WEBVTT 00:00:17.439 --> 00:00:18.690 What is that? 00:00:23.111 --> 00:00:23.987 Okay. 00:00:25.071 --> 00:00:26.823 There's something big there. 00:00:28.116 --> 00:00:30.618 It's hard, but it's not a rock. 00:00:33.038 --> 00:00:34.497 Is it another bone? 00:00:35.457 --> 00:00:37.375 We've already found a finger bone 00:00:37.459 --> 00:00:40.045 in the hole where I was getting the big hit. 00:00:40.128 --> 00:00:43.757 It makes sense that Dwargstof was trying to hide the gold… 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:46.259 …under a dead body 00:00:46.342 --> 00:00:49.596 because in the 1890s, everybody was superstitious. 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:51.723 No one's going to disturb a grave site. 00:00:52.223 --> 00:00:54.851 I think we're going to be digging up a whole skeleton next, 00:00:54.934 --> 00:00:58.146 and under that skeleton is going to be a huge stash of gold. 00:00:59.647 --> 00:01:01.483 What the hell is this? 00:01:04.027 --> 00:01:06.154 Is that a piece of someone's skull? 00:01:07.864 --> 00:01:08.823 Oh my God. 00:01:09.866 --> 00:01:11.826 Let me scrape it a little. 00:01:23.213 --> 00:01:25.965 This is fused iron and glass, 00:01:26.049 --> 00:01:29.344 and whatever that is was setting off the metal detector. 00:01:29.427 --> 00:01:31.054 -So this is junk. -This is junk. 00:01:31.137 --> 00:01:34.057 This is glass fused together with metal junk. 00:01:34.140 --> 00:01:37.894 What I can't figure out is what is a finger bone doing in that hole? 00:01:38.728 --> 00:01:40.355 This is a quandary. 00:01:40.438 --> 00:01:42.899 I'm going to try to find out what this is. 00:01:43.733 --> 00:01:46.194 As a scientist, I need to look at all the data 00:01:46.277 --> 00:01:48.905 so I can figure out what this means for the treasure hunt. 00:01:49.405 --> 00:01:51.533 I'm reaching out again 00:01:51.574 --> 00:01:53.034 to my colleague Bruce, a bone expert. 00:01:53.118 --> 00:01:56.037 See what else he might be able to tell me about this finger bone. 00:01:56.538 --> 00:01:58.414 Bruce. This is killing me. 00:01:58.498 --> 00:02:00.834 Who just finds a single bone? 00:02:00.917 --> 00:02:03.711 I've got a thought. Can I take a closer look at that bone? 00:02:05.380 --> 00:02:09.384 I see some scoring in the ends of that. That's not natural. 00:02:09.467 --> 00:02:10.510 It's sharp. 00:02:10.593 --> 00:02:13.429 It looks like it may have been cut off. 00:02:16.266 --> 00:02:17.934 I have this idea. 00:02:18.601 --> 00:02:21.479 Seal hunters get little cuts, and those cuts would get infected. 00:02:21.563 --> 00:02:24.274 It gets bad enough that the joint seizes up, 00:02:24.357 --> 00:02:26.442 and they can't use that finger anymore. 00:02:26.526 --> 00:02:28.862 -It's called sealer's finger. -Hmm. 00:02:28.945 --> 00:02:32.323 This could be a sealer's finger that you found. 00:02:32.407 --> 00:02:33.449 I mean… 00:02:36.035 --> 00:02:37.120 that's possible. 00:02:38.204 --> 00:02:39.998 Dwargstof was a sealer. 00:02:40.081 --> 00:02:43.918 So finding a centuries-old sealer's finger in our search area 00:02:44.002 --> 00:02:47.005 indicates the gold still could be nearby. 00:02:54.679 --> 00:02:55.805 I have news on the bone. 00:02:55.889 --> 00:02:59.225 The finger had this infection called sealer's finger. 00:02:59.309 --> 00:03:02.228 These days if you get it, you just treat it with antibiotics, 00:03:02.312 --> 00:03:06.441 but back then, the only known cure was amputation. 00:03:06.524 --> 00:03:08.318 Sealers would take a knife, 00:03:09.903 --> 00:03:12.572 and they would chop off their own finger. 00:03:13.072 --> 00:03:15.200 You know what? For me, this is still good. 00:03:15.283 --> 00:03:16.951 We've got sealer's finger. 00:03:17.035 --> 00:03:21.247 There was at least some sealers there. I mean, it's still pointing to Dwargstof. 00:03:21.331 --> 00:03:24.209 Those are good clues as far as I'm concerned. 00:03:24.292 --> 00:03:28.129 We're in the zone. I think there's still gold around there somewhere. 00:03:28.213 --> 00:03:29.464 That's good news. 00:03:29.547 --> 00:03:30.715 Let's get to work. 00:03:41.017 --> 00:03:45.521 In 1892, seal poacher and pirate Gregory Dwargstof 00:03:45.605 --> 00:03:49.567 buried 150 cans filled with gold coins 00:03:49.651 --> 00:03:52.195 on the remote island of Adak, Alaska. 00:03:53.029 --> 00:03:55.657 Adak saw action during World War II. 00:03:55.740 --> 00:03:58.868 Now it's riddled with unexploded bombs. 00:03:59.577 --> 00:04:01.871 When you dig on Adak, you may get rich… 00:04:01.955 --> 00:04:03.581 Got another hit here. 00:04:03.665 --> 00:04:05.166 …or you might just die trying. 00:04:28.064 --> 00:04:29.232 -Weed? -Yes? 00:04:29.732 --> 00:04:31.985 Have you cleared this area right here? 00:04:32.068 --> 00:04:34.404 -Where we found the finger bone? -Yeah. 00:04:34.487 --> 00:04:36.531 Halfway through their expedition, 00:04:36.614 --> 00:04:38.199 the team's primary search area, 00:04:38.283 --> 00:04:41.536 the hill at Army 1, remains shut down 00:04:41.619 --> 00:04:43.288 until an explosive specialist 00:04:43.371 --> 00:04:47.709 can get to Adak to remove the dangerous UXO the team discovered there. 00:04:48.209 --> 00:04:51.713 With no time to waste, they are currently searching Navy 2, 00:04:51.796 --> 00:04:54.882 where they think Dwargstof left another stash of gold. 00:04:55.383 --> 00:04:57.885 The team is focusing their efforts along a trench 00:04:57.969 --> 00:05:03.516 where they believe some of his gold was unearthed by a Navy Seabee in 1959. 00:05:09.856 --> 00:05:11.065 I got something here, Jay. 00:05:13.776 --> 00:05:15.987 I don't know how deep it is, but… 00:05:20.450 --> 00:05:23.161 See if you can cut that out with your shovel right there. 00:05:31.961 --> 00:05:34.213 -What's it looking like in there? 00:05:34.297 --> 00:05:36.549 We're on something good right here, buddy. 00:05:36.632 --> 00:05:38.134 Now we're on it. 00:05:42.221 --> 00:05:45.308 We're starting to get there. Oh boy. 00:05:47.477 --> 00:05:48.728 We got something. 00:05:52.690 --> 00:05:54.817 -What is that? -Look at that. 00:05:54.901 --> 00:05:58.905 Whoa. It's like an old Zippo or something. 00:05:59.864 --> 00:06:01.282 That's pretty cool, man. 00:06:02.533 --> 00:06:04.202 It says something on it. 00:06:05.495 --> 00:06:08.206 Can you read that bottom line? I can't read it. 00:06:10.249 --> 00:06:12.418 Looks like Terre Haute, Indiana. 00:06:12.502 --> 00:06:17.006 Maybe somebody that was stationed up here was from there. Dropped it. 00:06:17.090 --> 00:06:18.758 It ain't gold, but it's pretty cool. 00:06:19.342 --> 00:06:22.345 The Zippo was right next to a Seabee drainage ditch. 00:06:22.428 --> 00:06:26.140 We know when the Seabee found a can of gold in 1959, 00:06:26.224 --> 00:06:28.017 he was digging a drainage trench. 00:06:28.101 --> 00:06:30.978 I can imagine the Seabee digging away on this trench. 00:06:31.062 --> 00:06:33.981 Hell, that lighter could have just fell right out of his pocket. 00:06:34.065 --> 00:06:35.858 This is starting to line up a bit. 00:06:35.942 --> 00:06:38.861 We're in the right spot. We're gonna get some gold out here. 00:06:38.945 --> 00:06:41.322 Oh, yeah. I'm stoked now. 00:06:43.157 --> 00:06:44.659 Are you finding anything? 00:06:44.742 --> 00:06:46.452 Digging up so much garbage. 00:06:46.536 --> 00:06:48.913 The metal detectors can't tell the difference between 00:06:49.497 --> 00:06:51.624 an aluminum can and a gold coin. 00:06:52.125 --> 00:06:56.003 -Aluminum's the bane of metal detecting. 00:06:56.087 --> 00:06:58.506 Because aluminum sounds just like gold. 00:06:58.589 --> 00:07:01.926 And another soda can. This is gonna be a hard dig. 00:07:04.470 --> 00:07:06.722 I got something here. I got a good reading. 00:07:07.473 --> 00:07:08.850 Can you identify it at all? 00:07:09.475 --> 00:07:11.894 I think you might have found some siding. 00:07:13.020 --> 00:07:16.482 Foil, can, can, foil, can… 00:07:17.900 --> 00:07:19.402 I think that last one was foil. 00:07:22.822 --> 00:07:27.618 This soil has been so disturbed by 80 years of military activity on Adak 00:07:27.702 --> 00:07:31.330 that it's rendering our metal detectors useless. 00:07:32.039 --> 00:07:34.125 Soil builds up in layers over time, 00:07:34.208 --> 00:07:37.086 with older layers buried beneath newer ones. 00:07:37.170 --> 00:07:39.714 All this aluminum debris is not that old, 00:07:39.797 --> 00:07:41.424 and it's pretty shallow. 00:07:41.507 --> 00:07:45.344 Jay and Burke found a Zippo lighter that's around 60 years old 00:07:45.428 --> 00:07:47.430 and was buried much deeper. 00:07:47.513 --> 00:07:52.560 Dwargstof's treasure is 130 years old. It's going to be buried below all of that. 00:07:52.643 --> 00:07:54.228 But we can't actually detect it 00:07:54.312 --> 00:07:56.772 because all the other debris is in the way. 00:07:56.856 --> 00:07:59.567 Now we could bring in a ground-penetrating radar, 00:07:59.650 --> 00:08:02.153 which, unlike the metal detectors, 00:08:02.236 --> 00:08:06.073 can be calibrated to scan at a very precise depth, 00:08:06.157 --> 00:08:09.035 but we don't know yet how deep to set it. 00:08:09.118 --> 00:08:12.205 If we set it too shallow, we'll just pick up more junk. 00:08:12.288 --> 00:08:13.706 If we set it too deep, 00:08:13.789 --> 00:08:15.541 we'll miss the treasure entirely. 00:08:15.625 --> 00:08:16.792 So to make all this work, 00:08:16.876 --> 00:08:21.005 I need to calculate the depth of Adak's original soil, 00:08:21.088 --> 00:08:24.342 the same layer on which Dwargstof walked, 00:08:24.425 --> 00:08:27.094 long before it was churned over by the US Military. 00:08:30.348 --> 00:08:32.391 I've been looking at all the soil at Navy 2, 00:08:33.351 --> 00:08:36.270 and I want to do some soil tests. 00:08:37.313 --> 00:08:41.108 What I'd like to do is take some soil samples of Navy 2. 00:08:41.943 --> 00:08:43.903 I brought a small soil probe with me, 00:08:43.986 --> 00:08:47.073 but I need a large probe that can go down at least four feet, 00:08:47.156 --> 00:08:49.492 but it's Adak, so I can't go to the store. 00:08:50.076 --> 00:08:53.037 A soil probe is a tool that removes a column of dirt 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:56.999 from the ground and allows scientists to analyze the different layers 00:08:57.083 --> 00:08:59.085 exactly as they appeared in the earth. 00:08:59.168 --> 00:09:02.004 If you imagined an onion, right? All the different layers? 00:09:02.088 --> 00:09:05.174 If you just took a plug out of the onion, you'd see all those layers. 00:09:05.258 --> 00:09:06.592 Same thing with our soil. 00:09:06.676 --> 00:09:09.095 And by analyzing the different layers, 00:09:09.178 --> 00:09:12.598 I can tell you which layers came from which time period, 00:09:12.682 --> 00:09:15.810 which tells us how far down to scan for gold. 00:09:15.893 --> 00:09:18.604 The one I have at home, the probe, 00:09:18.688 --> 00:09:22.692 it's got a sharpened edge down here, right? 00:09:22.775 --> 00:09:27.905 But what's important is that there's a popped-out window here. 00:09:28.406 --> 00:09:29.365 No problem. 00:09:29.448 --> 00:09:31.993 You're in good hands. We'll get this done for you. 00:09:32.076 --> 00:09:33.077 Thank you so much. 00:09:36.914 --> 00:09:39.792 So, we're back to the Adak hardware store. 00:09:41.294 --> 00:09:44.880 I bet anybody that came here looking for gold before 00:09:44.964 --> 00:09:49.385 got so much trash and got so many hits they just quit. 00:09:49.468 --> 00:09:53.514 And that's what makes this team better than anybody that came before, 00:09:53.598 --> 00:09:57.184 because Dr. M, she has scientific, like, superpowers. 00:09:57.268 --> 00:10:00.938 She can come up with all these solutions, and then Burke and I can build it. 00:10:04.358 --> 00:10:06.986 If my metal shop teacher could see me being all science-y… 00:10:07.069 --> 00:10:08.821 Good little window right here. 00:10:08.904 --> 00:10:10.364 …he'd be like mind blown. 00:10:10.448 --> 00:10:12.491 -Good job. -Let's get a hold of her. 00:10:12.992 --> 00:10:14.201 We'll deliver. 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:22.627 Let's see what they made. 00:10:24.629 --> 00:10:26.339 Yeah. Got something. 00:10:26.839 --> 00:10:28.049 Let's see… 00:10:28.924 --> 00:10:30.509 I think you know how to use it. 00:10:30.593 --> 00:10:33.095 This is perfect. Thank you so much. 00:10:34.930 --> 00:10:38.100 -Well, here you go. Happy science-ing. -Happy science-ing. 00:10:40.895 --> 00:10:44.023 I've traveled from Iceland to Antarctica, 00:10:44.106 --> 00:10:46.233 studying increasing climatic changes, 00:10:46.317 --> 00:10:49.111 which does include studying soil composition. 00:10:49.695 --> 00:10:52.281 But if you told me back in grad school 00:10:52.365 --> 00:10:54.200 that someday I would be searching 00:10:54.283 --> 00:10:59.330 for buried pirate treasure in an abandoned housing complex 00:10:59.413 --> 00:11:02.958 with a homemade soil sampler that was made out of a fence post? 00:11:03.042 --> 00:11:03.959 There you go. 00:11:04.043 --> 00:11:06.921 I'd be like, "What have you been smoking?" 00:11:08.172 --> 00:11:10.966 Dr. M and Brian will take soil samples 00:11:11.050 --> 00:11:13.052 from across their entire search area 00:11:13.135 --> 00:11:14.845 at a depth of four feet. 00:11:15.346 --> 00:11:18.974 This should be deep enough to contain soil from Dwargstof's era. 00:11:19.058 --> 00:11:20.351 Oh, you got this. 00:11:22.436 --> 00:11:23.896 -Nice. 00:11:23.979 --> 00:11:26.691 Oh, for goodness sakes. Look at that. 00:11:26.774 --> 00:11:28.818 It works perfectly. 00:11:29.652 --> 00:11:32.863 Let's move down farther inland and keep going. 00:11:42.748 --> 00:11:44.875 There's a layer of broken up gray, 00:11:44.875 --> 00:11:47.420 almost blue, blue-green igneous rock. 00:11:48.045 --> 00:11:53.217 I'm suspicious because these types of rocks are commonly used in construction. 00:11:53.884 --> 00:11:58.889 Whether that is a layer of rock that was transported in 00:11:58.973 --> 00:12:01.100 or is natural to this area, I don't know yet. 00:12:01.183 --> 00:12:03.102 I don't have enough data for that. 00:12:03.894 --> 00:12:06.105 In large-scale construction projects, 00:12:06.188 --> 00:12:09.859 builders bring in fill dirt and gravel from other locations 00:12:09.942 --> 00:12:13.112 to fix water drainage and to make the ground level. 00:12:13.612 --> 00:12:18.909 Dr. M has to figure out what Adak's original layer of soil is composed of. 00:12:18.993 --> 00:12:20.202 So, she needs a sample 00:12:20.286 --> 00:12:23.956 from a part of the island that has been untouched by human activity. 00:12:28.794 --> 00:12:32.047 We need to go to somewhere on the island that's been undisturbed 00:12:32.131 --> 00:12:34.425 and take soil samples from that spot. 00:12:34.508 --> 00:12:37.344 Because of the military occupation on the island, 00:12:37.428 --> 00:12:39.513 virgin soil is really hard to find. 00:12:39.597 --> 00:12:41.974 There's a good chance that almost every piece of land 00:12:42.057 --> 00:12:43.976 has been disturbed one way or another. 00:12:45.019 --> 00:12:49.190 But there was one area that was completely off-limits to everyone. 00:12:49.273 --> 00:12:54.069 It was the most secure and protected place in all of the Bering Sea. 00:13:11.337 --> 00:13:14.882 This was the most highly-guarded facility on the island. 00:13:17.092 --> 00:13:20.221 During the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union faced off 00:13:20.304 --> 00:13:25.309 with the deadliest weapons the world has ever known, nuclear warheads. 00:13:31.774 --> 00:13:34.944 Seventy warheads were stored on Adak, 00:13:35.027 --> 00:13:37.571 where they were loaded into specially-equipped planes 00:13:37.655 --> 00:13:40.699 that patrolled the Bering Sea for Soviet submarines. 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.911 These nuclear payloads were so dangerous, 00:13:43.994 --> 00:13:46.622 the technology used to make them so secret, 00:13:46.705 --> 00:13:51.418 that they were stored in seven bunkers behind seven locked steel doors. 00:13:52.211 --> 00:13:56.006 The site was known as the Seven Doors of Doom 00:13:56.090 --> 00:13:58.843 and was the most secure location on the island. 00:14:02.346 --> 00:14:04.640 You'd have landmines between the two fences 00:14:04.723 --> 00:14:06.684 on both sides all the way around. 00:14:06.767 --> 00:14:09.436 You'd have snipers laying out here in ghillie suits. 00:14:09.520 --> 00:14:10.354 Wow. 00:14:11.856 --> 00:14:15.276 Since there hasn't been any human activity near this site, 00:14:15.359 --> 00:14:18.904 the soil should have the same composition as the Navy 2 soil, 00:14:18.988 --> 00:14:23.075 where Dwargstof buried gold nearly 130 years ago. 00:14:24.618 --> 00:14:27.204 So I'd say let's just go right up on the hill there, 00:14:27.288 --> 00:14:29.456 and then let's just pull a couple of samples 00:14:29.540 --> 00:14:31.625 because it's not been disturbed. 00:14:37.381 --> 00:14:38.507 Wanna try pulling up? 00:14:39.800 --> 00:14:42.970 Yeah. Okay, keep pulling, keep pulling… 00:14:43.053 --> 00:14:44.847 and look at that. 00:14:44.930 --> 00:14:46.473 It's like Christmas. 00:14:47.725 --> 00:14:48.767 Oh golly. 00:14:49.351 --> 00:14:50.769 This is what I love. 00:14:51.270 --> 00:14:53.397 You're really excited about this dirt. 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:55.482 I mean, look at that. 00:14:56.734 --> 00:14:59.069 -We're going to find another location. -Okay. 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:03.490 I want to get one more sample from the lower ground around here 00:15:03.574 --> 00:15:05.200 to compare to Navy 2, 00:15:05.284 --> 00:15:08.495 and then we'll know how deep we need to scan and, ultimately, 00:15:08.579 --> 00:15:10.623 how deep we'll need to dig. 00:15:21.425 --> 00:15:23.510 @ 00:15:27.640 --> 00:15:30.976 Good morning, ladies. You got any breakfast for me? 00:15:31.477 --> 00:15:34.063 Food supplies are kind of hard out here on Adak. 00:15:34.146 --> 00:15:35.564 There's no supermarkets. 00:15:36.315 --> 00:15:39.193 If you want fresh produce or fresh dairy or fresh meat, 00:15:39.276 --> 00:15:42.237 you'll have to figure out a way to provide that for yourself. 00:15:42.321 --> 00:15:44.615 So Jay and I brought our own chickens. 00:15:48.619 --> 00:15:50.496 All right. There we are. 00:15:50.996 --> 00:15:52.164 Sir. 00:15:52.831 --> 00:15:54.500 Well, you got more than me. 00:15:57.419 --> 00:15:58.921 Treasure hunting fuel. 00:16:05.970 --> 00:16:09.223 I wanted to show you guys the results of the soil samples. 00:16:09.723 --> 00:16:13.185 This is Adak's classic soil. 00:16:13.852 --> 00:16:18.524 I took these first two samples near the Seven Doors of Doom storage facility. 00:16:19.358 --> 00:16:20.985 So this is the control. 00:16:21.068 --> 00:16:25.906 But now this is the interesting part. Here are two samples from Navy 2. 00:16:25.990 --> 00:16:27.950 This will be the most interesting for us. 00:16:28.033 --> 00:16:31.495 This is the western side of Navy 2, right next to the house. 00:16:31.578 --> 00:16:34.832 And all you're looking at here is a little bit of veg, 00:16:34.915 --> 00:16:36.583 a little bit of topsoil. 00:16:36.667 --> 00:16:39.920 -And then we get into some mud and silt. -What's all this rock? 00:16:40.004 --> 00:16:43.507 Yeah. That's the key. That's why this one is so important. 00:16:43.590 --> 00:16:44.883 That is fill. 00:16:45.384 --> 00:16:49.304 In the '50s, the military brought this in. I found it everywhere I dug, 00:16:49.388 --> 00:16:53.600 but I didn't find anything that matched it in the samples of original soil 00:16:53.684 --> 00:16:55.644 that I took near the Seven Doors of Doom. 00:16:55.728 --> 00:17:00.190 And there's 26 inches of fill dirt in this particular sample. 00:17:00.274 --> 00:17:03.861 But look at the end of it, where there's a distinct change. 00:17:04.695 --> 00:17:06.530 The reddish-brown soil at the bottom 00:17:06.613 --> 00:17:09.491 has the same composition as at the top of this control. 00:17:09.575 --> 00:17:12.202 And what's fascinating is it's right there. 00:17:12.286 --> 00:17:14.830 That's the level that we found that finger bone. 00:17:14.913 --> 00:17:18.542 That makes sense. It's a very visible transition there. 00:17:18.625 --> 00:17:20.377 -Exactly. -This is huge. 00:17:20.461 --> 00:17:21.295 Yeah. 00:17:21.879 --> 00:17:24.673 Anything that Dwargstof would have left behind, like the gold, 00:17:24.757 --> 00:17:28.343 is going to be at least 26 inches below the surface. 00:17:28.844 --> 00:17:30.637 -Good work. -This is good work. 00:17:30.721 --> 00:17:31.930 -That's outstanding. -Yeah. 00:17:32.014 --> 00:17:34.308 Now we have good data. Let's go for it. 00:17:35.434 --> 00:17:39.188 Now Thom will scan Navy 2 with ground-penetrating radar. 00:17:41.106 --> 00:17:44.276 He will calibrate to scan at a specific depth, 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:47.404 enabling him to detect targets beneath the fill layer, 00:17:47.488 --> 00:17:51.283 and avoid interference from metal debris closer to the surface. 00:17:51.366 --> 00:17:53.911 This way, he'll be able to see large objects, 00:17:53.994 --> 00:17:56.622 such as cans of gold that are buried deeper. 00:17:57.623 --> 00:18:00.751 I'm looking down to about two-and-a-half to four feet. 00:18:27.820 --> 00:18:30.322 I'm getting a hit on something near this house. 00:18:35.994 --> 00:18:38.872 The closer I get, the stronger the signal is getting. 00:18:40.958 --> 00:18:42.584 There's something big here. 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:52.678 There's definitely something here. 00:18:54.346 --> 00:18:57.057 It's at least a couple, two-and-a-half feet down, 00:18:57.141 --> 00:18:59.393 running from the outside underneath the house. 00:18:59.476 --> 00:19:03.605 It's large, and it doesn't belong there. It's definitely not part of the house. 00:19:03.689 --> 00:19:07.317 The ground-penetrating radar has detected a large metal object 00:19:07.401 --> 00:19:09.194 below the layers of fill dirt. 00:19:09.278 --> 00:19:13.574 The object is at a depth that indicates that it could be from Dwargstof's era 00:19:13.657 --> 00:19:16.827 and is in the final unsearched sector of Navy 2. 00:19:16.910 --> 00:19:19.663 Whatever it is, it's definitely a cylinder shape. 00:19:20.372 --> 00:19:23.542 It could certainly be the size of a projectile. 00:19:23.625 --> 00:19:25.961 This could be either really good or really bad news. 00:19:28.130 --> 00:19:31.258 The target Thom has detected is the only viable hit 00:19:31.341 --> 00:19:32.926 within the team's search zone. 00:19:35.095 --> 00:19:36.972 There's something under the ground. 00:19:37.055 --> 00:19:39.808 It's a cylinder-shaped object. It's a few feet down. 00:19:39.892 --> 00:19:42.102 It looks like it runs just outside the house to… 00:19:42.186 --> 00:19:44.521 I can't determine how far underneath it. 00:19:44.605 --> 00:19:45.522 How do we get to it? 00:19:45.606 --> 00:19:48.233 -Dig in from the side? -We can't dig in from the side. 00:19:48.317 --> 00:19:51.486 That house is about to come down. I don't want anyone too close to it. 00:19:52.070 --> 00:19:54.239 So we are looking at all of this data, 00:19:54.323 --> 00:19:56.241 the anchor point in Kuluk Bay, 00:19:56.825 --> 00:19:59.411 the can of Dwargstof's gold found near a Seabee trench, 00:19:59.494 --> 00:20:03.498 the soil samples that give us a depth where Dwargstof could've buried the cans. 00:20:04.458 --> 00:20:06.627 The gold should be underneath this house. 00:20:06.710 --> 00:20:08.879 This team has used considerable expertise 00:20:09.463 --> 00:20:13.550 to narrow down the search area from 120 acres to just a few square feet. 00:20:14.051 --> 00:20:17.638 But if the gold's not under the house, it's just not at Navy 2. 00:20:17.721 --> 00:20:21.934 If there's a cylinder underneath that house, that house has to go. 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:25.395 -We gotta take the house down. -We gotta take the house down. 00:20:25.979 --> 00:20:27.981 Okay, but how do we move the house? 00:20:28.065 --> 00:20:29.441 That's the question. 00:20:29.524 --> 00:20:32.694 The backhoe we used to expose that UXO up on Army 1, 00:20:32.778 --> 00:20:35.447 it's not gonna be big enough to take down a friggin' house. 00:20:36.031 --> 00:20:38.200 I saw an excavator by the old fish plant. 00:20:38.283 --> 00:20:41.703 I'm going to see if we can use that. Because if we have that, 00:20:42.329 --> 00:20:44.748 we can knock this house down like it wasn't even here. 00:20:47.167 --> 00:20:48.794 We're gonna go talk to this guy, 00:20:48.877 --> 00:20:51.713 see if we can convince him to let us use this thing. 00:20:54.675 --> 00:20:56.260 -What's up? -How you doing, Jay? 00:20:56.343 --> 00:20:57.844 -Good to meet you, man. -Burke. 00:20:57.928 --> 00:21:00.013 -Emmet. How you doing? -Burke and I, we… 00:21:00.097 --> 00:21:01.974 We're from here. This is our hometown. 00:21:02.057 --> 00:21:05.018 We want to help this place out. Tough place to make a living. 00:21:05.102 --> 00:21:07.354 Oh yeah, you got to know how to survive here. 00:21:07.437 --> 00:21:10.607 Do a little horse-trading, wheelin', dealin', whatever you got to do. 00:21:10.691 --> 00:21:12.317 Maybe we can make a deal. 00:21:12.401 --> 00:21:15.529 There's one spot left that we haven't been able to dig, 00:21:15.612 --> 00:21:17.030 and there's a house in our way. 00:21:17.114 --> 00:21:20.909 We need to use this big piece of equipment you got to take that house down. 00:21:20.993 --> 00:21:22.119 Could be a payday there. 00:21:22.202 --> 00:21:24.246 Are you the guys that brought the chickens? 00:21:24.329 --> 00:21:26.498 -Yeah. -We could possibly 00:21:26.581 --> 00:21:28.500 work something out for those chickens. 00:21:28.583 --> 00:21:30.919 Chickens. This is my kind of deal. 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:35.257 You drove a real hard bargain. All of our chickens are gone. 00:21:35.340 --> 00:21:37.050 But I got it, didn't I? 00:21:37.134 --> 00:21:39.886 -I said I would, and I got it. -Oh, yeah, you got it. 00:22:07.831 --> 00:22:10.167 If what we're dealing with is an unexploded bomb, 00:22:10.250 --> 00:22:14.296 it's buried at least 30 inches under the ground, under a concrete foundation. 00:22:14.379 --> 00:22:16.465 Luckily, all that material should prevent us 00:22:16.548 --> 00:22:19.384 from accidentally setting it off as we work above it. 00:22:19.468 --> 00:22:21.803 What I need now is for Burke to remove this house 00:22:21.887 --> 00:22:24.556 so we can get a visual inspection of the item under there 00:22:24.639 --> 00:22:28.435 and find out whether it is an unexploded bomb or it's a canister of gold. 00:22:29.269 --> 00:22:31.021 The object below the house, 00:22:31.104 --> 00:22:34.232 even if it was a UXO, would not have been disturbed 00:22:35.025 --> 00:22:39.571 because the prefab houses were all shipped from the mainland on barges 00:22:39.654 --> 00:22:42.449 before being carefully lowered into place by cranes. 00:22:46.828 --> 00:22:49.039 Okay, Burke. Let's go nice and slow. 00:23:02.344 --> 00:23:03.637 Okay, you're there. 00:23:06.890 --> 00:23:09.351 It looks like it's going to cave in. Give it more. 00:23:12.562 --> 00:23:14.940 Come out and swing into it from the side. 00:23:20.070 --> 00:23:22.280 See if you can come up above that, Burke. 00:23:22.364 --> 00:23:25.117 Get on top of the house and use the teeth to push down. 00:23:34.709 --> 00:23:35.961 Kind of sever that thing, 00:23:36.044 --> 00:23:38.171 and then we can push it over from this side. 00:24:02.404 --> 00:24:04.531 My blood's pumping. I want to go get that stuff. 00:24:04.614 --> 00:24:06.491 This is the end zone. 00:24:06.575 --> 00:24:09.619 This is the final spot. It's got to be here. 00:24:09.703 --> 00:24:12.747 All right, bring the trucks in. We need a little bit of light. 00:24:13.415 --> 00:24:17.294 After tearing down the house, Thom and Burke work well into the night, 00:24:17.377 --> 00:24:20.213 removing all the debris that's still covering the object. 00:24:20.797 --> 00:24:23.925 I've got Burke out of here, so now we'll find out what's down there. 00:24:25.760 --> 00:24:28.138 We might have gold in our hand within the hour. 00:24:31.475 --> 00:24:34.436 Thom again scans the object with the GPR, 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:37.397 this time from inside the perimeter of the house. 00:24:37.981 --> 00:24:40.275 Getting a couple scans in here 00:24:40.358 --> 00:24:42.777 and trying to find that object… 00:24:42.861 --> 00:24:46.156 -…which I think is right there. 00:24:46.239 --> 00:24:49.659 And, uh, once I get kind of a feel 00:24:50.744 --> 00:24:53.371 exactly where it's at, I can start digging on it. 00:24:53.455 --> 00:24:57.125 And I've only got this one big anomaly over here. 00:24:57.918 --> 00:24:59.336 So we'll get to work on it. 00:25:01.505 --> 00:25:05.800 I want to make sure everyone's back and all clear. I'm on top of this thing. 00:25:05.884 --> 00:25:09.471 I'm going to start digging with my hand. So I need camera out of here. 00:25:32.244 --> 00:25:35.497 -It's not ordnance. -It's not UXO! 00:25:35.580 --> 00:25:37.582 Well, if it's not ordnance, dig it up! 00:25:39.251 --> 00:25:42.837 It's a thin skin type metal, 18-inches wide… 00:25:42.921 --> 00:25:44.714 Like a metal jug! 00:25:47.300 --> 00:25:49.803 Come on, Thom. Show me the money. 00:25:50.512 --> 00:25:51.471 I got it out. 00:25:53.014 --> 00:25:54.474 Thom, what is it?