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Need to get in these caves before the winter sets in on us.

Because we found gold coming up from the cavern.

I want to find out what the hell's down there.

That's bottom, boys.

-We're in. -[all cheering]

we've opened up that hole, it looks like chad's going to be able to get down in there.

-Ready? -Yes.

I want the guys to be safe.

I won't take [bleep]!

Forty-five feet.

He's at the bottom, plus.

There's a box there. Maybe something.

-No [bleep]! -Yeah, we're on the spot.

[all cheering]

there's some places on earth that just don't seem right.

The land feels different, it acts different.

And this here, is one of those places.

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

-Aztec treasure. -Holly [bleep]!

-Caverns of gold. -Look at this.

[inaudible]

there will be million dollars here.

Some even say, there's a buried space here.

[man] yeah.

Me? I never cared much about the stories.

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

-Let's get out of here! -Ah!

We got here.

Ah, there it is.

-There he is. -Yeah, right.

That's no bigger than this.

I could not have fit through there with a tank on.

You had to go sideways so you could bend forward in.

-Yeah, see that. -You could tear a hole.

All right there. And you hung up.

Which happened.

The hose got hung up in there.

We had to go through some rough stuff to get there.

I was getting tangled in those lines right there.

[man] that you dive route to it. [chad] yeah.

The lines that I had were tangling up around my legs

and they would get caught on these rocks,

and I'd have to go back and get the line, and

or they could have been cut, man. With that line,

I mean, it could have been cut 50 feet away, and you wouldn't really know.

You just feel lack of pressure water getting in there.

I mean, realistically, if we went in there five more times,

someone probably wouldn't come out.

It's that sketchy.

Oh, wow. Well, that's getting a little too tighter.

-Yeah. -Not so confined space.

-Yeah. -Confined, son of a bitch.

This takes confined to another league here.

-It goes in a lot further than I thought. -Yeah, it does.

-You're swimming there. -Wow.

-What? What is that? -Is that, that's man made.

Yeah. You could see that. Logs right there.

That's the log structure.

-Yeah. -That's the box.

And see how it helped those ropes right there.

-Yeah. -How it's held together.

What the hell is son of a bitch doing there?

No.

Wow.

[all laughing]

I'll be excited too. Yeah, that is cool.

Yeah, but you couldn't go through it, but you could see in there.

There's just a bunch of rocks, so I could see.

Look at this deal. I mean, you're talking about old times stuff here.

This has to be hundreds of years back.

Look at that.

You can't build something like that underwear.

Underwear? No way.

Yeah, that's that.

That there was built, then this cave was flooded.

-There's no doubt about that. -That cavern at one time.

[eric] it's known that the the aztecs have hidden things under caves by diverting water

to flood them purposefully as a method to to hide something of great value.

You know, the end of the day, we're going to have to find a better entrance.

What I've seen in this footage is very high risk stuff for chad and ryan.

But what they found is huge.

It's huge, it's uh, it don't get no bigger than that.

With two miles a cave system beneath us,

there's got to be, got to be some kind of dry entrance.

-Yeah. -There's another access.

There's another access because, you know, damn good

and well, they didn't build that son of a bitch right there.

I mean, if they built it, that they had,

they had a huge access that we're not seeing, right?

Yeah, we just need to get [bleep] in there and find the dry entrance.

[imperceptible]

-all right. -All right.

-Set a plan. -Well, yeah.

Even though we're not holding a box of treasure counter money yet.

Way now know that someone put something in the cavern 30 foot down.

And we found both natural gold

and processed gold when we found that coin.

So I'm thinking there could be a boatload gold right underneath out your feet.

So, here's the tricky part.

How do we get it from down there up here?

[eric] I've got this really highly concentrated die.

It's nontoxic.

When it hits water, it turns fluorescent green color.

These cave systems, the groundwater is flowing beneath the ground.

The idea is we put it in that water and it'll spread out.

First we see where it goes.

See if it's finding a fracture.

See if there's any flow in there right now.

Sometimes caverns, they flow really strongly, like an underground stream.

So the whole idea behind this

is if we could get it to follow fractures and get into that cavern system.

We could maybe find another entrance where we might find another place to drill.

Based on how that by spreads out.

If we see it another area.

God, that'll help us out.

Maybe we can go in dry instead of wet.

-Yeah. -I'd rather walk in than swim in.

[ryan] we have 9,600 feet of flooded caves that's a mile and three quarters.

And if we can get above the water table to enter in certain other places,

we could have a dry walk in instead of uh, wet walk in.

Here it comes.

She's going to bring the bucket over here.

We're gonna jump in, so we can kind of get right in the center.

I'm ready.

All right.

You could find about six or eight feet above water level that's would be perfect.

Back to work.

Wow. Look at that.

It spread like crazy.

I see us streaming over that way.

Looks like it's all moving towards the deeper water.

Ok, duane, you can stir it up.

[groaning]

yeah.

-Yeah. -Wow.

The pull, man.

Next step is, we go looking around, scanning the area.

If we can find seeps in different areas,

we can map that, we could develop delineation,

we may be able to look further to the north to find a dry opening

to this cave system.

Ah!

-That'll mix it up. -Oh, that will.

[chad] duane that looks great, I think we're mixed up enough.

Thank you, sir.

[eric] this dye we're using,

it's biodegradable, it's organic.

Thing is it only gives you about two days before it dissipates.

So it's imperative that we introduce it and then explore a soon as possible.

[eric] trying to get right down in the bottom here.

The creek bed here, so this would be the obvious spot.

We'd find the dye, but...

Should we fly the drone?

-Yeah, probably a good idea. -[ryan] why don't we do that?

Yeah, let's fire it up.

[chad] it's pretty simple, really.

We have a cavern that showing signs of natural gold,

but also the spanish coin and whatever the hell that boxes.

But we don't have a safe way in to see what's hiding in there.

So we dump dye in the water.

And that will spread anywhere where the water flows.

If we find the dye seeping out from somewhere,

hopefully we can go above that punch into the cavern

and hopefully find a dry entrance.

[beeping]

-okay, there is... -There's the dig site? Yeah.

Yeah.

Ok, now we're going down the creek.

-Okay. Okay. -Yeah, I'm pretty good view.

[eric] got it.

There's a series of beaver ponds down there.

-Yeah, there is. -Trying to get it there.

Yeah, there's the water, getting tight there.

Yep.

I'll just go right over it, and zoom down.

We're just looking for a little seepage coming out the back.

That's all it takes.

-See any dye or anything? -I don't see it.

I don't see anything.

Yeah, I think we would see it in the edge there

if it diluted out.

[eric] another thing we could do is walk when it gets dark.

Just walk down there with uv light

and we'll just shine it right on the edge of the bank.

[chad] nice.

We've got this pond full of groundwater.

So if we can interpret what's going on with this water,

the water will tell us where another entrance to this cave system is.

If we find the entrance to the cave system,

we see what's in the cave system.

And hopefully, it's a bunch of gold.

[chad] I mean, after hearing about this buried treasure for years

and now we see a box down there,

it's all I can think about it.

We have to get back in there.

[duane] we dyed the pond green

so we could see if we could follow the water to find another entrance.

So far, we haven't seen anything.

So we're gonna go out, look in the dark

because it will be easier to see the dye glowing.

But first, we're going to spread the dye around a little more.

Plunging this water

is going to get that dye spread out throughout the cavities.

Hopefully, it will stretch out all the way to

the ninety six hundred feet of scans that we have.

These satellites can show us the disruption

of the density of the earth,

so we know there's caverns.

But the scans are not a treasure map.

It's not an x marks the spot type of deal.

The scans do not show entry points.

That technology just doesn't exist,

so it's up to us to figure the rest out.

We worked the hell out of it.

If that dye is not in there now...

I mean, it's the end.

Before we go out and look for where this dye might show up.

I just want to give you an idea of what it might look like.

This is what it will look like in the water,

but we should also be looking on the banks.

It'll look like that. See that?

-It really stands out. -Sure does.

[chad] wow.

So even if that water has come up and then receded,

we should still be able to see it right along the banks.

[chad] nice.

I think this gives us the best chance to figure out

-where this water is going. -Yup.

We figure out where the water is going,

we can figure out where that cavern might be.

-Definitely. -You figure out where the cavern might be.

Maybe we find the gold.

There you go.

-Yeah, let's go down there. -Let's go for it.

[chad] cool.

We can't forget about

what happened the other night with that mutilated deer.

Hey, it's right over your... Look at this.

What the [bleep].

It's [bleep] head has been chewed off.

-Right. -We gotta really be careful now.

Watch every move we make.

[eric] loose in here.

[owl hooting]

all right, let's dim our lights.

We'll put this uv on and we'll just start looking.

Earlier today we came out

and we took a preliminary look for it.

The idea is, earlier it wasn't dark enough.

Things look different at night.

We're coming out at night.

We're in this creek bed

that's directly below the dig site.

And we hope to find this bright green dye.

I'm not seeing any green.

[duane] bouncing by a mountain lion scab right back there,

that looks fresh. Within 24 hours.

[eric] we should probably make ourselves a known here

to any predators that are in the area.

[metal clanking]

[duane] coming through. Coming through.

[owl hooting]

[eric] this green dye should just pop when we see it.

I don't know where the hell we are, to be honest.

[duane whistling]

[clapping]

[eric] you sure we came through here, charlie?

[crickets chirping]

[eric] wait a minute, are those tracks?

[chad] that's not human.

[duane] that's fresh. That was just made.

[charlie] it's glowing white.

[eric] it's almost like the animal secreted something.

[duane] yeah. [eric] I don't recognize the track at all.

It's really strange.

[charlie] you kind of see the heal

and all the way up to the to the toes.

[eric] yeah. [duane] is bigger than any cat

or bear that I've seen.

-[growls] -[duane] oh!

Do you hear that?

-[growling] -[duane] do you hear a sound?

[all clamoring]

[eric] let's go. Let's go.

Ow!

[duane] hell outta here.

[chad] this way.

-Everyone out. -[duane] get outta here.

[indistinct chatter]

-[chad] let's get out of here. -[bleep]

[eric] let's go. We're headed out.

[man] ah! [grunts]

[chad speaking]

-[eric] right up here. -[man grunts]

[eric] there's a road here.

[all panting]

[chad] what the [bleep] was that? [man] I don't know.

[eric] let's keep the lights, uh, surrounding us here.

[breathing heavily] and just do a 360.

[man] man... [eric] that stay on the road.

[duane] what the hell would do that?

[eric] it's an animal.

[chad] yeah. [eric] that freaked me out though.

[panting] that, uh, that print and that weird noise.

-[chad] what could that have been? -[eric exhales]

-you got made, chad. -[exhales]

-[eric exhales] -[duane] damn, it's moving out, right there.

[zoey] my mom says that you can't go out

between, like, 11 to 1 am.

Because the skin walker, it'll go out

and it will snatch you right up.

[interviewer] have you heard of that actually happening?

-Like, people disappearing? -[zoey] yeah.

One of my friends,

her sister got snatched up by it

when she was really little.

And does she live? Or did she just disappear?

For all we know, she's dead.

They haven't been able to find her

or her body or anything.

They found, like, scraps of her dress

that she was wearing.

But other than that, nothing.

You know, right now, given the fact of the noise

that we heard down there, I'd like to keep

everybody out of that area, 'cause it's so dark.

And it's so dense down there,

you could just walk right up to it

and not even know it until you're in,

you know, face to face with it.

[eric] let's work this bank here

and see if we can, with the uv

and see if we can find a seep.

[chad] yeah, okay. [eric] and let's get the hell out of here.

Yeah.

[duane] 'cause, whatever it is, it's still down there.

Yeah, let's keep an eye out on the dark side here.

[duane] and I'll walk over here. [eric] yeah.

[duane] we can keep searching up here

because we've got visual down in there

and we could see up the mountain.

So, I think I think we're okay here.

But you still got to be

watching your six at all times.

[charlie] no cow is gonna make that noise. [eric] no.

[chad] and I didn't hear any, you know, leaves cracking

or footsteps or anything like that.

[eric] no, whatever it was,

it was just standing there watching us.

[chad] I think so.

I have had that feeling.

-[metal clanking] -[chad] oh, okay.

[eric] here's that little creek we crossed.

Yeah, I think if we cross here.

We can go back to the bank after this.

[chad] okay. [duane] this is wet.

[eric] look at that.

[chad] oh, wow.

[eric] that's, um, lichen, I think.

Or moss.

So far we haven't found it.

We found lots of other interesting things.

We found red fluorescence orange fluorescence,

but this green dye should just pop when we see it.

So, we're getting up in elevation a little bit,

but we're still lower in elevation than the main dig site.

Look, look at the cedar trees.

[charlie] oh, wow.

[eric] I think we should head over there.

[charlie] yeah, they take a lot of water, those cedars.

[eric] yeah, just a little cluster of 'em right in here.

[chad] right, it's kind of random.

[eric] yeah, it is. It is.

[chad] all these dead trees around--

[eric] dead trees and nice healthy,

-healthy cedar's right here. -[chad] right?

Yup.

[eric] oh, whoa, what's this?

[panting]

[eric] let's look right up in here.

[chad] all these dead trees around--

[eric] yup, dead trees and nice healthy,

-healthy cedar's right here. -[chad] right?

[eric] oh, whoa, what's this?

-Look, look. -[chad whistles]

-[laughs] you can see it there. -[eric] that's it! That's it!

[duane] yeah, brother. [chad] where's it coming from?

[eric] that's it. Follow it up. [chad] where's it coming from?

[eric] keep shinning it.

Look at that. Look at that trickle.

[chad] you can see it.

[eric] I think it's a little spring basically.

[metal clanking]

see where it's coming out.

Yeah, it's coming out right here.

-Right under this rock. -You see it?

-That's a natural spring. -[chad] yeah.

[eric] and it's the water from the dig.

It starts right here.

-And how far does it go down? -Goes down about 5 ft.

So, she's barely seeping out.

It probably just started not too long ago, maybe.

[duane] it might be all that surging?

Yeah, well, all that surging opened it up.

Is it right under the rocks there? Check?

-Uh, yeah, yeah, sure. -So, we search just right under these rocks right her.

[chad] that's it.

You put the light on it, and it just glowed.

Just like that same green.

It has to be connected to the water over there.

So, I'm going to take, uh, elevation here.

-I'll take a gps. -[chad] yes.

We'll go back. Put it on the map.

This would be one of the dig sites.

Yeah, we'll draw a line between here and the dig.

-[chad chuckles] -we'll drill it. Absolutely.

-Yeah. -We've got a valid target here.

-Yeah. -Awesome.

-Wait till your dad hears about this. -I know.

[duane] this is exactly what we wanted to see.

-This is awesome. -[duane] good job.

[chad] thank you.

So, we found a way into the cave over by the pond.

But, whoever put the box in there

didn't go in that way.

It's a death trap.

But finding the die here means

that there has to be a connection between

these underground caves.

Because we're, you know,

a quarter mile away, or something like that.

So, if this is another entry point,

that's... That's perfect.

I mean, a dry entry point would be ideal.

-Hell, yeah. -I can't wait the drill this.

[eric] you see those cedar trees over there?

That's where we found the dye.

Yeah, let's go take a look.

So, we're north and a little bit west

of where your main dig site is.

There was a burn that went through here.

You having it, right?

[chad] yeah.

[duane] it takes a lot of water for them little fellas to stay alive.

[eric] yeah.

Maybe a little more healthy than most.

[eric] yeah, the ones that survived.

I'm thinking they may be tapped into that water source,

and that's what enabled 'em to survive the fire.

So, I'm thinking,

if possibly you get in a rig and put trail right up in here

or something like that.

Cut a little road up here,

make a little platform for 'em.

[duane] exactly.

[duane] this information is very good.

So, I'm gonna make a couple calls

and try to get a rathole rig in for tomorrow.

Rathole rigs are not very cheap,

but I'm very interesting

in getting into this area where eric thinks

that there might be an entry point to these caverns

I'm very interested.

[chad] have you ever seen the guy at the beach

with a metal detector with, like, sandals and socks on?

That's charlie right there.

So any chance charlie gets, he's out there

with his metal detector looking for something.

So, he was up the butt crack of dawn

and found an old metal bracelet.

So, since we can't get the rathole rig

up here for another day,

we're gonna go back up there

and just see if we find something else.

'cause every single thing we find here

is just another piece of the puzzle

right around here is where I found the, um, bracelet.

[chad] yeah, yeah. [charlie] and, uh, there's a like a cave

-that goes in, that's filled in. -[beeping]

and it was right around that is where I found it.

So, I want to go check that some more.

[beeping continues]

[beeping]

[chad] my metal detector is going crazy already?

[charlie] yeah.

[beeping intensifies]

[charlie] that's a very strong single.

Snail.

[chad] someone's been, you know, that.

[beeping continues]

[charlie] I'm getting a good hit right here.

[beeping intensifies]

it's going like crazy, right by [bleep] surface.

[charlie] about four inches.

-[chad] four inches? -I mean, all I do is scratch the surface and it's there.

[beeping]

-[charlie] hey! -Yeah?

[charlie] look at this.

[chad] ha!

There's a coin.

[charlie] what's it say?

Says to the lord holiness.

$20, 1849.

-[charlie] $20. -Ha! That's amazing, you know.

[charlie] 1849.

[beeping]

everywhere I look, it's going off.

Something's right in here somewhere.

Ha! Look at this. Found one.

[charlie] really?

1849. [laughs]

wow!

The coin's from over a 170 years ago.

Why are they here? I don't know.

I've never seen one.

[chad] these coins are totally different

than the spanish coin that we already found.

So, it just gets more and more strange.

Hell, yeah.

So, we just made the landing for the rathole rig.

That thing has to set so flat, it's unreal.

So, we had make 'em a little platform there.

[beeps]

[charlie over walkie-talkie] hey, duane.

[duane] yeah, go ahead, charlie.

Whenever you can break free from that,

you're gonna wanna come over to the, uh, cabin,

and see what else we found.

Copy that, charlie. Be over there in a minute.

[grunts]

[charlie] you ain't gon' believe this?

[duane] what?

[charlie] look at that?

What the [bleep]

[exhales and laughs]

-it's kind of crazy how that holes in there. -[charlie] yeah.

[duane] 1849.

This might be a heck of a deal here.

Holy cow.

Look at this. Pure gold. It says on here, " pure gold."

-[chad] yeah. -1849.

Wow.

We found stuff on the property before.

But we've never found coins like this.

Still had to figure out what the deal is.

I'm sure they have a value to 'em.

Uh, what it might be, I don't know.

But I'm sure somebody wants to know about 'em.

Here's the deal.

We need to find an expert that knows

about these things--

yeah, I'll start off some research on that.

I think this is very interesting.

I just don't know why in the world

they would be on this ranch.

We'll come up with some answers.

[duane] holy cow.

-Look at this. Pure goal. It says on here, "pure gold." -[chad] yeah.

[duane] here's the deal.

We need to find an expert knows about these things--

yeah, we'll come up with some answers.

I was a sheriff's deputy for 20 years,

so, getting to the bottom of things is what I do.

So, now, we have a spanish coin,

a box of something in the cavern,

a nd we've got these old coins from 1849.

It's just a bunch of puzzled pieces

that at this particular time aren't fitting together.

I've got some coins we found out on our ranch.

-[bob] all right. -I wanted to see maybe if you could

kind of tell me a little bit about 'em.

[bob] okay.

The coins that I found here, they're all either it's like pure gold or pg.

So did you actually dig these out of the ground?

I was doing a little metal detecting in a particular area...

Mm-hm.

...And that's where I came up with 'em.

Let's take them all out.

Let's get a good look at everything.

[bob] wow, these are all mormon gold pieces.

Wow. Okay.

[bob] and they're all very valuable.

If any of these are real...

They'll be well over a million dollars here,

you know, probably $1.4 million, $1.3 million.

Wow. [chuckles]

we normally do an analysis to make sure

that the composition of the medals is correct.

-Okay. -Uh...

With these, they would have been made with 90% gold.

So let's go ahead and do that first and see what we've got.

[charlie] I'm not a mathematician

but at $1.4 million per coin

with nine coins, that's a [bleep] load of money.

So that one there, um, it's actually a copper coin

that's got a nickel coating on it.

And then it's got a small amount of gold on the outside.

[bob] somebody must have thought these were real

because they have holes in them.

Somebody's had a welder and actually melted the rod

right through that plating to see what's in the core.

I bet you thought these were from the lost rhoades mine.

[charlie] I'm not a coin collector.

So everything I learnt is pretty much new.

Your ranch is part of the most famous treasure hunt

that's never been solved.

-Wow. -All of those gold pieces were actually

made from gold that, supposedly is in this area.

The story goes is that in about 1858

a mormon leader by the name of brigham young,

sent thomas rhoades, to befriend the indians

here in the southern slopes of the uintas.

And about two and a half weeks later,

the story goes that as he trotted along,

gold nuggets were falling out of the saddle bags.

So, and this gold of thomas rhoades,

it came from spanish conquistadors

from now day mexico city.

They were set to enslave the indians.

Eventually the indians rebelled.

Killed their spanish captors and they took the goal and hidden it,

and people have been looking for it ever since.

And that's where the lost rhoades mine is.

Someplace up in these mountains,

and your ranch is in that area.

[charlie] you know, even though we didn't find

millions of dollars' worth of mormon gold coins,

they did give us an angle to pursue on this.

This very well could leads us to something much bigger.

[duane] what's going on, charlieboy?

Uh, just, you know, ran back in town.

I went to see that coin dealer.

He said they're counterfeit. So...

So he tell you anything else?

He told me about how they fled to utah

and brought all of their gold with him and got with the ute tribe.

And then they put all of their gold in these caverns.

What else do you have to say?

I mean, we kind of knew what we had there,

but one of the guys with the mormon church

would come out and kind of befriended the utes.

And, ah, the indians saw that the mormons

were very poor at that time,

and the utes didn't use the gold.

Didn't mean anything to 'em.

And this rhoades guy came out and they showed him where the gold was,

and they let him take gold.

Pounds of gold back into their settlement.

Wow. Wow.

So the estate gold and the mormon gold apparently are the same thing.

-Starting to tie some stuff together then. -[charlie] yeah.

But he did say that your ranch is right there in the middle of all that.

-[duane] so that's, that's pretty big stuff right there. -Yeah, it is.

Supposedly that rhoades guy was...

Ended up taking about 60 pounds of gold back into their settlement.

Sixty pounds. That's a lot of gold.

-That's a lot. -Yeah.

What if that's what's in that box that we found?

-Gold left there. -No telling what's left?

Yeah, it could be hundreds of pounds in there.

You know, they didn't come up with only 60 pounds of gold all the way from mexico.

Well, if you barricade it with ten inch logs...

-Yeah. -I mean, it must be something big.

-In a cave. -In a cave. Yeah.

And then they flood the case.

Yeah, this just keeps adding up.

This just keeps adding up.

-[charlie] yeah -it's getting... It's getting good.

We just got to find the right way in.

[duane] we know that there's close to two miles of flooded caves underneath us,

and we know that there's gold in 'em.

We pulled a coin out of the pond

and we also know there's a box down there.

But since we can't get the treasure out that way,

we've got to find another way in.

Thanks to eric and the trick with green dye,

it looks like we might be sitting on another entry point.

Come on, baby.

Oh, yeah.

[eric] we're drilling in hopes of locating a cavern entrance.

[duane] eric, this is your pick.

This is the spot right here.

This target is really promising.

You've got the fluorescent dye coming out

right from the dye that we injected into the main dig water.

And here we are, maybe a quarter mile downstream from it.

And we found it coming out where these cedar trees are,

which are known to tap into ground water.

You can't not drill something like this.

Charlie, what the hell are you doing?

[charlie] supervising.

[duane laughing]

all right. Hit it.

[duane] so we use these rathole rigs in the oil industry,

and we can get down to about 125ft to see what's down there.

[whirring]

hey, grab a sample.

Okay.

[duane] so these things aren't cheap.

So, a 30ft hole is gonna cost us around $5,000.

But we will do whatever it takes to keep moving forward

and find this gold.

[eric] okay, keep going.

So as the rathole rig drills,

I'm taking samples every couple of feet,

hoping to find the green dye that we injected in the pond

in hopes that this is connected to the cavern system

at the main excavation site.

-[operator] twenty four. -[eric] okay.

We'll go another six feet and see what's happening.

It's getting slightly more moist.

But we're still ways off ground water, I think.

I, uh... We're going home.

Not seeing quite what we need.

[eric] thirty one.

Let's hope for something in four more feet or...

-It's drying, it's just... -[duane] yeah? [bleep]

what do you think, eric?

Yeah, I think we could move on from this one.

I think that's a good plan.

[eric] I just have this feeling that this spot

may not be the answer to where we'll find the cavern.

We went to 35...

If we hadn't seen a void at 35ft

we're not going to see it here.

I mean, I don't have all the answers

for why we didn't see the green dye.

Why there isn't a cavern entrance right here.

I don't know.

There's always that point where you have to sort of regroup,

and, uh, and we're just cutting our losses at this point.

I don't know what's going on.

It kind of defies logic.

[mysterious music playing]

[reporter] how would you characterize this area?

[tonia] this area is a hot spot.

And I believe that people need to respect

what happens out here.

[ray] I was driving down the road here

and I seen this this huge thing move across the road.

I don't know if it was a caterpillar

or some kind of earth worm looking thing.

It was probably about eight foot high and about five feet in diameter.

It dropped down and slithered off.

I believe it was some type of being

that was, uh, from an alternate universe.

I believe so.

What the hell.

Wow.

Never seen a worm like that.

[charlie] I'd come down to the site to do some cleanup of our tools.

Get them out of the water.

And I saw some worms moving in the water

and I'd never seen anything like that.

Wonder where these would've came from.

Gonna get that here.

Wow, these suckers are everywhere.

You know, when we first drilled there

and the blind white frogs came up out of the drill hole.

You can actually see right through it.

And now we're seeing a translucent worm.

Let's get you some water.

You know more of these things that come up

gives us more ambition to actually get into the cavern

and actually see what we can actually find down there.

Take this back to see if anybody's ever seen one.

[chad] down here, I think.

We may see this guy show hopefully.

Look at what I just found out at the pond?

What the hell is that?

I was at the pond, cleaning up.

And those were all over.

They came out of pond?

They were in the pond swimming around.

Yeah, right by the shore.

[duane] what, what are those things?

[charlie] I've never seen anything like that here.

Look at how they move.

Uh, wow. We found some, um, amazing creatures in the water.

They're sort of translucent, very light colored with dark bands.

This is really weird.

Can see inside of it right there.

It tells us that these things are probably

living underground basically in the water.

So those frogs were like, albino...

No pigment on it.

It's just like this.

These air kind of see through. So it makes you think it's total pitch darkness.

You wouldn't think something like that would live near the surface.

No, it couldn't could.

It's evolved to have translucent skin, I guess. Huh?

So how did they get up there by the surface suddenly.

[duane] you are working on that hole, right?

You're plunging, right?

I think what happened probably was that vacuum action you were doing

that surging brought them up to the surface.

Has to be. And I had to put the vacuum on there somehow.

Had to.

We know now that with that surge that we were doing

we were also pulling out worms,

probably from the same place where the frogs are.

So if these things were living in the cell,

they might be extracting whatever minerals are in the cell.

Well, these might have gold in 'em.

-We need to look at these. -Well...

Our first step. We need to look at these under the microscope

[duane] let's do it.

With eric being here

and bringing in his knowledge of different things.

It's huge on how

he might be able to take that worm and check it out

to see if there's particles of gold in there

like they're itty-bitty miners in there

because that's how they process their food.

[eric] all right, here we go.

[intense music playing]

[eric chuckling] look at that. He's a glow worm.

Put uv light on him and they glowed up ethereal light blue color.

I don't see any gold in 'em, but,

oh, it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

I think that's pretty typical of what you would expect

to see cave dwelling creature.

So these things that might be living in a cavern.

[eric] what do you see?

One weird son of a bug.

These animals didn't use a rathole rig to get down and camp.

And whoever put that box down there, didn't either.

So we know there's a better way in.

We find that entrance.

And then we walk out with whatever's in there holy.

[duane] holy [bleep]

there is another entrance we haven't found yet.

-[eric] that's a kill right there. -Right.

-[chad] it's fresh. -[eric] yeah.

[duane] we've never had this kind of problems before.

Some buck was mutilated.

The same damn thing.

You could just tell it's not right.

-What the hell? -Holy [bleep].

All the local say that a skin-walker's natural form is a wolf.

If something happens you're just gonna haul your ass out of there.

-[chad] what just moved? -You all right?

[chad] pull me out.

-Come on, buddy. -[grunting]

-look at that. -Oh, yeah.

Wow.

Those petroglyphs could be the original source

of this treasure came from.

[chad] y'all need to come over south of the dig site.

I found a huge cave over here.