WEBVTT 00:00:15.979 --> 00:00:18.690 -Yeah, you're on it. -You guys got something? 00:00:18.773 --> 00:00:21.276 It's definitely metal, some kind of cylinder. 00:00:21.359 --> 00:00:22.986 No frigging way. 00:00:23.653 --> 00:00:25.572 Thom, Jay, and I followed the footsteps 00:00:25.655 --> 00:00:28.199 of a treasure hunter named Samuel Arrington 00:00:28.283 --> 00:00:30.827 out to this treacherous ravine near Lake Betty. 00:00:34.414 --> 00:00:37.542 We believe Arrington ended up dead in the bottom of this ravine 00:00:37.625 --> 00:00:39.544 while searching for Dwargstof's gold. 00:00:41.296 --> 00:00:42.297 Oh, shit. 00:00:43.465 --> 00:00:44.466 Wow. 00:00:49.846 --> 00:00:50.764 Big bullet. 00:00:51.264 --> 00:00:52.766 Forty millimeters of a bullet. 00:00:53.349 --> 00:00:55.351 -It's spent, huh? -Yeah. 00:00:56.061 --> 00:00:57.687 Hey, what do you guys got? 00:00:58.521 --> 00:01:00.273 Just a spent shell. 00:01:00.356 --> 00:01:02.984 It's like a 40 millimeter. Just a big bullet. 00:01:04.736 --> 00:01:06.404 -It ain't gold. -No. 00:01:08.573 --> 00:01:12.160 That's why they call it treasure hunting and not treasure finding. 00:01:13.328 --> 00:01:15.246 All right, come on out of there. 00:01:16.539 --> 00:01:19.667 That shell probably came from an anti-aircraft position set up 00:01:19.751 --> 00:01:21.669 to defend against a Japanese attack. 00:01:22.170 --> 00:01:24.547 But because of eight decades of snow and rain, 00:01:24.631 --> 00:01:28.134 things like that come off the hillside, and they collect in ravines like this. 00:01:29.344 --> 00:01:31.554 With the discovery of the spent shell, 00:01:31.638 --> 00:01:35.934 Thom, Jay, and Burke have exhausted the area where Samuel Arrington 00:01:36.017 --> 00:01:38.269 could have been looking for gold when he died. 00:01:39.687 --> 00:01:41.439 I mean, knowing where it's not… 00:01:41.523 --> 00:01:44.025 …is part of the battle, right? 00:01:44.609 --> 00:01:46.402 Adak island is a huge area. 00:01:46.486 --> 00:01:49.280 The only way to search it all is to be systematic. 00:01:49.364 --> 00:01:51.741 Little by little, we're going to narrow it all down. 00:01:51.825 --> 00:01:54.119 Well, at least we can cross this one off the list. 00:01:54.202 --> 00:01:56.913 Well, it's not here, and it's not in Navy 2. So… 00:01:57.413 --> 00:01:59.958 Our best lead right now is still Army 1, 00:02:00.041 --> 00:02:02.293 and it's time to get our asses back in there. 00:02:02.919 --> 00:02:05.964 The team's most promising search area at Army 1 00:02:06.047 --> 00:02:08.424 has been off-limits because of the danger posed 00:02:08.508 --> 00:02:11.219 by the discovery of an unexploded ordnance. 00:02:11.803 --> 00:02:15.473 Thom has hired a demolitions expert named Jack Peters 00:02:15.557 --> 00:02:17.851 to come to Adak and remove the shell. 00:02:18.810 --> 00:02:21.479 We have to get back to town because Jack's on his way now 00:02:21.563 --> 00:02:24.816 with enough explosives to clear the artillery shell we found at Army 1. 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:26.651 Let's pack this up. 00:02:26.734 --> 00:02:29.737 I agree. I cannot wait to get back into Army 1. 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:41.666 In 1892, seal poacher and pirate Gregory Dwargstof 00:02:41.749 --> 00:02:45.128 buried 150 cans filled with gold coins 00:02:45.128 --> 00:02:48.506 on the remote island of Adak, Alaska. 00:02:49.090 --> 00:02:51.676 Adak saw action during World War II. 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:54.888 Now, it's riddled with unexploded bombs. 00:02:55.555 --> 00:02:57.849 When you dig on Adak, you may get rich… 00:02:57.932 --> 00:02:59.601 We've got a hit over here! 00:02:59.684 --> 00:03:01.186 …or just die trying. 00:03:22.207 --> 00:03:24.167 We've chased down many theories, 00:03:24.250 --> 00:03:26.336 narrowed down viable dig sites, 00:03:26.419 --> 00:03:28.504 and eliminated some big areas of the island. 00:03:29.547 --> 00:03:33.009 That's a lot of progress, but we still haven't found any gold 00:03:33.092 --> 00:03:35.887 because our most promising site, the hill at Army 1, 00:03:35.970 --> 00:03:38.097 has been off-limits for months. 00:03:39.349 --> 00:03:41.142 Of all the places we've searched, 00:03:41.226 --> 00:03:42.936 the hill at Army 1 is the place 00:03:42.977 --> 00:03:45.396 we're most likely to find gold. 00:03:45.897 --> 00:03:47.815 We think it might be the location 00:03:47.899 --> 00:03:51.569 where a soldier found a can of Dwargstof's gold in 1943. 00:03:52.070 --> 00:03:57.075 And we found a rock carved with what looks like a Russian Orthodox cross. 00:03:57.700 --> 00:04:00.286 I think Dwargstof left it behind as a marker 00:04:00.370 --> 00:04:02.956 because he buried the gold on that hill. 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:09.087 Is that it out there? 00:04:09.587 --> 00:04:12.173 Oh, we see him right above the clear layer. 00:04:12.674 --> 00:04:14.467 You want to make good landings, 00:04:14.550 --> 00:04:16.261 but landings with high explosives on board 00:04:16.302 --> 00:04:18.471 are the ones you want to go really well. 00:04:37.073 --> 00:04:37.907 Thom! 00:04:38.783 --> 00:04:39.867 Hey, man. Welcome. 00:04:39.951 --> 00:04:41.369 -How you doing? -Good. 00:04:41.452 --> 00:04:43.413 -Good to see you. -Good to see you. 00:04:43.496 --> 00:04:45.832 Jack Peters received explosives training 00:04:45.915 --> 00:04:48.209 from US Special Operations Forces. 00:04:48.710 --> 00:04:53.214 For over a decade, he has supervised large-scale detonation projects 00:04:53.298 --> 00:04:56.843 and been an instructor for government and civil service agencies. 00:04:57.343 --> 00:04:58.636 What do we got? 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:01.139 -We got high explosives in the nose. -Uh-huh. 00:05:01.222 --> 00:05:03.433 We've got some blasting caps in the back. 00:05:03.516 --> 00:05:07.437 They should be separated, so we need a couple of vehicles to haul them in. 00:05:11.441 --> 00:05:13.568 Fifty-five pounds of high explosives. 00:05:16.321 --> 00:05:18.614 -Put the caps and fuse in here. -Yeah. 00:05:18.698 --> 00:05:23.453 If it's a Japanese shell, it's a mark 91 or 92 shell. 00:05:23.536 --> 00:05:26.956 That's 105 millimeters. I mean, the entire shell's about that long. 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.709 This charge is big enough to give it quite a punch. 00:05:29.792 --> 00:05:32.962 It should take out that shell completely. 00:05:33.046 --> 00:05:33.880 It's a big boom. 00:05:50.605 --> 00:05:53.191 -Where's the ordnance at? -Right down in there. 00:05:54.359 --> 00:05:55.276 All right. 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:57.904 -As far as you know, there's one round? -Yes. 00:05:58.654 --> 00:06:01.115 If you want to get in there and take a look at it. 00:06:07.413 --> 00:06:08.831 Oh, that's a monster. 00:06:10.625 --> 00:06:11.834 Yeah, look at that. 00:06:12.585 --> 00:06:13.961 Is the warhead on it? 00:06:14.462 --> 00:06:15.338 I don't know. 00:06:16.172 --> 00:06:17.757 Oh, yeah, it's on there. 00:06:19.425 --> 00:06:22.095 -It's got a trigger on the nose. -Right. 00:06:22.595 --> 00:06:26.099 Looks like a live one, so we got to be really careful. 00:06:27.433 --> 00:06:28.267 All right. 00:06:28.976 --> 00:06:30.395 Let me get to work. 00:06:33.523 --> 00:06:36.359 105-millimeter shell in there. It's a monster. 00:06:37.110 --> 00:06:39.779 -Has the warhead still on it. -What does that mean? 00:06:39.862 --> 00:06:44.075 It has a brass casing on the back full of gunpowder 00:06:44.575 --> 00:06:47.286 and a nose on the front full of high explosives. 00:06:47.370 --> 00:06:50.206 If there's powder still live after all these years, 00:06:50.289 --> 00:06:52.250 it's going to be a big, violent blast. 00:06:52.834 --> 00:06:57.088 Sometimes projectiles zip right at you horizontally. 00:06:57.171 --> 00:07:00.675 Sometimes they shoot so far up in the air they'll drop down on you. 00:07:00.758 --> 00:07:04.220 We're going to be way out of the way when that goes off. 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:09.267 But if you hear any tinging or dinging or anything hitting anywhere close, 00:07:09.350 --> 00:07:12.854 * it in tight and get behind metal. Take the best cover you can. 00:07:13.729 --> 00:07:15.731 I'll need time to prepare the charge, 00:07:15.815 --> 00:07:18.359 but let's start moving into the roadblock positions. 00:07:18.443 --> 00:07:20.278 -Thank you. -Anytime. Here we go. 00:07:24.991 --> 00:07:28.119 The team splits up to take position a quarter mile away 00:07:28.202 --> 00:07:29.537 from the blast site, 00:07:29.620 --> 00:07:33.082 setting up roadblocks to the north and south of the hill 00:07:33.166 --> 00:07:35.251 to make sure no one enters the danger zone. 00:07:37.503 --> 00:07:41.048 We are going to separate the material out of the packaging 00:07:41.132 --> 00:07:42.633 and make a shaped charge. 00:07:43.551 --> 00:07:47.096 Jack's aim is to destroy the artillery shell in place 00:07:47.180 --> 00:07:49.557 by causing it to explode from within. 00:07:49.640 --> 00:07:53.019 If he does not properly control the exterior explosion, 00:07:53.102 --> 00:07:56.814 the shell could launch into the air and detonate in any direction, 00:07:56.898 --> 00:07:58.608 which could be deadly. 00:07:58.691 --> 00:08:00.234 In order to avoid that, 00:08:00.318 --> 00:08:04.530 Jack shapes the explosive materials into a special inverted funnel, 00:08:04.614 --> 00:08:06.949 which when ignited will direct the explosion 00:08:07.033 --> 00:08:09.410 into a jet-like stream downward, 00:08:09.494 --> 00:08:11.871 piercing the metal shell of the UXO, 00:08:11.954 --> 00:08:16.584 detonating all the explosives inside, and ultimately destroying it. 00:08:17.752 --> 00:08:20.630 I'm gonna move on down to the shell now with the charge. 00:08:20.713 --> 00:08:23.090 Let's have you bug out too, all right? 00:08:27.929 --> 00:08:29.639 Looks like Jack's out there. 00:08:32.141 --> 00:08:34.185 He's setting that shaped charge on the item. 00:08:38.189 --> 00:08:39.941 He's tying in his cord. 00:08:46.906 --> 00:08:49.033 All right, he's stretching out that cord now. 00:08:51.661 --> 00:08:54.163 It won't be long. It'll be go-time here in a few. 00:08:54.956 --> 00:08:57.667 Damn, I can't wait to get this thing out of our way. 00:08:57.750 --> 00:09:01.295 That UXO has been a thorn in our side for way too long. 00:09:01.379 --> 00:09:04.465 We've been striking out in all different locations, 00:09:04.549 --> 00:09:07.176 and in the back of my mind, I've been saying to myself, 00:09:07.260 --> 00:09:09.470 we got to get back to Army 1. 00:09:09.554 --> 00:09:11.180 This is the hot spot. 00:09:11.264 --> 00:09:14.350 Gold has been found in this area before. 00:09:14.433 --> 00:09:15.768 I will find treasure here. 00:09:17.895 --> 00:09:20.022 South checkpoint is secure. 00:09:20.606 --> 00:09:22.733 North side, give us your final status. 00:09:23.317 --> 00:09:24.819 North side is secure. 00:09:24.902 --> 00:09:27.238 Everybody get ready to brace yourselves. 00:09:29.407 --> 00:09:30.324 Everybody ready? 00:09:30.408 --> 00:09:31.742 Ten seconds to blast. 00:09:35.079 --> 00:09:39.083 Five, four, three, two, one. 00:09:40.001 --> 00:09:40.960 Fire in the hole! 00:09:47.800 --> 00:09:49.927 Nice. Whoo! 00:09:50.011 --> 00:09:52.096 -Oh my God. -That was a good one! 00:09:53.723 --> 00:09:54.557 Nice! 00:09:54.640 --> 00:09:56.851 I was not expecting something that big. 00:09:57.518 --> 00:09:59.729 -I think we, uh, hit our shell. -Yeah. 00:10:00.896 --> 00:10:03.357 Shot fired successfully. 00:10:03.441 --> 00:10:05.484 Stand by for me to take a look. 00:10:20.750 --> 00:10:23.210 Jack, this is Weed. Is it clear to come down? 00:10:23.294 --> 00:10:24.754 -Come on. -Let's go. 00:10:24.837 --> 00:10:26.547 -Let's see what we got. -Okay. 00:10:37.808 --> 00:10:40.353 The size of this crater means that powder's good 00:10:40.436 --> 00:10:41.812 after all those years. 00:10:41.896 --> 00:10:42.813 Wow! 00:10:42.897 --> 00:10:45.232 -Which is crazy to think about. -I know it. 00:10:45.816 --> 00:10:46.942 We are out of danger, 00:10:47.026 --> 00:10:50.529 so we can start looking everywhere else. 00:10:51.030 --> 00:10:52.531 Army 1's reopened. 00:10:52.615 --> 00:10:55.284 -Let's get at it. -Let's find a hole that has gold in it. 00:10:59.330 --> 00:11:01.165 It's gonna be good. Pretty excited. 00:11:01.248 --> 00:11:02.792 Ready to get back to digging. 00:11:02.875 --> 00:11:05.211 We've been waiting for this for a long time. 00:11:05.795 --> 00:11:07.963 Just before Army 1 was shut down, 00:11:08.047 --> 00:11:12.301 Dr. M and Brian Weed detected a large precious metal hit. 00:11:12.385 --> 00:11:16.055 The hit is close to where they discovered remnants of a boardwalk pathway. 00:11:16.138 --> 00:11:20.351 The same pathway they think the soldier who found the first can of gold 00:11:20.434 --> 00:11:22.436 was digging in 1943. 00:11:23.813 --> 00:11:27.191 They believe this hit could be more of Dwargstof's gold. 00:11:35.491 --> 00:11:37.660 Do you mind pinpointing where I should dig? 00:11:40.454 --> 00:11:42.373 There's still something in there. 00:11:43.374 --> 00:11:44.291 Right there. 00:11:44.375 --> 00:11:45.459 Okay. I'll dig. 00:11:46.335 --> 00:11:48.254 I am excited we're gonna go digging. 00:11:49.171 --> 00:11:52.049 I always thought the hill is the place we're going to find gold. 00:11:56.470 --> 00:11:59.140 -That's, like, right here. 00:12:04.854 --> 00:12:05.980 Oh my God. 00:12:06.772 --> 00:12:08.274 It's a 50-caliber bullet. 00:12:08.858 --> 00:12:12.403 It was this giving us the hit the whole time. 00:12:13.028 --> 00:12:15.322 The spent shell is made of brass, 00:12:15.406 --> 00:12:18.909 which reads almost the same as gold to a metal detector. 00:12:19.452 --> 00:12:20.786 -It's not gold. -No. 00:12:20.870 --> 00:12:21.996 Just to focus us. 00:12:22.079 --> 00:12:23.831 -We are looking for gold, folks. -Yeah. 00:12:23.914 --> 00:12:26.375 I'm out here trying to find Dwargstof's gold, 00:12:26.459 --> 00:12:29.795 and instead I'm finding weapons of war. 00:12:30.379 --> 00:12:34.717 And that is admittedly incredibly disappointing. 00:12:35.301 --> 00:12:38.763 The flip side of that is the fact that there are UXO here, 00:12:39.388 --> 00:12:42.516 it's one of the reasons that Dwargstof's treasure has not been found. 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:45.019 I think we're still on the right path. 00:12:45.603 --> 00:12:48.481 My gut is telling me that Dwargstof was here. 00:12:49.148 --> 00:12:51.066 I just wonder if I'm missing something. 00:12:52.026 --> 00:12:56.322 I believe that the marker that we found was put here for a reason. 00:12:57.490 --> 00:13:00.576 I know there's gold somewhere around here, 00:13:01.160 --> 00:13:04.330 and we're going to comb this entire hillside to find it. 00:13:04.413 --> 00:13:05.581 Let's keep at it. 00:13:07.583 --> 00:13:11.796 So far, the team has searched 50% of the hill at Army 1. 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:15.049 Jay and Burke have resumed their search of the western sector, 00:13:15.132 --> 00:13:18.427 beginning around the crater where the UXO was detonated 00:13:18.511 --> 00:13:22.139 and working their way through the rest of the unsearched area. 00:13:24.558 --> 00:13:25.726 I got a hit here. 00:13:35.736 --> 00:13:38.072 How are you guys doing? What you got? 00:13:38.155 --> 00:13:39.448 What the hell is that? 00:13:43.744 --> 00:13:45.162 What the heck is that? 00:13:45.246 --> 00:13:47.331 It's iron of some sort. Uh… 00:13:47.414 --> 00:13:48.749 -Odd. -I know. 00:13:49.542 --> 00:13:52.378 -This thing's old. -Look at this for a minute. 00:13:52.461 --> 00:13:53.712 It's so strange. 00:13:53.796 --> 00:13:55.881 We found an odd piece of old iron. 00:13:55.965 --> 00:13:58.175 That thing could date way back. 00:13:58.843 --> 00:14:00.761 -Weird. -There's a hole. 00:14:01.595 --> 00:14:05.015 Most metal objects that we dig up, I can tell what they are. 00:14:05.099 --> 00:14:07.893 But this one, it doesn't seem military-related. 00:14:07.977 --> 00:14:10.604 I think it's a lot older than World War II. 00:14:11.146 --> 00:14:13.941 It ain't gold, but let's keep it though. 00:14:14.024 --> 00:14:15.734 I've never seen nothing like that. 00:14:15.818 --> 00:14:16.944 Let's keep digging. 00:14:26.579 --> 00:14:28.664 After six hours of searching, 00:14:28.747 --> 00:14:32.293 the team has covered 75% of the hill at Army 1, 00:14:32.376 --> 00:14:35.880 but have still found no traces of Dwargstof's gold. 00:14:35.963 --> 00:14:38.382 Man, this weather ain't making it easy today. 00:14:38.883 --> 00:14:40.426 The wind is blowing. 00:14:40.509 --> 00:14:42.845 I gotta keep warm. I gotta keep moving. 00:14:43.345 --> 00:14:48.017 Whoo! I think we're just days away from starting to see some frozen ground. 00:14:53.689 --> 00:14:55.024 Looks like rebar. 00:14:55.107 --> 00:14:56.150 More trash. 00:14:56.734 --> 00:14:58.569 It's just a black piece of wire. 00:15:00.154 --> 00:15:02.281 We've searched this pretty thorough. 00:15:02.781 --> 00:15:05.576 Any hits that I had interest in, I dug. 00:15:06.535 --> 00:15:11.290 So, I think we should call this side and get over and help these other guys 00:15:11.373 --> 00:15:12.499 find that gold. 00:15:12.583 --> 00:15:15.294 If it ain't on this side, it's gonna be on that side, right? 00:15:15.377 --> 00:15:16.378 Yeah, let's hope. 00:15:20.633 --> 00:15:22.092 Jay, check this out. 00:15:23.469 --> 00:15:25.179 It's that stone that M found. 00:15:27.097 --> 00:15:30.768 Weed threw all the tech he had at this area around this marker rock. 00:15:31.352 --> 00:15:32.645 He came up empty-handed. 00:15:33.354 --> 00:15:37.566 So it's definitely not X marks the spot, but I know it's got to mean something. 00:15:38.275 --> 00:15:39.860 It's got a cross on it, huh? 00:15:39.944 --> 00:15:43.072 It does look like a Russian Orthodox cross, but… 00:15:43.155 --> 00:15:45.741 -Something's not quite right. -Oh, wow. 00:15:47.409 --> 00:15:48.827 The Russian Orthodox Church 00:15:48.911 --> 00:15:50.955 has been a part of Alaska's history 00:15:51.038 --> 00:15:52.331 for hundreds of years, 00:15:52.831 --> 00:15:55.584 and they all have a very similar cross. 00:15:55.668 --> 00:15:58.712 But this one, it's just not quite right. 00:15:59.338 --> 00:16:03.008 If that's some kind of a religious cross, why is it sideways? 00:16:04.009 --> 00:16:05.219 In my experience, Jay, 00:16:05.302 --> 00:16:09.056 it would have took somebody a long time to etch that that deep in that rock. 00:16:10.099 --> 00:16:12.518 Whoever marked this rock had a purpose. 00:16:13.852 --> 00:16:17.356 Maybe it's not X marks the spot saying the treasure is right here. 00:16:17.856 --> 00:16:22.444 Maybe it's giving us directions, and it's… pointing where we're supposed to go. 00:16:23.988 --> 00:16:26.615 Dude, look. This thing is pointing right that way, Jay. 00:16:27.116 --> 00:16:28.325 Right at Red Bluff Hill. 00:16:30.703 --> 00:16:34.039 Red Bluff Hill is a 17-acre parcel of land 00:16:34.123 --> 00:16:38.002 next to one of the airport runways at the Northern end of Army 1. 00:16:38.669 --> 00:16:42.339 Back in 1893, when Dwargstof was on Adak, 00:16:42.423 --> 00:16:45.134 most of Army 1 was covered by a lagoon, 00:16:45.217 --> 00:16:48.971 and Red Bluff Hill rose up from the water on the north shore. 00:16:49.596 --> 00:16:51.348 I don't think this is just 00:16:52.182 --> 00:16:54.852 happenstance that it's sitting here, dude. I really don't. 00:16:55.310 --> 00:16:56.145 Huh. 00:17:00.315 --> 00:17:02.985 As the wind picks up and the temperature drops, 00:17:03.068 --> 00:17:05.904 the team finishes scanning every inch of the hill. 00:17:08.407 --> 00:17:12.327 We covered the whole hill and, you know, there's not gold there. 00:17:15.914 --> 00:17:19.084 The hill at Army 1 is done. There's nothing here. There's no gold. 00:17:19.168 --> 00:17:21.962 Next thing is we got to figure out another place to go. 00:17:22.546 --> 00:17:24.006 We've got a lot of clues here. 00:17:24.089 --> 00:17:26.675 I mean, we got to do a little research on this thing. 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:27.760 What is it? 00:17:27.843 --> 00:17:29.595 I don't know. I can't ID it. 00:17:29.678 --> 00:17:31.597 I don't think it's a horse stirrup. 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:35.350 Gives me a little bit of a nautical vibe, but I don't know. 00:17:35.434 --> 00:17:38.145 And we went back to that marker rock, 00:17:38.228 --> 00:17:41.774 and we realized this might be a different kind of clue than we thought. 00:17:42.983 --> 00:17:46.612 Imagine this cross is a compass pointing to the treasure. 00:17:46.695 --> 00:17:49.031 If you draw a line straight off the top of it, 00:17:49.114 --> 00:17:52.493 it stretches directly towards a place called Red Bluff Hill. 00:17:52.576 --> 00:17:55.621 Red Bluff Hill is within the boundary of Army 1, 00:17:56.121 --> 00:18:00.042 but I don't see how Dwargstof could have possibly buried the treasure there. 00:18:00.125 --> 00:18:02.419 I think we should give it a little bit of thinking. 00:18:03.003 --> 00:18:06.090 It's important to look at Adak from Dwargstof's point of view. 00:18:06.757 --> 00:18:10.469 We believe that back in 1893, Dwargstof used a rowboat 00:18:10.552 --> 00:18:14.098 to get the gold from Sweeper Cove to Army 1. 00:18:14.181 --> 00:18:17.601 And what we know is that there was a huge sandy berm 00:18:17.684 --> 00:18:19.645 in the middle of Sweeper Creek 00:18:19.728 --> 00:18:22.689 that would have been too hard to get over in a rowboat. 00:18:22.773 --> 00:18:24.525 So what I can't figure out 00:18:24.608 --> 00:18:28.278 is how Dwargstof could have moved the gold any further 00:18:28.362 --> 00:18:30.197 than the hill we just searched. 00:18:31.532 --> 00:18:34.201 I'm thinking that I'm missing something. 00:18:34.284 --> 00:18:37.329 There is a piece to this puzzle that I haven't seen yet. 00:18:38.288 --> 00:18:39.873 I think we need to go back, 00:18:39.957 --> 00:18:42.835 look at all the evidence again, and then regroup. 00:18:42.918 --> 00:18:44.211 All right. Sounds good. 00:18:52.803 --> 00:18:54.012 Kelly, are you on? 00:18:54.096 --> 00:18:55.347 Hey, Brian. What's up? 00:18:55.430 --> 00:18:57.391 I know an antique dealer on the mainland 00:18:57.474 --> 00:18:58.600 that might be able to help. 00:18:58.684 --> 00:19:00.310 Often when I'm on a treasure hunt, 00:19:00.394 --> 00:19:03.313 and I find something I can't identify, I call Kelly. 00:19:03.397 --> 00:19:07.151 We found something, and that's why I'm calling you. I don't know what it is. 00:19:07.234 --> 00:19:09.236 -What do you got? -Check this out. 00:19:11.196 --> 00:19:15.784 It looks like possibly a livestock or cattle shackle, 00:19:15.868 --> 00:19:19.830 and you would have another piece that would come over the top into the hoop. 00:19:19.913 --> 00:19:21.957 These rivets look forged. 00:19:22.040 --> 00:19:23.792 Would that help you date this thing? 00:19:23.876 --> 00:19:27.337 Probably the late 1800s up until the… about 1900. 00:19:27.421 --> 00:19:29.631 And then it's got this weird hole on the end. 00:19:30.632 --> 00:19:32.301 That might be a keyhole. 00:19:32.384 --> 00:19:37.556 You see that a lot with, um, maybe people who are incarcerated or even in slavery. 00:19:37.639 --> 00:19:40.434 It was not uncommon for, uh, the seal hunters 00:19:40.517 --> 00:19:44.146 to, um, enslave local indigenous people to wherever they were hunting. 00:19:44.229 --> 00:19:47.566 They probably could have used something similar to restrain those people. 00:19:48.692 --> 00:19:51.570 Unfortunately, what I think you might be holding is a slave shackle. 00:19:52.237 --> 00:19:53.488 Jeez. 00:19:53.572 --> 00:19:55.073 I think you're right. 00:19:55.157 --> 00:19:58.952 Dwargstof was just the kind of pirate that would have enslaved the locals 00:19:59.036 --> 00:20:00.162 to do his bidding. 00:20:00.996 --> 00:20:02.789 Beginning in the 1780s, 00:20:02.873 --> 00:20:05.125 the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands 00:20:05.209 --> 00:20:08.420 were victimized and exploited by Russian seal hunters. 00:20:09.004 --> 00:20:12.591 Aleut women and children were taken hostage by the sealers, 00:20:12.674 --> 00:20:14.593 who forced the men to harvest furs 00:20:14.676 --> 00:20:17.221 in exchange for the return of their loved ones. 00:20:17.971 --> 00:20:21.600 This form of serfdom was banned in the mid-1800s, 00:20:21.683 --> 00:20:24.436 but seal poachers and pirates like Dwargstof 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:28.440 were notorious for continuing to enslave indigenous people. 00:20:40.786 --> 00:20:44.665 I talked to Kelly last night about that object we found at Army 1. 00:20:45.999 --> 00:20:46.833 Shackle. 00:20:46.917 --> 00:20:48.085 You gotta be kidding me. 00:20:48.168 --> 00:20:51.713 Seal poachers enslaved Aleuts to help them hunt seals. 00:20:51.797 --> 00:20:54.883 But we found this shackle a mile from the ocean. 00:20:54.967 --> 00:20:56.593 Why would it be so far inland? 00:20:56.677 --> 00:20:58.428 There's no seals there. 00:20:58.512 --> 00:21:01.098 So that's actually a critical piece of information 00:21:01.181 --> 00:21:03.767 because what I haven't been able to figure out 00:21:03.850 --> 00:21:06.853 is how Dwargstof could have moved a rowboat 00:21:06.937 --> 00:21:10.607 weighed down with gold across that sandy berm. 00:21:10.691 --> 00:21:13.318 If you wanted to go further, you'd have to lift the boat 00:21:13.402 --> 00:21:14.528 up over that berm. 00:21:15.195 --> 00:21:16.488 If he had more manpower, 00:21:16.571 --> 00:21:20.909 he just has to go over that hump, and he's in the lagoon and can head north. 00:21:21.410 --> 00:21:23.495 He can move that gold much further inland. 00:21:23.578 --> 00:21:27.207 Well, now that we know that the marker was pointing to Red Bluff Hill, 00:21:27.291 --> 00:21:30.168 and that Dwargstof had the ability to get there, 00:21:30.252 --> 00:21:31.586 we have to search it. 00:21:32.087 --> 00:21:33.463 That's where I want to go. 00:21:34.047 --> 00:21:36.883 All right, guys, I know we're excited, but I should tell you 00:21:36.967 --> 00:21:40.762 the military removed the top of Red Bluff Hill a few decades back. 00:21:40.846 --> 00:21:42.264 Oh, I remember, man. 00:21:42.347 --> 00:21:43.724 Hmm… 00:21:43.807 --> 00:21:46.935 But there are no reports of any gold found during the removal, 00:21:47.019 --> 00:21:49.062 so treasure could still be buried there. 00:21:50.814 --> 00:21:52.858 There is a lot of pressure right now. 00:21:52.941 --> 00:21:54.818 The ground is about to freeze, 00:21:54.901 --> 00:21:59.573 and this search area is bigger than any of the ones we've looked at before. 00:22:00.073 --> 00:22:03.035 We've got the shackle. We've got the stone marker. 00:22:03.118 --> 00:22:04.786 I mean, it's adding up. 00:22:04.870 --> 00:22:07.873 -Red Bluff Hill, guys. -So you want to head up to Red Bluff Hill? 00:22:07.956 --> 00:22:08.957 -Absolutely. -I'm in. 00:22:09.041 --> 00:22:10.667 All right. I'm gonna head out. 00:22:10.751 --> 00:22:13.170 You guys grab your gear, and we'll meet over there. 00:22:13.253 --> 00:22:14.296 Red Bluff Hill. 00:22:27.809 --> 00:22:29.102 It's right there. 00:22:31.897 --> 00:22:35.233 Jay and I lived out here when they removed the top of Red Bluff Hill. 00:22:35.317 --> 00:22:37.069 It was a massive undertaking, 00:22:37.152 --> 00:22:39.780 but I'm not really concerned that the top is gone. 00:22:41.073 --> 00:22:44.451 It would be a hell of an effort for them to carry a ton of gold 00:22:44.534 --> 00:22:45.827 to the top of that mountain. 00:22:45.911 --> 00:22:47.829 I think it's somewhere down low. 00:22:49.456 --> 00:22:50.332 There's Thom. 00:22:52.793 --> 00:22:55.087 He's already out sweeping for UXO. 00:22:55.170 --> 00:22:58.465 I'm not seeing a bunch of flags put out, so that's a good sign. 00:22:59.591 --> 00:23:01.885 This is our destination. Our final destination. 00:23:07.307 --> 00:23:08.642 Hey, Thom. 00:23:08.725 --> 00:23:11.061 You know, if you guys look back at our hill, 00:23:11.144 --> 00:23:13.980 it's kind of incredible that there's no other suitable place 00:23:14.064 --> 00:23:16.149 to put gold anywhere between it. 00:23:16.233 --> 00:23:19.653 Right here, if you were digging here, burying gold in the ground, 00:23:19.736 --> 00:23:21.947 nobody out here in this bay could see you. 00:23:22.030 --> 00:23:24.533 -Let's start digging. -Ha! Let's do it. 00:23:28.578 --> 00:23:30.247 I really like this spot. 00:23:30.747 --> 00:23:33.375 In my head, I can actually picture Dwargstof and his men 00:23:33.458 --> 00:23:35.877 coming up to this spot, pulling the boat up, 00:23:35.961 --> 00:23:37.462 carrying the gold in. 00:23:37.546 --> 00:23:41.133 I really do not want to go home empty-handed, my friend. 00:23:41.216 --> 00:23:43.009 -No. -We've come too far. 00:23:52.727 --> 00:23:55.772 I like this hillside right here. This would be a good spot. 00:23:56.565 --> 00:23:59.985 Be hard to dig in because this ground's getting solid, it's so cold. 00:24:04.656 --> 00:24:05.740 Oh, yeah? 00:24:05.824 --> 00:24:06.658 Wow! 00:24:10.412 --> 00:24:11.246 Look at that. 00:24:13.874 --> 00:24:15.959 -Guys, come look at this. -All right. 00:24:16.042 --> 00:24:18.545 You're not going to believe this. Get up here, dude. 00:24:18.628 --> 00:24:20.714 -What'd you find? -Unreal. 00:24:20.797 --> 00:24:21.798 What is it? 00:24:25.760 --> 00:24:26.803 Holy crap. 00:24:28.597 --> 00:24:29.431 Jesus. 00:24:30.932 --> 00:24:32.350 That's another marker stone. 00:24:35.312 --> 00:24:37.439 -That's the best find we've had. -Yeah. 00:24:37.522 --> 00:24:39.065 -We have two of these things. -Yeah. 00:24:39.149 --> 00:24:41.902 This is a pattern. This is some kind of map. 00:24:41.985 --> 00:24:43.361 That's cool, dude. 00:24:43.445 --> 00:24:45.447 This one's oriented upright. 00:24:45.530 --> 00:24:48.450 Maybe they were trying to show direction some different way. 00:24:48.533 --> 00:24:52.412 The significance of these stone markers is really starting to take shape. 00:24:52.496 --> 00:24:55.290 That could almost be a pirate's treasure map for us. 00:24:55.999 --> 00:24:57.459 These could be arrows. 00:24:57.959 --> 00:25:00.754 Either this rock is saying that the gold is buried right here, 00:25:00.837 --> 00:25:02.422 or the treasure can be found 00:25:02.506 --> 00:25:05.884 if we keep following the direction that the tip of the cross is pointing. 00:25:06.384 --> 00:25:08.887 This cross is pointing straight uphill. 00:25:08.970 --> 00:25:10.805 Want to scan all around it. 00:25:11.723 --> 00:25:13.725 I want to put this up as a reference. 00:25:14.226 --> 00:25:17.437 After we get done working down here, we'll move up, straight line. 00:25:28.532 --> 00:25:30.033 Anything yet, Burke? 00:25:30.784 --> 00:25:32.452 Nothing. It's pretty quiet. 00:25:32.536 --> 00:25:34.120 You hearing anything, Jay? 00:25:34.871 --> 00:25:36.414 I only hear the wind… 00:25:37.791 --> 00:25:39.251 and winter, and that's it. 00:25:40.627 --> 00:25:42.128 We know the weather is coming. 00:25:42.212 --> 00:25:44.130 We need to put the truck lights on 00:25:44.214 --> 00:25:47.676 just to squeeze out every ounce of this day that we can get. 00:25:48.510 --> 00:25:51.888 We probably got another 20 minutes. That'll be it for the day. 00:25:52.514 --> 00:25:53.890 We just got to keep going. 00:25:53.974 --> 00:25:55.892 I know. Let's… 00:25:58.270 --> 00:25:59.229 Jesus! 00:25:59.854 --> 00:26:01.439 That wind's coming up. 00:26:07.612 --> 00:26:08.738 This is crazy. 00:26:09.781 --> 00:26:12.284 I haven't had a hit all day today. 00:26:14.578 --> 00:26:15.620 Oh my gosh. 00:26:15.704 --> 00:26:16.663 Hey, Burke! 00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:20.125 You better get up here. I got a huge hit. 00:26:20.208 --> 00:26:22.669 I can't believe this, man. This thing's huge. 00:26:27.882 --> 00:26:29.718 -Need some help? -Yeah. 00:26:30.260 --> 00:26:32.053 Get a little bite on this side. 00:26:33.054 --> 00:26:34.097 Oh, there it is. 00:26:35.181 --> 00:26:36.266 What the… 00:26:39.394 --> 00:26:40.478 Holy… 00:26:42.647 --> 00:26:43.607 You guys. 00:26:45.025 --> 00:26:46.568 This is a freaking can. 00:26:47.652 --> 00:26:49.988 -Look at that. That's a can. -What? 00:26:50.071 --> 00:26:51.114 That's a can. 00:26:52.324 --> 00:26:55.285 Look at that end of that can. What the hell is that, Weed? 00:26:59.539 --> 00:27:01.207 That's a solder mark. 00:27:02.083 --> 00:27:04.044 This can is so old 00:27:04.127 --> 00:27:06.630 it was before they could preserve things. 00:27:07.130 --> 00:27:10.717 So when-- when whatever was put in here, let's say food, for example, 00:27:10.800 --> 00:27:12.385 they would boil it, 00:27:12.886 --> 00:27:16.806 and then after the steam and everything from the boiling process was done, 00:27:16.890 --> 00:27:20.560 they'd have to seal the can with a little bit of solder. 00:27:21.478 --> 00:27:24.356 Pre-1900, you're soldering cans to close them. 00:27:24.439 --> 00:27:25.940 So Dwargstof's time, right? 00:27:26.024 --> 00:27:27.233 Exactly. 00:27:27.317 --> 00:27:29.361 So, the gold could still be underneath here? 00:27:29.444 --> 00:27:31.404 There's got to be more in this hole. 00:27:32.822 --> 00:27:35.325 If we're going to hear anything, it'll be with this guy. 00:27:35.408 --> 00:27:36.785 Okay, let's try it. 00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:42.123 Pull all the shovels and metal detectors back so I don't get any interference. 00:27:44.042 --> 00:27:46.127 Come on, man. Tell me you got something. 00:27:49.172 --> 00:27:50.882 There's something right here.