All language subtitles for Mystery+at+Blind+Frog+Ranch+S06E02

Previously on "Blind Frog Ranch,"

with Duane Ollinger
suffering from health issues.

I mean, Duane's health's not
good enough to come out here.

His eyes aren't here anymore.

Renowned treasure hunter Ron Feldman

has joined his son Josh and the team

to continue the search for the Aztec gold.

This is the Keyhole Chamber, Dad.

- OK.
- Big chamber right here.

They've discovered evidence
of Mormon settlers

searching for Aztec treasure.

It would have to be the Mormons.

They were the ones that were here.

This has a lot to do
with everything you guys

have been looking for.

And acquired the journal
of a Mormon pioneer

who may have had access
to the Keyhole Chamber.

- See, people were working out of this.
- Yeah, right, right.

- This was a working journal.
- Right.

I think we need to follow
those instructions

and see where it leads us.

Following a passage from the journal...

- OK, so it's right over here.
- Yes.

Josh, James, and Eric have unearthed

a gold processing site.

- That's it.
- Look at that, that's gold.

They now believe
the Mormons were accessing

the Keyhole Chamber through
a 19th-century mine entrance.

That means there's gold
somewhere near.

- Blind Frog Ranch.
- Hell yeah.

The journal is leading us towards gold.

Legends of ancient treasures...

It could go thousands of years back.

And unexplained phenomena.

This. I'm not messing with that.

Meet at a 160-acre property
in Northeast Utah,

known as Blind Frog Ranch.

For decades, teams have
searched the land

for long-lost Aztec gold.

But the closer they get...

- That's it.
- Look at that, that's gold.

The harder the land fights back.

Whoa.

What the hell's going on?

Now, a prolific miner...

We're standing on a pile of gold.

And a legendary treasure hunter...

There must be another tunnel
entrance, something.

Armed with new evidence...

- Look at this.
- What'd you find?

- What the hell is that?
- And a fabled artifact...

There's a date on it... 1912.

Will take on a 500-year-old curse...

Fire in the hole.

And a land littered with traps.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

To find a $3 billion treasure.

They won't stop until
they uncover the mystery

of what lurks below...

- Guys, it's caving.
- Run.

At "Blind Frog Ranch."

Yeah, it looks like I'm down
a pretty hard layer here.

Whatever that is should be in the pan.

Two days ago, Ron and Josh
discovered a journal entry

that references a location
near Blind Frog Ranch.

To the first branch
of White Rocks Creek.

That's west of us.

The passage says marked trees
lead us to the shaft.

We think that could mean
some kind of an entrance

right here on Blind Frog Ranch.

The team set out to follow the passage.

That's where there's supposed to be

the markings in the trees is in that stand.

So this way, I'll keep the compass out.

And discovered an arrastra,

a rudimentary mill used
in the 1800s to crush ore.

If they're building a furnace,
they had to be smelting ore.

Which means there's a mine close by.

What if that mine is our entrance?

Now that Josh thinks
the Mormons were using

a mine entrance to access
the Keyhole Chamber,

the team is excavating the site in stages,

they will move outward from the center,

looking for evidence of a trail
or a path to a mine entrance

that accesses the Keyhole Chamber.

After you pull ore from a mine,

the first place you go is to your arrastra.

And if you do that enough,

you're gonna leave a lot of clues behind.

Foot traffic or wagon wheels

can leave a lasting impression
in the earth.

We find anything like that,

it could lead us directly
to the mine entrance.

But I'm gonna detect the pan

to make sure it's in there, and...

OK, I'll work on that other section.

OK.

- There you go.
- It's in the pan.

- Do you wanna bring it over here?
- Sure.

We'll work it.

So the area around
the arrastra it's massive.

I mean, endless trees,
mountains, you know, plains.

So we can't just willy-nilly go
looking for this cave entrance.

Excavating this arrastra is
our best chance of finding

clues to where
this mine entrance may be.

We're looking for not only
just minerals such as gold

and things like that, but also artifacts,

ancient artifacts that will maybe tell us

from which direction this ore
came in from,

where... where the source of that ore is.

- Look at that.
- What's that right there?

- It's a bolt.
- Yeah.

- It's definitely not ancient.
- No.

'Cause it looks like it's...

- It's squared off at the... at the top.
- Yeah.

- But it's threaded.
- Looks like it's oxidized quite a bit.

Yeah.

We found a bolt, but it's really difficult

to determine what era it came from,

why it was there.

It's... it's a very common
artifact, basically.

It was used to hold something together.

You know,
some kind of piece of equipment.

It could be 1800s, it could be 1930s.

This bolt is about 20 feet
from the arrastra.

Because of where we found this bolt,

it... it will give us a direction

that we can further follow
to perhaps find this mine.

All right, I'm gonna continue
on detecting.

- OK.
- K?

Rock.

James?

- You hear that?
- Yeah.

It's iron, and whatever it is,

it appears to be pretty big.

It's gotta be like right here.

That's...

Look at that.

It's a horseshoe.

That's what was making
that thing sing out like that.

- You guys got something?
- Hey, come here.

I mean, that was hand forged,
look at that.

- Yeah, look at that.
- It's so lopsided.

Yeah, it's just rough around the edges.

So this was in the...
the last section of the grid.

- OK.
- That would be in five-five.

That's about 50 feet from the arrastra,

back towards the west.

Given the smaller size of the shoe,

this was from the mule, right?

And with the bolt we found earlier,

maybe these were
from some kind of wagon or cart.

That would make sense, right?

Yeah, they would have brought
the ore and stored it,

and then they got it ready
to be crushed and then take it

- over to the furnace, right?
- That's amazing.

Just another clue.

In the mid-1800s, Mormons used mules

because they were small
enough to fit into mine tunnels

and strong enough to carry ore.

We find this mule shoe just
out from the arrastra site.

So this may be the correct direction

where we'll find that mine entrance.

It's got to be here somewhere close.

- To down...
- Down this way?

Yeah, let's split up
and search in this direction.

- All right.
- All right.

- Yeah.
- Let's go.

The team found multiple artifacts

and is now headed west,
looking for more evidence,

like compacted soil or wagon paths

that could lead them directly
to the mine entrance.

I'm looking for any kind of disturbed land.

These mules would have left
the deep depression

from carrying heavy hauls
through this area.

That's what I'm after.

Lots of written stuff. Interesting.

While the team searches
for the entrance

to the keyhole chamber,

Ron Feldman is continuing
to research the Rhoads Journal,

hoping to find more information

about the history of the Aztec treasure.

Reading through the journal
and researching here,

try and decipher something
out of all of this.

But there's one name that
keeps coming up in this journal.

It refers to Chief Walkara a lot.

Walkara was a famous chief
of the Timpanogos tribe

in the 1800s.

Early Mormons claimed he joined
their church and showed them

the location of the gold in the Uintas.

But nobody really knows
Walkara's side of the story.

What is interesting,
a lot of the information

and maps that I'm seeing in here
seem to be pointing

to other caves of Aztec treasure.

This is not giving me enough
information about the Timpanogos

or Walkara and how they connect
to more chambers of gold.

I have to dig deeper here.

When I think about what's
made me successful

in a lot of my treasure hunts,
is perseverance.

I spent over 50 years looking
for the Lost Dutchman Mine

before I actually got into it.

A lot of people just give up.

You gotta get out of the armchair

and you got to follow
the information, the history,

what's happened before.

This could end up being

one of the biggest
treasures hunts of my career,

so I'm not leaving any stone unturned.

What I really need to do is find someone,

a historian on the Timpanogos

to kind of delve deeper into the history.

This section here kind of flattens out.

It's a good place to look
for any signs of mining traffic

or any evidence that anybody's
been here before.

After finding a mule shoe
50 feet west of the arrastra,

the team is searching the area for clues

of a possible mine entrance,

which they believe will connect

to the Keyhole Chamber.

This whole path here
looks like a wide enough lane

for a mule and wagon to pass through.

It's pretty flat here, too,
so there was a lot of traffic

going back and forth here.

That's kind of interesting.

This whole area,
it doesn't quite look natural.

And this depression here,

I mean, it looks like
everything just came in.

All these trees have
grown up since then,

and all these leaves have covered it over.

Well, look at this.

The ground subsided here.

That could mean there's a sunken
mine entrance underneath.

If you have a mine opening
like this and the roof

will collapse in on itself and V
into the mountain like this,

and then it creates an area.

And that's exactly what
I'm looking at right here.

I'm gonna metal-detect this area,

to see if I pick up any remnants of ore.

I'm not detecting anything up here at all.

There's something right there.

See where the edge of that thing is.

OK, here we go.

It's large, whatever it is.

It's right here somewhere.

Look at that. What the heck is that?

Shoot.

This is a mining drill steel.

You take this,
and then you'd hammer it in,

create your holes,
turn it, hammer, turn it.

The only reason to have this here is

'cause they were working hard rock.

This is definitely 1800s stuff right here.

If this is here,

this depression is here,
that's not a coincidence.

I think we're at the entrance of a mine.

We would have not found this thing

if it wasn't for that journal.

It's only because we followed
that thing all the way,

from way the heck
on top of the mountains,

all the way back into Blind Frog.

Man!

This is a huge find.

I'm gonna mark this site.

I'm gonna build a little rock cairn,

just so we know when we get back here.

This is the kind of moment that I live for.

I mean, the journal brought us here.

The artifact we found so far suggests

this isn't just some random
low spot in the dirt.

This is a mine site.

The Keyhole Chamber
could be just at our reach.

2 We did find a shoe.

- It looks really old.
- Yeah.

- Yeah.
- You think?

It's definitely hand forged,
at least 100 years old.

It's rough.

You can tell it's not a perfect shoe.

Not only that,
we found some gold right there.

Like, right in the middle...
in between the cracks.

Fantastic.

The Rhoads family journal
led Josh to a depression

in the earth that he believes
is a collapsed mine opening.

Now, the team meets with Ron
to discuss their next move.

There is a processing site there.

- People were there working.
- That's the most important part.

They were smelting ore,

and then finding that depression,

which I think is a collapsed
mine entrance.

It's unbelievable.

And to me, it feels like this
could be the entrance

that we've been looking for.

All these clues have led us
to this depression.

But if we're going to commit
the time and money

to actually digging this thing out,

we have to make sure
it's a mine entrance.

My dad has seen it all when
it comes to treasure hunting.

He'll be able to tell us if
we should move forward or not.

When you look at it at first,

you don't really think much of it.

You look at it closer,
and you realize that this area

has actually caved back
into the hillside quite a ways.

Did you do further
surveying of the place?

Yeah, I mean, and that's...

the other amazing thing.

I come up with.

I come up with that.

- And old drill steel.
- Yep.

Usually bigger, but yeah,
they're cracking rocks.

Incredible.

I find that depression, right here.

Right there.

- The keyhole is over here.
- Right.

- It's not even a mile.
- We're that close.

I gotta wonder,

could that get us
into the Keyhole Chamber?

- Absolutely.
- Absolutely.

This is very interesting.

Based on the information,

based on what I'm seeing
that you're talking about,

it's the best shot we've had.

This could very likely be
the way into the Keyhole.

- Wow.
- Yes.

If Josh is convinced, I'm convinced, he...

Josh knows a lot more
than he actually even thinks.

He learned from the best, me.

So if everything is leading to this spot,

can we drill into it
and reopen it that way?

If it is, in fact, caved in like that,

- once you drill in and pull out.
- Filling back.

It's going to continually fill in,

and it can be a dangerous situation.

I think the only way to get
in there is we're gonna have

to follow that collapse
and timber it as we go.

We'll build a big wood
structure, big portal,

and then we're gonna build off of that

and we'll just start digging
into the hillside

and keep timbering, until hopefully,

maybe at some point, it opens up.

It's gonna be slow, it's gonna take time,

but I don't see any other way in there.

This is old-school mining.

The journal led us to this spot,

and we not only found evidence

that people were hauling gold
out of a mine entrance,

but we think the Keyhole Chamber

is connected to the bottom
of that collapsed tunnel.

Five years of work
has all led to this moment.

Now comes the hard part, getting inside.

If I can borrow James,

I think I'm gonna do some more
research into this journal.

Why don't you guys go
and start the timbering?

- Let's do it.
- You ready to become a miner?

- Yeah, hell yeah.
- You ready, Ron?

- We're ready to go.
- All right.

All right, Eric, you ready
to break some ground?

I've been ready for five years now.

Here we go.

Less than a mile away
from the Keyhole Chamber,

the team is beginning
a multi-step process

to dig out the cave-in.

- Coming, Eric.
- All right, looks good, Josh.

They'll build a new entryway
called a portal.

Then they'll attempt to redig
the collapsed Mormon tunnel

by creating what miners call a drift.

Something in the way.

They're getting bigger, the deeper ya get.

Nobody's been in this thing
for probably at least 150 years,

and maybe longer.
God only knows what's in there.

Riding the bronco now.

We don't know what we're about to find,

but we're gonna get in there
and we're gonna find it.

Got you now.

Well, I've got a miniature.
I've got a miniature thing here.

Seems like we're getting
close to our entrance,

so let's start cutting our timber.

In order to enter the mine safely,

Josh, Eric, and a construction team

are using three main timber supports

to construct the portal.

Vertical uprights are
used to bear the load,

which are capped with headers

to distribute pressure from the roof,

helping to avoid a cave-in.

Finally, laggings will be
placed in between to hold back

loose rock and debris
from falling onto the team.

Precision and placement is key.

If the beams give out,
the tunnel could collapse,

causing serious injury
and potentially sealing

the mine entrance for good.

We're setting our portal right now.

So that's the part of the timbering

that's outside of the mountain.

And that's what we're gonna build off of.

So we've gotta make sure
that that is tight,

secure, and good.

So if this isn't right,
we're not going anywhere.

That portal has to be exactly perfect.

Keep 'em... you know, so that
they're touching each other.

- Hang on.
- Kick this out a little bit.

- There you go.
- Watch that one.

Watch that... whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa.

Watch out, watch out.

- You all right, Reaves?
- Everybody all right?

- You OK?
- Yeah, I'm fine.

The process of timbering
a mine hasn't changed

in hundreds of years.

It's the way the old timers did it.

It's the only way to do it still to this day.

Let's put these next two in,

and then we're gonna go top lags.

- OK.
- I wanna build...

Let's just build like this.

But the thing is,

is every shovelful we pull out of there,

you're on the edge
of some great discovery.

- You ready to dig?
- I guess I'm as ready as ever.

OK, let's do it, buddy.

- Hey, Ron.
- Hey.

Hoping to learn
more about Chief Walkara

and his connection to the Mormons,

James has asked Mary Meyer,

the great grandniece of Chief Walkara,

to meet him and Ron at the ranch.

Mary Murdoch Meyer,
this is Ron Feldman.

Pleasure to meet you.

Mary is one of the leaders
of the Timpanogos tribe.

Mary has extensive knowledge
of Native American history

in the region and has consulted

with the team several times
over the years.

I've acquired a journal
written by a Mormon pioneer,

and Walkara is mentioned in it a lot.

So I did some digging.

But that's that side of the...
we wanna hear your side.

I read a lot of books, too.

I spent a lot of time in trapper's journals

and then talking with the elders.

And in that, you see a picture
that is completely different

from the Mormon journals.

When Brigham Young first came,

he wanted the whole valley
for his people.

Well, our people were already here.

Now, we had to feed 'em that first year,

'cause they were dying.

But our people took care of 'em.

Right.

The very next year,

they were starting to make
plans to get rid of us.

They started massacres,
killing off our people.

And Walkara tried to be peaceful.

Historical accounts allege
that Mormon settlers arrived

in Utah in 1847

and lived peacefully
with Walkara and his people.

Walkara supposedly
converted to Mormonism

and supported the church

by giving a vast chamber of gold

to leader Brigham Young
and prospector Thomas Rhoads.

The Mormons made everything
seem like Walkara got baptized

and then suddenly just
helped the IDS church

and willingly gave away whatever
Brigham Young asked for.

I don't believe that Walkara
just gave gold away

like they say he did.

Walkara was trying to find
a way to get 'em to stop

killing our people.

- It was more or less a bribe.
- For survival.

This is a huge revelation.

From what Mary Meyer has told me,

the reason Chief Walkara gave
the gold to the Mormon church

was not because he was converted,

but because he was trying
to save his people's lives.

If Walkara knew he had to be strategic,

it makes me wonder
if he would have hidden

the majority of the gold
away from the Mormons.

If, indeed, there was this,
quote, treasure.

Do you think that Chief Walkara

might've hidden it in many other places?

I'm sure Walkara knew several locations.

OK.

And I don't think he would
have shared 'em all.

There's a lot of stories that were written,

but none of 'em by him.

I do believe there are more
chambers of gold than just

the one that was given
to Thomas Rhoads.

Is it possible that those maps
are leading to other chambers?

I need to get back into the journal

and figure out what chamber
we'll look for next.

You've gotta do the research,
otherwise, you've got nothing.

2

There we go.

- One shovelful at a time.
- Yep.

Josh and Eric have excavated
nearly 20 feet into the drift,

convinced they're reopening
a hidden mine entrance

that leads to the Keyhole Chamber.

But with each foot they dig into the earth,

the weight above threatens
the structure's stability.

- Hey, gonna dump this.
- All right.

Well, I've got one wheelbarrow down.

Probably about 50 to go.

- Maybe more.
- 50?

Fif... that's like before lunch.

- 5,000.
- Yeah, like 5,000.

This is the old school way
of doing it, you know?

Yep.

It's hard up here, Eric.

There's a big rock right
in the middle of the drift.

Let's see if we can find the edges of it.

There, there's an edge.

- Right there.
- Yep.

Yep, there's an edge right here.

- Right there? Almost to the floor?
- Yeah.

Yeah, so we're looking at about

six feet long by about five feet wide.

It appears to have fallen in.

So it's a block failure.

That's a huge boulder, man.

There's no way
we're gonna dig through that

with a hammer and chisel here.

Eric...

a rock this big,
we're gonna have to blast.

But we're at the really risky part.

We could destabilize
the whole damn thing above us.

But there's no other way through this.

We cannot pick through this by hand.

We're gonna have to blast.
We don't have a choice.

Man, I... I don't like that.

We could fracture it all up.

We could make this thing all unstable.

We don't know if this boulder
was put here on purpose or what,

but we've got this... this large
fractured sandstone slab here.

Blasting this thing
could make it unstable.

It could... it could fill in
the hole more than open it up.

This drift is here

because there's something
valuable inside it,

and this boulder ain't gonna stop us.

The drift is essentially a house of cards,

because if we destabilize
the wrong zone,

we will lose the entire drift.

And then we're not gonna be able
to get back in there again.

You know there's always that risk.

Three days ago, Josh and Eric
hit an impasse digging through

the collapsed mine.

Now they're heading back
to Blind Frog Ranch with a plan

that should get them
further into the underground.

We've uncovered
a collapsed entrance point

to what we think could be
a working mine,

but now up against
a giant slab of sandstone.

We gotta get somebody to come
in here and precisely blast

this thing so that we can keep
going forward.

I invited someone to the ranch
who I think can help get us

past this boulder. His name's Chili.

He's one of very few people in the world

that can do work like this.

He's a fearless explosive expert.

And he's the guy for the job.

- There he is, look at him.
- All right.

- Pork chop.
- Chili.

Longtime, you don't call, you don't write,

and I worried sick about you.
How you doing, buddy?

I only call you when I need you, right?

Alex Schoenauer,
also known as Chili Dog Willis,

short Chili Dog.

Chili is a demolition's
specialist who's worked

with Josh on countless mining

and treasure hunting expeditions.

Josh believes his experience in
blasting rock can help dislodge

the large boulder blocking
entry into the mine.

As you're making these tunnels,

it takes precision blasting
to get to the goal,

but that's why I'm here,

because I'm the best at what I do.

Yeah.

All right, buddy, so this is the drift.

OK, I mean, I like what
you did here with your port a...

- your portal.
- Yeah, it's built stout.

By looking at this,

definitely got
some compromised ground here.

- She's caved all the way back.
- Yeah.

I'm sure you've gotten in there

and been able to look
at the composition of the rock.

Yeah, yeah. The rock is sandstone,

- and it's big.
- Yeah.

If we just try to blow
all this out real quick,

everything can collapse...
and we don't know how far

that sandstone composition is gonna be.

- It could be just a foot. It could be who knows.
- No, exactly.

So let's get in there do some drilling,

some small drill holes,
and then from there,

let's do some, controlled explosions.

I've got enough gear on my truck.

- Well, I'll get you in there.
- Let's do it.

We used history, research
and the journal to get us here.

But sometimes, we get to blow up.

All right.

I'm gonna clear some of this rock off

so we can get an idea
of what we're looking at here.

It is a big one.

It extends from all the way up
to the top there,

- down to the bottom.
- Let me see that.

Just by looking at it.

I mean, right here,
I'm seeing a natural fracture

- right on the stone.
- Yep, yep, right through here.

So what we can do,
we can take advantage of this

and do a controlled blast.

50 feet into the mountain,

Chili will attempt to blast
apart the sandstone slab

so the team can reach
what they believe is a passage

into the Keyhole Chamber
just on the other side.

The goal with these charges

is not to blow up the whole entire shaft,

just to be able to break this rock up,

small pieces without
disturbing the upper part,

which is so loose up there.

- I can drill it.
- You should have juice.

All right, let's see.

Chili will use a process
known as block holing.

We've got... we've got
one pretty decent there.

And then put another one down here.

The process involves
drilling shallow holes

into the sandstone boulder

and then placing the explosives inside.

We gotta be a little bit careful with these.

These have got some pepper to 'em,

so I'm sure that they do.

Upon detonation, the explosive energy

makes radial cracks
that create a controlled blast.

We've got to do this
pretty... pretty carefully.

The tricky part here is
we can't use too much power,

because we don't wanna
destroy the drift.

Back up in there.

If we do this right, we'll blow that boulder

into pieces and clear a path
for us on the other side.

- Go ahead and back out.
- We'll back out carefully.

Back out slowly, watch your wires.

I'm gonna double-check everything.

That should be good.

Let's clear out of here, guys.
Back up, back up.

Clear, going live.

Set.

Three, two, one.

Whoa.

2 Clear, going live.

- Let her have it, Chili.
- Set.

At the caved-in mine entrance,
detonation expert Chili

is attempting a controlled
explosion to remove

a large boulder

blocking their way
into the Keyhole Chamber.

Three, two, one.

Whoa.

Cold, going cold.

- There she went.
- Everybody stay clear.

- Look at it.
- Whoa.

It looks like we've broken up
some of the rock in here.

It's all loose.

Damn, it doesn't look like
we've opened up a passage.

To avoid collapsing the drift,
Chili used a set of smaller,

controlled charges to crack
the boulder in place.

But the stone is harder than anticipated,

and the blast only broke off
a small fragment.

We could blast it again
and open it up some more.

I could use another charge.

We do need to blast this thing again,

but we've gotta be very careful.

If we take out too much too fast,

it's gonna drop,

and that could actually
put pressure and push back

this way, and it could affect
all of our timber

in this direction as well.

A bigger blast could go badly.

So now that we know
how strong this boulder is,

we're trying to read the rock
to better predict

what the next blast will do.

What we don't want from
the second blast

is for it to cave-in.

And if that happens, we could...

we could lose
this Keyhole Chamber for good.

I can put a charge lower on the rock

where it looks the weakest.

This crack in the rock, this
fracture that we're gonna follow

and keep it low to the ground
should protect the drift more.

OK, let's do it.

A stronger blast is risky.

But we don't get past
this block of sandstone,

we're not gonna be able to get
any further in here, period.

All right, let's set up some more charges

and do it again.

We have that drill
handy? Right here, buddy.

Thanks man, all right, let's see.

Chili's gonna set up a charge
a bit lower to the ground.

If we overcharge this thing,

we're going to lose this whole drift.

It's just gonna drop.

So we're in nothing
but a house of cards here.

- It's going pretty good.
- Good, good.

- Not bad.
- Good.

- That snuffer bottle. Thanks, man.
- Yeah.

Let's get the charges ready.

A little more cable here
and get this in here.

Here we go, buddy.

All right, second time's a charm.

Let's try it again.
Let's clear out of here, guys.

All right, guys, putting the cable.

Stand by.

We're hot.

All right.

Three, two, one.

Let's get in there and let's check it out.

Looks good, Chili.

Look at that.

All right, move some of this around and...

Yeah, let's clean it.

Keep on going. See how deep we got.

Yeah, some big ones in here.

Here, let's grab these down here.

- OK.
- See if we can get these.

That blast blew the crap out
of the bottom side of that rock.

And so we're gonna start
digging that out.

And we're hoping that we can
just skinny our way underneath

this thing and see what's on further.

- Man.
- Here.

I'm gonna need some help on this one.

- There you go.
- Chili?

Yeah, yeah.

- You got it?
- There's... there's a...

There is a void here.

I'm gonna need some help on this one.

That's a good one.

How deep does that go back in, Eric?

This is an opening, guys.

Holy.

We gotta get in there.

2 - How deep did that go back in, Eric?

This is an opening, guys.

On their second attempt,
Josh, Eric, and Chili were able

to blast through the massive boulder

in hopes of accessing

a mine entrance that could lead
to the Keyhole Chamber.

But looming above the narrow
opening is unstable ground.

- Can you get in there?
- I don't think...

We can blast it again.

- If we can get in there without blasting again?
- Yeah.

'Cause, I mean, that last blast,

it did shake all this up here.
This is all moved.

I'm afraid we can lose this whole end.

If we got underneath this thing

and we can leave the rest of
this sandstone block in place,

just get past it and see if it opens up.

OK, I like that.

Let me, can we move
some more of this?

Yeah.

- This is a big slab that broke off.
- It's gonna be tight.

That's a good one.

- Here.
- All right. Here's another one.

Move one. That chunk broke off.

That should do it.

Yeah, I think we can get in there.

I wanna take a look,

see what it looks like.

I'm gonna go in.

With the mine's stability uncertain,

Eric will enter first and assess the shaft.

Just give us an all clear
if it's looking good, Eric.

It's tight.

It looks like it does go in, it goes through.

Once we get through this tight spot,

it looks like it's solid.

So you can get past the block
that fell down then?

Yeah, I can get past it.

He's all the way back up in there.

Guys, I can see it opening.

It looks like there's several
tunnels up ahead.

I'm gonna try to go a little further.

Guys, it's caving.

Pull out, pull out.

Get Eric, get Eric.

Eric! Eric!

- You have him on that monitor?
- Hey, back up,

- back up, back up.
- Get him on the camera.

We've gotta get to him.

I need shovels, I need picks now.

Now!

Eric.

Eric!

Next time on "Blind Frog Ranch."

I need some wood
for support for this side.

All right, hold on.

The trail to the Aztec gold...

I mean, they wouldn't
have put traps in here

- or something like that.
- I don't know.

Takes a life-or-death turn.

- Hey, did you guys hear that?
- What was that?

Ron follows new leads
toward the lost treasure...

There are six more chambers of gold

that we need to find.

And deep underground.

It's gotta be 60 feet.

The team finally reaches
the legendary Keyhole Chamber.

Get that magnetometer out
and see what you see.

There's something right here.

But what they find inside.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Is only the beginning.

You just pulled out gold ingots.