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[duane] there's some kind of a dark force

that keeps his gold from being found.

We've had a problem with theft, trespassing...

Oh, [bleep]

..Damaging of some equipment.

-Scene six that. -Bring him up.

[bleep]

will fights his heart.

That usually means there's a fortune there.

See that?

That's natural gold.

Holy. [bleep]

-wait just to -get into that cabin.

Duane: Hell yeah!

It's pretty damn dangerous, but it's the only

entry point right now that we know well.

[eric] there we go. He's on it.

We've got sentiment coming through.

What is this?

[eric] duane, we got something big.

Does that look like a spanish coin to you?

[chad] we're not even inside the cave yet.

We've got to keep going.

[thunder rumbling]

[duane] there's some places on earth, that just don't seem right.

But, land feels different.

It acts different.

In this year's, one of those places.

Some say the land is trying to hold on to something.

[bleep]

[duane] aztec treasure, carvings of gold.

Look at this.

-[duane] more than riches, -it'd be billion dollars here.

[duane] some even say, there's a buried space ship.

-Yeah, -[duane] me?

I never cared much about the stories,

I just care about finding whatever the hell's in the ground.

No.

[chad] there's so many skeptics out there,

that don't believe anything like this is possible.

It was a process to get to this moment, but it's paying off,

kind of work around the clock out here,

so we got some lights right here.

This is just like field of dreams for my dad.

So this, uh, this pond wasn't here?

Uh, what they did is they drilled down,

and found the underground caver and it was full of water.

And there's a click 50 frogs that came out that were blind and albino.

You know, they've been in the dark for so long, they couldn't see anything.

And that just shows that there is a cave system,

that they were living in because they have oxygen to live.

The entrance was right in there,

but since then, it's been filled up, with all kinds of stuff.

We can't get back in there.

We're going to clean up years of sediment sludge,

clean it all out, so we can get in there.

That's where the treasure is.

[chad] we know it's there.

[wind blowing]

[theme music]

there she is. Finally here.

It's right over there.

[chad] we got the whole crew here.

We got skid loaders, had right.

They getting after it, man.

[duane] once we get on to something we don't like messing around.

Now we know.

We know, there's gold down there..

Natural gold or treasure.

We just want to get down in there.

[chad] right now, we're just tracking in around rig.

We'll see how it goes.

[duane] I just want to get into these caverns,

and find out what the hell's down.

So I got charlie boy looking into the coin,

to gather all the information you can.

[charlie] I sent a picture of the coins,

to a professor at utah state, and he has some ideas on it.

He's agreed to meet with me

and discuss some of the facts about it in the legends.

First of the legends are abundant,

but where it all starts is spanish with her non court

has attack the has tak than 1519.

He started round up all the gold and then, as they took their gold north

to their cousins to use and ask them to watch over.

And they stored it in hiding place in the un, the mountains

and that on pain of death,

they would never reveal, where the gold was.

And if anybody else tried to do anything there, they'd be killed.

So do you think that the blind frog ranch

where we're at is probably central to all that?

Yes.

According to everything I've read,

uh, not very far from your ranch

is likely one of the sacred storage caverns.

According to the legend the in the larger depository,

there was one major entrance, but it had seven chambers.

It's funny you say that, because our resident geologist,

has detected seven caverns.

We have seven fault with potentially seven caverns.

Wow, on your property.

Yeah, I like that.

Now that's coming from you.

When you find them, I want to see.

Uh, now that area, the spooky part kicks in that

you know, they're all curse that anybody who finds them tragedy

will befall of them, and if they don't leave it alone,

and there's, you know, myriad stories of people

who have found something and die mysteriously,

I think there's threads

of consistency and threads of truth in almost all of them.

Now we've heard all the stories about the aztec treasure

being buried somewhere near the property, and then finding the coin

and have the historian connect the dots for us.

The stories were starting to kind of fall in line with each other a little bit,

and we have all indications that way have everything that's in the legends.

You know, I spoke with that history professor,

and he said you all are just really right on top of it.

He mentioned that this treasure has been

hidden underground in these caverns

and that there's seven chambers or seven entrances, to this.

[eric] that brings two things to my mind

is first of all, the faults warm in here.

We have potentially seven caverns there.

So, yeah, we've got these parallels, to me that that that means that,

there could be caves to the north

and those could be cases for treasures.

We very well could be sitting on the largest unfound treasure

in the history of the united states, anyway.

[duane] hey, I like this.

I like this deal, but, you know, some of these professionals

and I'm not trying to be rude,

but some of these professionals

that's been doing it for a long time

and had never come up with something

I don't want to sound cocky, but maybe where the professionals.

-Well, yeah, -a little cocky didn't it?

[laughs]

but guys, if we do this,

we got to take it all the way through

[duane] in the old business we used rattle rigs a lot.

You can go about one hundred fifty foot if you need to.

These rathole rigs aren't cheap.

It's about one hundred fifty bucks a foot,

so this thirty foot hole cost about five grand.

-We drill right there. -Okay,

I know it's getting a little close to the edge there, but,

you know it's gonna be good.

Whenever I broke into the void,

I was using a trach hole with a grind and disk on it.

So that whole flooded.

Now it's all clogged up with rock and mud, trying to dig it out,

going to take a while, and it's going to be a mess.

So we're going to use the rathole rig to just move over

and drill us a new hole, right next to it.

That way, we'll have a new, clean way in.

The blind frogs that came out of their need air to breathe,

so we know there's an air pocket close by there underneath it.

If we find that pocket and we will have a dry entrance,

it's a lot easier to find go when you breathe an air.

You make yourself comfortable, but,

but the closer we get to that little spot

right out there, the better off we are.

And then we'll just drill until we hit the void.

But, no, some bitches there, it's got to find it.

All right.

It's got to be the one.

We're as close as we could really get to the caves right there.

And we're up here on dry ground.

We like about eight to ten foot

before we get to the water table,

and after that it's about twenty two foot down,

plus or minus, I don't know.

All. Yeah, it's wet, it's wet.

[eric] so the wet clay is good.

It means we've tapped the same water that's in the pond.

Yeah, we're officially in ground words saturated.

-How many feet? -Nineteen.

23 duane, and water still coming in from up above, way to go.

[duane] we still got a ways to go.

It's got to be down there somewhere.

I kind of hoped to see this little bit drop,

a couple feet and I have to catch it.

It means it drops into the void.

Be the same thing is what happened to me on a track on it just fell in.

I don't know. I just have to see it.

It's awful. Wet butt wet doesn't mean all that much.

We're looking for a void.

I don't know.

I don't know.

How deep the rig now?

[eric] 35?

Slow it down. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. It's like smearing out, right?

And just like I said, rathole rigs aren't cheap.

So at thirty five feet, I've already spent

about six grand on this hole, so we got to punch through.

[machine whirring]

some just got easier than it.

I'm just waiting for that drilling break.

That's all I'm waiting for.

I want to watch that kelly drop your feet.

It's stressful when you're trying to find something' and it's not happening.

I've been through this before in the oil field,

and it always ends up happening at, like, three o'clock in the morning

and you're waiting for this pay zone to come in

and you know, sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't.

They were feeling vibrations way.

[eric] feels like the ground is shaking more.

That's a whole different ball game here.

You know, you could feel it on your feet.

-Hell man. -Yeah.

[eric] feels like the ground is shaking more.

Holy [bleep] I hit something!

What you got? What you got?

Thinking about out of throwing break here?

Look at how hard the water level is.

Did you feel a drop? A sudden drawing break there?

Like that's what it looked like to me.

Yeah.

Duane, we had a drill break here.

Significant may be five foot.

So we got were into something here.

Oh, my way down.

There it is.

That water is just flowing in.

You can see it right there.

-You think before the void. -Yeah.

-I'm sure a lot of water... -Just coming in.

I think we may be in it.

Listen to that.

That's the water in the cabin.

I tell you what. This is huge.

You have, duane,

even though it's not too dry entrance, we want it.

The water means we've broken into the same cave again.

So now we got a 30 foot vertical drop in.

So I got a lot to think about, but for right now it's okay.

This is good.

Hell, yeah. Next step now, boys.

[duane] but you don't want to get too excited, when you get too excited.

It drains used for making a good next decision.

Come back to this tomorrow.

Let's do it. Let's do it that celebrate a little bit.

[duane] so here's the deal, fellas.

I have run companies all my life,

and I did it with telling everybody the truth

in saying that I don't know where this deal's gonna go.

We've seen a lot of things out here,

and now I've seen things that y'all haven't seen,

and I haven't backed off yet.

But I need you guys' help.

I will make this work and I'll make it good

for everybody to hangs in there.

And if and when we could do anything...

-(cow mooing) -what's that?

-Do you hear that? -Yeah.

-So the cows are over here. -Yeah.

(cows mooing)

something spooked him.

I'll go down here. You go around over there?

-We'll go down there. -Yep.

Hey, look.

Do you hear that?

Did you see all of that?

Man: Oh, yeah.

Chad: The cows were super spooked.

So you could hear these, like, huge branches snapping running right towards us.

And we don't even own (bleep) cows here.

It's from the neighbors across the way.

It's crazy.

I thought I saw something dark cross here.

(bleep)

look at that. Look at that. Look over there.

It's like the insides are gone.

Hey, charlie, come look at this.

Can you see this?

Oh, (bleep). That's a deer.

What the (bleep)?

-It got ripped apart. -(bleep) it's head is off.

Oh, man.

Charlie: Look at that...

Something got ahold of his...

His (bleep) head has been chewed off.

And that's what scared the cows?

Yeah, I would think so.

And chewed the damn head off (bleep) here.

Oh, man.

Ugh.

Some weird (bleep) goes on around here. I know that.

This sambar was ripped open from the belly.

Yep. Look at that.

It's like it ripped out his... Organ.

What the hell?

(bleep)

what would rip out the guts of this...

Charlie: What would eat the head off of it?

You know, you don't see where it was pulled through or anything like that.

It's just like boom. It just happened here,

and it was done. There's no drag trail.

It's the kind of stuff that goes on over at that skinwalker place.

Uh, it's a pretty intense scene.

I've just never seen anything like that.

I don't know what to tell you, fellas.

Charlie: I'll tell you what,

you better start watching your back around here.

For a period of three days, I would come back from working

and there would be pieces of rabbit

all spread around my trailer.

The fourth night, I had my windows open,

and I heard something tugging on the door.

I thought it was just one of my co-workers

playing the joke or coming to see if I was awake.

I looked out the window, then saw something very big

and very not human move silhouetted against the moon.

I've never seen a human being moved like that.

It kind of seems disjointed, and it just moved very slowly,

like it was purposely looking for something.

That still terrifies me to this day.

Duane: We're in, guys.

It's the same killer. So they're connected?

Eric: Yeah. So there's a conduit between the pond there and this.

So, yeah, the other thing is that those last a couple feet

that you insisted on drilling, duane,

we got into a different type of rock type.

You could sure hear the different tones in the ground.

And last night it was a completely different tone.

Yeah, so right here we have this formation.

It's called the nugget sandstone.

It was deposited as wind-blown dunes, ok?

This material is completely different.

-Take a look at it. -Yeah.

See how this is really fine-grained. That's coarser-grained.

So what that rock is, it's called limestone.

It's a sandy limestone.

And that's the type of rock

all the major cavern system in the world are made of.

-Good yield. -Yeah.

Eric is a legend in the oil industry.

He's the real deal.

So having eric here as a geologist

is a game changer for us.

So we got a wet entrance here.

I mean, we need to move on this

and figure out how to enter this.

Well, there's still water out there,

but it would've been nice to have a dry entrance.

Yeah.

Chad: So we'll have to get all the gear prepped up.

-Oxygen tanks? -Yeah.

-Get them filled up. -Get all those picked up, and loaded up.

-Get everything out here. -Yeah.

-We're in the cave. -Yeah.

Yes, we're in the cave.

Duane: And so the thing about that whole deal is

where we're at in this hole, the water table's still high.

So we still have to go down a long ways in that pipe

-before we even get into the opening. -Right.

There's way too many risk points on this deal.

This is huge that we found this hole.

But we need to stop for a minute and say,

"hey, look, you know, way could have cave-ins.

"we could have air problems.

"we have all these different things."

I'm totally against entering that hope right now

because there's a lot of things that I just don't like right now.

I'm ready to dive, though. We have to get in there.

That's what this whole thing is about.

We have to get in there somehow.

You will not go in through that hole.

It ain't going to happen.

I'm totally against entering that hope right now

because there's a lot of things that I just don't like right now.

I'm ready to dive, though. We have to get in there.

That's what this whole thing is about.

We have to get in there somehow.

You will not go in through that hole.

It ain't going to happen.

The reason we bought the rathole rig in was to find the dry entrance.

If we would have gotten that,

we would've just rigged up a winch,

and just lowered chad down into the cave.

When he need to get out, we just bring him up.

So since it's flooded, lowering chad down in there is dangerous,

and there's no way of us getting him out if there's a problem.

I would never put you into something that I wouldn't go into.

We just need to make sure it's right.

-That's it? -That's it.

-Yeah. -Done.

I mean, this whole season

we're focusing on getting in that hole,

getting in the cavern system,

and when he shut that down, it kinda... I mean,

I don't know. We just have to get in there.

I feel like we have a window that's closing.

If you wanna dive, we're gonna go in through the pond.

I know what it is.

I know how to open that up.

When I first punched into the cavern,

I dove in.

The shoot was clean.

I couldn't get into the cave.

Duane? Holy (bleep).

It ain't gonna work.

Chad's a much better diver than I am.

So if I can get all the muck out of the hole

and secure it without nothing falling in,

then we can get chad in another diver in there.

How soon can we have it cleaned up?

-You give me two days on that deal. -Give you two days.

-Two days. -Yeah. Good.

Duane: I trust my gut about these things.

I've been around a few times,

so we only have one rig and one operator, and that's me.

Right now what I'm gonna do is take the track hole

and pull out the sediment, pull it out of the vault,

and see if we can't get down into that hole.

Well, I have a lot of digging to do.

And so the rest of the team,

they just might as well go home or go to the bar right now.

And go have fun.

Charlie: For me, there's really no such thing as a day off.

There's no such thing as the headless deer

just falling out of the sky

in the middle of your property.

When that happened as a law enforcement officer,

they have a lot of questions on how and why

something did that to that animal.

And to be in the place that it was, was mighty strange.

-Mark? -Yeah.

You know, I tracked down mark julian.

He's a member of the navajo nation.

I have some concerns about some things out on our ranch,

and I can't get anybody to talk to me.

What's happening?

We've had some strange things happen out there.

Recently we had a mutilation, a deer.

I mean, the head was gone off of.

This is something that our people don't really talk about.

You know, I just don't know what I'm dealing with.

It sounds like you might be dealing with the skin-walker and that,

you know, they're like medicine men that went bad,

that take their abilities and decided to use it for the dark side.

You know, medicine, man

wanna to help you and skinwalkers wanna hurt you.

[mark julian] they're able to shape shift into different animals.

[mark julian] if they need strength, that may shift into a bear if they need speed.

Uh, that may shift into a coyote or even a cat.

Then you need to be very, very careful about

because they're... They're there to do you harm?

They're not there to do you any good.

You know, they may see something that I don't like what you're doing,

so they could very well easily transform

and, you know, interrupt whatever it is you have going on.

So we might be doing something if we're having a problem,

we'll not be doing something to stir up that.

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Yes. You know, the skinwalkers that may not want you disturbing things.

So if these skinwalkers are shape shifting navajo,

which is I mean, how did they get here?

In the 1860s.

That's when the navajo cursed the land with skinwalkers.

That's how they were released as part of the curse.

Oh. They're not just passing through type thing.

-They're out there somewhere. -Right.

-All the time. -Right. Yes.

Well, that brings up a lot of concern

for, uh, you know, our people that we have working out there.

Yes, you need to be very careful.

-Yeah. -Very careful.

[charlie snider] you know, based on what I know now, the main thing is keep everybody

safe that's out there, and I've got to ramp up the security a little bit

more too.

Take those precautions for that type of

scenario that might happen.

[duane ollinger] charlie boy. What's up?

Yeah, I've been out just research on this

whatever the skinwalker thing is.

-Alright. -Mutilation.

And I just met with a guy back in town.

-He's a full blooded navajo. -Really?

And he gave me combo, a full rundown on it,

and he was telling me said, "if you have a problem

out there with skinwalkers, be very, very careful."

said they will hurt you.

He said they're not out there just running around, he said,

they're out there for a reason.

Kind of has me a little bit concerned.

We're getting ready to drill again.

We want to put chad down in the in the pond,

in the hole and get him into the caverns.

Kind of makes you wonder why they're wanting to start showing up now.

Yeah.

I mean, what what's their intent?

Well, he said if you have something they want,

then they'll just take it no matter what they have to do to get it.

Well, if they're here, then that means we're doing something right.

Yeah. Oh, absolutely.

All I can say is we're not going to slow down,

and we're going to do exactly what we need to do.

And, you know, hopefully, hopefully that talking to him didn't give you cold feet.

No, but, you know, at the same time, now I gotta rethink some of the

security issues again because it's all this

a whole other ball game, so I'll kind of map house.

Okay. All right.

-Let's go. -If you need me, just holler at me.

Got you covered. Thank you, charlie boy.

[duane ollinger] so I don't know anything about skinwalkers.

What they talk about, what legends are.

And if we're doing something so called, it's supposed to be irritating them.

We must be doing something right or getting close.

So for me, it's all about finding out what's down,

and there's not a creature on earth that's going to stop.

[duane ollinger] I'm gonna tell my son.

I'm going to get something done in two days.

You can bet your ass that I'm going to get it done.

If we need to go all night on this deal, we'll do it.

The hole we dealt with a rat hole rig is just too small

and too vertical, especially since it's the weather interests.

So I need to take a trach hole in there and dip it out, clean it out.

So it's wide enough for chad and another diver to get in there and inner safely.

[duane ollinger] hopefully, I can just reach in there and grab the rest of that pipe,

wiggle my bucket down in there and see if I can't jar that loose.

And it might just open up those case we could be like draining bathtub.

If I follow through, I got my door open so I should be able to get out.

[chad ollinger] this is typical. If he has a goal, he's gonna accomplish it.

So I have faith. This could be make or break.

Okay, dad, let her rip.

Give her hand.

[duane ollinger] I need to get deeper.

We're at an angle. I don't know if you straighten up getting further in there.

[dramatic music playing]

-yeah. -That's a good amount of material there.

Please. You're out right there.

He's put a lot of, like did stir it out,

which that was holding us up in the first place.

So this is awesome news, man.

Another full bucket.

He's, he's on it.

He's in there now.

Yeah. Bingo.

That's the bottom, boys

hey, we're in.

[both exclaiming]

[eric drummond] sure enough after working on it for a while,

duane just started getting deeper and deeper.

He's pulling out more material.

We've opened up that home.

It looks like chad's going to be able to get down in there.

You're going diving, buddy.

[all cheering]

-yeah, buddy. -Good job.

Good deal, man. Good deal.

[duane ollinger] that was a major obstacle force, that hole.

It's sealed back over.

Finally we [bleeped] did.

-Top grade. -Yeah.

This is a good entry point, but we need to let the water calm down.

So, you know, we got some kind of visibility,

so tomorrow morning we're going to check it with a drone.

I think it's open, and if it is open, then chad's going to go in for a swim.

Yeah, water's clear.

Used to have frogs too. They didn't hitch hike in here.

To get this deal back opened up and see the fresh water coming in

and see the new sets of frogs coming in.

They... They're coming from somewhere, and it takes oxygen.

You know, this whole deal was so murky.

It was unreal last night.

Now it's just crystal clear.

So we know that we're in the live water instead of just a stagnant pond.

-Right. -Yep.

I mean, it looks clear right now already?

Yeah. Wow.

-Look at that. -Yeah.

Much clear.

Got to go down.

Look at that. Wait.

Is that the whole? I'll be dead.

-Wow, look at that. -There it is.

There it is.

-You can see in there. -You can see it.

Well, it's going deeper than we ever have.

Look at that.

Chad, you ready to get in there?

Hell, yeah.

We could get ready for this.

Yeah, that's going.

It's a solid hole, I worked on both sides of it.

Bang on most sides.

So it's solid rock going down.

When I got the drone over there to the hole, it kept getting deeper and deeper.

Started at thirty, and it kept going deeper to, like, forty two foot.

That's the deepest and the cleanest water we've ever seen.

That just lets us know that there's fresh water in there.

And we're inside the cave right now.

-Look at that. -There it is.

-Yup. -Wow.

Let's get ready to die, huh?

Oh, yeah. Let's do it. Good stuff.

We finally get to get in the hole.

It's what we've been waiting for all year. I mean, it's super stoked.

What do you think about putting a rope on ya?

You could at least find your way out.

Yeah, I agree, I think you need it.

Chad's going to check it out first because he's he's got to touch

a hard head into it, which is fine.

He got that from somebody.

This is high risk.

It is and you know, it's a scary move.

So we have to make this right and it will be.

Chad goes in, ryan goes in to always come up. Always.

We're going to find the entry point.

[duane ollinger] well, here's what we're not going to do.

We will not go in.

Not now.

You can look around.

You can play that game all you want to look in... See what kind of voids are.

But we do not want to enter the horizontal.

Not at all.

I want them guys to be safe and I won't take no bull [bleeped]

all right, let's do it

-you ready? -Yeah, sir.

In contracting an oil field,

you break things in the steps.

If you don't, people don't just get hurt.

They get killed.

[duane ollinger] so excited as we all are, the first trip is just a scout trip.

See what the visibility is?

See what our access is to the cave and we'll see what we need to do.

Chad, come here for a second.

[duane ollinger] chad's done a lot to make this thing work.

And I'm not dumb. I know he's doing a lot of it for me,

and right now I just need to make sure he doesn't get himself killed.

Just trying to make his dad proud, because it's [bleeped] dangerous.

All right, you're going down.

We're down about 27.5.

Thirty one.

Well, he's right over the hole.

Thirty six.

He's on the bottom.

[suspenseful music playing]

all right, going down deeper in.

Forty feet.

[suspenseful music playing]

forty five feet.

He's at the pardon plus.

He's going into a cave.

These cavern systems are known to be very irregular.

I mean, they could be huge.

You know, these caverns could be small.

There's narrow passages.

They can vary in depth from anywhere from a couple feet below surface

to thousands of feet below surface.

And so you're trying to punch something that you can't see basically.

You could be right next to a cavern system and missing.

And yet that information you get from that is still value.

[suspenseful music playing]

keeping an eye on that air, too.

Yeah, the 1200.

He gets to 508t.

Tug on the rope two times.

Copy that.

Just above 1000 pounds.

He's down there now.

[duane ollinger sighs]

damn it!

[suspenseful music playing]

all right. It's coming up.

There's a fox down there. Another band made something?

-No. -Yeah.

It's like over ten foot down right in there, right through the hole.

Man, it's huge.

Finding a man-made box, this is a whole new ball game.

Now you don't put a box that deep down in a cave

unless you're trying to hide something that's very valuable.

So we put something right here.

-We're on the spot. -That's awesome.

[charlie snider] you know all of the stories that we hear about the treasure around here

it really is looking more like their rail than just stored.

Finally we [bleeped] did it.

[chad exclaiming]

that's the chad I know.

[chad ollinger] it's definitely man made.

You could see on the corners.

It's held together with rope.

[chad ollinger] the only thing I could see inside of there was rocks.

But it looks like you could open from the top, kind of like a lid.

And you had to be like ten foot by ten foot.

I mean, if someone put it a box down there,

it would have to be something very important.

My gold, I would imagine.

We're gonna have to open this whole thing up.

There's no way we'll come out of the hole.

We're going to get out.

Even though he's a hardheaded look, I'm so excited about what chad did.

The best day of your life is when your children become your hebrew.

It's an honor for him to be here for me.

It's... It's an honor.

Ah, look at this, 1849.

If any of these are real, they will be well over a million dollars here.

Oh, whoa!

What's this?

But did you hear that?

-Everyone out of here. -Let's get out of here.