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Eric drummond: Ha!

There's a coin, 1849.

This gold of thomas rhoades came

from the spanish conquistadors.

The lost rhoades mine is someplace up

in these mountains, and your ranch is in that area.

There's a box down there.

There's no way it'll come out of that hole.

We can maybe find another entrance or another place

to drill.

Wow, look at that.

Ok, duane, stir it up.

Duane ollinger: Plunging this water

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

Charlie snider: What the hell?

Wow.

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.

Now, we're seeing a translucent worm.

Oh, look at that.

That, to me, indicates that these things might

be living in a-- in a cavern.

[thunder crashing]

[suspenseful music]

duane ollinger: There are 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.

Duane ollinger: Aztec treasure--

chad ollinger: Holy [bleep]!

Duane ollinger: --Caverns of gold.

Look at this!

Duane ollinger: Mormon riches.

It'll be $1 million here.

Duane ollinger: Some even say there's a buried spaceship.

Hell, yeah.

Me?

I never cared much about the stories.

I just care about finding whatever

the hell is in the ground.

Chad ollinger: Let's get out of here!

No!

[flute music]

[engine humming]

how much pressure you putting on it?

I'm just trying to get to the bottom of something, really.

The truth is very important.

And right now, we're just piecing

together a lot of information.

We're just trying to figure out the best

way to get into the caverns with a dry entrance.

That way, we just walk in and take

the gold right out with us.

[suspenseful music]

[phone ringing]

[beep]

hey, there.

Hey, forrest.

Thanks for checking out that worm for us.

When we found the worms, I mean, none of us

really knew what-- what they were,

so I figured I'd reach out and send it to a biologist.

It sent me down quite the rabbit

hole to figure out what it was.

Wow.

Turns out that the worm you have there is actually a larva

of the horsefly or deer fly.

The adult horsefly will lay its eggs in the air,

and when the eggs hatch, as little larvae,

they drop into water.

So what that means is that animal

that you found, although you found in water,

has actually come from an open air system.

So that means they could be flying

in from a different opening, then, right, somewhere?

Yeah, I-- 100%.

Without any doubt, these horseflies

are indeed getting into the cavern system

and laying their eggs above the water.

Ha!

Basically, what he told me was that there's an entrance that

flies can get into, a dry entrance,

and that they lay their larvae inside a cave.

And then, they go back out.

So there is another entrance that we haven't found yet,

which is super exciting, that's open right now.

That's probably the same entrance

that whoever put the box down there used to move it in.

Just this last week, we started plunging the pond there,

and that's when we saw them.

We haven't seen them before that here at all.

That's fascinating.

And as far as you know, is there no open-air way?

No.

We don't have one yet, no.

Well, that we know of.

Yes.

That's great news, man.

I mean, that's what we've been looking for, is an entry.

So we know there is an entry somewhere.

But if I can give you any advice, follow the horseflies.

Follow the horseflies.

How are we going to find this?

He said follow the flies, and there's

flies all over over there.

So it just gives us a different perspective

to look for, though, that there is something

that could be another entrance.

Good luck with the investigation.

Cool, man.

Thank you, brother.

[dramatic music playing]

we know that the flies are entering the cave somewhere

that has a dry entrance.

And what we know about horseflies is the way they feed

is by biting wild animals.

So follow the horseflies means follow

the wild animals on our property,

and that's where the entrance will be.

Eric drummond: Yep, they like it up here.

We got some good outcroppings, see small voids

here and there, and-- chad ollinger: Yeah.

Eric drummond: And so you've got a crevice here.

Chad ollinger: Yeah.

Eric drummond: In addition to that, when you have faulting,

you have a zone of weakness, and that could

be a substantial cave system.

I suggest we head up, right up in this area here.

Yeah, there's a little opening.

Hey, look at this.

Charlie snider: Wow!

Eric drummond: Oh, that is a--

charlie snider: Oh, that's--

eric drummond: That's a kill right there.

Charlie snider: Hey, keep an eye around you now.

Eric drummond: Or part of a kill, anyway.

Chad ollinger: It's fresh. Eric drummond: Yeah.

Chad ollinger: It's warm.

Charlie snider: You can see a little bit of scuffle kind

of in here a little bit, where it maybe drug it around.

Yeah, some--something went on.

Charlie snider: See, look--

see, look at this mark right here.

Chad ollinger: That looks like claw marks there.

Chad ollinger: Yeah. Eric drummond: Yeah.

Because it's kind of drug a little bit,

I can't really tell what type it is.

It's like there's so many missing parts that--

where are they?

Like the legs, the--

eric drummond: Yeah, where's the skin?

Chad ollinger: Yep.

Eric drummond: Fur. - Yeah, there's no skin.

Chad ollinger: But there's so much meat still here.

Eric drummond: Yeah.

Whatever did this would take the good stuff--

yeah.

--And the guts, the soft stuff, and leave

the skin and head and the--

chad ollinger: Right.

--Antlers or whatever it was.

I don't know what it was.

Or they'll bury it and come back for it.

Yeah, they come back for it occasionally--

- yeah. - --To eat it.

It's almost as if we came upon this,

and maybe we scared this cat off.

In one of these caves, maybe.

Eric drummond: It could be.

Whatever it is, ain't far away.

It's close, yeah.

It's close.

I mean, I don't want to see whatever did this,

but we're following the flies.

So this is a good sign.

Shirley lloyd: As a little girl, we lived

in the middle of a big ranch.

We just had 20 acres, but the ranch

was all the way around us.

They had cows in the back of the property.

At night, about 3 o'clock in the morning,

you would hear this creature scream.

[suspenseful music]

shirley lloyd: The cows were going insane.

It sounded like a stampede.

And so the next day, the rancher would come over to our house.

And he'd say, hey, I lost another cow last night.

If you say any coyotes, kill them.

And I kept telling the man, it's not the coyotes.

It's this thing, this creature.

This is what's doing the killing.

I like using the word creature, because I

don't know what they are.

[bleep] man.

[suspenseful music]

charlie snider: Hey.

Eric drummond: Well, there's part of the leg.

Charlie snider: Another one right here.

Eric drummond: The foot.

Another one right here.

Eric drummond: Another one here.

Chad ollinger: Well, it's like it is leading up there.

Eric drummond: Yeah.

Charlie snider: Wow.

Chad ollinger: Maybe to the den.

But that's where we've got to go.

Ok.

[suspenseful music]

all these caves that we see here,

regardless of the size of the opening,

are very significant, because they could lead to a very

large underground cave system.

[suspenseful music]

yeah, so this is it.

That's the cave we were seeing.

It goes in their a ways.

It does, doesn't it?

What do you think that is?

Beaver?

Yeah, maybe.

But what's a beaver doing up here?

It's too high for a beaver, right?

Eric drummond: There's another bone right there.

This might be a den for cats.

It's definitely a den currently,

or was one, for sure.

That's another bone, yeah.

Yeah, different type.

Yeah.

So we found the guts back there,

and that just says that there could be

a mountain lion in this cave.

That could be its den.

Obviously, I don't want to pressure

a mountain lion in its own home, because it

could definitely attack.

So we're just going have to be ready to back

out of there really quickly.

Brought out the respirator for you--

nice.

--With particulate cartridges.

Chad's using a half-face respirator,

and that will protect him from both poisonous gases and what's

called hantavirus, which is an airborne disease caused

by rodents.

He's using an oxygen meter to protect him in the event

that there's very low oxygen levels.

[suspenseful music]

if something happens to you, we're just going

to haul your ass out of there.

Chad ollinger: Cool.

All right, good luck.

Chad ollinger: Thanks, brother.

Be safe.

[suspenseful music]

chad ollinger: Erg.

Eric drummond: Everything good?

Yeah, good so far.

It's pretty-- it's pretty tight.

Normally, I don't go crawling into caves with bones for fun.

So we know a long time ago that someone

buried a box in one of these caverns.

And the box they have in there is not full of trash.

It has to be something valuable that they don't

want someone else to find.

So if we can find another way inside,

I feel like we're on the verge of a huge discovery.

How's your o2 meter, chad?

O2 is looking good.

So I'm in quite a ways, and it's starting to go down a lot.

It goes down maybe 20 feet.

Wow.

It's getting a little bit bigger the deeper I get.

That's a good sign.

[suspenseful music]

[grunt]

I'm still going in.

Ha!

He's never met a cave he doesn't like.

[grunt]

he's probably 100 foot in.

Eric drummond: Yeah, at least.

Chad ollinger: I think this is as far as I can go.

It's getting tight.

[static]

[alarm]

eric drummond: You all right?

Check your o2.

O2 is low.

I guess just want to-- let's get out of here.

Eric drummond: Extract! Charlie snider: Extract!

Eric drummond: Extract!

Chad ollinger: Pull me out.

[dramatic music]

[alarm]

charlie snider: Still can't--

[grunt]

eric drummond: See him, charlie?

Charlie snider: I still can't see him.

[grunt]

[dramatic music]

eric drummond: Come on, buddy.

[grunt]

eric drummond: Can you see him, charlie?

[alarm]

I guess just going to-- let's get out of here!

Eric drummond: Extract! Charlie snider: All right--

eric drummond: Extract!

Pull me out!

[alarm]

[grunt]

eric drummond: You see him, charlie?

Charlie snider: I still can't see him.

[grunt] [cough]

eric drummond: Come on, buddy.

[grunt]

[bleep]

[bleep]

[bleep]

eric drummond: Sit down.

[bleep] eric drummond: Breathe.

Charlie snider: You're breathing--

eric drummond: Just breathe. Charlie snider: --Hard.

Eric drummond: Just breathe. [cough]

eric drummond: Got a little dicey in there, huh?

Yeah.

Eric drummond: The gas went off in there,

the, huh, the monitor. - Yeah.

[coughing]

you were going down, downhill, down slope--

chad ollinger: Yeah.

Eric drummond: --And maybe something

was displacing that oxygen.

It had to have been something sitting in the bottom there.

Charlie snider: Yeah.

I'm glad you got the hell out of there.

[bleep]

charlie snider: Why don't you come

out and get in some more air?

Chad ollinger: Yeah.

Nothing like getting out of a cave--

yeah, right.

--Seeing the sun and--

yeah.

--The sky.

Chad ollinger: The oxygen level started going down.

I started getting dizzy, so I had

to get the f-[bleep] out quick.

When I finally got out, I mean, it was like fresh air

has never felt so good, man.

Do you think maybe it was back-filled in?

Could be.

I mean, it was all this kind of soft dirt the whole way.

Yeah.

I made it all the way back to the end of the cave,

and it was kind of a dead end right there.

So we're going to find another entrance to the cavern.

You feeling ok?

Yeah, I feel good now, man. Eric drummond: You ready to go?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm ready.

Good. Chad ollinger: Yeah.

Good deal.

[dramatic music]

we're really glad to get chad out of there safely.

And he seems fine.

And so, we're going to keep looking.

[dramatic music]

chad ollinger: Oh, look at this.

Eric drummond: Oh, wow.

Chad ollinger: Look at that.

Eric drummond: What you got?

Chad ollinger: This huge-- eric drummond: Wow--

chad ollinger: --Carving.

Eric drummond: --Charlie, look at this.

These are obviously petroglyphs.

How intricate they are.

That is so cool.

That-- that thing is huge.

Chad ollinger: Yeah, look at the headdress on it there.

Uh-huh.

That's got to be like a ruler or a king or a chief.

Chad ollinger: What is the circle?

What does that represent?

World, planet-- it's a little bit out of my realm here.

Charlie snider: You know what?

The story of the lost gold dates back to the aztecs.

So these petroglyphs even look like they

could be aztec, possibly.

I don't know.

But one kind of looks like montezuma.

Eric drummond: I agree.

They do have sort of an aztec look to them.

Chad ollinger: Yeah.

Charlie snider: This kind of lines

up with what the historian told me just the other day.

According to the legend, the aztec took their gold north

and stored it in the uinta mountains.

When things line up this neatly,

I tend to get a little bit suspicious.

But it's kind of starting to look pretty good.

[inaudible]

eric drummond: Take some pictures of them.

Chad, would you mind climbing up there so I can get some scale?

Chad ollinger: Yeah, yeah.

This one looks more like a child here.

Charlie snider: Yeah, that's cool.

That seems really evident to me--

charlie snider: Yeah.

--That is a royal family.

This must be the rulers that were immortalized in stone.

We need to get these images back to duane.

Charlie snider: Duane needs to-- - yeah, he needs to see this.

Charlie snider: --All this.

[dramatic music]

eric drummond: We were working our way around up here.

Duane ollinger: Right, right.

And we came around the corner, and we looked up,

and bam-- there's these big ancient petroglyphs

carved into the rock.

Wow.

And it was just like--

wow.

And so duane, here are some of the images--

duane ollinger: Really?

Eric drummond: --That we took.

Duane ollinger: Ok.

Oh, wow.

Eric drummond: Look at that.

Charlie snider: See that headdress

right underneath the neck?

Eric drummond: Um, there's chad.

You can see the scale of the whole thing.

That's one-- that's the family unit.

Duane ollinger: If those are the aztec markings, it's huge.

But we're not experts.

What if it's marking a native american burial ground?

I know it's got you guys excited,

but it's got me more worried.

And if there's a burial ground out here,

it shuts this whole son of a bitch down.

So we need to do some investigating

as far as we can go back.

If we do run into something, we shut it down ourselves.

We don't have to be told to be respectful to the indian

nations or anything like that.

Eric drummond: Yeah.

That's a no-brainer on this deal.

Charlie snider: Yeah.

I'll get on that this week.

[music playing]

well, you know, the depiction of the one

with all the headdress and the regalia and all that, that--

that they had on, that was kind of montezuma-looking stuff.

Chad ollinger: Yeah, I don't know

the word "regalia," so maybe.

[laughing]

chad ollinger: Those petroglyphs, though, it

was pretty-- pretty neat.

Eric drummond: Yeah, that was pretty neat.

Charlie snider: Yeah.

Chad ollinger: Yeah, that was good.

So I know it's my dad's job to kind of worry about burial

grounds and stuff like that.

But us finding these petroglyphs, I mean,

it's amazing.

Yeah, it's pretty neat to realize that those things

were made like late 1300.

I'm hoping that those petroglyphs

could be a big clue.

Yeah, it could be part of where

the original source of this treasure came from, the aztecs.

Duane was excited, too, but he had some concerns.

Chad ollinger: What would they do if there

is a burial ground here?

They'll they'll have to report it.

To the indians or--

eric drummond: The indians will come in, yep,

and it'll become sacred ground basically.

So you'd risk not only shutting it down,

but you could potentially risk a portion of your property.

Yeah, and rightly so.

If it's a graveyard or something like that, my goodness.

Yeah.

[dramatic music]

[crickets chirping]

duane ollinger: What the [bleep]??

(on radio) charlie boy, you better

come up here by the ponds.

Looks like we got another one.

Charlie snider: (on radio) copy that.

Be there in a minute.

Damn, another one?

Duane ollinger: Same type of scenario, it looks to me like.

This son of a buck was mutilated.

Charlie snider: It's the same damn thing,

ripped the head off.

Kind of makes you wonder if somebody

ain't leaving a message here.

Where's chadro at?

I hadn't seen him in a little while.

Hey, chadro, you better come and look at this by the ponds.

Still dripping.

Damn sure got some liquid coming out of him.

[engine roaring]

[suspenseful music]

it was just laying here?

Duane ollinger: Mm-hmm.

When did you see it?

I just walked up about a few minutes ago.

God almighty, another one?

Seems like every day it's something--

something different, isn't it?

For years, we hadn't seen anything like this, nothing.

And this here is the third one we've seen.

According to over at skinwalker,

they-- you know, they had these mutilations over there, too.

Yeah, about three months ago.

Well, apparently we got a little bit of it now.

We've never had these kind of problems before, so whatever

is going on here, I--

I sure hope it stops, because, you know,

you can just tell it's not right.

Might be getting a little dangerous out here.

We need to kind of be watching our backs all the time now.

I mean, everything-- every animal,

they'll clean this mess up.

They don't do this.

They don't gut the son of a buck and take the head.

My gosh!

I hope this isn't some sort of a warning sign

that we're on top of a burial ground.

Charlie snider: Now, what do we do with this one?

I just think we ought to leave it here as a trap

and set a camera up right over in those trees.

And let's just leave it right here,

and see if we can't pick something

up on the game camera.

Good to me.

I'll move a camera over here.

[ominous music]

charlie snider: What the hell?

Chad ollinger: Holy sh-[bleep]!

Charlie snider: That's a frigging wolf!

Chad ollinger: Yeah, it's big.

It's definitely not a coyote.

That's a wolf.

Charlie snider: I don't know.

There's a wolf on here.

It's huge, man, just right there, right on the road.

Charlie snider: He's a good 3 foot tall, easy.

Wow.

What the hell is a wolf doing down here?

They should be up 9,000--10,000 feet up

there with the elk herd and--

what's crazy about this, when my two-year-old daughter was

out here, she was pointing on the top of the hill,

saying, there's a white dog up there on the top of the hill.

And none of us could see it.

I mean, not saying it could be, but

all the locals say that the skinwalker's

natural form is a wolf.

It does bring up a lot of questions.

The skinwalker ranch has had some mutilations

on some of their cattle.

So are we getting the same thing that they're

getting over there?

[eerie music]

at my house where I live, we've

had our own little experience.

Gives me goose bumps just to even talk about that.

A tribal member used to walk up and down the front of our house

all the time, lean on our fence, and dance.

I got really worried about it, and I called a friend

of mine who is a shaman.

He said you need to do something about him.

He's trying to suck the good out and to let the evil in.

So now, of course, I'm freaked out.

And then, we started seeing this big dog.

I never saw the guy and the dog at the same time,

but he had always came from that direction.

Then, the dog started coming onto our property.

I felt like we were constantly being watched.

One day, the sun was starting to come up,

and I'm looking out the window.

Well, there's my horses, and all four of them

are standing butt-to-butt.

And there's that dog again.

And this time, he's circling my horses.

[neighing]

and I'm like, ok, I'm done with this dog.

So I grabbed my gun off the bar.

I literally had one bullet left in the chamber.

So I'm like trying to sneak up on him.

And that dog stops looks right at me.

And I just pulled up, and I shot.

And he dropped, just dropped.

He didn't twitch. He didn't run.

He just dropped.

I called my husband.

And I said, when you get home, will

you please get rid of the dog?

And he could not find a bullet hole, no blood, nothing.

Reporter: And how do you explain that?

I don't. I can't.

I don't know.

But about two days later, we read an obituary.

That native american kid was found dead in his home.

It was a skinwalker.

These mutilated animals are totally a distraction,

but we have to stay focused just on getting into the caverns.

What we do from here?

There's got to be an entry point

around this son of a buck.

I don't think it's going to be on top mountain, where the--

no.

Hell, that wouldn't be very feasible for them

son of a bucks to--

yeah.

Enter up there anyway.

I mean, those petroglyphs up there,

they're probably labeling something.

They're showing that something's there.

I mean, we don't know what, but we just have to keep looking

around that area, I guess.

Mm-hmm.

Let's just use common sense about this deal.

If we were whoever's hiding it, you know, we would cover it up

where it looks pretty natural.

All right.

If you was hiding a daggum stash of whatever--

1,000 pounds of gold, you would do a lot of things

to make it look natural, to cover that son of a buck up.

Right.

You'd have to.

Yeah, true.

So we got to think like they thought.

Yeah.

We still need to check if these are sacred grounds.

Yeah.

But in the meantime, let's keep

searching for another entrance without disturbing anything.

So I'll just go on foot around the petroglyphs

and see if we can see something there.

Yeah, I think that's the only way to do it right now.

That's perfect. Let's do it.

Ok.

[dramatic music]

most of the time we've been here

has all been at the cavern, you know,

where all the water was, just looking for a hole in there.

But at least like 80% of all this other stuff

hasn't been explored to the extent that we need to.

I mean, as far as to find another entrance,

it could be anywhere out here.

So we're just really trying to spend some time and--

and look all around here for any--

any little cracks or holes or something

that we can get in that cavern, because we know they all

go through here.

We know that there is gold in the caverns.

We just have to find the best spot to enter

and the safest spot, you know.

No one wants to get hurt, but we definitely

know that there is stuff here.

[dramatic music]

so there's a cavern up here.

But we'll just check it out.

[eerie music]

chad ollinger: There are small little caverns in there,

but I can't see anything in there.

[crickets chirping]

[eerie music]

I mean, this-- this whole area is pretty new.

Basically, we're on the other side of the mountain.

That's where our dig site is.

So we're just trying to cover this part

of the ranch to see, you know, if we're missing something.

On the roads, you can't see all these spots at all.

So just hiking it is definitely the best

way to find something for sure.

Uh, just kind of get boots on the ground

up here to see if we can actually find something.

I don't know.

We haven't had any luck yet.

[suspenseful music]

oh, yeah, we'll probably just head back.

Might as well, man.

Sorry for keeping you out so late.

Chad ollinger: All right.

Cool.

Let's head back.

Oh, what the f-[bleep]?

Hey, right over here.

Look at this.

What the [bleep]?

What the [bleep]?

It's a cave.

Holy [bleep] man.

This thing's huge.

[ominous music]

see this?

It's a huge cave.

It goes I don't how far in.

There's a bat in there.

There's three bats, four.

[bleep]

producer: Here they come.

[bats squeaking]

chad ollinger: There's bats all in the, man.

[bats squeaking]

chad ollinger: No telling how far it goes.

I can't even see the end of it all, man.

Holy [bleep].

I gotta call the crew, man.

Hey, y'all need to come over south of the dig site.

I found a huge cave over here.

I think I found the entrance.

I gotta call the crew, man.

Hey, dwayne?

Duane ollinger: (on radio) yeah?

Hey, y'all need to come over south of the dig site.

I found a huge cave over here.

I think I found the entrance.

There's all kinds of stuff.

There's bats in there.

I don't know how far it goes.

Duane ollinger: (on radio) what'd you find?

Someone dug out a huge cave over here

just south of the dig site.

Duane ollinger: (on radio) copy that.

You want us to head there now?

Y'all just come.

Bring the whole crew.

We need hard hats and headlamps.

Duane ollinger: (on radio) 10-4.

[dramatic music]

chad ollinger: I mean, this property is huge.

And we've been camped out at the main dig site pretty much

the whole time.

And finally getting out and doing some

exploring and finding this--

whoever put that box down in the cave,

they could have used this entrance right here.

Eric drummond: Wow. Charlie snider: Damn.

Eric drummond: Chad, what have you got here?

Look at this.

Eric drummond: What have you got?

Wow.

Chad ollinger: I haven't gone all the way in yet, but--

ok.

Chad ollinger: I just looked from the entrance here--

yeah.

Eric drummond: Wow.

Charlie snider: Look at that son of a bitch.

Eric drummond: Yeah, it goes in quite a bit.

Chad ollinger: Took some work, huh?

Eric drummond: Yeah.

Somebody spent a lot of time doing this.

So it could be another entry point.

This cave is directly on the other side of the mountain

from our main dig site.

So the cavern system could run all the way under the mountain.

This mine shaft could be an entrance to the same cave

with the wooden box.

It's amazing this is on our property.

I want to go in just real carefully at first.

My initial impression on this one

is it looks like it was dug a long time ago.

And that's a good thing, because it's still open.

The idea here is, why was this put here?

Was it-- was there something of great value

they're looking for?

What was-- what was the tunnel put in for?

Duane ollinger: Well, this is wild as a hammer.

Eric drummond: Wow.

Duane ollinger: Look at that.

Eric drummond: How far does this go?

There's a rat's nest right there.

I'm not seeing any, like, drill holes that they

would use to put dynamite in.

Chad ollinger: Right.

Charlie snider: So this was probably hand dug?

Yeah, it looks like it's hand dug,

so somebody spent a lot of time doing this.

Duane ollinger: This hard-ass work here.

Eric drummond: What were they mining?

That's the big question.

Chad ollinger: Yeah, do you see any clues of anything?

Eric drummond: Not-- this is all sandstone,

and so let me try something here.

Let's all turn off our lights here.

All right, I'm going to try to light this up with the uv

and see what we see here.

Oh, wow.

Duane ollinger: Look at that, glowing.

Chad ollinger: Green, what is that?

Eric drummond: Wow.

That looks to be feces from rats or bats

or something like that.

See how it's dripping out like that?

Chad ollinger: Right.

Look at it.

It's all over the place.

Charlie snider: But no mineralization?

Eric drummond: Doesn't look like much at all.

Chad ollinger: Ok.

Eric drummond: The rest of the mine looks--

appears to be sandstone, similar to the rocks, you know,

right at the-- that blind front.

Chad ollinger: Exactly.

Charlie snider: Yeah.

Eric drummond: Let's turn our lights back on, and let's go.

I thought I saw-- just saw one up there.

Chad ollinger: There it is. Eric drummond: There it is.

[bleep]

eric drummond: Ok, guys, this is where it gets dicey.

But we've got to be in a good, what, 150, 200 feet?

Boy, it does look like it goes down over there.

Duane ollinger: Oh, yeah. Chad ollinger: Yeah, it does.

But look at-- look at the ceiling here.

It's caved.

We have all the debris on the ground here.

Charlie snider: So it appears to go a little bit to the right.

Chad ollinger: Uh, it looks like it goes down.

Eric drummond: I would now--

I would not suggest going back in there.

Chad ollinger: I mean, that's what we got our hard hats

for, though, right? Charlie snider: Yeah.

Yeah, I'd love to see if it goes any further.

Eric drummond: I'm up for it if you guys are, but it's--

charlie snider: Let's push forward.

[inaudible]

chad ollinger: It does go down.

Look at that.

Eric drummond: Watch your-- [indistinct yelling]

[bleep]

[bleep] chad ollinger: There it is!

Eric drummond: Get out of here!

[bleep]

eric drummond: It [inaudible].

Chad ollinger: The bat keeps [inaudible]..

Ahhh!

[bleep]

he's going after-- let's get--

let's get out.

[laughing]

get the [bleep] out of here!

Charlie snider: He likes you, doesn't he?

Yeah, he likes me.

Duane ollinger: You guys act like he's going to kill you.

Charlie snider: He's up on the ceiling now.

[laughing]

he's in my face.

[bleep]

it ain't funny, man.

Charlie snider: Well, I kinda thought it was.

I don't like those little suckers.

Duane ollinger: Oh, wow. Eric drummond: All right.

Duane ollinger: Damn.

[bleep]

eric drummond: It looked like it ended right there.

Chad ollinger: Yeah, that's the end of it right there.

And I'm still not seeing an obvious--

like an obvious vein, a mineralized vein,

or anything like that so--

duane ollinger: Did they just dig it for the hell of it?

There's no way.

There had to be a motive, but--

eric drummond: Yeah, what-- what-- that's the question.

There could be a different motive to digging

this huge mine shaft.

You know, it's like, why would you keep on digging if there's

no evidence of any minerals?

So it's someone came in here and dug

this by hand, which took a long time, and a lot of work, too.

Where they looking for some cavern, like we are?

I mean, it very possibly could be.

What if they were looking for a way in, too, you know?

I don't think that far from your main dig site there.

Right.

It's just straight north of there.

Based on those numbers.

We can track this all the way out.

And we might track it all the way across the mountain

to where we're at.

Whoever dug this is searching for the same cave full of gold

that we're searching for.

So we're right on track.

They just didn't have the good information that we got.

And they damn sure don't have the equipment that I have,

so it's huge.

[dramatic music]

chad ollinger: I hear-- find all kinds of stuff.

I found this just the other day.

I mean, it looks like a cow, for sure, because

of the jaw and the teeth.

But all the bones are kind of piled up here.

Usually, when the scavengers come,

they start ripping and shredding and taking the bones

to their home to eat it safely.

But a lot of this is still intact,

which is kind of strange.

One of my buddies, he walked up like a couple of days

after a cow had been mutilated, where

basically something sucks all of the insides out of a cow.

It's-- it's unreal and unexplainable,

but, I mean, it happened.

And we hear about cattle being mutilated right down the road

at skinwalker ranch all the time,

so very possibly could be here, too.

[dramatic music]

this whole place is a mystery, but these pieces

are starting to line up.

We've got stories about the aztec treasure.

And we also have stories about the rhoades mine.

We have spanish coins, and we also have mormon coins.

And then, we find those petroglyphs that

look like they could be aztec.

And to top it all off, we have a giant box in the caves

down below us.

Now, we find this tunnel that someone spent a lot of time

in digging.

You know, it feels like we're just one piece away

from putting it all together.

What can I help you with?

I'd like to look at the records, the county records,

on the blind frog ranch property.

You want to come back over to the vault?

We want to be respectful, so we

need to make sure these petroglyphs aren't

a part of a burial ground, something

that we need to be respectful to.

So we just need to know.

Our books start back in 1880, and the property

that you are looking for has been recorded in a patent

from the united states in 1945.

So it comes from the united states land office.

Yes.

So then, that was federal land?

That was federal land.

Ok.

And not indian land?

No.

We did have indians roaming the area here, but at that point,

it was federal government.

Federal government. Ok.

Deed.

Ok.

You know, we found some petroglyphs around there.

We wanted to make sure that we weren't

on some type of indian burial ground

or sacred ground or something like that.

Is there any records on that?

We don't have any tribal records whatsoever in--

- ok. - --Our office.

Ok.

The good news, there is no sacred ground.

So we're-- we're ok there.

I'm very comfortable with that.

You know, and also, we--

there's a mine shaft off the back of the property.

Is there any mining claims on blind frog ranch?

So what I have is what's found in this book.

And it's called the "black cap mining book."

so the-- so there is actually mining claims on?

Record keeper: There are.

There are.

Right here, the black cap.

Charlie snider: Ok.

Record keeper: And it talks about

here's your northeast quarter.

And this is a noticeable location

on the crow creek drainage.

Ok.

Does it tell what they were mining for

or anything on there?

Did they list that?

So on here, they have listed gold, silver, copper,

lead, or other valuable.

Ok.

And is that the people that--

that is the people that were filing the notice of location.

Ok so it's rhoades?

What?

These are all mormon gold pieces

from the lost rhoades mine.

The story goes thomas rhoades took the gold and hid it.

And people have been looking for it ever since. (echoing) since.

Since.

So that's very interesting.

Fable or history, whatever you want to call it,

you know, I find it kind of odd that someone named rhoades

would have mining claims on a particular section

of our property that the same last name is

the rhoades lost mines.

And it's from the 1850s, which is

the same time that rhoades was showing

up with 60 pounds of gold.

So this is real good.

[dramatic music]

[phone ringing]

chad ollinger: Hey, what's up, charlie?

Yeah, he's right here.

He's on the tractor.

Let me get him.

Hey!

What's up?

Hey, charlie called and said he's

trying to get a hold of you.

All right.

Hey, charlie, here's my dad.

What's up, charlie boy?

Hey, you guys are not going to believe this.

What is it, charlie?

I found two mining claims on the property.

Charlie don't be [bleep] us.

And guess whose name was on the claims?

Rhoades.

Duane ollinger: That's huge, charlie.

Get your ass back here.

[engine rumbling]

all these ranchers around here,

they are sneaking on the property

to see what's going on.

I don't play those games.

Anybody that is that interested, that means we're

doing something right.

No.

Duane ollinger: But they are fascinated about this property

out here.

Been too many decades of strange occurrences, things happening.

We call it the energy zone.

Eric drummond: Yeah.

There's an anomaly here.

How can I either disprove or prove this energy

field smelting data?

I'm going to have to rethink everything.

[machine signal]

it's something highly reflective.

It is possible that something's buried up there.

Our main objective is to get into those caverns

and find the [bleep] gold.

It's got to be a void.

Turn it off!

Turn-- turn it off!

Chad ollinger: He's going into a trance.

[moaning]

my whole family's out there.

I gotta go.

[vroom]