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A buried treasure belonging to one of
the most feared pirates to ever roam the
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seas. A lost cache of gold protected by
a deadly curse.
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And a confounding cipher that could
reveal a vast fortune.
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The fascinating tales of lost treasures,
missing fortunes, and elusive riches
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have sparked the human imagination for
ages.
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And the prospect of actually finding
precious valuables has motivated an
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uncountable number of brave souls to
hunt for where X marks the spot.
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But these grand adventures to follow the
clues to vast riches often come
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with great risks and sometimes deadly
curses.
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How likely is it that there really is?
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Treasure hidden all around us, just out
of our reach.
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Well, that is what we'll try and find
out.
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Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.
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Every year, thousands of people gather
at the Ocracoke Pirate Jamboree to
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experience a taste of swashbuckling life
on the high seas.
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The fair commemorates the defeat of the
most famous and feared pirate in
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colonial history, known by the name of
Blackbeard.
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Edward Teach
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also known as Blackbeard, is a legendary
pirate.
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Not much is known about him in his early
years, but it's believed that he grew
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up in Bristol, which is a town in
England.
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And from there, he moved on to Jamaica,
where he worked as a privateer
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in the War of Spanish Secession.
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And that was where his career as a
pirate really began.
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During the War of Spanish Succession
from 1701 to 1713, the English
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gave captains of private merchant ships
permission to attack and plunder vessels
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that were owned by Spain and France.
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Blackbeard was one of those captains who
were referred to as privateers.
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After 1713, when the war ended, if you
continued to be a privateer, you were no
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longer a privateer, you were a pirate.
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Blackbeard and a lot of them became
pirates because there was no other way
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making a living.
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In 1717, Blackbeard got his own ship and
became one of the most infamous pirate
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captains who ever lived. He made himself
look as terrifying as possible.
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He had a very long black beard. He had
very long black hair.
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And during battle, he would put fuses or
even candles into his beard and hair so
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smoke would kind of rise up.
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And it looked like he was coming out of
hell.
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Imagine this huge, towering figure with
this big, burly black beard and
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slow -burning fuses coming out from
underneath his hat, just sparkling.
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That really created his reputation.
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as the legendary pirate Blackbeard.
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Blackbeard and his fellow pirates were
plundering and stealing loot from ships
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all the time.
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In fact, so many, we don't even know the
exact number of ships that Blackbeard
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was able to loot, but they're able to
take a lot of loot.
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In 1718, after spending years capturing
and plundering ships on the high seas,
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Blackbeard's notorious career came to an
abrupt end when he was attacked off the
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southern tip of Ocracoke Island.
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The governor of Virginia told his coast
guard to capture Blackbeard at all
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costs.
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And so the job went to Lieutenant Robert
Maynard.
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And on November 22nd of 1718, Maynard
came upon Blackbeard's ship and
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immediately engaged him into battle.
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And Blackbeard engaged in a fight with
one of the men who ended up stabbing
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Blackbeard in the thigh.
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And supposedly Blackbeard shouted, well
done, lad.
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And then Lieutenant Robert Maynard ends
up beheading Blackbeard on the ship.
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And Blackbeard's head was placed on the
bowsprit of a ship and sailed up and
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down the eastern seaboard so everyone
would know that Blackbeard had been
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in battle.
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In the centuries since Blackbeard's
death, the mystery of his lost fortune
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captivated generations of treasure
hunters.
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If someone went out to find Blackbeard's
treasure, they would find approximately
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$12 .5 million in today's currency.
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And so all kinds of rumors and legends
about his treasure are definitely still
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out there and people are looking for it.
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And reportedly what Blackbeard said...
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Was only the devil and I know the
whereabouts of my treasure.
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And the one of us who lived the longest
should take it all.
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With little information to go on as to
where on earth Blackbeard's treasure may
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be hidden, fortune seekers began
searching the waters of Onslow Bay for
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legendary pirate ship, the Queen Anne's
Revenge.
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Just four months before his death,
Blackbeard ran his frigate aground near
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outer banks of North Carolina.
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Some speculate that the pirate wrecked
his ship on purpose as a way to cheat
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crew from receiving their share of the
latest plunder.
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The sunken vessel eluded discovery until
1996 when Mike Daniel and a team of
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divers used their treasure hunting
skills to pinpoint exactly where X...
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marked the spot.
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Over the years, I've found a lot of
treasure, a lot of gold, a lot of
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a lot of silver.
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For instance, I found a shipwreck called
the Meravilla, 1656 Spanish galleon,
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one of the richest ever to sink.
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The whole process of finding a shipwreck
is first you get the documentation that
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gives you a pretty good idea of where
you should be looking.
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And so in order to go search for the
Queen Anne's Revenge, you know, we
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looking through the various historical
documents.
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And it was said that the Queen Anne's
Revenge supposedly ran aground trying to
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enter Topsail Inlet up in North
Carolina.
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Even though it's Beaufort Inlet today,
it was Topsail Inlet at the time.
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And once you've got that pinned down,
now what you do is you set up a grid
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system. and then travel down that line
towing a magnetometer, an electronic
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piece of equipment that measures very
minute magnetism.
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If there is an anomaly in the water, it
would tell you something's there.
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And we had a pretty major hit.
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I go down and take a look, and I spot
the three cannons right away. They're
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sitting off to the side of this big
mound.
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And that's when we actually said, you
know.
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We've got it.
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Today, over 400 ,000 items have actually
been excavated off of the Queen Anne's
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Revenge. And these include things like
24 huge cannons came out of it. They've
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also found other goods such as personal
effects, and they've found weapons as
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well.
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But despite the vast number of artifacts
archaeologists have salvaged from the
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Queen Anne's Revenge, they found no sign
of Blackbeard's treasure, which begs
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the question.
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Where could it be?
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It's a mystery that still fascinates
treasure hunters to this day.
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The big question is what happened to the
gold on the Queen Anne's Revenge?
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It's possible that some of it has just
been kind of dispersed into the sea.
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It could be perhaps that Blackbeard
offloaded much of it before actually
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abandoning the Queen Anne's Revenge.
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It's one of the big mysteries about
Blackbeard that we just don't really
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While the discovery of the Queen Anne's
revenge was a massive accomplishment,
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the fact remains that Blackbeard's
treasure is still missing. And the
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pirate's gold isn't the only riches
treasure hunters have yearned to
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In fact, deep in the Arizona mountains,
many unlucky adventurers have tried
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to find a fortune guarded by a deadly
curse.
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In southern Arizona, 50 miles east of
Phoenix, fly the Superstition Mountains.
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These jagged peaks rise approximately 1
,800 feet into the sky and dominate the
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surrounding landscape.
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According to the folklore of the native
Apache people, the Superstition
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Mountains are a sacred place that is
guarded by a supernatural entity known
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the Thunder God.
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To the native Apache, the Superstition
Mountains are the home of the Thunder
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God, and as such, they should be
respected.
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Most Apache will not enter the
Superstition Mountains because they
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to do so could anger the Thunder God,
causing him to lash out and probably
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the person who has violated his faith.
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The Apache, they did not live too much
in the Superstitions.
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Because that's where the thunder god
lived was in the superstitions.
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And many times, actually, I've heard
thunder sounds even when there is no
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thunderstorms around.
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There's something there. I mean,
definitely the mountains do roar at
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The mountains rumble by themselves.
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And it's been attributed to, of course,
the Apache religion of their thunder
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god.
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The Superstition Mountains got their
name in the 1800s when pioneers heard
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from the local Native Americans about
people mysteriously disappearing or
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suddenly dying after entering the sacred
mountain range.
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But in spite of these warnings, settlers
often did not view the Superstition
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Mountains with such reverence.
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For those who came to the Superstition
Mountains during the Wild West era in
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search of gold, the Superstition
Mountains, like every other part of the
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American landscape, were a resource
waiting to be tapped.
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This was a place of possibility. This
was a place of possible wealth.
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We tend to associate this idea of
westward expansion with discovery, when,
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course, there were humans there all
along for centuries who already had an
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existing relationship with that land.
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They knew what was in it and had their
own belief about what was an appropriate
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way to interact with this landscape.
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The Apache were not happy to see these
settlers coming into their sacred land
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and, according to legend, put a curse on
the land that would result in the
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deaths of anybody who tried to mine the
Superstition Mountain.
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Because they believed that to do so is
to risk angering the Thunder God.
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There are those who believe the curse of
the Superstition Mountains is both real
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and deadly.
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As evidence, they point to a curious
treasure mystery that took place in the
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mountains over the course of more than
100 years.
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The story begins with the untimely
demise of the Peraltus, a family of
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prospectors who went searching for gold
in the Superstitions in the 1840s.
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The Peralta family were supposedly the
Spanish that came first to mine in the
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Superstition Wilderness.
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And they worked several mines in an area
where there was gold, there was silver,
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and they mined for both.
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As the story goes, the Spanish Peralta
family amassed crude bullion bars
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from their mine.
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And what I mean by crude, that would be
made of gold, silver, copper, and lead.
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And they stored this wealth in a hidden
drift underground.
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And then suddenly, the Apache attacked
the miners.
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The Apaches got tired of them being
there and destroying the natural beauty
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this place.
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They were intruders.
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And the Apache in 1848 wiped them out.
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After the massacre, the Apaches
reportedly buried the gold.
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and backfilled the mine in order to
appease the Thunder God.
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But since that time, treasure hunters
have not been scared off by the fate of
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the Peralta family or the supposed
curse.
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Over the years, thousands of fortune
seekers have journeyed to the
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Mountains in search of the lost gold.
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The desire to find the hidden resources,
to find this treasure that history
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tells us is there, is exciting people to
this day.
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And that sense of possibility and
potential, that there's still more
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more prosperity to be had, is something
that is really hard to squash.
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According to some estimates, at least
600 people have lost their lives
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for gold in the Superstition Mountains.
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Many of these people died in bizarre and
gruesome ways that defy explanation,
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perhaps lending credence to the notion
that the mountains are actually cursed.
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The most famous of these incidents was
the death of a man named Adolf Ruth.
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Back in the 1930s, there was Adolph
Ruth.
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He was a treasure hunter, amongst other
things, and he came out here to hunt the
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actual mine.
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And he disappeared, and after about six
months, they found his head and his body
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separated.
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It became nationally known, and a lot of
people wanted to come out looking for
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the mine because of Adolph Ruth.
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There's good reason to believe that
there could be a curse on the
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Mountains. A lot of people have died
prospecting for gold, and bodies have
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found with their head missing, which
seems like something that couldn't
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from natural causes and something that
may have some kind of supernatural
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origin.
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In an interesting way, the stories of
Native American curses are a way of
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commemorating the dark history of the
land and acknowledging that The original
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inhabitants were forced off of the land
and in many cases killed.
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It's about remembering that the present
situation was arrived at through some
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dark actions.
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Could a curse really be protecting a
hidden fortune deep within the
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Mountains?
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The land's name and troubling history
certainly makes it a distinct
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But... There is another treasure that is
not concealed by a curse, but rather a
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code. It is known as the Beale Cipher,
and solving it could finally reveal a
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cache of missing gold.
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Bedford County, Virginia.
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This rural area is filled with rolling
foothills, patchy forests.
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and quaint farms and cottages.
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But there are those who believe that
Bedford County also holds the answer to
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200 -year -old mystery.
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The mystery of the Beale Dragon.
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Thomas J. Beale was an educated man from
here in the local area in the 1820s.
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And him and a bunch of his buddies went
out west for an adventure.
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They were young and rich and educated
and wanted to see the west.
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Thomas Beale and his compatriots, said
to be up to 30 people, traveled first to
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St. Louis. Then they traveled north into
Colorado, where they were said to have
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found a deposit of gold and silver,
which they worked for several months,
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then transported back to Virginia.
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hiding it in a vault somewhere in
Bedford County.
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A hidden vault filled with millions in
gold and silver?
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It's certainly an incredible story.
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But that's not why we're still talking
about the Beale treasure today.
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The real reason why it's become so
famous and sought after is because of
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ingenious way Thomas Beale decided to
hide his fortune.
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No one really knows why Thomas Beale
decided to hide the treasure, but it
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be because at the time this was found,
Colorado was still part of Spain, and if
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they would have been caught mining
there, it would have been a capital
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and they would have gotten in a lot of
trouble.
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We do know that Thomas Beale gave a box
to Robert Morris in Lynchburg, Virginia,
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who ran a boarding house there.
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In about 1822, with instructions for him
not to open it until 1832.
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Beale goes, I want you to keep this for
safekeeping, because I'll be back in
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about 10 years, and if I'm not, you're
free to open it up and figure out what's
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going on.
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But as the story goes, Thomas Beale
never returned. He disappeared and was
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seen or heard from again.
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So, naturally, Mr. Morris began to
wonder.
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What's in the box?
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About 20 years later, Mr. Morse goes,
oh, yeah, that's right. It's been more
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than 10 years.
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I can open up this box.
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He opens up the box, and there are three
letters that are all written in
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numbers.
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It was like 12, 537, 16, 8, just a bunch
of numbers.
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And Mr. Morse is like, okay, I have no
idea how to solve this.
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Thomas Beale had written the three notes
using a simple but effective secret
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code that is known as a book cipher.
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This technique replaces letters with
numbers, creating a code based on a
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source document.
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But until you know what document the
numbers correspond to, it's impossible
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decode the cipher and reveal the secret
message.
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It was a type of encryption used a lot
during the Revolutionary War, and the
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numbers would indicate line numbers and
word numbers within, like, a dictionary
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or a law manual or something like that.
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It's fairly secure, provided that you
keep the identity of the book or source
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material secret.
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Since no one knew what text Thomas Beale
had used as his cipher, the three
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messages remain unsolved for decades.
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That is, until 1885, when a man named
James B. Ward began selling a 50 -cent
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pamphlet which revealed that Beale had
used a surprising document as the cipher
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for the second message, the Declaration
of Independence.
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What Thomas Beale had done was he wrote
a number under each word of the
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Declaration of Independence in order.
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So starting at the first word, 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, all the way down to the 800s or
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the 900s.
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And so he took the I in the first word
of the message and looked for a word
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starting with the letter I in the
Declaration of Independence.
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And then he picked one of them and
looked at the number that he had written
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underneath it and used that number to
stand for that letter I.
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And so he continued to the next letter
in his message, wrote down the number
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associated with that word, and then
continued along to create this long
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of numbers.
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Apparently what he had done was he
encoded three messages, one of which
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described the contents of the treasure,
another describing its location, and
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then the third note describes the owners
of the treasure and their relatives.
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Mr. Ward took the Declaration of
Independence.
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and was able to compare that with the
one letter, and he was able to figure
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how that worked.
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Mr. Ward was able to translate.
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I've deposited in the county of Bedford,
about four miles from Beaufort, six
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feet below the surface of the ground, 1
,014 pounds of gold and 3 ,812
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pounds of silver, deposited November
1819.
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If the description of the contents of
the vault, if it's truthful,
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the treasure is estimated to be worth
about $40 million in today's money. So
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obviously that's a very compelling
motivation to find the solutions for the
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other ciphers.
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But the first letter, which says exactly
where it's located, has never been
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decoded.
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So which is one reason why people don't
know where exactly it's within those
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four miles.
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One place that is located within the
four -mile area that Beale described is
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farm owned by a man named Danny Johnson,
which is why, for decades, people have
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been coming to his property in search of
the Beale treasure.
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People from all over the world have been
here to find that treasure, and every
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single one of them has a different idea
of where the treasure is buried.
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And some people have dug without
permission.
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There's probably been, I don't know how
many holes dug right around me.
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Every single one of them believes that
they have broken the code.
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You've got generations of researchers
that are coming and looking for this
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and silver.
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You're talking about a lot of money.
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And I think that's why people are still
looking for it.
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Will the confounding codes of Thomas
Beale's cipher ever be solved?
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Well, for now, the location of the
prospector's fortune remains lost to
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But there's another rich mystery whose
origins date back thousands of years.
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It concerns the wealth of King Solomon
and a trove of gold that was once hidden
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in a temple bearing his name.
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In the deserts of southern Israel lies a
mountainous region that is called the
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Timna Valley.
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Today, this area is known for its
uniquely shaped sandstone cliffs.
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But more than 3 ,000 years ago, the
Timna Valley was the site of a vast
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network of copper mines.
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In the Timna Valley, mining activity
took place for a long, long time. And
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of the mining operations took place
underground.
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The deepest is about 115 feet.
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They would hew in the ground circular
shafts. And going down that shaft,
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they would cut step into the side of the
shaft.
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And they would tunnel along
horizontally.
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where they would extract the copper and
take it back up to the surface.
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In recent years, the Timnah mines have
attracted attention because there are
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those who believe that buried
underground in one of these deep tunnels
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legendary lost treasure of the biblical
King Solomon.
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In the Old Testament of the Bible, King
Solomon is described as a noble and wise
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ruler of Israel.
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Historians believe that Solomon was a
real person who lived in the 10th
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BC.
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King Solomon is an intriguing figure
because the Bible makes so many claims
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about him, controlling vast amounts of
territory.
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According to the Bible, Solomon expanded
ancient Israel considerably, from the
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Euphrates River in the north all the way
to the river of Egypt.
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and so a much more expansive territory.
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The Bible also describes Solomon
controlling vast amounts of wealth.
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Solomon decides to build a temple in
Jerusalem. The temple becomes
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the home of God, and he spares no
expense.
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And he was so committed to having the
best temple in the region.
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that he actually imports the finest
materials to build this temple.
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According to the Bible, Solomon's temple
was built from the best limestone and
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cedar wood.
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Inside, the walls were overlaid with
pure gold.
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And Solomon adorned the temple with
objects made out of copper, which was
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precious metal at the time.
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King Solomon ruled Israel for 40 years
before dying in 931 B .C.
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Upon his death, Solomon reportedly left
behind an enormous amount of gold and
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other riches in his magnificent temple.
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But then, in 586 B .C., the Babylonians
invaded
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Jerusalem and sacked Solomon's temple.
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When the Temple of Solomon was destroyed
in 586 BCE, all the temple treasures
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were lost to history.
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And the ancient legend says that
Solomon's treasures were taken out of
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and buried.
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There are those who believe that the
treasures are to this day still hidden.
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For centuries, the legend of King
Solomon's lost treasure has been a
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fascination and mystery.
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In 1885, the story was exposed to a
wider audience when author H .R. Haggard
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wrote his famous novel, King Solomon's
Mines, which speculated that Solomon's
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treasures were hidden deep in an
underground mineshaft.
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But if there is some truth to this
legend, then where?
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is King Solomon's Treasure buried.
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For some, the most likely location is
the Timna Mines.
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The Timna Valley is located not more
than 150 miles from Jerusalem.
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So we're talking about close proximity.
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At Timna, there are 10 ,000 mine shafts,
maybe more.
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And so it's easy for people to kind of
say,
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There must be a connection.
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In the last several decades, numerous
researchers have tried to prove that the
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Timna mines are, in fact, the hiding
place of King Solomon's lost treasures.
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Some of the first evidence in support of
this theory was found by an
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archaeologist named Nelson Gluck, who
conducted a series of excavations at
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in the 1930s.
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Nelson Gluck made a huge study of the
copper mines, smelting works, and also
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the camps of those that were there.
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And what he found under the ground was
pottery dating
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from the 9th to 10th century BC.
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And this was the exact time frame of the
reign of King Solomon.
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And so for Nelson Gluck, he felt that he
had discovered evidence
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of Solomon's mine.
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Nelson Gluck's discoveries made
sensational headlines around the world.
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However, despite years of searching,
Gluck was unable to locate the fabled
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treasure.
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And some experts began to think that
Gluck was wrong.
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to associate the Timna mines with King
Solomon.
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But then, in 2019, a team of
archaeologists, led
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by Professor Aris Ben Yosef of Tel Aviv
University, made a remarkable discovery.
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While excavating an ancient mining
worksite at Timna, that is referred to
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Slave's Hill, they found more evidence
that links this location to King
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Slaves Hill is the largest copper
smelting site in Tina Valley.
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It's located on a sandstone mesa
surrounded by cliffs.
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And when you go to these sites, you find
a lot of organic materials that you can
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send to be dated.
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We used the Oxford lab in England.
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We were in shock when the radiocarbon
dates came back from the lab.
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The dates are for sure from the time of
King Solomon.
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From about 1020 BCE all the way to the
mid -9th century BCE.
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And so it's back in discussion if these
were King Solomon's mines or not.
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It seems that the truth about the
structure of biblical proportions will
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continue to be unearthed, one artifact
and one clue at a time.
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But there is another fortune.
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Not buried in the Holy Land, but rather
in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New
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York. The story involves a seasoned
mobster, a murder, and a very large
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stash of missing cash.
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Phoenicia, upstate New York.
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This quaint town at the base of the
Catskills is primarily known for being a
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popular vacation destination.
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But it is also known as the hiding place
of an incredible lost fortune.
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Because according to legend, somewhere
in this area, a safe was buried that
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contains tens of millions of dollars in
cash, bonds, and jewelry that belonged
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to a gangster named Dutch Schultz.
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Dutch Schultz was one of the most iconic
early 20th century mobsters in America.
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He was someone that had a name and a
reputation that spread across the
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as a real tough guy.
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And he became a millionaire during
Prohibition on bootlegging and various
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other rackets.
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Dutch Schultz became what was known as
the Beer Baron of the Bronx because
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during Prohibition, it was hard to get
beer.
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00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,840
And if you wanted beer, you had to get
it from Dutch Schultz.
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Because he controlled everything above
57th Street and in the Bronx.
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In the early 1930s, the FBI started
building a case against Dutch Schultz in
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effort to crack down on organized crime.
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The investigation was led by U .S.
Attorney Thomas Dewey.
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Thomas Dewey was a very smart
prosecutor.
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He went methodically after all of the
criminals.
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00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:34,179
So Dutch became so paranoid that he
wanted to bury his wealth before they
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take it.
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Supposedly, while he was under
indictment, Dutch Schultz had a
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constructed for him that was airproof,
soundproof, weatherproof.
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Him and his bodyguard put what was
thought to be anywhere between $5 and
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million in that safe.
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as well as jewelry and bonds.
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And they allegedly took that safe up to
the Catskills and
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buried it somewhere.
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The Dutch Schultz treasure is an
intriguing notion because one of the
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allegedly put into the treasure box were
Liberty bonds.
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These are simply bonds that could be
redeemed at a future date for more than
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value you paid for them.
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But... No liberty bond associated with
Dutch Schultz or any of his accomplices
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has ever been redeemed.
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This is used as one of the clues that
this treasure is still at large.
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If it's true that the lost treasure of
Dutch Schultz does in fact exist, then
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where could it be hidden?
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Well, according to many researchers, the
most likely place is somewhere along an
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old brook named Stony Clove Creek.
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Even though Dutch was a city kid, he
knew the Catskills well because that's
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where he had his stills making the
whiskey.
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00:35:03,250 --> 00:35:08,229
He'd stay at the Phoenicia Hotel and
then drive up and look at all of his
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00:35:08,230 --> 00:35:15,069
stills. Back in 1935, there was a train
that went from New York
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City up to the Catskills.
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00:35:17,730 --> 00:35:23,070
It went through this area near Stony
Clove Creek and Phoenicia.
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00:35:23,790 --> 00:35:28,969
One station was called Lanesville, which
was really nothing more than a little
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shack.
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00:35:30,310 --> 00:35:36,489
At that time, Dutch was afraid of being
nabbed in a checkpoint with the
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treasure.
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00:35:37,690 --> 00:35:43,490
So treasure hunters have theorized that
he got off the train at Lanesville,
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00:35:43,610 --> 00:35:48,469
buried the treasure somewhere along the
banks of the Stony Clove Creek, because
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00:35:48,470 --> 00:35:49,610
it's extremely remote.
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00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,839
Is it possible that the lost treasure of
Dutch Schultz is buried somewhere along
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00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,860
the banks of Stony Clove Creek?
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00:35:59,620 --> 00:36:06,539
We may never know for sure because in
1935, a rival gangster named Charlie
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00:36:06,540 --> 00:36:10,800
Luciano ordered a hit on Dutch Schultz.
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00:36:12,260 --> 00:36:17,160
Dutch Schultz had set up his operation
at the Palace Chop House.
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00:36:17,620 --> 00:36:18,920
The small...
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00:36:19,450 --> 00:36:26,029
restaurant bar establishment in Newark,
New Jersey, and two assassins, Charles
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00:36:26,030 --> 00:36:30,290
the Bug Workman and Mendy Weiss, walk
into the bar.
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00:36:32,510 --> 00:36:34,290
Charles shoots Dutch twice.
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00:36:37,310 --> 00:36:42,529
And there's that famous picture of Dutch
Schultz with his head on the table
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00:36:42,530 --> 00:36:44,170
after he's been shot twice.
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00:36:45,070 --> 00:36:47,350
He's grievously injured but not dead.
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00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,479
Dutch Schultz was immediately rushed to
the New York hospital. And some
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00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:58,659
researchers believe that on his
deathbed, Dutch left a final clue as to
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00:36:58,660 --> 00:37:00,160
his treasure vault is buried.
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00:37:01,580 --> 00:37:08,019
During his deathbed rant, he's giving
little tidbits of possible information
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00:37:08,020 --> 00:37:09,360
about his treasure.
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00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,100
At one point he says, don't let Satan
draw you too fast.
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00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,540
That could just be a ramble.
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00:37:17,150 --> 00:37:23,529
But some treasure hunters believe this
line could be a reference to a
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00:37:23,530 --> 00:37:28,790
formation in the town of Phoenicia
called the Devil's Rock.
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00:37:31,010 --> 00:37:35,649
There have been scores of treasure
hunters trying to find this treasure up
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00:37:35,650 --> 00:37:41,689
the Catskills around Phoenicia. It is
worth so much that today you could
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00:37:41,690 --> 00:37:46,210
probably buy a fleet of jumbo jets with
just what's in that treasure box.
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00:37:47,050 --> 00:37:49,160
And that's why everyone's looking for
it.
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00:37:54,410 --> 00:37:55,990
Kerala, India, 2011.
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00:37:57,590 --> 00:38:02,130
Heavily armed police officers patrol the
entrance to an ancient Hindu temple,
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00:38:02,630 --> 00:38:05,230
the Sri Padmanabh Swami Temple.
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00:38:06,410 --> 00:38:10,989
By order of India's Supreme Court,
officials began unsealing six mysterious
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00:38:10,990 --> 00:38:15,450
vaults, which have remained locked
beneath the temple for hundreds of
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00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:23,039
And when archaeologists examined the
first five vaults, they found untold
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00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,140
billions in ancient treasure.
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00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:31,739
The government had to do an inventory of
the vault. So they did go in and they
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00:38:31,740 --> 00:38:35,059
documented everything in several of the
chambers. One chamber was just for
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00:38:35,060 --> 00:38:37,830
ornaments and jewelry. Another chamber
was for jewels.
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00:38:38,020 --> 00:38:41,600
And they were sacks and sacks of
diamonds and rubies and emeralds.
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00:38:42,180 --> 00:38:46,460
There were thrones made of gold. There
was a 300 -pound gold veil.
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00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:51,140
And there was a rope of gold chain that
was 1 ,100 pounds.
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00:38:52,580 --> 00:38:57,299
And the reason there's so much money in
this temple is because of contributions
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00:38:57,300 --> 00:39:01,579
and taxes. And that started when the
Maharajas and the rulers started taxing
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00:39:01,580 --> 00:39:03,100
lower caste system.
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00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,819
The total value of the treasure that was
found in the first five chambers has
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00:39:07,820 --> 00:39:11,020
been estimated to be worth as much as
$22 billion.
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00:39:12,060 --> 00:39:17,039
But when officials attempted to open the
door to the sixth and final vault, they
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00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,020
made a shocking discovery.
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00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:25,679
When it came to the sixth door, which
they call Chamber B, they were decorated
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00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:29,700
with cobras. This is a sign of danger,
like a skull and crossbones.
510
00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:36,239
That gives you a message, do not enter
or enter on your own risk. There are
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00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:39,680
massive, huge cobras, and they can be
very deadly.
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00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,680
This is a forbidden place.
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00:39:44,020 --> 00:39:45,260
A forbidden place?
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00:39:46,380 --> 00:39:51,099
While that may sound like a far -fetched
notion, many believe there's a very
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00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:53,340
good reason not to tamper with Vault B.
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00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:58,320
Because, according to legend, it may be
cursed.
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00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:05,399
You could not go beyond this point,
because there are corporals, there are
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00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:06,450
Nagas.
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00:40:06,740 --> 00:40:10,600
Nagas are the mythical serpents in
Hinduism.
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00:40:11,340 --> 00:40:17,499
And it has been said that when they
sealed the door, it was locked with what
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00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:20,280
call naga -pasa mantra.
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00:40:20,820 --> 00:40:25,940
It is like a spell through the naga's
mantra, it was locked.
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00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:32,600
Everyone is scared of the naga and they
are thinking that it may be cursed.
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00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:39,359
That is why, you know, people do not
dare to open it. It could cause many
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00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:40,410
consequences.
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00:40:41,230 --> 00:40:45,909
based on what they've heard, that people
fear that the world will end if that
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00:40:45,910 --> 00:40:47,190
chamber is opened.
528
00:40:47,850 --> 00:40:50,650
So they're really reticent about doing
anything.
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00:40:51,890 --> 00:40:56,269
Whenever you hear a story that there is
trillions of dollars worth of buried
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00:40:56,270 --> 00:40:59,040
treasure, people are always going to
want to know more.
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00:40:59,330 --> 00:41:03,990
This temple is not hidden. This temple
is very public. People know what's in
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00:41:04,030 --> 00:41:06,150
how much is in it, and what the value
is.
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00:41:06,510 --> 00:41:08,530
And yet, it's hidden to us.
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00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,140
Can't access it. We can't see it. We
can't touch it.
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00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:14,940
So that's the real mystery.
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00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:19,020
Would you dare to look past the cobras?
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00:41:19,820 --> 00:41:23,780
Open that sealed door and risk your life
for untold riches?
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00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:30,299
Regardless of your tolerance to tempt
fate, many brave souls have paid a steep
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00:41:30,300 --> 00:41:33,800
price on a mission to claim hidden
fortunes.
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00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:39,439
Is there any truth to the legends,
curses, and calamities that surround
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00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:40,490
treasure?
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00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:46,319
And what will be uncovered should
Blackbeard's or Thomas Beale's or Dutch
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00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,460
Schultz's secret stashes ever be
discovered?
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00:41:49,740 --> 00:41:54,040
Will it be gold, jewels, or piles of
money?
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00:41:54,940 --> 00:42:01,320
Oh, it's an intriguing thought that for
now remains unexplained.
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00:42:01,370 --> 00:42:05,920
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