1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,300 [narrator] Previously on Blind Frog Ranch... 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,000 In their quest to find the Aztec gold, 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,860 the collapse of the south cave... 4 00:00:08,860 --> 00:00:10,660 -[Eric] Everyone get out? -[Chad] Yeah. 5 00:00:10,660 --> 00:00:13,200 [narrator] ...cut off Chad and Eric's most promising lead 6 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:14,900 to the keyhole chamber. 7 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:16,160 [Chad] There's no way we can go back in there. 8 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:18,360 No, we gotta find another entrance, dude. 9 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,430 [narrator] Forced to change strategies... 10 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:23,260 Using high-tech LiDAR... 11 00:00:23,260 --> 00:00:24,330 [Duane] I'll be darned. 12 00:00:24,330 --> 00:00:26,060 [narrator] ...to find a possible mine tunnel... 13 00:00:26,060 --> 00:00:27,060 -You see right here. -Yeah. 14 00:00:27,060 --> 00:00:28,900 It looks like an open pit mine. 15 00:00:28,900 --> 00:00:30,200 [narrator] ...deep in the mountains. 16 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:31,360 [Chad] There it is. Right behind. 17 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,060 [Eric] Oh, my! 18 00:00:33,060 --> 00:00:36,160 [narrator] It could lead to the lost gold. 19 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:38,260 [Chad] This is a treasure hunt. We're looking for entrances. 20 00:00:38,260 --> 00:00:39,360 We're looking for clues. 21 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:40,400 I mean, this could be something big. 22 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,160 [narrator] But it also put them in the path... 23 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:43,200 [Chad] Hey, look at this. 24 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:44,360 Watch out, watch out, watch out. 25 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:46,560 [narrator] ...of an unknown predator. 26 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,060 [Eric] There's a lot of predator prey going on here. 27 00:00:49,060 --> 00:00:50,800 I just hope we're not the prey. 28 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,660 [narrator] Meanwhile, Duane was able to crack open 29 00:00:54,660 --> 00:00:56,800 a hidden void at the bead site. 30 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,400 -[Josh] This keeps going, James. -[Charlie] And that's 31 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,260 going down underneath it, too. 32 00:01:00,260 --> 00:01:02,360 [narrator] It could lead to the keyhole chamber 33 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:03,660 and the treasure. 34 00:01:03,660 --> 00:01:05,460 [Josh] We're gonna hook up this smoke machine, 35 00:01:05,460 --> 00:01:07,260 take this hose, and put it right in that hole. 36 00:01:07,260 --> 00:01:10,100 [narrator] The smoke test revealed multiple entrances 37 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:11,700 connecting to the void. 38 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:13,560 -[Josh] Look up! There! -[James] Yup. 39 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:14,800 [Josh] That smoke is pouring out of there. 40 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,200 [narrator] And the team uncovered 41 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,360 what could be a sacred altar. 42 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,660 [James] I'm thinking this is an altar piece. 43 00:01:20,660 --> 00:01:21,700 I think there really is 44 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:23,700 something to these smoke pipes. 45 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:26,660 [narrator] But when they scouted one with an endoscope... 46 00:01:26,660 --> 00:01:28,000 What the [bleep] is that? 47 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,800 [narrator] ...the team made an unsettling discovery. 48 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:32,730 It's a skull. 49 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:35,660 [narrator] Legends of ancient treasures... 50 00:01:35,660 --> 00:01:38,460 This has to be hundreds of years back. 51 00:01:38,460 --> 00:01:40,100 [narrator] ...and unexplained phenomenon... 52 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:41,400 [James] What the hell is that? 53 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,600 [narrator] ...meet at a 160-acre property in northeast Utah 54 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,260 known as Blind Frog Ranch. 55 00:01:48,260 --> 00:01:50,260 There, Duane Olinger and his team 56 00:01:50,260 --> 00:01:53,460 are digging in search of long-lost Aztec gold. 57 00:01:53,460 --> 00:01:55,760 [Josh] Could the Aztecs have discovered this? 58 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:56,730 [narrator] But the closer they get... 59 00:01:56,730 --> 00:01:59,400 Finally get to hold [bleep] gold in my hand. 60 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,160 [narrator] ...the more the land fights back. 61 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,460 -[Josh] Poison gas. -[Chad] Let's go! Let's [bleep] go! 62 00:02:03,460 --> 00:02:05,400 [narrator] Now, Duane will move heaven 63 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:08,660 -and Earth... -[man] Fire in the hole. 64 00:02:08,660 --> 00:02:11,200 [narrator] ...until he gets to the bottom of the mystery... 65 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,000 [Duane] We've started this whole deal, 66 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,660 and we're sure as hell gonna finish it. 67 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:16,700 [narrator] ...and solves what's lurking below... 68 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:18,360 [Eric] Holy [bleep]! There's something in there. 69 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:19,530 [bleep] God! 70 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,000 [narrator] ...at Blind Frog Ranch. 71 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:38,930 I'll be spotting from over here. 72 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,030 -Let's drill it. -All right. 73 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:46,730 [narrator] At the bead site, 74 00:02:46,730 --> 00:02:49,600 Duane is ready to cut into the side of the rock wall 75 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,000 to access an opening at the bottom of the vent 76 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,930 where they discovered two burnt animal skulls. 77 00:02:55,660 --> 00:02:56,830 [Josh] How did it get in there? 78 00:02:56,830 --> 00:02:59,200 We're not seeing any other bones around it or anything, 79 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,660 so I don't think an animal drug it in there. 80 00:03:01,660 --> 00:03:03,430 [Duane speaking] 81 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,700 Well, there has to be a larger opening then, 82 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,700 somewhere. 83 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:10,460 [narrator] Duane theorizes the skulls 84 00:03:10,460 --> 00:03:12,000 must have been placed there 85 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,660 via another entrance further underground, 86 00:03:14,660 --> 00:03:18,100 perhaps one that eventually reaches the keyhole chamber. 87 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:22,500 [Josh] There he goes. 88 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:32,500 While Duane is excavating the soil away, 89 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:34,360 we're gonna be looking for clues 90 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:35,600 to tell us where there could be 91 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,500 an additional entrance into the cave system. 92 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,130 You seeing anything, Charlie? 93 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:49,800 [Charlie] Nah, nothing yet. 94 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:00,160 [Charlie] Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up, 95 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,500 hold up! You're hitting something hard up in there. 96 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,560 Josh, can you look at that to see what it is? 97 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,400 [Josh] Duane, pull that back. 98 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,660 -[Charlie] We need to get a closer look. -[Josh] Yeah. 99 00:04:13,660 --> 00:04:16,660 That sound was way different than anything else. 100 00:04:16,660 --> 00:04:18,400 [Josh] I think we're gonna have to hand dig this. 101 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,160 [James] All right. I'm gonna go grab some shovels and trowels. 102 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,360 [Charlie] Yeah. 103 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,260 [Josh] Excavation is a serious business. 104 00:04:28,260 --> 00:04:29,500 You gotta know what the hell you're doing. 105 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:32,200 You gotta put everything in place one inch at a time, 106 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:34,600 or somebody's gonna get killed. 107 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:43,400 [narrator] The team starts digging away the loose dirt around the rock face. 108 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,130 He hit something hard, didn't he, Charlie? 109 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:52,200 [Charlie] What is this? 110 00:04:52,660 --> 00:04:53,830 [James] You got something? 111 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,230 [Josh] I just... 112 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,230 Boy, there it goes. 113 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:58,830 Look at that. 114 00:04:58,830 --> 00:05:00,800 -Look at it. -[James] Look right here. 115 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:02,360 -You got something there. -[James] Yeah. 116 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,230 Look at that, Duane. Another one. 117 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,360 Look at that. 118 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,000 -What do you got? -Charcoal. 119 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,460 -[Josh] Really? Charcoal. -[James] Look at that. 120 00:05:14,460 --> 00:05:17,360 [Charlie] Well, we saw the discoloration on the endoscope, 121 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,560 so maybe it's the charcoal. 122 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,460 There's, like, charred all around the other edges, and then 123 00:05:22,460 --> 00:05:24,800 there's this skull right there. 124 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:28,300 [Josh] Whoa, look at this, guys. Look at this. 125 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:30,700 Look at this. This is going. 126 00:05:32,460 --> 00:05:35,000 Oh, my God. It's just falling away. 127 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,130 There's, like, a solid rock face right here. 128 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,930 [James] Wow. Now this is interesting. 129 00:05:48,260 --> 00:05:50,260 [Josh] These are big, flat sheets of sandstone, 130 00:05:50,260 --> 00:05:51,800 but they're sitting like this. 131 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,000 This was put here. 132 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,360 -[Charlie] Yeah. -For sure. 133 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,200 -This didn't come in naturally. -Yeah. 134 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,100 This sandstone would not be sitting like this. These flat sheets, 135 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:03,400 these are puzzled together. 136 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:05,660 Now you're talking. 137 00:06:05,660 --> 00:06:08,400 [Charlie] This looks like a structure or something. 138 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,130 Let me grab... Hold on here. 139 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:17,930 Look at this. Look at this. 140 00:06:18,660 --> 00:06:19,900 [Charlie] Put it in. Put it in. 141 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,130 [James] Look at this. Look at this. 142 00:06:23,660 --> 00:06:25,160 [Josh] Nice and easy. 143 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,900 I think it's a ceiling top, so be careful. 144 00:06:29,860 --> 00:06:33,260 We found what appears to be the roof of the sandstone slabs. 145 00:06:33,260 --> 00:06:35,400 It's almost like it's forming the roof 146 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,000 of a man-made dome structure. 147 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,460 So I'm really hoping that we're closing in on that chamber 148 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:42,300 that we found with the endoscope. 149 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,030 Look, I'm starting to see a recess. Look at this. 150 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,300 Oh. Oh, here we go. It's giving way. 151 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,600 -[Josh] What do you got? -[James] Look. 152 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,660 [Josh] Oh, my gosh. You're getting your arm in there. 153 00:06:56,660 --> 00:06:57,730 [James] Check this out. 154 00:06:57,730 --> 00:06:59,860 You know, James, you're sticking your arm in there. 155 00:06:59,860 --> 00:07:02,460 That could be a snake pit too, so be careful. 156 00:07:02,460 --> 00:07:03,530 [Josh] Yeah. You should take a look before you 157 00:07:03,530 --> 00:07:05,600 -shove your whole arm in there. -[James laughs] 158 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,930 [James] Oh, hold on here real quick. 159 00:07:10,660 --> 00:07:12,230 There's just a little bit more. 160 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:13,700 [James grunts] 161 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:15,700 Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 162 00:07:16,900 --> 00:07:18,930 [exhales] Oh, my God. 163 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:22,700 Duane. 164 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:25,230 The skulls are here. 165 00:07:25,660 --> 00:07:26,860 [Duane] From the scope? 166 00:07:26,860 --> 00:07:28,230 From the endoscope. 167 00:07:29,260 --> 00:07:30,800 And the walls 168 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,560 are completely charred. 169 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,060 That'll make more sense about some of this charcoal 170 00:07:36,060 --> 00:07:37,900 -scattered all over here. -[James] Yeah. 171 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,700 Wait a minute. Hold on. 172 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:42,830 Man, guys, you know what? 173 00:07:43,860 --> 00:07:46,530 I don't think this is some random rock chamber. 174 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,230 It looks like some type of crematorium. 175 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:53,260 What? 176 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:10,560 -[Chad] What a spot, huh? -[Eric] Yeah. 177 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,360 We got a good spot here, Chad. 178 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,460 [Chad] Oh, yeah. Overlooking the mine. 179 00:08:14,460 --> 00:08:15,800 [Eric] Good view of the mine. 180 00:08:16,660 --> 00:08:18,260 [narrator] After following the fault line 181 00:08:18,260 --> 00:08:20,560 that leads north from the south cave, 182 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,560 Chad and Eric have located the abandoned pit mine 183 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,700 they first identified on the LiDAR map. 184 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:28,900 With the south cave now collapsed, 185 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:30,160 they hope this will lead 186 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,830 to a new way into the keyhole chamber. 187 00:08:34,060 --> 00:08:35,700 [Chad] How old do you think this mine is? 188 00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:36,560 [Eric] Um, 189 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:39,100 hard to say, but from what I'm seeing, 190 00:08:39,560 --> 00:08:40,730 probably... 191 00:08:41,260 --> 00:08:44,100 Mormon era was maybe the last to work it. 192 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:47,200 Just by the roughness of the timbers. 193 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,230 So, I mean, we see nails in some of it. 194 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,660 But others, it's just like it was rough-hewn. 195 00:08:52,660 --> 00:08:54,400 But it could have been worked, 196 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,860 -you know, far earlier than that. -Yeah. 197 00:08:56,860 --> 00:08:58,460 There could have been several different mining... 198 00:08:58,460 --> 00:08:59,560 [Chad] Spaniards or something like that. 199 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:01,800 Even going back to the Spaniards. Yeah. 200 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,800 And this still seems like a really rich dig site. 201 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,560 So why did they leave? 202 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:09,500 [exhales] That's a very good question. 203 00:09:12,260 --> 00:09:14,560 [narrator] The Uinta Mountains of Utah 204 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:17,260 hold a long history of hunting for gold. 205 00:09:17,260 --> 00:09:18,960 In the mid-1500s, 206 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,260 the Spanish dispatched search parties 207 00:09:21,260 --> 00:09:23,900 to find Montezuma's lost Aztec gold 208 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:27,100 that was rumored to be hidden underground. 209 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:30,460 This led to large-scale mining operations in the area. 210 00:09:30,460 --> 00:09:33,800 And by the 1800s, the Mormons were bringing in gold 211 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,000 from at least 40 gold mines across the Uintas. 212 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,960 [Eric] This area has been mined and explored 213 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:41,160 for hundreds of years, 214 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,160 regardless of who mined it last, um... 215 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,230 But it'll be really interesting to see what we find tomorrow. 216 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:48,900 -How's it looking? -[Eric] Ah, 217 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:50,530 it needs a little while longer. 218 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:14,400 [branches snapping] 219 00:10:18,060 --> 00:10:19,030 [branches snapping] 220 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:23,200 [branches snapping] 221 00:10:26,260 --> 00:10:27,700 [Chad speaking] 222 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:30,030 [Eric speaking] 223 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:31,700 [Chad speaking] 224 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:36,400 [Chad speaking] 225 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:39,400 [Chad] [bleep]! 226 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:42,000 [Chad speaking] 227 00:10:42,460 --> 00:10:43,700 [Eric speaking] 228 00:10:58,660 --> 00:11:00,300 [cameraman speaking] 229 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,460 [narrator] After being awakened by a strange animal nearby, 230 00:11:12,460 --> 00:11:14,800 Chad and Eric rouse the camera crew. 231 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:18,560 [Chad speaking] 232 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:20,530 [narrator] But one of the crew is missing. 233 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:27,230 [Chad speaking] 234 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:39,900 [Chad speaking] 235 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:57,430 Dude, where were you? 236 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:01,230 [Chad] Hey, hey, hey. 237 00:12:01,230 --> 00:12:03,160 [narrator] At the open pit mine camp, 238 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,860 one of the crew heard the midnight intruder 239 00:12:05,860 --> 00:12:07,460 and decided to investigate. 240 00:12:07,460 --> 00:12:09,660 -[Chad] Joel, show me where it's at. -[Joel] This way. Over here. 241 00:12:09,660 --> 00:12:10,600 -[Chad] Right. -[Joel] This straight. 242 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,000 -Over here. Yeah. -[Chad] Straight ahead? 243 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,700 -Camera set? Let's go. -[Joel] Yeah. 244 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:19,560 [Eric] What is that smell? It smells like 245 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,400 a dead animal or something. 246 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,300 I can still smell it. 247 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:25,360 [Eric] Hey, Chad. 248 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,800 You think we should make ourselves known here? 249 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,800 -[Chad] Like a bear or something? -[Eric] Yeah. 250 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:31,800 Hey! 251 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,260 -[Chad] Down there. Down there. -[Eric] Look at that. 252 00:12:37,260 --> 00:12:39,000 Look at that. Right there. Hey! 253 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:42,800 Cameras. You see it? 254 00:12:44,060 --> 00:12:45,660 Right there. There's something down there. Lights. 255 00:12:45,660 --> 00:12:46,900 Lights over there. 256 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:49,160 -Right there. Right there. -[Eric] Yeah, there. Right there. 257 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,400 -[Chad] What's that? -[Eric] What is that? What's that? 258 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:54,730 [Chad] Oh, my God. It's huge. Whatever it is. 259 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:59,430 What is that? 260 00:13:00,860 --> 00:13:03,200 [Eric] Whatever it is, I want it to know that we're here. 261 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:04,630 [Chad] Oh, he knows. 262 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:06,860 -[branches snapping] -[Eric] Oh. 263 00:13:06,860 --> 00:13:08,000 [Chad] Right there. Right there. 264 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,430 -[rustling] -It's running. 265 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:17,930 Where'd he go? 266 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,500 Lost it. 267 00:13:26,660 --> 00:13:28,330 It's gone now. I don't hear it anywhere. 268 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:36,860 Ah. 269 00:13:36,860 --> 00:13:38,760 We're gonna take sentry shifts. 270 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:40,460 I'll be first. Y'all down with that? 271 00:13:40,460 --> 00:13:42,000 -[Joel] Yeah. -Yeah. 272 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,860 All right, we'll keep the machete handy just in case something else comes by. 273 00:13:43,860 --> 00:13:45,630 Let's do it. [bleep] 274 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,030 [Chad] Get some sleep. I'll stay up. 275 00:14:05,660 --> 00:14:06,800 All we can do now, 276 00:14:07,260 --> 00:14:08,530 you know, keep the fire going. 277 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:24,900 Last night, we had a crazy night. 278 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,400 This morning I checked the perimeter 279 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,030 to make sure whatever it was is gone. 280 00:14:36,460 --> 00:14:37,500 Hey, guys. 281 00:14:40,660 --> 00:14:41,760 Whatever it was, it's gone. 282 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,460 I was looking for tracks, but there's so many rocks 283 00:14:44,460 --> 00:14:46,400 that I couldn't actually track anything. 284 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:47,760 Yeah, it'd be hard to see. 285 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:49,360 [Chad] Yeah, so... 286 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,260 I think today I want to look for 287 00:14:51,260 --> 00:14:54,000 a cave entrance that goes underground all the way to Blind Frog. 288 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,000 I want to look for more of that rich ore. 289 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,360 I mean, this is significant enough 290 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,260 that it can lead us to a tunnel system 291 00:15:00,260 --> 00:15:01,760 that connects to the south cave. 292 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,760 I mean, I don't think it's a coincidence 293 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:05,860 that this mine right here 294 00:15:05,860 --> 00:15:07,760 is right in line with the fault and right in line with 295 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,100 -the collapsed cave system. -[Chad] Exactly. 296 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:10,200 The same fault zone, 297 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:11,860 I think likely we could find something 298 00:15:11,860 --> 00:15:14,360 -and follow it all the way back. -[Eric] That'd be awesome. 299 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,860 So, you'll take a cameraman, I'll take one too. 300 00:15:16,860 --> 00:15:17,900 -Sounds good. -[Chad] We'll split up. 301 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:19,130 -[Eric] Yeah. -[Chad] Be safe. 302 00:15:20,860 --> 00:15:21,700 Ready? 303 00:15:23,260 --> 00:15:24,900 [Eric] This morning I'm focusing on 304 00:15:24,900 --> 00:15:26,400 where that rich vein might be. 305 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:27,760 Mineralization, 306 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:29,760 meaning the accumulation of gold, 307 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,260 happens along fault lines. 308 00:15:31,260 --> 00:15:33,660 And that's also where caves form. 309 00:15:33,660 --> 00:15:35,560 So anytime we see traces of gold, 310 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,260 that could lead us to the underground cavern system. 311 00:15:38,260 --> 00:15:40,360 And Chad, he's looking for cave openings. 312 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,500 So we're diversifying our exploration a little bit. 313 00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:45,330 Oh, this is a good spot. 314 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,330 Let me take a look at this in more detail here. 315 00:15:53,860 --> 00:15:55,700 First thing I'm looking at is... 316 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:57,500 You'll see some... 317 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:00,300 There we go. Look at that. 318 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:02,000 We're seeing some malachite here. 319 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 That's one of the indicating minerals 320 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,460 that could show you where to 321 00:16:05,460 --> 00:16:06,860 look for the gold, basically. 322 00:16:06,860 --> 00:16:09,600 The other good thing I see is in the wall here, 323 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,060 you see they have this reddish-brown material. 324 00:16:12,060 --> 00:16:15,460 And this is hematite, another gold-indicating mineral. 325 00:16:15,460 --> 00:16:16,760 I'm not gonna take a sample here 326 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,360 because the walls here look very unstable. 327 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,160 This has definitely been worked significantly by others 328 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:23,300 before us. 329 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:25,100 This debris pile here 330 00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:27,030 came from there. 331 00:16:27,660 --> 00:16:29,500 And so if you were to be standing there 332 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:31,900 when that debris came down, you'd be buried. 333 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,560 This mining business can be kind of dangerous. 334 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,000 Uh, we don't know when that mine was last mined, 335 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,060 but it was a pretty long time ago. 336 00:16:40,060 --> 00:16:42,100 We've already experienced a couple of cave-ins, 337 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:45,130 so we've got to be really careful around this old mine. 338 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:55,600 [Chad] Big cave right here. 339 00:16:57,860 --> 00:16:59,660 [narrator] Chad has identified a cave 340 00:16:59,660 --> 00:17:01,760 on the hillside near the open pit mine. 341 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:03,860 [Chad] I got a camera. 342 00:17:03,860 --> 00:17:05,860 [narrator] He's hoping there are other tunnels inside 343 00:17:05,860 --> 00:17:09,130 that could lead back to the collapsed south cave. 344 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:11,500 [Chad] Let's see where it'll go. 345 00:17:26,860 --> 00:17:29,260 Yeah, there's four different directions they went. 346 00:17:29,260 --> 00:17:30,560 They went that way. 347 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,860 I guess they didn't find anything. Went that way. 348 00:17:32,860 --> 00:17:34,900 That way. And then back that way. 349 00:17:34,900 --> 00:17:37,100 There's five. Then down here. 350 00:17:44,660 --> 00:17:47,560 These caves these guys are digging are so tight. 351 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:49,700 Like, this one, you can barely fit through. 352 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:53,800 So these guys would prospect. 353 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:55,700 If they weren't finding anything in a certain direction, 354 00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:57,830 they would stop and go a different direction. 355 00:18:00,460 --> 00:18:02,160 There's so many tunnels here. 356 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:03,160 One of them could lead back 357 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,500 to the keyhole chamber through the fault line. 358 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:09,930 I mean, they're obviously digging here for a reason. 359 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:12,960 There's a whole lot of that green rock 360 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:14,030 down at the bottom. 361 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,130 Oh, yeah, right here too. 362 00:18:29,460 --> 00:18:31,900 You got that green rock all over the place here. 363 00:18:34,860 --> 00:18:36,800 Yeah, that's definitely what they were tracking. 364 00:18:39,260 --> 00:18:40,700 One over here. 365 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:42,600 This one stops. 366 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:46,760 So you can see, 367 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,900 this definitely won't get us back to the cave system in our ranch. 368 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:53,230 It goes back, I don't know, 20 foot? 369 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:55,830 Keep looking. 370 00:18:59,660 --> 00:19:01,160 [Eric] Yeah. 371 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,400 So I'm liking what I see here. 372 00:19:03,860 --> 00:19:06,700 Um, I see both 373 00:19:06,700 --> 00:19:10,460 the hematite and the malachite right here. 374 00:19:10,460 --> 00:19:13,360 This looks good enough for me to, uh, 375 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:15,900 to grab a sample of it and bring it back. 376 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:19,560 There we go. 377 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:22,160 So we have a nice piece. We've got, um, 378 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,400 the indicator minerals, um, in here. 379 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,500 The headwalls are looking pretty good. 380 00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:28,130 We're seeing the greens and the reds. 381 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:29,460 And so 382 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:31,460 it makes sense geologically. 383 00:19:31,460 --> 00:19:32,800 We follow the fault. 384 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,360 We follow the indicating minerals. 385 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:35,800 We look for the cave. 386 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,700 So we'll bring this back and look at it. 387 00:19:41,460 --> 00:19:42,260 All right. 388 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:46,600 [Chad] Got another cave right here. 389 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,130 Yeah, they were serious about whatever they were doing. 390 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:52,100 You see that shoring. 391 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:56,360 And they're following this hematite the whole way. 392 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:58,200 Usually where these entrances are, 393 00:19:58,200 --> 00:19:59,800 there's hematite all around it. 394 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:01,700 And shoring. 395 00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:05,530 Metal all around. 396 00:20:06,700 --> 00:20:08,160 Old stuff. 397 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,660 Stuff like this is proof of the teams that were here. 398 00:20:10,660 --> 00:20:12,660 I mean, they weren't just mining 399 00:20:12,660 --> 00:20:14,900 and shoring and everything. They were living up here. 400 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:17,000 There are those same logs again. 401 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,160 And they look like the ones at the south cave. 402 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,600 All these cave entrances have hematite 403 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:23,600 all over it. 404 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:27,730 That's not our way in. 405 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,730 There's another cave right here. 406 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,700 Doesn't look like it goes very far, though. 407 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:45,730 [soft rumbling] 408 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:54,230 [Chad] Hey, Eric? 409 00:20:55,260 --> 00:20:56,300 Eric! 410 00:21:01,860 --> 00:21:02,900 Eric! 411 00:21:03,260 --> 00:21:04,400 [Eric] Yeah? 412 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,100 -[Chad] Did you hear that? -[Eric] No. 413 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:10,830 There's [bleep] moving up here, man. 414 00:21:12,260 --> 00:21:14,400 -[Eric] Something's going on. -[Chad] Let's go. 415 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:20,800 [bleep] was that? 416 00:21:27,460 --> 00:21:29,330 [Chad] There's [bleep] moving up here, man. 417 00:21:30,260 --> 00:21:32,230 Let's move, but we gotta be careful. 418 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:36,460 [narrator] At the open pit mine, 419 00:21:36,460 --> 00:21:38,460 Chad and Eric are caught off guard 420 00:21:38,460 --> 00:21:40,600 by something lurking in their camp. 421 00:21:45,260 --> 00:21:46,400 [branches snapping] 422 00:21:47,460 --> 00:21:48,630 Joel, come on. 423 00:21:52,260 --> 00:21:53,300 [bleep] was that? 424 00:21:58,460 --> 00:21:59,900 Hold on. 425 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,160 So whatever this thing is, it's like it's stalking us. 426 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,860 I mean, same smell, same sounds 427 00:22:16,860 --> 00:22:18,030 and all this [bleep]. 428 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:29,130 -[Eric] Chad! -Hey. 429 00:22:30,060 --> 00:22:31,030 Hold on. 430 00:22:31,460 --> 00:22:32,600 Hold on. Hold on. 431 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:37,860 [bleep]! 432 00:22:37,860 --> 00:22:39,860 It's gone. Whatever it is, it's gone. 433 00:22:39,860 --> 00:22:43,100 It's... It's that same [bleep] thing. 434 00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:45,630 Big movements, branches snapping. 435 00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:47,230 Right over there. 436 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:49,800 [Eric] I don't know, Chad. 437 00:22:50,660 --> 00:22:52,760 [Chad] All right. All right, [bleep] it. 438 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,030 Let's pack our [bleep] up and go. Come on. 439 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,030 I checked out the biggest tunnels, 440 00:22:58,030 --> 00:23:01,130 and I feel like there's much more to explore at this site. 441 00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:05,160 But right now, we're like sitting ducks here. 442 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:06,400 I mean, we can always come back, 443 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,060 but more prepared next time. 444 00:23:08,060 --> 00:23:11,360 We're definitely gonna need some kind of protection, like bear spray or something. 445 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:13,200 Let's go, guys. 446 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,260 I mean, we've got enough to worry about without something stalking us. 447 00:23:16,260 --> 00:23:17,360 And so, uh, 448 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:19,500 I don't want to come back here unless I have, like, 449 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:20,700 more people 450 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:22,800 and probably some weapons, too. 451 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:33,330 [James] Wait a minute. 452 00:23:34,260 --> 00:23:36,700 It looks like some type of crematorium. 453 00:23:37,260 --> 00:23:38,960 [Charlie] What? 454 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,000 [narrator] Yesterday at the bead site, the team discovered an opening 455 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,760 at the base of the chimney vent 456 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,260 covered by slabs of sandstone. 457 00:23:46,260 --> 00:23:47,360 When they opened it up, 458 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:49,360 they discovered burnt animal skulls 459 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,660 that looked as if they had been placed there. 460 00:23:51,660 --> 00:23:53,500 If you pull this one, I'll be able to put 461 00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:55,460 a camera down through the crevice right here. 462 00:23:55,460 --> 00:23:57,460 [narrator] To document their findings, 463 00:23:57,460 --> 00:23:59,000 they must carefully remove 464 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,460 the larger slabs of sandstone to make way for the camera. 465 00:24:02,460 --> 00:24:04,200 -Yeah. -[Josh] I see the void now, James. 466 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,100 Let me get the camera going here. 467 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:07,730 [Josh] Okay. 468 00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:12,660 You don't hear any rattlesnakes, do you? 469 00:24:12,660 --> 00:24:15,330 [chuckles] It's too late now. 470 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,600 I can see the larger skull is 471 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,560 -right around where you're at. -Over here? 472 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:23,800 Right there, yeah. 473 00:24:24,260 --> 00:24:25,630 [Charlie] Okay. 474 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,400 [James] That's as far as I can go in with the camera, 475 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:30,530 but you know what? 476 00:24:30,530 --> 00:24:33,060 -[Josh] Okay. -[James] I think we can start removing 477 00:24:33,060 --> 00:24:36,100 these front stones right here. 478 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:38,730 -So then we found the chamber. This is... -[James] This is it. 479 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:41,660 [Josh] This crematorium 480 00:24:41,660 --> 00:24:43,460 holds a lot of answers 481 00:24:43,460 --> 00:24:45,360 to the questions that Duane has 482 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:46,660 about this property. 483 00:24:46,660 --> 00:24:48,600 -Easy, easy, easy. -[James] Yeah. 484 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,200 -Slowly. -[James] Yeah. There you go. 485 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,600 There you go. There you go. 486 00:24:54,660 --> 00:24:55,700 Wait, wait, wait. 487 00:24:55,700 --> 00:24:57,560 Look, look, look, look. Right here. 488 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:58,600 [Josh] Is that more bone? 489 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,300 [James] Yeah. I think so. Hold on. 490 00:25:03,660 --> 00:25:05,460 [James exclaims] 491 00:25:05,460 --> 00:25:06,830 -There's an eye socket right there. -[James] Yeah. 492 00:25:06,830 --> 00:25:08,730 -[Charlie] Yeah. That's the top of the skull. -[James] Look at this. 493 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:13,460 You know that the Native Americans locally didn't do this, 494 00:25:13,460 --> 00:25:15,830 but the Aztec, the Mexica did. 495 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,360 [Duane] What do you think it is, guys? 496 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:20,360 You think it's some kind of an oven? 497 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:23,100 You know, Duane, this was not an oven. 498 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,060 But that vent that connected into 499 00:25:26,060 --> 00:25:28,300 this chamber was used for fire. 500 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:32,630 Duane, this is some type of sacrificial altar. 501 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,900 The Mexica, the Aztec that were in Mesoamerica... 502 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:39,360 This was common. 503 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:41,860 [Josh] You're talking about animal sacrifice? 504 00:25:41,860 --> 00:25:43,600 [James] Not just any animal sacrifice. 505 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:44,660 This animal, 506 00:25:44,660 --> 00:25:47,460 it looks like a fox or a coyote, 507 00:25:47,460 --> 00:25:49,260 could very well have been 508 00:25:49,260 --> 00:25:51,300 sacrificed for their war god, 509 00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:53,360 Huitzilopochtli. 510 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:55,400 And if this dealt with the war god, 511 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,000 this was protecting something. 512 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,200 The only thing I can't tell from it, 513 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,460 is it the area that's important, 514 00:26:03,460 --> 00:26:06,030 or are they asking to protect something with it? 515 00:26:09,460 --> 00:26:11,600 [narrator] According to the historical records, 516 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,660 the ancient Aztecs made monthly sacrifices 517 00:26:14,660 --> 00:26:16,560 of both humans and animals 518 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,760 to their gods throughout the year. 519 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,560 Over 400 different animals were sacrificed 520 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,660 in the Aztec capital city, Tenochtitlan, 521 00:26:24,660 --> 00:26:27,060 including pumas, jaguars, 522 00:26:27,060 --> 00:26:29,760 wolves, crocodiles, and snakes. 523 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,300 These animal sacrifices were often made 524 00:26:32,300 --> 00:26:34,000 to win the favor of the gods 525 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,200 or gain their protection. 526 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,160 But one god received a special offering. 527 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,360 To appease the warrior sun god, 528 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:42,660 Huitzilopochtli, 529 00:26:42,660 --> 00:26:44,100 the Aztecs reportedly 530 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:47,800 would make a human sacrifice every 52 years, 531 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,700 or else the universe would come to an end. 532 00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:54,000 They would then burn the body and use their rekindled flame 533 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,700 to light new fires throughout the empire. 534 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:01,360 Come on, James, what are they protecting? 535 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:05,900 If they were doing this to protect something, 536 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:08,660 then maybe the cavern is behind this 537 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:11,900 and they were protecting their treasure. 538 00:27:13,260 --> 00:27:14,460 [James] Look where it's at. 539 00:27:14,460 --> 00:27:16,360 I mean, we're talking about underground, 540 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:17,900 something in front of it. 541 00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:19,700 It's got to be the treasure. 542 00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:20,500 So what are you thinking? 543 00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:22,960 There's a cavern behind it, below it? 544 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,000 There may very well be something underneath it. 545 00:27:28,060 --> 00:27:31,160 No, I don't know if we want to drill through that thing. 546 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:32,760 I think there's 547 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,900 things there that we don't want to disturb. 548 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:38,560 We want to leave where we found 549 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,000 that little altar piece alone, 550 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,060 but we still have to get inside there, 551 00:27:43,060 --> 00:27:44,160 so what we'll do is 552 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,900 we'll just move over quite a bit 553 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:48,560 and see if we can't grind in there 554 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,260 and see what we can find 555 00:27:50,260 --> 00:27:53,100 as far as a void or a cavity. 556 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:56,460 You know, I think we need to grind right beside it, 557 00:27:56,460 --> 00:27:59,300 see if we can find more of an opening. 558 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:01,460 Uh, that's my vote. 559 00:28:01,460 --> 00:28:03,000 Yeah, I think we're gonna have to. 560 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,130 [James] I second your vote. 561 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,200 [narrator] To avoid disrupting the altar area, 562 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,700 Duane will angle the drill to dig around it, 563 00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:13,100 and search for another entrance 564 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:15,500 that opens up to the keyhole chamber. 565 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:17,530 [wind blowing] 566 00:28:17,530 --> 00:28:19,700 [Charlie] What the hell? Where's that wind coming from? 567 00:28:23,460 --> 00:28:24,800 [Josh] It feels like a storm's coming. 568 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,030 It seems God don't want us in there. 569 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:47,600 -[Chad] What you got, Eric? -[Eric] Hey, Chad. 570 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,600 [narrator] After trekking along a fault line 571 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,100 out to an open pit mine... 572 00:28:51,100 --> 00:28:53,600 These caves these guys are digging are so tight. 573 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,700 Like, this one, you can barely fit through. 574 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:56,860 So these guys would prospect. 575 00:28:56,860 --> 00:28:58,600 If they weren't finding anything in a certain direction, 576 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,560 they would stop and go a different direction. 577 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,300 [narrator] ...and fending off a nocturnal stalker... 578 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,000 [Eric] Whatever it is, I want it to know that we're here. 579 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,000 [Chad] Oh, he knows. 580 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,060 -[Eric] Oh. -[Chad] Right there, right there. 581 00:29:09,060 --> 00:29:11,160 [Eric] Yeah, there. Right there. 582 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,660 [narrator] ...Eric and Chad have regrouped to process 583 00:29:13,660 --> 00:29:15,700 the ore samples that Eric collected. 584 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:18,360 -[Eric] Shall we go to work here? Let's do it. -[Chad] Let's crush it, baby. 585 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,560 [Eric] We're gonna do some crushing, 586 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,300 then sieving, then panning, 587 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:24,160 and we'll see what's in it. 588 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,360 [narrator] By crushing the rock to reveal 589 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:27,530 the makeup of his samples, 590 00:29:27,530 --> 00:29:30,560 they hope to find signs of gold and other rich minerals 591 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,660 that might indicate a tunnel system 592 00:29:32,660 --> 00:29:35,900 that could lead back to the collapsed south cave. 593 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:37,100 [Chad] Well, hopefully we found something, 594 00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:39,000 'cause that was a hell of a trek up there, man. 595 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,660 [Eric] You bet it was, man. If you want 596 00:29:40,660 --> 00:29:41,960 to man the crusher here, this is 597 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,000 like a mortar and pestle on steroids. 598 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,300 -[Chad] Okay. -[Eric] So let's break it up. 599 00:29:47,260 --> 00:29:49,760 We're following these highly mineralized zones 600 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,500 that were deposited by water. 601 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:54,900 That same water could have carved out a huge cave system. 602 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:57,460 [Chad] Whoo! 603 00:29:57,460 --> 00:29:59,360 -You don't need to go to the gym today, huh? -Feel the burn. 604 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,400 The gold and precious minerals will often occur 605 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:02,700 within the limestone. 606 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:04,860 To liberate that, you need to crush it, 607 00:30:04,860 --> 00:30:06,360 bust up this rock, 608 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,600 and sift the pieces to see what's inside it. 609 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,600 [narrator] A fault line is a break in the Earth's surface. 610 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,500 Over thousands of years, 611 00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:18,100 water leaks through fissures in the rock walls 612 00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:20,360 and into the larger caves, 613 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,100 carrying mineral traces with it. 614 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:26,260 These traces form deposits in the surrounding rock, 615 00:30:26,260 --> 00:30:28,160 acting as a mineral-rich 616 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,600 breadcrumb trail through the caverns. 617 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,200 If Eric is correct, 618 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,700 the presence of gold in his ore sample 619 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:37,200 could indicate a vast cave system 620 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,360 and a way back to the south cave 621 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,460 and keyhole chamber. 622 00:30:41,460 --> 00:30:44,230 If not, it means another dead end. 623 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:46,730 -[Eric] Put it right in here. -[Chad] All right. 624 00:30:48,260 --> 00:30:49,730 -[Eric] Here we go. -[Chad] Ready? 625 00:30:52,860 --> 00:30:56,030 I always like to save the oversize 'cause you never know. 626 00:30:56,460 --> 00:30:57,800 Save that. 627 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,700 -So that's what we're gonna pan. -Okay. 628 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,630 [Eric] It's just a matter of washing it. 629 00:31:01,630 --> 00:31:04,260 -[Chad] And the heavies of the gold stay down? -[Eric] Yeah. 630 00:31:04,260 --> 00:31:06,230 I mean, we can take our time with it. 631 00:31:06,860 --> 00:31:08,830 This is the moment of truth here. 632 00:31:12,660 --> 00:31:14,260 So I don't see anything there. 633 00:31:14,260 --> 00:31:16,700 -[Chad] Damn it. -[Eric] I know. 634 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:18,660 -It's a lot of work for nothing. -Yeah. 635 00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:21,100 So we'll just dump this out. 636 00:31:22,460 --> 00:31:24,000 And we'll try again. 637 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,600 Miners have been doing this, you know, for hundreds of years. 638 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,560 It's a very basic process. 639 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,460 And it ends with just panning it out 640 00:31:31,460 --> 00:31:32,960 to hopefully find gold 641 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,000 or silver or copper 642 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,360 or something of value. 643 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,000 I kind of like the looks of this one. 644 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,700 Uh, it was from a more mineralized zone. 645 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:40,460 [Chad] Yeah. 646 00:31:40,460 --> 00:31:42,360 If we find gold in this sample, 647 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:43,900 it could be a good indication that 648 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:47,300 there's an extensive tunnel going back to the south cave. 649 00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:50,000 But if not, we've risked our lives for nothing 650 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,100 and right back where we started. 651 00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:52,530 -Let's do it. -[Eric] Go for it. 652 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,800 Almost there, brother. 653 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,060 That looks pretty good, Chad. 654 00:32:03,060 --> 00:32:04,360 -[Chad] You like it? -Yeah. 655 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,600 -Let's see what we got. -[Chad] Hell yeah. 656 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:10,760 [Eric] All right, here we go. 657 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,060 I'm starting to see a little more black sand in this. 658 00:32:15,060 --> 00:32:17,860 Black sands are a good sign because they're the heavy minerals 659 00:32:17,860 --> 00:32:20,230 that gold is often associated with. 660 00:32:23,260 --> 00:32:24,760 There's a potential for 661 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,530 -bigger pieces in it. -[Chad] Nice. 662 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:30,730 Come on. 663 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:33,630 Come on, man. 664 00:32:34,460 --> 00:32:36,060 [bleep] come on. 665 00:32:36,060 --> 00:32:38,060 -[Chad] Huh. -[Eric] [bleep]! [bleep]! 666 00:32:38,060 --> 00:32:39,660 You thought that that one had something in it? 667 00:32:39,660 --> 00:32:42,130 [Eric] I did. I thought this was our best chance, man. 668 00:32:43,860 --> 00:32:44,900 [bleep]! 669 00:32:45,460 --> 00:32:46,700 [Eric exhales] 670 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,230 [Chad] Well, [bleep]. 671 00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:50,530 Um... 672 00:32:51,860 --> 00:32:53,000 [bleep]! 673 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,300 Uh, this looks like a good sample. 674 00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:57,960 When I see areas of rich ore, 675 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,700 it means to me that there's highly concentrated minerals 676 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:02,900 that could have carved the cave system. 677 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:04,900 Let me just run the detector over that 678 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:07,300 and see what we got, if anything. 679 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,160 So what I'm doing here is just... 680 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,360 -[device beeps] -[Eric] Oh. 681 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:13,730 [Chad] Something in there? [bleep] yeah. 682 00:33:13,730 --> 00:33:16,300 [Eric] There's something in here. There's something right in my hand. 683 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:17,500 -[Chad] [bleep] yes. -[device beeping] 684 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:20,900 Let's see it. 685 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,300 -Is it still on? -Yeah. 686 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:30,900 -This one. -[Eric] Here. 687 00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:33,900 Whatever it was, it's still here. 688 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,100 What's that? What's that? What's that? 689 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:42,900 That's it. Look at that. Yellow. 690 00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:44,800 [laughs] 691 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,500 -That's it. That's what we're looking for, brother. -[Chad] [bleep]! 692 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:48,800 -Whoo! -Yeah! 693 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,560 [Chad laughs] Yeah. 694 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,660 [Eric] When you're looking for gold or gems or what have you, 695 00:33:53,660 --> 00:33:55,060 you put a lot of work into it, man. 696 00:33:55,060 --> 00:33:57,460 And, you know, it doesn't always pan out. 697 00:33:57,460 --> 00:33:58,660 You don't always find it. 698 00:33:58,660 --> 00:34:00,960 But when you do, it's just amazing. 699 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,260 -Hell yeah. Nice job, man. -[Eric laughs] Yeah. 700 00:34:03,260 --> 00:34:05,660 This rich ore is significant enough 701 00:34:05,660 --> 00:34:06,700 that it can lead us to this 702 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:09,100 tunnel system that connects to the south cave. 703 00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:11,860 -We got gold, boys! -[Eric] Yeah! 704 00:34:11,860 --> 00:34:14,460 [Chad] This is significant, not just because there may be 705 00:34:14,460 --> 00:34:16,000 gold veins under Blind Frog Ranch, 706 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,960 but because we may have found a tunnel that can 707 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,160 ultimately lead us back to the keyhole chamber. 708 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,360 -[Eric] We got to go back up there, man. -Yeah. 709 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,200 I mean, every little clue we find 710 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,660 can lead us possibly into another entrance 711 00:34:26,660 --> 00:34:28,860 to this underground cavern system we have. 712 00:34:28,860 --> 00:34:29,930 I'm super stoked about this 713 00:34:29,930 --> 00:34:31,960 'cause that means we could find some cool [bleep]. 714 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,000 It could lead to a huge find, basically. 715 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,160 And it's on the same fault 716 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,260 -that we're looking for everything else. -It is. It is. 717 00:34:37,260 --> 00:34:39,230 It just means we got more work to do. 718 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:40,600 Let's go, boys. 719 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:42,800 Whoo! 720 00:34:48,060 --> 00:34:50,660 [James] You know, you see all this rock back here that's charred? 721 00:34:50,660 --> 00:34:53,000 It was all brought here to create this. 722 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,930 Look at this. I mean, we're looking at an altar. 723 00:34:56,300 --> 00:35:00,460 [narrator] Everyday altars adored Aztec houses and walkways 724 00:35:00,460 --> 00:35:02,800 and held incense and clay figures 725 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,230 used for ritual prayer, such as honoring family. 726 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,100 But for the most culturally significant moments 727 00:35:10,100 --> 00:35:12,760 such as coronations and sacrifices, 728 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,160 lavish altars sat atop temples 729 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,400 in the highest places of worship. 730 00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:20,300 In 2021, 731 00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:22,200 researchers in Mexico City 732 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,960 unearthed a secret altar 733 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,260 dating back to 1521, 734 00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:29,160 containing a jar of human ashes. 735 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,360 Experts believe it was hidden from the advancing Spanish 736 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:33,960 by an Aztec family 737 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,760 and contained the ashes of an ancestor. 738 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,100 As they mourned, the sun setting on their civilization, 739 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:43,760 it marked the location of a final desperate prayer 740 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,130 for survival. 741 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,160 [Josh] So you want us just spotting you, 742 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,460 making sure you're not getting into anything of interest? 743 00:35:53,460 --> 00:35:55,700 [Duane] It's gonna eat up anything we get into, 744 00:35:55,700 --> 00:35:57,660 so just keep an eye out 745 00:35:57,660 --> 00:35:59,900 so we don't hit another one of those altars. 746 00:36:02,460 --> 00:36:04,560 [narrator] The team's excavation at the bead site... 747 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:05,930 Easy, easy, easy. 748 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,460 [narrator] ...revealed an ancient stone altar. 749 00:36:09,460 --> 00:36:12,560 This is some type of sacrificial altar. 750 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,800 [narrator] Proof of human habitation. 751 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,900 -[Josh] Is that more bone? -[James] I think so. 752 00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:18,300 [narrator] And the smoke test 753 00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:21,160 showed a couple of chimney structures clustered around the area. 754 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:22,300 -Oh, right there. -Yep. 755 00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:23,800 [Josh] That is a beautiful sight. 756 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,360 [narrator] So Duane and the team are 757 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,600 preparing to dig around the altar 758 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,660 in hopes of uncovering an entrance 759 00:36:29,660 --> 00:36:32,660 to the keyhole cavern beneath the ranch. 760 00:36:32,660 --> 00:36:34,830 -[Duane] Let's get it started. -[Josh] All right. Will do. 761 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,000 [Charlie] We followed a chimney vent down to the altar, 762 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,900 but it seems to be a dead end there. 763 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,100 We don't want to damage the altar, 764 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:49,930 so we're gonna drill into the rock wall on the left side. 765 00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:54,760 Hopefully, we can intercept another chimney vent 766 00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,130 that will lead us down into the keyhole chamber. 767 00:37:13,260 --> 00:37:15,560 I'll be overseeing what's going on, 768 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,360 be looking for anything that's out of the ordinary 769 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,260 while he's drilling, 770 00:37:19,260 --> 00:37:21,800 because whatever that rock drill gets into, 771 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,200 it's gonna destroy. 772 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,000 So I've got to be pretty close to the drill itself. 773 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,030 [Charlie over radio] All right, Duane. 774 00:37:39,030 --> 00:37:41,260 Give me a chance to kind of look through this right quick, 775 00:37:41,260 --> 00:37:43,800 make sure we're not hitting into anything. 776 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,100 [Josh] You seeing something, Charlie? 777 00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:48,860 [Charlie] The whole composition of this soil changed 778 00:37:48,860 --> 00:37:51,260 as soon as he got to that point right there. 779 00:37:51,260 --> 00:37:54,230 It's kind of weird for all that soft dirt to be in this deep. 780 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:58,460 [narrator] The sudden accumulation of soft dirt 781 00:37:58,460 --> 00:38:00,160 within the hard sandstone 782 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,300 could indicate an opening in the rock face. 783 00:38:03,300 --> 00:38:05,000 Look at that. That's a... 784 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,400 I mean, you're just in there with your hand just pulling that out like it's beach sand. 785 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,860 [Charlie] Yeah, that just goes way back in there. 786 00:38:10,860 --> 00:38:13,660 [Josh] This must be part of the chimney system that's in this rock. 787 00:38:13,660 --> 00:38:15,160 [Charlie] Well, if it's part of the chimney system, 788 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,000 it's got to be going into the cavern then. 789 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,430 [Josh] Oh, yeah. 790 00:38:18,430 --> 00:38:21,160 -Yeah, he's got to dig this down further, so... -[Josh] It's still going 791 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:22,430 -this direction. -[Charlie] Yeah. 792 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,900 [Josh] Let's have him drop the rock wheel down a couple feet, 793 00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:28,000 and if that's just all soft dirt coming out of there, 794 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,260 -that could be an entrance in. -[Charlie] Yeah. 795 00:38:30,260 --> 00:38:32,360 We've got a void here, 796 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,100 and it just keeps going, uh, 797 00:38:34,100 --> 00:38:37,300 deeper and deeper inside the cliff face here, 798 00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:39,060 and so we want to chase that down 799 00:38:39,060 --> 00:38:41,100 and just see how that opens up, 800 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:43,630 'cause this very well could be what we're looking for. 801 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,900 [over radio] Duane, looks like we've got an opening over here. 802 00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:50,160 Copy that. That's what we're looking for. 803 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,660 [Charlie] Yeah, if we can get this down a little bit more, 804 00:38:52,660 --> 00:38:54,760 let's see what it opens up as. 805 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,600 Copy that. Coming at you. 806 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:03,700 [Josh] Here he goes. 807 00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:06,100 [narrator] Charlie has found an opening in the rock formation. 808 00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:08,400 However, the team must dig down 809 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,400 to see if it continues deeper. 810 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:11,730 If it does, 811 00:39:11,730 --> 00:39:14,930 it could be the secret entrance Duane has been looking for. 812 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,400 There he goes. There he goes. 813 00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:21,430 Let's open this baby up. 814 00:39:23,260 --> 00:39:24,600 We're into somethin'. 815 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,400 [Josh] Here we go. Let the dust clear. 816 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:41,300 Yeah, perfect. 817 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:43,030 What do you think, Charlie? 818 00:39:43,460 --> 00:39:44,700 What do you got? 819 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:46,900 [Charlie] Yeah, let's see. 820 00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:54,860 Charlie saw that there was a void there 821 00:39:54,860 --> 00:39:57,600 right in the hard rock, that doesn't make a lot of sense. 822 00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:01,000 God only knows what it could be. 823 00:40:03,260 --> 00:40:06,000 I mean, that could be the key that gets us in. 824 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,400 [Charlie] Hey, Josh. Come over here and look at this. 825 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,400 This could be a game changer, Charlie boy. 826 00:40:27,860 --> 00:40:28,830 [Josh] Hyah, hyah. 827 00:40:28,830 --> 00:40:30,860 [narrator] Next time on Blind Frog Ranch... 828 00:40:30,860 --> 00:40:33,300 [Josh] There should be a way across right over here. 829 00:40:33,300 --> 00:40:36,260 [narrator] Chad and Josh trek deep into the wilderness... 830 00:40:36,260 --> 00:40:40,060 -[Chad] Finally here, brother. -[Josh] What is going on with this place? 831 00:40:40,060 --> 00:40:43,200 [narrator] ...to follow a lead that may finally get them to the keyhole chamber... 832 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:44,530 -[device beeping] -[Chad] Holy [bleep]. 833 00:40:44,530 --> 00:40:47,200 [narrator] ...and discover a strange anomaly along the way. 834 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,760 [Chad] There has to be an entrance somewhere. 835 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,360 [narrator] Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, 836 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:56,060 Eric uncovers eerie similarities to Blind Frog Ranch. 837 00:40:56,060 --> 00:40:58,300 [Eric] We're seeing the same type of phenomena 838 00:40:58,300 --> 00:40:59,630 out at the ranch. 839 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:02,760 [narrator] And Duane embarks 840 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,100 on his most ambitious excavation yet... 841 00:41:06,100 --> 00:41:08,900 [Josh] Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop him, stop him, Charlie. 842 00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:14,100 [narrator] ...as he tries to crack open the top of the bead site. 843 00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:16,460 -Is that the machine doing that? -No, that's not the machine! 844 00:41:16,460 --> 00:41:19,130 [narrator] But something else stands in the way. 845 00:41:19,460 --> 00:41:20,600 The hell is that? 846 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,030 Shut it down! 847 00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:23,630 Careful! Watch out! Watch out! 848 00:41:25,260 --> 00:41:26,260 [bleep]!