WEBVTT 00:00:23.111 --> 00:00:25.071 -What was that? -Did you hear that? 00:00:28.366 --> 00:00:29.367 What was that? 00:00:31.703 --> 00:00:34.622 Almost feels like I'm scraping something there, Thom. 00:00:34.706 --> 00:00:37.125 Stop. Just stop right there. Let me look. 00:00:38.251 --> 00:00:40.545 The treasure hunting team attempts to determine 00:00:40.628 --> 00:00:43.506 whether a buried object at their primary dig site 00:00:43.590 --> 00:00:45.717 is part of the gold they're looking for 00:00:45.800 --> 00:00:48.428 or an unexploded bomb. 00:00:53.558 --> 00:00:55.602 Hey, Burke, think I'm gonna have you pull out. 00:00:55.685 --> 00:00:59.606 There's a strong contact in the sidewall, and I'm just gonna work on it a bit. 00:00:59.689 --> 00:01:01.733 And I'd like to move you around the hill. 00:01:01.816 --> 00:01:03.109 All right. 10-4. 00:01:09.449 --> 00:01:11.367 You're good about there, Burke. 00:01:31.638 --> 00:01:33.223 A lot of water and mud. 00:01:38.228 --> 00:01:39.854 I'm finding something. 00:01:43.316 --> 00:01:45.360 It's brass. It's cylindrical. 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:47.737 And it's got a, uh… 00:01:48.238 --> 00:01:49.614 base plate. 00:01:52.909 --> 00:01:54.953 Trying to see what this says. 00:01:59.415 --> 00:02:00.917 It's Japanese. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:01.835 Huh? 00:02:01.918 --> 00:02:03.086 -What? -Whoa! 00:02:03.169 --> 00:02:05.421 It's a Japanese artillery shell. 00:02:06.005 --> 00:02:07.132 And it's unfired. 00:02:12.637 --> 00:02:14.472 We have some real UXO going on. 00:02:15.140 --> 00:02:17.892 We now know that the object is definitely a UXO. 00:02:17.976 --> 00:02:20.311 It's not a milk jug full of gold. 00:02:20.395 --> 00:02:23.273 But all that means is the gold wasn't in this one spot. 00:02:23.356 --> 00:02:27.610 I believe this treasure could still be somewhere else on this hill. 00:02:27.694 --> 00:02:29.320 We're going to shut down the site. 00:02:29.404 --> 00:02:32.365 -Did he say we're shutting down? -We're shutting down the site. 00:02:32.448 --> 00:02:34.868 We're going to walk out of here. Get out of Army 1. 00:02:36.327 --> 00:02:38.163 I don't think he's too happy about this. 00:02:39.372 --> 00:02:42.167 A lot of people are depending on me to find this gold. 00:02:42.250 --> 00:02:44.252 What I need to do is find a way to get rid 00:02:44.294 --> 00:02:46.296 of this UXO to start digging again. 00:02:46.379 --> 00:02:49.591 Until then, the team's going to have to find somewhere else to search. 00:02:49.674 --> 00:02:53.511 You can pretty much bank we're not going to be digging on this hill for a minute. 00:02:59.684 --> 00:03:04.230 In 1892, seal poacher and pirate Gregory Dwargstof 00:03:04.314 --> 00:03:08.109 buried 150 cans filled with gold coins 00:03:08.193 --> 00:03:11.070 on the remote island of Adak, Alaska. 00:03:11.738 --> 00:03:14.115 Adak saw action during World War II. 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:18.077 Now it's riddled with unexploded bombs. 00:03:18.161 --> 00:03:20.413 When you dig on Adak, you may get rich… 00:03:20.496 --> 00:03:22.165 Got another hit over here. 00:03:22.248 --> 00:03:23.750 …or you might die trying. 00:03:40.600 --> 00:03:45.146 So far, we're off to a pretty rocky start due to the UXO in Army 1. 00:03:45.730 --> 00:03:48.066 It looks like a 105-millimeter artillery shell. 00:03:48.149 --> 00:03:53.571 It's basically designed to destroy anything from vehicles to bunkers, so… 00:03:53.655 --> 00:03:55.448 We can't work with that in the ground. 00:03:56.157 --> 00:03:59.494 My priority is to get this shell removed as quickly as possible 00:03:59.577 --> 00:04:01.454 to get the team back digging at Army 1. 00:04:01.537 --> 00:04:04.415 It's pretty unusual to find a Japanese munition on Adak, 00:04:04.499 --> 00:04:06.125 but it's not totally unexpected. 00:04:08.419 --> 00:04:09.629 In 1943, 00:04:10.255 --> 00:04:12.966 after US forces fighting from Adak drove 00:04:12.966 --> 00:04:15.593 the Japanese Army out of Kiska and Attu, 00:04:15.677 --> 00:04:19.389 hundreds of captured Japanese munitions were brought back to Adak. 00:04:19.472 --> 00:04:22.767 Some were studied to help with the ongoing war effort. 00:04:22.850 --> 00:04:26.187 Others were simply discarded, buried in the tundra. 00:04:26.271 --> 00:04:30.733 But even an old munition can pose a newfound deadly threat to the team. 00:04:33.653 --> 00:04:36.781 We not only exposed the shell, but we might have disturbed it, 00:04:36.864 --> 00:04:38.908 so I can't have anyone near it. 00:04:38.992 --> 00:04:41.869 It's big, it's fused, and it's unstable after 80 years. 00:04:41.953 --> 00:04:43.830 At this point, anything could set it off. 00:04:43.913 --> 00:04:45.915 Usually the Navy would send in a removal team 00:04:45.999 --> 00:04:48.126 to detonate it with a controlled explosion. 00:04:48.209 --> 00:04:49.335 I would help with that. 00:04:50.378 --> 00:04:51.629 Fire in the hole! 00:04:53.089 --> 00:04:56.926 In my time, I've uncovered thousands of unexploded bombs on Adak, 00:04:57.010 --> 00:04:59.470 and the military's detonated almost all of them. 00:05:00.054 --> 00:05:03.349 But getting them out here before winter comes is impossible. 00:05:03.433 --> 00:05:07.020 So I'm gonna have to bring in some outside help to deal with this shell. 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:10.940 Hey, Jack, I got a problem. 00:05:11.441 --> 00:05:13.109 We uncovered a projectile. 00:05:13.151 --> 00:05:15.069 It's uh… actually a Japanese projectile. 00:05:15.153 --> 00:05:18.197 I measured at about 105 mm. 00:05:18.281 --> 00:05:19.866 It hasn't been fired yet. 00:05:19.949 --> 00:05:22.076 Essentially what you've got is about 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:25.663 a 35-pound bomb filled with high explosives, 00:05:25.747 --> 00:05:29.042 with a trigger nose that's decades-old. 00:05:29.542 --> 00:05:34.047 It could very easily have a kill range of about 100-yard diameter. 00:05:34.130 --> 00:05:36.257 It's extremely dangerous. 00:05:36.841 --> 00:05:39.927 An artillery shell is designed so that when it detonates, 00:05:40.011 --> 00:05:44.057 the casing separates into thousands of metal fragments called shrapnel. 00:05:44.140 --> 00:05:48.311 The explosive blast propels the shrapnel outwards in all directions. 00:05:52.732 --> 00:05:55.568 I'm hoping to get you out here, see if we can get rid of it. 00:05:55.651 --> 00:05:59.113 What I'd like to do, instead of taking the risk of moving it, 00:05:59.197 --> 00:06:01.991 is I would like to blast it in place 00:06:02.075 --> 00:06:05.661 to destroy any explosive materials that might still be alive. 00:06:06.621 --> 00:06:09.207 It'll take Jack several weeks to procure explosives, 00:06:09.290 --> 00:06:11.542 to get the permits, and to charter a plane. 00:06:11.626 --> 00:06:13.044 It's going to be a while. 00:06:13.127 --> 00:06:15.129 But we're going to have ample time to dig 00:06:15.129 --> 00:06:17.131 at Army 1 once we detonate that shell. 00:06:18.132 --> 00:06:21.177 I appreciate it. We're looking forward to getting you out here. 00:06:21.260 --> 00:06:22.220 All right. 00:06:23.388 --> 00:06:25.014 With a delay at Army 1, 00:06:25.098 --> 00:06:27.100 the team focuses their attention on the site 00:06:27.183 --> 00:06:29.435 of the only other known gold find, 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:32.772 a massive housing development known as Navy 2. 00:06:34.065 --> 00:06:37.276 In the 1970s, a national treasure hunting magazine 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:41.656 reported that somewhere within this 120-acre complex, 00:06:41.739 --> 00:06:44.409 a Navy Seabee who was digging a trench 00:06:44.492 --> 00:06:47.245 unearthed a can of gold in 1959. 00:06:51.374 --> 00:06:53.835 Okay, this is all of Navy 2. 00:06:53.918 --> 00:06:55.253 So it's this huge area. 00:06:55.837 --> 00:07:00.341 We know the Seabees found one can of gold somewhere in this landscape. 00:07:01.217 --> 00:07:04.262 But Navy 2 is too big of an area to search. 00:07:04.971 --> 00:07:08.391 What are you thinking to be able to narrow down the site? 00:07:08.474 --> 00:07:10.393 We've got to remember time was a factor. 00:07:11.227 --> 00:07:13.729 Dwargstof was being hunted by the Navy, 00:07:13.813 --> 00:07:16.607 and he knows if he gets complacent or lazy, 00:07:16.691 --> 00:07:19.277 they're going to catch him, and they're going to kill him. 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:22.738 I mean, look at the ultimate fate of history's notorious pirates. 00:07:23.614 --> 00:07:26.993 In 1718, one such pirate, Blackbeard, 00:07:27.076 --> 00:07:29.245 met a gruesome end when the British Royal 00:07:29.287 --> 00:07:31.456 Navy finally caught up with him. 00:07:32.039 --> 00:07:34.500 During brutal hand-to-hand combat, 00:07:34.584 --> 00:07:38.463 Blackbeard was shot five times and stabbed twenty. 00:07:38.546 --> 00:07:42.300 And his head was hung on the bowsprit as a warning to other pirates. 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:44.760 Picture this, 00:07:45.678 --> 00:07:48.764 Dwargstof pulls up into the bay, drops anchor. 00:07:49.348 --> 00:07:50.516 He's got a lot of gold. 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:52.602 He's gotta move over the sand dunes. 00:07:52.685 --> 00:07:54.812 They load up the rowboat. They row in. 00:07:54.896 --> 00:07:57.482 Because we already figured out where he anchored, 00:07:57.565 --> 00:07:59.901 we have a good idea where he came ashore, 00:07:59.984 --> 00:08:04.614 but how far could he have gotten inland with his crew carrying that gold? 00:08:07.033 --> 00:08:08.159 -Hey, Thom. -Hey. 00:08:08.242 --> 00:08:12.163 I've developed an experiment that will help us simulate Dwargstof's journey 00:08:12.246 --> 00:08:14.707 so we can see Navy 2 from his perspective. 00:08:14.790 --> 00:08:17.919 And give us an idea of what he was doing to hide the gold. 00:08:19.253 --> 00:08:21.797 You figure Dwargstof, he's going to use what he had. 00:08:21.881 --> 00:08:23.508 And what he had was food tins. 00:08:24.175 --> 00:08:27.720 Based on the size and shape of the can from the first gold discovery 00:08:27.803 --> 00:08:28.888 at Army 1. 00:08:28.971 --> 00:08:32.808 Brian estimates it would have contained 20 pounds of gold. 00:08:34.435 --> 00:08:35.770 -Twenty pounds? -Twenty. 00:08:35.853 --> 00:08:37.146 Rough. Okay. 00:08:37.855 --> 00:08:41.067 And now we want to see how far Dwargstof and his men 00:08:41.150 --> 00:08:42.777 could have moved the gold inland. 00:08:44.111 --> 00:08:45.655 If you look at Navy 2, 00:08:45.738 --> 00:08:50.326 it's completely flat because it's been transformed by the military. 00:08:51.202 --> 00:08:52.703 If we look at old maps, 00:08:52.787 --> 00:08:55.706 back in 1892, it was a marshy wetland. 00:08:56.374 --> 00:08:59.001 Today, that's a filled-in housing complex. 00:09:01.337 --> 00:09:02.421 So in Dwargstof's day, 00:09:02.505 --> 00:09:05.174 the marshland would have defined the western border 00:09:05.258 --> 00:09:07.760 of how far he could have gone inland to hide the gold. 00:09:07.843 --> 00:09:10.179 Carrying that much weight, he would have sunk into it. 00:09:11.013 --> 00:09:14.600 The marshland was about 850 feet inland from the beach, 00:09:14.684 --> 00:09:17.812 which right now is the western boundary of our search area. 00:09:18.563 --> 00:09:22.900 I want to see for myself what it feels like to carry heavy cans of gold that far. 00:09:22.984 --> 00:09:26.153 If we struggle and can't make it all the way to that boundary, 00:09:26.237 --> 00:09:28.864 then we might be able to narrow down our search area. 00:09:30.950 --> 00:09:32.743 -You're trying the net. -Yes. 00:09:33.327 --> 00:09:35.413 Because Dwargstof would have had netting. 00:09:35.496 --> 00:09:37.456 One, two, three. 00:09:39.166 --> 00:09:40.167 -Is he good? -Yeah. 00:09:40.668 --> 00:09:44.880 Walking on the tundra here is like walking in 12-inch-deep snow. 00:09:44.964 --> 00:09:47.675 You're walking on these tufts of grass, 00:09:47.758 --> 00:09:52.597 and in between each tuft is a drop-off that can break your ankle. 00:09:56.892 --> 00:09:59.312 What are you gonna do with your part of the treasure? 00:10:01.606 --> 00:10:04.108 I'm going to pay off my student loans. 00:10:04.191 --> 00:10:06.485 It's expensive getting a PhD. 00:10:06.569 --> 00:10:07.403 Yeah. 00:10:08.154 --> 00:10:09.405 What would you do? 00:10:10.156 --> 00:10:12.491 I'm gonna donate my share to a museum. 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.703 Most treasure hunters are in this for the big payout, 00:10:15.786 --> 00:10:18.080 but I'm also here for the history. 00:10:18.164 --> 00:10:20.082 It's kind of like giving back to the community 00:10:20.166 --> 00:10:21.792 when you find these things. 00:10:21.876 --> 00:10:24.295 You get to share the history with others. 00:10:24.378 --> 00:10:26.505 And there may be some money involved. 00:10:28.883 --> 00:10:31.385 I wouldn't want to be hauling this all day long. 00:10:31.469 --> 00:10:33.846 I think I'm done. 00:10:35.931 --> 00:10:38.684 I don't think they went further. Thom, if we look at old maps, 00:10:38.768 --> 00:10:41.979 this is about the edge of a swampy lagoon. 00:10:42.063 --> 00:10:44.649 And there's no way they could have buried gold in that. 00:10:45.149 --> 00:10:48.527 Unfortunately, with my three cans and M's two, 00:10:48.611 --> 00:10:51.364 we would have made it right up to the marshlands. 00:10:51.447 --> 00:10:53.491 So we weren't able to shrink the search area. 00:10:53.574 --> 00:10:57.036 From about here, all the way back to the water, this is our area. 00:10:58.162 --> 00:10:59.830 Good grief. 00:11:03.209 --> 00:11:04.627 This is not what I wanted. 00:11:05.252 --> 00:11:07.380 I hope Jay and Burke find something. 00:11:11.425 --> 00:11:15.179 Brian's carry experiment failed to further narrow down the search area 00:11:15.262 --> 00:11:16.514 at Navy 2. 00:11:16.597 --> 00:11:19.892 but Jay and Burke's working knowledge of Adak's infrastructure 00:11:19.975 --> 00:11:22.103 could prove vital in the search. 00:11:23.145 --> 00:11:29.151 In 1959, a Seabee found a can of gold while excavating a trench in Navy 2. 00:11:29.985 --> 00:11:33.781 Jay and Burke believe he was specifically digging out a drainage trench 00:11:33.864 --> 00:11:38.202 to keep the nearby houses from flooding during Adak's frequent storms. 00:11:38.786 --> 00:11:41.497 If they can locate a drainage trench within the same zone 00:11:41.580 --> 00:11:45.251 Dr. M and Weed determined Dwargstof would have come ashore, 00:11:45.334 --> 00:11:49.296 they believe that would be the spot where more gold will be found. 00:11:51.382 --> 00:11:52.508 Going home. 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:55.553 Burke and I are familiar with this area 00:11:55.636 --> 00:11:58.013 because Navy 2's where we used to live in the '80s. 00:11:58.097 --> 00:12:01.809 If you were a military family on Adak, this is where you lived. 00:12:01.892 --> 00:12:05.146 It'd be crazy to find the gold in our backyard, huh? 00:12:05.229 --> 00:12:07.773 Yeah, we've been sleeping on it the whole time? 00:12:08.816 --> 00:12:10.860 All right. We're in the right zone. 00:12:13.237 --> 00:12:14.488 Let's find a trench. 00:12:15.072 --> 00:12:19.618 This is my hood. This is where I lived at, and here's my house. 00:12:19.702 --> 00:12:21.746 Oh my gosh! 00:12:21.829 --> 00:12:23.414 There's no side. 00:12:27.877 --> 00:12:31.338 It's just shocking to see what's happened to my hometown. 00:12:31.422 --> 00:12:36.218 There's been no care here for almost 25 years. 00:12:36.302 --> 00:12:38.929 I mean, the Navy left a long time ago. 00:12:39.430 --> 00:12:42.266 It's nothing like when I lived here in 1987. 00:12:47.021 --> 00:12:49.398 All right, let's find a trench, huh? 00:12:49.899 --> 00:12:54.820 The second gold find on this island was found by a Seabee digging trenches. 00:12:55.946 --> 00:12:58.949 The Seabees completely transformed this area. 00:12:59.575 --> 00:13:02.161 After the lagoon and wetlands were filled in, 00:13:02.244 --> 00:13:04.914 they created roads and an underground drainage system 00:13:04.997 --> 00:13:07.124 for the now vacant housing complex. 00:13:08.417 --> 00:13:11.462 "Seabee" is a nickname for the naval construction battalion, 00:13:12.046 --> 00:13:16.717 a combat unit that is also tasked with large-scale building projects. 00:13:17.718 --> 00:13:20.304 So this whole road has been here a very long time. 00:13:20.387 --> 00:13:25.434 That being said, with this hill positioned the way it is, 00:13:26.560 --> 00:13:27.770 this is a runoff point. 00:13:27.853 --> 00:13:29.772 It's going to keep this road very wet 00:13:29.855 --> 00:13:32.525 unless they dig a drainage trench off of it. 00:13:34.109 --> 00:13:35.778 Look at that pump house. 00:13:35.861 --> 00:13:40.449 Isn't that probably where they fed all of the water towards the ocean? 00:13:41.116 --> 00:13:44.328 That's a good place to start chasing the pipe, 00:13:44.411 --> 00:13:46.372 and then we'll figure out how it comes out. 00:13:46.455 --> 00:13:47.498 I think you're right. 00:13:48.082 --> 00:13:50.042 Let's see where this water comes out. 00:13:52.586 --> 00:13:54.713 -Check this out, Jay. -What've we got? 00:13:55.381 --> 00:13:56.799 It's a culvert. 00:13:56.882 --> 00:13:59.969 This is how all the collected rainwater gets to the sea. 00:14:00.052 --> 00:14:01.679 That's what we're looking for. 00:14:02.805 --> 00:14:04.348 So that's pretty substantial. 00:14:06.767 --> 00:14:09.061 It's actually bigger than I had anticipated. 00:14:09.895 --> 00:14:10.729 Wow. 00:14:11.856 --> 00:14:14.817 All those drainages over there are tying into this. 00:14:14.900 --> 00:14:16.110 And then from here, 00:14:16.193 --> 00:14:19.947 there's a channel dug out so that all the water can flow back to the ocean. 00:14:20.030 --> 00:14:21.448 And it's been here a while. 00:14:21.949 --> 00:14:23.993 I mean, this hardware is rusting out. 00:14:24.493 --> 00:14:27.997 Yeah, 1959. This is definitely something Seabees would have dug. 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:29.456 This is what they do. 00:14:29.540 --> 00:14:32.793 I think this could be the trench the Seabee was digging in '59, 00:14:32.877 --> 00:14:36.046 and if so, there's bound to be more gold around here. 00:14:36.922 --> 00:14:39.884 If it ends up I'm walking out of here with $3.6 million, 00:14:39.967 --> 00:14:42.261 I'm gonna have a boat and a few toys myself. 00:14:42.344 --> 00:14:43.262 Yeah. 00:14:43.345 --> 00:14:45.639 Something to make the treasure hunting easier. 00:14:45.723 --> 00:14:46.932 The USS Burke. 00:14:47.016 --> 00:14:49.685 -Some kind of big treasure yacht. -Something like that. 00:14:49.768 --> 00:14:50.644 Yeah. 00:15:00.446 --> 00:15:02.323 A lot of the locals have been asking 00:15:02.406 --> 00:15:03.782 how the treasure hunt's going. 00:15:03.866 --> 00:15:06.201 And unfortunately, I don't have much to report. 00:15:07.036 --> 00:15:10.247 Digging at Army 1 is going to be impossible until Jack gets here 00:15:10.331 --> 00:15:11.916 and we can detonate that shell. 00:15:12.875 --> 00:15:16.962 But the team just asked me to meet them at Navy 2 to hear their new strategy. 00:15:17.463 --> 00:15:19.340 Morning. What'd you guys find out? 00:15:19.423 --> 00:15:23.052 I think we've really narrowed down Navy 2. 00:15:23.135 --> 00:15:26.263 We were able to figure out where Dwargstof came ashore 00:15:26.347 --> 00:15:28.849 and how far he could have carried the gold inland. 00:15:28.933 --> 00:15:31.352 We figured out there's a whole network 00:15:31.435 --> 00:15:33.062 of drainage trenches and culverts 00:15:33.145 --> 00:15:35.856 that were built to keep the neighborhood from flooding. 00:15:36.357 --> 00:15:39.860 We found a drainage culvert right in here. 00:15:40.986 --> 00:15:43.280 That culvert runs across the road 00:15:44.531 --> 00:15:47.493 and heads right towards that dilapidated house over there. 00:15:48.035 --> 00:15:50.537 Definitely excited about that spot. 00:15:50.621 --> 00:15:55.709 So all of Navy 2, we're looking in a box right here, 00:15:56.543 --> 00:16:00.589 which is where our data intersects with the trench Jay and Burke found. 00:16:01.548 --> 00:16:03.425 This is a searchable area, right here. 00:16:04.009 --> 00:16:06.011 -That's actually outstanding. -Yeah. 00:16:06.095 --> 00:16:08.889 The team finally has a target to search at Navy 2, 00:16:08.973 --> 00:16:11.809 but before anyone gets to digging, I have important work to do. 00:16:12.726 --> 00:16:13.560 -Thom. -Uh-huh. 00:16:14.061 --> 00:16:14.895 Okay. 00:16:18.899 --> 00:16:21.485 Navy 2 was swept for UXO a long time ago 00:16:21.568 --> 00:16:24.154 because families have been living there for 50 years. 00:16:24.238 --> 00:16:25.948 But you can never be too careful, 00:16:26.031 --> 00:16:28.909 so I want to double-check before the team starts digging. 00:16:29.618 --> 00:16:30.869 Grab a couple stakes. 00:16:30.953 --> 00:16:33.789 -We're first going to establish our edges. -She's in charge. 00:16:33.872 --> 00:16:36.709 So I'm going to bark at you from… from this corner. 00:16:36.792 --> 00:16:38.669 You're dead-on. Perfect. 00:16:41.588 --> 00:16:45.801 Right now, we're trying to mark off our dig zone with these stakes. 00:16:46.385 --> 00:16:49.179 The team is dividing the target area into a grid, 00:16:49.263 --> 00:16:51.598 so they can work through it methodically. 00:16:51.682 --> 00:16:54.476 Their plan is to start searching around the drainage system 00:16:54.560 --> 00:16:56.687 where the second can of gold was found 00:16:56.770 --> 00:16:58.397 and widen out from there. 00:16:58.897 --> 00:17:00.774 Burke, can I get you to come this way? 00:17:01.984 --> 00:17:05.029 These stakes outline what our data tells us, 00:17:05.112 --> 00:17:08.198 which is this is where we think there's potential gold. 00:17:12.369 --> 00:17:13.454 Stop. Perfect. 00:17:15.289 --> 00:17:16.623 I think that's good. 00:17:16.707 --> 00:17:19.626 Dr. M, she has, you know, her science. 00:17:19.710 --> 00:17:21.795 She wants a stake over here. We're measuring. 00:17:21.879 --> 00:17:23.464 We're doing these different things. 00:17:23.547 --> 00:17:24.840 That's not really me, man. 00:17:24.923 --> 00:17:26.759 I need to just get out there and dig. 00:17:26.842 --> 00:17:29.636 I could be digging while you guys are doing all your outlines. 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:32.806 I know. She works by a process. 00:17:33.557 --> 00:17:36.852 That's the kind of planning that's going to help us find this thing. 00:17:36.935 --> 00:17:38.687 Okay, let's go look for some gold. 00:17:40.856 --> 00:17:42.232 Where do we want to start? 00:17:42.316 --> 00:17:45.152 You want to start at the trench and work our way in? 00:17:46.028 --> 00:17:49.406 I think you should start up on the side right there, Jay. 00:17:49.490 --> 00:17:51.450 Yeah, up on that hill a little bit. 00:17:53.786 --> 00:17:55.954 Finally over here, man. Finally. 00:17:56.038 --> 00:17:58.457 Good old Navy 2, huh? 00:18:01.043 --> 00:18:02.336 We got something here. 00:18:04.379 --> 00:18:05.339 Sounds deeper. 00:18:05.422 --> 00:18:07.257 Oh! Getting me interested. 00:18:07.341 --> 00:18:09.426 Do you have any idea how far down it is? 00:18:09.510 --> 00:18:11.303 -I'm scanning deep. -Okay. 00:18:19.061 --> 00:18:20.687 It's something different. 00:18:20.771 --> 00:18:22.231 Okay, give that a scan again. 00:18:24.691 --> 00:18:26.026 Something's in there. 00:18:27.069 --> 00:18:28.153 Can you hear it? 00:18:33.367 --> 00:18:34.201 Yeah. 00:18:36.036 --> 00:18:37.204 How deep is that, though? 00:18:37.287 --> 00:18:39.748 This thing will scan down at least two feet. 00:18:39.832 --> 00:18:43.001 Now that we've dug down a little more, I'm getting a better signal. 00:18:43.585 --> 00:18:45.295 This makes this exciting, actually. 00:18:46.213 --> 00:18:48.257 Okay, just watch your eyeballs. 00:18:57.182 --> 00:18:58.642 How far down does this go? 00:19:07.025 --> 00:19:08.902 Whoa, whoa. Whoa. 00:19:08.986 --> 00:19:10.195 -What? -Back out. 00:19:10.863 --> 00:19:12.030 What is that? 00:19:12.114 --> 00:19:14.074 Take the shovel. This is something. 00:19:14.158 --> 00:19:15.367 Take the shovel. 00:19:15.450 --> 00:19:17.786 -Do you have-- Do you have a hand spade? -Yep. 00:19:21.373 --> 00:19:23.375 Oh! You just made it move. Okay. 00:19:23.458 --> 00:19:24.459 If we go under it… 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:26.211 What is that? 00:19:30.757 --> 00:19:31.675 What is that? 00:19:31.758 --> 00:19:33.302 Don't know. It was in there. 00:19:34.678 --> 00:19:35.971 That's a bone. 00:19:37.764 --> 00:19:40.559 That bone didn't set off the metal detector. 00:19:40.642 --> 00:19:43.103 The hit I was getting is something big underneath it. 00:19:44.813 --> 00:19:46.523 Oh my God, Weed, look in my hand. 00:19:48.233 --> 00:19:49.651 This might be a finger. 00:19:50.235 --> 00:19:51.904 It's the right size. 00:19:54.114 --> 00:19:56.950 Like, the last knuckle before the hand? 00:19:59.077 --> 00:20:00.621 Did we just find a grave site? 00:20:01.121 --> 00:20:02.122 I don't know. 00:20:03.415 --> 00:20:04.875 I think we got to call Thom. 00:20:06.293 --> 00:20:07.544 -Hey, Thom? -Yeah. 00:20:08.712 --> 00:20:10.339 I think we found a bone. 00:20:10.422 --> 00:20:12.883 I'm not quite sure if it's mammal bone, 00:20:12.966 --> 00:20:15.928 but… it might be human. 00:20:17.804 --> 00:20:21.266 If it's human bone and it's recent, we gotta call the state troopers. 00:20:21.850 --> 00:20:24.895 If this is a human bone, it may not be a bad thing for us. 00:20:25.437 --> 00:20:28.273 I've studied a lot of pirate history, and I can tell you, 00:20:28.357 --> 00:20:32.986 they went to great lengths to make sure nobody was poking around their treasure. 00:20:33.487 --> 00:20:37.074 And sometimes they would camouflage it as a human grave site. 00:20:37.157 --> 00:20:41.161 People just didn't look under the dead body. 00:20:41.912 --> 00:20:46.583 So it was kind of a common occurrence for pirates to use that method. 00:20:47.251 --> 00:20:49.920 Weed's theory is grounded in history. 00:20:50.003 --> 00:20:53.131 Corpses have been used to hide treasure in the past. 00:20:54.341 --> 00:20:58.679 In 1804, a Spanish crew mutinied and killed their captain. 00:20:59.513 --> 00:21:03.183 The ship had two million dollars in gold in its war chest. 00:21:03.892 --> 00:21:07.229 The crew stashed the gold on the shores of the Savage Islands 00:21:07.312 --> 00:21:10.315 but also buried their dead captain on top of the treasure 00:21:10.399 --> 00:21:14.403 so that anyone who found the body would be hesitant to dig further. 00:21:15.195 --> 00:21:17.364 I was still getting a hit in that hole. 00:21:17.447 --> 00:21:19.199 If somebody were to come by, 00:21:19.283 --> 00:21:21.201 it's going to look exactly like a fresh grave. 00:21:21.285 --> 00:21:24.037 And in 1890s, everybody was superstitious. 00:21:24.121 --> 00:21:25.956 Nobody's going to dig up a body. 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:29.835 As Adak's mayor, Thom must follow a series of protocols 00:21:29.918 --> 00:21:31.837 before he can allow Dr. M 00:21:31.878 --> 00:21:33.547 and Brian to continue searching. 00:21:33.630 --> 00:21:37.092 We got to find out how old it is and if there's any more there. 00:21:37.175 --> 00:21:38.760 How much do you guys have dug out? 00:21:38.844 --> 00:21:43.432 Not very much. We do need to keep digging, but I need just a little bit of time. 00:21:43.932 --> 00:21:47.477 I have a colleague that I could do a video conference with and show him this. 00:21:47.561 --> 00:21:51.481 He might be able to tell us if this is a human finger and how old it is. 00:21:51.565 --> 00:21:52.566 All right. 00:21:52.649 --> 00:21:55.736 I'm going to reach out to my colleague Bruce, who's a bone expert. 00:21:55.819 --> 00:22:00.240 If this is an older human bone, it might actually validate Brian's theory. 00:22:00.324 --> 00:22:02.034 @ 00:22:02.117 --> 00:22:03.952 Bruce, so nice to see you! 00:22:04.036 --> 00:22:05.787 M, I can't believe I can reach you all 00:22:05.829 --> 00:22:07.748 the way in Adak. This is wonderful. 00:22:08.248 --> 00:22:12.919 So I was digging, and I found this, 00:22:13.003 --> 00:22:16.256 and I was hoping that maybe you could help me identify this. 00:22:17.341 --> 00:22:18.759 Well, that's definitely a bone. 00:22:19.259 --> 00:22:22.095 I would say it's human. Looks like a finger. 00:22:22.596 --> 00:22:25.682 There are some unusual imperfections here at the joint 00:22:25.766 --> 00:22:29.269 that look to me a little like a bone spur. 00:22:30.437 --> 00:22:33.148 It's interesting. It looks like it may have been diseased. 00:22:33.231 --> 00:22:37.861 Doesn't look quite smooth enough to have been a healthy joint. 00:22:37.944 --> 00:22:44.326 I can't tell if this is 50 years old, 100 years old, 1,000 years old… 00:22:44.409 --> 00:22:46.286 It's definitely not fresh, 00:22:46.370 --> 00:22:48.955 and I would be pretty comfortable saying 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:52.876 that's at least 100 years old, if not older. 00:22:52.959 --> 00:22:54.753 And I say that because of the color. 00:22:54.836 --> 00:22:58.632 It's definitely been stained by the minerals it was buried in. 00:22:58.715 --> 00:23:02.344 Bruce, thank you so much. That means I can start digging again. 00:23:07.432 --> 00:23:11.645 Dr. M's information aligns really well with my theory. 00:23:11.728 --> 00:23:14.356 That bone's at least 100 years old, 00:23:14.439 --> 00:23:16.900 and it was found in a hole where I was getting a big hit. 00:23:16.983 --> 00:23:20.112 It's the perfect burial site, and it hides the treasure. 00:23:21.822 --> 00:23:23.949 Something in there, and it's deep. 00:23:24.032 --> 00:23:27.160 In my mind, this is one of Dwargstof's men. 00:23:27.244 --> 00:23:29.204 And if there's a whole skeleton under there, 00:23:29.287 --> 00:23:32.374 there's going to be a mountain of gold buried just beneath it. 00:23:33.083 --> 00:23:36.586 Brian, you have a sick mind, but I really hope you're right. 00:23:36.670 --> 00:23:39.589 I've never wished so hard to be digging up a dead body. 00:23:48.098 --> 00:23:49.391 What is that? 00:23:55.564 --> 00:23:56.690 What is that? 00:24:00.026 --> 00:24:01.653 There's something big down there. 00:24:02.946 --> 00:24:05.574 It's hard, but it's not a rock. 00:24:10.662 --> 00:24:13.123 -Should I dig around the backside? -Dig around. 00:24:13.206 --> 00:24:15.250 -Let's see how big it is. 00:24:16.626 --> 00:24:18.044 Is it another bone? 00:24:19.713 --> 00:24:21.089 What the hell is this? 00:24:23.758 --> 00:24:25.510 Is that someone's skull? 00:24:27.471 --> 00:24:28.930 My God!