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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,468 --> 00:00:01,501  Na                              2 00:00:01,501 --> 00:00:01,534  Narr                            3 00:00:01,534 --> 00:00:01,568  Narrat                          4 00:00:01,568 --> 00:00:01,601  Narrator                        5 00:00:01,601 --> 00:00:01,634  Narrator:                       6 00:00:01,634 --> 00:00:01,668  Narrator: A                     7 00:00:01,668 --> 00:00:01,701  Narrator: A gh                  8 00:00:01,701 --> 00:00:01,735  Narrator: A ghos                9 00:00:01,735 --> 00:00:01,768  Narrator: A ghost               10 00:00:01,768 --> 00:00:01,801  Narrator: A ghost sh            11 00:00:01,801 --> 00:00:01,868  Narrator: A ghost ship          12 00:00:01,868 --> 00:00:01,901  Narrator: A ghost ship          di                               13 00:00:01,901 --> 00:00:01,935  Narrator: A ghost ship          disc                             14 00:00:01,935 --> 00:00:01,968  Narrator: A ghost ship          discov                           15 00:00:01,968 --> 00:00:02,002  Narrator: A ghost ship          discover                         16 00:00:02,002 --> 00:00:02,035  Narrator: A ghost ship          discovered                       17 00:00:02,035 --> 00:00:02,068  Narrator: A ghost ship          discovered o                     18 00:00:02,068 --> 00:00:02,102  Narrator: A ghost ship          discovered off                   19 00:00:02,102 --> 00:00:02,135  Narrator: A ghost ship          discovered off t                 20 00:00:02,135 --> 00:00:02,168  Narrator: A ghost ship          discovered off the               21 00:00:02,168 --> 00:00:02,202  Narrator: A ghost ship          discovered off the c             22 00:00:02,202 --> 00:00:02,235  Narrator: A ghost ship          discovered off the coa           23 00:00:02,235 --> 00:00:03,470  Narrator: A ghost ship          discovered off the coast         24 00:00:03,470 --> 00:00:07,207  of the Azores in 1872,          leads to wild speculation        25 00:00:07,207 --> 00:00:10,310 as to how the entire crew          disappeared.                   26 00:00:11,277 --> 00:00:12,946   James Ellis:                      It could've been a mutiny.    27 00:00:12,946 --> 00:00:14,881    Ships were isolated worlds,   28 00:00:14,881 --> 00:00:16,916    and tensions could             easily flare up                 29 00:00:16,916 --> 00:00:19,085    in such confined quarters.    30 00:00:21,121 --> 00:00:23,323   Narrator: A treasured Russian  art installation                 31 00:00:23,323 --> 00:00:26,059    seemingly vanished              during World War II.           32 00:00:26,860 --> 00:00:28,595   Adam Bunch: The entire room!   33 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:31,364  Where in the world had             the Nazis taken it?           34 00:00:32,465 --> 00:00:35,402 Narrator: Great Victorian         explorer, Percy Fawcett         35 00:00:35,402 --> 00:00:38,204  embarked on an                     expedition into the Amazon    36 00:00:38,204 --> 00:00:40,673 in search of a lost city,        37 00:00:40,673 --> 00:00:42,242  never to be seen again.         38 00:00:43,043 --> 00:00:45,245    Dr. Agbedor: It's possible    that he felt he was close        39 00:00:45,245 --> 00:00:48,615 to finding his lost city          and wanted to make sure         40 00:00:48,615 --> 00:00:50,283    others couldn't follow him.   41 00:00:50,283 --> 00:00:53,253    ♪♪                            42 00:00:53,253 --> 00:00:56,356  Narrator: The chain of history   has many missing links.         43 00:00:56,956 --> 00:00:58,591 Prominent people.                44 00:00:58,591 --> 00:00:59,959   Priceless treasures.           45 00:00:59,959 --> 00:01:02,328 Extraordinary artifacts.         46 00:01:02,662 --> 00:01:05,532  Their locations still unknown.  47 00:01:05,532 --> 00:01:07,634 Lost to the fog of time.         48 00:01:08,935 --> 00:01:12,705 What happens when stories           in the past become            49 00:01:12,705 --> 00:01:14,541 Vanished History?                50 00:01:14,541 --> 00:01:28,788    ♪♪                            51 00:01:30,023 --> 00:01:32,926  Narrator: On December 4, 1872,  52 00:01:32,926 --> 00:01:37,130  Captain David Morehouse of the   Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia  53 00:01:37,130 --> 00:01:39,065  was navigating the warm waters  54 00:01:39,065 --> 00:01:41,835    between the                     Azores Islands and Portugal,   55 00:01:41,835 --> 00:01:44,537    when he came across            a strange site.                 56 00:01:44,537 --> 00:01:48,641    On the horizon, the ghostly    silhouette of a merchant ship,  57 00:01:48,641 --> 00:01:50,677   lifeless and adrift,           58 00:01:50,677 --> 00:01:52,779    swaying eerily in the calm.   59 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:55,482  Alison Leonard: It was           an extraordinary sight.         60 00:01:55,482 --> 00:01:58,318    A ship drifting aimlessly,      its sails in tatters           61 00:01:58,318 --> 00:01:59,819   and slightly out of control.   62 00:01:59,819 --> 00:02:02,355   Morehouse immediately             sensed something was amiss.   63 00:02:03,857 --> 00:02:06,259    James Ellis: The Dei Gratia      was about 6 nautical miles    64 00:02:06,259 --> 00:02:07,627    away at this point.           65 00:02:07,627 --> 00:02:11,764 Morehouse hailed the ship         multiple times without response 66 00:02:11,764 --> 00:02:13,099 and then realized                67 00:02:13,099 --> 00:02:14,234   there was no one at the wheel  68 00:02:14,234 --> 00:02:17,403  and not a sign of life on deck. 69 00:02:17,403 --> 00:02:21,441 As he got closer,                his confusion turned to anxiety: 70 00:02:21,441 --> 00:02:24,244    he recognized it as           the Mary Celeste.                71 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,516    Adam Bunch: Morehouse seems   to have known the Captain        72 00:02:29,516 --> 00:02:32,819   of the Mary Celeste,           Benjamin Spooner Briggs.         73 00:02:32,819 --> 00:02:34,287  Some accounts even suggest they 74 00:02:34,287 --> 00:02:36,389  had dinner together in New York 75 00:02:36,389 --> 00:02:38,725 the night before                    the ship set sail.            76 00:02:40,460 --> 00:02:42,729  Alison Leonard: Ten people were  onboard - a crew of seven men,  77 00:02:42,729 --> 00:02:44,898    Captain Briggs, and            his wife and daughter.          78 00:02:44,898 --> 00:02:47,333    The ship was supposed to be    headed to Genoa, Italy          79 00:02:47,333 --> 00:02:48,735   to deliver a load of alcohol.  80 00:02:48,735 --> 00:02:52,205   So what was it doing drifting    aimlessly 400 nautical miles   81 00:02:52,205 --> 00:02:53,773   off the coast of the Azores?   82 00:02:53,773 --> 00:02:56,109    ♪♪                            83 00:02:59,913 --> 00:03:01,881    ♪♪                            84 00:03:01,881 --> 00:03:03,783 Narrator:                        Originally named Amazon,         85 00:03:03,783 --> 00:03:07,520 the Mary Celeste was constructed  in Nova Scotia, Canada.         86 00:03:09,222 --> 00:03:12,292    Anthea Nardi: When the ship   launched on May 18, 1861,        87 00:03:12,292 --> 00:03:14,427  things didn't start off         smoothly.                        88 00:03:14,427 --> 00:03:17,063 In fact, its early years            were pretty rough.            89 00:03:17,063 --> 00:03:18,831    Its Captain passed               away from pneumonia           90 00:03:18,831 --> 00:03:20,400 on the very first voyage,        91 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,303   and over the next few years,    it faced more bad luck,         92 00:03:23,303 --> 00:03:25,371   including running aground on      Cape Breton Island,           93 00:03:25,371 --> 00:03:27,273    in October of 1867.           94 00:03:30,410 --> 00:03:34,047 Adam Bunch: The ship was renamed the Mary Celeste in 1868         95 00:03:34,047 --> 00:03:36,516    and underwent some             significant renovations         96 00:03:36,516 --> 00:03:39,819   and was sold to a group that   included Captain Briggs.         97 00:03:39,819 --> 00:03:43,990   And soon after that, the ship   was moved to its new home port  98 00:03:43,990 --> 00:03:45,191 in New York City.                99 00:03:46,025 --> 00:03:49,195   And then on November 7, 1872,  100 00:03:49,195 --> 00:03:52,298 the Mary Celeste                    set sail for Genoa.           101 00:03:52,298 --> 00:03:55,568  It was less than a month later   that it was discovered          102 00:03:55,568 --> 00:03:58,771    floating adrift by the crew      of the Dei Gratia.            103 00:04:05,211 --> 00:04:06,579   Narrator: His fears growing,   104 00:04:06,579 --> 00:04:10,049    Captain Morehouse sent his    Chief Mate Oliver Deveau         105 00:04:10,049 --> 00:04:14,153    and several crew members to     investigate the Mary Celeste.  106 00:04:14,153 --> 00:04:16,322  And what they uncovered           would become                   107 00:04:16,322 --> 00:04:20,026   one of the greatest maritime    mysteries of all time.          108 00:04:20,526 --> 00:04:22,095   Anthea Nardi:                  It was a chilling scene.         109 00:04:22,095 --> 00:04:26,032 On the deck, there were signs of  disarray but no obvious chaos.  110 00:04:26,032 --> 00:04:28,301  A piece of the railing          had been removed.                111 00:04:28,301 --> 00:04:31,070 One sail was intact, and          others were blown away          112 00:04:31,070 --> 00:04:32,572  or missing altogether.          113 00:04:32,572 --> 00:04:35,441   And ropes were strewn             haphazardly over the sides.   114 00:04:37,176 --> 00:04:39,279    Adam Bunch:                      The ship had three hatches.   115 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:42,548 The main one was securely          fastened, but the other two,   116 00:04:42,548 --> 00:04:45,852  the fore and lazarette,         they were left wide open.        117 00:04:49,989 --> 00:04:52,425 Narrator: The mystery of            the Mary Celeste deepened,    118 00:04:52,425 --> 00:04:55,495   as the boarding party          investigated below deck.         119 00:04:56,696 --> 00:04:58,564 Alison Leonard: There was           no sign of Captain Briggs,    120 00:04:58,564 --> 00:05:01,567   his wife Sarah Elizabeth, his    2-year-old daughter, Sophia,   121 00:05:01,567 --> 00:05:03,936    or any of the other            7 crew members.                 122 00:05:03,936 --> 00:05:05,772  All 10 had seemingly vanished.  123 00:05:08,441 --> 00:05:10,209   James Ellis: There was about      three feet of water           124 00:05:10,209 --> 00:05:12,278 in the bilges. Not ideal,        125 00:05:12,278 --> 00:05:16,616 but definitely not enough         to sink a 282-ton ship,         126 00:05:16,616 --> 00:05:20,953    and the cargo of over 1,700     barrels of industrial alcohol  127 00:05:20,953 --> 00:05:22,889 remained almost entirely intact. 128 00:05:24,957 --> 00:05:27,360   Anthea Nardi:                   The only lifeboat was missing,  129 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,929  along with the bill of landing,   the navigation book,           130 00:05:29,929 --> 00:05:32,865    and interestingly,              the navigational instruments,  131 00:05:32,865 --> 00:05:35,301   including the ship's           sextant and chronometer.         132 00:05:36,669 --> 00:05:38,971  Alison Leonard: What's puzzling   is what the crew left behind.  133 00:05:38,971 --> 00:05:42,942  Petty cash, tobacco, even oil-  skin raincoats, all still there. 134 00:05:42,942 --> 00:05:45,945   So something happened on that   ship that made everyone leave,  135 00:05:45,945 --> 00:05:48,481   without so much as collecting   their personal effects.         136 00:05:48,481 --> 00:05:50,883    Even small items that could      easily be carried.            137 00:05:50,883 --> 00:05:52,051 But what was it?                 138 00:05:57,423 --> 00:05:59,759   Narrator: Upon the discovery     of the Mary Celeste,           139 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:03,162  many observers' first instinct   was that Captain Briggs         140 00:06:03,162 --> 00:06:05,398 was the victim of                a sinister plot.                 141 00:06:06,866 --> 00:06:08,601   James Ellis:                      It could've been a mutiny.    142 00:06:08,601 --> 00:06:12,872  Ships were isolated worlds, and  tensions could easily flare up  143 00:06:12,872 --> 00:06:14,907    in such confined quarters.    144 00:06:14,907 --> 00:06:17,043   They had been at sea             for nearly a month...          145 00:06:17,043 --> 00:06:19,779   It's not hard to imagine the     crew turning against           146 00:06:19,779 --> 00:06:23,549  Captain Briggs, perhaps driven  by fear or greed.                147 00:06:25,585 --> 00:06:27,487 Anthea Nardi: But Captain         Briggs was well liked.          148 00:06:27,487 --> 00:06:30,356   He was known                     to be firm but fair.           149 00:06:30,356 --> 00:06:33,126  He was a religious man          and a staunch teetotaller        150 00:06:33,126 --> 00:06:35,261    and hand-picked the           crew personally.                 151 00:06:36,028 --> 00:06:39,065 By all accounts, the men            were described as peaceful,   152 00:06:39,065 --> 00:06:40,566   professional sailors.          153 00:06:41,834 --> 00:06:44,670  Narrator: An inquiry into what   transpired on the Mary Celeste  154 00:06:44,670 --> 00:06:48,141 was held, and despite the           lack of physical evidence,    155 00:06:48,141 --> 00:06:52,545  the idea of mutiny lingered in     the minds of investigators.   156 00:06:53,746 --> 00:06:55,782   Adam Bunch: The hearings were     led by the Attorney General   157 00:06:55,782 --> 00:06:58,551   of Gibraltar,                   Frederick Solly-Flood.          158 00:06:58,551 --> 00:07:01,354   He speculated wildly            about a mutiny                  159 00:07:01,354 --> 00:07:04,323    fueled by all that            alcohol on board.                160 00:07:04,323 --> 00:07:06,259  His theory was that the           crew had been driven           161 00:07:06,259 --> 00:07:08,327   into a drunken frenzy          162 00:07:08,327 --> 00:07:10,696  and killed the                   captain and his family.         163 00:07:10,696 --> 00:07:12,765 But that might have been            impossible.                   164 00:07:12,765 --> 00:07:16,602 Many historians think the          alcohol was toxic, denatured,  165 00:07:16,602 --> 00:07:18,738 so no one would have been        able to drink it at all.         166 00:07:23,910 --> 00:07:26,512  James Ellis: Denatured alcohol    is a type of ethanol           167 00:07:26,512 --> 00:07:28,614    with additives put            into the barrels                 168 00:07:28,614 --> 00:07:32,418    to make it not only             unappetizing, but poisonous.   169 00:07:32,418 --> 00:07:35,288    This was to prevent anyone      from becoming tempted          170 00:07:35,288 --> 00:07:37,657    to imbibe the cargo            on the voyage,                  171 00:07:37,657 --> 00:07:40,760  and was a common practice among    manufacturers at the time.    172 00:07:43,162 --> 00:07:46,799 Narrator: This denatured alcohol was destined for industrial use, 173 00:07:46,799 --> 00:07:49,101   often in the                    production of perfumes,         174 00:07:49,101 --> 00:07:51,003   solvents and cleaning fluids.  175 00:07:52,505 --> 00:07:53,840   Anthea Nardi: They found some   pretty unsettling stuff         176 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,542   on board - a broken,            stained sword,                  177 00:07:56,542 --> 00:07:58,644    strange stains on the deck,   178 00:07:58,644 --> 00:08:01,113   and a deep mark in the timber  that looked like                 179 00:08:01,113 --> 00:08:02,682  it was made by an axe.          180 00:08:02,682 --> 00:08:04,851    Flood thought this pointed     to a violent struggle.          181 00:08:04,851 --> 00:08:06,385   But when they                    tested the evidence,           182 00:08:06,385 --> 00:08:07,820    there was no blood at all.    183 00:08:07,820 --> 00:08:09,722 So, if it wasn't                 a violent clash,                 184 00:08:09,722 --> 00:08:11,357  then what else                     could've happened?            185 00:08:11,357 --> 00:08:20,166    ♪♪                            186 00:08:21,334 --> 00:08:23,069 Narrator: With no                   evidence of mutiny,           187 00:08:23,069 --> 00:08:27,406 wild conspiracy theories emerged  and spread far and wide         188 00:08:27,406 --> 00:08:31,077 as legends of the                ghost ship proliferated.         189 00:08:31,077 --> 00:08:34,013 But the explanation could        be a simple, natural one         190 00:08:34,013 --> 00:08:37,850    that has plagued seafarers,    since humans took to the seas.  191 00:08:39,519 --> 00:08:41,621   James Ellis: The year             the Mary Celeste was found    192 00:08:41,621 --> 00:08:44,557   had the worst weather            since records began.           193 00:08:44,557 --> 00:08:47,360    Hundreds of vessels            were lost or abandoned          194 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:48,995    in the Atlantic that year.    195 00:08:50,663 --> 00:08:53,499 We know from the log book        that after setting sail,         196 00:08:53,499 --> 00:08:55,801    the crew contended              with "heavy weather".          197 00:08:55,801 --> 00:08:59,205   But there's no indication of      danger in the final entry.    198 00:08:59,205 --> 00:09:02,108  In his last log                 from November 25,                199 00:09:02,108 --> 00:09:05,077  Captain Briggs describes having  made it through a storm         200 00:09:05,077 --> 00:09:08,180   the night before and            settling in calm seas.          201 00:09:10,149 --> 00:09:13,853   Adam Bunch: Plus, the cabin's   skylight was left propped open, 202 00:09:13,853 --> 00:09:16,188  which obviously                  would've let water in.          203 00:09:16,188 --> 00:09:19,392 So if they were preparing          for a terrible storm,          204 00:09:19,392 --> 00:09:20,927   why leave that open?           205 00:09:28,634 --> 00:09:31,003 Narrator: A deeper look into the  Mary Celeste's history          206 00:09:31,003 --> 00:09:33,606    led some to believe            that the ship suffered          207 00:09:33,606 --> 00:09:35,875 some sort of mechanical failure. 208 00:09:37,310 --> 00:09:39,712  Alison Leonard: Before the Mary Celeste was loaded with alcohol, 209 00:09:39,712 --> 00:09:41,747   she had been used for             transporting coal,            210 00:09:41,747 --> 00:09:43,282   which is known for its dust.   211 00:09:43,282 --> 00:09:46,218   The pumps on the vessel might   have been clogged by coal dust  212 00:09:46,218 --> 00:09:47,887  from a previous voyage.         213 00:09:47,887 --> 00:09:50,790 We also know that one of its two   pumps had been disassembled.   214 00:09:53,125 --> 00:09:55,061    Adam Bunch: A sounding rod,   which is used to measure         215 00:09:55,061 --> 00:09:59,432 the amount of water in the hold,  was discovered on deck,         216 00:09:59,432 --> 00:10:01,500    which suggests it had been    used just before                 217 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:03,169  the ship was abandoned.         218 00:10:03,169 --> 00:10:06,305   So one theory is that           maybe a faulty reading          219 00:10:06,305 --> 00:10:09,909   of the sounding rod combined   with an ineffective pump,        220 00:10:09,909 --> 00:10:13,779   could have convinced Captain     Briggs the ship was sinking.   221 00:10:13,779 --> 00:10:16,716  So maybe that's why he            ordered it abandoned           222 00:10:16,716 --> 00:10:19,018  near the last land he sighted,  223 00:10:19,018 --> 00:10:21,554   the Island of                     Santa Maria in the Azores.    224 00:10:23,289 --> 00:10:24,991  Alison Leonard: But the           Mary Celeste was still afloat  225 00:10:24,991 --> 00:10:27,259  and in seaworthy shape             when it was found.            226 00:10:27,259 --> 00:10:30,096  So, panicking over fear of her    sinking doesn't seem likely.   227 00:10:32,365 --> 00:10:37,269  Narrator: Of the 1,701 barrels   of industrial alcohol on board, 228 00:10:37,269 --> 00:10:39,405  nine were found empty.          229 00:10:39,405 --> 00:10:42,041   This discovery points           to a different,                 230 00:10:42,041 --> 00:10:45,144   and possibly far more           dangerous explanation.          231 00:10:46,212 --> 00:10:48,381   James Ellis: These particular  barrels, unlike the rest,        232 00:10:48,381 --> 00:10:51,951    were crafted from red oak,       which is a more porous wood   233 00:10:51,951 --> 00:10:54,754 than the sturdy white oak          used for the others.           234 00:10:55,454 --> 00:10:57,056   This distinction is crucial,   235 00:10:57,056 --> 00:11:00,259  as red oak is far more          prone to leakage.                236 00:11:00,259 --> 00:11:04,230    The slow, silent seepage of      alcohol could have created    237 00:11:04,230 --> 00:11:06,332  a dangerous build-up of fumes.  238 00:11:08,234 --> 00:11:09,869    Anthea Nardi: Nine barrels    may not sound like a lot,        239 00:11:09,869 --> 00:11:11,804   but that's about 300 gallons!  240 00:11:11,804 --> 00:11:13,706   If the alcohol leaked          and was absorbed                 241 00:11:13,706 --> 00:11:15,141    into the walls of the ship,   242 00:11:15,141 --> 00:11:18,177 this would have created a highly  flammable environment.          243 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,947    Even the vapors are           highly explosive.                244 00:11:21,947 --> 00:11:24,350  In a ship made                     entirely of timber,           245 00:11:24,350 --> 00:11:26,485   and likely lit by oil lamps,   246 00:11:26,485 --> 00:11:28,354   fire would have been           the biggest fear.                247 00:11:29,922 --> 00:11:31,757 Narrator:                        According to Briggs' log,        248 00:11:31,757 --> 00:11:35,361  on the night of November 24th,  a storm swept in,                249 00:11:35,361 --> 00:11:38,531  battering the ship, and          sending the barrels of alcohol  250 00:11:38,531 --> 00:11:40,700    in the hold tumbling about.   251 00:11:41,901 --> 00:11:43,636    Alison Leonard: And as the     Mary Celeste neared the Azores, 252 00:11:43,636 --> 00:11:45,538 the air would have grown warmer, 253 00:11:45,538 --> 00:11:47,073 and with all that                  movement below deck,           254 00:11:47,073 --> 00:11:49,208   alcohol vapors could              have begun to rise.           255 00:11:49,208 --> 00:11:51,077   Combine that with the            higher temperatures,           256 00:11:51,077 --> 00:11:52,912  and it's very possible             that small,                   257 00:11:52,912 --> 00:11:54,814    volatile explosions            were occurring.                 258 00:11:57,450 --> 00:12:00,286  James Ellis: It's also possible that Captain Briggs heard        259 00:12:00,286 --> 00:12:03,856   some of this in the hold and    ordered the hatches thrown open 260 00:12:03,856 --> 00:12:05,958 to let the fumes escape.         261 00:12:05,958 --> 00:12:09,195    This would also explain why      the skylight was left open.   262 00:12:09,195 --> 00:12:11,931    As fumes poured out           of the hatchways,                263 00:12:11,931 --> 00:12:14,834    rumbling noises would have    been heard from the stern        264 00:12:14,834 --> 00:12:18,170  and the escaping vapour         could've resembled smoke.        265 00:12:19,972 --> 00:12:21,741   Anthea Nardi:                   Captain Briggs, likely worried  266 00:12:21,741 --> 00:12:23,909 for the safety of                   his wife and child,           267 00:12:23,909 --> 00:12:26,645    probably gave the order to       board the ship's lifeboat.    268 00:12:26,645 --> 00:12:28,681   In the rush, they may          have even removed                269 00:12:28,681 --> 00:12:30,116    part of the ship's railing    270 00:12:30,116 --> 00:12:32,184   to get everyone onto            the small boat quickly.         271 00:12:33,152 --> 00:12:34,987    Adam Bunch: They could have    secured a rope                  272 00:12:34,987 --> 00:12:37,656 from the lifeboat to the            stern of the ship,            273 00:12:37,656 --> 00:12:40,893  planning to return once          the danger had passed.          274 00:12:40,893 --> 00:12:43,028 But records show                    that wind picked up           275 00:12:43,028 --> 00:12:46,665  right around that time,          stirring up rough seas.         276 00:12:46,665 --> 00:12:50,336   So maybe a rogue wave          overturned the lifeboat,         277 00:12:50,336 --> 00:12:51,971 or the tow line snapped,         278 00:12:51,971 --> 00:12:55,274  leaving the crew at the          mercy of the elements.          279 00:12:55,274 --> 00:12:57,910   They would have been             essentially, doomed.           280 00:12:57,910 --> 00:13:00,746    The truth is, we'll             never know for sure.           281 00:13:07,119 --> 00:13:10,823  Narrator: Ultimately, the Mary   Celeste was discovered intact,  282 00:13:10,823 --> 00:13:13,259   but that doesn't mean          the crew wasn't reacting         283 00:13:13,259 --> 00:13:16,228  to a very real                    threat in their eyes,          284 00:13:16,228 --> 00:13:19,431  whether it was imminent            danger or imagined.           285 00:13:19,431 --> 00:13:23,669    Without more evidence, what      happened may remain as lost   286 00:13:23,669 --> 00:13:26,806 as the ship was,                    on that foggy December day,   287 00:13:26,806 --> 00:13:29,842    in the vastness of               the Atlantic Ocean.           288 00:13:33,512 --> 00:13:44,290    ♪♪                            289 00:13:44,290 --> 00:13:49,461 Narrator: 1941, 3 million          Nazi soldiers flooded          290 00:13:49,461 --> 00:13:50,963  into the Soviet Union,          291 00:13:50,963 --> 00:13:53,999 looting tens of thousands        of art treasures.                292 00:13:55,568 --> 00:13:58,571 In Pushkin, the staff of         Catherine Palace                 293 00:13:58,571 --> 00:14:02,241  had already removed and hidden    all the valuables they could.  294 00:14:02,241 --> 00:14:06,145   But the one thing deemed too      large and precious to move,   295 00:14:06,145 --> 00:14:08,414  the palace's greatest treasure, 296 00:14:08,414 --> 00:14:10,883  had been cleverly camouflaged.  297 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:14,753  James Ellis: The Nazis             stormed the palace            298 00:14:14,753 --> 00:14:17,022   and took the most valuable of  the few artworks                 299 00:14:17,022 --> 00:14:18,891 the Russians left behind,        300 00:14:18,891 --> 00:14:21,126  and turned the building         into a barracks.                 301 00:14:21,126 --> 00:14:24,296    Then, a couple of soldiers     noticed a room                  302 00:14:24,296 --> 00:14:27,433  on the first floor that           seemed out of place.           303 00:14:27,433 --> 00:14:29,034  Sand covered its floor,         304 00:14:29,034 --> 00:14:32,304    and the walls seemed to be       made of muslin and cotton.    305 00:14:34,173 --> 00:14:35,941 Anthea Nardi: One soldier          picked at the fabric           306 00:14:35,941 --> 00:14:38,177 and discovered it                was a false wall.                307 00:14:38,177 --> 00:14:41,013 Behind it was a dazzling,        intricate mosaic                 308 00:14:41,013 --> 00:14:43,749  of thousands of pieces          of carved amber,                 309 00:14:43,749 --> 00:14:45,584 mother of pearl,                    and gilt-wood trim.           310 00:14:48,053 --> 00:14:50,789 Amma Agbedor: The Nazis tore all four walls down,                 311 00:14:50,789 --> 00:14:54,293 revealing a 590-square-foot room 312 00:14:54,293 --> 00:14:58,330    with 13,000 pounds               of sculpted amber,            313 00:14:58,330 --> 00:15:02,501   along with other semiprecious     stones covering its walls.    314 00:15:03,702 --> 00:15:06,038  There were also                  dozens of chandeliers,          315 00:15:06,038 --> 00:15:10,743    gilt-framed mirrors, and a       ceiling over 20 feet high.    316 00:15:11,377 --> 00:15:15,781   This is what the palace staff   had tried desperately to hide:  317 00:15:15,781 --> 00:15:18,217    the "Eighth Wonder             of the World";                  318 00:15:18,217 --> 00:15:22,488  Russia's two-and-a-half          century-old Amber Room.         319 00:15:25,858 --> 00:15:27,593    Adam Bunch: By early 1944,    320 00:15:27,593 --> 00:15:29,128  the momentum of the war         321 00:15:29,128 --> 00:15:31,096   had turned and the Nazis left  322 00:15:31,096 --> 00:15:32,798   the Catherine Palace.          323 00:15:32,798 --> 00:15:35,968   Soviet staff returned            to a big empty room,           324 00:15:35,968 --> 00:15:38,003    just bare walls and floor,    325 00:15:38,003 --> 00:15:40,572 where the                         Amber Room used to be.          326 00:15:41,707 --> 00:15:44,310 It must have been                  absolutely crushing.           327 00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:47,046 This unique piece                   of Russian history            328 00:15:47,046 --> 00:15:50,282 had been stolen.                 The entire room!                 329 00:15:51,150 --> 00:15:53,619    Where in the world             had the Nazis taken it?         330 00:15:56,221 --> 00:15:57,856    Narrator: Catherine Palace      had not been                   331 00:15:57,856 --> 00:15:59,992  the Amber Room's original home. 332 00:16:01,627 --> 00:16:04,263 It had started in                 Berlin in 1701,                 333 00:16:04,263 --> 00:16:06,899  as a project to please          Sophie Charlotte,                334 00:16:06,899 --> 00:16:09,335    the spouse of Friedrich I.    335 00:16:10,736 --> 00:16:12,371   James Ellis:                    Over the next 13 years,         336 00:16:12,371 --> 00:16:15,541    a German sculptor conceived   and oversaw the creation         337 00:16:15,541 --> 00:16:19,144 of a whole room sheathed          and encrusted in amber,         338 00:16:19,144 --> 00:16:22,915    close to a thousand pounds      of it, intricately sculpted,   339 00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:25,551   and backed in gold and silver   leaf to make it                 340 00:16:25,551 --> 00:16:27,186  shimmer in candlelight.         341 00:16:28,854 --> 00:16:31,390  Anthea Nardi: By 1716,             Friedrich I's son,            342 00:16:31,390 --> 00:16:34,493  King Frederick William,            found himself low on money    343 00:16:34,493 --> 00:16:37,529  and facing a visit from someone    he wanted to make an ally,    344 00:16:37,529 --> 00:16:39,665  Tsar Peter I of Russia.         345 00:16:40,332 --> 00:16:42,835   It was customary for           royals to exchange gifts,        346 00:16:42,835 --> 00:16:45,971   but Frederick William didn't   want to go to any great expense, 347 00:16:45,971 --> 00:16:48,107   so he decided to give            Peter the Amber Room,          348 00:16:48,107 --> 00:16:49,408  and the Tsar had it carted off  349 00:16:49,408 --> 00:16:51,543   to his Winter Palace              in St. Petersburg.            350 00:16:57,049 --> 00:16:59,651    Adam Bunch:                     30 years after Peter's death,  351 00:16:59,651 --> 00:17:01,453 the room was moved again.        352 00:17:01,453 --> 00:17:04,923 This time, to the                  Catherine Palace, in Pushkin.  353 00:17:04,923 --> 00:17:06,725 His daughter, Czarina Elizabeth, 354 00:17:06,725 --> 00:17:10,129    hired an Italian architect       to rework it and expand it,   355 00:17:10,129 --> 00:17:12,564  to fit its new,                 much bigger home.                356 00:17:14,199 --> 00:17:15,601   James Ellis: That was          when the Amber Room grew         357 00:17:15,601 --> 00:17:19,438  from 180 square feet to          almost 600 square feet.         358 00:17:19,438 --> 00:17:22,741  Twelve thousand pounds            of amber were added;           359 00:17:22,741 --> 00:17:26,311    now, a total of six tons of    it encrusted the walls.         360 00:17:31,483 --> 00:17:33,986    Narrator: Within 36             hours of finding it,           361 00:17:33,986 --> 00:17:36,088 the Nazis had dismantled          the Amber Room                  362 00:17:36,088 --> 00:17:37,689 into its various panels;         363 00:17:37,689 --> 00:17:39,158 packed it all into crates        364 00:17:39,158 --> 00:17:41,260   and transported it to             Konigsberg,                   365 00:17:41,260 --> 00:17:43,295  modern-day Kaliningrad,         366 00:17:43,295 --> 00:17:45,998 where it was installed in        Konigsberg Castle                367 00:17:45,998 --> 00:17:48,200 for the German public to admire. 368 00:17:49,501 --> 00:17:51,937 Anthea Nardi: Konigsberg          was a Nazi stronghold.          369 00:17:51,937 --> 00:17:54,807  And in August of 1944,             the Allies launched           370 00:17:54,807 --> 00:17:57,042  a devastating air raid           on the Castle.                  371 00:17:58,644 --> 00:18:01,747  Even the sections still            standing were in bad shape.   372 00:18:03,615 --> 00:18:06,652 The Soviets raced to the            site and scoured the ruins,   373 00:18:06,652 --> 00:18:09,922    hoping the Amber Room might   have escaped the barrage.        374 00:18:09,922 --> 00:18:11,690  But they found                     no evidence of it.            375 00:18:13,859 --> 00:18:16,128   James Ellis:                      Amber will burn in a fire,    376 00:18:16,128 --> 00:18:18,230  but it leaves a sticky residue. 377 00:18:18,230 --> 00:18:21,433    No such traces were            found anywhere.                 378 00:18:21,433 --> 00:18:24,970   It seemed the Nazis must have    moved the Amber Room           379 00:18:24,970 --> 00:18:27,706 out of Konigsberg                  before the air raid.           380 00:18:27,706 --> 00:18:30,342   But if so, what could           they have done with it?         381 00:18:35,881 --> 00:18:38,117    Narrator: In April of 1945,   382 00:18:38,117 --> 00:18:41,320  Allied forces sweeping through     Thuringia, Germany            383 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:45,691  received a tip that led them to  investigate a local salt mine.  384 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:49,795    A unit boarded an elevator      that plunged                   385 00:18:49,795 --> 00:18:52,631   2,100 feet below the surface.  386 00:18:53,432 --> 00:18:55,601   Anthea Nardi: They came upon   a huge steel vault door,         387 00:18:55,601 --> 00:18:59,505  blasted it open, and found one  hundred tons of gold bars        388 00:18:59,505 --> 00:19:03,375 and personal effects stolen from    concentration camp victims.   389 00:19:03,375 --> 00:19:06,278 There were crates full of        various paper currencies,        390 00:19:06,278 --> 00:19:09,181   and an enormous hoard           of stolen art.                  391 00:19:10,682 --> 00:19:13,986  They also found a large          number of museum pieces         392 00:19:13,986 --> 00:19:16,288  and wall-mounted silver           candelabras,                   393 00:19:16,288 --> 00:19:17,523   labelled in Russian.           394 00:19:18,824 --> 00:19:20,959 Amma Agbedor: One of the            investigators on the trail    395 00:19:20,959 --> 00:19:22,995 of the Amber Room                 had calculated,                 396 00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:25,330    based on its design           and descriptions                 397 00:19:25,330 --> 00:19:26,698   of the finished room,          398 00:19:26,698 --> 00:19:31,270  that it must have been           equipped with 132 candelabras.  399 00:19:31,270 --> 00:19:34,840   And the number of candelabras     found at the Mine?            400 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,409   132.                           401 00:19:40,445 --> 00:19:42,648  Adam Bunch: The trove of stolen  treasures was searched          402 00:19:42,648 --> 00:19:44,816 but they didn't find any          other potential                 403 00:19:44,816 --> 00:19:46,752 parts of the Amber Room.         404 00:19:46,752 --> 00:19:49,922  And they didn't find any proof   that those candelabras          405 00:19:49,922 --> 00:19:52,457 were from the Amber Room either. 406 00:19:52,457 --> 00:19:55,427   But since the number matches,     it would have to be           407 00:19:55,427 --> 00:19:57,262 a pretty big coincidence.        408 00:20:02,534 --> 00:20:05,871 Narrator: Around the time of the  Allied air raid on Konigsberg,  409 00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:08,373   another major event occurred.  410 00:20:08,373 --> 00:20:11,643  This one, with horribly           tragic consequences,           411 00:20:11,643 --> 00:20:14,513 and a possible connection          to the Amber Room...           412 00:20:15,781 --> 00:20:18,016   Amma Agbedor: It was              pretty clear at that point    413 00:20:18,016 --> 00:20:20,085  that the Nazis                    were losing the war.           414 00:20:20,085 --> 00:20:24,022  Soviet troops were pressing in,  surrounding Konigsberg.         415 00:20:24,723 --> 00:20:27,492 For hundreds of thousands          of German civilians,           416 00:20:27,492 --> 00:20:30,896    the only possible route to       escape the Red Army           417 00:20:30,896 --> 00:20:32,831  was via the Baltic Sea.         418 00:20:33,532 --> 00:20:35,834   But Hitler wouldn't allow it.  419 00:20:37,469 --> 00:20:41,673  Adam Bunch: Hitler's directive  was, "no surrender, no retreat." 420 00:20:41,673 --> 00:20:45,077    But the German navy             disobeyed that order,          421 00:20:45,077 --> 00:20:47,546    launching a secret              humanitarian mission,          422 00:20:47,546 --> 00:20:49,948   called "Operation Hannibal,"   423 00:20:49,948 --> 00:20:53,452    one of the biggest seaborne    evacuations in history.         424 00:20:54,987 --> 00:20:56,355   James Ellis:                   A steady stream of ships,        425 00:20:56,355 --> 00:20:58,757   crammed with fleeing           German civilians                 426 00:20:58,757 --> 00:21:01,426  and all the precious belongings they could carry,                427 00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:03,962  sailed off one after the other, 428 00:21:03,962 --> 00:21:07,699   taking their chances against    the Soviet warships and planes. 429 00:21:09,301 --> 00:21:11,336  Anthea Nardi: Up to two         million German civilians         430 00:21:11,336 --> 00:21:13,972    were ultimately ferried out    of ports on the Baltic,         431 00:21:13,972 --> 00:21:17,809   to escape internment or death    at the hands of the Red Army.  432 00:21:17,809 --> 00:21:21,446   Many of them left via             Pilawa, Konigsberg's port.    433 00:21:21,446 --> 00:21:24,316  So could the crates holding the    Amber Room's panels           434 00:21:24,316 --> 00:21:25,884   have been among their cargo?   435 00:21:28,086 --> 00:21:29,321 Narrator:                        The overwhelming majority        436 00:21:29,321 --> 00:21:31,023   of Operation Hannibal's ships  437 00:21:31,023 --> 00:21:32,758    made it out safely;           438 00:21:32,758 --> 00:21:35,294    but, some did not.            439 00:21:37,229 --> 00:21:39,765  Amma Agbedor: The SS Karlsruhe   left Konigsberg                 440 00:21:39,765 --> 00:21:42,701    on April 11, 1945,            441 00:21:42,701 --> 00:21:46,538    heavily loaded with             1,083 souls on board,          442 00:21:46,538 --> 00:21:49,341   almost all civilian refugees,  443 00:21:49,341 --> 00:21:54,946    and 360 tons of unspecified   goods, packed in crates.         444 00:21:55,781 --> 00:21:58,483  Hours into its voyage,           Russian planes                  445 00:21:58,483 --> 00:22:00,986    spotted the ship, attacked,   446 00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:04,589 and the Karlsruhe sank in        less than three minutes,         447 00:22:04,589 --> 00:22:08,727   taking all but 113 of           those on board with it.         448 00:22:08,727 --> 00:22:13,565   Maybe the Amber Room was also  lost to the sea that day.        449 00:22:17,069 --> 00:22:20,706 James Ellis: But in 2020,          the SS Karlsruhe was located   450 00:22:20,706 --> 00:22:24,376 and positively identified         lying virtually intact,         451 00:22:24,376 --> 00:22:27,379   at a depth of about 290 feet.  452 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,483    Divers found shoes, belts,       and other personal effects    453 00:22:31,483 --> 00:22:33,352  of the hundreds that perished,  454 00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:35,821  but no sign of the Amber Room.  455 00:22:35,821 --> 00:22:40,959    ♪♪                            456 00:22:42,828 --> 00:22:42,928    ♪♪                            457 00:22:42,928 --> 00:22:44,062    ♪♪                            458 00:22:44,062 --> 00:22:47,099   Narrator: Over half a century   after it was last seen,         459 00:22:47,099 --> 00:22:50,702  the strongest evidence for the   Amber Room's possible survival  460 00:22:50,702 --> 00:22:53,505  emerged out of Bremen, Germany. 461 00:22:54,773 --> 00:22:58,710  James Ellis: In 1997, a mystery  person calling himself "Mr. X"  462 00:22:58,710 --> 00:23:01,613  advertised that he was             selling an antique jeweled    463 00:23:01,613 --> 00:23:04,983 Florentine mosaic                called "Feel and Touch."         464 00:23:04,983 --> 00:23:08,153  The Amber Room was said         to have had four mosaics,        465 00:23:08,153 --> 00:23:10,522 based on all the senses.         466 00:23:12,257 --> 00:23:13,492   Anthea Nardi:                     Word of the attempted sale    467 00:23:13,492 --> 00:23:16,261    set off alarm bells and the      German authorities moved in   468 00:23:16,261 --> 00:23:17,796 to apprehend the seller.         469 00:23:17,796 --> 00:23:21,500  It turned out he was the son of   a now-deceased German soldier  470 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:24,269  who'd told him he'd been one of  the soldiers ordered to         471 00:23:24,269 --> 00:23:27,139    pack up the Amber Room and     transport it out of Konigsberg. 472 00:23:28,607 --> 00:23:30,575   Amma Agbedor:                     Experts examined the mosaic   473 00:23:30,575 --> 00:23:34,279    and conclusively determined    that it was authentic.          474 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:38,417   So it appears that the Amber    Room - or at least some of it - 475 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:40,485   did survive the war.           476 00:23:40,485 --> 00:23:44,322  Maybe the rest of it is            still out there somewhere.    477 00:23:44,322 --> 00:23:46,425    ♪♪                            478 00:23:48,293 --> 00:23:49,394    ♪♪                            479 00:23:49,394 --> 00:23:51,863 Narrator:                           62 years after it vanished,   480 00:23:51,863 --> 00:23:54,733   the Catherine Palace           got its Amber Room back,         481 00:23:54,733 --> 00:23:57,936    a replica that took           25 years to make                 482 00:23:57,936 --> 00:24:02,474  and incorporated the stolen and   recovered, Florentine Mosaic.  483 00:24:03,875 --> 00:24:06,912  The original Amber Room         may yet one day turn up.         484 00:24:06,912 --> 00:24:10,315  But until it does, the replica    is there to remind us          485 00:24:10,315 --> 00:24:12,551    of timeless artistic beauty   486 00:24:12,551 --> 00:24:15,086 destroyed by the horrors of war. 487 00:24:15,086 --> 00:24:17,956    ♪♪                            488 00:24:20,258 --> 00:24:29,568    ♪♪                            489 00:24:29,568 --> 00:24:32,871  Narrator: May 29, 1925.         490 00:24:32,871 --> 00:24:36,975    Percy Fawcett, the last of     "the great Victorian explorers" 491 00:24:36,975 --> 00:24:39,811 assured his wife                    of success on this,           492 00:24:39,811 --> 00:24:43,548    his eighth attempt to find    an ancient Amazonian city        493 00:24:43,548 --> 00:24:47,085 he referred to as                  "The Lost City of Z".          494 00:24:48,253 --> 00:24:50,822  A. Leonard: Fawcett was already    world-famous at this time.    495 00:24:50,822 --> 00:24:53,358    His previous adventures had     inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's  496 00:24:53,358 --> 00:24:55,093  novel "The Lost World."         497 00:24:55,093 --> 00:24:57,462 By most accounts, he had         exceptional intelligence         498 00:24:57,462 --> 00:25:00,398    and stamina; he was              charismatic and determined,   499 00:25:00,398 --> 00:25:01,867 and apparently, pretty fearless. 500 00:25:06,338 --> 00:25:08,406 A. Agbedor: In February of 1925, 501 00:25:08,406 --> 00:25:11,343   Fawcett, his 21-year-old son     Jack,                          502 00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:13,378   and his friend Raleigh Rimell  503 00:25:13,378 --> 00:25:16,748    arrived at Corumbá,           Bolivia by train.                504 00:25:16,748 --> 00:25:22,354    They and two local laborers    then trekked 250 miles          505 00:25:22,354 --> 00:25:25,090    north-northeast to Cuiabá,    506 00:25:25,090 --> 00:25:29,694 then almost dead-straight         for another 280 miles,          507 00:25:29,694 --> 00:25:33,665 to a place Fawcett dubbed           "Dead Horse Camp."            508 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:36,268   James Ellis: While at          Dead Horse Camp,                 509 00:25:36,268 --> 00:25:39,404    Fawcett penned updates for     the various newspapers          510 00:25:39,404 --> 00:25:40,672  he had agreements with,         511 00:25:40,672 --> 00:25:43,775  and wrote his wife Nina         a letter, saying,                512 00:25:43,775 --> 00:25:46,645  "You need have no fear          of any failure."                 513 00:25:47,245 --> 00:25:50,015   He sent local runners           off to post everything,         514 00:25:50,015 --> 00:25:53,218 and then he and his party         crossed the Upper Xingu River,  515 00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:56,254  and disappeared, never           to be heard from again.         516 00:25:58,089 --> 00:25:59,691 So what happened to them?        517 00:25:59,691 --> 00:26:02,627    And did the                      Lost City of Z even exist?    518 00:26:04,829 --> 00:26:07,899  Narrator: Percy Fawcett         was born in 1867,                519 00:26:07,899 --> 00:26:10,001    in Torquay, Devon, England.   520 00:26:10,001 --> 00:26:13,605    At 19 years old, he joined      the Royal Artillery,           521 00:26:13,605 --> 00:26:16,141 and got his start                  as a world traveler,           522 00:26:16,141 --> 00:26:19,110 sent to various outposts          of the British Empire.          523 00:26:20,979 --> 00:26:22,881 Alison Leonard: In 1901,          Fawcett became a member         524 00:26:22,881 --> 00:26:25,116 of the Royal Geographical           Society of London,            525 00:26:25,116 --> 00:26:27,185  and travelled to Africa          as a surveyor.                  526 00:26:27,185 --> 00:26:29,654 Five years later, he was         sent to map the territory        527 00:26:29,654 --> 00:26:31,957   bordering Bolivia and Brazil.  528 00:26:31,957 --> 00:26:33,825 And that was really when         his life changed.                529 00:26:37,529 --> 00:26:39,064    ♪♪                            530 00:26:39,064 --> 00:26:41,600 Adam Bunch: Fawcett would           have seen how badly           531 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,301  the Amazon's indigenous people  532 00:26:43,301 --> 00:26:44,502   were being mistreated          533 00:26:44,502 --> 00:26:45,971   by the rubber barons,          534 00:26:45,971 --> 00:26:48,773  who were there                    making vast fortunes.          535 00:26:48,773 --> 00:26:50,609  So he tried to build a          different kind of                536 00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:51,876  relationship with them.         537 00:26:53,345 --> 00:26:56,214    Amma Agbedor: Fawcett heard    accounts of past civilizations  538 00:26:56,214 --> 00:26:59,417    that had built great cities    in the jungle,                  539 00:26:59,417 --> 00:27:01,653  and saw what he perceived to be 540 00:27:01,653 --> 00:27:04,623   signs of these cities             in the topography.            541 00:27:04,623 --> 00:27:07,225   He also found what he            believed were shards           542 00:27:07,225 --> 00:27:10,996 of centuries-old pottery,        scattered in the forests.        543 00:27:12,998 --> 00:27:15,934 James Ellis: The 1925 expedition   centered on Brazil's           544 00:27:15,934 --> 00:27:18,770   Mato Grosso, or "great woods"  545 00:27:18,770 --> 00:27:21,072 a challenging and                  perilous environment,          546 00:27:21,072 --> 00:27:24,309    and one of the last             frontier areas in the world.   547 00:27:24,943 --> 00:27:28,013  In his last letter to his wife,  Fawcett wrote:                  548 00:27:28,013 --> 00:27:31,282   "We hope to get through this    region in a few days."          549 00:27:31,282 --> 00:27:34,219   Referring to the area           beyond Dead Horse Camp.         550 00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:39,758  Two years went by with            no word from Fawcett           551 00:27:39,758 --> 00:27:41,660   and even though Nina claimed   552 00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:44,262    she wasn't worried             about him, or her son,          553 00:27:44,262 --> 00:27:45,764   others were.                   554 00:27:49,034 --> 00:27:50,568    ♪♪                            555 00:27:50,568 --> 00:27:52,937   Narrator: By January of 1927,  556 00:27:52,937 --> 00:27:55,707  the Royal Geographical Society  of London                        557 00:27:55,707 --> 00:27:58,410    announced it would back any      competent explorer            558 00:27:58,410 --> 00:28:00,412  willing to search for Fawcett.  559 00:28:00,412 --> 00:28:03,515  They made no indication          as to what they thought         560 00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:05,083    might have happened to him.   561 00:28:06,818 --> 00:28:07,886  Alison Leonard:                 The most likely scenario,        562 00:28:07,886 --> 00:28:09,287    if you're playing the odds,   563 00:28:09,287 --> 00:28:11,756   would have been that Fawcett   was on a "fool's errand;"        564 00:28:11,756 --> 00:28:13,658  he went into the jungle           searching for a myth           565 00:28:13,658 --> 00:28:15,860  that had never existed,         saying he wouldn't return        566 00:28:15,860 --> 00:28:17,295   until he'd found it.           567 00:28:18,830 --> 00:28:21,066   The only two logical             outcomes of that are,          568 00:28:21,066 --> 00:28:23,001  you search a really long time,  569 00:28:23,001 --> 00:28:24,703 only to come back                   and eat your words,           570 00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:26,938  or... you don't                 come back at all.                571 00:28:26,938 --> 00:28:30,408    ♪♪                            572 00:28:31,910 --> 00:28:33,745  Adam Bunch: From the beginning,   many people believed           573 00:28:33,745 --> 00:28:36,748   the lost "City of Z"              had never existed.            574 00:28:36,748 --> 00:28:38,583 For one thing, in                 Fawcett's time,                 575 00:28:38,583 --> 00:28:42,087   it's estimated there may have   only been about 200,000 people  576 00:28:42,087 --> 00:28:44,923   living in the                  entire Amazon rainforest.        577 00:28:44,923 --> 00:28:48,293  So people questioned why there     would have been a big city    578 00:28:48,293 --> 00:28:51,629  with a large population            centuries earlier,            579 00:28:51,629 --> 00:28:54,165 but not in 1925?                 580 00:28:56,234 --> 00:28:58,870  Amma Agbedor: It was also well     known that the Amazon soil    581 00:28:58,870 --> 00:29:01,206    wasn't suitable for             large-scale farming,           582 00:29:01,206 --> 00:29:03,441  something that would've           been required                  583 00:29:03,441 --> 00:29:05,376  to sustain a large population.  584 00:29:05,376 --> 00:29:07,746    ♪♪                            585 00:29:09,013 --> 00:29:10,782    ♪♪                            586 00:29:10,782 --> 00:29:12,951   Narrator: In the years after    Fawcett's disappearance         587 00:29:12,951 --> 00:29:16,421  at least 13 expeditions         set out looking for him,         588 00:29:16,421 --> 00:29:19,324  of which approximately           a hundred people died,          589 00:29:19,324 --> 00:29:21,126  or simply went missing.         590 00:29:22,861 --> 00:29:26,164    The high cost in human life     makes another theory           591 00:29:26,164 --> 00:29:29,167  some have put forward,          that much more troubling.        592 00:29:31,202 --> 00:29:34,506    Adam Bunch: Fawcett and his     party spent about five months  593 00:29:34,506 --> 00:29:35,840    at Dead Horse Camp,           594 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,176    kind of a long time             to be hanging around.          595 00:29:38,176 --> 00:29:40,311  And from there,                    he sent the updates           596 00:29:40,311 --> 00:29:43,348 to the international news        syndicates and his wife,         597 00:29:43,348 --> 00:29:46,584    making sure to include the       camp's coordinates,           598 00:29:46,584 --> 00:29:51,790   but he gave the press and his     wife different coordinates.   599 00:29:53,892 --> 00:29:56,394  Amma Agbedor: If people            have the wrong coordinates    600 00:29:56,394 --> 00:29:58,530   for your last known position,  601 00:29:58,530 --> 00:30:02,100  you're going to be a lot harder    to find, if you go missing.   602 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:04,369  So is that what Fawcett wanted? 603 00:30:06,805 --> 00:30:08,306   James Ellis:                     He had actually warned people  604 00:30:08,306 --> 00:30:11,676    that he was expecting to be      away for a very long time,    605 00:30:11,676 --> 00:30:13,945    and even told them,           'If I go missing,                606 00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:16,014    don't come looking for me'.   607 00:30:16,014 --> 00:30:17,982 It's entirely conceivable        608 00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:21,052  that Percy Fawcett did            not want to be found.          609 00:30:25,290 --> 00:30:27,125 Narrator: Decades later,         some of Fawcett's                610 00:30:27,125 --> 00:30:28,993   private journals and letters,  611 00:30:28,993 --> 00:30:31,529  including those in the           possession of his descendants,  612 00:30:31,529 --> 00:30:34,732  were accessed, and shed          new light on Fawcett's          613 00:30:34,732 --> 00:30:37,435  frame of mind,                  and possible intentions.         614 00:30:39,237 --> 00:30:41,072  Alison Leonard: Regarding what    was then pejoratively termed   615 00:30:41,072 --> 00:30:44,075   "going native", adopting the    customs of the colonized people 616 00:30:44,075 --> 00:30:46,077 you were living amongst,          Fawcett wrote,                  617 00:30:46,077 --> 00:30:48,246   "There is no disgrace in it.   618 00:30:48,246 --> 00:30:51,482    It shows creditable regard      for the real things in life."  619 00:30:52,317 --> 00:30:54,352  Also, some of Fawcett's         associates said he hoped         620 00:30:54,352 --> 00:30:57,422    one day to follow what he'd      called "the Grand Scheme",    621 00:30:57,422 --> 00:30:59,591    and set up a secret           community in the jungle.         622 00:31:01,993 --> 00:31:04,729 Adam Bunch: But those who         knew Fawcett well felt          623 00:31:04,729 --> 00:31:07,332    he believed deeply              in the Lost City of Z          624 00:31:07,332 --> 00:31:10,468 and intentionally cutting           all ties with home            625 00:31:10,468 --> 00:31:13,037 would have meant he could        never prove to the world         626 00:31:13,037 --> 00:31:15,173  that the city existed.          627 00:31:15,173 --> 00:31:18,142   So whether or not he             wanted to go missing,          628 00:31:18,142 --> 00:31:20,745  people were still left             with the question:            629 00:31:20,745 --> 00:31:25,884  Did Percy Fawcett find the Lost    City of 'Z' before he died?   630 00:31:25,884 --> 00:31:28,453  And was there anything to find? 631 00:31:31,489 --> 00:31:33,258   Amma Agbedor:                     It'd been hard to reconcile   632 00:31:33,258 --> 00:31:36,594    why Fawcett gave those two     conflicting coordinates         633 00:31:36,594 --> 00:31:40,365   for his last position when he   was at Dead Horse Camp.         634 00:31:40,365 --> 00:31:43,668    He may have been trying to    throw others off the path        635 00:31:43,668 --> 00:31:45,169    to protect himself,           636 00:31:45,169 --> 00:31:48,706    but it was also possible he   felt he was close                637 00:31:48,706 --> 00:31:50,408 to finding his Lost City,        638 00:31:50,408 --> 00:31:53,544  and wanted to make sure            others couldn't follow him.   639 00:31:56,381 --> 00:31:59,183    Narrator: In 2019,             archaeologists mounted          640 00:31:59,183 --> 00:32:01,486  a LIDAR scanner on a helicopter 641 00:32:01,486 --> 00:32:03,087 and flew multiple passes         642 00:32:03,087 --> 00:32:06,858    over Mato Grosso's            Llanos de Moxos savannah         643 00:32:06,858 --> 00:32:09,260   and made a discovery             nobody had expected.           644 00:32:12,130 --> 00:32:15,099   James Ellis: Along the Xingu    River in the same general area  645 00:32:15,099 --> 00:32:18,069  that Percy Fawcett was            focusing his search,           646 00:32:18,069 --> 00:32:20,672  the LIDAR revealed clear signs  647 00:32:20,672 --> 00:32:22,674   of a large network of            settlements,                   648 00:32:22,674 --> 00:32:26,311   with carefully designed walls  and large earthen mounds         649 00:32:26,311 --> 00:32:28,646 arranged around circular plazas. 650 00:32:30,515 --> 00:32:32,116  Alison Leonard:                 These ancient plaza towns        651 00:32:32,116 --> 00:32:34,819    were interconnected              by curbed roadways,           652 00:32:34,819 --> 00:32:38,056   30 to 50 feet across,           and miles long.                 653 00:32:38,823 --> 00:32:41,759    The settlements, all within    an hour's walk of one another,  654 00:32:41,759 --> 00:32:45,296   dated back to between          200 and 1200 CE,                 655 00:32:45,296 --> 00:32:47,432    and it's thought that they     were capable of housing         656 00:32:47,432 --> 00:32:49,567   up to 60,000 people!           657 00:32:49,567 --> 00:32:52,003   This flew in the face of all      we used to believe            658 00:32:52,003 --> 00:32:53,338 about the Amazon.                659 00:32:53,338 --> 00:32:58,009    ♪♪                            660 00:33:00,044 --> 00:33:01,579  Adam Bunch: And they did farm!  661 00:33:01,579 --> 00:33:05,249   There are patches of            extremely fertile soil,         662 00:33:05,249 --> 00:33:08,486 now referred to as terra           preta-"black earth."           663 00:33:08,486 --> 00:33:12,256  The ancient Amazonians created   this nutrient-rich soil         664 00:33:12,256 --> 00:33:15,860 over generations,                   with manure, waste,           665 00:33:15,860 --> 00:33:17,662   by controlled                    burns of the forest.           666 00:33:19,263 --> 00:33:22,200   Amma Agbedor: It's estimated   that as many as a million people 667 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,936  may have lived in this           network of settlements          668 00:33:24,936 --> 00:33:26,604    in Llanos de Moxos,           669 00:33:26,604 --> 00:33:28,539   making it even more populous   670 00:33:28,539 --> 00:33:31,442    than many European              cities at that time.           671 00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:35,413  These were the                     Lost Cities of the Amazon!    672 00:33:35,413 --> 00:33:37,949    But, where did all            these people go?                 673 00:33:37,949 --> 00:33:40,051    ♪♪                            674 00:33:40,918 --> 00:33:43,254    ♪♪                            675 00:33:43,254 --> 00:33:45,089  Narrator: In the 16th century,  676 00:33:45,089 --> 00:33:48,559 European colonizers flooded into Central and South America        677 00:33:48,559 --> 00:33:51,262   and brought diseases              that the indigenous people    678 00:33:51,262 --> 00:33:53,431 had no defenses against.         679 00:33:54,298 --> 00:33:59,003  By the 19th century, up to 95%    of the indigenous population   680 00:33:59,003 --> 00:34:01,773   had died of smallpox             and measles.                   681 00:34:04,075 --> 00:34:06,377    James Ellis: The Amazonians   didn't build with stone,         682 00:34:06,377 --> 00:34:09,047  so when the structures             they built were abandoned,    683 00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:11,949    they simply melted              back into the forest,          684 00:34:11,949 --> 00:34:14,485   making them extremely             difficult to locate           685 00:34:14,485 --> 00:34:17,121    without the help of              modern technology.            686 00:34:19,223 --> 00:34:20,992  Alison Leonard:                    So, did Percy Fawcett find    687 00:34:20,992 --> 00:34:23,361   his Lost City of 'Z',           before he died?                 688 00:34:24,829 --> 00:34:27,231   It looks like at least he was     looking in the right area,    689 00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:29,934  but it's impossible to            know how far he got.           690 00:34:29,934 --> 00:34:31,903   That doesn't mean we             won't ever find out;           691 00:34:31,903 --> 00:34:33,871  it just means we haven't, yet.  692 00:34:33,871 --> 00:34:36,641 He did keep journals, after all-    and he was a photographer.    693 00:34:36,641 --> 00:34:39,143    Just think of what            still might be out there,        694 00:34:39,143 --> 00:34:40,578 waiting to be discovered.        695 00:34:40,578 --> 00:34:43,314    ♪♪                            696 00:34:43,314 --> 00:34:44,649    Narrator: In the meantime,    697 00:34:44,649 --> 00:34:47,185   indigenous and international      researchers                   698 00:34:47,185 --> 00:34:49,720 have plenty of exploration to do 699 00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:53,257   on more than a hundred newly     discovered settlement sites.   700 00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:56,260    Lost Cities, found,           701 00:34:56,260 --> 00:34:58,729 after lying silent in the jungle 702 00:34:58,729 --> 00:35:00,631  for hundreds of years.          703 00:35:05,603 --> 00:35:16,214    ♪♪                            704 00:35:16,214 --> 00:35:18,783 Narrator: October 9, 1216        705 00:35:19,617 --> 00:35:22,720    King John, one of the most    infamous monarchs                706 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:26,357  in English history, was on the     run from rebellious barons    707 00:35:26,357 --> 00:35:28,526  and an invading French Prince.  708 00:35:31,162 --> 00:35:32,430 Anthea Nardi: As he fled,           he dragged with him           709 00:35:32,430 --> 00:35:35,466    a procession of carts - the     royal baggage train,           710 00:35:35,466 --> 00:35:38,436 loaded with gold, jewels,          and religious relics.          711 00:35:39,904 --> 00:35:42,740  James Ellis: Some accounts say    the convoy of 3,000 soldiers,  712 00:35:42,740 --> 00:35:45,309  servants and supporters         carried the Crown Jewels,        713 00:35:45,309 --> 00:35:47,345 along with other                   priceless treasures,           714 00:35:47,345 --> 00:35:50,548  including the legendary            Sword of Tristram,            715 00:35:50,548 --> 00:35:54,585  a broken-tipped knight's blade   used as regalia at coronations. 716 00:35:57,889 --> 00:36:00,024   Alison Leonard: John's route   took him across the Wash.        717 00:36:00,024 --> 00:36:01,893  This is a treacherous,            tidal estuary                  718 00:36:01,893 --> 00:36:03,895    on the Lincolnshire coast.    719 00:36:03,895 --> 00:36:05,596  And the Wash was a death trap,  720 00:36:05,596 --> 00:36:07,965 a shifting, sinking, and           suffocating quagmire           721 00:36:07,965 --> 00:36:09,967   of quicksand and rising water  722 00:36:09,967 --> 00:36:12,203 covering nearly 21 square miles. 723 00:36:12,203 --> 00:36:13,905 If you're caught                    at the wrong time,            724 00:36:13,905 --> 00:36:15,640    the tide rushes in            and swallows you.                725 00:36:20,912 --> 00:36:22,980    Adam Bunch:                     It was a risky path,           726 00:36:22,980 --> 00:36:24,749  but John was desperate.         727 00:36:24,749 --> 00:36:28,019    Rebels had invited             Prince Louis of France          728 00:36:28,019 --> 00:36:30,054    to take the English Crown,    729 00:36:30,054 --> 00:36:32,623  prompting John to flee            East Anglia.                   730 00:36:32,623 --> 00:36:35,059 And it was during                  that frantic escape,           731 00:36:35,059 --> 00:36:39,430   the King's treasure vanished     in the Wash without a trace.   732 00:36:39,430 --> 00:36:42,366    And eight centuries later,       we're still left wondering,   733 00:36:42,366 --> 00:36:43,668   what happened to it?           734 00:36:46,470 --> 00:36:49,006 Narrator: King John's reputation    was among the worst           735 00:36:49,006 --> 00:36:50,841  of any English monarch.         736 00:36:50,841 --> 00:36:53,010    He was known for his greed,   737 00:36:53,010 --> 00:36:54,912    cruelty, and incompetence.    738 00:36:56,547 --> 00:37:00,084    James Ellis: His reign was    marked by catastrophic failures, 739 00:37:00,084 --> 00:37:02,520  losing vast territories           that make up                   740 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,623   much of modern France             and even parts of England.    741 00:37:07,592 --> 00:37:11,095 Anthea Nardi: In 1204, King John   suffered a humiliating blow.   742 00:37:11,095 --> 00:37:13,698    He lost Normandy to            King Philip of France,          743 00:37:13,698 --> 00:37:16,901  ending England's centuries-old   claim to the territory.         744 00:37:18,202 --> 00:37:20,638    This was more than            a minor setback.                 745 00:37:20,638 --> 00:37:24,342   It signalled the collapse of     the English Empire in France.  746 00:37:27,311 --> 00:37:29,113   Alison Leonard: By the 1210s,   John was facing enemies         747 00:37:29,113 --> 00:37:31,649 on all fronts, including           within his own ranks.          748 00:37:32,617 --> 00:37:34,952  His relentless cruelty           and heavy-handed rule,          749 00:37:34,952 --> 00:37:36,487  pushed his nobles to the brink. 750 00:37:37,655 --> 00:37:39,624   James Ellis: John stirred up   even more trouble                751 00:37:39,624 --> 00:37:42,159 when he refused to accept         Stephen Langton                 752 00:37:42,159 --> 00:37:44,295 as the Archbishop of Canterbury, 753 00:37:44,295 --> 00:37:47,598    the top position in             the English Catholic Church.   754 00:37:48,299 --> 00:37:51,469 By doing so, he directly         challenged the authority         755 00:37:51,469 --> 00:37:53,638   of Pope Innocent III in Rome,  756 00:37:53,638 --> 00:37:56,507 who retaliated by                  excommunicating him.           757 00:37:59,810 --> 00:38:03,414   Narrator: By 1215, King John   had made so many enemies,        758 00:38:03,414 --> 00:38:06,484 that a group of medieval          oligarchs took action,          759 00:38:06,484 --> 00:38:09,620 creating one of history's        most important documents:        760 00:38:09,620 --> 00:38:11,422 the Magna Carta.                 761 00:38:13,324 --> 00:38:16,560   This charter was designed to   enforce political reforms        762 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,330    and rein in John's             abuse of power,                 763 00:38:19,330 --> 00:38:22,767 and ultimately became the          bedrock of English democracy.  764 00:38:22,767 --> 00:38:25,536    ♪♪                            765 00:38:27,371 --> 00:38:29,607    Anthea Nardi: But any hope       for peace was short-lived.    766 00:38:29,607 --> 00:38:32,710   John violated the Magna Carta     almost immediately            767 00:38:32,710 --> 00:38:34,412   and raised an army of            mercenaries,                   768 00:38:34,412 --> 00:38:36,547 plunging the country into chaos. 769 00:38:39,250 --> 00:38:40,951 James Ellis: By October of 1216, 770 00:38:40,951 --> 00:38:43,287   the King was in dire straits.  771 00:38:43,287 --> 00:38:45,489   His reign was on the              brink of collapse.            772 00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:47,491   His forces were spread thin,   773 00:38:47,491 --> 00:38:50,761  and he was on the run with his     precious treasures in tow,    774 00:38:50,761 --> 00:38:53,564    as he attempted to               navigate the Wash.            775 00:38:55,633 --> 00:38:58,269  Adam Bunch: The Wash is            notoriously unpredictable,    776 00:38:58,269 --> 00:39:01,172   but it's also                    surprisingly shallow,          777 00:39:01,172 --> 00:39:03,040  which just adds to the mystery. 778 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,510  If King John really was            carrying all that treasure,   779 00:39:06,510 --> 00:39:09,814 why hasn't it been found          in more than 800 years?         780 00:39:09,814 --> 00:39:11,816    ♪♪                            781 00:39:12,616 --> 00:39:14,552 Alison Leonard: Maybe the           treasure didn't even exist.   782 00:39:14,552 --> 00:39:17,088  It's important to remember that the medieval chroniclers         783 00:39:17,088 --> 00:39:18,456  who recorded King John's reign  784 00:39:18,456 --> 00:39:19,857    were often members             of the clergy,                  785 00:39:19,857 --> 00:39:22,126  who had a deep                   resentment toward John          786 00:39:22,126 --> 00:39:23,561   because he conflicted          with the Church.                 787 00:39:25,029 --> 00:39:27,231    Adam Bunch: These accounts     would have been biased;         788 00:39:27,231 --> 00:39:31,635  and a story about him losing a   treasure in such a foolish way, 789 00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:34,605   would have fit perfectly with   their narrative of him          790 00:39:34,605 --> 00:39:37,641   as a cursed and inept ruler.   791 00:39:39,343 --> 00:39:41,212   James Ellis: We still          don't know with certainty        792 00:39:41,212 --> 00:39:42,980  that any treasure disappeared;  793 00:39:42,980 --> 00:39:45,750    the carriage that was lost     could have been filled          794 00:39:45,750 --> 00:39:48,085 with nothing more                 than personal effects.          795 00:39:50,254 --> 00:39:51,789   Alison Leonard: John           had almost no money left         796 00:39:51,789 --> 00:39:53,958 by the end of his reign,           and it's plausible that some   797 00:39:53,958 --> 00:39:56,494  or perhaps the majority of his  treasure had already been        798 00:39:56,494 --> 00:39:59,096  melted down or sold off           to pay his soldiers.           799 00:40:01,432 --> 00:40:03,200 Narrator: While King John         struggled to keep hold          800 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:07,004  of his land, he may have taken     a more calculated approach    801 00:40:07,004 --> 00:40:08,539 to his treasure.                 802 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:12,309  Adam Bunch: Maybe the treasure     was stashed away somewhere.   803 00:40:12,309 --> 00:40:14,545  Some historians have speculated that his retinue                 804 00:40:14,545 --> 00:40:17,882  might have decided to hide the   goods for safekeeping,          805 00:40:17,882 --> 00:40:21,852 planning to retrieve them         at a later, safer date.         806 00:40:23,788 --> 00:40:25,322   Anthea Nardi:                     Perhaps they were set aside   807 00:40:25,322 --> 00:40:27,291  for his son, Henry III.         808 00:40:27,291 --> 00:40:29,960 There are several pieces           listed in the regalia          809 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,497   for Henry's second coronation   at Westminster in 1220.         810 00:40:33,497 --> 00:40:37,268  A crown, sword,                    scepter, and tunic.           811 00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:41,872   They seem to match those from    King John's regalia in 1216.   812 00:40:41,872 --> 00:40:44,375    So this could mean               that the treasures            813 00:40:44,375 --> 00:40:45,910 were carefully preserved.        814 00:40:48,212 --> 00:40:49,447   James Ellis:                   We may never know exactly        815 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:51,682  what the baggage train carried, 816 00:40:51,682 --> 00:40:54,518    but one undeniable              fact remains:                  817 00:40:54,518 --> 00:40:56,520   it crossed the Wash.           818 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,956 The question is,                    what happened next?           819 00:41:02,726 --> 00:41:04,428    Narrator: Amid the              uncertainty and haste          820 00:41:04,428 --> 00:41:06,630    of King John's final days,    821 00:41:06,630 --> 00:41:10,301   the route he chose - and the    treacherous terrain of the Wash 822 00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:12,336    - may hold the key            to what happened                 823 00:41:12,336 --> 00:41:14,004 to the missing treasure.         824 00:41:16,207 --> 00:41:17,842   Alison Leonard: We know that     after rallying reinforcements  825 00:41:17,842 --> 00:41:20,077   on the Welsh border,              King John dashed to Windsor   826 00:41:20,077 --> 00:41:23,414   and then East Anglia,           covering up to 50 miles a day.  827 00:41:23,981 --> 00:41:26,083    On October 9th, he reached     the town of King's Lynn         828 00:41:26,083 --> 00:41:27,418    to a warm welcome.            829 00:41:28,752 --> 00:41:31,288 Adam Bunch: According to            one chronicler of the time,   830 00:41:31,288 --> 00:41:33,324    Roger of Wendover,            831 00:41:33,324 --> 00:41:35,659    the King and his entourage    left King's Lynn                 832 00:41:35,659 --> 00:41:38,729    not long after they arrived     and headed for a place called  833 00:41:38,729 --> 00:41:41,966 Swineshead Abbey,                  about 30 miles away.           834 00:41:44,001 --> 00:41:45,069    Alison Leonard: Despite the     baggage being                  835 00:41:45,069 --> 00:41:47,238  of tremendous personal          importance to King John,         836 00:41:47,238 --> 00:41:48,772 some believe that                his baggage train                837 00:41:48,772 --> 00:41:50,574   probably traveled separately   from him,                        838 00:41:50,574 --> 00:41:52,877   and was lost somewhere on the  western side of the Wash.        839 00:41:54,745 --> 00:41:56,514   Anthea Nardi:                     With enemies on all sides,    840 00:41:56,514 --> 00:41:58,415   John would have been           eager to protect                 841 00:41:58,415 --> 00:42:00,518  both himself and his treasure.  842 00:42:00,518 --> 00:42:03,087    Splitting up seemed            like the safest option          843 00:42:03,087 --> 00:42:05,689    and he may have chosen the      longer path through Wisbech,   844 00:42:05,689 --> 00:42:08,626    while directing his baggage   train to take a shortcut         845 00:42:08,626 --> 00:42:11,462    via the causeway across the      Wellstream's mouth,           846 00:42:11,462 --> 00:42:13,597   a route only passable            at low tide.                   847 00:42:16,233 --> 00:42:19,270  Narrator: The Wellstream, also    known as the Wellester River   848 00:42:19,270 --> 00:42:23,908  and the River Nene, was once a    far more formidable waterway.  849 00:42:24,675 --> 00:42:28,178  Just beyond Wisbech, it emptied    into a vast estuary           850 00:42:28,178 --> 00:42:29,747  spanning several miles.         851 00:42:31,582 --> 00:42:33,584  James Ellis: The baggage train    likely travelled west          852 00:42:33,584 --> 00:42:35,419  along the road from King's Lynn 853 00:42:35,419 --> 00:42:37,755 to the village of                   Walpole Cross Keys,           854 00:42:37,755 --> 00:42:41,125   which at the time sat on the   banks of the Wellstream.         855 00:42:41,125 --> 00:42:44,428    With an experienced guide,      the horses and wagons          856 00:42:44,428 --> 00:42:46,530   could have navigated             the Wash Way,                  857 00:42:46,530 --> 00:42:48,766  a narrow path across the sands, 858 00:42:48,766 --> 00:42:51,969 for the 4.5-mile journey          to Long Sutton.                 859 00:42:53,971 --> 00:42:55,606   Alison Leonard: It's possible     that along the way,           860 00:42:55,606 --> 00:42:57,575    King John's baggage              train was engulfed            861 00:42:57,575 --> 00:42:59,743 by a massive tidal bore.         862 00:42:59,743 --> 00:43:02,613 This is dangerous, unpredictable force that occurs                863 00:43:02,613 --> 00:43:04,782  when the rising tide is           confined to a narrow,          864 00:43:04,782 --> 00:43:08,018   funneled estuary and creates    a sudden wall of water.         865 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,290 Adam Bunch: Astronomical records  show us that at 4 p.m.          866 00:43:13,290 --> 00:43:15,926   on October 12, 1216,           867 00:43:15,926 --> 00:43:19,263    there was a fateful           celestial event.                 868 00:43:19,263 --> 00:43:21,632   The Moon, the Sun, and Earth   869 00:43:21,632 --> 00:43:24,001    were all perfectly aligned.   870 00:43:24,001 --> 00:43:26,470  So the combined                    gravitational pull            871 00:43:26,470 --> 00:43:30,674    may have created an            dramatic 22-foot tide,          872 00:43:30,674 --> 00:43:32,910 that surged through the estuary. 873 00:43:34,044 --> 00:43:37,247 So King John's convoy would have  been caught off guard,          874 00:43:37,815 --> 00:43:39,450 overpowered by the waves.        875 00:43:39,450 --> 00:43:47,958    ♪♪                            876 00:43:50,494 --> 00:43:54,898    ♪♪                            877 00:43:54,898 --> 00:43:56,900  Anthea Nardi: Many believe this puts the likely location         878 00:43:56,900 --> 00:43:59,370   of the lost treasure             somewhere near Sutton Bridge,  879 00:43:59,370 --> 00:44:03,040  roughly two nautical miles from  the outfall of the Wellstream.  880 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,409   But obviously                    that's just a theory           881 00:44:05,409 --> 00:44:06,910 and impossible to verify.        882 00:44:09,313 --> 00:44:11,482  Narrator: Within a week            of the treasure vanishing,    883 00:44:11,482 --> 00:44:13,751  King John contracted dysentery  884 00:44:13,751 --> 00:44:16,720   and died on October 18, 1216   885 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:18,322 at Newark Castle.                886 00:44:20,791 --> 00:44:24,328   Lost to time and buried under     centuries of shifting tides   887 00:44:24,328 --> 00:44:28,465    and marshland, King John's    treasure remains hidden,         888 00:44:28,465 --> 00:44:30,000 claimed by the ruthless,         889 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,437  ever-changing landscape           of the Wash.                   890 00:44:33,437 --> 00:44:35,806    ♪♪                            891 00:44:37,408 --> 00:44:40,310    ♪♪                            104687

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