAMWARE.
COOL.
THEY'RE ALL CONSISTENT WITH
LATE 18TH CENTURY... >> RIGHT.
IF IT'S CREAMWARE.
I GOT A BUTTON.
OH, YEAH?
IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT WAS
FROM YESTERDAY.
A BRASS BUTTON.
"SUPERFINE LONDON."
THAT IS SO COOL.
YEAH, IT'S A NEAT PIECE.
THE QUESTION IS, HOW FAR DOWN
WILL THEY HAVE TO DIG BEFORE
THEY FIND EVIDENCE WHICH POINTS
TO THE BUILDERS OF THE TUNNEL,
AND HOPEFULLY THIS SIDE SHAFT
THAT'S SITTING AT THE BOTTOM OF
THE GEOPROBE HOLE?
Announcer: IT WILL TAKE DAYS
BEFORE THEY HAVE ANY ANSWERS.
MEANWHILE, BACK IN RHODE ISLAND.
THE MAN THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO
HELP YOU IS BOB BILLINGTON.
HE'S RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD FROM HERE.
AWESOME.
Announcer: JIM AND HUGH GET A
TIP FROM THE LIBRARIAN
ABOUT A MAN WHO MAY BE ABLE TO
HELP THEM ON THEIR QUEST.
HELLO, WE'RE LOOKING FOR BOB BILLINGTON.
Announcer: THEY TRACK DOWN
BOB BILLINGTON.
HEY, BOB.
HELLO.
Announcer: PRESIDENT OF THE
BLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM BUREAU
IN PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.
HAVE YOU GOT A COUPLE OF MINUTES?
SURE, HOW CAN I HELP?
BOB'S A COLORFUL CHARACTER.
HE'S LIKE THE MAYOR OF PAWTUCKET.
HE KNOWS EVERYBODY, HE'S REALLY
NICE, HE'S FILLED WITH INFORMATION.
AND I DON'T MEET MANY PEOPLE WHO
WEAR A BOWTIE TO WORK,
BUT THAT'S A COOL LOOK.
I DIG IT.
WELL, WE'RE INVESTIGATING THE
CASE OF A COLONIST NAMED
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND, WHO WAS
KILLED AT THE NINE MEN'S MISERY.
NINE MEN'S MISERY, I KNOW ABOUT.
OH, GOOD.
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF.
SOUNDS STRANGE, BUT BENJAMIN
BUCKLAND WAS OF GIANT SIZE
AND HAD DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
REALLY?
I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS.
THE DUDE MUST HAVE BEEN
PUSHING 8', YEAH, IT'S...
AMA... THAT'S... THAT'S
PRETTY DISTINCTIVE.
YES.
SO, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW,
WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
WHERE THOSE REMAINS ARE.
UM... I KNOW IN THE 1920s,
THEY WERE DISINTERRED AGAIN.
REALLY?
WHO DID THAT, THEN?
THE LAND, AT THAT TIME,
BELONGED TO THE CISTERCIAN MONKS.
Announcer: BOB SAYS THAT AN
ANCIENT ORDER OF MONKS,
KNOWN AS THE CISTERCIANS,
UNEARTHED THE REMAINS
BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED THEM TO BE
UNCONSECRATED, OR NOT PROPERLY BLESSED.
THEY FELT IT WAS
INAPPROPRIATE FOR THEM TO HAVE
THOSE PARTICULAR REMAINS THERE.
SO WHEN HE TELLS US WHAT
HE KNOWS, WE'RE BLOWN AWAY.
THEY WERE DUG UP AGAIN 100 YEARS AGO.
Announcer: BUT WHY?
WAS IT SOMETHING ABOUT BUCKLAND
IN PARTICULAR?
IS IT POSSIBLE THE MONKS
BELIEVED HIM TO BE DESCENDED
FROM THE UNHOLY NEPHILIM?
SO, THE QUESTION IS, WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
YEAH, UM, I MEAN,
I UNDERSTAND THEY WERE HANDED
BACK TO CUMBERLAND DURING THE BICENTENNIAL,
PROBABLY JULY 1976, IN A CEREMONY.
BUT WHERE EXACTLY THE REMAINS WENT,
I DON'T KNOW.
IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S IN PLAY RIGHT NOW.
THESE REMAINS COULD BE ON A
SHELF SOMEWHERE.
BUT NOW YOU HAVE MY INTEREST.
EXCELLENT.
LET ME MAKE SOME PHONE CALLS
AND SEE WHAT I CAN DO TO TRY TO
PAVE THE WAY A LITTLE BIT
AND SEE IF WE CAN HELP YOU
WITH YOUR RESEARCH.
SOUNDS GOOD, MAN.
WE ARE OPENING UP A PIECE OF
OUR HISTORY THAT WE KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT.
SO WE WANT A JUMP.
AWESOME.
IT'S GREAT TO HAVE BOB ON OUR TEAM.
WE'LL BE IN TOUCH.
OKAY, TAKE CARE.
WITH A BIT OF LUCK, HOPEFULLY
BOB CAN HELP US TRACK DOWN
BUCKLAND'S REMAINS.
WE COULD GET OUR HANDS ON A
GIANT SKULL WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
Announcer: JIM VIEIRA AND
HUGH NEWMAN ARE HUNTING DOWN
EVIDENCE OF A GIANT WARRIOR
REPORTEDLY KILLED IN THE 1600s,
WHOSE BONES WERE UNEARTHED IN THE 1920s.
LET ME MAKE SOME PHONE CALLS
AND SEE IF WE CAN HELP YOU WITH
YOUR RESEARCH.
WE REALLY WANNA KNOW,
WHERE ARE THE BONES RIGHT NOW?
Announcer: BUT FIRST,
JIM MUST GET BACK TO THE GOSHEN
TUNNEL FOR AN IMPORTANT UPDATE
ON THE EXCAVATION.
IF THEY FOUND A BUILDER'S
TRENCH IN THE SOUTH TUNNEL,
WHICH I THINK THEY HAVE,
THEY SHOULD HAVE SOME DATE OR
INDICATION OF WHEN IT WAS BUILT.
HELLO.
HI, THERE.
OH, BOY, LOOK AT THIS.
[laughs]
UNBELIEVABLE.
WE DUG YOU GUYS SOME HOLES.
YOU DID, INDEED.
WOW.
WHAT I'M HOPING FOR IS
SOMETHING THAT SUPPORTS MY
HYPOTHESIS, TO PROVE IT'S
A ANCIENT NATIVE AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD
EASILY SAY IT WAS BUILT IN 1930.
THE WHOLE STORY COULD BE MADE UP.
YOU KNOW, WHO KNOWS?
YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING.
THE EVIDENCE IS GONNA TELL US
WHAT THE REALITY IS.
THIS IS THE FIRST TRENCH.
RIGHT, THIS IS TRENCH ONE.
AND YOU CAN SEE IN THE CONSTRUCTION TRENCH
OF THE SOUTH TUNNEL.
Announcer: THE UMASS TEAM HAS
UNCOVERED CLEAR EVIDENCE OF A
BUILDER'S TRENCH OVER THE SOUTH
TUNNEL BY PINPOINTING
DIFFERENCES IN THE NATURAL SOIL
AND THE DIRT THAT WAS USED TO
FILL BACK IN THAT TRENCH.
WE'VE HAD A NEW DEVELOPMENT
THIS MORNING.
OH, BOY.
SO IF YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK
RIGHT HERE, AT THE VERY TOP IS
THAT SORT OF DARKISH GRAYISH.
THAT'S JUST THE FOREST FLOOR.
YEAH.
IT'S WHAT WE'RE WALKING ON.
AND THEN BELOW THAT IS A DARK STRIP.
AND THAT'S THE ORIGINAL GROUND SURFACE.
WHAT'S THAT INDICATE TO YOU?
WELL, WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO
DETERMINE IS THAT THIS LAND
SURFACE HAD NEVER BEEN PLOWED
BEFORE THEY BUILT THE SOUTH TUNNEL.
SO I THINK THE FIRST THING THAT
HAPPENED ON THE LANDFORM WAS THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THESE TUNNELS.
Announcer: EARLY SETTLERS
PLOWED THESE MASSACHUSETTS
HILLS FOR FARMING AND LIVESTOCK,
BUT QUICKLY GAVE UP
BECAUSE THE SOIL IS SO ROCKY.
THE FIRST ACT ON THIS LAND WAS...
THROWING A TUNNEL DOWN.
YEAH.
THAT DATE PUSHES IT BACK
WELL BEFORE THE MODERN ERA.
IT PUTS IT IN A TIME, AT THE
VERY LEAST, THAT SEEMS ALMOST
INCONCEIVABLE THAT A SCATTERED
GROUP OF COLONISTS COULD COME
TOGETHER TO BUILD THAT.
SO THE ORIGINAL BUILDERS
OF THIS TUNNEL WERE WALKING
RIGHT ON THIS SPOT HERE?
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.
Announcer: THE QUESTION IS,
WHO WERE THOSE MEN STANDING ON THAT SPOT?
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THEY WERE
THE LOST GIANTS, WHOSE
MOUND-BUILDING CULTURE ALLEGEDLY
STRETCHED FROM THE MIDWEST
UP TO THE NORTHEAST?
THAT IS COOL.
IT CERTAINLY KEEPS MY HOPES
ALIVE THAT SOMETHING ASTOUNDING
COULD BE HERE.
THE POPULATION WAS SPARSE,
THE ENGINEERING PROJECT
IS ENORMOUS, YOU KNOW?
WHO THE HELL BUILT IT?
Announcer: WHILE THE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM MOVES ON
TO SEARCH FOR A BUILDER'S TRENCH
OVER THE POTENTIAL CHAMBER,
ANOTHER LEAD BECKONS JIM BACK
TO RHODE ISLAND.
WE WERE LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON
NINE MEN'S MISERY.
Announcer: HE AND TEAM MEMBER
HUGH NEWMAN CONTINUE THEIR
SEARCH FOR THE MISSING BONES
OF A GIANT WARRIOR
FROM THE EARLY COLONIAL ERA:
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND.
THEY'RE LOOKING FOR ANY ARTICLES
ON TWO MAIN EVENTS... >> THIS IS PIERCE.
PIERCE'S FIGHT.
Announcer: WHEN THE BONES
WERE UNEARTHED IN THE 1920s,
AND WHEN THEY WERE RETURNED
TO THE TOWN IN 1976.
OH, HERE WE GO.
A TABLET COMMEMORATING PIERCE'S FIGHT.
OKAY.
OKAY... >> SO WE FIND AN ARTICLE
FROM THE 1920s WHERE THE PLAQUE IS BEING
DEDICATED AT THE SITE OF NINE MEN'S MISERY.
Announcer: AROUND THIS SAME
TIME, THE BONES WERE ALLEGEDLY
UNEARTHED BY THE MONKS.
TRAVELLING THROUGH TIME, HUGH.
YEAH.
"COTTON UNDERWEAR, JANUARY SALE."
WOW.
"STEAM ENGINE FOR SALE."
WOW.
SECONDHAND.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.
MAYBE THERE'S PHOTOS OF THE
SKULLS BEFORE THEY WERE
PUT INTO THE GROUND SOMEWHERE.
AH, WHAT'S THIS?
OKAY, THIS IS THE ONE, YEAH.
AH-HA.
NOVEMBER 13TH, 1928.
"TABLET IN FRONT OF THE CAIRN
MARKING THE SITE OF NINE MEN'S
MISERY IN CUMBERLAND IS DEDICATED."
"NINE MEN'S MISERY, ON THIS SPOT,
WHERE THEY WERE SLAIN BY THE
INDIANS, WERE BURIED THE NINE
SOLDIERS CAPTURED IN PIERCE'S
FIGHT, MARCH 26, 1676."
IT APPEARS THAT THIS WAS
THE TIME THAT THE BONES WERE DUG UP AGAIN.
THERE'S A MONK, RIGHT?
YEAH.
YOU HAVE TO READ BETWEEN THE
LINES A LITTLE.
LIKE, DID THE MONKS FEEL
COMPELLED TO DEDICATE THIS PLAQUE BECAUSE
THEY DUG UP THE BONES?
WOW.
A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE.
YOU SEE THESE THRONGS OF PEOPLE,
THIS EVENT HAPPENED, THIS PLAQUE.
I WONDER, DO THESE PEOPLE
UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS
A GIANT WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF
TEETH THAT WAS RIGHT THERE THAT WAS DUG UP?
Announcer: IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT SOMEONE IN THIS PHOTO KNEW
EXACTLY WHAT HAD BEEN TAKEN OUT
OF THE GROUND HERE?
I WANT THE REMAINS.
I WANT TO SHOW THE
ANTHROPOLOGISTS THAT, LOOK,
THIS GUY HAD DOUBLE ROWS OF
TEETH LIKE SO MANY OF THESE ACCOUNTS.
WOW.
A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE.
Announcer: JIM VIEIRA AND
HUGH NEWMAN ARE ON THE HUNT FOR
EVIDENCE OF A WARRIOR FROM THE
1600s DESCRIBED AS A GIANT.
THERE'S A MONK, RIGHT?
YEAH.
Announcer: THEY'RE LOOKING
FOR PHOTOGRAPHS, MEASUREMENTS,
OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION THAT
CAN LEAD THEM TO THE COLOSSAL
SKULL REPORTED TO HAVE DOUBLE
ROWS OF TEETH.
IT'S NOT MISSING.
BUT THEY DON'T SAY ANYTHING.
NO, THERE'S NOTHING THERE, IS THERE?
ABOUT THE BONES, THOUGH.
[sighs]
THERE'S NO MENTION OF THE BONES.
THERE'S NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BONES.
IT'S JUST A... IT'S A STRANGE THING.
[phone ringing]
HELLO?
WHAT'S UP, BOB?
Announcer: JIM GETS A CALL
FROM BOB BILLINGTON,
WHO'S BEEN HELPING TO TRACK DOWN
BUCKLAND'S REMAINS.
DID YOU HAPPEN TO FIND ANYTHING OUT?
YEAH, AND FROM WHAT WE'RE
UNDERSTANDING, IN 1976,
THE REMAINS WERE PUT BACK INTO THE CAIRN.
OH.
NOW, UM...
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.
WOW.
EXCELLENT, THANKS A LOT, BUDDY.
TAKE CARE.
OKAY.
THANKS, BOB. SEE YOU, BOB.
OKAY.
THAT'S INTERESTING.
SO IN THE CAIRN?
YEAH.
WE ACTUALLY KNOW WHERE THE
SKULL OF THIS GIANT COLONIST
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH IS RIGHT NOW.
NOW WE HAVE TO VISIT THE SITE,
FIGURE OUT IF ANYTHING
CAN BE DONE TO FURTHER FIND THE EVIDENCE.
YEP, IT'S RIGHT UP HERE.
THE OLD MONASTERY GROUNDS.
ALL RIGHT.
LET'S DO IT.
YEP.
Announcer: JIM AND HUGH HEAD
TO THE SPOT WHERE THE BONES WERE
ALLEGEDLY REBURIED.
RIGHT AT THE SITE WHERE
BUCKLAND AND THE EIGHT OTHER
SOLDIERS WERE KILLED IN 1676.
[birds crowing]
IT'S GETTING PRETTY DARK OUT
HERE VERY QUICKLY.
YEAH, IT'S PRETTY SPOOKY
WOODS, REALLY, ISN'T IT?
IT IS SUCH A CRAZY, VIOLENT
THING HAPPENING HERE.
IT'S... UNNERVING.
RIGHT THERE.
WOW, THIS IS IT.
"NINE MEN'S MISERY.
ON THIS SPOT, SOLDIERS WERE SLAIN.
CAPTURED, KILLED, AND BURIED."
RIGHT HERE.
YEAH.
WELL, THEY'VE MORTARED IT UP PRETTY GOOD.
JUST TO STOP ANYMORE
GRAVE ROBBERS, I GUESS.
IT'S STRANGE.
IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE A TOMB.
SO IF BOB'S INFORMATION IS RIGHT,
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND'S ENORMOUS
SKULL WITH DOUBLE ROWS
OF TEETH COULD BE RIGHT HERE.
RIGHT BENEATH OUR FEET, REALLY.
TWO FEET OUT OF REACH.
[phone ringing]
HELLO?
HEY, BOB, THIS IS JIM.
HI.
Announcer: JIM IS DETERMINED
TO FIND OUT WHAT HE CAN DO
TO ADVANCE THE INVESTIGATION.
SO HUGH AND I ARE JUST BLOWN
AWAY WITH THE PROSPECT OF A
ENORMOUS SKULL WITH DOUBLE ROWS
OF TEETH BEING IN THERE.
Announcer: HE CALLS
BOB BILLINGTON, HIS CONTACT AT
THE BLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM BUREAU.
IF THIS IS A BURIAL SITE,
WE WANNA BE TOTALLY RESPECTFUL.
WE DON'T WANNA DESECRATE IT IN ANY WAY.
BUT WE'RE TRYING TO
DOCUMENT THESE THINGS AND GET TO THE TRUTH.
SO, I KNOW YOU HAVE AN INTEREST
IN IT, AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE A
MAN OF INFLUENCE.
YOU KNOW, IS THERE ANY WAY
YOU THINK WE CAN GET INTO THAT CAIRN?
WELL, I'M NOT SURE HOW
THE AUTHORITIES WILL SUPPORT THAT.
BUT I WANNA AT LEAST RAISE THE QUESTION.
OH, THAT'S AWESOME.
BOB'S NOT MAKING ANY PROMISES,
BUT HE'S CERTAINLY INTRIGUED BY
THE MYSTERY.
WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE.
I'M KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED.
TAKE CARE.
ALL RIGHT, MAN, TALK TO YOU LATER.
Announcer: BACK AT THE GOSHEN
SITE, THE ARCHEOLOGICAL TEAM
HAS FINALLY FINISHED DIGGING
TWO EXPLORATORY TRENCHES OVER
THE AREA OF THE POTENTIAL HIDDEN CHAMBER.
AND THEY'RE READY TO SHARE THEIR FINDINGS.
GOOD MORNING.
HEY, GOOD MORNING.
SO THIS IS IT.
CAN'T WAIT TO GET THE RESULTS.
TO BE HONEST,
I'M FEELING A LITTLE NAUSEOUS.
SO YOU CAN SEE DAN IS
CLEANING UP THE FLOOR NOW.
SO WE CAN GET A GOOD SENSE OF
WHAT WE'RE SEEING.
OH... I'M GONNA VOMIT INTO THE TRENCH.
YEAH.
SO I LOOK OVER AT BILLY
AND I REALIZE HOW FAR HE'S COME
WITH ME ON THIS JOURNEY.
AND HOW MUCH HE'S INVESTED IN
THIS STRANGE, UNSCRATCHED LOTTERY TICKET.
DEFINITELY PUT OUR NECKS ON THE
LINE WITH THIS TUNNEL.
AND IT'S FOURTH AND LONG.
WHAT'S THE PROGNOSIS?
WELL, I HAVE TO SAY THIS
PLACE HAS BEEN TOYING WITH US.
THAT SOUNDS INTERESTING.
AND AT THIS POINT,
I THINK WE HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.
HERE WE GO.
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH.
Announcer: IN RURAL
MASSACHUSETTS, THE EXCAVATION OF
THE GOSHEN MYSTERY TUNNEL
HAS REACHED A CRITICAL POINT.
AFTER DIGGING THREE EXPLORATORY
TRENCHES IN SEARCH OF EVIDENCE
THAT A HIDDEN CHAMBER
LIES BENEATH, THE UMASS
ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE READY TO
SHARE THEIR FINDINGS.
SO, AS YOU KNOW,
WE WERE HOPING TO COME DOWN ON
ANY SORT OF CONSTRUCTION
ACTIVITY FOR A BURIED TUNNEL
THAT WOULD BRANCH OFF OF THE SOUTH TUNNEL.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE DIDN'T FIND THAT.
WHAT WE CAN SAY, FROM OUR WORK
AND THE DATA THAT WE'RE
GETTING, IS THAT IF THERE IS
SOMETHING BEHIND THE ZIPPER
OUT OF THE SOUTH TUNNEL, IT WAS
NOT CONSTRUCTED IN THE SAME WAY
THAT THE SOUTH TUNNEL WAS.
RIGHT.
SURE.
BUT MAYBE THEY CONSTRUCTED IT
IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
Announcer: IF THERE IS A HIDDEN CHAMBER,
EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT IT WOULD
HAVE TO HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED
WITHOUT DIGGING A BUILDER'S TRENCH.
IT'S DEFINITELY FRUSTRATING.
WE WERE HOPING THE EXCAVATION
WAS GONNA GIVE US MORE ANSWERS.
BUT IT'S GIVING US MORE QUESTIONS.
DID YOU FIND ANY ARTIFACTS OR
EVIDENCE OF SAND?
UH, WE DID FIND TWO ARTIFACTS
FROM DEEP DOWN IN THE CENTER OF
THE CONSTRUCTION TRENCH
FOR THE SOUTH TUNNEL.
Announcer: A HAND-BLOWN PIECE OFF GLASS
AND A CORRODED NAIL.
SO THESE ARTIFACTS FIRMLY
ASSOCIATE, FOR ME, THAT THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOUTH TUNNEL
WAS 18TH CENTURY, PERHAPS EARLIER.
THE REST OF THE FILL AND ALL
THE NATURAL SOIL IN THE ENTIRE
TRENCH WAS CLEAN AS A WHISTLE.
RIGHT.
BUT WE DID NOT FIND ANY SAND,
EITHER JUST BEING CLEAN SAND OR THAT COLOR.
I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT SAND AT ALL.
I MEAN, THAT'S STILL A MYSTERY.
THAT'S, YOU KNOW, PUZZLING.
IT'S REALLY STRANGE.
Announcer: ANALYSIS OF THE
SAND FOUND DURING THE GEOPROBE
SHOWED THAT IT WAS LIKELY
BROUGHT TO THE AREA FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
I'M NOT QUITE SURE HOW TO
EXPLAIN THE PRESENCE OF A SAND
LIKE THIS THAT'S SITTING
UNDERNEATH TEN FEET OF CLAY.
IT'S JUST NOT ADDING UP.
UGH.
[laughs]
YEAH, I KNOW.
JUST SO MANY THINGS ARE POINTING TO...
YEAH.
THERE BEING A STRUCTURE HERE.
THE GEOPROBE WITH THE SAND.
THE SMOKE TEST.
NO, SEE THOSE VARIABLES
ARE STILL VERY PUZZLING.
OH... I'M GONNA BE UP ALL NIGHT
FOR WEEKS.
AND IT DOES SEEM LIKE,
MAYBE THEY COULD HAVE TUNNELED
IN FROM DOWN BELOW.
MAYBE THEY DID DIG IN FROM THE INSIDE.
GOSHEN IS JUST MESSING WITH US.
EVERY INDICATION SAYS
THERE'S SOMETHING DOWN THERE.
IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME.
HOW MUCH WORK WOULD IT TAKE TO
GO DOWN TO OUR PROPOSED TUNNEL CAP?
OH, TO KEEP DIGGING FROM THE SURFACE?
YEAH.
YEAH, THAT WOULD BE A PRETTY
MAJOR UNDERTAKING.
I DON'T THINK I'D RECOMMEND IT
AT THIS POINT, BASED ON THE INFORMATION
THAT WE'RE GETTING RIGHT NOW
AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING.
[sighs]
I GOTTA TELL YOU,
I'M JUST NOT READY TO STOP DIGGING THERE.
I MEAN, KNOWING EVERYTHING THAT WE KNOW?
EVERYTHING POINTING IN THE
DIRECTION OF SOMETHING BEING DOWN THERE?
TO FILL IN THAT TRENCH?
IT JUST SEEMS LIKE A FRIGGING CRIME.
YEAH.
MAYBE IT'S STUPID,
BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE WE HAVE TO
DIG DOWN TO THAT GEOPROBE HOLE.
TO THE BOTTOM OF THAT HOLE.
YOU KNOW?
I'M NOT SAYING ASK UMASS.
I JUST FEEL LIKE I CAN'T WATCH
THEM PUT THAT SOIL BACK IN THAT
TRENCH, WITHOUT GOING ANY FURTHER.
I JUST THINK
THAT DOESN'T RESONATE WITH ME,
DOING IT LIKE THAT.
IT SEEMS LIKE... HAPHAZARD.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A METICULOUS WAY TO DO IT
THAT WE'RE NOT TRAINED IN.
ANYTHING WE DO, WE SHOULD RUN
BY ERIC, YOU KNOW?
BECAUSE WE CALLED THEM IN,
WE WANNA ACT IN GOOD FAITH.
I DON'T WANNA BE THAT DUDE.
THEN IT'S LIKE, EH, YOU KNOW.
LIKE, I'M A HALF-ASSED
19TH CENTURY GUY WITH A
[bleep] SHOVEL HERE, YOU KNOW?
IT'S LIKE... [both laughing]
SO YOU CAN...
I'M NOT SAYING IT'S GAME OVER.
I JUST... I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE WAY
TO GO ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW?
YOU KNOW WHAT?
I THINK I HAVE AN IDEA.
Announcer: THE NEXT DAY...
GOOD MORNING, GENTLEMEN.
HEY, MAN.
Announcer: BILL LEADS THE
CHARGE BACK TO GOSHEN.
NICE BRIEFCASE.
WHAT IS THIS?
GOT SOME NICE JAMES BOND STUFF HERE.
AWESOME.
LOOK AT THAT THING.
THAT'S A CAMERA.
THAT IS AMAZING.
Announcer: HE'S COME EQUIPPED
WITH A MICROSCOPIC FIBER OPTIC CAMERA.
IT'S LIKE A TAPEWORM.
[all laughing]
THAT IS PRETTY NICE.
Announcer: SIMILAR TO ONES
USED BY DOCTORS FOR MEDICAL PROCEDURES.
SO WE'RE GONNA TRY TO THREAD
THIS THROUGH THAT ZIPPER,
AND SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING ON
THE OTHER SIDE.
EXCITING.
AWESOME.
HE HOPES THE CAMERA WILL BE
SMALL ENOUGH TO SLIP THROUGH A
CRACK IN THE ZIPPER, AND INTO
WHATEVER LIES BEYOND.
SO, YOU WANNA SEE WHAT I ATE
FOR BREAKFAST?
[all laughing]
NICE.
OKAY, GOT IT.
YEAH, GOT IT.
THANK YOU.
WHEN WE FIRST STARTED ON THIS
ADVENTURE, I HAD NO IDEA I'D
CATCH THE BUG LIKE I DID.
BUT I PROMISED MY LITTLE
BROTHER I'D SEE IT THROUGH
TO THE BITTER END
AND DO WHATEVER IT TOOK TO GET
TO THE TRUTH.
Announcer: YEARS OF SEDIMENT
BUILD-UP ON THE FLOOR HAVE MADE
THE SPACE VERY DIFFICULT TO GET THROUGH.
SO WE GOTTA FIND THE SPOT TO
GET THIS CAMERA IN.
I CAN'T FIND A SINGLE STONE
THAT'S LOOSE.
[exhales]
I'M ASTOUNDED AT HOW TIGHT THIS IS.
EVERY INCH OF IT.
IT'S LIKE A WIZARD BUILT THIS PLACE.
RIDICULOUS.
DAMN THESE MASONS THAT BUILT
THIS FRIGGING THING.
I THINK I GOT A LITTLE SPOT HERE.
I'M PUSHING TWO FEET.
THAT'S GOING PRETTY FAR.
YEAH.
WELL... LET'S DO IT.
HERE GOES NOTHING.
LOOKS LIKE A MEDICAL PROCEDURE HERE.
ABOUT TWO FEET IN.
WHOA.
WHAT IS THAT?
LOOK AT THAT.
WE'VE GOT A VOID.
SERIOUSLY?
THERE'S DEFINITELY A CAVITY.
CLEAN AS WHISTLE IN THERE.
HOLY [bleep].
LOOKS LIKE IT WAS LAID UP YESTERDAY.
OH.
Announcer: IN GOSHEN,
MASSACHUSETTS, THE VIEIRA
BROTHERS ARE TRYING TO DETERMINE
WHAT LIES BEYOND THE ZIPPER
OF THE GOSHEN MYSTERY TUNNEL.
HERE GOES NOTHING.
Announcer: THEY'RE USING A
FIBER OPTIC CAMERA TO SQUEEZE
BETWEEN THE STONES.
LOOK AT THAT.
WE'VE GOT A VOID.
SERIOUSLY?
IT'S CLEAN AS A WHISTLE IN THERE.
HOLY [bleep].
LOOKS LIKE IT WAS LAID UP YESTERDAY.
THE HELL?
I CAN SEE IT BACK THERE.
THERE'S A VOID,
AND THEN THERE'S MORE STONE.
SO... THERE'S A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL
WALL BEHIND THIS WALL.
I JUST CAN'T GET PASSED
THE WALL BEHIND THE WALL.
IF THEY WALLED OFF SOMETHING
HERE, THEY DID A HELL OF A NICE
JOB WALLING IT OFF.
THEY DIDN'T WANT ANYONE TO FIND IT.
I'LL TELL YOU THAT.
THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING IN THERE.
[breathing heavily]
WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?
AHH.
FREAKING GOLEM.
IT'S QUITE A WORKOUT.
THE WHOLE STRUCTURE'S, LIKE, OVERBUILT.
COMICALLY OVERBUILT.
EITHER THERE'S A TUNNEL IN THERE,
OR IT IS THE MOST STUPIDLY,
RIDICULOUSLY OVERBUILT STRUCTURE.
[laughs]
YEAH, IT'S WHACKED.
I CAN JUST PICTURE THE GHOSTS
OF THE BUILDERS OF THIS TUNNEL
SITTING OUT HERE SOMEWHERE, LAUGHING AT US.
[all laughing]
WE'LL BE BACK.
ROTTEN HOLE.
I KNOW.
Announcer: JUST A FEW DAYS
LATER, JIM GETS THE CALL
HE'S BEEN WAITING FOR.
HELLO?
HELLO, JIM, GOOD MORNING.
BOB BILLINGTON.
BOB, NICE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
Announcer: BOB BILLINGTON,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE BLACKSTONE
VALLEY TOURISM BUREAU IN RHODE
ISLAND HAS AN UPDATE IN THE
PURSUIT OF BENJAMIN BUCKLAND,
A WARRIOR GIANT FROM THE EARLY
COLONIAL PERIOD.
JIM, I JUST WANTED YOU TO
KNOW THAT YOU'VE GOT MY INTEREST PIQUED.
I'M DIGGING INTO THIS.
OH, THAT'S GREAT.
Announcer: JIM HAS BEEN
HOPING TO GAIN ACCESS TO A STONE
CAIRN IN CUMBERLAND,
WHERE THEY'VE TRACKED THE
POSSIBLE ENORMOUS SKULL
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
SO, JIM, WHAT I'M GONNA DO IS
I'M GONNA REACH OUT TO OUR
LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL
OFFICIALS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE
OF WEEKS, AND FIND OUT IF
THEY'RE INTERESTED IN HELPING US
SOLVE THE MYSTERY.
EXCELLENT.
ABSOLUTELY, JIM.
YOU GOT ME EXCITED ABOUT THIS.
IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S GONNA COME
THROUGH FOR US IN A BIG WAY.
IF WE GET TO OPEN THAT CAIRN,
I KNOW EXACTLY WHO SHOULD BE THERE WITH US.
THERE HE IS.
HELLO, TODD.
HOW ARE YOU DOING?
GOOD.
HOW IS THE SEARCH GOING?
UH, YOU KNOW... INTERESTING.
Announcer: JIM CONTACTS
ANTHROPOLOGIST TODD DISOTELL
TO GIVE AN UPDATE AND HOPEFULLY
GET HIM ON BOARD IN THE QUEST TO
UNCOVER BENJAMIN BUCKLAND'S GIANT SKULL.
YOU KNOW, GENERALLY WE FEEL
LIKE THERE'S HITS AND MISSES IN
THIS WHOLE STRANGE QUEST.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO QUESTION WITH GOSHEN.
I WAS HOPING TO FIND MORE.
I MEAN, YOUR JOURNEY IS A LOT
LIKE SCIENCE IN THE SENSE THAT,
YOU KNOW, WE GO DOWN A LOT OF BLIND ALLEYS.
MIGHT SPEND A YEAR OR TWO
COLLECTING DATA, AND ANALYZING
IT, AND REALIZE, WHOOPS, THAT DIDN'T WORK.
BUT IF YOU'RE NEVER WRONG,
THAT MEANS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN CREATIVE.
IF YOU JUST PUT OUT
TINY LITTLE INCREMENTAL THINGS,
YOU'LL PROBABLY ALMOST ALWAYS BE RIGHT.
BUT IF YOU GO OUT THERE WITH BIG IDEAS,
YOU'LL BE WRONG A LOT.
MM.
THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
I LIKE THAT.
SO, WANNA GIVE YOU AN UPDATE.
WELL, ONE INTERESTING THING
WE FOUND IS THIS ONE ACCOUNT
OF A GIANT COLONIST
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
OKAY.
AND WE HAVE PRETTY GOOD
CONFIRMATION THAT THE SKULL'S
BURIED IN A STONE-LINED CAIRN
IN RHODE ISLAND.
SO IF WE GET THE GREEN LIGHT,
AND WE CAN CORROBORATE THAT
THIS ENORMOUS SKULL
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH
IS IN THAT CAIRN, WOULD YOU
BE INTERESTED IN BEING THERE TO
CHECK IT OUT?
ABSOLUTELY.
I'LL BE THERE WITH BELLS ON.
[laughs]
THAT IS COOL.
WHAT WOULD REALLY SHOCK ME...
WHAT WOULD REALLY SHOCK ME...
WOULD BE A GOOD JAW WITH
DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
MM.
THEN IT WOULD GET VERY INTERESTING.
I FEEL IF WE CAN GET IN THAT
CAIRN, WE COULD FIND THE GIANT
EVIDENCE THAT WE'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR.
I'M NOT GONNA GIVE UP ON THIS RIDDLE.
ALL THROUGHOUT HISTORY,
ALL AROUND THE WORLD,
YOU HAVE MYTHS AND LEGENDS ABOUT GIANTS.
YOU HAVE NATIVE AMERICAN
ORAL HISTORY, TALES OF THE
NEPHILIM IN THE BIBLE,
THE TITANS AND CYCLOPS, AND PAUL BUNYAN.
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
I FEEL LIKE ALL THESE THREADS
ARE POINTING TO THE SAME REALITY.
AND EVERY STEP WE TAKE,
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE,
SPECIFIC MEASUREMENTS,
CORROBORATION THAT THESE EVENTS TOOK PLACE.
STEP BY STEP, WE'RE GETTING
CLOSER TO THE TRUTH.
I JUST FEEL LIKE WE CAN'T
GIVE UP AT THIS POINT.
WE'RE GONNA TAKE IT TO THE FINISH LINE.
THAT'S JUST ALL THERE IS TO IT NOW.
Announcer: DOES THE ANSWER
TO THIS MYSTERY LIE IN THE
MASSACHUSETTS WOODS?
OR DEEP WITHIN A BURIAL CAVE IN TENNESSEE?
OR IN THE DUSTY DESERT OF SENORA, MEXICO?
OR IS IT JUST A FEW FEET BELOW
THE STONES OF A SIMPLE CAIRN
IN RHODE ISLAND?
I'M NOT GONNA STOP TILL I GET
TO THE TRUTH.
I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD.
SEARCH FOR THE LOST GIANTS...
BREAKING GROUND, BROTHER.
IT'S GONNA GET REALLY FREAKY.
WHAT I FOUND THERE WAS
ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING.
THIS IS CLOSE TO NINE FEET.
WOW.
THIS ENORMOUS SKULL, DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH,
COULD BE RIGHT HERE.
GONNA TRY TO THREAD THIS
THROUGH THAT ZIPPER.
AND SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING
ON THE OTHER SIDE.
WHOA.
HOLY [bleep].
Announcer: FOR MILLENNIA,
HUMANKIND HAS TOLD TALES OF
GIANTS THAT ONCE WALKED THE EARTH.
OZARK CAVES IN ARKANSAS:
NINE FOOT.
PROVO, UTAH: 8'6".
Announcer: JIM VIEIRA
BELIEVES IT MAY BE MORE THAN JUST MYTH.
THE BIG MYSTERY: WHERE ARE THE BONES?
Announcer: JIM AND HIS BROTHER BILL...
HERE WE GO, BROTHER.
Announcer: WANT TO GET TO THE TRUTH.
IT JUST SEEMS IT'S SLIPPED
THROUGH THE HANDS OF HISTORY.
WHOA!
HOLY [bleep].
WOW.
THAT'S WICKED COOL.
UNBELIEVABLE.
WHOA.
LET'S DO IT.
ONE LEVEL, 10 CENTIMETERS AT A TIME?
YES, YEP.
BREAKING GROUND, BROTHER.
THIS IS WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD.
CAN I GO BACK?
I DON'T WANT TO SEE.
I KNOW, I'M NERVOUS TOO.
Announcer: JIM AND BILL
VIEIRA ARE ABOUT TO TAKE THEIR
QUEST FOR EVIDENCE OF GIANTS
TO A NEW LEVEL.
HOW YOU DOING, GUYS?
GOOD MORNING.
NICE TO SEE YOU.
Announcer: AT THE GOSHEN TUNNEL SITE,
THEY'VE BROUGHT ON AN
ARCHEOLOGICAL TEAM FROM THE
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS,
WHO WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE AND THEN UNEARTH
WHAT THE VIEIRAS BELIEVE IS A
HIDDEN CHAMBER.
A CHAMBER THAT COULD CONTAIN
THE REMAINS OF A GIANT.
IF THE CHAMBER'S HERE... >> RIGHT.
WE WANT TO BISECT IT TO THE SOUTH.
I'M NOT AFRAID TO BE WRONG.
I'M PROUD OF JIMMY FOR PUTTING
HIS NAME ON THIS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST WANNA
REMAIN ON THE FRINGE
AND HYPOTHESIZE, BUT NEVER
WANT TO REALLY HAVE IT TESTED.
LOOKS GOOD TO ME.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE WANNA BE DIFFERENT.
THAT'S THE SPOT, HUH?
THAT'S THE ONE.
SO, THIS IS IT.
AND I MUST SAY, I'M REALLY
KIND OF... I'M NERVOUS ABOUT
THE WHOLE PROSPECTS.
I CANT' FEEL BAD STICKING OUR NECKS OUT.
WE HAVE ABOUT SIX DIFFERENT
THINGS POINTING TO A CHAMBER DOWN THERE.
Announcer: SO FAR,
THE BROTHERS' NON-INVASIVE
INVESTIGATIONS AT THE GOSHEN
SITE HAVE YIELDED TANTALIZING
CLUES THAT THEY MAY HAVE FOUND
THE ALLEGED HIDDEN CHAMBER.
AT 47 FEET, WE FOUND WHAT
WE CALL A ZIPPER.
IT COULD BE A SPOT WHERE
CONSTRUCTION WAS STARTED
AND STOPPED, OR IT COULD BE
SOMETHING BEING WALLED OFF.
SO WE BROUGHT IN A GEOPROBE.
AND AT TEN FEET,
WHICH IS JUST ABOUT THE LEVEL OF
WHERE THIS TUNNEL IS RIGHT NOW, WE HIT...
[drilling tool dings]
STONE.
Announcer: SITTING ON TOP OF
THIS STONE WAS SAND.
SAND COMPOSED PRIMARILY OF QUARTZ,
WHICH SUGGESTED THAT IT WAS
BROUGHT TO THE SITE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
WE'RE READY TO GET STARTED.
ALL RIGHT.
Announcer: COULD THE VIEIRAS
AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM
BE ON THE VERGE OF A DISCOVERY
THAT WILL SHAKE MODERN SCIENCE?
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
GONNA FIND UNTIL YOU DIG IT.
HERE WE GO.
LET'S DO IT.
HERE'S WHERE IT GETS REAL.
IF THERE'S A BUILDER'S TRENCH
HERE, IT'S GONNA GET REALLY FREAKY.
Announcer: BILL AND JIM WILL
MONITOR THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS'
PROGRESS, BUT BECAUSE OF THE
METICULOUS NATURE OF THE WORK,
IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL DAYS
BEFORE THEY HAVE ANY RESULTS.
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, WE'RE
GONNA GET A RESOLUTION.
YEP, I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT
WE'LL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT.
Announcer: IN THE MEANTIME,
THE BROTHERS HAVE A COUPLE OF
LEADS TO FOLLOW.
IT WOULD BE INCREDIBLE TO
FIND SOMETHING IN GOSHEN.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE
SITE HOLDS, BUT I'M NOT PUTTING
ALL MY EGGS IN ONE BASKET.
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF ACCOUNTS
TO EVALUATE.
WOW.
Announcer: FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS...
BEAUTIFUL.
Announcer: THE VIEIRAS HAVE
INVESTIGATED NUMEROUS GIANT
SKELETON ACCOUNTS,
FROM VERMONT TO CALIFORNIA.
WHOO! CHECK IT OUT!
Announcer: FORENSIC ANALYSIS
OF A TOOTH FOUND IN AN OZARK
CAVE SHOWED THAT IT WAS NOT
THAT OF A HOMINID.
BUT THE BROTHERS HAVE UNCOVERED
COMPELLING EVIDENCE...
THAT SKULL IS HUGE.
Announcer: MEASUREMENTS, EYEWITNESSES,
AND PHOTOGRAPHS.
LIKE THE ONE THEY FOUND WHILE
EXAMINING THE ARCHIVES
OF AMATEUR ARCHAEOLOGIST RALPH GLIDDEN.
NOW, THE VIEIRAS ARE ABOUT TO
COMPARE NOTES WITH FELLOW GIANT
RESEARCHER L.A. MARZULLI.
L.A.
HEY, JIM, HOW YOU DOING, MAN?
GOOD, HOW YOU DOING?
I GOT MY BROTHER BILL HERE.
HEY, BILL.
HOW'S IT GOING, L.A.?
Announcer: MARZULLI ALSO
STUDIED GLIDDEN'S ARCHIVES.
WHAT I FOUND THERE WAS
ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING, IN MY OPINION.
Announcer: AND HAD THE PHOTO ANALYZED.
THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW
PHOTOGRAPHS WHERE GLIDDEN
ACTUALLY IS STANDING IN THE PIT.
LIKE HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT.
I THINK THE SKELETON IS
LAYING EXACTLY THE WAY HE'S UNCOVERED IT.
IT'S NOT A DISARTICULATED BONE PILE.
AND I FOUND THIS PICTURE,
AND I JUST WENT, "WHOA."
announcer: MARZULLI HAD FOUR
DIFFERENT ANALYSTS USE COMPUTER
SOFTWARE TO DIGITALLY EXTEND
BOTH GLIDDEN AND THE SKELETON
INTO AN UPRIGHT POSTURE.
I JUST GAVE THE SAME
PHOTOGRAPH, TOLD THEM WHERE IT
WAS FROM, THAT'S IT,
AND GAVE THEM THE HEIGHT OF
RALPH GLIDDEN, WHICH WE KNOW IS 5'8".
I GOT BACK THE INFORMATION, AND
THAT'S WHEN IT STARTED TO GET
REALLY INTERESTING.
[both laughing]
EVERYONE, ALL FOUR, PUT THAT...
PUT THAT PHOTOGRAPH AT 8 1/2'
TO 9 1/2'.
SOMEWHERE IN THERE.
AT THIS POINT, IT BECOMES VERY
OBVIOUS THAT THERE'S A REAL DISPARITY.
WOW.
OH, MY GOD.
LOOK AT THE SKULL SIZE.
UNBELIEVABLE.
YEAH, IT'S HUGE.
ABSOLUTELY HUGE.
WOW.
[laughs]
YES.
SO WE THINK IT'S A SMOKING GUN.
I THINK IT'S A SMOKING GUN.
WHAT'S THE TAKEAWAY?
WELL, MY TAKEAWAY IS THIS...
IN MY OPINION, THIS SKELETON
DOES TWO THINGS.
FIRST, IT POINTS BACK TO THE
VERACITY OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN
ORAL TRADITION THAT THERE WERE GIANTS HERE.
SECOND, IT POINTS BACK
TO THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE OF
THE NEPHILIM BEING ON THE EARTH.
I FIND THAT ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING.
THE NEPHILIM ARE IN FACT
THE PROGENY OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES.
THE BIBLICAL PASSAGE IS ABOUT
THE NEPHILIM BEING A CREATION OF
THE SONS OF GOD INTERBREEDING
WITH THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN.
SO THIS INTERBREEDING OF ACTION
CREATED A RACE OF GIANTS,
WHO I BELIEVE WERE PORTRAYED AS MALEVOLENT.
Announcer: COULD THIS
BIBLICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SONS OF
GOD INTERBREEDING WITH THE
DAUGHTERS OF MEN TO CREATE
THE GIANT NEPHILIM
BE ROOTED IN AN ANCIENT TRUTH?
COULD ALL THIS HAVE A
SUPERNATURAL EXPLANATION, LIKE
L.A. MARZULLI SUGGESTS?
I'M NOT SURE.
I CAN THINK OF ANOTHER SCENARIO.
Announcer: JIM BELIEVES
IT COULD BE AN ANCIENT ACCOUNT
OF INTERBREEDING BETWEEN TWO
SPECIES OF EARLY MAN.
IT SOUNDS PRETTY FREAKY, BUT
THE IDEA OF INTERBREEDING IS A REALITY.
YOU HAVE NEANDERTHALS AND HUMANS
INTERBREEDING.
YOU HAVE DENISOVANS 40,000 YEARS
AGO INTERBREEDING WITH
NEANDERTHALS AND HUMANS.
IT'S A PROVEN FACT, ACTUALLY,
BY SCIENCE, THAT YOU HAVE THESE
DIFFERENT SPECIES INTERBREEDING.
BUT THERE MIGHT BE A MYSTERY
SPECIES THAT IS... IS MIXED IN THERE.
Announcer: FOR JIM,
RECENT DISCOVERIES MAKE THIS
POSSIBILITY VERY REAL.
IN THE EARLY 2000s,
RUSSIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND
FRAGMENTS OF BONE AND A TOOTH
IN A SIBERIAN CAVE.
DNA ANALYSIS AT THE MAX PLANCK
INSTITUTE IN GERMANY
REVEALED THAT THEY BELONG TO A
PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN SPECIES OF ANCIENT HUMAN
NOW CALLED DENISOVAN.
TO HAVE ALL WE KNOW ABOUT THE
DENISOVANS BEING JUST TWO PIECES
OF BONE FINDS, YOU KNOW, TELLS YOU THAT,
YOU KNOW, WHO KNOWS?
THERE COULD BE A NEW, STARTLING FIND.
WHY NOT ANCIENT HUMANS
AND SOME UNDISCOVERED AS OF YET
SPECIES OF GIANT HOMINID?
GREAT, GREAT WORK.
THANKS, GUYS.
THAT'S WHY I'M ON THE TRAIL.
NICE, WAY TO GO, BROTHER.
APPRECIATE IT.
ALL RIGHT, TAKE CARE.
SEE YOU LATER, L.A.
announcer: BUT IS THERE A
CONNECTION BETWEEN MARZULLI'S
THEORY OF THE ANCIENT NEPHILIM
AND JIM'S RESEARCH?
IT'S A FASCINATING POSSIBILITY.
DID THE DNA OF A GIANT SPECIES
FIND ITS WAY THROUGH THE
MILLENNIA ALMOST TO MODERN TIMES?
THE REALITY IS, I FOUND AN
ACCOUNT RECENTLY THAT SEEMS TO SUPPORT IT.
Announcer: WHILE BILL STAYS IN GOSHEN,
JIM HEADS TO NEARBY RHODE ISLAND
WITH HUGH NEWMAN... >> THE QUEST IS ON.
Announcer: TO INVESTIGATE A
GIANT ACCOUNT THAT'S UNLIKE ANY
HE'S LOOKED INTO BEFORE.
THE ACCOUNT SAYS THAT
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND WAS A GIANT
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
NOW, THAT'S PARTICULARLY ODD
'CAUSE BENJAMIN BUCKLAND WAS A COLONIST.
THAT'S VERY WEIRD.
Announcer: WHILE AN
ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM IS AT WORK
EXCAVATING THE GOSHEN TUNNEL SITE,
JIM VIEIRA SETS OUT WITH HUGH NEWMAN.
THE QUEST IS ON.
Announcer: TO TRACK DOWN
LEADS REGARDING A GIANT UNLIKE
ANY OTHER HE'S INVESTIGATED TO DATE.
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND WAS A COLONIST.
WE'RE TALKING OVER 300 YEARS AGO.
SO IT'S THAT FOG OF MYSTERY
OF EARLY COLONIAL TIMES.
THE CASE OF BENJAMIN BUCKLAND.
HE'S ONE OF THE FIRST EUROPEANS
BORN IN THE UNITED STATES.
IN THE 1600s.
HE WAS RECRUITED BY THE
RHODE ISLAND MILITIA TO FIGHT
IN KING PHILIP'S WAR IN THE 1670s
HE ENDED UP BATTLING THE NATIVE
AMERICANS AT PIERCE'S FIGHT,
AND THEN WAS CAPTURED ALONG WITH
EIGHT SOLDIERS AND KILLED AT THE SITE OF
NINE MEN'S MISERY.
[stabbing]
AAH!
Announcer: JUST A FEW MILES
AWAY FROM THE SITE OF THE
BATTLE WERE BUCKLAND WAS KILLED,
JIM AND HUGH ARRIVE AT THE
PAWTUCKET LIBRARY,
ATTEMPTING TO DIG UP LEADS
ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE REMAINS.
THE BOOKS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
WILL BE HERE.
YES, YES, YES.
LET'S GRAB THEM ALL.
YEAH.
IT'S PIERCE'S FIGHT, NINE MEN'S MISERY,
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND.
KING PHILIP'S WAR, YEAH.
OH, YEAH, RIGHT HERE.
I THINK THIS IS 1820.
"THE BONES OF THESE MEN WERE
DISINTERRED BY SOME PHYSICIANS
FOR ANATOMICAL PURPOSES,
AND THEY WERE FOUND TO BE NEARLY PERFECT."
IN 1820, A DR. BOWEN,
WITH MEDICAL STUDENTS, DUG UP HIS REMAINS.
"BUT THE PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY
INSISTED UPON THEIR BEING
RETURNED TO THEIR GRAVES,
WHICH WAS ACCORDINGLY DONE."
SO THEN THE TOWN PEOPLE GOT
THEIR PITCHFORKS OUT,
AND FORCED THEM TO PUT THEM BACK
IN THE GROUND.
WHY WAS DR. BOWEN UNEARTHING THESE REMAINS?
WHAT WAS HE GETTING AT?
"ONE OF THE SKELETONS DUG UP WAS
OF EXTRAORDINARY SIZE.
AND BY THE FACT THAT IT HAD A
DOUBLE SET OF TEETH ALL THE WAY
AROUND, WAS RECOGNIZED AS
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND OF REHOBOTH."
LOOKS LIKE HE WAS GOING AFTER
IT BECAUSE BUCKLAND WAS GIANT
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
SO, WAS DR. BOWEN JUST CURIOUS?
WE DON'T KNOW.
IT REMAINS A MYSTERY.
MINE IS NOT TO REASON WHY.
MINE IS JUST TO DIG OR DIE.
Announcer: MEANWHILE,
BACK IN RURAL MASSACHUSETTS,
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION
OF THE GOSHEN MYSTERY TUNNEL
ENTERS ITS SECOND DAY.
I'M SUPER EXCITED.
IT'S REAL SCIENCE HAPPENING
RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
Announcer: THEIR PLAN TO
LOCATE AND FIND THE POTENTIAL
HIDDEN CHAMBER
IS BASED ON THE THEORY OF HOW
THE TUNNEL WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT,
A THEORY SHARED BY THE VIEIRAS.
THE ONLY WAY I CAN
IMAGINE THIS BEING BUILT
IS IF THEY ACTUALLY DUG ALL THE
WAY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM.
A TRENCH 19 FEET DOWN
AND PROBABLY 200 FEET LONG.
THEN YOU HAVE TO GET THE STONES,
AND THEN YOU START BUILDING YOUR WALLS,
AND PUTTING YOUR CAPS ON TOP.
AND THEN YOU HAVE TO BACKFILL IT.
JUST CRAZY.
AN INCREDIBLE PIECE OF WORK.
YOU KNOW, MICHELLE, I'M
SEEING A DIFFERENCE ALREADY.
Announcer: THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
WILL DIG A FEW EXPLORATORY TRENCHES.
THE FIRST, OVER THE KNOWN SOUTH TUNNEL.
THE GOAL BEING TO FIND THE
ORIGINAL BUILDER'S TRENCH.
ONCE THEY IDENTIFY THIS TRENCH,
THEY SHOULD HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW
THE TUNNEL WAS CONSTRUCTED.
I THINK THIS WAY IS
OUR NATURAL B HORIZON.
Announcer: THEN, THEY PLAN TO
DIG TRENCHES OVER THE
HYPOTHETICAL SIDE TUNNEL,
OR SECRET CHAMBER.
EVIDENCE OF ANOTHER BUILDER'S
TRENCH WILL BE PROOF THAT
THEY'VE LOCATED THE HIDDEN CHAMBER.
ALONG THE WAY,
THEY WILL METICULOUSLY SEARCH
THROUGH EVERY LAYER OF DIRT FOR ARTIFACTS.
THEY GOD OWN TEN CENTIMETERS AT A TIME,
SIFTING THROUGH ALL THE MATERIAL,
CAREFULLY LOOKING FOR CLUES.
Announcer: CLUES LIKE THOSE
FOUND IN THE PREVIOUS EXCAVATION.
IN 1980, MAVERICK ARCHAEOLOGIST
JIM WHITTAL FOUND SEVERAL
ARTIFACTS THAT HE BELIEVED
COULD BE ANCIENT IN ORIGIN.
ONE OF WHICH WAS VERIFIED AS
AN ANCIENT NATIVE TOOL:
A STONE HAMMER.
BILL AND JIM HOPE THAT THIS
EXCAVATION MIGHT REVEAL
ARTIFACTS OF AN EVEN GREATER SCALE.
IN 2006, OXFORD ARCHAEOLOGISTS
IN SOUTH AFRICA DISCOVERED
SEVERAL GIANT HAND AXES THAT
DATE BACK AS FAR AS 150,000 YEARS.
WERE THESE TWO-HANDED AXES FOR
NORMAL-SIZED MODERN HUMANS?
OR, WHERE THEY MADE BY SOMEONE LARGER?
WITH EVERY TEN CENTIMETERS
THEY DIG DOWN, IT SEEMS LIKE
THEY'RE MOVING FURTHER AND
FURTHER BACK IN TIME.
HUH.
OH, BOY.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THAT.
WOW, THAT'S KIND OF COOL.
IN THE FIRST 20 CENTIMETERS,
THEY START TO MAKE FINDS.
THESE TINY LITTLE FRAGMENTS,
THEY'RE PICKING OUT PIECES OF CERAMIC.
THIS IS ACTUALLY A CREAMWARE.
COOL.
THEY'RE ALL CONSISTENT WITH
LATE 18TH CENTURY... >> RIGHT.
IF IT'S CREAMWARE.
I GOT A BUTTON.
OH, YEAH?
IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT WAS
FROM YESTERDAY.
A BRASS BUTTON.
"SUPERFINE LONDON."
THAT IS SO COOL.
YEAH, IT'S A NEAT PIECE.
THE QUESTION IS, HOW FAR DOWN
WILL THEY HAVE TO DIG BEFORE
THEY FIND EVIDENCE WHICH POINTS
TO THE BUILDERS OF THE TUNNEL,
AND HOPEFULLY THIS SIDE SHAFT
THAT'S SITTING AT THE BOTTOM OF
THE GEOPROBE HOLE?
Announcer: IT WILL TAKE DAYS
BEFORE THEY HAVE ANY ANSWERS.
MEANWHILE, BACK IN RHODE ISLAND.
THE MAN THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO
HELP YOU IS BOB BILLINGTON.
HE'S RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD FROM HERE.
AWESOME.
Announcer: JIM AND HUGH GET A
TIP FROM THE LIBRARIAN
ABOUT A MAN WHO MAY BE ABLE TO
HELP THEM ON THEIR QUEST.
HELLO, WE'RE LOOKING FOR BOB BILLINGTON.
Announcer: THEY TRACK DOWN
BOB BILLINGTON.
HEY, BOB.
HELLO.
Announcer: PRESIDENT OF THE
BLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM BUREAU
IN PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.
HAVE YOU GOT A COUPLE OF MINUTES?
SURE, HOW CAN I HELP?
BOB'S A COLORFUL CHARACTER.
HE'S LIKE THE MAYOR OF PAWTUCKET.
HE KNOWS EVERYBODY, HE'S REALLY
NICE, HE'S FILLED WITH INFORMATION.
AND I DON'T MEET MANY PEOPLE WHO
WEAR A BOWTIE TO WORK,
BUT THAT'S A COOL LOOK.
I DIG IT.
WELL, WE'RE INVESTIGATING THE
CASE OF A COLONIST NAMED
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND, WHO WAS
KILLED AT THE NINE MEN'S MISERY.
NINE MEN'S MISERY, I KNOW ABOUT.
OH, GOOD.
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF.
SOUNDS STRANGE, BUT BENJAMIN
BUCKLAND WAS OF GIANT SIZE
AND HAD DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
REALLY?
I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS.
THE DUDE MUST HAVE BEEN
PUSHING 8', YEAH, IT'S...
AMA... THAT'S... THAT'S
PRETTY DISTINCTIVE.
YES.
SO, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW,
WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
WHERE THOSE REMAINS ARE.
UM... I KNOW IN THE 1920s,
THEY WERE DISINTERRED AGAIN.
REALLY?
WHO DID THAT, THEN?
THE LAND, AT THAT TIME,
BELONGED TO THE CISTERCIAN MONKS.
Announcer: BOB SAYS THAT AN
ANCIENT ORDER OF MONKS,
KNOWN AS THE CISTERCIANS,
UNEARTHED THE REMAINS
BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED THEM TO BE
UNCONSECRATED, OR NOT PROPERLY BLESSED.
THEY FELT IT WAS
INAPPROPRIATE FOR THEM TO HAVE
THOSE PARTICULAR REMAINS THERE.
SO WHEN HE TELLS US WHAT
HE KNOWS, WE'RE BLOWN AWAY.
THEY WERE DUG UP AGAIN 100 YEARS AGO.
Announcer: BUT WHY?
WAS IT SOMETHING ABOUT BUCKLAND
IN PARTICULAR?
IS IT POSSIBLE THE MONKS
BELIEVED HIM TO BE DESCENDED
FROM THE UNHOLY NEPHILIM?
SO, THE QUESTION IS, WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
YEAH, UM, I MEAN,
I UNDERSTAND THEY WERE HANDED
BACK TO CUMBERLAND DURING THE BICENTENNIAL,
PROBABLY JULY 1976, IN A CEREMONY.
BUT WHERE EXACTLY THE REMAINS WENT,
I DON'T KNOW.
IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S IN PLAY RIGHT NOW.
THESE REMAINS COULD BE ON A
SHELF SOMEWHERE.
BUT NOW YOU HAVE MY INTEREST.
EXCELLENT.
LET ME MAKE SOME PHONE CALLS
AND SEE WHAT I CAN DO TO TRY TO
PAVE THE WAY A LITTLE BIT
AND SEE IF WE CAN HELP YOU
WITH YOUR RESEARCH.
SOUNDS GOOD, MAN.
WE ARE OPENING UP A PIECE OF
OUR HISTORY THAT WE KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT.
SO WE WANT A JUMP.
AWESOME.
IT'S GREAT TO HAVE BOB ON OUR TEAM.
WE'LL BE IN TOUCH.
OKAY, TAKE CARE.
WITH A BIT OF LUCK, HOPEFULLY
BOB CAN HELP US TRACK DOWN
BUCKLAND'S REMAINS.
WE COULD GET OUR HANDS ON A
GIANT SKULL WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
Announcer: JIM VIEIRA AND
HUGH NEWMAN ARE HUNTING DOWN
EVIDENCE OF A GIANT WARRIOR
REPORTEDLY KILLED IN THE 1600s,
WHOSE BONES WERE UNEARTHED IN THE 1920s.
LET ME MAKE SOME PHONE CALLS
AND SEE IF WE CAN HELP YOU WITH
YOUR RESEARCH.
WE REALLY WANNA KNOW,
WHERE ARE THE BONES RIGHT NOW?
Announcer: BUT FIRST,
JIM MUST GET BACK TO THE GOSHEN
TUNNEL FOR AN IMPORTANT UPDATE
ON THE EXCAVATION.
IF THEY FOUND A BUILDER'S
TRENCH IN THE SOUTH TUNNEL,
WHICH I THINK THEY HAVE,
THEY SHOULD HAVE SOME DATE OR
INDICATION OF WHEN IT WAS BUILT.
HELLO.
HI, THERE.
OH, BOY, LOOK AT THIS.
[laughs]
UNBELIEVABLE.
WE DUG YOU GUYS SOME HOLES.
YOU DID, INDEED.
WOW.
WHAT I'M HOPING FOR IS
SOMETHING THAT SUPPORTS MY
HYPOTHESIS, TO PROVE IT'S
A ANCIENT NATIVE AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD
EASILY SAY IT WAS BUILT IN 1930.
THE WHOLE STORY COULD BE MADE UP.
YOU KNOW, WHO KNOWS?
YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING.
THE EVIDENCE IS GONNA TELL US
WHAT THE REALITY IS.
THIS IS THE FIRST TRENCH.
RIGHT, THIS IS TRENCH ONE.
AND YOU CAN SEE IN THE CONSTRUCTION TRENCH
OF THE SOUTH TUNNEL.
Announcer: THE UMASS TEAM HAS
UNCOVERED CLEAR EVIDENCE OF A
BUILDER'S TRENCH OVER THE SOUTH
TUNNEL BY PINPOINTING
DIFFERENCES IN THE NATURAL SOIL
AND THE DIRT THAT WAS USED TO
FILL BACK IN THAT TRENCH.
WE'VE HAD A NEW DEVELOPMENT
THIS MORNING.
OH, BOY.
SO IF YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK
RIGHT HERE, AT THE VERY TOP IS
THAT SORT OF DARKISH GRAYISH.
THAT'S JUST THE FOREST FLOOR.
YEAH.
IT'S WHAT WE'RE WALKING ON.
AND THEN BELOW THAT IS A DARK STRIP.
AND THAT'S THE ORIGINAL GROUND SURFACE.
WHAT'S THAT INDICATE TO YOU?
WELL, WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO
DETERMINE IS THAT THIS LAND
SURFACE HAD NEVER BEEN PLOWED
BEFORE THEY BUILT THE SOUTH TUNNEL.
SO I THINK THE FIRST THING THAT
HAPPENED ON THE LANDFORM WAS THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THESE TUNNELS.
Announcer: EARLY SETTLERS
PLOWED THESE MASSACHUSETTS
HILLS FOR FARMING AND LIVESTOCK,
BUT QUICKLY GAVE UP
BECAUSE THE SOIL IS SO ROCKY.
THE FIRST ACT ON THIS LAND WAS...
THROWING A TUNNEL DOWN.
YEAH.
THAT DATE PUSHES IT BACK
WELL BEFORE THE MODERN ERA.
IT PUTS IT IN A TIME, AT THE
VERY LEAST, THAT SEEMS ALMOST
INCONCEIVABLE THAT A SCATTERED
GROUP OF COLONISTS COULD COME
TOGETHER TO BUILD THAT.
SO THE ORIGINAL BUILDERS
OF THIS TUNNEL WERE WALKING
RIGHT ON THIS SPOT HERE?
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.
Announcer: THE QUESTION IS,
WHO WERE THOSE MEN STANDING ON THAT SPOT?
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THEY WERE
THE LOST GIANTS, WHOSE
MOUND-BUILDING CULTURE ALLEGEDLY
STRETCHED FROM THE MIDWEST
UP TO THE NORTHEAST?
THAT IS COOL.
IT CERTAINLY KEEPS MY HOPES
ALIVE THAT SOMETHING ASTOUNDING
COULD BE HERE.
THE POPULATION WAS SPARSE,
THE ENGINEERING PROJECT
IS ENORMOUS, YOU KNOW?
WHO THE HELL BUILT IT?
Announcer: WHILE THE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM MOVES ON
TO SEARCH FOR A BUILDER'S TRENCH
OVER THE POTENTIAL CHAMBER,
ANOTHER LEAD BECKONS JIM BACK
TO RHODE ISLAND.
WE WERE LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON
NINE MEN'S MISERY.
Announcer: HE AND TEAM MEMBER
HUGH NEWMAN CONTINUE THEIR
SEARCH FOR THE MISSING BONES
OF A GIANT WARRIOR
FROM THE EARLY COLONIAL ERA:
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND.
THEY'RE LOOKING FOR ANY ARTICLES
ON TWO MAIN EVENTS... >> THIS IS PIERCE.
PIERCE'S FIGHT.
Announcer: WHEN THE BONES
WERE UNEARTHED IN THE 1920s,
AND WHEN THEY WERE RETURNED
TO THE TOWN IN 1976.
OH, HERE WE GO.
A TABLET COMMEMORATING PIERCE'S FIGHT.
OKAY.
OKAY... >> SO WE FIND AN ARTICLE
FROM THE 1920s WHERE THE PLAQUE IS BEING
DEDICATED AT THE SITE OF NINE MEN'S MISERY.
Announcer: AROUND THIS SAME
TIME, THE BONES WERE ALLEGEDLY
UNEARTHED BY THE MONKS.
TRAVELLING THROUGH TIME, HUGH.
YEAH.
"COTTON UNDERWEAR, JANUARY SALE."
WOW.
"STEAM ENGINE FOR SALE."
WOW.
SECONDHAND.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.
MAYBE THERE'S PHOTOS OF THE
SKULLS BEFORE THEY WERE
PUT INTO THE GROUND SOMEWHERE.
AH, WHAT'S THIS?
OKAY, THIS IS THE ONE, YEAH.
AH-HA.
NOVEMBER 13TH, 1928.
"TABLET IN FRONT OF THE CAIRN
MARKING THE SITE OF NINE MEN'S
MISERY IN CUMBERLAND IS DEDICATED."
"NINE MEN'S MISERY, ON THIS SPOT,
WHERE THEY WERE SLAIN BY THE
INDIANS, WERE BURIED THE NINE
SOLDIERS CAPTURED IN PIERCE'S
FIGHT, MARCH 26, 1676."
IT APPEARS THAT THIS WAS
THE TIME THAT THE BONES WERE DUG UP AGAIN.
THERE'S A MONK, RIGHT?
YEAH.
YOU HAVE TO READ BETWEEN THE
LINES A LITTLE.
LIKE, DID THE MONKS FEEL
COMPELLED TO DEDICATE THIS PLAQUE BECAUSE
THEY DUG UP THE BONES?
WOW.
A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE.
YOU SEE THESE THRONGS OF PEOPLE,
THIS EVENT HAPPENED, THIS PLAQUE.
I WONDER, DO THESE PEOPLE
UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS
A GIANT WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF
TEETH THAT WAS RIGHT THERE THAT WAS DUG UP?
Announcer: IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT SOMEONE IN THIS PHOTO KNEW
EXACTLY WHAT HAD BEEN TAKEN OUT
OF THE GROUND HERE?
I WANT THE REMAINS.
I WANT TO SHOW THE
ANTHROPOLOGISTS THAT, LOOK,
THIS GUY HAD DOUBLE ROWS OF
TEETH LIKE SO MANY OF THESE ACCOUNTS.
WOW.
A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE.
Announcer: JIM VIEIRA AND
HUGH NEWMAN ARE ON THE HUNT FOR
EVIDENCE OF A WARRIOR FROM THE
1600s DESCRIBED AS A GIANT.
THERE'S A MONK, RIGHT?
YEAH.
Announcer: THEY'RE LOOKING
FOR PHOTOGRAPHS, MEASUREMENTS,
OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION THAT
CAN LEAD THEM TO THE COLOSSAL
SKULL REPORTED TO HAVE DOUBLE
ROWS OF TEETH.
IT'S NOT MISSING.
BUT THEY DON'T SAY ANYTHING.
NO, THERE'S NOTHING THERE, IS THERE?
ABOUT THE BONES, THOUGH.
[sighs]
THERE'S NO MENTION OF THE BONES.
THERE'S NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BONES.
IT'S JUST A... IT'S A STRANGE THING.
[phone ringing]
HELLO?
WHAT'S UP, BOB?
Announcer: JIM GETS A CALL
FROM BOB BILLINGTON,
WHO'S BEEN HELPING TO TRACK DOWN
BUCKLAND'S REMAINS.
DID YOU HAPPEN TO FIND ANYTHING OUT?
YEAH, AND FROM WHAT WE'RE
UNDERSTANDING, IN 1976,
THE REMAINS WERE PUT BACK INTO THE CAIRN.
OH.
NOW, UM...
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.
WOW.
EXCELLENT, THANKS A LOT, BUDDY.
TAKE CARE.
OKAY.
THANKS, BOB. SEE YOU, BOB.
OKAY.
THAT'S INTERESTING.
SO IN THE CAIRN?
YEAH.
WE ACTUALLY KNOW WHERE THE
SKULL OF THIS GIANT COLONIST
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH IS RIGHT NOW.
NOW WE HAVE TO VISIT THE SITE,
FIGURE OUT IF ANYTHING
CAN BE DONE TO FURTHER FIND THE EVIDENCE.
YEP, IT'S RIGHT UP HERE.
THE OLD MONASTERY GROUNDS.
ALL RIGHT.
LET'S DO IT.
YEP.
Announcer: JIM AND HUGH HEAD
TO THE SPOT WHERE THE BONES WERE
ALLEGEDLY REBURIED.
RIGHT AT THE SITE WHERE
BUCKLAND AND THE EIGHT OTHER
SOLDIERS WERE KILLED IN 1676.
[birds crowing]
IT'S GETTING PRETTY DARK OUT
HERE VERY QUICKLY.
YEAH, IT'S PRETTY SPOOKY
WOODS, REALLY, ISN'T IT?
IT IS SUCH A CRAZY, VIOLENT
THING HAPPENING HERE.
IT'S... UNNERVING.
RIGHT THERE.
WOW, THIS IS IT.
"NINE MEN'S MISERY.
ON THIS SPOT, SOLDIERS WERE SLAIN.
CAPTURED, KILLED, AND BURIED."
RIGHT HERE.
YEAH.
WELL, THEY'VE MORTARED IT UP PRETTY GOOD.
JUST TO STOP ANYMORE
GRAVE ROBBERS, I GUESS.
IT'S STRANGE.
IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE A TOMB.
SO IF BOB'S INFORMATION IS RIGHT,
BENJAMIN BUCKLAND'S ENORMOUS
SKULL WITH DOUBLE ROWS
OF TEETH COULD BE RIGHT HERE.
RIGHT BENEATH OUR FEET, REALLY.
TWO FEET OUT OF REACH.
[phone ringing]
HELLO?
HEY, BOB, THIS IS JIM.
HI.
Announcer: JIM IS DETERMINED
TO FIND OUT WHAT HE CAN DO
TO ADVANCE THE INVESTIGATION.
SO HUGH AND I ARE JUST BLOWN
AWAY WITH THE PROSPECT OF A
ENORMOUS SKULL WITH DOUBLE ROWS
OF TEETH BEING IN THERE.
Announcer: HE CALLS
BOB BILLINGTON, HIS CONTACT AT
THE BLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM BUREAU.
IF THIS IS A BURIAL SITE,
WE WANNA BE TOTALLY RESPECTFUL.
WE DON'T WANNA DESECRATE IT IN ANY WAY.
BUT WE'RE TRYING TO
DOCUMENT THESE THINGS AND GET TO THE TRUTH.
SO, I KNOW YOU HAVE AN INTEREST
IN IT, AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE A
MAN OF INFLUENCE.
YOU KNOW, IS THERE ANY WAY
YOU THINK WE CAN GET INTO THAT CAIRN?
WELL, I'M NOT SURE HOW
THE AUTHORITIES WILL SUPPORT THAT.
BUT I WANNA AT LEAST RAISE THE QUESTION.
OH, THAT'S AWESOME.
BOB'S NOT MAKING ANY PROMISES,
BUT HE'S CERTAINLY INTRIGUED BY
THE MYSTERY.
WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE.
I'M KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED.
TAKE CARE.
ALL RIGHT, MAN, TALK TO YOU LATER.
Announcer: BACK AT THE GOSHEN
SITE, THE ARCHEOLOGICAL TEAM
HAS FINALLY FINISHED DIGGING
TWO EXPLORATORY TRENCHES OVER
THE AREA OF THE POTENTIAL HIDDEN CHAMBER.
AND THEY'RE READY TO SHARE THEIR FINDINGS.
GOOD MORNING.
HEY, GOOD MORNING.
SO THIS IS IT.
CAN'T WAIT TO GET THE RESULTS.
TO BE HONEST,
I'M FEELING A LITTLE NAUSEOUS.
SO YOU CAN SEE DAN IS
CLEANING UP THE FLOOR NOW.
SO WE CAN GET A GOOD SENSE OF
WHAT WE'RE SEEING.
OH... I'M GONNA VOMIT INTO THE TRENCH.
YEAH.
SO I LOOK OVER AT BILLY
AND I REALIZE HOW FAR HE'S COME
WITH ME ON THIS JOURNEY.
AND HOW MUCH HE'S INVESTED IN
THIS STRANGE, UNSCRATCHED LOTTERY TICKET.
DEFINITELY PUT OUR NECKS ON THE
LINE WITH THIS TUNNEL.
AND IT'S FOURTH AND LONG.
WHAT'S THE PROGNOSIS?
WELL, I HAVE TO SAY THIS
PLACE HAS BEEN TOYING WITH US.
THAT SOUNDS INTERESTING.
AND AT THIS POINT,
I THINK WE HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.
HERE WE GO.
THE MOMENT OF TRUTH.
Announcer: IN RURAL
MASSACHUSETTS, THE EXCAVATION OF
THE GOSHEN MYSTERY TUNNEL
HAS REACHED A CRITICAL POINT.
AFTER DIGGING THREE EXPLORATORY
TRENCHES IN SEARCH OF EVIDENCE
THAT A HIDDEN CHAMBER
LIES BENEATH, THE UMASS
ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE READY TO
SHARE THEIR FINDINGS.
SO, AS YOU KNOW,
WE WERE HOPING TO COME DOWN ON
ANY SORT OF CONSTRUCTION
ACTIVITY FOR A BURIED TUNNEL
THAT WOULD BRANCH OFF OF THE SOUTH TUNNEL.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE DIDN'T FIND THAT.
WHAT WE CAN SAY, FROM OUR WORK
AND THE DATA THAT WE'RE
GETTING, IS THAT IF THERE IS
SOMETHING BEHIND THE ZIPPER
OUT OF THE SOUTH TUNNEL, IT WAS
NOT CONSTRUCTED IN THE SAME WAY
THAT THE SOUTH TUNNEL WAS.
RIGHT.
SURE.
BUT MAYBE THEY CONSTRUCTED IT
IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
Announcer: IF THERE IS A HIDDEN CHAMBER,
EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT IT WOULD
HAVE TO HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED
WITHOUT DIGGING A BUILDER'S TRENCH.
IT'S DEFINITELY FRUSTRATING.
WE WERE HOPING THE EXCAVATION
WAS GONNA GIVE US MORE ANSWERS.
BUT IT'S GIVING US MORE QUESTIONS.
DID YOU FIND ANY ARTIFACTS OR
EVIDENCE OF SAND?
UH, WE DID FIND TWO ARTIFACTS
FROM DEEP DOWN IN THE CENTER OF
THE CONSTRUCTION TRENCH
FOR THE SOUTH TUNNEL.
Announcer: A HAND-BLOWN PIECE OFF GLASS
AND A CORRODED NAIL.
SO THESE ARTIFACTS FIRMLY
ASSOCIATE, FOR ME, THAT THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOUTH TUNNEL
WAS 18TH CENTURY, PERHAPS EARLIER.
THE REST OF THE FILL AND ALL
THE NATURAL SOIL IN THE ENTIRE
TRENCH WAS CLEAN AS A WHISTLE.
RIGHT.
BUT WE DID NOT FIND ANY SAND,
EITHER JUST BEING CLEAN SAND OR THAT COLOR.
I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT SAND AT ALL.
I MEAN, THAT'S STILL A MYSTERY.
THAT'S, YOU KNOW, PUZZLING.
IT'S REALLY STRANGE.
Announcer: ANALYSIS OF THE
SAND FOUND DURING THE GEOPROBE
SHOWED THAT IT WAS LIKELY
BROUGHT TO THE AREA FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
I'M NOT QUITE SURE HOW TO
EXPLAIN THE PRESENCE OF A SAND
LIKE THIS THAT'S SITTING
UNDERNEATH TEN FEET OF CLAY.
IT'S JUST NOT ADDING UP.
UGH.
[laughs]
YEAH, I KNOW.
JUST SO MANY THINGS ARE POINTING TO...
YEAH.
THERE BEING A STRUCTURE HERE.
THE GEOPROBE WITH THE SAND.
THE SMOKE TEST.
NO, SEE THOSE VARIABLES
ARE STILL VERY PUZZLING.
OH... I'M GONNA BE UP ALL NIGHT
FOR WEEKS.
AND IT DOES SEEM LIKE,
MAYBE THEY COULD HAVE TUNNELED
IN FROM DOWN BELOW.
MAYBE THEY DID DIG IN FROM THE INSIDE.
GOSHEN IS JUST MESSING WITH US.
EVERY INDICATION SAYS
THERE'S SOMETHING DOWN THERE.
IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME.
HOW MUCH WORK WOULD IT TAKE TO
GO DOWN TO OUR PROPOSED TUNNEL CAP?
OH, TO KEEP DIGGING FROM THE SURFACE?
YEAH.
YEAH, THAT WOULD BE A PRETTY
MAJOR UNDERTAKING.
I DON'T THINK I'D RECOMMEND IT
AT THIS POINT, BASED ON THE INFORMATION
THAT WE'RE GETTING RIGHT NOW
AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING.
[sighs]
I GOTTA TELL YOU,
I'M JUST NOT READY TO STOP DIGGING THERE.
I MEAN, KNOWING EVERYTHING THAT WE KNOW?
EVERYTHING POINTING IN THE
DIRECTION OF SOMETHING BEING DOWN THERE?
TO FILL IN THAT TRENCH?
IT JUST SEEMS LIKE A FRIGGING CRIME.
YEAH.
MAYBE IT'S STUPID,
BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE WE HAVE TO
DIG DOWN TO THAT GEOPROBE HOLE.
TO THE BOTTOM OF THAT HOLE.
YOU KNOW?
I'M NOT SAYING ASK UMASS.
I JUST FEEL LIKE I CAN'T WATCH
THEM PUT THAT SOIL BACK IN THAT
TRENCH, WITHOUT GOING ANY FURTHER.
I JUST THINK
THAT DOESN'T RESONATE WITH ME,
DOING IT LIKE THAT.
IT SEEMS LIKE... HAPHAZARD.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A METICULOUS WAY TO DO IT
THAT WE'RE NOT TRAINED IN.
ANYTHING WE DO, WE SHOULD RUN
BY ERIC, YOU KNOW?
BECAUSE WE CALLED THEM IN,
WE WANNA ACT IN GOOD FAITH.
I DON'T WANNA BE THAT DUDE.
THEN IT'S LIKE, EH, YOU KNOW.
LIKE, I'M A HALF-ASSED
19TH CENTURY GUY WITH A
[bleep] SHOVEL HERE, YOU KNOW?
IT'S LIKE... [both laughing]
SO YOU CAN...
I'M NOT SAYING IT'S GAME OVER.
I JUST... I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE WAY
TO GO ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW?
YOU KNOW WHAT?
I THINK I HAVE AN IDEA.
Announcer: THE NEXT DAY...
GOOD MORNING, GENTLEMEN.
HEY, MAN.
Announcer: BILL LEADS THE
CHARGE BACK TO GOSHEN.
NICE BRIEFCASE.
WHAT IS THIS?
GOT SOME NICE JAMES BOND STUFF HERE.
AWESOME.
LOOK AT THAT THING.
THAT'S A CAMERA.
THAT IS AMAZING.
Announcer: HE'S COME EQUIPPED
WITH A MICROSCOPIC FIBER OPTIC CAMERA.
IT'S LIKE A TAPEWORM.
[all laughing]
THAT IS PRETTY NICE.
Announcer: SIMILAR TO ONES
USED BY DOCTORS FOR MEDICAL PROCEDURES.
SO WE'RE GONNA TRY TO THREAD
THIS THROUGH THAT ZIPPER,
AND SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING ON
THE OTHER SIDE.
EXCITING.
AWESOME.
HE HOPES THE CAMERA WILL BE
SMALL ENOUGH TO SLIP THROUGH A
CRACK IN THE ZIPPER, AND INTO
WHATEVER LIES BEYOND.
SO, YOU WANNA SEE WHAT I ATE
FOR BREAKFAST?
[all laughing]
NICE.
OKAY, GOT IT.
YEAH, GOT IT.
THANK YOU.
WHEN WE FIRST STARTED ON THIS
ADVENTURE, I HAD NO IDEA I'D
CATCH THE BUG LIKE I DID.
BUT I PROMISED MY LITTLE
BROTHER I'D SEE IT THROUGH
TO THE BITTER END
AND DO WHATEVER IT TOOK TO GET
TO THE TRUTH.
Announcer: YEARS OF SEDIMENT
BUILD-UP ON THE FLOOR HAVE MADE
THE SPACE VERY DIFFICULT TO GET THROUGH.
SO WE GOTTA FIND THE SPOT TO
GET THIS CAMERA IN.
I CAN'T FIND A SINGLE STONE
THAT'S LOOSE.
[exhales]
I'M ASTOUNDED AT HOW TIGHT THIS IS.
EVERY INCH OF IT.
IT'S LIKE A WIZARD BUILT THIS PLACE.
RIDICULOUS.
DAMN THESE MASONS THAT BUILT
THIS FRIGGING THING.
I THINK I GOT A LITTLE SPOT HERE.
I'M PUSHING TWO FEET.
THAT'S GOING PRETTY FAR.
YEAH.
WELL... LET'S DO IT.
HERE GOES NOTHING.
LOOKS LIKE A MEDICAL PROCEDURE HERE.
ABOUT TWO FEET IN.
WHOA.
WHAT IS THAT?
LOOK AT THAT.
WE'VE GOT A VOID.
SERIOUSLY?
THERE'S DEFINITELY A CAVITY.
CLEAN AS WHISTLE IN THERE.
HOLY [bleep].
LOOKS LIKE IT WAS LAID UP YESTERDAY.
OH.
Announcer: IN GOSHEN,
MASSACHUSETTS, THE VIEIRA
BROTHERS ARE TRYING TO DETERMINE
WHAT LIES BEYOND THE ZIPPER
OF THE GOSHEN MYSTERY TUNNEL.
HERE GOES NOTHING.
Announcer: THEY'RE USING A
FIBER OPTIC CAMERA TO SQUEEZE
BETWEEN THE STONES.
LOOK AT THAT.
WE'VE GOT A VOID.
SERIOUSLY?
IT'S CLEAN AS A WHISTLE IN THERE.
HOLY [bleep].
LOOKS LIKE IT WAS LAID UP YESTERDAY.
THE HELL?
I CAN SEE IT BACK THERE.
THERE'S A VOID,
AND THEN THERE'S MORE STONE.
SO... THERE'S A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL
WALL BEHIND THIS WALL.
I JUST CAN'T GET PASSED
THE WALL BEHIND THE WALL.
IF THEY WALLED OFF SOMETHING
HERE, THEY DID A HELL OF A NICE
JOB WALLING IT OFF.
THEY DIDN'T WANT ANYONE TO FIND IT.
I'LL TELL YOU THAT.
THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING IN THERE.
[breathing heavily]
WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?
AHH.
FREAKING GOLEM.
IT'S QUITE A WORKOUT.
THE WHOLE STRUCTURE'S, LIKE, OVERBUILT.
COMICALLY OVERBUILT.
EITHER THERE'S A TUNNEL IN THERE,
OR IT IS THE MOST STUPIDLY,
RIDICULOUSLY OVERBUILT STRUCTURE.
[laughs]
YEAH, IT'S WHACKED.
I CAN JUST PICTURE THE GHOSTS
OF THE BUILDERS OF THIS TUNNEL
SITTING OUT HERE SOMEWHERE, LAUGHING AT US.
[all laughing]
WE'LL BE BACK.
ROTTEN HOLE.
I KNOW.
Announcer: JUST A FEW DAYS
LATER, JIM GETS THE CALL
HE'S BEEN WAITING FOR.
HELLO?
HELLO, JIM, GOOD MORNING.
BOB BILLINGTON.
BOB, NICE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
Announcer: BOB BILLINGTON,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE BLACKSTONE
VALLEY TOURISM BUREAU IN RHODE
ISLAND HAS AN UPDATE IN THE
PURSUIT OF BENJAMIN BUCKLAND,
A WARRIOR GIANT FROM THE EARLY
COLONIAL PERIOD.
JIM, I JUST WANTED YOU TO
KNOW THAT YOU'VE GOT MY INTEREST PIQUED.
I'M DIGGING INTO THIS.
OH, THAT'S GREAT.
Announcer: JIM HAS BEEN
HOPING TO GAIN ACCESS TO A STONE
CAIRN IN CUMBERLAND,
WHERE THEY'VE TRACKED THE
POSSIBLE ENORMOUS SKULL
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
SO, JIM, WHAT I'M GONNA DO IS
I'M GONNA REACH OUT TO OUR
LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL
OFFICIALS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE
OF WEEKS, AND FIND OUT IF
THEY'RE INTERESTED IN HELPING US
SOLVE THE MYSTERY.
EXCELLENT.
ABSOLUTELY, JIM.
YOU GOT ME EXCITED ABOUT THIS.
IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S GONNA COME
THROUGH FOR US IN A BIG WAY.
IF WE GET TO OPEN THAT CAIRN,
I KNOW EXACTLY WHO SHOULD BE THERE WITH US.
THERE HE IS.
HELLO, TODD.
HOW ARE YOU DOING?
GOOD.
HOW IS THE SEARCH GOING?
UH, YOU KNOW... INTERESTING.
Announcer: JIM CONTACTS
ANTHROPOLOGIST TODD DISOTELL
TO GIVE AN UPDATE AND HOPEFULLY
GET HIM ON BOARD IN THE QUEST TO
UNCOVER BENJAMIN BUCKLAND'S GIANT SKULL.
YOU KNOW, GENERALLY WE FEEL
LIKE THERE'S HITS AND MISSES IN
THIS WHOLE STRANGE QUEST.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO QUESTION WITH GOSHEN.
I WAS HOPING TO FIND MORE.
I MEAN, YOUR JOURNEY IS A LOT
LIKE SCIENCE IN THE SENSE THAT,
YOU KNOW, WE GO DOWN A LOT OF BLIND ALLEYS.
MIGHT SPEND A YEAR OR TWO
COLLECTING DATA, AND ANALYZING
IT, AND REALIZE, WHOOPS, THAT DIDN'T WORK.
BUT IF YOU'RE NEVER WRONG,
THAT MEANS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN CREATIVE.
IF YOU JUST PUT OUT
TINY LITTLE INCREMENTAL THINGS,
YOU'LL PROBABLY ALMOST ALWAYS BE RIGHT.
BUT IF YOU GO OUT THERE WITH BIG IDEAS,
YOU'LL BE WRONG A LOT.
MM.
THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
I LIKE THAT.
SO, WANNA GIVE YOU AN UPDATE.
WELL, ONE INTERESTING THING
WE FOUND IS THIS ONE ACCOUNT
OF A GIANT COLONIST
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
OKAY.
AND WE HAVE PRETTY GOOD
CONFIRMATION THAT THE SKULL'S
BURIED IN A STONE-LINED CAIRN
IN RHODE ISLAND.
SO IF WE GET THE GREEN LIGHT,
AND WE CAN CORROBORATE THAT
THIS ENORMOUS SKULL
WITH DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH
IS IN THAT CAIRN, WOULD YOU
BE INTERESTED IN BEING THERE TO
CHECK IT OUT?
ABSOLUTELY.
I'LL BE THERE WITH BELLS ON.
[laughs]
THAT IS COOL.
WHAT WOULD REALLY SHOCK ME...
WHAT WOULD REALLY SHOCK ME...
WOULD BE A GOOD JAW WITH
DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH.
MM.
THEN IT WOULD GET VERY INTERESTING.
I FEEL IF WE CAN GET IN THAT
CAIRN, WE COULD FIND THE GIANT
EVIDENCE THAT WE'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR.
I'M NOT GONNA GIVE UP ON THIS RIDDLE.
ALL THROUGHOUT HISTORY,
ALL AROUND THE WORLD,
YOU HAVE MYTHS AND LEGENDS ABOUT GIANTS.
YOU HAVE NATIVE AMERICAN
ORAL HISTORY, TALES OF THE
NEPHILIM IN THE BIBLE,
THE TITANS AND CYCLOPS, AND PAUL BUNYAN.
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
I FEEL LIKE ALL THESE THREADS
ARE POINTING TO THE SAME REALITY.
AND EVERY STEP WE TAKE,
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE,
SPECIFIC MEASUREMENTS,
CORROBORATION THAT THESE EVENTS TOOK PLACE.
STEP BY STEP, WE'RE GETTING
CLOSER TO THE TRUTH.
I JUST FEEL LIKE WE CAN'T
GIVE UP AT THIS POINT.
WE'RE GONNA TAKE IT TO THE FINISH LINE.
THAT'S JUST ALL THERE IS TO IT NOW.
Announcer: DOES THE ANSWER
TO THIS MYSTERY LIE IN THE
MASSACHUSETTS WOODS?
OR DEEP WITHIN A BURIAL CAVE IN TENNESSEE?
OR IN THE DUSTY DESERT OF SENORA, MEXICO?
OR IS IT JUST A FEW FEET BELOW
THE STONES OF A SIMPLE CAIRN
IN RHODE ISLAND?
I'M NOT GONNA STOP TILL I GET
TO THE TRUTH.
I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD.