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[narrator] Previously on Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch.

[Chad] We're giving it everything we got this year.

[Duane] Here's the bad boy right here.

If you can get a sample of that wood, we can get it analyzed.

[bleep]

[Chad] I got disoriented.

[Duane] We got a lot of stuff going on out here.

- [flies buzzing] - [bleep]

She had just shot herself.

[man] I've never seen anything like what I saw that night.

I'm gonna find out what's going on.

Everyone would've [bleep] heard about that.

They don't know anything.

Gonna have to figure out another angle on this.

- Guide me through, huh? - Right.

[Duane] You're there, Chad, you're on top of it.

Woo! I got it.

[Duane] 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.

Don't go in the [bleep] cave.

Aztec treasure...

[Chad] Holy [bleep].

[Duane] Caverns of gold.

- [Chad] Look at this. - [Duane] More than riches.

It'll be a million dollars here.

[Duane] 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's in the ground.

[Chad] Let's get down there.

[shouts]

[Duane] So, uh, we got quite a bit of work to do.

Chad, what'd you find out on that core sample?

We should be getting the results back any day now.

I mean, if this shows that the Aztecs built this,

that means we know we are sitting on gold and we have to get in there.

- [Eric] Yeah, I wanna see what's inside that box. - Yeah.

- [Duane] No kidding. - Yeah.

[Duane] So we're really picking up steam investigating

the box that somebody hid down those caverns.

After the archaeologist said it might be Aztec,

Chad, he, pulled a good wood sample off the box.

I got it.

[Duane] And we shipped it off to be analyzed.

Basically, that's gonna tell us what we're gonna spend the next three months doing.

If the type of the wood and the age of the wood matches up with the Aztecs,

then I'll spend every cent I have risking our ass to pull it all out of the ground.

And if it doesn't, we'll just cross that bridge when we get there.

Jamie, you give us an update on what you got going on?

Yeah, sure. Yesterday was a very interesting day for me, very.

I first looked up ambulance companies.

Trying to find out what was going on with the woman that was found,

uh, dead at the gate.

- [siren wailing] - I found out that there was only one

ambulance company that would cover a call for this area.

And speaking with the paramedics,

there was four of them that was working there, you know, that day.

And there was no call.

None of them knew anything.

- Wow. - So my question is,

is, uh, if they weren't them, who was it?

Who was it?

You know, so after that, uh, I met with a local news reporter.

There's been some similar circumstances all over the Uinta Valley

that seemed not quite right.

She wrote a couple of articles just recently about stuff like this.

And she tried to publish them, put them out there, and they were just squashed.

[reporter] Nothing got published, nothing.

No article, no obituary.

Just [imitates wind blowing].

She was telling me, like, almost, like, uh, around here, there's a bigger entity

that's controlling what kind of information is released to the public.

So she gave me the name of a guy by the name of Dave Miller.

So I'm gonna try to, like, connect the dots here and see what I can find out.

Going to help, that's good, that's real good.

- [Eric] Yeah, that's good work. - [Jamie] Appreciate it.

[Duane] So we know what we have to do, I guess, fellas,

so let's just go after it and let's go do what we're best at.

You guys do your deal and we'll do ours. How's that?

- [Jamie] Sounds good. - Let's go.

[Eric] Let's do it.

[Jamie] News reporters have to have a good eye

on who's credible and who's not credible.

And, uh, this guy Dave, got a meeting,

according to the reporter I talked to, he's the real deal.

He's been investigating strange and unusual cases

throughout the Uinta Basin for over a decade.

He's gotten a lot of people to talk to off the record.

This reporter seemed to think that...

Dave knows something that could be connected

with the murder slash suicide at the ranch.

So I'm pretty excited to hear what he has to say.

[Dave] This story is something that I hear all the time.

Strange cars, stone-faced individuals come in

and they claim the body and they move on.

Nothing said anymore.

You don't hear about it on the news, you don't see it in the papers,

- you don't see anything. - [Jamie] Wow.

[Dave] But they're pretending to be something that they're not.

- [Dave] And they're here investigating other things. - [Jamie] Yeah.

[Dave] Which is why I asked you to come here.

This is what I brought you out here to see, Jamie.

- [Jamie] NASA? - [Dave] NASA.

People in town, they knew that there was something going on out here,

but there was a perimeter here, everything was fenced off,

so they couldn't really see it.

And then, just one day, it's gone and they leave this behind.

[Jamie] What were they doing out here?

[Dave] That's the question.

Very hard to find any information on it being here, first off.

But the name of the location was Gravity Base Ferno.

Gravity Base Ferno.

The reports that I found, one of them described

that they were just tracking satellites.

Another one was they were studying the curvature of the Earth.

And another one said that they were out here studying gravity anomalies.

But the stories that I'm being told from the underground

are that they were actually out here studying the UFO phenomenon.

But this is proof that they were here

and in just one day, mysteriously, they're gone.

Wow.

They left in a hurry, that's for sure.

And I'm sure somebody was not happy that they left this behind.

Not to the same scale, but this is some Area 51 stuff.

Right in the middle of nowhere.

[narrator] In June of 2021, NASA's new chief, Bill Nelson, admitted

that NASA is getting serious about studying unidentified aerial phenomena

as part of their mission to search for life in the universe.

Prompted in part by footage recorded by US military forces.

[man 1 on radio] On padlock.

[man 2 on radio] Oh, my gosh.

[man 1] But seriously,

[narrator] But the true purpose behind this base remains unclear.

We've got all kinds of different government activity that's out here.

Just down the road, you have Skinwalker Ranch.

Which, at one point, was an actual science lab.

Some of the rumors that I've been told

is they think that they were doing experiments on people's reactions

of how they handle seeing these things in the sky.

- Wow. - The government seems to be spending more time

trying to keep people quiet about it

than they're wanting to admit there's any activity out here.

[Jamie] Yeah.

I just don't know what to think of it yet.

It's hard to sink in. Once it does, it just creates more questions.

Yeah. Appreciate you coming out.

- Man, I really do. - [Dave] All right.

- [Jamie] Thank you, brother. - [Dave] You got it.

[Jamie] Dave's talking about a shady NASA base.

Obviously, high level government stuff.

And, you know, it sounds a little crazy, to be honest with you.

It's a lot to process.

And I have no idea how it might be connected to the dead woman.

[Duane] It's gonna get awful hot today, fellas.

We better load up what we need.

[Eric] Yup, it's already getting hot. Heck yeah.

[Duane] Yeah, yeah, it's hot.

[Charlie] Hey, Duane. Look at that.

Right up there.

[Duane] What's going on?

[Chad] What is it?

[Charlie] It's like a bubble sticking outside a tree.

Yeah, I do see something there.

[Charlie] We were getting ready to start work for the day,

when I noticed something on the ridge above us.

[Chad] The hell is that?

[Duane] How we doing? It's kind of a crazy looking thing right there.

Check that deal out. Something's going on there.

[Chad] Yeah, there's some [bleep].

[Duane] All right, let's go check this deal out.

[Charlie] It's right there by the tree.

- [Eric] Right by the tree there? - [Charlie] Yeah.

[Chad] Yeah, look at that. There's solar right there.

- Wow. - [Chad] Son of a bitch.

[Eric] Oh, man. Look at this.

[Chad] Wow. Look at this.

[Charlie] Camera, too.

[Chad] Look at this [bleep].

So we got panels that are charging the 12-volt here.

[Charlie] Got these screwed in also 'cause they drilled into the rock.

- [Duane] Do they? - [Charlie] Yes.

And that's a pretty elaborate setup.

[Chad] We got the wifi and that's 4G, so they can control this right here.

- And so they can control this wirelessly? - Yeah.

This is [bleep]. This is an elaborate [bleep] spying setup.

We come up here and there's this elaborate setup.

Solar panels going to a camera

that can be controlled remotely through wifi.

And so, somebody can be in Salt Lake City

and focus this camera on our camp,

they can focus it on where we're prospecting,

you know, what we're collecting, wherever the hell they want.

And this is a total breach of our privacy.

- So at this point, they know we've disconnected it. - [Chad] Right.

So they knew that we disconnected it.

So we may expect some visitors tonight.

Right?

Yeah.

I'ma put two game cams up, Duane.

I'ma put one up there and I'ma put one over there in that tree,

looking at this point, so we can see who comes back for it.

[Eric] All right.

[Duane] You know, this is a sad day.

Because somebody's trying to ruin a lot of good things, first of all.

But then they're invading our privacy, I mean, man, they're just...

It's like somebody was snuck in and put a camera at your living room.

I mean, where does that stop at?

Not good.

This tells me that somebody with a lot of resources

is breaking the law and using high tech gear to spy on us.

Why would somebody do that?

I think it's because we're damn close to making a huge discovery.

The question is who's watching us?

I don't know yet.

I'm damn sure they'll be back.

This isn't the end of this. No.

We're just getting started.

[Duane] Hey, Jamie, there you are.

We're about to get started on this whole project

and I know you're looking into some stuff for me,

but we need to get you to start looking into that camera

that was mounted up there on those rocks.

- [Chad] Look at this [bleep]. - [Eric] Look at this.

[Charlie] Camera, too.

We don't know nothing about it.

We need to find out if you can hack into this camera system.

And see who's watching us 'cause, you know, that's...

- that's just flat out evil. - [Jamie] Yeah.

That piece of equipment is very sophisticated.

That's not your regular camera that you'd buy at a regular retail store.

You're looking at that camera, you know, to me it looked kind of military.

Somebody was trying to put that together like that,

there's no doubt about it.

So let's see what we can do and get on it now.

- Yeah. - We need to get on it now.

I'll dig into it.

I'll get you a professional, we'll figure out what the hell this thing is.

Okay, good deal.

You know, I want Jamie to get to the bottom

of that dead woman at the gate,

but first, I need to see what he can find out about that camera.

Because if somebody's watching us,

they could jeopardize the whole operation.

- [Chad] Gentlemen. - [Charlie] Hey, hey, hey, hey.

[Eric] Hey, how you doing?

- [Chad] Make another deb. - [Duane] Yeah, look at that deal.

- Hey. - How you doing, guys?

Here's some of the results.

It's about the wood sample.

Core sample out of the wood.

- [Eric] From the box? - [Duane] Yup, yup.

- Ooh, nice. - Ooh.

[Duane] This analysis is gonna tell us if that box is Aztec or not.

According to the legend,

when the Spanish conquistadors attacked the Aztec king, Montezuma,

he sent his people north with billions of dollars of gold.

And they buried it deep in the caverns, somewhere in Utah to keep it safe.

And that was in 1520 and the gold's never been seen since.

So we know that the Aztecs used flooded caves and water traps to hide things.

We have two miles of those on the property.

[Chad] Oh, look at this.

We have petroglyphs that look like they're showing Aztecs.

And the archeologist said the box looks like Aztec construction.

It does look similar.

This core sample could be the final piece.

These results are gonna tell us when that box was put into the cavern.

And the type of tree that was used to make it.

Now, if that matches up with Montezuma,

we could be sitting on a huge treasure, and we'll go after it.

No matter how much it costs or how dangerous it is.

[Chad] Okay... "Species Identification."

Uh, the report shows wood is pine leiophylla.

Common known as Chihuahua pine or yellow pine.

[Eric] These are large trees similar to the size of the logs in the box,

Uh, though they primarily grow in Mexico,

they also grow in many areas of the American Southwest.

How about the, um... The map of the distribution?

- [Chad] Ah. - [Eric] So it does show it coming right up here.

- It does go into Utah, then. - [Eric] Yeah. Yeah.

[Duane] Okay.

Unfortunately, the species of the tree doesn't tell us much.

The logs could have came from Mexico

or they could have been chopped down right here in Utah.

But this sure doesn't tell us everything.

[Chad] Okay, we got radiocarbon dating results.

"Dating shows the logs were cut in the 16th century, between 1510 and 1545."

- [Jamie] Okay, so there you go. - [man whistles]

Holy cow.

-Five hundred years ago. That's Aztecs, huh? -[Jamie] There you go.

[Eric] Oh, my.

- [Chad] Huh! - [Eric] Yeah.

[Chad] That's great.

[narrator] When a tree gets cut down,

the rings in the tree stop exchanging carbon with the biosphere,

so the radiocarbon test tells scientists when the tree actually died.

So this test confirms that the logs that the box are made out of

were cut down around 500 years ago,

which matches up with the fall of the Aztec empire,

when Montezuma is said to have sent 8,000 Aztecs north with the gold.

[Chad] [bleep], we're linked in with Aztecs.

-Aztecs are known for... They had a lot of gold. -[Duane] Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

- [Chad] Is that not crazy? - Hey, that's great.

[Chad] We gotta get in there.

[Duane] Montezuma's gold is probably the most searched-for gold

in the history of the planet.

And we have all these signs pointing right here.

[Duane] I'll be darned.

And now we have a box made from logs that was cut down

at the end of the Aztec empire.

That's right when all the gold was sent north.

Call me crazy, but we might be right on top of Montezuma's gold.

Here we go, fellas. This is great information.

If this is Aztec, that means we will spend all we need to do

to get down to that freaking box.

- And extract it and get it up to the surface. - Yep.

-Let's do this. -[Eric] Sounds good. Let's do it.

[Duane] Last year, we spent a ton of money and a lot of effort,

trying to find a dry entrance at the end of those caves so we wouldn't have to dive.

At the end of the season, we came up short.

So I spent a lot of time this winter

trying to figure out how to get the box out of there.

And so I think I might have come up with a plan so crazy, it just might work.

So, here's... Here's what we're gonna do.

This is gonna sound a little sketchy, and I know this is gonna be dangerous.

But for us to physically get that box out of there,

we're gonna need to drag it out with some heavy-ass chains tied around there.

- [Eric] Yeah. - [Duane] The easiest way to do that is just

to lower them down on top of the box.

We're gonna have to bring a rathole rig in

and drill a 36-inch hole right over the top of that box.

And then we can drop those heavy-duty chains down there.

And Chad, you're gonna have to come in...

We'll... We'll call this the easy way, but it's not. I understand that.

But it'll be the more simple way.

What you'll do is, you'll take a tether rope in there with you,

and you'll take your tether line all the way down, tie the chain around the box.

You'll tie off to that chain.

And then, with the trackhoe, we'll drag this thing out.

You're gonna pull it out laterally, then.

- [Duane] Right. - The same way that Chad goes in.

- [Duane] Yeah. - [Eric] You're gonna pull the box out.

Yeah. And... And because that mountain above the pond is so steep,

we're gonna have to do a blast.

So we can get a flat spot to get that rathole rig on top.

Eric, it's gonna be up to you to tell us how far we need to go down to get a good pop.

- [Eric] Yep. - The whole nine yards.

We do not wanna fracture too far down.

- Yeah, we could, uh, stand to collapse it... - Yeah.

and fill it up.

It'd be a little tricky, but we'll work with the blaster and, um...

It's all about getting that right charge.

- Good stuff. We just don't want it caving in. - [Eric] No. No.

We don't need any part of that.

[Eric] Duane's plan is extremely ambitious, to put it lightly.

I mean, we're talking about digging, drilling, and blasting.

There's a lot of moving parts where things can go really wrong.

Especially considering that box is over 500 years old,

and it's filled with God-knows-what.

I've never heard of anything like this ever being done before.

But Duane made his money in the oil business going after these hard projects.

So if anyone can pull this off, it's him.

[Duane] So, I... I know it's squirrelly, I know.

But if you all kind of agree, then we'll just go to working towards it,

because the, uh, blasting crew will be here in two days, and we got a lot to do.

- [Charlie] Uh, I... I agree. - [Eric] Sounds good.

- [Chad] Yeah. - All right. Let's go.

- [Eric] Okay. - [Duane] Let's get out of here.

- [vehicle accelerating] - [intense music playing]

Should be pretty close up in... Up in here.

- [Duane] You got the coordinates? - [Eric] Yeah.

- [Duane] Okay. - I got the coordinates here, and I put the GPS on here.

[Duane] Let's go on up.

[Eric] First thing we need to do is find the spot that's directly above that box.

Fortunately, we have the exact GPS coordinates

from the LiDAR scan that we took inside the cave.

This should put us right on top of it.

[Eric] We're just about good on our latitude here.

Should be... [exhaling] approximately right in this direction here.

[tense music playing]

This is it, guys.

- [Duane] Mark it, will you? - [Charlie] We're standing on top of it?

[Eric] This is the exact spot. Right on top of the box.

Right there.

-[Chad] Hell, yes. This is right on top? -[Eric] Yep.

So just... Just blast and... Getting down to it now.

If we can make a pop right here and get down to good hardpan,

- then we can drill the rest. - [Eric] Yeah.

Using the dynamite is basically a much easier

and faster way to remove that dirt,

which we need to do to set up that rathole rig.

But it would also make drilling down to that cavern a hell of a lot quicker.

And if we do that blast right, it'll loosen up the earth.

I'm gonna take some readings. Uh, do some measurements on the rock here.

I wanna get a feeling for how this might, uh, break up when we blast it,

so I can meet you about down at the, uh, cabin later, and--

Okay. All right. Let's go. It's good stuff.

[Eric exhaling] All right.

[sighing] Let's see what we got here.

Different rock and soil types respond to blasting in different ways,

depending on the geological makeup of the ground.

Knowing exactly what this mountain is made of

will tell me exactly which way that blast will go.

Up and out, which would simply clear off the top layer of soil

or downward, which would cause a cave-in below.

If that happens, it's gonna bury that box

with half a mountain of soil on top of it.

[sighing] Oh, man.

[suspenseful music playing]

It's soft. Breaks up pretty easily.

Almost by itself.

[exhales and whispers] I don't know. I don't know.

After a little, uh, geological study on the blast site,

I found that it's highly fractured.

It could break up too easily.

And if we over-charge it... We put too much charge in there,

it can jeopardize this whole project.

Oh, man.

I do not, at all, want to risk a cave-in above that box.

[quietly] I don't think so.

Taking all of this into account,

I may have to give Duane some bad news.

- [Eric] Hey, boss. - [Duane] Hey, hey, hey.

[Eric] What's up?

Uh, I just got down off the mountain there, where we're gonna blast.

And, um, unfortunately, I have some, uh, not-so-good news

- to... To give you. - Okay. Let's hear it.

Uh, we're not gonna be able to blast up there.

- Really? - Yeah. I, um, did some measurements on that rock.

- Mmm-hmm. - And when those charges go off,

the energy's gonna go downward and not upward.

And so, my concern is,

uh, it might be too much fractured when we do that blast.

And, uh, we could potentially cave in that entire box and under tons of rock.

And so, you know, I hate to give you this news,

and so we're gonna have to find some other way

around that, um, to make that drill pad,

because we've got to do the drilling.

Can we not drop down in shallower ways?

Drop and pop, drop and pop,

- until we get down to where we need to be or-- - Yeah--

you still think it's too fragile?

I think it's too fragile.

Uh, I couldn't live with myself if we lost that hole, if that caved in,

or, even worse, if somebody got hurt.

We're not here to get somebody hurt,

but we are here...

- Yeah. - Always remember this: we are here to take chances.

That's true. That's true.

But, you know, for me as a geologist, this is what I do.

I weigh the risks, and this is my recommendation.

Okay.

[inhales] Mmm-mmm-mmm.

Well, it's just gonna make it a little harder to set that rathole rig up there.

I know.

[Duane] Well, if it's too soft,

then that big Cat with the tiger teeth

might be able to build us a pad.

Yep. It's gonna take longer.

It's gonna take a lot longer.

[Eric] At the end of the day, if we make a mistake,

and bury what may be millions of dollars of gold,

or, even worse, one of our team members,

that's something we just can't live with.

- Sorry about that news, and-- - No, no, no. We'll get down there. Thank you.

-Sounds good. Thank you, Duane. -Appreciate it. Yep. See you.

Well, sure as [bleep] not the way I thought this was gonna go.

Eric's out here for a reason. To keep us kind of out of harm's way ourself,

and he's good at what he does.

We'll get it done.

Now we're gonna have to get the big Cat up there,

and dig out a flat pad for the rathole rig to sit on.

And that'll take a little time.

So we gotta get our ass in gear, get on top of the mountain

and start building a pad.

[intense music playing]

It takes a lot to ride one of those rathole rigs down something like this.

Looking good. Stay a little left.

[Duane over radio] I wanna take this down as far as I can.

We'll back that drill in there, we'll be flat.

But I'd rather take off the top instead, it gives at the bottom.

Copy that.

Here we go, boys.

[Duane] So the first thing I need to do is create a flat area

for that drilling rig to sit on.

Those things weigh 70,000 pounds, plus or minus.

And this ridge has a real steep gradient.

So if we don't get this perfectly level,

that rig could tumble right off the side of the mountain.

And that would be a disaster.

- Man, this thing just rips it, huh? - Yeah, it does.

Just eyeballing it, it looks like you need to go down

another two foot or something here.

- [Duane] Copy that. - [Eric over radio] We'll get it done.

[intense music playing]

[Eric] Well, today's the big day, guys.

- [Duane] Yeah, this is good. - [Chad] What time are they supposed to be here?

- What, 11:00? 11:30? - [Eric] Yeah.

- Totally. - [Eric] Just about now, yeah.

[Duane] Yeah.

-[vehicle approaching] -Here it comes. Right up there.

[rock music playing]

[Duane] This rathole rig can drill down about 150 foot, plus or minus,

which should be plenty to punch into the cavern, right above the box.

Nice.

And once we do, we'll drop the chains down there.

Chad will dive in, attach them to the box.

And we'll drag it out.

We're close. We're damn close.

[Eric] It's gonna be tight.

[Chad] Yeah, it's close.

All the work we've done has gotten us to this point.

It feels like we're just one step away from finding... I mean, who knows?

Maybe one of the biggest treasures, literally, in the entire world.

This is nuts, man. This is insane.

Here we go.

[Chad] Come on, baby.

[Chad] How long till he gets to 50 foot, you think?

[Troy] [bleep].

[Chad] What is it?

[Troy] The computer went out.

- No way. - [Troy] Yeah.

[Chad] We're ready, we're set, and it goes a half a foot and the computer malfunctions.

Something happened to it.

We don't know what the [bleep] it is.

But it's... But it happens all in this whole area.

It doesn't surprise me.

- [machine beeps] - Machine's fixing to die.

- [Chad] I'm losing it. - [crashes]

[static]

I've never seen that before.

[Duane] Turn it off! Turn your trackers off!

[Duane] What's up, Chad?

The [bleep] computer quit working.

[Duane] Copy that.

Well same [bleep], just different day here.

Things just have a way of shutting down when we're getting close.

So the operator's trying to fix the computer.

And if he can't, we're done for the day.

Yeah, so we can't drill any more today.

Sorry, man.

[bleep]

[Chad] Can't you do anything with the computer?

No, I ain't got a computer, I can't run.

God almighty, we're supposed to have this dug today.

Well, uh, I can't fix it till I get a new computer in.

[Chad] Do you have to bring a whole other one in?

[Troy] Whole other one in.

[Chad] Ah, [bleep].

[Troy] It was running perfect till I got here.

Ahhh! Bastards.

[Charlie] Can that be overnighted?

- Yeah, we can overnight and get it here. - Okay.

Don't matter what it cost, we gotta get it here.

I'll have a mechanic get up here and get it in in the morning.

[Chad] It is [bleep] frustrating.

But at least tomorrow we'll be back at it.

But I'm just ready to get down in there.

See what... See what we have, you know.

[bleep]

[Eric] So we all ready to go?

- [Troy] Yeah, we just got the new computer in, just now. - Nice.

- [Eric] Good deal. - [Chad] Good, good, good, good, good.

Yesterday, the computer malfunctions.

But we're back out here with the drill, and, uh,

hopefully we see the box today.

[Eric] I'm ready to get going here.

- [Chad] All right. - Let's start... Start turning it to the right.

All right, let's do it.

[Duane] We know for a fact that there's energy under the ground

that makes the equipment go haywire.

It happens all the time.

The only thing I can do is keep my fingers crossed

that whatever it is will give us a break today.

[Chad] So what are we at now?

Twenty.

[Eric] This is a ridiculously expensive piece of equipment that Duane has brought in.

So I'll take the opportunity to log the material that comes up.

You never know when you might find something valuable.

[Eric speaking]

I'll be working closely with the driller.

I'll be taking samples.

I'll be doing what's called a boring log, and so I'm...

I'm describing all the soils in the formation that we drill through.

Can you get me a little scoop of that, Charlie, after he dumps it?

Thank you, sir.

The cool thing about drilling is you never know what you're gonna find.

I mean, the last time we dug like this...

Look at that.

We found iridium.

Which, I mean, Duane could be sitting on $3.5 million of.

- I think that's a success. - [Duane] Yeah, it is.

So, um...

Who knows what we can find up here.

Hey, Troy. What's the depth?

[Troy] 27.60.

27.60.

- [Eric] You see the little white flecks? - [Chad] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think it might be little calcite.

At about 27 feet below surface,

I start to see these little white flecks in the sample.

And it looks to me that those are actual pieces of calcite.

So they could be small chunks of the limestone that may be beneath.

Hey, Duane!

Hey, Duane, can I come over and show you something?

Copy that. I'm shutting it down.

We're down.

[Eric] So...

All major cave systems are made out of calcium carbonate.

In other words, limestone.

This could indicate intermediate layers above a cave system.

Now, I'm hoping it's 'cause we're close to the top of that cavern.

- Really? - [Eric] Yeah.

Hell. No bull [bleep]?

This is no bull [bleep].

- Okay, all right. - I'm like, this is no bull [bleep].

I like this deal.

[Charlie] You want a sample of that?

[Eric] I'll get a sample of this fresh one here.

[Charlie] Okay.

There's a lot of money being spent, uh, getting this rig up here and drilling.

It's pretty... Pretty damn expensive.

And we haven't hit what we're looking for yet.

Uh, it's gonna be disappointing if we don't break through here,

in the, uh, next few hours anyway.

[Eric] I should be right on top of that box.

How wide is that right... Can we miss it right there?

We've already drilled almost 50 foot.

And from our lidar scan, we should be... We should be there.

I mean, we gotta be close if not right on top of it.

It's showing exactly right... Right where we're at.

Hopefully, we keep on going and we find... Find where it's at.

If we're off a foot, I mean, we could have to drill another 10, 20 feet.

They checked it several times with the level going down.

It's straight, we should be right there.

This is such an irregular, um, cavern system.

If we're off just a... A degree or something,

we could just... Just barely miss it.

[Charlie] We should be right over, shouldn't we?

Yeah, by rights we should be.

Yeah.

I'm stressing out here.

At this point it's like we're either gonna hit it or we're not.

The only thing we can do is keep drilling.

[Chad] Today's been a long day.

We, uh... We didn't bust through the cave yet.

We're still... Still drilling.

Still hard rock that's just taking a while.

But, uh, we're... We're getting closer.

[Eric] Hey, Duane.

But this light is getting so bad, I'm having a hell of a time seeing.

We could be right above that cavern system.

And we should be.

Um, but the artificial light doesn't, uh...

It doesn't allow me to see what I need to see.

I can't describe it adequately because I've got these LED lights.

I don't wanna miss anything.

There's a point where we just gotta, you know, shut it down.

We gotta start this all over again in the morning.

Hey, Troy.

We might as well shut this little bad boy down tonight.

- It's getting dark. - [Troy] Yeah, yeah.

- [Duane] Let's just pick it up tomorrow morning. - Yeah.

[Duane] It is frustrating, but, uh, we'll get there.

I really think we're gonna get there tomorrow.

[Charlie] We didn't get where we wanted to get right, uh... Right now.

But, uh, we'll get started again.

And I've got a feeling that we're not far off of it.

[Duane] All right, let's get out of here.

Yeah, once we found the spy camera that was put up here,

and we got it all down.

But I put our camera up here to, uh, see if we could catch anybody

maybe coming back to check on their equipment.

But I have to come up every once in a while, you know,

and pick them up and get the SD cards out of them,

and check them out, see if we see anything.

You got a few clips here so something's setting it off.

Okay, that's just me.

Something's setting it off.

I don't know if it's birds flying by.

Every once in a while, you'll see something flash.

That's just me.

Just me doing security.

I didn't see anyone this time but that doesn't mean

I'm gonna let my guard down, even for a second.

We know we're being watched.

[man] Drop it!

[Chad] Yesterday, we were here all day. Super long day.

[Eric] It's got a little bit of moisture in it.

[Chad] We thought we would have hit something for sure.

It's like, uh, we don't... We don't know if the angle's off a little bit.

We could be off of our spot.

I don't know, but we haven't hit it yet, which we thought we would.

Hopefully, we'll see it here shortly.

I'm telling you, man, it's almost... This is hit or miss right now.

We're down to, like, 50... 52, 53 feet.

We'll keep going but, um...

This is... This is...

This is do or die right now.

I just wanna see that cavern drop.

You get into a... A formation that has high porosity

the drill is just gonna, like, wanna drop basically.

And so, when I see a big drop like that, that tells us we're in the cavern.

[drill clangs]

Troy!

Did we drop?

- [Eric] We're in the void! - [Chad] Hell, yeah.

Yeah!

-[Chad] Get in here. Look at that. -Yeah!

- Wow! - [Chad laughs]

What... What depth are we at, Troy?

- [Troy] Fifty-five. - [Chad] Fifty-five?

- [Troy] Yeah. - [Chad] Yeah!

[whistling]

Uh, sure enough, man, we dropped right into that cavern.

It was, uh... Just an awesome feeling.

Our plans are just coming together.

Everything's coming together here.

I can even see water in there.

[Charlie] Excellent. Excellent.

- Look at that. - Wow.

We're in the cave.

- Nice! - [Chad] Yeah.

[Charlie] Good job!

[Chad] The adventure's just begun.

We have a long ways to go but this is... This is where it gets really cool.

- Duane. - [Duane laughs] Hey.

[Eric] You did it, buddy.

- [Charlie] Good job, man. - [Eric] You did it.

-[Charlie] Good job. Way to go. -[Eric] Awesome.

[Duane] They're happy as hell. I am happy.

But I... I gotta hold back just a little bit because we still have a long ways to go.

[Eric] Here it comes.

- [Charlie] Yeah, we got water. - [Eric] Oh, yeah!

- [whistling] - That's the water right there.

[Eric] That's your cave water.

- [Charlie] That sure is. - [Duane] That's a beautiful sight right there.

The next step will be that we'll bring these chains in.

We're gonna drop them right down over the box.

We'll get Chad to go in, wrap that around there,

and then we'll start extracting that box.

[Chad] Let's get the chain.

[Eric] Yeah!

[Chad] Keep an eye on that hole.

Right there.

We know we're in the cave.

But before we go dropping hundreds of pounds of chain down this hole,

we have to make sure that we've punched in at exactly the right place.

Right on top of the box.

It's recording.

That's why we're sending down a GoPro.

All right, we got the light on.

Yeah. Yeah, we'll be able to see perfect.

So we got the GoPro on.

Now, we'll fire up the genny and then, uh, put it down.

Here goes nothing, boys.

Copy that.

Fingers crossed.

Yeah, all right. Here we go.

Oh, it's lighting it up nice.

[Eric] Nice.

[Charlie] The hole is beautiful, the sidewall's are very solid.

A, uh... A stable hole.

[water splashing]

- [Eric] Beautiful, we got it. - There we go.

I really hope we're right on top of the box.

Oh, good. The camera's still on.

- [Eric] Yeah, yeah. - [Chad] Haha!

All right, let's check it out.

- All right, here we go. - Here we go.

It's going down.

[Charlie] Wow.

[Chad] So the lighting is good right there.

- Yeah, very good. Very good. - Going down.

- Is it not water? - [Charlie] It looks like water.

- [Eric] There's water. - [Charlie] There it is.

Nice.

Okay.

- Let's keep on going down. - Keep going.

Keep going.

That's water.

- Little cloudy. - [Chad] Yeah.

- See it, is that-- - [Eric] Is that it?

Is that a log?

- That looks like a log right there. - [Chad laughs]

- [Eric] Oh, oh, man! - [Charlie] Yes!

-It's the box! -[Chad] That's it. That's the box, baby.

- Hell, yeah. - That's a pretty sight right there.

- Thank God. - [Eric] Yeah, man.

-[Chad] Whoo! Yeah. -[Eric] We're on it. All right!

- The precision there. - [Charlie] Finally.

- We're on it, man. - We're on top of the box!

- Right on the top. - We're on the top of that box, Duane.

Copy that. Good job, fellas.

Wow.

We know we're right on top of the box.

Finally something goes right.

[Chad] Now, all we have to do tomorrow

is drop the heavy chains down the hole.

And then I'll dive back in through the pond entrance,

wrap them around the box,

and then we are pulling it out.

[Duane] I'd like to say that I'm gonna go home, get some sleep.

But there's no way anyone's sleeping tonight.

Tomorrow, if everything goes right,

we'll be one step away from holding the most sought after treasures in the world.

You can bet your ass on that.

[narrator] Next time on Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch.

- [Duane] We're right on top of the box. - [Eric] Here we go.

We're there.

[man] Looking here at the specs,

it can see your entire property

from wherever that camera was at.

[Chad] God.

[man] You definitely have something here that they're after.

[man on radio]

If you look up the road where the moon is,

you can see them up there, there's two guys up there.

[Chad] You see them?

Oh, I can assure you we're being watched.

- Oh, [bleep]. - Look at this.

[Eric] We had a huge wind storm.

What the hell?

And it dumped tons of silt in the water.

[Duane speaking]

Chad is pretty fearless to do this.

[Duane] Once you got that box locked, Chad, give us two tugs.

Yeah, that wood's not coming out like it is right now.

Think we're gonna need to bust those rocks up first.

[Duane] There are so many things that can go wrong.

[Duane speaking]