1 00:00:01,860 --> 00:00:04,700 -[frog croaks] -[narrator reading] 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,560 In their search for the lost Aztec treasure... 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,460 -James! Buenos dias. -Hey, how're you doing, Julio? 4 00:00:10,460 --> 00:00:12,500 [narrator] ...James traveled to Mexico City... 5 00:00:12,500 --> 00:00:13,700 [Julio] Let's take a look inside. 6 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:15,460 [narrator] ...and uncovered old maps 7 00:00:15,460 --> 00:00:17,760 that suggest the Aztec homeland 8 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,160 could be located beneath Blind Frog Ranch. 9 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:22,260 [Julio] The Aztecs, we do know 10 00:00:22,260 --> 00:00:23,900 that they came from the north. 11 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:29,200 [James] Holy [bleep]. 12 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,000 This is what could be under Blind Frog Ranch, 13 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,360 or Montezuma's treasure. 14 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,660 [Chad] Even over there. Like, there's these little holes where smoke goes up. 15 00:00:37,660 --> 00:00:39,300 [narrator] At the Bead Site, 16 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:43,000 Duane and Charlie learned that the black soot collected from the vent holes... 17 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,500 [Charlie] We did an X-ray fluorescence analysis. 18 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:48,660 It comes back as charred plant material. 19 00:00:48,660 --> 00:00:50,560 [narrator] ...indicates that an ancient culture 20 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:55,060 might have once lit fires inside the rock formation. 21 00:00:55,060 --> 00:00:56,860 -[Eric] That's amazing. -[Chad] Yeah. 22 00:00:56,860 --> 00:00:58,560 -[Eric] Right in there. Now, I see it. -[Chad] Yeah, yeah. 23 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:00,560 [narrator] While at the South Cave, 24 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,600 Chad and Eric resumed the hunt for a hidden entrance 25 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,160 into the Keyhole Chamber. 26 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:07,460 This cave points exactly towards the energy zone. 27 00:01:07,460 --> 00:01:08,760 [Eric] Wow. 28 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:09,900 [narrator] And gathered samples 29 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:12,360 of the mysterious hand-hewn logs 30 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,100 to see if they were left behind by the Aztecs. 31 00:01:15,100 --> 00:01:16,900 [Eric] They may have been in here looking for gold. 32 00:01:16,900 --> 00:01:19,100 -[narrator] But a strange tremor... -[rumbling] 33 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:21,160 -...and a dangerous rockfall... -[bleep]. 34 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,760 -Out, Chad... - [narrator] ...left them scrambling for safety 35 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,960 before they could learn more. 36 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:27,460 -[rumbling continues] -[objects rattling] 37 00:01:27,460 --> 00:01:29,500 -[Eric] Chad! -[exclaims] 38 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,360 [thunder cracking] 39 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,060 -[opening theme music playing] -[narrator] Northeast Utah is a place of mysteries, 40 00:01:36,060 --> 00:01:41,000 including legends of treasures buried by long-dead civilizations. 41 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:41,700 [man] Oh, wow. 42 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:43,100 -[crow caws] -Look at that. 43 00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:45,660 [Duane] This has to be hundreds of years back. 44 00:01:45,660 --> 00:01:48,000 -[narrator] Unexplained phenomena... - [indistinct utterance] 45 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:48,960 [James] What the hell is that? 46 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:50,860 [narrator] ...that defy human understanding. 47 00:01:50,860 --> 00:01:52,460 I've never seen anything like that. 48 00:01:52,460 --> 00:01:55,800 [narrator] All these mysteries meet at a crossroads. 49 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,100 A 160-acre property known 50 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:02,800 -as Blind Frog Ranch. - [frogs croaking] 51 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,800 Duane Ollinger has owned Blind Frog Ranch for over a decade. 52 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,660 And each year, he's drilled closer to the truth... 53 00:02:09,660 --> 00:02:11,360 -Hell, yeah. He can go faster than that. -[mechanical whirring] 54 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:12,660 -[man] It's working! -[whirring continues] 55 00:02:12,660 --> 00:02:15,460 [narrator] ...and long-lost Aztec gold 56 00:02:15,460 --> 00:02:18,360 he believes is buried deep beneath his ranch. 57 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:19,660 [Chad] It's freaking massive. 58 00:02:19,660 --> 00:02:21,960 Could the Aztecs have discovered this? 59 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:23,460 [narrator] But the closer he gets... 60 00:02:23,460 --> 00:02:25,460 [Chad] Whoo! Feeling alive, boys! 61 00:02:25,460 --> 00:02:28,000 Finally get to hold [bleep] gold in my hand. 62 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 [narrator] ...the more the land fights back. 63 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,360 [man] What would eat the head off of it? 64 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,160 Weird [bleep] goes on around here. 65 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,000 -[Chad] It's blinking red. -[Eric] It's poison gas! 66 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,560 [yelling] Let's get out! Go! 67 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:37,800 [screaming] [bleep] Go! 68 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,260 [narrator] But Duane will move heaven... 69 00:02:40,260 --> 00:02:41,900 -and earth... -[Chad] Fire in the hole. 70 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:42,860 [explosion] 71 00:02:42,860 --> 00:02:44,560 [Chad exclaiming] 72 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,300 -[narrator] ...until he gets to the bottom of the mystery. - [liquid burbling] 73 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:49,000 [Duane] We've started this whole deal, 74 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,800 and we're sure as hell gonna finish it. 75 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,600 [narrator] And solves what's lurking below... 76 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,400 [Eric] Holy [bleep]! There's something in there. 77 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:57,660 [Chad] Hell, yeah! 78 00:02:57,660 --> 00:02:58,900 -Come out! -[Eric] [imperceptible] 79 00:02:58,900 --> 00:02:59,860 [Chad] Josh! 80 00:02:59,860 --> 00:03:01,560 -[rumbling] -[rocks tumbling] 81 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,830 [narrator] ...at Blind Frog Ranch. 82 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,560 -[Chad] All right, let's get this out of here. -[Eric straining] All right. 83 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,860 -One more pull. Let me get down a bit. -[Chad] Okay. 84 00:03:14,860 --> 00:03:18,360 [narrator] At the South Cave, Chad and Eric are beginning to clear out 85 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,560 the rockfall from the collapse. 86 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,260 Their plan is to stabilize the tunnel with timber. 87 00:03:23,260 --> 00:03:24,900 [Eric] Chad, I'm gonna call out some numbers. 88 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:26,360 For our timbers. 89 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,560 -Twelve. -[Chad] Six-by-six-by-twelve? 90 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:29,560 [Eric straining] Yep. 91 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,400 Sixteen-by-six-by-six. 92 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,260 And then 48, 93 00:03:33,260 --> 00:03:35,360 that's going to be a four-by-four. 94 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,000 So now, the fun part begins. 95 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,100 [mechanical whirring] 96 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:42,360 [electrical saw whirring] 97 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,100 -[electric saw buzzes] -[Eric] Okay. 98 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:47,760 [narrator] Mining timber supports have been used for centuries. 99 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,100 And entire forests were cleared in the American West 100 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:53,900 to support the growing mining industry. 101 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:58,860 Chad and Eric's timber support frame will consist of vertical timber posts, 102 00:03:58,860 --> 00:04:01,400 connected by a horizontal cap beam. 103 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,730 The frame will then be covered on the top and sides with lagging beams. 104 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:08,760 [Chad] Let's move these into the fracture site. 105 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,160 -[timber clatters] -[grunts softly] 106 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:11,660 [Eric straining] Here we go. [grunts] 107 00:04:11,660 --> 00:04:12,960 [timber clatters] 108 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:14,360 [Chad] This is just brutal, man. 109 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,400 This tunnel is so narrow. 110 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,500 Everything has to move one piece at a time. 111 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:21,300 It's like building IKEA furniture in a closet. 112 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:22,860 -[timber moving] -[Eric strains] 113 00:04:22,860 --> 00:04:25,800 We do the furthest-back timber set first. 114 00:04:26,660 --> 00:04:27,760 [Chad strains] 115 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,600 [narrator] Using timber supports has advantages. 116 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,360 -[drilling] -Wood can be cut to size 117 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,800 and can support over 1,200 pounds per square inch. 118 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,260 It's easier to acquire than steel supports. 119 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:40,200 [drilling] 120 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,560 And the sound of a cracking wood beam... 121 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:43,560 [wood beams cracking] 122 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,500 ...could warn them of an impending collapse. 123 00:04:46,660 --> 00:04:47,730 [Eric grunts] 124 00:04:47,730 --> 00:04:49,900 The design of these supports isn't complicated, 125 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:51,560 but we do have to be precise. 126 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,660 Because if we're off just by a hair, 127 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:56,160 it could collapse, and the results could be deadly. 128 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,230 [drilling] 129 00:04:59,060 --> 00:05:02,760 [drilling continues] 130 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,560 -[Eric] All right, we're stable. -Okay. 131 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:05,360 [Eric] Now, we'll put in-- 132 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:06,900 -Okay. -...the 2-by-12s on the top. 133 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:08,900 -[Chad] All right. -Yeah. 134 00:05:11,060 --> 00:05:12,660 [Eric] That's looking pretty solid. 135 00:05:12,660 --> 00:05:14,900 I feel safer under here already, Chad. 136 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,530 [radio static] 137 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:30,860 -[engine whirring distantly] -[Duane] What do you think, Josh? 138 00:05:30,860 --> 00:05:32,100 [Josh] Beautiful. 139 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:34,030 What a place you got here, Duane. 140 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:35,860 It reminds me of home. 141 00:05:35,860 --> 00:05:37,700 [Duane] It ain't bad. 142 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:40,560 We have two areas we're exploring to see if it'll lead us 143 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,400 into the Keyhole Chamber. 144 00:05:42,860 --> 00:05:44,330 [Chad] It's Josh, huh? 145 00:05:44,330 --> 00:05:47,160 [Duane] Y ou know, that's more projects than we've ever done before, 146 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,260 so we're going to get professional help. 147 00:05:49,260 --> 00:05:52,500 So, I'm bringing in an expert to help us decide 148 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:55,100 which one needs to be prioritized, 149 00:05:55,100 --> 00:05:58,500 and figure out where the area is most likely to pay off. 150 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:00,660 Come on up here, Josh. 151 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:03,060 -Fellas, this is Josh. -[Chad] Welcome. 152 00:06:03,060 --> 00:06:04,460 -[Josh] How's it going? -[James] How you doing? 153 00:06:04,460 --> 00:06:05,760 -[Josh] Josh. -James. 154 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:06,800 -Pleasure to meet you, sir. -Yeah. 155 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:07,900 -Charlie. -Charlie? 156 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:08,900 -Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you. 157 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:10,560 -Josh, Chad. Good to meet you, brother. -Chad? 158 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:11,730 -Nice to meet you. -[Chad] Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. 159 00:06:11,730 --> 00:06:13,660 -I know this old cowboy right here. -[Eric] Yeah, yeah. 160 00:06:13,660 --> 00:06:15,860 -Good to see you again, Eric. -Good to see you again. Yeah. 161 00:06:15,860 --> 00:06:18,160 [Josh] Duane's been telling me you guys have been doing a lot of work, 162 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,160 and he thinks maybe I can lend a hand. 163 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,330 Well, it's good to have you. 164 00:06:21,330 --> 00:06:24,100 [Duane] You know, Josh, he's got a hell of a background 165 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:25,600 in mining and treasure hunting. 166 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:27,300 [Josh] Yeah. I hope some of my experience can help 167 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:28,660 the project here. 168 00:06:28,660 --> 00:06:31,760 I'm Josh Feldman. I'm a gold miner from Arizona. 169 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,860 -[rocks tumbling] -[yelling] Rocks! 170 00:06:33,860 --> 00:06:35,860 I've been treasure hunting since I was a little kid with my dad. 171 00:06:35,860 --> 00:06:37,260 [man] Here I go! 172 00:06:37,260 --> 00:06:39,260 [Josh] I've been all over the American Southwest... 173 00:06:39,260 --> 00:06:40,360 That's a good one. 174 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,800 ...searching hundreds of different treasure stories. 175 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,000 We've had some success. 176 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,260 There's been a few that we've discovered at the site. 177 00:06:47,260 --> 00:06:50,100 He and his family has found the Lost Dutchman's Mine. 178 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:51,400 [Chad] Damn. Really? 179 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,200 That's a big find, man. 180 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,100 [narrator] Josh and his family have discovered what they believe to be 181 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:58,860 the remains of the Lost Dutchman Mine, 182 00:06:58,860 --> 00:07:02,360 hidden away for years in Arizona's Superstition Mountains. 183 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,100 It's believed to contain millions of dollars' worth 184 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:07,860 of gold bullion, left there by its last owner, 185 00:07:07,860 --> 00:07:11,300 a German prospector nicknamed "The Dutchman." 186 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:12,760 After "The Dutchman's" death, 187 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:15,500 the mine's location was lost to time, 188 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:17,660 until Josh and his family's years 189 00:07:17,660 --> 00:07:22,260 of historical research and geological surveys revealed its secrets. 190 00:07:22,260 --> 00:07:25,400 Duane believes that Josh's experience with that discovery 191 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,000 could be the key to helping the team find the Aztec treasure. 192 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,800 [Josh] What happened at the Superstitions, 193 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,400 is it took us boots on the ground. 194 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,560 -[Chad] Yeah. Okay. -And reading the ground itself and understanding the geology, 195 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,860 understanding the people that were there before us, 196 00:07:37,860 --> 00:07:39,760 their history, their motivations, 197 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,660 and listening to their old stories. 198 00:07:41,660 --> 00:07:43,260 Legends are not created out of thin air. 199 00:07:43,260 --> 00:07:45,100 They're not just a story around a campfire. 200 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:48,500 Something happened that motivated that story. 201 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:49,860 My dad searched for it 202 00:07:49,860 --> 00:07:52,000 -for well over 50 years. -[Chad] Wow. 203 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,300 The last 20 years of that, I was with him side by side, 204 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:56,660 that's where I cut my teeth. 205 00:07:56,660 --> 00:07:59,200 It's really my dad's life work. 206 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,400 I was with him finishing his unfinished business. 207 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,560 I see Duane and his son, Chad, 208 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,360 and it reminds me of my father 209 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,760 and all the treasure hunting that we did together. 210 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,260 So, if I can help them out, I'm all for it. 211 00:08:13,260 --> 00:08:14,700 Well, we can talk all day out here. 212 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:17,660 Let's go inside and we'll catch you up on what we want. 213 00:08:17,660 --> 00:08:20,060 -[Chad] Let's get done. Let's do it. -[Josh] Man, sounds good. 214 00:08:20,060 --> 00:08:22,460 [Chad] We've always brought out various experts to the ranch. 215 00:08:22,460 --> 00:08:25,660 But recently, my dad's had some health complications. 216 00:08:25,660 --> 00:08:27,630 And let's face it, he's not getting any younger. 217 00:08:28,260 --> 00:08:29,400 [Duane] Hell, yeah. 218 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,260 Here we go, fellas. 219 00:08:31,260 --> 00:08:32,560 [Chad] So, he's bringing in Josh 220 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:34,830 to try to help expedite this treasure hunt. 221 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,400 So, I'm just going to lay it all out here. 222 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,700 We're looking for Montezuma's lost gold. 223 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:41,760 That's why you're here, brother. That's why we brought you in. 224 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,060 I've followed that story. I mean, it's... [chuckles] 225 00:08:44,060 --> 00:08:46,860 the oldest treasure story in the Southwest. 226 00:08:46,860 --> 00:08:50,060 We are sitting on, what I believe is, 227 00:08:50,060 --> 00:08:55,660 not just Montezuma's treasure, but their homeland. 228 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:57,160 That's the legend. 229 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,960 The story is, is that a lot of their great wealth 230 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:01,800 went north back to their origin. 231 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,760 You're speaking our language right now. 232 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,660 Here's a copy of a Spanish map I brought back from Mexico. 233 00:09:08,660 --> 00:09:11,460 It translates, "Fom the shores of this lake, 234 00:09:11,460 --> 00:09:14,460 the Aztecs left to found their empire." 235 00:09:14,460 --> 00:09:17,160 We are looking at this area. 236 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,500 This is Winter Mountains, right here. 237 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:21,530 This is Blind Frog Ranch. 238 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:23,400 Right here. 239 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,760 [narrator] The map that James brought back indicates 240 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,300 that the ancient homeland of the Aztec people, 241 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:32,160 before they established their empire in Mexico, 242 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,200 was located in Utah. 243 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:35,660 [James] I honestly believe 244 00:09:35,660 --> 00:09:38,760 that they brought the treasure back to their origin site 245 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,000 and added it to additional artifacts that were here. 246 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,160 The Aztec knew about it, 247 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,000 and they brought treasure back 248 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,000 to a location that they were familiar with, 249 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,360 and that had been used for thousands of years by the indigenous people. 250 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,460 [narrator] For centuries, it has been a mystery 251 00:09:54,460 --> 00:09:57,400 why the Aztecs might have fled north to Utah 252 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,260 after the Spanish invaded their empire in 1519. 253 00:10:01,260 --> 00:10:04,160 James believes he might now know why. 254 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:08,200 They were returning to their land of origin, Chicomoztoc, 255 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,300 which some scholars suggest is in Utah. 256 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:15,460 [James] So, this map shows Chicomoztoc, 257 00:10:15,460 --> 00:10:18,860 which is the legendary homeland of the Aztecs. 258 00:10:18,860 --> 00:10:22,030 It translates roughly into the seven caves. 259 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,800 Here's the thing. According to local Mormon stories, 260 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:30,500 there are seven caves leading into the Lost Rhoades Mine, right around this area. 261 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:32,330 We think they're the same thing. 262 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:33,960 [Chad] And here's another thing. 263 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,000 We had quantum imaging come out here last year. 264 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,560 And they found this keyhole-shaped chamber underneath the ranch, 265 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:42,700 and it stretches for, like, a quarter of a mile. 266 00:10:43,260 --> 00:10:44,700 Look at this. 267 00:10:45,660 --> 00:10:47,600 Keyhole Cave from last year. 268 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,230 Seven caves, Chicomoztoc. 269 00:10:51,660 --> 00:10:53,330 It matches up. 270 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:58,500 [Chad] So, this keyhole could be the home of the Aztecs. 271 00:10:58,500 --> 00:10:59,960 I mean, we're right on top of it. 272 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:01,560 I bet you anything we're going to end up 273 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:05,900 finding something very similar to these seven caves. 274 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:08,000 These maps are awesome. 275 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,560 I take this very seriously. 276 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:11,860 And it looks like you're on the right track. 277 00:11:11,860 --> 00:11:14,600 We need as much detail as we possibly can. 278 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:16,060 [James] Somewhere on this ranch, 279 00:11:16,060 --> 00:11:17,800 there's an entrance to that cavern. 280 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,260 We just can't quite find the way in. 281 00:11:20,260 --> 00:11:22,300 I can help with that, for sure. 282 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,200 These maps are pretty impressive. I got to admit, 283 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:27,700 that's really something. 284 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:30,160 James has done a lot of work to connect the dots here, 285 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,560 and it's definitely worth investigating. 286 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:33,760 We have a lead. 287 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,900 There's a breadcrumb right here, 288 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:39,600 and I want to find the next breadcrumb, and the next breadcrumb. 289 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,900 And maybe it does lead to some something great. 290 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:44,260 You guys have already done a ton of work here, 291 00:11:44,260 --> 00:11:47,400 and I am really excited to learn everything 292 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:48,760 that you've done in great detail. 293 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,200 Everybody's bringing something to the table. 294 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,900 We need to go out there. Because I guarantee you, 295 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:56,400 with this team, we're gonna figure this son of a bitch out. 296 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:57,860 [Chad] Hell, yeah. 297 00:11:57,860 --> 00:11:59,300 I need to see these sites. 298 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,100 Let's look at the ground 299 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:04,900 at the hard evidence. Let's look at the research. 300 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:06,400 That's how I can help them find 301 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,200 the entrance to this Keyhole Chamber. 302 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,860 [Duane] What do you think, Josh? 303 00:12:17,860 --> 00:12:19,360 [Josh] I want you to show me everything 304 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:20,860 that is important to you on this property. 305 00:12:20,860 --> 00:12:23,100 And then, my plan is to come up with a plan. 306 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:25,000 [Duane] All right, let's do it. 307 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,760 [narrator] Duane has brought professional miner 308 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,760 and treasure hunter, Josh Feldman, to the ranch, 309 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,600 to seek his advice for their two best leads to gain entry 310 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:35,000 into the Keyhole Chamber, 311 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,030 the South Cave, and the Bead Site. 312 00:12:40,900 --> 00:12:41,930 [Duane] You know, Josh, right here, 313 00:12:41,930 --> 00:12:44,730 this is the Bead Site that we're talking about. 314 00:12:45,460 --> 00:12:47,430 [Josh] Wow. It's impressive. 315 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:49,760 [Duane] Our hope is that 316 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,060 -this ties into a cave system. -[Josh] Gotcha. 317 00:12:53,060 --> 00:12:56,260 And this was all dug out with the trackhoe, I assume? 318 00:12:56,260 --> 00:12:58,460 [Duane] We thought this was a pretty good target. 319 00:12:58,460 --> 00:12:59,760 We dug this deal out. 320 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,300 And the deeper we got, the more we found. 321 00:13:02,300 --> 00:13:05,900 -What have you found here so far? -Lots of the beads. 322 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:09,200 [Duane] Trading beads, you know, 15th, 16th century. 323 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,260 [James] We have found bone masks. 324 00:13:11,260 --> 00:13:13,360 And metate. 325 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,860 So, it sounds like all Native Americans so far. 326 00:13:15,860 --> 00:13:17,700 -So far. -[Josh] And right now, you're trying to see 327 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:20,360 if there was any Aztecan influences going on here? 328 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,300 -[James] Correct. Absolutely. -Okay. 329 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:24,860 [James] This is the Shelter Area. 330 00:13:24,860 --> 00:13:27,560 There was a lot of soot, a lot of charcoal remains-- 331 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:30,560 -[Josh] Sure. -...while we were digging with the bones, 332 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:33,500 -that looked like they'd been cooked. -[Josh] Interesting. 333 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:35,130 The beads are everywhere. 334 00:13:35,130 --> 00:13:37,300 It's impressive how many beads are on the ground here. 335 00:13:39,700 --> 00:13:41,730 Wow, there's just hundreds of them. 336 00:13:44,460 --> 00:13:46,100 -There's red, white-- -[James] Yeah. 337 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:47,330 ...blue. 338 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,460 These are definitely trade beads. 339 00:13:49,460 --> 00:13:51,130 There's no question about it. 340 00:13:55,660 --> 00:13:58,030 This is some fine-grained material, isn't it? 341 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:00,500 It's covered up so much. 342 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:01,960 [James strains] 343 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:03,030 [grunts softly] 344 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:05,500 [Josh] Here you go. Right here. 345 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,400 There's a bottom of an arrowhead right there. 346 00:14:11,860 --> 00:14:13,900 We've been here for no more than an hour, 347 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:15,900 and we're pulling out all kinds of stuff. 348 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,100 It's a pestle, a mano, 349 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:20,500 for the metate. 350 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:22,460 They can grind their food down. 351 00:14:22,460 --> 00:14:24,730 Stuff that I can't fully explain. 352 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:28,600 This is interesting. 353 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:30,730 You see this here? 354 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:33,600 That's dinosaur bone. 355 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,500 -[James] Petrified? -[sighs] Yeah, for sure. 356 00:14:37,460 --> 00:14:39,160 This formation we're standing under, 357 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,000 it's late Triassic, early Jurassic. 358 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,960 So, this bone would be from, like, 170 million years ago. 359 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,800 This is from a Therapod dinosaur, from that era. 360 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:52,100 I've never been to a Native American site 361 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:54,760 -and ever found a dinosaur bone. -Really? 362 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,200 -[Josh] Yeah, that's incredible. -[chuckles] 363 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,760 Somebody was bringing in these fossils. 364 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,800 The only other explanation is there's actually a dinosaur fossil here, 365 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,760 and those are things that we need to keep in mind. 366 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:06,860 [Duane] In the last ten minutes, 367 00:15:06,860 --> 00:15:10,800 Josh, looking around, he's found a dinosaur bone. 368 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:11,830 We've been out here 369 00:15:11,830 --> 00:15:15,660 for 14 years and we've never even had a clue... 370 00:15:15,660 --> 00:15:18,860 about a dinosaur bone or anything like that. So, 371 00:15:18,860 --> 00:15:21,300 you know, it's just amazing what that kid knows. 372 00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:22,930 [Charlie] Hey, Josh. 373 00:15:22,930 --> 00:15:24,900 -Yeah? -[Charlie] This appears to be a timber. 374 00:15:24,900 --> 00:15:28,860 It's like it's been worked on that end. 375 00:15:28,860 --> 00:15:31,600 -You see that? -[James] I sure do. That is interesting. 376 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,860 Why is this site so important, 377 00:15:33,860 --> 00:15:37,060 and has been so important to so many people through the years? 378 00:15:37,060 --> 00:15:38,660 You see this straight cut here? 379 00:15:38,660 --> 00:15:42,800 This is probably getting into the 19th century. 380 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:48,060 It's showing us that people were interested in this site for centuries. 381 00:15:48,060 --> 00:15:49,760 And my Spidey senses are tingling. 382 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:51,730 There is something to find here. 383 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:54,700 Very interesting. 384 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,630 [Charlie] Let me show you the smoke vents. 385 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:04,360 [Josh] Okay. 386 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,160 [Charlie] But we've got... what looks like 387 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,130 little chimneys coming out of there, little vent pipes. 388 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:12,860 You've got one that goes... 389 00:16:12,860 --> 00:16:15,560 right in there, where you see all that black right above it. 390 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,000 -[Josh] I sure do. -All right. The hole's right below it. 391 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,100 -Right here? -[Charlie] Yeah. 392 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:20,000 Okay. 393 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,760 This right wall right here is blackened, 394 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,300 almost like you'd see on a chimney. 395 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:26,360 -It's, uh, like soot. -[Josh] Hmm. 396 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,100 We're just wondering if... If all this doesn't have something 397 00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:32,160 to do with the fire that's way down below the earth. 398 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:33,230 And if there was a fire, 399 00:16:33,230 --> 00:16:36,000 does that mean that people were living down there? 400 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:36,800 [Josh] That's interesting. 401 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:38,460 We had Dr. Bob Morton come on out, 402 00:16:38,460 --> 00:16:41,260 and he actually was able to analyze that soot. 403 00:16:41,260 --> 00:16:44,500 And he confirmed that it was from campfire smoke. 404 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:46,230 Something's going on. 405 00:16:46,230 --> 00:16:49,260 -We want to get to the bottom of this deal. -[Josh] Understood. 406 00:16:49,260 --> 00:16:51,560 Duane has all kinds of questions, 407 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,260 some of the questions I don't fully understand yet. 408 00:16:54,260 --> 00:16:56,000 We're in the middle of nowhere. 409 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,560 And yet, here's this little spot 410 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,560 on this rock, 411 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:01,860 and all these people have come here, 412 00:17:01,860 --> 00:17:04,660 and all of their stuff has been left behind. 413 00:17:04,660 --> 00:17:07,500 That's interesting to me. The answers to those questions, 414 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:08,860 if they're going to be found anywhere, 415 00:17:08,860 --> 00:17:11,200 they're going to be found right here at this site. 416 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,000 One thing I notice here, 417 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,800 we're at much higher elevation here 418 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,430 than we are down there at the Shelter Area. 419 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:19,660 I think it would help if we were able 420 00:17:19,660 --> 00:17:22,160 to move all of this dirt back. 421 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:23,360 Once we open it up, 422 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:25,860 and we get our eyes on the entirety of it, 423 00:17:25,860 --> 00:17:28,500 then we can start answering some of these mysteries here, 424 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:30,300 because this dirt's in our way. 425 00:17:30,300 --> 00:17:33,060 You know, Josh, I agree with you. If it gets us down 426 00:17:33,060 --> 00:17:35,860 to where the cavern is, that's all well worth it. 427 00:17:35,860 --> 00:17:37,000 Totally agree. 428 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,500 [Duane] Josh, Let me take you over to the South Cave. 429 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:40,800 [Josh] Let's go. 430 00:17:53,660 --> 00:17:56,330 [Duane] Josh, this is our South Cave right here. 431 00:17:58,300 --> 00:17:59,360 [Chad] Yeah. 432 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:01,700 -Entrance is just right over there. -[Josh] Okay. 433 00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:03,200 It's at least a couple hundred feet. 434 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,560 -[Josh] Wow, it's a long ways in there. -Yeah. 435 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,230 [Chad] We think that this could lead us to the Keyhole Chamber... 436 00:18:08,900 --> 00:18:10,800 if we could find a connecting tunnel. 437 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,100 Okay. 438 00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:13,560 -Let's take a look. -Sweet. 439 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:14,600 Make yourself at home in there. 440 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,300 I'm too big for that damn cave. 441 00:18:16,300 --> 00:18:17,760 [Josh] Yeah, that's a bunch of bull-[bleep]. 442 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:19,100 -[Chad laughs] -[Eric laughs] 443 00:18:19,100 --> 00:18:20,030 -[Josh] Let's do it. -[Chad] All right. 444 00:18:20,030 --> 00:18:21,860 -[Josh] All right. -Let's go check it out. 445 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,700 [narrator] The cave mouth sits 1,000 feet south of the Keyhole Chamber, 446 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:30,900 in the side of a rock formation. 447 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:33,560 Chad and the team believe there is a hidden tunnel 448 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,300 that connects the two cave systems. 449 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:37,800 [grunts softly] 450 00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:39,400 [pants] 451 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:43,560 Yep. Here's the cave right here. 452 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,600 -[Josh] This is the entrance? -Yep. Right in there. 453 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:46,700 -This is it. -[Josh] Man, 454 00:18:46,700 --> 00:18:49,560 -that's a coyote hole right there. -Yeah. Exactly. 455 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:50,800 It's tight, too. 456 00:18:52,260 --> 00:18:54,260 Are you claustrophobic at all? 457 00:18:54,260 --> 00:18:55,560 [Josh] I'm a gold miner, Chad. 458 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:56,860 It's kind of tough to be a gold miner 459 00:18:56,860 --> 00:18:58,500 -and be claustrophobic. -[laughs] 460 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:01,600 All right. Here we go. Are you ready, brother? 461 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:02,800 -[Josh] I'm ready. -All right. 462 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:04,460 There is no room-- 463 00:19:04,460 --> 00:19:05,660 -[Chad] No. -...in there whatsoever. 464 00:19:05,660 --> 00:19:07,000 [Chad] No, it's tight, man. 465 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,300 It gets worse. 466 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:10,860 -That's fantastic news. -[laughs] 467 00:19:10,860 --> 00:19:12,130 You'll like it. 468 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:20,730 [grunts] 469 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,060 [grunts] 470 00:19:23,060 --> 00:19:24,400 [breathing heavily] 471 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:28,160 [Eric] How's that shoring looking? 472 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:29,830 [radio static] 473 00:19:31,460 --> 00:19:34,230 [Chad] The shoring is still solid. It's holding up really well. 474 00:19:34,460 --> 00:19:35,600 Copy that. 475 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:38,600 [Josh] Oh, my God. 476 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:42,060 This is not safe in here, Chad, I'll tell ya. 477 00:19:42,060 --> 00:19:43,560 You don't think so? 478 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:45,000 [Josh] No, it's pretty sketchy. 479 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,960 [grunts softly] 480 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,060 [Chad] Some of these spots you've got to get kind of sideways... 481 00:19:50,060 --> 00:19:52,330 -[straining] to get through. -[Josh] Yeah, I got you. 482 00:19:53,660 --> 00:19:54,900 [grunts in effort] 483 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:58,000 [strains] 484 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:00,160 [pants] 485 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,200 -[whispering] Okay. -[Josh grunts] 486 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,960 Got it. Nice job. 487 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,060 [Josh] Your head is tight going through there, Chad. 488 00:20:06,060 --> 00:20:08,860 It's, like, what is... It must be what it was like being born. 489 00:20:08,860 --> 00:20:11,160 [Chad chuckling] 490 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,860 [Josh] I'm seeing some quartz veins coming through here. 491 00:20:13,860 --> 00:20:16,260 Quartz veins, that's where you find gold. 492 00:20:16,260 --> 00:20:18,460 This isn't usually the type of rock you find gold in, 493 00:20:18,460 --> 00:20:20,360 but with these quartz veins, 494 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,160 that's something weird. 495 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,000 [Chad] Right. 496 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,960 All right. Right up here is where the fork is. 497 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,100 You can see there's been, like, rocks stacked in there, 498 00:20:28,100 --> 00:20:29,430 or, like, it's been collapsed. 499 00:20:29,430 --> 00:20:32,160 -[Josh] I see that, yeah. -But that's where we put the endoscope. 500 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,160 And we saw something, like, a shadow or whatever moving in there. 501 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,160 [Josh] Man, I don't think the animal got in from here. 502 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:38,660 -There's no way he made it through this. -[Chad] No. No, no. 503 00:20:38,660 --> 00:20:40,460 Especially this... It looked big. 504 00:20:40,460 --> 00:20:41,960 It was, like, a big shadow, too. 505 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:43,760 [Josh] There's got to be another opening somewhere then, 506 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,160 -if there was an animal in there. -Has to be. Exactly. 507 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,300 And I think if we were to get all the way in there, 508 00:20:47,300 --> 00:20:49,460 we could figure out where this opening is. 509 00:20:49,460 --> 00:20:52,800 [Josh] Whoa. I swore I just saw something move. 510 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,460 -[Chad] Really? -Yeah. 511 00:20:54,460 --> 00:20:56,800 Right there, about 12 feet in to the right. 512 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:03,030 -[water drips] -[Chad] Do you hear that? 513 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:09,900 Right... Hey, hey. Do you hear that? 514 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:11,700 [water drips] 515 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,300 [echoing drip] 516 00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:28,630 -[water drips] -[echoing drip] 517 00:21:30,260 --> 00:21:31,460 Do you hear that? 518 00:21:31,460 --> 00:21:33,160 -[water dripping] -[water dripping echoing] 519 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:34,560 [water drips] 520 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,100 -[echoing drip] -[Josh] Yeah, there's an echo. 521 00:21:38,260 --> 00:21:39,660 [Chad] That's loud. 522 00:21:39,660 --> 00:21:41,700 [Josh] You can just tell by the way the water is dripping and hitting, 523 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:43,000 there's a bigger void back there. 524 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,160 [water drips] 525 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,900 If that was just a tiny little opening, 526 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:47,460 -you wouldn't hear any noise. -[Chad] It's true. 527 00:21:47,460 --> 00:21:49,100 -Yeah. -You saw an animal back there, 528 00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:50,200 -a large animal? -Yeah. Uh-huh. 529 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,660 -I'm hearing echoing coming from the back. -Right. 530 00:21:52,660 --> 00:21:55,560 [Josh] I... I think for sure there's a larger opening back there. 531 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,800 [Chad] Exactly. 532 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,660 You think we could, like, bring a jackhammer and clean some of this [bleep] out? 533 00:22:00,660 --> 00:22:02,500 Or is it too risky? 534 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:05,560 [Josh] Yeah. I mean, you're gonna need a jackhammer to move some of this material. 535 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,100 -[Chad] Right. -But you got to be careful, 536 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:09,160 because you could destabilize this area. 537 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,660 You start moving rock, and this gets destabilized... 538 00:22:12,660 --> 00:22:15,260 Man, it could be dangerous. 539 00:22:15,260 --> 00:22:18,460 When you excavate a gold mine, it's a slow process. 540 00:22:18,460 --> 00:22:19,860 Because safety is first. 541 00:22:19,860 --> 00:22:22,360 So, we can totally dig the side tunnel out. 542 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:24,560 But we're gonna have to do it inch by inch, 543 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,600 one set of timbers after another. 544 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,660 -Look at all this stuff, all this rubble in here. -[Chad] Right. 545 00:22:29,660 --> 00:22:32,000 This is actually giving stabilization to the wall. 546 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,500 -[Chad] Gotcha. -So, it's literally a rock and a hard place. 547 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:37,100 -[Chad] Yeah. -We'll need to shore every foot of this up. 548 00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:38,460 [Chad] All right, let's go to the cavern 549 00:22:38,460 --> 00:22:40,130 -where it opens up. -[Josh] Okay, cool. 550 00:22:49,460 --> 00:22:51,000 [rocks clatter] 551 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,300 -Whoa! -[Chad] Watch your step, man. 552 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:54,100 There's ice all over the place. 553 00:22:54,100 --> 00:22:55,560 Some of it is sharp. 554 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,100 You don't wanna step on it. 555 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,860 [Josh] ...Look at the size of this room! 556 00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:02,460 -This is massive, Chad. -[Chad] So, back here, 557 00:23:02,460 --> 00:23:06,030 that's where those big, hand-hewn logs are. 558 00:23:07,660 --> 00:23:08,900 [Josh] Yeah, right through here. 559 00:23:10,860 --> 00:23:13,430 [Chad] These are those hewn logs that I was talking about. 560 00:23:13,860 --> 00:23:15,430 [Josh] Look at these things. 561 00:23:16,460 --> 00:23:17,860 These definitely did not get in here 562 00:23:17,860 --> 00:23:20,260 -through the way we just came. -There's no way. 563 00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:22,260 -[Josh] All those twists and turns. -Right. 564 00:23:22,260 --> 00:23:24,160 [Josh] Looks like they've been in here a long time. 565 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,060 [Chad] Yeah. 566 00:23:25,060 --> 00:23:25,960 [Josh] Look at that. 567 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,860 Boy, they did a lot of work on this one. 568 00:23:28,860 --> 00:23:30,100 -That's been axed. -[Chad] Axed? 569 00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:31,560 [Josh] Yep. [pants] 570 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:32,860 This timber has been hand-worked, 571 00:23:32,860 --> 00:23:35,560 but I have no idea how they got in here. 572 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,300 [Chad] My only thought that where they could have came from, 573 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:40,100 is there is a spot back over here, 574 00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:44,560 that sounds like the floor is hollow. [grunts in effort] 575 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,660 -[knocking on floor] -[hollow thudding] 576 00:23:46,660 --> 00:23:49,100 I mean, you hear that? It's like there's a void 577 00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:50,360 underneath the floor there. 578 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:52,100 There's definitely a hollow back there. 579 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:53,330 -[Chad] Yeah. -For sure. 580 00:23:53,330 --> 00:23:56,360 You don't drag timbers in this size just for the heck of it. 581 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:59,660 Whoever was here had a major operation going on. 582 00:23:59,660 --> 00:24:02,400 -Huh. -I mean, this almost looks like the portal to me, 583 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,860 -like on a mine. -Uh-huh. 584 00:24:03,860 --> 00:24:05,260 The portal of a mine, you're gonna have 585 00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:08,100 a bunch of timbering holding the opening. 586 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:10,160 So, this was your header right here. 587 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,360 It would have been holding the ceiling. 588 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:13,330 And then all of this, 589 00:24:13,330 --> 00:24:15,860 these would have been upright over this way. 590 00:24:15,860 --> 00:24:18,130 And then over time, they collapsed. 591 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:19,660 Uh-huh. 592 00:24:19,660 --> 00:24:23,100 What do you think about inside, like the structural stability? 593 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:25,160 [Josh] This stuff is caved in right here. 594 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:26,700 -That's a lot of material-- -Yeah. 595 00:24:26,700 --> 00:24:28,460 -...to hold a lot of ground. -Right. 596 00:24:28,460 --> 00:24:30,800 That tells me that it's maybe sketchy back there. 597 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,360 But the thing is, is... 598 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:34,360 -that's where we gotta go. -Yep, 599 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:35,960 that's where the answers will be. 600 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,660 This takes a lot of manpower 601 00:24:37,660 --> 00:24:39,900 -to bring in this type of timbering. -Right. 602 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:43,000 So, what they were doing meant something to them. 603 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,560 So, they could have mined here, 604 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,160 and then used this as a... site too, huh? 605 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,400 I'm not sure yet. And if we can move all of this stuff out 606 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,460 and get through this rubble, it's gotta open up. 607 00:24:53,460 --> 00:24:55,730 And then, maybe see what they were actually after. 608 00:24:56,660 --> 00:24:58,600 -[radio static] -[Chad] Hey, Eric, you copy? 609 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,400 [radio static] 610 00:25:01,260 --> 00:25:03,130 [Chad] Hey, we're heading back out, man. 611 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:05,700 [grunts in effort] 612 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,160 [strains, pants] 613 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,060 [Chad exhales sharply, breathily] Oh, thank you. 614 00:25:11,060 --> 00:25:13,560 [pants, straining] Ooh. 615 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,260 That's not that safe underneath there. 616 00:25:15,260 --> 00:25:17,800 -[bleep]. -[Josh] I mean, there's a lot of fracturing. 617 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,760 There's a lot of stuff being held by imagination. 618 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,660 -One rock comes down, that's it. -Yeah. 619 00:25:22,660 --> 00:25:23,700 You're dead. 620 00:25:24,860 --> 00:25:26,100 Chad's right. 621 00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:28,260 The South Cave is drifting down towards the Keyhole Chamber. 622 00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:30,760 But as a miner, I'm seeing rockfall, 623 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,600 back defaults, smashed-up shoring 624 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,760 from centuries ago. 625 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,760 We're going to have to be extra cautious as we excavate it here. 626 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,200 [Duane] Let's go, fellas. 627 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,500 [wind howling gently] 628 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:48,960 -[Duane] Gentlemen. -[Chad] Hey. 629 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:49,830 -[Eric] Hey. -[James] Guys. 630 00:25:49,830 --> 00:25:51,260 -[Josh] Hello! -[Charlie, softly] Hey. 631 00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:52,060 [straining] Hey. 632 00:25:52,060 --> 00:25:54,200 Well, Josh just saw the property. 633 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,300 So, let's see what he's got to say here. 634 00:25:57,300 --> 00:25:59,100 [Josh] Duane asked me to put a plan together. 635 00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:01,100 So, I wanted to lay out my perspective 636 00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:04,060 of what I think should be done. 637 00:26:04,060 --> 00:26:07,400 I mean, the thing that really stands out to me is that Bead Site. 638 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:09,660 This is an important place. 639 00:26:09,660 --> 00:26:12,660 We should really focus in on investigating that. 640 00:26:12,660 --> 00:26:15,260 So, Duane, Charlie, I think we need to excavate 641 00:26:15,260 --> 00:26:17,160 underneath those smoke chimneys, 642 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,200 and determine what it actually is. 643 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,860 All the sand that's blown in here 644 00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:23,160 is hiding so much. 645 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,000 Pull all of that overburden and topsoil off 646 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,100 and expose what's underneath those chimneys. 647 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:31,060 There could be an entrance sitting right there. 648 00:26:31,060 --> 00:26:33,100 -[Charlie] Right. -I like it. 649 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:34,460 [Josh] And then the other side of that Bead Site, 650 00:26:34,460 --> 00:26:38,800 James, you and I, we need to excavate that by hand, layer by layer. 651 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,660 -Sure. -Pulling out artifacts, 652 00:26:40,660 --> 00:26:43,260 and recording everything we find to figure out who those people were, 653 00:26:43,260 --> 00:26:44,660 and what was really going on there. 654 00:26:44,660 --> 00:26:46,160 Learn as much as we possibly can. 655 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,000 -Find that virgin layer. -[Eric] Yeah, 656 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,260 might give you a clue to where that entrance is. 657 00:26:50,260 --> 00:26:53,860 -Exactly. -[Josh] Chad, you and Eric should continue, 658 00:26:53,860 --> 00:26:55,900 -absolutely, at that South Cave-- -[Eric] Yep. 659 00:26:55,900 --> 00:26:58,160 ...looking for some other entrances. 660 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,700 -I mean, you guys are already underground. -[Chad] Mmm-hmm. 661 00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:02,860 [Josh] We can't visually see where the tunnel is. 662 00:27:02,860 --> 00:27:06,360 So, let's get a magnetometer in there and see if we can find a void. 663 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:07,160 [Chad] Yeah, I like it. 664 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,400 More technology, magnetometers and-- 665 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,460 -[Eric] Yeah. -...metal detectors. 666 00:27:10,460 --> 00:27:12,000 But we've got to do it safely. 667 00:27:12,460 --> 00:27:15,100 Absolutely. Be super cautious. 668 00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:17,560 I think both sides are great. But if we divide and conquer, 669 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:18,760 we hit the South Cave, 670 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,630 and y'all hit the Bead Site, I think we can get somewhere. 671 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,960 There's many possible entrances in. 672 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,400 -[Chad] Right. -That's got to be the goal. 673 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,460 We're doing three things at the same time. 674 00:27:28,460 --> 00:27:30,760 -There's enough of us to do that. -Mmm. 675 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,100 [Josh] That's what it's going to take, 676 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:35,360 because it's possible that only one of those is gonna get us in. 677 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,130 Right. Yeah, very possible. 678 00:27:38,660 --> 00:27:40,960 [Josh] These guys have been trying to find a way into the Keyhole Chamber 679 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,460 for quite a while now. 680 00:27:42,460 --> 00:27:45,000 But they've got to remember that hidden treasure 681 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,360 is hidden for a reason. 682 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:47,560 I mean, one of the greatest treasures 683 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,460 to have ever been discovered is King Tutankhamun's tomb. 684 00:27:51,460 --> 00:27:56,160 That thing laid there for 3,000 years. Nobody found it. 685 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,760 Hell, it took almost a decade for Howard Carter to get into King Tut's tomb. 686 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,500 So, just because they haven't found an entrance yet, 687 00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:03,200 doesn't mean that there isn't one. 688 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,160 It took tons of research, 689 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,600 and I think we need to keep that in mind. 690 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,260 Divide and conquer, 691 00:28:09,260 --> 00:28:12,660 three different sites, and just go as hard as we can. 692 00:28:12,660 --> 00:28:13,660 [Duane] Hell, man, 693 00:28:13,660 --> 00:28:15,000 we're not getting any younger. 694 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,160 So, we need to light this thing up. 695 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,930 -[Chad] Hell, yeah. -[Eric] Let's get to work. 696 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:25,800 [Chad] All right. Here we are. 697 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,960 [Duane] Mary, this is our Bead Site right here. 698 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,860 [Mary] Have you found old things? 699 00:28:29,860 --> 00:28:32,260 [Duane] Beads and all the artifacts. 700 00:28:32,260 --> 00:28:34,800 [James] We've found a lot of mammal bones. 701 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:35,700 [Mary] Gotcha. 702 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:37,400 [narrator] Before beginning excavation, 703 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:41,260 Josh has invited a local tribal elder out to the bead site. 704 00:28:41,260 --> 00:28:42,300 [Josh] Let's take a look. 705 00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:45,100 There's a lot of questions that we need answered. 706 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:46,100 [Mary] Okay. 707 00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:48,100 We'll walk right in here, Mary. 708 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:49,960 [narrator] ...who might be able to shed some light 709 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:51,860 on the significance of the location, 710 00:28:51,860 --> 00:28:54,600 and the artifacts the team has found. 711 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,960 [Duane] Watch your step on these rocks here. 712 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,560 [Josh] We need to understand the history of who was here at the Bead Site. 713 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,600 That's how we're gonna find the treasure. 714 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,460 Hopefully, she can give us some insight into who was here 715 00:29:04,460 --> 00:29:06,160 and how they used this site. 716 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,160 [Chad] So, here's some of those beads we find, 717 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,000 even some scrapings. 718 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,660 Yeah, I won't touch them because I don't know what they were used for. 719 00:29:14,660 --> 00:29:17,700 When you make something, you pray over it. 720 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:20,100 Like, if I was gonna make something for you, 721 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:22,860 the prayer would be for you. 722 00:29:22,860 --> 00:29:25,360 -Somebody else touching that-- -[Chad] Yeah. 723 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,700 ...diminishes that. 724 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:28,560 -[Chad] Gotcha. -It affects it. 725 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,060 It's a transfer of spirits... 726 00:29:30,060 --> 00:29:31,660 -is what happens. -[Chad] Right. Okay. 727 00:29:31,660 --> 00:29:34,500 -[Mary] Depending on what that was used for... -Right. 728 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:36,830 ...I might not want that spirit on me. 729 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,160 My name is Mary Murdock Meyer, 730 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,460 and I am the chief executive of the Timpanogos Nation. 731 00:29:46,460 --> 00:29:49,900 For our people, I think it's an important thing 732 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:52,200 to share what you know, 733 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,100 because it gives them a voice where they can be heard. 734 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:59,460 Mary, why would there be so many of these beads, the deeper we dig? 735 00:29:59,460 --> 00:30:02,700 [Mary] I would think that they came off something large 736 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:04,100 that disintegrated, 737 00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:06,660 or a lot of things. 738 00:30:06,660 --> 00:30:09,300 -[James] Okay. -What would you use these for? 739 00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:12,000 -Ceremonies, possibly. -[Eric] Ceremonies. Mmm-hmm. 740 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,130 [Mary] Or burial sites. 741 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,160 Whatever this place was, 742 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,760 this has a spiritual meaning. 743 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,560 Otherwise, people wouldn't be leaving offerings. 744 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,560 That kind of explains the beads, 745 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,000 because this site meant something. 746 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,600 People don't leave offerings 747 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,000 unless there's a reason. 748 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,500 That's why I'm saying you guys need to be... careful. 749 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,100 [Josh] Understood. 750 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,400 [Duane] You know, Mary, thanks for coming out here and helping us out. 751 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,630 [Mary] Sure. 752 00:30:49,630 --> 00:30:51,760 [Chad] We have a lot of questions. I hope that's all right. 753 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,200 Well, I just hope I can answer them all. Well... 754 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,800 Where do you want me to start? 755 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,560 We'd like to straighten out the history of the area, 756 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,960 so we have a better understanding of what happened here. 757 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,100 "Timpanogo," it's... Which is who we are, 758 00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:05,600 is an Aztec word. 759 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,200 -It's amazing. -So, there is a connection. 760 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,460 And... Which is why the Shoshone language is called "Aztecan." 761 00:31:13,460 --> 00:31:16,560 So, when Montezuma sent people here 762 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,700 to hide his gold, 763 00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:21,400 Cortes sent his Spaniards after them. 764 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,000 Because they wanted that gold. 765 00:31:23,860 --> 00:31:25,360 [narrator] Some scholars believe 766 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,560 when the Aztecs fled Mexico in 1521 767 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,100 to their ancient homeland in Utah, 768 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:33,060 it is believed the Timpanogos, 769 00:31:33,060 --> 00:31:35,560 who are the indigenous people of these lands, 770 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:40,260 helped the Aztecs protect their treasure in underground caves. 771 00:31:40,260 --> 00:31:43,260 Our people looked at it as something... You can't eat it. 772 00:31:43,260 --> 00:31:45,400 It can't do anything for you. 773 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,260 It's a rock. 774 00:31:47,260 --> 00:31:50,660 If the Aztec brought the treasure back up here, 775 00:31:50,660 --> 00:31:54,460 would Native Americans have closed off those caves 776 00:31:54,460 --> 00:31:57,800 or sunk the known tunnel systems? 777 00:32:00,660 --> 00:32:02,000 They would have done something 778 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,000 to try and protect themselves, 779 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,000 because everybody was after gold. 780 00:32:07,660 --> 00:32:11,100 Shortly after the Spaniards came, 781 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:15,460 they used our people as slaves to try and retrieve it. 782 00:32:15,460 --> 00:32:16,860 Good God. 783 00:32:16,860 --> 00:32:18,600 [narrator] The Spanish Empire was determined 784 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,760 to find Montezuma's treasure, 785 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,900 and dispatched numerous expeditions to Utah to locate it, 786 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:27,260 forcing the Timpanogos to aid them, 787 00:32:27,260 --> 00:32:32,100 slaughtering those who would not cooperate in their quest for the gold. 788 00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:34,160 [Mary] They never did find it. 789 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,000 But so many of our people were killed. 790 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,400 Jesus. 791 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,100 Gold has a spirit with it. 792 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:42,600 It always has. 793 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,600 And that spirit is powerful. 794 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,660 The gold miners of old get gold fever, 795 00:32:48,660 --> 00:32:50,900 and they go crazy over that rock. 796 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:54,160 It causes people to be sucked into it. 797 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,000 And when you mess with that, 798 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,800 it can kill you. 799 00:32:59,260 --> 00:33:01,000 [Eric] Mary, uh, I'm a scientist, 800 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,300 but we've had some experiences out here. 801 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:04,660 [Chad] Um... 802 00:33:04,660 --> 00:33:07,560 I guess, paranormal, strange experiences out here. 803 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:09,500 He's had some difficulties, um, 804 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:10,760 -in the caves, and some-- -[Chad] Yeah. 805 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,460 ...some very close calls. 806 00:33:12,460 --> 00:33:14,960 Chad and I, um, we heard a rumble, 807 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,360 -and we don't know where it came from. -True. 808 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,160 I mean, it was shaking rocks off the ceiling. 809 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,200 But, there's... There's some bearing to what you say, I think. 810 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,460 Mountains could rumble for several reasons. 811 00:33:25,460 --> 00:33:31,860 There's an old legend about a hill that, um, rumbles all the time. 812 00:33:31,860 --> 00:33:35,300 And it's going to rumble until things are fixed... 813 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:36,900 for us. 814 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:38,760 A lot of our people are upset 815 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,160 when they see gold hunters. 816 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,860 The gold hunters back in the day, they would take and hurt you guys. 817 00:33:44,860 --> 00:33:47,600 And that... Well, the only thing we want to do is work with you. 818 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:48,700 [Josh] I'm with Chad. 819 00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:51,600 Finding what has become lost is the key to the truth. 820 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,400 And sometimes, that what you find is gold. 821 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,130 But... it's cursed. 822 00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:01,000 We've always believed that gold is cursed. 823 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,800 And everybody that I know that's gotten around it, 824 00:34:07,460 --> 00:34:09,700 has got sick or died. 825 00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,330 It's not meant to be... 826 00:34:15,660 --> 00:34:16,500 found. 827 00:34:19,700 --> 00:34:23,260 Certain things are to be left alone. 828 00:34:23,260 --> 00:34:26,800 [Duane] I understand the risk of searching for this Aztec gold, 829 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,400 but it makes me push harder. 830 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,560 It's been hidden for centuries. 831 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,760 And if we find it, we'll add our names 832 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,560 to the history books. 833 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,660 You know, we're just trying to find out, kind of, what the truth is, and... 834 00:34:38,660 --> 00:34:43,100 And you're opening, uh, a big light for us, and I appreciate that. 835 00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:45,460 [Mary] It's not something to mess with. 836 00:34:45,460 --> 00:34:47,330 Not to be taken lightly. 837 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,200 [narrator] While the first records of the Timpanogos Nation 838 00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:00,260 were written by Spanish explorers in the 1700s, 839 00:35:00,260 --> 00:35:04,800 archeological evidence and tribal tradition indicates their ancestors 840 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:09,900 have called the American West "home" for at least 12,000 years. 841 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,360 A hunter gatherer society, 842 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,300 the Timpanogos had no boundaries or divisions on their land. 843 00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:23,100 In the 1800s, other tribes from outside of Timpanogos land 844 00:35:23,100 --> 00:35:26,260 were forced into the area by the federal government, 845 00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:30,600 displacing the Timpanogos, who now had to share a reservation 846 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,000 a fraction the size of their traditional homeland. 847 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:45,160 -[Josh] Duane? -[James] Hey, Duane. 848 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,160 [narrator] After meeting with Mary, 849 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,860 the team heads out to the Bead Site 850 00:35:48,860 --> 00:35:52,000 -to go over their plan for excavation. -[Josh] I'm thinking, 851 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,560 we can conquer two sites at the same time. 852 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,760 We'll start leveling this site right here, 853 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,160 working our way up there next to the cliff, 854 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,160 -so we can open it up. -Okay. 855 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,260 [Josh] And once we get to that wall and we move all this back... 856 00:36:04,260 --> 00:36:07,200 -[James] There could be an entrance. -[Duane] Exactly. 857 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,260 [Josh] We're going to excavate two areas at once at the Bead Site. 858 00:36:10,260 --> 00:36:13,560 On the right side, Duane's going to clear away 10 foot of soil, 859 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:14,930 all the way up to the wall. 860 00:36:14,930 --> 00:36:18,160 Once it's clear, we'll be able to see if there's a cave opening, 861 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,460 something to tell us where the smoke vents lead. 862 00:36:20,460 --> 00:36:23,000 Hopefully, they connect to the Keyhole Chamber below. 863 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,860 Meanwhile, we'll continue excavating the Shelter Area 864 00:36:25,860 --> 00:36:28,660 on the left side by hand. We're going to be looking 865 00:36:28,660 --> 00:36:31,160 for artifacts that might give us additional clues 866 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,360 to where the entrance was into that cave system. 867 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,260 Charlie, you're going to be spotting Duane. 868 00:36:35,260 --> 00:36:37,060 So, as Duane's digging, 869 00:36:37,060 --> 00:36:38,100 just keep your eyes on everything, 870 00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:40,560 so we make sure that we don't miss any artifacts. 871 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,800 While you're doing that, we'll be over there 872 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,160 -with the detectors. -[Charlie] Okay. 873 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,660 [Josh] I brought this thing. 874 00:36:45,660 --> 00:36:49,000 This detector goes deeper than any other detector you've had here before. 875 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:49,960 -I like it. -[Josh] So, 876 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,260 we might be able to find something really great 877 00:36:52,260 --> 00:36:53,500 -at depth. -[Duane] Perfect. 878 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:55,660 I think we've got a good plan here. 879 00:36:55,660 --> 00:36:57,260 Let's go. Let's get to work. 880 00:36:57,260 --> 00:36:59,030 [Duane] Charlie boy, let's do this. 881 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,760 Duane, we're ready to go. Fire it up. 882 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,660 Ten-four. Here we come. 883 00:37:05,660 --> 00:37:09,800 [excavator engine whirring] 884 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,460 [continuous whirring] 885 00:37:12,460 --> 00:37:13,460 [Duane] Hell, yeah. 886 00:37:13,460 --> 00:37:15,500 [excavator beeping] 887 00:37:16,260 --> 00:37:17,900 [gear lever clicks] 888 00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:26,460 -[Josh] All this stuff here, this is just overburden. -[Charlie] Yeah. 889 00:37:26,460 --> 00:37:29,030 [Josh] It's just in our way. It's got to be removed. 890 00:37:29,860 --> 00:37:31,900 -[continuous whirring] -[excavator beeping faintly] 891 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,760 This is the first layer taken off. 892 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:37,800 [excavator beeping continuously] 893 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:38,900 This soil over here, 894 00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:40,400 at the Bead Site, it's dark. 895 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:42,460 We see dark soil, 896 00:37:42,460 --> 00:37:44,960 we're gonna have to really take a close look. 897 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,600 [narrator] From Bob Morton's analysis of the soil, 898 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,060 the team now knows that any dark soil 899 00:37:50,060 --> 00:37:53,660 could contain carbon from ancient fires lit by humans 900 00:37:53,660 --> 00:37:55,130 at the Shelter Area, 901 00:37:55,130 --> 00:37:59,460 and somewhere inside the rock formation that connects to the chimneys. 902 00:37:59,460 --> 00:38:00,860 [Josh] Not an artifact in sight-- 903 00:38:00,860 --> 00:38:02,160 -[James] Nothing. -...in any of this stuff. 904 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,460 I think he can take this down, deeper down at this level here. 905 00:38:05,460 --> 00:38:08,600 And then we can start working and getting deeper, deeper, deeper, 906 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,260 to, you know, where you're standing. 907 00:38:10,260 --> 00:38:12,160 [Charlie] We'll start on the left side, 908 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,100 take it down another two foot. 909 00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:16,560 [Duane] Go ahead and shut that door, if you don't mind. 910 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,660 My tootsies are getting cold. 911 00:38:18,660 --> 00:38:21,400 -[excavator engine revs] -[beeping continues] 912 00:38:24,660 --> 00:38:26,160 I'll just start detecting then, 913 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,560 -this whole area-- -[James] Sounds good. 914 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,160 -...to see what I can come up with. -Okay. 915 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,660 [Josh] I'm setting up my metal detector. 916 00:38:32,660 --> 00:38:35,000 This one... [strains softly] is a pretty large one, 917 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,060 so it will go fairly deep. 918 00:38:36,060 --> 00:38:37,660 So, that will give us a little bit more assurance 919 00:38:37,660 --> 00:38:39,460 -that we're not going to miss anything metal. -[metal detector sounding] 920 00:38:39,460 --> 00:38:41,760 I use this machine at our gold mine. 921 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,600 So, if there happens to be gold here, 922 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,630 we got the exact machine to find it. 923 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:47,660 But it will also find 924 00:38:47,660 --> 00:38:49,200 any other type of metallic objects. 925 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,260 And those are almost as important as finding gold here, 926 00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:53,660 because that's going to help answer the questions 927 00:38:53,660 --> 00:38:55,800 of who was here, and what did they do. 928 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:00,930 [indistinct background chatting] 929 00:39:03,460 --> 00:39:04,930 [rattling] 930 00:39:13,460 --> 00:39:15,300 What have we got here? 931 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,000 This is interesting. 932 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,300 That don't look natural. 933 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:24,560 [metal detector sounds, beeps] 934 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,600 Oh! It's a metal. 935 00:39:27,660 --> 00:39:30,100 This is really interesting, James. 936 00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:31,230 [James] What do you got? 937 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,000 The heck is that? 938 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,200 [James] I'm coming over. 939 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,730 [Josh] Some sort of larger beads, James? 940 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:42,730 [James] Let me see. 941 00:39:42,730 --> 00:39:44,260 What you got? 942 00:39:44,260 --> 00:39:46,760 [Josh] Man, let me put my loop on him first. 943 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,460 [James] And that's hitting as metal, huh? 944 00:39:48,460 --> 00:39:50,130 [Josh] It did. It hit as metal. 945 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,260 These look like to be some sort of copper beads. 946 00:39:56,260 --> 00:39:59,430 Yeah, it's oxidized. I can see that from here. 947 00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:02,860 -Yeah. -They don't look modern, do they? 948 00:40:02,860 --> 00:40:04,760 No. They don't feel modern at all. 949 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,000 They look like they've been done by hand. 950 00:40:08,730 --> 00:40:11,160 Copper beads. We got smelting. 951 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,100 I mean, were they making these things right here? 952 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:17,500 Who traded copper beads the most that you and I both know of? 953 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:19,100 -The Aztec? -The Aztec. 954 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,260 That was what they traded in, 955 00:40:22,260 --> 00:40:23,860 was copper beads. 956 00:40:23,860 --> 00:40:26,130 I mean, that was more important than gold to them. 957 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,600 [Josh] Copper beads are found in the American Southwest through trade, 958 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,360 but this is the first time 959 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,860 we have ever found copper beads here at the Bead Site. 960 00:40:34,860 --> 00:40:37,400 This could absolutely show that there's a connection 961 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,730 to Aztecs being here at this site 962 00:40:39,730 --> 00:40:41,100 on Blind Frog Ranch. 963 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,760 This is freaking awesome. 964 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,800 -Bag it and tag it. -Wow. 965 00:40:53,060 --> 00:40:56,860 [narrator] Next time on Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch... 966 00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,000 [Charlie] Hey, hold up, everybody. 967 00:40:59,860 --> 00:41:02,660 I've never seen anything up here like this before. 968 00:41:02,660 --> 00:41:04,600 [Eric] That is, in fact, concrete. 969 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,660 I've seen it all throughout Mesoamerica. 970 00:41:06,660 --> 00:41:08,960 I think this could be a religious site. 971 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,160 [Josh] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! 972 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,230 [Duane] What the hell? 973 00:41:11,230 --> 00:41:12,200 -[Josh] Around my neck of the woods. -[rumbling] 974 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:13,660 call it the thunder gods. 975 00:41:13,660 --> 00:41:15,000 [Charlie] Every time we get close 976 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,060 to an answer, something throws a monkey wrench into it. 977 00:41:18,060 --> 00:41:19,600 [drilling] 978 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,730 [Chad] I feel, like, cool air coming out of here. 979 00:41:21,730 --> 00:41:22,460 This could be it. 980 00:41:22,460 --> 00:41:23,760 -[Eric] Yeah. -[object thuds] 981 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:24,960 -[object creaks] -[rocks tumbling] 982 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:25,860 -[rumbling] -[Eric yells indistinctly] 983 00:41:25,860 --> 00:41:27,560 -[Chad grunts] -[rocks continue tumbling]