Original subtitles

For 70 years, legends have been told

of a buried treasure,

shrouded in danger.

One of the great mysteries of World War II.

‐ Something very secretive and strange

has gotta be buried in that mountain.

‐ A covert operation,

led by the notorious General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

‐ Whether it's gold, weapons,

military secrets...

whatever Yamashita hid

would be hunted for decades to come

by treasure hunters.

‐ A tale that has intrigued world leaders...

‐ Rumor has it that

MacArthur knew about the treasure.

Truman knew about the treasure.

Churchill knew about the treasure.

‐ And even the CIA.

‐ How was the U. S. government involved?

‐ Now a team of Americans is on the hunt

for this lost chapter in World War II history...

‐ We have a secret weapon.

We have an eyewitness.

‐ With the help of a local farmer...

‐ Hello.

‐ I've traveled a long way to meet you.

‐ His story...

May be the key to finally unlocking

this lost chapter in World War II history.

‐ There's something right here in this area.

‐ The question we have right now is,

what is the best way to get inside this mountain?

‐ The Japanese didn't want you to find their treasure.

We're not gonna give up.

Lost Gold of World War II Season 1 - EP 1 - Death on the Mountain

Subtitles Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk

For the past 15 years,

John and I have worked together.

When I was about 8 or 10 years old, my grandpa

used to tell me stories from World War II

about Yamashita's treasure,

and I... I caught the bug.

As far as Pete and I are concerned,

we both share the same mindset of solving mysteries.

Solving this mystery, you know,

is definitely gonna be

one of the pinnacle achievements of our career.

It'll change how people think about World War II.

‐ During the Second World War,

Japan conquered vast areas of the Pacific

looting gold, ancient artifacts

and other riches.

‐ The Japanese were looting all of China

and Southeast Asia, Thailand, Taiwan, Burma.

They were just taking everything that was not nailed down,

anything of value.

‐ By 1945, the Japanese knew

that they were gonna lose the war.

‐ As the U. S. forces blocked the way to Japan,

General Yamashita,

commander of the 14th Area Army,

allegedly buried that treasure here in the Philippines

using prisoners of war,

many of them Americans.

‐ Once everything is buried,

Yamashita, he surrenders.

‐ The commission finds you guilty as charged

and sentences you to death by hanging.

‐ When the war ended,

he was tried and quickly executed,

taking his secret to the grave.

‐ This mystery hasn't been solved for 70 years.

And we've been given a chance to solve it.

‐ Now, drawing on decades

of experience and historical recovery

and excavation,

partners Peter Struzzieri and John Casey

arrive at a remote mountain in the northern Philippines

where General Yamashita made his last stand.

‐ Look at how rugged that place is.

‐ Their mission?

Find what he buried here decades ago.

‐ I have been treasure hunting for about 50 years.

As far back as I can remember,

even as a kid,

I dreamt of Yamashita's treasure.

I've become obsessed.

‐ Passionate. ‐ I like "obsessed" better.

‐ Okay.

‐ It's rumored that 175 treasure sites

are scattered across the Philippines.

Peter and John believe this mountain

may be one of the most significant.

‐ I've done a lot of research on this mountain.

But I had to come here and see for myself.

Something was going on here.

‐ Strange symbols are carved into rocks

all over the mountain.

Some experts believe these a part of a unique code,

one studied for decades

and allegedly used by a secret society

of Japanese royalty

called "The Golden Lily."

The code was designed so only they

could recover the treasure after the war.

‐ When you look at this place, it's so vast,

it could be anywhere!

I've treasure hunted all over the world.

I've seen some amazing stuff.

Based on the photos of the symbols that we've seen,

I knew that there's Yamashita's treasure on this mountain.

And I want to be the one to find it.

‐ In partnership with the family that owns the land,

Peter and John have arranged an introduction

to the eyewitness known as "Grandpa."

‐ This must be the place.

‐ You must be Grandpa.

My name is Peter. ‐ Hi.

‐ I'm John. Pleasure to meet you, sir.

‐ Here? ‐ Over here.

‐ Oh, my goodness. There, I see it.

Look at that.

Look at all the nice little creases

and valleys in it.

Grandpa, tell me about

the Japanese bringing treasure here

in World War II.

‐ Was it General Yamashita that come here?

‐ So the trucks came here.

The treasure, how

how did it get up the mountain?

‐ Grandpa said that the Japanese Army

cut a road into the mountain.

Now, if we can find that same road,

it would certainly make finding a way

into the mountain a lot easier.

‐ Came from where? Wh‐which?

Point where they came from over...

‐ In that point. ‐ From over there.

‐ Yes, from over there. ‐ Okay. Very good.

‐ Boxes?

‐ Many, how many?

‐ You cannot count them? ‐ Yes.

According to Grandpa,

when the last treasure vault was completed,

Yamashita set off a series of dynamite charges...

trapping his engineers and workers

inside the tunnels.

This mountain has one unique thing about it.

It's something that the locals call Breach 6.

Breach 6 is supposedly a dig site

that was dug by previous treasure hunters

looking for a tunnel.

From what we've heard,

for whatever reason, they stopped digging.

We just don't know why.

‐ Grandpa, tell me about this Breach 6.

How can I find it? Where exactly is it?

What...what, what should I look for?

‐ Pyramid.

Was Breach 6 near the pyramid?

‐ Very near.

‐ Danger?

‐ These people got sick

when they were digging Breach 6?

‐ Thank you, Grandpa. Thank you so much, okay?

This is a dream of a lifetime.

We have a tool,

an eyewitness that survived from the war

that can give us clues on how to find the treasure.

‐ At base camp, John and Peter

meet up with the remaining four members of the team.

‐ Brad, certified crane operator,

certified excavator.

He goldmines in Alaska.

‐ We need him to dig a hole, he'll be there to do it.

Welcome to the jungle.

Manny, he's ex‐military.

Manny's job is to keep us safe.

‐ There's fresh coconuts out the back door.

‐ Yeah, I wonder how many snakes are down in here too.

Jeremy, he's from West Virginia,

so he's a coal miner.

When we need some heavy lifting,

I'm gonna count on him to take care of it.

‐ Hey, Martin!

‐ Well, how y'all doing?

‐ Martin's an expert in treasure symbols,

all different types,

Spanish, Japanese, Jesuit.

And he's here to help us determine

what these symbols mean

and how we can get to Yamashita's treasure.

Come on, we'll get you out of the rain in our porch.

‐ So, Pete, what's the plan?

‐ This is a view of our mountain.

We're...we're right there,

and our object is to go out and find Breach 6.

‐ Where are the roads they brought all the treasure in?

‐ Probably buried under that canopy somewhere.

‐ Did Grandpa give us a starting point?

‐ The pyramid.

‐ In The Golden Lily code,

a pyramid means it's a major treasure site.

‐ So we're systematically

going to go up the mountain

and look for the pyramid and Breach 6.

We'll spread out and work our way up,

looking for signs and symbols.

‐ In search of the pyramid,

Peter is leading his team north‐northeast

as Grandpa suggested, along a steep ridge

that rises up the side of the mountain.

‐ You guys all right back there?

‐ Can you believe how dense this is?

‐ But thick foliage is masking any obvious landmarks

or markers.

‐ What the hell is this stuff?

Some kind of thistle grass.

It's really, ouch! Spiny.

Hey, Brad! ‐ Yeah?

‐ Where's your machete?

Can we make a pass right around the backside of this?

‐ Oh, man, I tell ya. Can't get back...

‐ Right there?

‐ What the hell?

Hey, John, come here!

You gotta check this out.

‐ Oh, wow. ‐ Can you see that?

‐ Yeah.

We should take some pictures of this.

‐ Oh, that looks like a heart.

‐ Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that really looks like a heart right there.

That's for sure.

What does a heart mean?

‐ Maybe it's showing us a way. ‐ There you go.

‐ In The Golden Lily Code,

hearts are believed to be a directional marker.

‐ Martin, we're talking about going back 70 years.

Can you tell if this is hand‐done?

‐ I think so. It's not jagged.

It's cleaned and cut out and made that way.

Could be a way to lead to the pyramid.

‐ I love that theory.

‐ Well, let's keep trekking up.

See if we can get a better view.

‐ So we're in the right area.

Probably? Maybe?

‐ Hang on a minute.

‐ Holy crap!

‐ Now that's a frickin' pyramid.

‐ I've never seen anything like this.

Do we have a genuine site here?

‐ Absolutely, yeah.

‐ The key eyewitness known as Grandpa

says he saw Yamashita's men

carrying many crates, possibly containing treasure,

into this mountain.

‐ Let's look around.

‐ Grandpa said the pyramid

would mark the location

to an abandoned dig site

known as Breach 6.

‐ Holy mackerel!

Holy cow!

Watch it, guys.

Don't get too close to the edge now.

‐ Look at the size of this. ‐ Oh, my gosh.

‐ This is Breach 6.

‐ The identity of those who dug Breach 6 is a mystery.

The theory is they were trying to dig a vertical shaft

to intersect underground tunnels

allegedly dug by General Yamashita's men.

According to Grandpa,

these tunnel entrances were closed with explosives

and protected by booby traps.

‐ That's a hell of a drop down there.

‐ No doubt. I can't even see the bottom from here.

‐ No, I can't. I'm looking over the side

and I can't see it either.

‐ This is a big hole.

‐ This is a big hole. ‐ Lot of digging.

‐ How long you think it might've taken to dig this?

‐ If you would have 40 or 50 people,

it would still take a couple of months.

‐ This is...this is huge.

‐ You've seen a lot of holes dug.

Would you dig a hole like this by hand?

‐ Not unless I knew for sure

there was something down there.

‐ Guys, we're gonna pick up

right where they left off, right here. This is...

‐ You want us to go down there?

‐ Well, I don't want to go down there right now.

‐ I don't think it will be safe. There could be traps under here.

There could be bombs under here.

Who knows what's under here?

‐ The traps set by Yamashita

may be more than legend.

In recent years, numerous reports have surfaced

of treasure hunters

found in tunnels around the Philippines

killed by booby traps.

Most notably toxic gas,

sarin, methane and hydrogen cyanide

were known favorites of the Japanese Army.

‐ So, what's the plan?

‐ Most likely,

there's something right here in this area.

The hole may be the entrance

that goes all the way through the mountain.

‐ We need to come back with a probe camera.

We don't want to risk going down there

without knowing what's inside this hole.

‐ Now that Grandpa's information

has led Peter and John to Breach 6,

they reexamine their expedition maps

to plot their next move.

‐ How old is this map?

‐ 1990. ‐ 1990.

So this map isn't enough for us.

‐ Yeah, we need something a little bit older.

‐ Yeah, I agree with you.

We need to see this mountain as Yamashita saw it.

Bingo may be able to help us with that.

‐ To locate old war maps quickly,

Peter and John reach out to their head researcher,

Bingo Minerva, back in the United States.

‐ Bingo's our head researcher.

His family grew up in this very area.

He knows this mountain pretty well.

‐ Hey, you guys. ‐ Hey, Bingo. How are you?

‐ Good. How are you guys doing?

‐ You know, we have a problem.

We need some better maps.

We need something that's older,

70 or 80 years old.

We need something

that Yamashita may have had in his hands,

something that would give us a better perspective

of what he was looking at when he looked at the mountain.

That's what we need. ‐ Yeah? Got it.

Let me go see what I can turn up for you guys.

‐ Knowing the dangers of Breach 6...

The next day, the team returns to the pyramid

with a video probe equipped with a gas detector

to investigate what's at the bottom of the shaft.

‐ We're gonna see the bottom of this damn hole.

And this camera's gonna help us do it.

It's a really versatile piece of equipment.

‐ Well, how are we gonna see what the camera's seeing?

What they got for that?

‐ Well, you got a wireless...

‐ Wireless monitor, cool. okay,

‐ We can clip the gas detector right on the cable

and see if it goes off.

I think we should send the gas detector down there

before we do any excavation.

We can't see all the way down into the bottom of Breach 6.

And there could be gases or something in there.

Camera working?

‐ Yep. I can see in your mouth.

‐ Ready to go in the hole.

‐ If Yamashita's men rigged this tunnel

with a gas booby trap,

an alarm will alert the team.

‐ Going down, Brad.

‐ Good.

‐ That's a good shot right there.

What is that?

‐ This gas detector,

if it starts to beep on the way down,

we know that there's some bad air down there.

The faster the beep,

the higher the levels of toxic gases.

Right now, it's beeping at a normal level.

‐ Hold it right there, John.

Look how smooth that look

compared to all the rest of 'em.

‐ Look at that. ‐ Yeah.

‐ As we're sending the pro camera down,

we're starting to see what appears to be man‐made.

Now we're really intrigued.

‐ That could be some cement that was put in there.

‐ The Japanese were infamous for using bunker‐grade concrete.

That would mean it could be a plug,

or it could be the wall of the tunnel.

It's really hard to say at this point.

‐ Concrete is a signature

of Japanese Army tunnel construction.

On islands like Iwo Jima,

the Japanese used a unique cement mix

to build an 11‐mile network of tunnels

and underground bunkers to protect them

from the impending American invasion.

The discovery of similar cement here

could mean the Breach 6 shaft

really did intersect a series of Japanese tunnels.

And diggers were on the right track before they died.

‐ That is just a great find, guys.

Great find.

‐ I'm gonna go down a little deeper.

The beeping noise is getting more intense.

That means there's dangerous fumes down there.

Is it a piece of glass?

‐ Looks like a broken bottle. ‐ Holy !

Look at it!

Guys, we have a problem here.

‐ Inside the shaft called Breach 6,

the team looking for General Yamashita's

World War II treasure

has detected what could be contaminated air

and now has just discovered a mysterious bottle.

Grandpa, the key eyewitness,

says an unknown team

dug Breach 6 years after the war,

reportedly searching for a tunnel...

but in the process was killed by poison gas.

‐ Well, what could that be?

‐ It could be a cyanide bottle.

‐ Cyanide bottle? Do they come in bottles?

‐ A small bottle like that? Cyanide?

‐ Possibly.

‐ It's believed General Yamashita

used various booby traps to deter looters

from reaching the treasure.

Some reports say he ordered his men

to lace the tunnels with cyanide

he kept in small glass vials.

If anyone attempted to breach these entrances,

the traps would be triggered.

And the slightest concentration of hydrogen cyanide

could kill them instantly.

‐ This definitely will hamper our investigation.

Breach 6 is possibly contaminated.

Pull the camera up.

‐ While the team plans

how to further investigate Breach 6,

head researcher, Bingo Minerva,

is on his way to Stanford University in California.

He's looking for maps that date closer to World War II.

By 1944, the Japanese Army was losing the war.

But instead of concentrating their defenses

on mainland Japan,

they sent their top general, Tomoyuki Yamashita,

to the Philippines.

According to legend,

he would soon shoulder a great responsibility

to ensure the bounty looted by The Golden Lily

from the temples, bank vaults and museums

across Asia did not fall into allied hands.

Arriving at Stanford,

Bingo is set to meet with Dr. David Fedman.

Fedman is one of the world's leading authorities

on Japanese wartime maps,

and is familiar with Yamashita.

‐ So these maps do offer, I think, an opportunity

to put ourselves in the shoes of someone

like Yamashita during the war

as he was using these maps on the ground.

‐ Is there anything particular that stands out?

‐ Here we have the classification

of the map itself. ‐ Okay.

‐ "Top secret."

‐ So what was the year this one was produced?

‐ If we begin to read this passage here,

it tells us this map is from 1938 into 1939.

‐ A 1938 map

suggests the Japanese might have been planning

something in the Philippines

three years before their 1941 invasion.

‐ A lot of the information added to this map

was gathered through covert intelligence.

‐ Wow. ‐ Yamashita and those around him

quite likely were using maps such as these

to think about where he might stash away war loot

in the closing months, weeks of...of the war.

‐ That's some crazy stuff.

So is there anything on this map that you can see?

Any kind of identifier that just jumps out at you?

‐ Uh...

this is a "packhorse" pathway

that leads up into the mountains.

Something was being hauled,

and it doesn't necessarily specify what.

But we can only speculate.

‐ Grandpa spoke of a road

the Japanese forces built into the mountain.

If they knew about the packhorse trail,

it's possible Yamashita's men used this same route

to transport crates into tunnel systems.

‐ Interestingly, if you follow this pathway,

it just stops there. ‐ Oh.

‐ Why don't we compare this map to satellite images?

Here we go.

So this is the digitized version of your mountain.

‐ This horse path is the one that really intrigues me.

I want to see if we can find out more about that.

‐ There is no packhorse trail at all.

There's really nothing,

no indication of any route through this particular area.

‐ The path is likely overgrown today.

But knowing where it was may help the team find it.

‐ Wow, that's really cool.

‐ Sounds like your mountain

is well worth further investigation.

‐ Meanwhile, back at base camp,

the team figures out how to safely explore Breach 6.

Earlier, they discovered what they believe is cement

in the side wall.

The team thinks this could be a concrete cap

sealing an entrance to a tunnel.

But upon finding a potential cyanide bottle

at the bottom of the hole,

their investigation was put on hold.

‐ So the bottom line is,

there still could be cyanide or explosives

in Breach 6.

‐ We still definitely need to go down there

and get a closer look at this concrete cap.

‐ I'm still reluctant to send a crew down there

to start exploring.

There's gotta be a better way

of seeing what's down there.

‐ I think we should send the infrared camera down first.

It'll see any temperature changes.

So if that's manmade concrete,

it'll be cooler in temperature than the surrounding.

Brad, if you put your hand on the tree

for a couple of seconds.

All right, take it away.

You can see, like, the color variations.

Everything that's hot will go red,

and everything that's cool stays blue.

‐ That is cool.

‐ So we can do that first.

And then if there's something to be said

about this concrete cap, you know,

then we can go in and excavate it out.

That'll clear the air

and we'll get a firsthand look at it then.

‐ I like that idea.

‐ Here we go.

‐ As the FLIR camera goes down,

if there's concrete down there,

that should radiate cold.

And that'll show up as blue.

And that's what we're looking for.

‐ Got a visual? ‐ Yep.

‐ So we have like an orange right now.

So I have all reds, all reds and oranges...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait right there!

Hold it there!

It's turning a purplish‐blue.

It's pointing to me?

‐ Yeah.

It's turning.

‐ Facing towards the pyramid right now.

‐ Well, that's when you're picking up

the colder temperatures,

between me and the pyramid,

where the coldest temperature's so far

going down the wall.

Look at this.

Look at that. Look at that.

The dark blue.

We found a change in temperature

radiating out of the side wall

that lines up with the pyramid.

Could be a concrete cap.

Could be a side tunnel

going right underneath our pyramid.

That's exciting, guys.

‐ It is. [ laughs ] ‐ That's something else.

There's something there,

and we're gonna find it.

‐ So what do you wanna do now? ‐ I want to dig.

I want to dig right here.

I want this to be our work site.

All right? Let's get the excavator.

Let's make this happen, guys. I want to see what's down there.

‐ All right. Let's do it.

‐ Now that the team has found evidence

of a possible side tunnel intersecting Breach 6,

the excavation process can begin.

The plan is to open up the side of the shaft

to vent any potential gas,

allowing direct access to the suspected concrete cap.

Back at base camp,

Bingo shares a new lead

he uncovered while at Stanford.

‐ I was able to find a map of our area,

and here's the cool thing.

At the very top of it, it's labeled "top secret."

There was a trail that leadeth off into our mountain.

There's handwritten details in Japanese text.

And it says that it was a packhorse trail.

‐ This could be the trail that Grandpa used.

That trail was probably used by carabao

taking boxes up to the top of the mountain.

‐ It could be that same trail.

‐ Using coordinates from Bingo's war map,

John and Manny head into the jungle

to search for the mysterious packhorse trail

possibly used by the Japanese Army

to haul treasure up Grandpa's mountain.

If they can locate the trail,

it could lead them to an entrance

into the mountain.

‐ Manny, keep your eye open for an old trail.

‐ In the decades since World War II,

overgrowth has obscured any sign of a trail.

And even though John and Manny are in the right area,

locating the packhorse route won't be easy.

‐ You okay? ‐ Got it.

‐ You know, the Japanese didn't want you

to find their treasure.

But one way or the other, we'll get there.

We're not gonna give up.

Manny, this looks like an old wash or something.

‐ Yeah, looks like a creek. ‐ Yeah.

I don't think it's a creek.

I actually think it's like a trail of some sort.

‐ There you go!

‐ It's a pretty damn wide trail too.

This is where Bingo said it would be.

‐ John and Manny may have just discovered

what could be the pack animal trail

Grandpa says General Yamashita used

to move crates up the mountain.

‐ What do you got? ‐ I got 12'6".

This road is definitely wide enough

to drive a Japanese truck up.

Manny, let's see where this road goes.

Manny. ‐ Yeah.

‐ It looks like the road stops here.

Like they... like they pushed it up,

and then just pushed it to there and that's it.

Look what you're standing in.

Everywhere we look, just fractured rock.

These rocks, even. Look at this one here.

Look at how it's just shattered to death here.

‐ I got some broken pieces here too.

‐ I know.

See how it's nice and round on one side?

‐ Yep. It's all over.

‐ I've seen a lot of heavy highway work

where they actually blow the cliff face off.

And the rocks were just like that,

really cracked, angular, sharp rocks.

And remember what Grandpa said.

You know, Grandpa heard the explosions

going off the mountain.

The Japanese told him,

we'll kill you if you dare come up here.

There wouldn't be...

it wouldn't be fractured like this

if just nothing happened.

It just doesn't fit in with this jungle.

It should not be here.

So the only other thing that it can lead to

is that this was an entrance into the mountain.

The trek went freakin' awesome, Pete.

You're not gonna believe this.

We actually found this trail.

It's not a pack animal trail.

It's a road, and it's like 13 feet wide.

‐ Yeah, the fact that you found a road up there,

we're not talking about pack animals anymore.

We're talking about vehicles.

We're talking about trucks.

‐ Yeah, and it verifies what Grandpa said.

But it actually takes it to a new level now.

You can move a lot of treasure across this road.

So that little bit of treasure that I may have

thought came up on carabaos and horses is now....

‐ So you're talking tons and tons of stuff

going up this road.

A lot of treasure coming up into this mountain

for them to even think about building a road,

like just the engineering alone to do that.

It had to be something worthwhile to do it.

That makes this treasure

way bigger than we even thought.

‐ Massive.

‐ While the exact scope and value of Japan's war loot

remains a mystery,

it is estimated Yamashita's treasure vaults

contain untold billions,

possibly even a trillion dollars

by today's gold standards.

That total doesn't include the priceless artifacts,

religious relics

and even plans for top secret weapons

allegedly stolen by the Japanese Imperial Army.

The Nazis conducted a similar looting campaign,

prompting many European nations

to keep their valuables in Asian banks,

never suspecting they can fall into the hands

of the Japanese Army.

‐ This treasure could be massive.

‐ Absolutely.

‐ So with that said,

where is Breach 6

and the pyramid in relation to your road?

‐ It's actually pretty close by.

If you go up the mountain, say another say 250, 300 feet,

you know, here you have the pyramid rock

and you got Breach 6, you know, right next to it.

It's weird, though,

cause the road goes right along

and then it kinda hugs the mountain.

Then all of a sudden, whoosh, it dead‐ends.

You know, maybe somewhere along the line

they actually had a tunnel that went into the mountain.

They blew it closed and it all came crashing down.

‐ I wonder if there's any connection

between the pyramid and Breach 6 with your road,

considering that it's so close in proximity?

‐ It could be the reason

why they dug Breach 6 to begin with.

Maybe they were going after this collapsed tunnel.

And maybe our road actually does connect to it.

‐ II like that idea.

‐ The question we have right now is,

what is the best way to get inside this mountain?

‐ We gotta get down in that hole and find out.

The story and the treasure itself

is getting bigger and bigger.

All right, guys.

Let's turn this jungle into a job site.

‐ To avoid any booby traps or potential poison gas

at the bottom of the shaft,

Peter and the team are planning to access

the possible concrete cap from the side

instead of from inside Breach 6.

‐ Let's clear out all of those weeds over there.

‐ Before excavation can begin,

the area is cleared for heavy machinery

with the approval of landowners

and local officials.

‐ Look at this. What is that?

‐ Looks like a chisel mark.

‐ John! ‐ Yes, sir?

‐ Come over here, please. ‐ What'd you find?

Peter! Hey, Pete! Check this out.

They found some box markers.

‐ In The Golden Lily Code,

a "box marker" usually signifies a vault.

The number of boxes will indicate the number of vaults.

To date, at least 26 different variations

of box markers have been identified.

The markers' proximity to Breach 6

could point to vaults buried deep below.

‐ There's two right here.

Square marker hole, square marker hole.

‐ This is definitely man‐made.

‐ There's something right here in this area.

‐ This is really a remarkable indentation in the rock.

There's something underneath it.

Or maybe the rock was over there.

And they moved it over there so they could dig.

It's possible.

This marker may have sat directly on top of Breach 6.

‐ This is where we're gonna be digging.

You'll make that happen? ‐ I'm going to.

‐ All right, thank you guys. Let's go.

‐ To avoid any potential poison gas in the hole,

heavy equipment operator, Brad Carr,

intends to use the team's excavator

to open up the side of Breach 6

to verify the existence of a cement cap

in the wall of the mysterious shaft

which could provide a way to access

a potential tunnel network buried within the mountain.

‐ Here we go!

Breach 6 is about to become Breach 7.

‐ At Breach 6, Brad breaks ground

next to the giant shaft that could prove to be

the team's entrance into the mountain.

The theory is that Yamashita's men

allegedly dug a network of horizontal tunnels

and hid the treasure there.

After completion,

the surface entrances were sealed by an explosion.

‐ How big do you think the tunnel is, John?

‐ It don't matter how deep it is.

We get there.

‐ That's for sure.

A lot of people that did come

and search for this treasure,

they dug the hole.

The chemicals got to them

and they died in the hole

because they just weren't prepared.

We have to be very careful how we proceed with Breach 6.

This is serious stuff. You can die.

‐ To avoid triggering any potential booby traps

and what might be contaminated air,

the plan is to excavate alongside the hole

and lower the excavator down in steps.

Once the side wall is open,

they can safely dig straight into Breach 6.

Hey, why's it look like you're makin' a mess?

‐ Just for you.

‐ Yeah, I'll have it cleaned up in no time.

Definitely keep an eye out for signs and symbols because...

‐ All right.

‐ The team is finally ready

to peel open the side of Breach 6

in order to vent any dangerous gases

possibly still lingering inside the hole.

‐ Well done!

‐ To dig down the 45 feet needed to open Breach 6,

Brad and Jeremy continue working through the night.

‐ Now all the real work starts, that's for sure.

‐ Excavation is now level

with the potential concrete cap,

allowing the team their first clear look

at the possible entrance to a side tunnel

extending under the pyramid.

‐ You gotta get over here and take a look at this.

‐ It's exciting. ‐ On our way.

‐ You guys did a hell of a job!

Wow. Oh, yeah, look at that.

Oh, you're 10 feet from the bottom.

‐ It's still a long ways down there.

‐ Look at the difference in that rock,

as opposed to everything else around it.

It's definitely a different texture.

‐ It looks like nothing else around here at all.

‐ Let's get the excavator in here and tear it up.

‐ We can do that.

‐ And if there is a side tunnel there,

you can be the first one to go through it.

‐ I'll rip right through it and go right into it.

‐ Let's make it happen.

‐ It's...it's pretty tight, John.

I don't know if I'm even gonna fit.

‐ Yeah, you only got like 10 inches

off your right track to the wall.

Go ahead.

Keep going.

Two feet of clearance on the counterweight.

‐ All right, here we go.

I'm gonna punch in right now. ‐ Go for it, bro.

‐ Been here for days just for this moment.

‐ This season on "The Lost Gold of World War II"....

‐ We have a new technology that's coming in.

It's called LIDAR.

‐ Ooh. ‐ There are the trails in there.

‐ In all my years of treasure hunting,

I've never seen X marks the spot.

‐ Maybe the cave on our mountain

was one of Yamashita's headquarters.

‐ Yamashita didn't make anything easy for anybody.

There was a waterfall

and something that looked like a monkey head

behind the waterfall.

‐ You see that? See the hexagon?

And that's showing you there's treasure in here.

‐ Holy ! ‐ What do ya got?

‐ This has been worked in here.

This could be the back door.

‐ That could be good or bad.

‐ What do you mean?

‐ It could be a bomb in here.

‐ Ah, dammit.

‐ Constantly fighting Mother Nature.

Mudslides are getting bad,

could wipe us right off the hill.

‐ Timber!

‐ Absolutely incredible. Thank you.

Subtitled by Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk