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‐ Narrator: ...the "Lost Gold of World War II..."

‐ Keep going till you can't.

‐ I've run into bedrock.

I can't dig any deeper.

‐ I want to see the target.

‐ What about a horizontal drill?

‐ It's the best bet we've got right now.

‐ You guys might want to come look at this.

‐ Looks like charcoal.

‐ We need to take another look

at these tapes we've got from Bob Curtis.

‐ Charcoal at 10 feet.

We got charcoal at 10 feet.

‐ We did write about a fellow

by the name of Chuck McDougald.

He's probably the only living expert right now.

If you can find him, I'm sure he can help you.

‐ Keep it coming!

‐ John Casey and Rick Hurt are back in the Philippines

with a new team,

continuing their search for Yamashita's gold.

‐ We're gonna find a way to get to this treasure.

‐ Like many others, John believes

Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita

took billions of dollars in treasure

looted by Japan during World War II,

and buried it in the Philippines,

including somewhere in this mountain.

Following a series of mysterious symbols

they believe were left by Yamashita,

the team is investigating three sites‐‐

a waterfall...

‐ John: This waterfall is hiding something.

‐ ...a crater known as Breach 6...

‐ I've never seen anything like this.

‐ ...and a camouflaged tunnel they uncovered last year.

‐ We are in the mountain, boys!

‐ Can they finally discover the...

As a new day dawns on the mountain...

the team adds another machine

they hope will finally get them into the waterfall‐‐

a horizontal drill.

‐ This horizontal drill may be our best bet

to send the camera all the way down there

and see inside this mountain.

‐ They are determined to reach metal deposits

that could be treasure

in a void space beneath the waterfall.

‐ We think we've got either a tunnel,

or some type of void space,

and it's quite deep. ‐ Wow.

‐ It's like about 300 feet down.

‐ Wow.

‐ After a frustrating setback...

‐ I've run into bedrock.

I can't dig any deeper.

...the plan is to drill 930 feet

horizontally through the mountain

and an altitude of 300 feet below the waterfall

so they can feed in a borehole camera.

[ motor revs, finally catches ]

But drill operator Andrew is having a tough time

getting the machine to the new site.

Andrew is navigating this 4‐ton rig

up 3 miles of muddy, steep terrain.

‐ The road is absolute crap.

Every day we're losing time and money.

It's a long shot, but were gonna take it.

It's the only shot we got.

‐ Over at the tunnel site...

miners Levi and Geo venture further

into this underground mystery.

‐ Watch yourself.

‐ The tunnels already revealed evidence of both American...

‐ This is, without a doubt, an American knife.

‐ ...and Japanese presence.

‐ It's a Japanese A3 land mine.

‐ Though they're anxious to explore what lies ahead,

they're moving cautiously.

‐ We've used metal detectors. We've used dogs.

We're putting everything in our corner that we can

to make this as safe as possible.

But the Imperial Army was smart.

There's different techniques they used

to booby trap these mines,

so we have to be careful when we go in there.

Holy [ bleep ].

‐ Oh man, we got a‐‐ we got a major, major cave‐in.

Hey, Levi!

You gotta come check this out.

Look at this mess.

‐ Wow! It looks like the whole world come in.

You get so many different things

that can cause a collapse like this.

Somebody could've tried to blast it shut.

There could've been a booby trap that was set off.

It could've just been erosion, the earth gave out.

There can be multiple different reasons.

When you come to the collapse like this,

there's times that you go through these things,

and there's times to go around them.

The big thing is, is we're not gonna know

until I can climb up on top of this

and try to poke a hole in there

and see over the top of it and see how long it goes.

This is a mess.

‐ In the U. S.,

head researcher Bingo Minerva

is chasing down a promising lead.

‐ I'm in San Francisco today,

on my way to meet Chuck McDougald.

Now, this is huge for us

because we have not found any other person

that is still alive today that knows Robert Curtis.

And he might even have some maps that‐‐

that are related to our mountain.

‐ While meeting with Las Vegas Sun editor‐in‐chief

Brian Greenspun,

Bingo asked about other American treasure hunters

connected to Robert Curtis.

The newspaper chronicled a 1988 treasure expedition

led by Robert Curtis in the Philippines.

Chuck McDougald was with him.

‐ I mean, Chuck could really be the missing link

that helps us find the gold.

‐ Good morning. ‐ Morning, sir.

‐ You must be Bingo.

‐ Chuck, pleasure to finally meet you.

‐ Same here. Please come in. ‐ Thank you, sir.

So, Chuck, I'm really excited

to be able to just pick your brain.

And really, I just was wondering,

how did you even get your start in the Philippines?

What brought you there?

‐ I moved there from Hong Kong in 1972.

I wound up staying there 10 years

and going to school and getting my PhD

at University of the Philippines.

While I was working on my doctoral dissertation‐‐

it was about corruption in the Philippines.

This was during the Marcos era.

‐ Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines

from 1965 to 1986.

He allegedly killed a thousand of his own citizens

and stole over 5 billion from the National Treasury.

But Marcos's reign of brutality reached a tipping point

with the assassination

of political rival Benigno Aquino in 1983.

[ gunshot ]

[ agitated chatter ] ‐ Man: What's that?

‐ Senator Aquino was assassinated

on the tarmac at Manila Airport,

and we all knew what that meant‐‐

that Marcos did it.

‐ Although it was never proven,

many believe that Marcos gave the order

for the assassination.

‐ I started keeping a file on Marcos

about the corruption.

‐ McDougald shared his file with one of his professors,

Dr. Emanuel Soriano.

‐ Dr. Soriano was chancellor at University of the Philippines,

and he was part of a group that helped overthrow Marcos,

and they encouraged me to write the Marcos file

showing what he had done to the country.

[ cheering ]

‐ After he was ousted from power,

Marcos was replaced by Benigno's wife,

Corazon Aquino.

While McDougald was documenting evidence

of Marcos corruption,

he came across the name

of someone hired by the former leader

to locate the Golden Lily treasure‐‐

Robert Curtis.

‐ And the next thing I know,

I'm calling Curtis and going to Las Vegas to talk to him.

‐ Wow.

‐ I talked to him for two days,

and Curtis said, "All I want is to go back to the Philippines

and resume looking for the treasure."

Curtis kept claiming he had the maps.

That sounded like it might be real.

It might be interesting. ‐ A bit more tangible, yeah.

‐ So for‐‐ for that reason alone,

I said, "Let's just take a look at it."

‐ With Curtis's knowledge and McDougald's connections,

the two struck a deal to find the lost fortune.

‐ I flew back to the Philippines

and saw Dr. Soriano,

who had been appointed National Security Director,

and I said, "I think I've got some information for you here

you might be interested in."

He called the president, Aquino,

and said, "Ma'am, we need to give Curtis

a permit to hunt for the treasure,"

and they did.

And we began searching for gold

in Fort Santiago on February 8, 1988.

‐ For over four centuries,

Fort Santiago in the Philippines

was a stronghold for Spanish, British, and American armies.

The Japanese seized it in 1941

and possibly used it as a treasure site.

According to Curtis's research,

the labyrinth of tunnels and dungeons

running under Fort Santiago

holds portions of General Yamashita's fortune.

‐ We have photographs of maps.

We have engineering drawings,

other photographic evidence

to determine, uh, the location, the exact location.

‐ Was there any point where you actually found any treasure?

‐ Yeah.

During the dig at Fort Santiago,

at the 40‐meter level, we encountered marble

and gold flecks on our drill, on our drill bit.

Flecks of gold and marble.

It was already in the maps

that they built the marble fortifications

before bringing in the treasure.

‐ I mean, that's incredible.

I mean, that in itself is‐‐is huge.

Not only are you getting marble and gold in the same spot,

I mean, what more evidence do you need?

‐ Yep.

‐ Why'd you stop there?

Because the president said that, uh,

we had to leave the fort.

All of a sudden,

the head of the construction company comes to me,

and he says, "Charlie,

we've been ordered to shut down."

‐ In San Francisco,

Chuck McDougald recalls the abrupt end

of his treasure hunt in the Philippines.

‐ All of a sudden,

the head of the construction company comes to me,

and he says, "Charlie,

we've been ordered to shut down."

Because the president said that, uh,

we had to leave the fort.

That came out of the blue, shocked everybody.

But we couldn't do anything but pack up and leave.

‐ Um, do you have any theories

as to why Aquino would, again, seemingly out of nowhere,

just stop you in your tracks from digging at Fort Santiago?

‐ Well, at the time,

she was under enormous political pressure.

We surmised that there were senators

more powerful than we ever would be

that went to President Aquino

and said, "These people have to go."

And after we were gone, they would go back in there

and recover the treasure for themselves.

‐ I mean, if it's really the senators

having enough power to shut the president down,

to stop you from your excavation,

I mean, really, how far does it go?

‐ The closer you get to the treasure,

the more careful you have to be.

There are people

that are gonna secretly observe everything you do,

and if and when they think you've found a treasure,

they‐‐they might step in and, uh,

either steal it from you

or just kill you right then and there.

‐ I mean, that's a very good indication

that you're on the right path, then.

‐ Yeah. ‐ Is there a possibility that‐‐

Do you have any actual maps

during the time you were searching for treasure

in the Philippines?

‐ During the dig,

Dr. Soriano was called to the palace

and returned with a file

holding about 30 or 40 original maps of the treasure

found in Marcos's office.

I had two originals that I retained,

and I photocopied 24 more.

‐ I'd love to look at the maps.

There's never been any tangible evidence

of‐‐of any kind of maps that were real,

and the fact that you've gotten these from Marcos's office‐‐

I mean, in this whole story, he's the only one

that‐‐that I'm aware of, at least,

that has actually cashed out and found some gold.

Do you still have the maps?

‐ Yes, I do.

‐ Meanwhile, back in the Philippines,

the team continues excavating Breach 6,

based on a promising find...

‐ Looks like charcoal.

‐ ...and the Curtis tapes.

‐ Charcoal at 10 feet.

We got charcoal at 10 feet.

‐ ...Rick checks the area for other materials

that could indicate

they're heading towards the metal deposit

revealed by the tech scans.

‐ I want to keep doing this as we work our way down...

[ detector buzzing ] to find something.

To begin with, when we started this shaft,

we lined it up on top of a ferrous metal line

that we were picking up all across this whole ridge.

We're down in the ground a long ways at this point.

We're gonna be scanning the dirt outside of the hole.

[ buzzing ]

We've got something going on here.

[ buzzing continues ]

Yeah, that's a definite hit.

What‐‐oh‐‐oh‐‐there it is.

What the heck is that?

I can't say for sure what this is.

That is surprisingly well intact,

but it's underneath an awful lot of dirt.

Hey, Brent, Farrell,

I found something.

‐ What you got, man?

‐ Take a look at this, man.

I found it metal detecting

that last bucket that came up out of there.

‐ That's a pretty old piece of equipment, whatever it is.

‐ Yeah, yeah. It really is.

‐ You know what it looks like?

It looks like the bands on our fin hoes,

like off a tool,

like a band around the handle of a tool or something, too.

‐ Oh, yeah.

‐ Well, there's a possibility.

That looks like a magazine off a rifle.

I've had enough dealing with firearms in my lifetime.

I know what a magazine looks like,

the part that slides up underneath

either to hold a clip or to pop shells down in.

I really do need to have somebody look at this

that knows more about it than I do.

‐ While Rick awaits answers to what this is

and who it belonged to...

miners Levi and Geo

are clearing out the collapsed tunnel.

‐ What is that? ‐ That ain't no rock dude.

Whoa, dude, what is that?

There's another one.

What is that?

‐ Is that a tooth?

I don't know what or who these belong to,

but at this point we're pulling out.

We're gonna get John down here

and have him take a look and see what he thinks.

Check this out. ‐ Ooh.

‐ There's more in there too, John.

‐ Yeah, it's right at the edge of a collapse.

Let's grab our stuff. I'll take you in there

and show you where we found it at.

‐ Oh, man.

[ bleep ]

‐ I found that tooth right in here.

I didn't even notice these before.

There's more teeth. We dug these out.

I don't know if those belong to a shoulder blade

or a rib or what that is.

Do you think it could possibly be a human?

‐ Oh, my God, I hope not.

Well, you know, the Japanese were notorious

for leaving their engineers and all the slaves

inside the tunnel.

I'm hoping this isn't that.

‐ Once you find bones like this,

we've got to get it checked out.

We can't do anything else in here until then.

Let's get somebody out here, check this out

and make sure it's not a human, let's pray.

This is a‐‐This is a problem.

You know, right now we're shut down

till we can figure out what this is.

Gotta get a specialist out here

and find out what these bones are about.

Not knowing if these are human,

it's only right to shut down this location

until we figure out exactly what these bones are.

So yeah, no more digging.

‐ That works for me.

I don't want to dig up no gravesite.

In San Francisco,

Bingo is meeting with Chuck McDougald,

who claims to have maps to Yamashita treasure sites.

‐ Do you have the maps here that I can look at?

I mean, I'd‐‐I'd love to look at the maps.

‐ Come with me.

Well, this is everything I have.

‐ Is this all your research

from your whole time spent in the Philippines?

‐ Yes.

They've been sitting in the attic for 25 years.

Ah, here‐‐ ‐ Let me help you with this.

‐ Okay.

‐ Just here? ‐ Uh, yeah.

This contains the maps

that were given to me in the Philippines.

‐ Wow.

Are these the original maps here?

‐ Those two are the original maps.

‐ These are incredible.

I've never seen anything like this

in any of my research. ‐ Yeah.

This is rice paper waxed over.

‐ It has a wax feel to them, yes.

‐ Yeah.

‐ Let's see, what else do we have?

‐ This is Camp McKinley, now called Fort Bonifacio.

This is a circle driveway in Camp McKinley.

In the center is a shaft.

There are 14 tunnels

that lead to treasure buried by the Japanese.

I think Marcos recovered this.

‐ If Marcos did in fact extract treasure from this site,

I mean, that's very valid proof

that a number of these maps

could potentially be actual treasure sites.

‐ Correct.

‐ What is the value here

that's listed at the bottom of these maps?

‐ That's the value of the map in the 1940s.

‐ So of each site,

that's how much is potentially buried in that spot.

‐ Yes.

‐ I mean, that's nine zeros there.

So 555 billion yen,

roughly $5 billion U. S. at the time.

‐ Yes.

‐ That's astronomical.

We're literally holding pieces of history right here.

So why didn't you go back to the Philippines

to try and recover any of these?

‐ Well, I tried, but they asked me to leave,

and I didn't think I was welcome back there anymore.

‐ Maybe, if you were open to it,

I mean, we can have this authenticated by some experts

and figure out the authenticity of it,

seeing if these are in fact

of the time period, of the era.

Would you be open to something like that?

‐ Absolutely.

‐ Back in the Philippines,

the horizontal drill is still fighting its way

up the mountain.

‐ Not looking too good.

‐ It looks like we had some pretty deep mud again

from some more rains.

‐ Who do we have on excavator right now?

‐ I think Michele's over there running right now.

I can probably get her over here.

Do you want me to try? ‐ Yeah.

‐ Michele tries using the excavator

to life the drill out of the mud.

‐ Got the strap there?

‐ Yeah, we have it. ‐ The shackles?

‐ It's just critical right now that we get this there.

John is anxious. I'm anxious.

We want to see if we can punch into this cavity,

and if we can get a camera and see this treasure.

We have to do this.

‐ Whoo‐hoo!

You're out, guys, you're out.

‐ At basecamp...

‐ Hey, Rick, how are you?

‐ ...Rick checks in

with military expert Craig Gottlieb

about the mysterious metal artifact

he discovered at Breach 6.

‐ Well, I am really excited to see what you think.

‐ Well, it's part of a rifle.

What you've got is the magazine body

of a Japanese Type 99 Arisaka rifle.

‐ Wow, man, that's awesome.

‐ Narrator: The Type 99 Arisaka rifle

was one of the premier combat weapons

of the Japanese Imperial Army,

built to the same rugged standards

of America's M1 Garand and Germany's Carabiner 98.

‐ So this is a later‐in‐the‐war rifle.

Uh, they started producing them in 1941,

and they produced them on through 1945.

‐ The Arisaka Type 99 was considered

one of the strongest military rifles ever made.

‐ So it is Japanese,

and it was used during the Second World War.

‐ Absolutely. I am a gun collector.

I happen to have one right here.

I want to show it to you

because I want to show you where your part goes.

Here is my Type 99 Japanese Arisaka rifle,

and I'm gonna actually take the bolt off‐‐

comes out‐‐

and here's what you've got.

If you look inside the rifle,

you have that follower in there, okay?

Which is where you‐‐ you load your cartridges, okay?

But, if you look on the bottom here,

you've got a little plate.

And if you pull this little lever here,

the bottom plate rotates out,

and it's sort of hard to see,

but if you look down in this well here,

you'll see your part.

Your part is part of the rifle,

and it doesn't just come out.

And what's really interesting

is that you only found this piece.

The question is, how did it get outside the rifle?

'Cause, as I said before,

it's not something you drop when you're out of ammo.

‐ Does it come out at all,

or does the rifle have to be broken for it to come out?

‐ It either has to be broken or disassembled.

This part does not come out,

and that's why I say it's not part of a magazine.

It's part of the rifle itself, and it's inside the rifle.

‐ Uh, it's getting kind of exciting

when you start finding Japanese rifle parts

in the bottom of your shaft

and you're looking for Japanese buried treasure.

‐ It tells you more

than the knife you found tells you, in my opinion.

I don't think a civilian carried a rifle like this

into your breach and dropped it,

like may have happened with the knife.

I really think that this part was dropped there

sometime prior to 1945.

‐ So what we do know for a fact now

is somebody with a Japanese rifle,

probably a Japanese soldier, was in Breach 6.

That tells me we're getting really close.

‐ As the sun rises over basecamp,

a local scientist arrives

to investigate a macabre discovery

the team uncovered deep inside the tunnel.

‐ Morning, sir. John Casey.

‐ Hi, good morning. I'm Phillip.

‐ While clearing out debris from a collapse,

miners Levi and Geo found bones and teeth.

If they are human,

the team must stop exploring here

and call in local authorities.

‐ John called me

to help him out identify the bones

that he found inside the mine tunnel.

In my line of work,

I've done several identification of bone fragments.

I've worked with describing new species

based on bone morphology for several years now.

Wow.

I'm here to figure out

if the bones that were found in the tunnel would be human.

‐ Right here.

There are some teeth.

‐ Oh, okay, so we have here...

Oh, I see some molars.

‐ You can see, we got some bone fragments here.

‐ Oh. Wow. Huh.

Yeah, so one of the vertebral column.

Probably along the lumbar area.

‐ Mm‐hmm.

‐ Uh, this one...

not entirely sure.

Well, at this point now,

it's pretty difficult to tell what kind of bone is it.

‐ You don't think they're possibly human bones.

‐ I have no idea,

pending tests.

‐ Anything that you can do

to test this and let us know definitively

is gonna be major

to us doing any other work in this tunnel.

‐ Uh, well, first I'm gonna do

is take photographs at the site.

[ shutter clicks ]

I just found nine different bone fragments in there

and surprisingly in fairly good condition.

I found several pieces of vertebrae,

different parts of a scapula, or your shoulder blades,

and I found three pieces of teeth.

‐ John: We're gonna get these bones tested.

The tunnel is now shut down until further notice.

‐ Later that day,

Bingo updates John and Rick about his meeting

with treasure hunter Chuck McDougald,

who holds what could be game‐changing treasure maps

he obtained in the Philippines.

‐ I got some incredible news for you.

I just found Chuck. He's in San Francisco.

Chuck McDougald has

20‐some‐odd Yamashita treasure maps.

‐ John: Wow.

‐ Two of the maps were originals.

‐ Did he say where he got these things?

‐ He got them from Dr. Soriano,

who was the chancellor

of the University of the Philippines at the time.

He got them out of President Marcos's office.

So me and Chuck, we brought these

to be authenticated to Gerry LaPorte,

who's a forensic chemist and document dating specialist.

We wanted to see if we could anything about the origin

or even the validity of the map.

We did a number of tests.

Some of them, they were ink impression,

the medium used, even the ink itself.

The conclusion we came to

is that the creation of this document,

um, and the technology used to create it

is from the 1970s.

Not an original,

but likely a copy that was used in the field.

‐ Totally makes sense that it's a copy.

I wouldn't want to take the original map into the field,

even if we had it.

‐ Have you got the thing in your hands?

‐ You know, unfortunately,

he wouldn't let any of them out of his sight.

What are you guys thinking?

Should we try and set up a partnership with Chuck

so we can get access to the maps?

‐ If these are real maps

and there's a real map of our mountain,

it could be the thing

that cracks this mountain wide open.

‐ Let's figure out what he needs,

make sure that it's reasonable,

but let's do a deal.

‐ Sounds good, gentlemen. I'll get it set up.

I'm gonna get in touch with Chuck.

As soon as I make any headway with that,

I'll let you know.

‐ Narrator: That evening,

John checks on the progress of the horizontal drill.

‐ I don't know if he's gonna make it.

‐ I think he will.

‐ It's pretty steep.

‐ He gets further every time.

I think he should keep trying.

‐ So close.

‐ You just about had it.

‐ Man, you were‐‐ you were getting so close.

You know, as soon as you got the slop out of the way

and got some purchase, she was coming.

‐ Yeah.

‐ And once you hit the slop again,

it was just back down. ‐ That rain didn't help.

‐ With the rig stuck fast,

the team calls in the excavator to help.

‐ Hey, Michelle, you got a copy?

‐ Using a heavy‐duty cargo strap,

Michele lifts the back end of the drill

with the excavator bucket,

hoping to nudge it up the road.

‐ It's gonna make it.

‐ Broke the strap.

[ machine powers down ]

‐ Cheers, mate.

Ohh!

It keeps sliding.

‐ Yeah, it keeps sliding sideways,

so we just can't get enough purchase there.

We'll, uh, we'll get Michele

to plant the bucket behind the machine.

It can't go nowhere.

It can't‐‐Both machines don't go nowhere tonight.

Pick this up at daylight.

This is getting too dangerous for us

to do anything here in this slop.

Fair enough?

‐ All right. ‐ Cool. Thanks.

All right, 'chele,

we're gonna put the bucket to brace the drill

and make sure it can't go anywhere for the night,

and we're gonna call it quits

and come back when we can see.

I gotta tell you,

I don't know if it's gonna be worth it.

It's such a long shot

to get this drill to this target to begin with.

We're going through all this aggravation and danger

possibly for nothing.

‐ You know, I can't think of any other way

to get to that waterfall.

‐ Rob: You know what? We're all tired.

We're all discouraged, I'm discouraged.

Tomorrow's another day. Tomorrow.

‐ All right, good deal. Thanks, guys.

The only way to keep the morale up on the team

is just, you know, tell them, we're gonna persevere,

and don't let this stop you.

I don't let anything stop me.

No people, no mountain, no rain is going to stop me.

Once my mind is set on something,

I'm going to do it. I don't care what it takes.

‐ As morning arrives, Rob assesses

how to get the drill rig over the final incline.

‐ Well, this whole situation is dangerous in general.

We have several tons of machinery

that we have humans standing in between.

Just about anything can go wrong,

and if it does, it would be catastrophically wrong.

I don't think there's a whole lot of margin

for just a couple of bumps and scrapes here.

‐ Okay, Michele, that should be okay.

Just back it out from there, please.

‐ So the plan is to have Michele

move the excavator out of the way,

and Andrew's gonna get on the drill rig

and back it down somewhere stable

while we clean up the path and get it to be something

that he could drive over and get it to this drill pad.

‐ The plan is to clear away the mud,

then lay down a mixture of sand and fine gravel on top

for the rig to gain traction.

‐ It's gonna be tough.

‐ Later, at basecamp,

Levi, Geo, and John eagerly await the results

from the local scientists' bone analysis.

If the remains are human,

the tunnel will be shut down

as local officials investigate.

‐ Hey, Phillip. So I'm hoping that you have some news for us.

‐ Oh. Good to hear, man. ‐ Thank God.

What are they from, though?

‐ Towards the end of World War II,

as Japanese rations grew scarce,

the Imperial Army slaughtered

nearly 2 million Philippine livestock

to feed their starving troops.

‐ Based on those samples,

is it possible to know how old those bones are?

So it could date from the time of the war.

‐ You know, this is great news for us

because now that the bones have been deemed nonhuman,

they can continue working in the tunnel.

‐ Back in San Francisco,

Bingo negotiates a partnership with Chuck

that includes access to his maps.

‐ Personally, based on what I've seen,

I believe a lot of these maps are real,

and I really think that there is something here

that could help us on our search.

‐ They're the most sophisticated maps of treasure

I have ever encountered.

So many codes, so many symbols,

but I never expected to be back in this business.

‐ I mean, really, at the end of the day,

we need access to these maps.

You know, I think, between just the two of us alone

and my team in the Philippines,

I think we have a winning formula here.

We have what it takes to get this treasure.

And, I mean, to that end,

what's it gonna take to get you on board?

‐ I don't think it's an accident

that, uh, we stumbled on each other...

after my stuff being hidden away in the attic

for 25 years.

I think

if these maps are used

to successfully conclude a treasure hunt,

if treasure is found... ‐ Mm‐hmm.

‐ ...then, uh, I would share in that.

I'm not trying to be greedy.

1% of the gross proceeds would be enough.

‐ If that's what it takes, then let's do it.

Getting these maps is huge for us.

If one of these maps is of our mountain,

then that takes the guesswork

out of a lot of what we've been doing.

I mean, the guys are gonna be excited as hell

to see this stuff.

‐ In the Philippines, it's all hands on deck

to help the horizontal drill get over the final incline.

‐ He digs more, twice as fast as everybody else.

‐ Well, you guys told me to come down here, man.

‐ We got a job to do.

‐ After the loose mud is shoveled away,

Michele brings in nearly 1 ton of sand and gravel bags

for the team to lay down by hand.

‐ This is our best shot at getting to this gold.

‐ Give me one more.

‐ If this fails,

I really don't know how we're going to get there.

We know the target's there. Now we just gotta get to it.

Pray. We got another maybe half an hour

before thunderstorms roll through here.

If that sky opens up right now and was starting to pour,

we'd lose all the work we just put into this.

‐ Frickin' madman.

If I carried two, I'd frickin' be on my knees.

Come on, Levi, don't do too much.

I need you in one piece.

‐ Ultimately, we have to start drilling here.

This is our best shot

at seeing what's underneath that waterfall.

[ machine engine starts ]

This isn't good.

It's coming, boys.

Come on, baby!

Come on, come on!

Look out, Steve!

‐ Yeah! ‐ All right! Yo!

‐ Michele: Yeah!

‐ Whoo‐hoo! ‐ Yay!

‐ Whoo‐hoo!

‐ Yeah! ‐ Andrew, you're the man.

‐ Michele: Yeah. Whoo‐hoo! ‐ Yo, Andrew!

‐ Rob: Today is one small victory,

but getting the drill here

probably should've been the easy part.

Drilling and hitting our target,

I guess that's yet to be seen.

‐ They're finally ready

to start drilling through 930 feet of hard rock

to see what lies beneath the waterfall.

‐ Now it's time to aim this drill,

and that is critical.

I mean, 930 feet is a really long way to go,

so all we can really do

is aim it our best from the get‐go.

We want to go as straight as an arrow

and go right into this void.

‐ It's gotta be right.

‐ Let's pray that it gets there

and it doesn't stray too far.

[ engine starts ]

‐ Here we go, John! Here we go!

It's hard to believe we're at this point.

It's gotta make it.

‐ Hopefully we can get drilled into it,

we can get a camera in this void space,

and actually have a look

at what's inside this mountain.

‐ On the next "Lost Gold of World War II"...

‐ Helicopter coming in.

There's no reason for that helicopter

to be circling around here.

We're the only people on this mountain.

‐ What you got, Rick?

‐ Well, I got some timber, I think.

‐ That sounds hollow to me. ‐ Ooh, ooh, it's hollow.

‐ Moment of truth. Are you ready?

‐ I'm way ready. See what this thing can do!

‐ What is that?

‐ That looks like a huge space.

‐ Oh my God.

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