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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,302 --> 00:00:04,371 Tonight on "Lost Gold of the Aztecs"... 2 00:00:04,504 --> 00:00:06,006 There we go. 3 00:00:06,139 --> 00:00:07,474 We need to build a shaker box. 4 00:00:07,608 --> 00:00:09,443 That way we can move a lot more material. 5 00:00:09,576 --> 00:00:11,378 Whoa, whoa! 6 00:00:11,512 --> 00:00:12,980 Whoa! What do we got here? 7 00:00:17,317 --> 00:00:18,385 Holy. 8 00:00:18,518 --> 00:00:21,121 This hole could be a tunnel entrance. 9 00:00:21,255 --> 00:00:24,992 - Oh, whoa. - Man, I did not expect to see this. 10 00:00:25,125 --> 00:00:26,894 There's so much more to this mine. 11 00:00:27,027 --> 00:00:29,563 This goes down. 12 00:00:29,696 --> 00:00:31,899 Yeah, there's a tunnel down here. 13 00:00:34,334 --> 00:00:36,670 500 years ago, the Aztecs possessed 14 00:00:36,803 --> 00:00:41,575 one of the greatest treasures the world has ever seen. 15 00:00:41,708 --> 00:00:46,346 Word of this treasure attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors, 16 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:49,149 but when they came for the gold, 17 00:00:49,283 --> 00:00:50,851 it was already gone, 18 00:00:50,984 --> 00:00:54,121 hidden by Emperor Montezuma in locations throughout 19 00:00:54,254 --> 00:00:57,925 what is now the American Southwest. 20 00:00:58,058 --> 00:01:00,994 Now, three treasure hunting teams, 21 00:01:01,128 --> 00:01:03,463 all with different approaches, 22 00:01:03,597 --> 00:01:06,133 are closing in on what they believe 23 00:01:06,266 --> 00:01:09,536 is the location of the lost Aztec gold. 24 00:01:09,670 --> 00:01:12,372 This right here is definitely manmade activity. 25 00:01:12,506 --> 00:01:14,675 The Dillmans are following a trail 26 00:01:14,808 --> 00:01:17,377 blazed by the research of their grandfather. 27 00:01:17,511 --> 00:01:21,148 I believe it's my destiny to find it for the family. 28 00:01:21,281 --> 00:01:23,517 The Villescas are treasure seekers 29 00:01:23,650 --> 00:01:26,219 descended from Spanish conquistadors. 30 00:01:26,353 --> 00:01:28,455 They believe the Spanish found the gold... 31 00:01:28,588 --> 00:01:29,456 All right. Here we go. 32 00:01:29,590 --> 00:01:31,058 And melted it into bars 33 00:01:31,191 --> 00:01:33,327 hidden throughout the American Southwest. 34 00:01:33,460 --> 00:01:35,996 If anybody's gonna find it, it's gonna be us. 35 00:01:36,129 --> 00:01:38,498 And finally, the Hoaglands. 36 00:01:38,632 --> 00:01:40,734 Fire in the hole! 37 00:01:40,867 --> 00:01:43,604 They believe the treasure is hidden inside mines 38 00:01:43,737 --> 00:01:46,406 along well known Aztec trade routes. 39 00:01:46,540 --> 00:01:48,308 If anything happens, be ready to go. 40 00:01:48,442 --> 00:01:50,811 Decades of searching... 41 00:01:50,944 --> 00:01:51,812 That's old as hell. 42 00:01:51,945 --> 00:01:53,380 Three different theories. 43 00:01:53,513 --> 00:01:55,782 That's what I do. I go find stuff. 44 00:01:55,916 --> 00:01:58,685 Which one of these teams will be proven right 45 00:01:58,819 --> 00:02:01,254 and be the first to find 46 00:02:01,388 --> 00:02:04,291 the lost gold of the Aztecs? 47 00:02:26,780 --> 00:02:29,340 Basically, you know, we're just gonna do a cursory investigation. 48 00:02:29,383 --> 00:02:30,517 All right. 49 00:02:30,650 --> 00:02:33,053 The Dillmans are headed back to cave five, 50 00:02:33,186 --> 00:02:35,722 an intriguing location where an earlier dye test 51 00:02:35,856 --> 00:02:38,358 suggested the possibility of interlocked tunnels. 52 00:02:38,492 --> 00:02:40,660 Dan, I got color in cave five. 53 00:02:40,794 --> 00:02:43,563 Based on research done by Dan's grandfather, 54 00:02:43,697 --> 00:02:46,733 he believes the tunnel system could lead to a cave 55 00:02:46,867 --> 00:02:48,368 holding Aztec treasure. 56 00:02:48,502 --> 00:02:51,138 They're sending in divers to learn more. 57 00:02:55,542 --> 00:02:58,645 So we call this Weeping Cave. 58 00:02:58,779 --> 00:03:02,783 You can clearly hear that the sandstone is weeping, right? 59 00:03:02,916 --> 00:03:05,285 The water is dripping out of it. 60 00:03:05,419 --> 00:03:07,020 All right, you guys grab your stuff 61 00:03:07,154 --> 00:03:08,514 and can you be ready in 15 minutes? 62 00:03:08,588 --> 00:03:10,548 - Yeah, 15 should be good. - All right, beautiful. 63 00:03:11,625 --> 00:03:13,136 We're checking out Weeping Cave right now 64 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,529 because we've got some tracing dye appearing in it 65 00:03:15,662 --> 00:03:17,631 and it's not too far away from Shadow Cave. 66 00:03:17,764 --> 00:03:20,200 So we've got a connection there. 67 00:03:20,333 --> 00:03:21,968 We continue to look for tunnels. 68 00:03:22,102 --> 00:03:23,637 If we find a tunnel system, 69 00:03:23,770 --> 00:03:28,642 then we've found evidence that someone made those tunnels 70 00:03:28,775 --> 00:03:31,211 and we need to figure out if it was the Aztecs. 71 00:03:37,984 --> 00:03:41,855 Yes, sir. Can you hear me okay? 72 00:03:51,364 --> 00:03:54,334 Looks like they've almost made it across the back of the cavern. 73 00:03:55,869 --> 00:03:57,480 What's the conditions like down there right now? 74 00:03:57,504 --> 00:04:00,207 Is it, you know, pretty muddy, a lot of silt, 75 00:04:00,340 --> 00:04:02,100 or is it pretty clear as you got further out? 76 00:04:05,145 --> 00:04:07,214 Yeah, can you guys stay next to the wall? 77 00:04:08,782 --> 00:04:11,384 My grandfather in his audiotape, 78 00:04:11,518 --> 00:04:17,157 he said that we should find what may seem like a natural spring opening, 79 00:04:17,290 --> 00:04:19,359 but in fact that that would also be an entrance 80 00:04:19,493 --> 00:04:22,229 into a tunnel and cavern system. 81 00:04:22,362 --> 00:04:25,866 Anything else that you guys are finding against the wall 82 00:04:25,999 --> 00:04:27,443 or are you guys moving more towards the center? 83 00:04:27,467 --> 00:04:28,735 Where are you guys at now? 84 00:04:49,022 --> 00:04:50,023 White rocks? 85 00:04:57,731 --> 00:05:01,234 See if it's been in any sort of specific pattern or formation. 86 00:05:01,368 --> 00:05:03,737 Yeah, do they seem to be engineered, manmade? 87 00:05:03,870 --> 00:05:06,106 Are they square blocks or are they just rocks? 88 00:05:14,915 --> 00:05:17,350 It's sandstone around here. It's red rock. 89 00:05:17,484 --> 00:05:19,319 If there's white rocks down there, 90 00:05:19,452 --> 00:05:21,321 it's not from that cave. 91 00:05:21,454 --> 00:05:23,356 Okay, well, you know what? 92 00:05:23,490 --> 00:05:25,458 Let's mark that as a place of interest, 93 00:05:25,592 --> 00:05:28,528 and let's get closer to the back of the cave 94 00:05:28,662 --> 00:05:30,463 where the green tracing dye was coming out. 95 00:05:30,597 --> 00:05:34,834 Someone at some point in time put those rocks there. 96 00:05:34,968 --> 00:05:37,270 It's definitely enough intrigue for me 97 00:05:37,404 --> 00:05:39,172 to say let's look a little deeper. 98 00:05:42,409 --> 00:05:45,478 You guys are headed to the exact location at 10:00 99 00:05:45,612 --> 00:05:48,682 where the tracing dye came up. You're in a good area. 100 00:05:48,815 --> 00:05:52,385 Follow the cliff down all the way to the bottom if you can. 101 00:06:02,128 --> 00:06:04,664 Are you guys feeling any kind of change 102 00:06:04,798 --> 00:06:08,969 in water temperature or pressure while you're down there? 103 00:06:09,102 --> 00:06:10,537 When we see the temperature drop, 104 00:06:10,670 --> 00:06:12,439 it could be an indicator 105 00:06:12,572 --> 00:06:14,474 that that would be a spring opening. 106 00:06:14,608 --> 00:06:15,909 So that's what we're looking for, 107 00:06:16,042 --> 00:06:18,979 a natural opening, a natural pathway, 108 00:06:19,112 --> 00:06:21,514 that opens up into this larger tunnel system. 109 00:06:36,496 --> 00:06:38,665 How big would you say it is? 110 00:06:46,139 --> 00:06:47,674 Holy. 111 00:06:47,807 --> 00:06:49,910 This hole or possible tunnel 112 00:06:50,043 --> 00:06:53,079 that the diver is reporting to us that he has found 113 00:06:53,213 --> 00:06:55,248 could be where the dye came out of. 114 00:06:55,382 --> 00:06:57,284 It could also be a tunnel entrance. 115 00:06:57,417 --> 00:07:01,388 This is actually something that we have to investigate further. 116 00:07:02,622 --> 00:07:05,592 Are they coming back? TJ, come on up. 117 00:07:10,330 --> 00:07:11,398 TJ. 118 00:07:17,404 --> 00:07:18,738 Oh, right on. 119 00:07:35,021 --> 00:07:37,857 Just checking on you, guys, making sure you're good. 120 00:07:43,263 --> 00:07:47,300 A couple things he found? What the hell could he have found? 121 00:07:47,434 --> 00:07:50,003 When TJ reported to me that he had something to show me, 122 00:07:50,136 --> 00:07:52,339 it's kind of mysterious and exciting at the same time. 123 00:07:52,472 --> 00:07:54,641 All of kinds of ideas start running through my mind. 124 00:07:58,011 --> 00:08:01,414 - How was it? - A couple things looking out of the ordinary back there. 125 00:08:05,819 --> 00:08:07,539 Didn't see anything else like it down there. 126 00:08:07,654 --> 00:08:09,856 - They're hollow. - Yeah, they're hollowed out. 127 00:08:09,990 --> 00:08:11,825 You can see straight through it. 128 00:08:11,958 --> 00:08:14,094 I don't know if this is bone or shell. 129 00:08:14,227 --> 00:08:15,528 It looks like it could be bone. 130 00:08:15,662 --> 00:08:17,273 I thought it looked like bone when I was down there. 131 00:08:17,297 --> 00:08:18,631 TJ has brought us up 132 00:08:18,765 --> 00:08:22,535 what looked to be bone or shell, 133 00:08:22,669 --> 00:08:25,305 but when you look at these pieces, 134 00:08:25,438 --> 00:08:26,558 they've clearly been worked. 135 00:08:27,774 --> 00:08:29,609 And you just found this on the bottom? 136 00:08:29,743 --> 00:08:30,610 It was kinda up by the wall. 137 00:08:30,744 --> 00:08:32,812 - Really? - Towards the back. 138 00:08:32,946 --> 00:08:34,857 Were they grouped together or kinda scattered around? 139 00:08:34,881 --> 00:08:36,683 They were pretty close together. 140 00:08:36,816 --> 00:08:38,318 We need to share this with an expert 141 00:08:38,451 --> 00:08:41,488 and get their opinion on exactly what they believe this is. 142 00:08:41,621 --> 00:08:45,325 But first we need to test that opening at the bottom of the cave 143 00:08:45,458 --> 00:08:47,594 and see if we've got a tunnel entrance. 144 00:09:00,140 --> 00:09:02,542 Finally get the machine we needed. 145 00:09:02,675 --> 00:09:04,778 The Villescas team is digging deeper 146 00:09:04,911 --> 00:09:07,147 at a site they think could be where Johnny Segura 147 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,416 discovered a bar of melted gold, 148 00:09:09,549 --> 00:09:13,586 a bar that resembled the process used by Spanish conquistadors. 149 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:15,822 They're searching not just for gold 150 00:09:15,955 --> 00:09:18,658 but for any signs that the Spanish were here. 151 00:09:18,792 --> 00:09:21,828 After finding evidence that they may be in the right area, 152 00:09:21,961 --> 00:09:24,497 Gabe has made a small investment in equipment... 153 00:09:24,631 --> 00:09:28,134 A 15-ton front loader with a deep bucket 154 00:09:28,268 --> 00:09:32,138 that can hold 5,000 pounds of rock. 155 00:09:32,272 --> 00:09:36,142 We followed the breadcrumbs all the way here to the actual spot where Johnny was working, 156 00:09:36,276 --> 00:09:38,078 and possibly even the conquistadors. 157 00:09:38,211 --> 00:09:40,914 Johnny found one of these gold bars, 158 00:09:41,047 --> 00:09:42,782 and the Spanish didn't just bury one. 159 00:09:42,916 --> 00:09:46,119 We believe there's a large mass quantity of gold buried out here. 160 00:09:46,252 --> 00:09:48,188 Our next step on this location 161 00:09:48,321 --> 00:09:52,125 is to see if we can't find any type of proof the Spanish were here 162 00:09:52,258 --> 00:09:54,461 and to find out if this really is a legitimate site. 163 00:09:54,594 --> 00:09:56,262 Gabe has come up with a plan 164 00:09:56,396 --> 00:09:58,364 to sift through the massive amounts of dirt 165 00:09:58,498 --> 00:10:00,333 that the front loader will dig up. 166 00:10:00,467 --> 00:10:04,170 We need to build a shaker box. That way we can move a lot more material quicker. 167 00:10:04,304 --> 00:10:07,707 This process will allow us to sift through the finds here. 168 00:10:07,841 --> 00:10:13,179 We should be able to locate any small artifacts that come through the screen. 169 00:10:13,313 --> 00:10:18,218 Shaker boxes were invented in 1849 during the California gold rush 170 00:10:18,351 --> 00:10:22,388 to speed up how much material miners could sift through in a day. 171 00:10:22,522 --> 00:10:24,924 These devices originally used water 172 00:10:25,058 --> 00:10:26,559 and were built on rockers. 173 00:10:26,693 --> 00:10:28,528 Once gold mining moved into the desert, 174 00:10:28,661 --> 00:10:32,198 it was adapted to use gravity with a series of screens 175 00:10:32,332 --> 00:10:34,934 like the one the Villescas are building. 176 00:10:35,068 --> 00:10:36,703 We take the angle iron 177 00:10:36,836 --> 00:10:40,206 and we go on ahead and make ourselves a nice square box, 178 00:10:40,340 --> 00:10:42,742 and that's gonna give us our rigid frame. 179 00:10:42,876 --> 00:10:44,277 There we go. 180 00:10:44,410 --> 00:10:46,088 We build ourselves something stout. 181 00:10:46,112 --> 00:10:47,580 Okay, I'm liking that. 182 00:10:47,714 --> 00:10:49,115 Envision that it has a top on there. 183 00:10:49,249 --> 00:10:51,584 So we can get Monico welding that. 184 00:10:51,718 --> 00:10:53,419 Monico is a really good friend of mine, 185 00:10:53,553 --> 00:10:55,364 and I brought him in to help us with this build 186 00:10:55,388 --> 00:10:57,290 because we need more hands on deck, 187 00:10:57,423 --> 00:11:00,193 and it's dangerous for just one or two people to be working on it. 188 00:11:00,326 --> 00:11:02,328 Just go on ahead and drop it on here. 189 00:11:02,462 --> 00:11:04,297 - We got that one? - There we go. 190 00:11:04,430 --> 00:11:05,298 - Okay? - You're good. 191 00:11:05,431 --> 00:11:06,633 Go ahead. Down. 192 00:11:06,766 --> 00:11:08,526 We're gonna build this screen up at an angle, 193 00:11:08,601 --> 00:11:13,306 suspend it with some chain in four points all the way down... 194 00:11:13,439 --> 00:11:15,909 - Ready? - So it'll have a rocking motion. 195 00:11:16,042 --> 00:11:17,911 A shaker box has to have movement... 196 00:11:18,044 --> 00:11:19,245 Whoa! Right there. 197 00:11:19,379 --> 00:11:21,447 Maintaining that 30 degree angle. 198 00:11:21,581 --> 00:11:24,284 If we just throw a bucket of large material on, 199 00:11:24,417 --> 00:11:26,286 it's gonna tear that screen right off. 200 00:11:26,419 --> 00:11:27,453 There we go. 201 00:11:27,587 --> 00:11:29,289 And we're gonna need some kind of Grizzly. 202 00:11:29,422 --> 00:11:32,759 It's not gonna give under 3,000 or 4,000 pounds of weight. 203 00:11:32,892 --> 00:11:35,795 If we use a large screen, that should slough off the big material. 204 00:11:35,929 --> 00:11:38,898 Put it up there. Don't be scared. 205 00:11:39,032 --> 00:11:41,100 This tray should be the hail Mary tray. 206 00:11:41,234 --> 00:11:43,770 If we're gonna find anything, it's gonna be found right there. 207 00:11:43,903 --> 00:11:46,272 That loader's costing us money every single day. 208 00:11:46,406 --> 00:11:49,042 It's important that we come across some type of evidence 209 00:11:49,175 --> 00:11:50,443 so we can working this site. 210 00:11:50,577 --> 00:11:52,378 Done! Ready. 211 00:12:05,725 --> 00:12:07,994 I don't know what it is. 212 00:12:10,730 --> 00:12:12,031 I haven't got a clue. 213 00:12:12,165 --> 00:12:13,933 For the last ten years, 214 00:12:14,067 --> 00:12:15,468 Chris Hegg and Kevin Hoagland 215 00:12:15,602 --> 00:12:18,571 have been searching along the old Aztec trade routes. 216 00:12:18,705 --> 00:12:21,174 They believe fleeing Aztec warriors 217 00:12:21,307 --> 00:12:24,010 used these ancient corridors to hide the gold 218 00:12:24,143 --> 00:12:26,346 in their own previously dug mines 219 00:12:26,479 --> 00:12:28,147 in the American Southwest. 220 00:12:28,281 --> 00:12:31,117 Now, after uncovering the entrance to an ancient mine... 221 00:12:31,250 --> 00:12:33,052 Yeah! 222 00:12:33,186 --> 00:12:36,055 They came in contact with a potentially dangerous substance... 223 00:12:36,189 --> 00:12:37,949 I wanna figure out what this stuff is. 224 00:12:37,991 --> 00:12:39,359 We gotta get some help. 225 00:12:39,492 --> 00:12:43,029 Which is causing concern for the Hoagland team. 226 00:12:43,162 --> 00:12:44,364 Man, I'm going with bugs 227 00:12:44,497 --> 00:12:46,866 because it's what I've known in the past. 228 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,334 It turns colors and... 229 00:12:48,468 --> 00:12:50,870 As soon as it got wet, it turned my hands purple. 230 00:12:51,004 --> 00:12:54,340 I washed them, like 12 times now. 231 00:12:54,474 --> 00:12:56,643 I don't know if it's the sweat on my hands or... 232 00:12:56,776 --> 00:12:59,545 - Or the pH. - Or the heat or the pH 233 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:01,214 or just before I went up the ladder, 234 00:13:01,347 --> 00:13:03,950 I took a big drink and washed my hands off. I don't know. 235 00:13:04,117 --> 00:13:07,020 - Where are you? - Is that blood? 236 00:13:07,153 --> 00:13:09,455 When Chris called out that my hands were bleeding 237 00:13:09,589 --> 00:13:12,692 and I looked down and both of my hands were just covered in red, 238 00:13:12,825 --> 00:13:15,628 it was time to stop. None of knew what it was. 239 00:13:15,762 --> 00:13:17,563 And I got no idea. 240 00:13:17,697 --> 00:13:19,866 Loupe that. See what it looks like to you. 241 00:13:23,436 --> 00:13:26,139 Some type of dehydrated bug. 242 00:13:26,272 --> 00:13:29,108 I don't know anything about a freeze-dried bug. 243 00:13:29,242 --> 00:13:32,712 They do look freeze-dried, which would be Aztec. 244 00:13:32,845 --> 00:13:36,115 They invented freeze-drying. Freeze dried potatoes. 245 00:13:36,249 --> 00:13:38,251 - This is true. - They went up on a mountain, 246 00:13:38,384 --> 00:13:40,162 they figured out how to run natural air current every day. 247 00:13:40,186 --> 00:13:41,888 - Current, yeah. - They'd dry them out 248 00:13:42,021 --> 00:13:44,757 and transport them all over their kingdom, 249 00:13:44,891 --> 00:13:47,593 so that would be interesting if this was from down south 250 00:13:47,727 --> 00:13:50,229 and it's freeze-dried and brought here. 251 00:13:50,363 --> 00:13:52,899 If these things were freeze-dried in a tunnel 252 00:13:53,032 --> 00:13:57,136 in a high altitude in Nevada, to me, that shows Aztec. 253 00:13:57,270 --> 00:13:59,872 In fact only Aztec, not Spanish. 254 00:14:00,006 --> 00:14:04,110 The freeze-dried bugs could be evidence of Aztec involvement. 255 00:14:04,243 --> 00:14:07,980 Freeze-drying in cold mountain air is a common technique 256 00:14:08,114 --> 00:14:11,417 pioneered by the Aztecs in the 15th century. 257 00:14:11,551 --> 00:14:15,221 I've got a friend of mine, she's an entomologist and a professor. 258 00:14:15,354 --> 00:14:18,157 - Let's give her a call. - Yeah. Her name is Michael. 259 00:14:18,291 --> 00:14:20,226 - Michael? - Yes? 260 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,228 - Hey, it's Kevin. How are you? - Hi. 261 00:14:22,362 --> 00:14:23,963 She lives in the desert Southwest. 262 00:14:24,097 --> 00:14:26,132 She understands the desert Southwest. 263 00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:28,877 I got a whole bunch of sample materials that we took out of a mine, 264 00:14:28,901 --> 00:14:31,604 and there's a bunch of bugs in the sample. 265 00:14:31,738 --> 00:14:33,873 I have no idea what it is. 266 00:14:34,006 --> 00:14:35,751 If you had some time, would you mind meeting us 267 00:14:35,775 --> 00:14:37,343 and taking a look at this stuff? 268 00:14:37,477 --> 00:14:39,178 Yeah, that'll be no problem. 269 00:14:39,312 --> 00:14:41,147 - Perfect. - Okay, see you soon. 270 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:42,982 - Bye. - All right, bye. 271 00:14:43,116 --> 00:14:46,753 Whatever this is, it's been in there for a long time. 272 00:14:56,162 --> 00:14:58,698 We got this equipment now, Jerome. 273 00:14:58,831 --> 00:15:00,633 Got you a loader. 274 00:15:00,767 --> 00:15:02,802 - It's better than a shovel. - Yeah. 275 00:15:02,935 --> 00:15:05,471 The Villescas team has brought in a front loader 276 00:15:05,605 --> 00:15:07,440 and built a shaker box. 277 00:15:07,573 --> 00:15:10,009 They hope to find either traces of gold 278 00:15:10,143 --> 00:15:12,979 or evidence that Spanish conquistadors were here. 279 00:15:13,112 --> 00:15:15,072 Start with the material at the far end of the pit. 280 00:15:15,148 --> 00:15:16,916 Okay. 281 00:15:17,049 --> 00:15:19,128 There's some finer sand there. We can kind of test it out. 282 00:15:19,152 --> 00:15:20,887 We'll work our way forward slowly. 283 00:15:21,020 --> 00:15:22,855 - Be gentle. - You got it. 284 00:15:22,989 --> 00:15:25,525 We'll just ease into it and hope it works. 285 00:15:25,658 --> 00:15:26,993 Hope we find something. 286 00:15:29,929 --> 00:15:31,864 Right there in the back, Jerome. 287 00:15:31,998 --> 00:15:33,366 You know, my whole life 288 00:15:33,499 --> 00:15:34,910 I've been around nothing but big machines, 289 00:15:34,934 --> 00:15:37,336 operated them and everything, and I'm just so excited 290 00:15:37,470 --> 00:15:40,173 like a kid in sandbox, man, just playing with the big toys again. 291 00:15:49,982 --> 00:15:51,617 Keep going. Keep going. 292 00:15:51,751 --> 00:15:53,920 All of it! All of it! 293 00:15:54,053 --> 00:15:56,022 The shaker box is a tool that we're gonna use 294 00:15:56,155 --> 00:15:57,657 to separate the material by size. 295 00:15:57,790 --> 00:16:00,560 - Throw it all! - The Grizzly bars will filter off 296 00:16:00,693 --> 00:16:02,895 the larger material to the back, 297 00:16:03,029 --> 00:16:06,899 and then two to three-inch rocks will fall into the tray itself. 298 00:16:07,033 --> 00:16:09,473 The really small, fine material will filter out to the bottom, 299 00:16:09,569 --> 00:16:12,371 and we're not interested in that at all. 300 00:16:12,505 --> 00:16:14,307 Let's hit it now! Let's hit the front. 301 00:16:16,709 --> 00:16:17,709 A couple taps! 302 00:16:22,014 --> 00:16:25,051 In order to get the screen to shake in the shaker box... 303 00:16:26,586 --> 00:16:28,588 I'm tapping the screen with the bucket. 304 00:16:28,721 --> 00:16:29,989 There we go. 305 00:16:30,122 --> 00:16:31,533 We couldn't find a motor out here and, you know, 306 00:16:31,557 --> 00:16:33,426 we don't have electricity to run it. 307 00:16:33,559 --> 00:16:34,903 When you're working out here in the desert, 308 00:16:34,927 --> 00:16:36,996 guys like us, we just make due with what we got. 309 00:16:37,129 --> 00:16:39,232 All right, Dad, let's take a look. 310 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,370 Well, yeah. We don't wanna miss anything. 311 00:16:46,138 --> 00:16:49,141 She worked. That worked like a champ. 312 00:16:51,043 --> 00:16:53,279 Totally improvised in the middle of the desert 313 00:16:53,412 --> 00:16:54,412 and it worked. 314 00:16:55,514 --> 00:16:57,450 One more time. 315 00:16:57,583 --> 00:16:59,361 We don't have a lot of money. We ain't millionaires. 316 00:16:59,385 --> 00:17:01,554 But we are crafty. 317 00:17:01,687 --> 00:17:03,556 We're gonna be so much more effective now. 318 00:17:03,689 --> 00:17:06,659 We're just gonna go through way more material. 319 00:17:06,792 --> 00:17:07,792 It was a great design. 320 00:17:11,464 --> 00:17:13,575 You know, I'm kind of excited to see what we're gonna find. 321 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:18,271 - Nothing? - The biggest clues would be some Spaniard items... 322 00:17:18,404 --> 00:17:20,273 Artifacts, tools, weapons, 323 00:17:20,406 --> 00:17:23,643 iron last for a long time, pottery. 324 00:17:23,776 --> 00:17:25,711 - Rock? - Plain old rock. 325 00:17:25,845 --> 00:17:29,749 They just don't dig a hole and bury gold in a few days. 326 00:17:29,882 --> 00:17:30,983 It takes months. 327 00:17:31,150 --> 00:17:32,518 So there could be tons of evidence 328 00:17:32,652 --> 00:17:33,753 from the Spanish out here. 329 00:17:36,589 --> 00:17:37,657 Nothing. 330 00:17:41,093 --> 00:17:44,730 Whoa, whoa! Hold on. Hold on, hold up. 331 00:17:44,864 --> 00:17:47,366 - Got something here. - 10-4. 332 00:17:49,368 --> 00:17:51,337 Looks like some kind of spike 333 00:17:51,470 --> 00:17:53,072 or a big nail of some kind. 334 00:17:58,311 --> 00:18:00,346 What do you make of that? 335 00:18:00,479 --> 00:18:03,482 It is a railroad spike from small tracks 336 00:18:03,616 --> 00:18:06,519 that they used to carry the minerals from the mine. 337 00:18:08,254 --> 00:18:09,989 It's definitely old. 338 00:18:10,122 --> 00:18:13,392 It does look like some kind of fastener or nail. 339 00:18:13,526 --> 00:18:17,430 - Did you get something? - Yeah, we found a spike. 340 00:18:17,563 --> 00:18:20,600 Just go slower. Maybe we'll find something else. 341 00:18:20,733 --> 00:18:22,535 It might not be related to anything mining, 342 00:18:22,668 --> 00:18:25,638 and I don't see any tracks or carts or any type of activity, 343 00:18:25,771 --> 00:18:29,108 so I'm not too sure what it's doing here. 344 00:18:29,241 --> 00:18:31,744 Toss it in the bucket. 345 00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:40,019 Gonna borrow some of this material from you, Dad. 346 00:18:42,555 --> 00:18:44,290 This hidden gold by the conquistadors 347 00:18:44,423 --> 00:18:46,025 is tied to us, to our heritage. 348 00:18:46,158 --> 00:18:49,061 So searching for the gold and artifacts 349 00:18:49,195 --> 00:18:52,198 and being possibly from our ancestors, 350 00:18:52,331 --> 00:18:55,401 you know, the people we descend from, the early explorers, 351 00:18:55,534 --> 00:18:58,104 it's all fascinating to me just being on that hunt 352 00:18:58,237 --> 00:19:01,774 and walking around and sharing that experience with my father. 353 00:19:01,907 --> 00:19:03,427 All right, let's bump this table again. 354 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,982 I don't see nothing else. What about up there? Nothing? 355 00:19:10,116 --> 00:19:11,517 Nothing. 356 00:19:15,354 --> 00:19:16,956 Whoa, whoa! 357 00:19:17,089 --> 00:19:19,058 Whoa! What do we got here? 358 00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:35,307 That's old as hell... 359 00:19:35,441 --> 00:19:38,944 I don't know what it is. It's old, it's rusty. But come take a look. 360 00:19:39,078 --> 00:19:41,514 The Villescas team has made a discovery 361 00:19:41,647 --> 00:19:43,916 while digging in the fire pit. 362 00:19:44,050 --> 00:19:45,418 What do you think that could be? 363 00:19:48,821 --> 00:19:50,656 - Could it be Spanish? - Maybe. 364 00:19:52,458 --> 00:19:55,061 Like a pike maybe? The tip of one of their lances? 365 00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:57,329 Too big for that. Too heavy. 366 00:19:57,463 --> 00:19:59,665 Yeah, I think it would be too heavy. 367 00:19:59,799 --> 00:20:03,569 Plus, it would have a hole drilled here where they would slide a piece of wood in. 368 00:20:03,702 --> 00:20:05,071 Yeah. 369 00:20:05,204 --> 00:20:07,173 Let me see that thing, man. 370 00:20:09,108 --> 00:20:10,976 - You know what it could be? - Huh? 371 00:20:11,110 --> 00:20:13,979 A drill head to drill for dynamite. 372 00:20:15,514 --> 00:20:18,350 Maybe that's why the rocks all fractured in here. 373 00:20:18,484 --> 00:20:20,186 It makes sense. 374 00:20:20,319 --> 00:20:22,199 In my line of work, building a road or whatever, 375 00:20:22,321 --> 00:20:24,523 you're gonna go through rock. 376 00:20:24,657 --> 00:20:26,425 This drill head that we found. 377 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:28,761 Sometimes they use them just to break the rock, 378 00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:31,630 or you can drill to put dynamite in there and blast it. 379 00:20:31,764 --> 00:20:34,500 Why else would it be so fractured? 380 00:20:34,633 --> 00:20:37,336 - Look, that broke. - Yeah. 381 00:20:37,470 --> 00:20:40,339 The story is that my cousin Johnny sometimes used dynamite out there 382 00:20:40,473 --> 00:20:42,241 in the middle of nowhere blowing stuff up. 383 00:20:42,374 --> 00:20:47,346 He was always telling all these stories about finding treasure. 384 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:48,623 He was always digging out there 385 00:20:48,647 --> 00:20:50,516 and blowing things up with dynamite, 386 00:20:50,649 --> 00:20:51,984 looking for something. 387 00:20:52,118 --> 00:20:54,887 So I guess that's where the whole Crazy Johnny thing 388 00:20:55,020 --> 00:20:56,522 came about, you know what I mean? 389 00:20:56,655 --> 00:20:59,058 Not to say that he was the one out here using it, 390 00:20:59,191 --> 00:21:01,360 but it kinda sounds like him. 391 00:21:01,494 --> 00:21:03,829 - It makes sense. - That would explain a lot. 392 00:21:03,963 --> 00:21:06,165 If this was Johnny Segura's drill bit, 393 00:21:06,298 --> 00:21:09,368 possibly he was out here working this very site. 394 00:21:09,502 --> 00:21:11,370 We just don't know right now. 395 00:21:11,504 --> 00:21:13,482 It's definitely unusual and it's definitely a good find. 396 00:21:13,506 --> 00:21:15,574 - Let's get back at it. - All right. 397 00:21:28,988 --> 00:21:32,024 We're about to figure out how deep this hole is right now. 398 00:21:32,158 --> 00:21:34,894 The Dillman family, along with their dive team, 399 00:21:35,027 --> 00:21:36,362 are about to search the hole 400 00:21:36,495 --> 00:21:38,764 they found at the bottom of Weeping Cave 401 00:21:38,898 --> 00:21:41,534 to see if it's an entrance to a tunnel system 402 00:21:41,667 --> 00:21:43,202 that based on his research, 403 00:21:43,335 --> 00:21:46,539 Dan's grandfather believed might lead to treasure. 404 00:21:46,672 --> 00:21:48,040 All right, all right. 405 00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:52,344 This hole, it could be a tunnel. 406 00:21:52,478 --> 00:21:54,580 We just don't know yet, so we need to check it out. 407 00:21:54,713 --> 00:21:56,816 Right now, though. Let's figure this out. 408 00:21:56,949 --> 00:21:59,985 - Hey, Derrick, let's get that PVC pipe, man. - All right. 409 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,656 From our experience, PVC pipe was quickest, most efficient way 410 00:22:03,789 --> 00:22:06,091 for us to probe the opening. 411 00:22:06,225 --> 00:22:09,528 All right. Good luck. 412 00:22:09,662 --> 00:22:14,934 We're sending him in with about an eight-foot long PVC pipe. 413 00:22:15,034 --> 00:22:16,669 If that goes in a foot or two, 414 00:22:16,802 --> 00:22:18,522 and is stuck and he can't get any further... 415 00:22:20,439 --> 00:22:21,941 then it's not a tunnel at all. 416 00:22:22,074 --> 00:22:23,275 But if it goes... 417 00:22:25,077 --> 00:22:26,077 we've got something. 418 00:22:45,631 --> 00:22:48,767 How far do you have that PVC pipe pushed in right now? 419 00:23:00,179 --> 00:23:02,781 That opening there right now, it could've easily been 420 00:23:02,915 --> 00:23:04,292 covered up just by the silt and everything there. 421 00:23:04,316 --> 00:23:05,927 - Right. - So it could be a much bigger opening 422 00:23:05,951 --> 00:23:07,886 than what he's even seeing on the ground level. 423 00:23:18,163 --> 00:23:19,898 That is amazing. 424 00:23:20,032 --> 00:23:21,667 Are you able to go further? 425 00:23:28,474 --> 00:23:30,009 Talk to me, TJ. 426 00:23:43,455 --> 00:23:46,425 All right, you guys come on back out 427 00:23:46,558 --> 00:23:48,678 and let's take a look at that footage you've captured. 428 00:23:54,033 --> 00:23:55,701 All right, I see you. 429 00:24:08,347 --> 00:24:10,628 - Show me on this footage where the hole is. - Yeah, sure. 430 00:24:12,718 --> 00:24:14,158 So this is where the opening started. 431 00:24:14,253 --> 00:24:16,422 We're gonna start putting the pipe in now. 432 00:24:16,555 --> 00:24:18,891 You see right there? 433 00:24:19,024 --> 00:24:20,459 Yeah, it starts to go in there, 434 00:24:20,592 --> 00:24:22,361 and then it just kept going. 435 00:24:22,494 --> 00:24:23,762 It was crazy. 436 00:24:23,896 --> 00:24:26,177 Were you feeling any resistance as you were going through? 437 00:24:26,298 --> 00:24:27,900 Did it... pretty much clean shot? 438 00:24:28,033 --> 00:24:29,444 It went pretty clean, and then right at the back, 439 00:24:29,468 --> 00:24:31,403 it felt like it was hitting a wall of some kind. 440 00:24:31,537 --> 00:24:32,938 Okay. 441 00:24:33,072 --> 00:24:35,341 I'm not seeing much from the divers' cameras. 442 00:24:35,474 --> 00:24:37,509 Maybe that's the end of what the tunnel is, 443 00:24:37,643 --> 00:24:40,813 that it's just an impression in the wall of the cave. 444 00:24:40,946 --> 00:24:43,415 So it doesn't seem to really be panning out 445 00:24:43,549 --> 00:24:45,184 for what I'm seeing. 446 00:24:45,317 --> 00:24:46,852 But we still have those bones or shells 447 00:24:46,986 --> 00:24:48,354 that we found in the cave, 448 00:24:48,487 --> 00:24:49,764 and I need to get those examined 449 00:24:49,788 --> 00:24:52,024 and see what information they can provide. 450 00:24:52,157 --> 00:24:53,359 - Great work, guys. - Thanks. 451 00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:55,060 Seriously, appreciate you both. 452 00:25:09,008 --> 00:25:10,209 - Michael. - Kevin. 453 00:25:10,342 --> 00:25:11,653 - Good to see you again. - Good to see you. 454 00:25:11,677 --> 00:25:13,579 - Good to meet you. - Kevin and Chris 455 00:25:13,712 --> 00:25:15,881 are meeting with entomologist Michael Webber... 456 00:25:16,014 --> 00:25:20,419 - Join us. - An expert on insects of the American Southwest, 457 00:25:20,552 --> 00:25:24,223 to find out more about the substance they found in the mine. 458 00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:27,126 - So what you got, Kevin? - So this is what's been driving us crazy, 459 00:25:27,259 --> 00:25:29,962 and I mean absolutely batty crazy for the last few days. 460 00:25:30,095 --> 00:25:33,065 Found this in a mine site, 461 00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:36,135 and this has been here for a while. 462 00:25:36,268 --> 00:25:37,428 Chris thought I was bleeding. 463 00:25:37,469 --> 00:25:39,538 - So... - Let me take a look. 464 00:25:39,671 --> 00:25:41,182 I can't believe it can turn red. 465 00:25:41,206 --> 00:25:42,908 That's what I don't understand. 466 00:25:43,042 --> 00:25:45,044 What I'd seen was gray. 467 00:25:45,177 --> 00:25:47,413 What he touched was red or turned red, 468 00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:49,848 so I don't know what this stuff is. 469 00:25:52,518 --> 00:25:54,153 Oh, okay. 470 00:25:55,687 --> 00:25:57,056 I know what these are. 471 00:25:58,590 --> 00:25:59,892 They're called cochineals, 472 00:26:00,025 --> 00:26:02,661 actually parasites on prickly pear cacti. 473 00:26:02,795 --> 00:26:04,396 It's a parasite? 474 00:26:04,530 --> 00:26:06,398 They have little stabbing mouth parts. 475 00:26:06,532 --> 00:26:08,667 - Yeah? - They'll stab right into that prickly pear 476 00:26:08,801 --> 00:26:12,204 and suck on the juices, and there they live for the rest of their life. 477 00:26:12,337 --> 00:26:14,940 Kinda like a tick on cactus. 478 00:26:15,074 --> 00:26:16,834 Yeah, you can think of it like that. 479 00:26:17,876 --> 00:26:20,546 How do they get to this point right here? 480 00:26:20,679 --> 00:26:23,682 Well, these have been collected or harvested and dried up. 481 00:26:23,816 --> 00:26:27,719 These cochineal beetles, they're heated with hot water, 482 00:26:27,853 --> 00:26:32,191 dried, then it makes the most beautiful, long-lasting dye. 483 00:26:32,324 --> 00:26:34,560 Yeah, I know. 484 00:26:36,094 --> 00:26:38,430 Cochineal dye was unknown to the Spanish 485 00:26:38,564 --> 00:26:40,566 before they encountered the Aztecs. 486 00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:43,902 Made from a dry beetle, their vibrant red pigment 487 00:26:44,036 --> 00:26:47,906 was highly valued across South America and in Europe. 488 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,310 It was used to dye clothing and ceremonial items. 489 00:26:53,011 --> 00:26:56,715 - How do we make this into a dye? - You got a bowl? 490 00:26:56,849 --> 00:27:00,953 We'll add a little bugs, we'll add a little water, 491 00:27:01,086 --> 00:27:02,921 and do a little grinding. 492 00:27:03,055 --> 00:27:04,790 That's what you call carmine dye, 493 00:27:04,923 --> 00:27:08,393 It's produced from a chemical called carminic acid. 494 00:27:08,527 --> 00:27:10,596 Yeah, it doesn't take much water to pull the dye, 495 00:27:10,729 --> 00:27:15,300 so ancient Aztecs and Mayans used it to dye the fabric of Aztec warriors 496 00:27:15,434 --> 00:27:17,603 and it was very valuable. 497 00:27:17,736 --> 00:27:22,374 When the Spanish came in, and they had the conquest of the Aztec empire, 498 00:27:22,508 --> 00:27:26,078 it was actually the second most valuable export second to silver. 499 00:27:26,211 --> 00:27:27,412 - Really? - Yeah. 500 00:27:27,546 --> 00:27:30,949 - Right behind silver? - Correct. 501 00:27:31,083 --> 00:27:32,818 I've never even heard of cochineal, 502 00:27:32,951 --> 00:27:36,922 and to find out that this thing was a huge part 503 00:27:37,055 --> 00:27:39,424 of not only Aztec trade 504 00:27:39,558 --> 00:27:41,160 but also the Spanish trade? 505 00:27:41,293 --> 00:27:43,162 That's pretty amazing. 506 00:27:43,295 --> 00:27:45,895 This would've been a treasure to the Spanish and the Aztec, right? 507 00:27:45,998 --> 00:27:47,166 Most definitely. 508 00:27:47,299 --> 00:27:49,067 I mean, it was valued all around the world. 509 00:27:49,201 --> 00:27:52,938 This was the best dye that money could buy at the time. 510 00:27:53,071 --> 00:27:56,808 Everybody wanted the secret of this brilliant red dye. 511 00:27:56,942 --> 00:28:02,214 So the Spanish, they could have well brought this with them and stashed it in there. 512 00:28:02,347 --> 00:28:05,584 I would say if you're looking at successful cochineal production, 513 00:28:05,717 --> 00:28:08,186 Spanish is a good place to look. 514 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,789 They've had to be in there for hundreds of years, 515 00:28:10,923 --> 00:28:12,491 and we can't date them at this point. 516 00:28:12,624 --> 00:28:13,868 We don't know if they're Spanish. 517 00:28:13,892 --> 00:28:15,961 We don't know if it goes all the way back to Aztec. 518 00:28:16,094 --> 00:28:20,265 Probably transported obviously, so who harvested them? 519 00:28:20,399 --> 00:28:23,402 Be it Spanish or Aztec, there could be more treasures in there, 520 00:28:23,535 --> 00:28:24,670 other types of treasures. 521 00:28:37,249 --> 00:28:39,952 Perfect, perfect. Keep coming, keep coming. 522 00:28:40,085 --> 00:28:42,254 Right there. Watch the dust. 523 00:28:42,387 --> 00:28:44,323 For the last eight hours, 524 00:28:44,456 --> 00:28:47,292 Gabe and his team have been sifting heavy rock and dirt 525 00:28:47,426 --> 00:28:50,062 through their newly built iron shaker box. 526 00:28:50,195 --> 00:28:52,197 You know, we found a railroad spike. 527 00:28:52,331 --> 00:28:54,533 We found a possible drill bit. 528 00:28:54,666 --> 00:28:56,506 But I just don't know if that's enough evidence 529 00:28:56,635 --> 00:28:59,871 to go head first into this and take that chance. 530 00:29:03,342 --> 00:29:06,912 Whoa. Hold on, hold on. I think I saw something there. 531 00:29:08,981 --> 00:29:10,949 Thought I saw, like, a nail or something. 532 00:29:13,318 --> 00:29:14,853 False alarm. Keep going. 533 00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:24,830 All right, Dad. 534 00:29:29,901 --> 00:29:32,738 Gabe, Gabe! 535 00:29:32,871 --> 00:29:34,606 Something's in the Grizzly. Look at that. 536 00:29:47,085 --> 00:29:50,956 Whoa. Let's see what that is. 537 00:29:51,089 --> 00:29:53,925 After ten hours of hope and hard labor, 538 00:29:54,059 --> 00:29:56,762 Gabe and his team may have finally unearthed 539 00:29:56,895 --> 00:29:58,530 a significant artifact. 540 00:30:02,601 --> 00:30:04,770 It's an old spur, but it looks like 541 00:30:04,903 --> 00:30:06,505 it's also hand done as well. 542 00:30:07,906 --> 00:30:09,908 Look at the design on that thing. 543 00:30:10,042 --> 00:30:12,210 Look at those little notches right there in the holes. 544 00:30:12,344 --> 00:30:14,880 This has been in the ground for a long time. 545 00:30:15,013 --> 00:30:17,382 This is something special. 546 00:30:17,516 --> 00:30:21,253 Every single one of those notches were hand-hammered in there, 547 00:30:21,386 --> 00:30:23,055 and it's got some decorative stuff. 548 00:30:24,089 --> 00:30:26,091 - That's pretty fancy. - Yep. 549 00:30:26,224 --> 00:30:30,862 - Would a regular cowboy wear something this fancy? - Back in the day. 550 00:30:30,996 --> 00:30:35,300 I mean, it's definitely not like anything I've ever seen before. 551 00:30:35,434 --> 00:30:39,471 No, the modern spurs are cheap and flimsy, you know what I mean? 552 00:30:39,604 --> 00:30:42,541 If this is Spanish, we could be on it, dude. 553 00:30:42,674 --> 00:30:45,844 We need to get this in front of somebody that can date it. 554 00:30:57,723 --> 00:31:01,226 Professor, thank you so much for coming by today. 555 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:05,564 The Dillmans are meeting with Professor Kurly Tlapoyawa, 556 00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:08,667 founder of the Chimalli Institute of Mesoamerican Arts, 557 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,335 to get some information 558 00:31:10,469 --> 00:31:13,205 on what they discovered in Weeping Cave. 559 00:31:13,338 --> 00:31:17,709 So we found these here in the canyon, 560 00:31:17,843 --> 00:31:21,646 - and I'd love to get your opinion on them. - Oh, wow. 561 00:31:26,318 --> 00:31:28,487 So what you have here 562 00:31:28,620 --> 00:31:32,257 are pieces of a spondylus shell, 563 00:31:32,390 --> 00:31:35,761 and spondylus is characterized 564 00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:38,463 by these bright beautiful reds and pinks. 565 00:31:38,597 --> 00:31:42,868 It's also known as a spiny oyster, as some people call it, 566 00:31:43,001 --> 00:31:46,138 because it looks like a clam shell 567 00:31:46,271 --> 00:31:48,573 but it has all of these spikes coming off of it, 568 00:31:48,707 --> 00:31:51,076 and it looks like that's what these are. 569 00:31:51,209 --> 00:31:53,111 A relative of sea scallops, 570 00:31:53,245 --> 00:31:57,716 spondylus are found in warmer coastal climates embedded in coral and rock. 571 00:31:57,849 --> 00:32:02,654 So when you look at something like this, this is what we call an exotic. 572 00:32:02,788 --> 00:32:05,490 It doesn't come from here. It comes from somewhere else. 573 00:32:05,624 --> 00:32:07,626 Being that it's so hard to get ahold of, 574 00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:10,595 it's going to be held with much higher value. 575 00:32:10,729 --> 00:32:11,830 Right. 576 00:32:11,963 --> 00:32:13,965 So where are they normally found in the world? 577 00:32:14,099 --> 00:32:16,902 Are they pretty common or are they centralized in certain areas? 578 00:32:17,035 --> 00:32:20,572 So spondylus shell, generally you're going to find a lot 579 00:32:20,705 --> 00:32:22,874 in what's now called the Gulf of California. 580 00:32:23,008 --> 00:32:28,079 You're talking about California all the way down through Mexico. 581 00:32:28,213 --> 00:32:30,882 You're gonna find spondylus shell all the way down there. 582 00:32:31,016 --> 00:32:33,752 The story of how this got here, 583 00:32:33,885 --> 00:32:36,888 - you know, it's hard to pinpoint it 100%... - Sure. 584 00:32:37,022 --> 00:32:39,424 But we could certainly say 585 00:32:39,558 --> 00:32:43,462 that this came from that region, 586 00:32:43,595 --> 00:32:46,865 most likely along the Pacific Coast 587 00:32:46,998 --> 00:32:50,035 of what's now called Mexico. 588 00:32:50,168 --> 00:32:54,573 The Aztec empire ran for miles along the Pacific coastline, 589 00:32:54,706 --> 00:32:57,843 giving the Aztecs ample access to spondylus. 590 00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:01,012 These shellfish are found only in saltwater, 591 00:33:01,146 --> 00:33:04,883 not at all natural to the freshwater in this Utah cave. 592 00:33:05,016 --> 00:33:10,922 So what you have here is absolutely rare for this area. 593 00:33:11,056 --> 00:33:14,559 It seems to have been, you know, drilled or worked. 594 00:33:14,693 --> 00:33:17,004 Yeah, the way that these holes are bored out through the center, 595 00:33:17,028 --> 00:33:18,864 how would they have done something like that? 596 00:33:18,997 --> 00:33:22,234 So something like that, they would have used a spine 597 00:33:22,367 --> 00:33:24,903 from some sort of cactus 598 00:33:25,036 --> 00:33:29,774 and a little bit of sand to create the friction. 599 00:33:29,908 --> 00:33:32,611 It would've been a specialist who created this. 600 00:33:32,744 --> 00:33:34,179 Oh, wow. 601 00:33:34,312 --> 00:33:36,548 So this is a spondylus shell necklace. 602 00:33:36,681 --> 00:33:41,987 Wow. Now that's pretty big. That's pretty amazing. 603 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,764 Was it a specific level of society that wore... 604 00:33:43,788 --> 00:33:46,391 Yeah, so something like this 605 00:33:46,524 --> 00:33:49,160 could definitely have been 606 00:33:49,294 --> 00:33:52,497 the personal adornment of a priest. 607 00:33:52,631 --> 00:33:56,134 So especially having the associations 608 00:33:56,268 --> 00:33:58,203 of water with the shells, 609 00:33:58,336 --> 00:34:02,540 you'll see that a lot of what they call gods... 610 00:34:02,674 --> 00:34:05,143 Or the teteo is what they're known as... 611 00:34:05,277 --> 00:34:06,912 That are related to water 612 00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:09,481 are often adorned with spondylus shells. 613 00:34:09,614 --> 00:34:11,516 This is really cool. 614 00:34:11,650 --> 00:34:16,655 So I think that finding a spondylus shell necklace 615 00:34:16,788 --> 00:34:19,758 here in Southern Utah 616 00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:22,394 - is pretty significant. - Wow, awesome. 617 00:34:22,527 --> 00:34:24,839 I think you've got something that's pretty spectacular. 618 00:34:24,863 --> 00:34:28,066 The time and effort that it must've taken 619 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,536 to create those bore holes inside of those shells, 620 00:34:31,670 --> 00:34:36,007 it just blows my mind how hard and how long 621 00:34:36,141 --> 00:34:39,911 and how much effort they would take to make such an object, 622 00:34:40,045 --> 00:34:43,081 and I'm honored to hold these shells in my hand. 623 00:34:43,214 --> 00:34:47,085 I really feel a connection to my ancestors. 624 00:34:47,218 --> 00:34:49,554 We're hoping that this is not the last thing we find, 625 00:34:49,688 --> 00:34:52,190 and that this is just the beginning 626 00:34:52,324 --> 00:34:55,093 of the amazing things that we're gonna find in this canyon. 627 00:35:12,577 --> 00:35:14,579 It's steep as hell. 628 00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:20,352 Watch your step, man. 629 00:35:22,654 --> 00:35:26,091 Kevin and Chris are heading back into the ancient mine 630 00:35:26,224 --> 00:35:29,461 to the same spot where they found the cochineal beetles. 631 00:35:29,594 --> 00:35:31,896 Man, this thing is a head knocker. 632 00:35:32,030 --> 00:35:33,798 Yeah. 633 00:35:33,932 --> 00:35:36,001 There's so much more to this mine. 634 00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:40,739 Had I not been concerned about whatever this red stuff was all over my hands, 635 00:35:40,872 --> 00:35:43,241 I think we would've gone further that day. 636 00:35:43,375 --> 00:35:45,076 - It's looking pretty good. - Yeah. 637 00:35:45,210 --> 00:35:46,945 But I wanted to make sure that I was safe. 638 00:35:47,078 --> 00:35:50,015 The plan right now is to get by the shelf. 639 00:35:50,148 --> 00:35:53,385 It's going to be low and slow from here. 640 00:35:53,518 --> 00:35:56,388 - How's your gas? - Let's see what it has to say. 641 00:35:56,521 --> 00:35:59,791 It says so far so good. 642 00:35:59,924 --> 00:36:01,860 Good oxygen, okay. 643 00:36:04,262 --> 00:36:06,464 Here's the shelf. 644 00:36:06,598 --> 00:36:09,834 - Open right here. - Yeah. Big opening. 645 00:36:12,003 --> 00:36:14,773 I believe this is our intersection. 646 00:36:14,906 --> 00:36:17,542 - Oh, that's right. - It's getting a little tight. 647 00:36:19,844 --> 00:36:21,846 Hey, watch your roof. 648 00:36:24,182 --> 00:36:28,653 - Oh, whoa. - Man, I did not expect to see this. 649 00:36:28,787 --> 00:36:31,956 - Dimensional lumber, so it's newer. - But why? 650 00:36:32,090 --> 00:36:35,060 - I don't know. I don't know. - What's this? 651 00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:37,729 - Has it got a date on it? Oh, there it is. - It's 1955. 652 00:36:37,862 --> 00:36:41,766 So we know somebody's been in here after '55. 653 00:36:43,168 --> 00:36:44,288 We got into this mine 654 00:36:44,369 --> 00:36:46,337 that now appears to be more modern. 655 00:36:46,471 --> 00:36:49,174 And right in front us now we have dimensional lumber, 656 00:36:49,307 --> 00:36:51,476 which means more modern mining. 657 00:36:54,979 --> 00:36:57,682 That looks interesting. 658 00:36:57,816 --> 00:36:59,718 The big question for both of us, 659 00:36:59,851 --> 00:37:01,786 especially with this decline, 660 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,722 where did they go? 661 00:37:03,855 --> 00:37:06,791 - This goes down. - Yeah. 662 00:37:06,925 --> 00:37:09,003 I'm concerned about some of this timber, but... 663 00:37:09,027 --> 00:37:10,995 - Yeah. - It's been here a long time. 664 00:37:12,030 --> 00:37:13,331 Now what's the plan? 665 00:37:13,465 --> 00:37:15,366 The plan is that I don't trust any of this wood. 666 00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:17,135 I don't trust any of this at all. 667 00:37:17,268 --> 00:37:20,305 - What we need to do is rope this. - Yep. 668 00:37:20,438 --> 00:37:23,742 Find a good secure spot, baby cam it up. 669 00:37:23,875 --> 00:37:25,710 Let's get to it. 670 00:37:25,844 --> 00:37:27,421 With the tunnel at a dead end... 671 00:37:27,445 --> 00:37:28,613 Let's get some rigging done. 672 00:37:28,746 --> 00:37:31,750 The only place left to explore is down. 673 00:37:31,883 --> 00:37:34,519 But due to the condition of the support wood, 674 00:37:34,652 --> 00:37:38,356 Chris and Kevin work to anchor their safety line to the bedrock. 675 00:37:38,490 --> 00:37:39,958 I'm anchored, you're anchored. 676 00:37:40,091 --> 00:37:42,060 - All right. - Go find us something. 677 00:37:42,193 --> 00:37:44,195 Be careful. Keep your eyes open. 678 00:37:44,329 --> 00:37:45,497 I got you up here, brother. 679 00:37:47,499 --> 00:37:48,499 Here we go. 680 00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:51,169 Good? 681 00:37:53,638 --> 00:37:55,573 It goes down quite a bit further, so... 682 00:37:55,707 --> 00:37:59,744 I think this rock is flat down here and the wood's warped. 683 00:37:59,878 --> 00:38:01,679 Let's... give me some slack. 684 00:38:03,381 --> 00:38:04,381 Keep going. 685 00:38:04,482 --> 00:38:05,750 Hey, Chris, will you check air? 686 00:38:05,884 --> 00:38:10,155 Gotcha. 20.0 oxygen, so still all right. 687 00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:12,390 Slow. 688 00:38:12,524 --> 00:38:14,301 Yeah, there's a lot of fractured rock down here. 689 00:38:14,325 --> 00:38:15,569 There's fractures on both sides. 690 00:38:15,593 --> 00:38:18,496 So this has caved some in the past. 691 00:38:20,165 --> 00:38:21,866 It's just slivering off. 692 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,102 Chris, you're beyond where I can see you. 693 00:38:24,235 --> 00:38:26,371 I can't really hear you. Use the radio. 694 00:38:26,504 --> 00:38:30,074 - Yeah, I agree. Slack. - All yours. 695 00:38:31,109 --> 00:38:32,377 Slow. 696 00:38:32,510 --> 00:38:34,546 Okay, a little bit more and I'm at the bottom. 697 00:38:36,514 --> 00:38:39,184 Okay, I'm on the bottom. 698 00:38:39,317 --> 00:38:40,652 What's it look like? 699 00:38:40,785 --> 00:38:42,263 All right, let me look around here. 700 00:38:42,287 --> 00:38:44,189 It's not like up there. 701 00:38:44,322 --> 00:38:46,024 I got a lot of old rock. 702 00:38:46,157 --> 00:38:47,525 This an old hand dug tunnel. 703 00:38:47,659 --> 00:38:49,694 It's way older than 50 years. 704 00:38:49,828 --> 00:38:51,362 An old mine down here. 705 00:38:51,496 --> 00:38:54,098 So is it an old hand dug? Did I copy that right? 706 00:38:54,232 --> 00:38:57,602 - Yeah, there's a tunnel down here. - Copy that. 707 00:38:57,735 --> 00:38:59,470 Which way is it running? 708 00:38:59,604 --> 00:39:01,682 It looks like both way right now, but I can't see the end. 709 00:39:01,706 --> 00:39:04,676 - I gotta go off rope. - Copy that. 710 00:39:04,809 --> 00:39:07,645 I want you to hang that line somewhere where you can get to it fast. 711 00:39:07,779 --> 00:39:10,348 Roger. I got it. Okay, I'm off rope. 712 00:39:10,481 --> 00:39:12,250 I'm gonna go right. 713 00:39:14,152 --> 00:39:15,386 I'm not liking this. 714 00:39:17,055 --> 00:39:19,457 Oh, nope. That ends over here on the right. 715 00:39:19,591 --> 00:39:22,227 Oh, bats. Bats above our head. 716 00:39:25,096 --> 00:39:26,440 Well, he was there before you were. 717 00:39:26,464 --> 00:39:28,466 Just keep talking to me. 718 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,201 I'm moving to the left. 719 00:39:30,335 --> 00:39:32,670 And looks like there's a shaft that goes down. 720 00:39:32,804 --> 00:39:35,607 This whole room down here, it just stops. 721 00:39:35,740 --> 00:39:36,817 They were hunting for something 722 00:39:36,841 --> 00:39:38,121 because this doesn't go anywhere. 723 00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:40,745 So you've got a decline that doesn't go anywhere? 724 00:39:40,878 --> 00:39:44,282 Yeah. Oh, whoa. 725 00:39:44,415 --> 00:39:45,783 I found something. 726 00:39:49,621 --> 00:39:52,590 - What'd you find? - Some kind of a tin. 727 00:39:52,724 --> 00:39:54,859 Like a tin can or... 728 00:39:55,994 --> 00:39:58,496 Yeah. I'll bring it up. 729 00:39:58,630 --> 00:40:00,207 Why don't you go ahead and get back on line. 730 00:40:00,231 --> 00:40:02,209 Let's pull you up, figure out who the hell was down there 731 00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:04,602 and why they were there. 732 00:40:04,736 --> 00:40:08,673 Next on "Lost Gold of the Aztecs"... 733 00:40:08,806 --> 00:40:10,775 All right, here we go. 734 00:40:10,908 --> 00:40:12,543 So what we're hoping to find 735 00:40:12,677 --> 00:40:14,212 is an entrance to the treasure chamber. 736 00:40:14,345 --> 00:40:17,615 You gotta be kidding me. That's it. 737 00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:20,160 - Let me know what you're seeing up there. - Guys, I got something. 738 00:40:20,184 --> 00:40:23,021 We found something out in the desert that I'd like your opinion on. 739 00:40:23,154 --> 00:40:25,556 It was something that I'd never seen before. 740 00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:31,663 How you doing, Emmett? 741 00:40:31,796 --> 00:40:33,131 Emmett's one of the last 742 00:40:33,264 --> 00:40:34,866 independent miners that I know. 743 00:40:34,999 --> 00:40:36,567 I think Emmett holds a lot of secrets. 744 00:40:42,307 --> 00:40:43,541 Oh. 745 00:40:43,675 --> 00:40:45,276 I've been in this desert my whole life, 746 00:40:45,410 --> 00:40:47,645 and I know a grave when I see one. 747 00:40:47,669 --> 00:40:49,669 >>>>oakislandtk<<<<< www.opensubtitles.org59380

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