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‐ Tonight...

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

‐ In searching for something like Yamashita's treasure,

you have to be meticulous.

Wow, look at that.

We found this marker below the waterfall.

‐ You guys clear?

Where the hell did my tunnel go?

Can you see that?

Look at this.

We're really close. ‐ We're close.

‐ For 70 years,

legends have been told of a buried treasure,

shrouded in danger.

It's one of the great mysteries of World War II.

‐ Something very secretive and strange

has gotta be buried in that mountain.

‐ In a covert operation,

infamous Japanese general Yamashita

allegedly buried thousands of crates

throughout the Philippines near the end of the war.

‐ They were just taking anything of value

gold, silver, weapons, even military secrets.

Yamashita's treasure could be anything.

‐ Now, with the help of a key eyewitness...

‐ ...a team of Americans is on the hunt

for 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?

Lost Gold of World War II Season 1 - EP 5 - The Backdoor

Subtitles Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk

‐ John Casey and his team are digging out a pile of rocks

at the base of a waterfall

that they believe could mark a possible tunnel entrance

leading to the legendary lost treasure of Yamashita.

‐ One step closer, boys.

‐ Earlier, symbols expert Martin Flag

interpreted the markings on what he calls "the story rock"

as pointing to a possible tunnel in this location.

‐ I think these two dots mean there's treasure in this tunnel,

and it's behind the waterfall.

‐ The team got a large hit on their metal detector...

‐ Oh yeah, oh yeah, good signal.

Good metallic signal.

‐ ...indicating a significant deposit of metal

18 feet behind the waterfall,

and found evidence of a possible opening.

‐ Like there's a tunnel there.

‐ Now, after draining the pool and finding another symbol...

‐ ...John and the team begin to remove the rocks

they believe could be blocking a tunnel entrance.

‐ What are you finding over there, Jeremy, anything?

‐ Nothing much, John.

‐ You just got the big rocks out of the way,

so are you getting anywhere closer down

to the wall side now?

‐ Yeah, I'm trying to get to the wall

and see if we can find the top of the tunnel.

‐ According to their local eyewitness, Grandpa,

the tunnel entrances on the mountain

were sealed shut with explosives.

‐ And then one day, I heard...

bomb.

‐ If there is a tunnel here,

it is possible the Japanese engineers

blasted the face of the rock wall,

dropping rocks down into the entrance, sealing it shut.

‐ Are you seeing the top side of the tunnel there?

‐ Absolutely not.

‐ Okay. I'm not seeing anything that's going underneath.

According to the story rock,

if this is the right plunge pool,

there's a tunnel behind this waterfall.

Until I see something that indicates

like a tunnel going under, I'm not seeing nothin'.

‐ You can see the line where it was.

That's how much we blew outta here.

I figured it'd be under that line.

‐ I mean, if there's a tunnel down there, Jeremy,

the Japanese really filled this thing in really good.

‐ They didn't want nobody to find it, huh?

‐ No.

‐ I don't doubt we're in the right place,

but we're digging on top of a huge

one piece of rock.

‐ Bedrock, man. ‐ Solid bedrock.

‐ The more we dig here,

the more we're finding solid bedrock.

We know there's a hit 18 feet behind the wall.

According to the story rock up there,

if this is the right plunge pool,

there should be a tunnel behind this wall.

And the metal detector's getting a huge hit

under that rock.

But we're not gonna get to it through that rock.

‐ The story rock symbols

and the two possible animal face markers

carved along the waterfalls

made John believe that this plunge pool

contained the entrance to one of the 175 sites

that General Yamashita and his men had buried treasure.

But if there is a tunnel filled with treasure crates,

the solid bedrock suggests the entrance is not here.

‐ With their path blocked by bedrock,

John returns to look at what he originally thought

was a symbol for "tunnel."

‐ There's more to this marker than meets the eye.

‐ How's that?

‐ There's not only a dot in the center,

it's more of, like, a half circle,

like the setting sun.

And if you look at it close,

it actually has, like, spokes coming off of it

spokes pointing this way,

which we know there's nothing over there,

so maybe it means to look up on top.

Why don't you get the book, see if we can find it in there?

‐ Might as well.

‐ The team consults Martin Flagg's

Yamashita code book,

compiled from his research

into the Golden Lily symbols

supposedly used to guide Emperor Hirohito

and the other members of the Japanese royal family

back to the hidden treasure sites.

‐ I don't know what to think about it.

I really thought we had it here.

All the signs, symbols

everything points to this location.

We gotta find another way in.

Lots of different roads, and lots of different paths,

and here's another path.

We've gotta figure out what this means.

‐ It's just very frustrating.

I'm confident that there's a tunnel

and treasure buried here,

but we need to get Martin's help.

Martin's an expert in treasure symbols.

Maybe Martin's seen this symbol before,

and he knows what it means.

It's definitely perplexing.

I don't know what else to think about it.

We've followed all the clues here.

We're in the right area.

‐ We gotta go somewhere else.

We're not going through hard bedrock.

‐ You know, disheartening to abandon it,

but it's not totally a loss.

It's still here,

and I can come back to it if I have to.

To be continued.

Everything's pointing to a tunnel

being behind the waterfall.

You know, we searched all around,

right where Greg was getting the hit

for a big metal target 18 feet behind the wall.

We drained the plunge pool out, we stripped all the dirt off.

It's just solid bedrock.

There's no entrance that you can see right there.

I don't know where it is.

‐ So, there's no tunnel there.

‐ No, I'm not saying there's no tunnel there.

I'm saying there's no entrance to that tunnel

in this plunge pool.

‐ So, with that said, Martin,

how confident are you that there really is a chamber

here underneath this pool of water

coming down from the waterfall?

‐ I'm still confident. And besides that,

he said they got a hit

18 feet back behind the waterfall.

So it's got to be another way in.

Did you find anything else that could be helpful

in the plunge pool?

‐ You know, after we were draining the plunge pool

and we got thethe water started dropping down,

we did actually find this marker, here.

And originally, you know, I looked at it and I thought,

you know, circle with the dot in the middle

entrance to the tunnel.

You know, now that I look at it a little bit more,

it's actually not just a dot in the middle.

It looks like it's got these spokes coming off of it

more like it's a like a setting sun,

or I don't know, what would you call it?

‐ I mean, right now it could be all kinds of things.

Maybe some kind of Japanese image?

A star in the sky, a constellation?

‐ Martin examines this new symbol

that John discovered at the plunge pool.

‐ Well, you got the circle right,

so that is probably the plunge pool.

This, I'm not real sure about.

And because of these sticking off on it,

or the little legs, or whatever it is,

I'm thinking that it could be an animal marker.

‐ So, an animal in a circle, what does that mean?

‐ To be honest with you, I don't know.

I mean, I had never seen anything like this.

I'm gonna have to maybe look into it,

or try to find out what it does mean,

because I have no idea on that.

‐ So, what's our next move, guys?

‐ We have all these signs and symbols that we've found.

Maybe we just have to figure out how they all connect.

We need to get more information on this one.

I think we should go to Grandpa and ask him

if he can help us with this.

‐ Peter Struzzieri and John Casey

go to visit Grandpa, a local resident

who claims that as a young boy,

he saw Yamashita's men hide crates on the mountain,

and who has been an important source of information.

‐ During the war...

‐ Boxes?

‐ Grandpa is a great resource to get a better picture

of what's in the ground.

What is the truth?

Some of the things he says,

you have to go and check out.

So I can listen to him all day.

‐ Hey, Grandpa. How are you?

‐ Good to see you.

How you been, sir?

‐ Yeah. ‐ Sure, sure.

‐ Grandpa, we've been working on the mountain trying to,

you know, decipher some of the clues there,

and we wanted to talk to you

about some of the things that we found up there.

‐ Okay. Do you know this marker?

We found this marker below the waterfall.

‐ In the pool of the waterfall.

‐ Did you ever see it?

‐ Yep, all stone.

‐ It's a turtle!

‐ Yes.

‐ Nearby? ‐ Yes.

‐ Okay.

‐ Mm‐hm. ‐ Oh, another

another marker. ‐ Big.

‐ Okay. ‐ Yes.

‐ Thank you, Grandpa. Thank you for everything.

‐ Thanks for everything.

‐ We'll see you soon.

Grandpa's getting up there in age,

and he's starting to slow down.

I think we owe it to him,

for the information that he's given us,

to solve this mystery while he's still with us.

‐ Let's go.

‐ Armed with this new clue,

Peter and John return to base camp

to discuss Grandpa's information with Martin Flagg.

‐ So, Martin, Grandpa took a look at this,

and he knew right away what this was.

‐ What is it? ‐ A turtle.

‐ You're kidding. ‐ No, really.

‐ A turtle's a classic treasure mark.

In my experience, your turtle is one of your main symbols.

But one of its primary deals is to mark an entranceway.

According to Grandpa,

does that mean there's treasure under this rock?

‐ No. Grandpa said that we need to go back to the pyramid.

He said somewhere around the pyramid

is a large carved turtle.

He said it's a big carved rock shaped like a turtle.

It's a marker rock.

And we need to find that,

and that'll lead us in the right direction

towards treasure and towards the tunnel.

But we've been around that pyramid a lot,

and the vegetation is so dense you can't see nothing.

So we really gotta get in there and scour this place,

and that'll help lead us back to the treasure

and/or the tunnel.

‐ If the pyramid is a Golden Lily marker,

it may be pointing in a specific direction,

possibly even to the monument

that Grandpa told the team about.

‐ Let's get the guys. ‐ All right.

‐ Let's make this happen. ‐ That sounds like a plan.

‐ You all right, Pete? ‐ Yep.

‐ These bugs are eatin' me alive.

‐ There's our pyramid.

‐ This is pretty slick in here, Martin.

‐ The team returns to the pyramid to start their search

for the turtle monument

that Grandpa told them is supposedly in the area.

The location of the pyramid had led the team

to finding Breach 6

a hole purportedly dug by treasure hunters.

The team excavated Breach 6,

but were unable to discover a path into the mountain.

They now hope that the pyramid will reveal a new clue

to whatever might be buried there.

‐ As I'm looking at the pyramid,

I think we've been treating this more

as a landmark for Breach 6.

I think there could be something more to this

as a directional pointer.

Hmm.

‐ What do you think about this, Martin?

‐ Ah, trying to make my mind up.

I need something to tell me which way

it's pointing or what it's looking at.

So far, I don't know exactly what yet.

I'm not seeing chisel marks.

‐ How about the point of the rock itself?

Would that be directing you in any way?

‐ Hmm, that could be

and it could be natural.

Got your longer side coming down this side,

so this is probably pointing to what we're looking for.

The other side is kind of flattened off, you noticed,

and it's not near as long.

But this is defined and comes down,

and could be pointing to something through here.

It looks like it is manmade down through there,

and it's cut for a reason.

I have an idea this pyramid right here

could be pointing to what we're looking for.

‐ So, we're saying

‐ To me, I think that long slope is pointing us

in the direction we should look.

Well, let's go down there and find out.

‐ All right, so you got your walkie‐talkies

call me if you need me.

All right, let's let's go.

Let's start heading in that direction, guys.

This terrain is a little difficult for Martin and me.

I think I'm gonna send the younger guys out,

and they'll slowly go up the mountain

and look for Yamashita treasure signs.

‐ Imagine being the Japanese,

trying to slug through this crap every day.

‐ The team heads in the direction they believe

the long side of the pyramid is pointing,

looking for any signs

of the large monument Grandpa described.

‐ How you makin' out there, Brad?

‐ Pretty tough. ‐ You guys got a path?

‐ This is pretty...

‐ You guys hackin' a trail? How's that way, Jeremy?

‐ Yeah, it's pretty grew up.

I mean, you can come across the rock,

try to get over here.

I'll let you know if I see somethin'.

‐ Hold on a second.

Look at the side of that rock.

‐ It doesn't look like a turtle to me.

‐ Look at the side of it.

This more looks like the tail end of the rock,

and look where Jeremy is now.

He's cleared off this little section here,

it almost looks like where the head would go.

‐ Uhwe might have to clear this off a little bit,

cause I don't see it,

but it feels good.

Kinda like his up‐over‐the‐rock action better now.

You see any other symbols or rocks besides that one?

‐ Cool. ‐ Look at that.

‐ So Grandpa was right.

I can't even believe that we didn't see it

while it was right under our nose.

I think we found what we're looking for.

‐ This, to me, looks like the side of a turtle shell.

This is just pretty incredible.

‐ On a remote mountain in the Philippines,

the team is hunting for a possible tunnel entrance

that could lead to a fortune in treasure

that the Japanese army is believed to have buried

during World War II.

Now, they have discovered a rock

that John thinks may have been carved to resemble a turtle.

‐ I think we found what we're looking for.

Grandpa was right.

He told us if you follow the pyramid down,

we would find this turtle.

The tunnel entrance could be right under here.

This is really a great sign

that we're on the right track.

I'll go get Peter and Martin.

And you guys, if you could clear off a little bit more

of that crap on top of the rock so he can see it,

that'll be the best thing.

‐ Rooted deep in ancient Japanese mythology and folklore,

the turtle is a symbol of wisdom, luck, protection,

and immortality.

Known as Kame‐Iwa,

turtle rocks can be found in many forms across Japan,

such as the one in historic Asuka village,

which is believed to depict a map of the stars.

The Golden Lily,

with its roots in Japanese royalty and history,

could have drawn on this influence

to mark an area of interest on the mountain.

‐ I think you're really gonna like what you see, though.

I really can't wait to get your opinion on it.

‐ To verify the find,

John brings in Peter and Martin.

‐ Oh.

‐ You look like you've got something now.

‐ This is the best thing we found so far.

‐ This is a turtle.

Yeah, I'm a little excited now, finally.

We gettin' somewhere.

‐ What do turtles signify, anyway?

‐ Well, a turtle can signify a bunch of different things.

Now, if he's got legs on him and they're all even,

and his tail is turned to the left or right,

that's the way you go.

And he's a marker, too.

If his head is up and sitting at an angle,

then out in front of him,

probably within 50 to 100 feet,

will be something buried there.

If he has no legs, no tail, like this,

not even the eye cut in there,

the turtle stays right here,

and what you're looking for is right here.

‐ According to Martin,

the lack of legs on this supposed turtle rock

is pointing them to look directly below.

If Martin is correct,

a tunnel could be right underneath them.

‐ This very well could be the main entrance.

‐ Of all the things that we've seen so far,

this really stands out.

We're on the right trail.

This is a really good marker.

‐ As the rest of the team researches back at base camp...

John and Manny return to the turtle rock

to scan for any potential booby traps.

‐ I think if we concentrate

on getting all the surface crap off first,

get the dirt exposed to get a lot of these rocks exposed,

and then I'll metal detect it.

We'll start moving some of the loose rocks,

boulders out of the way.

When searching for something like Yamashita's treasure,

you have to be meticulous.

Even when you find a large marker like this, it helps,

but there's still a lot of searching to do.

What the hell is that right there in front of you?

Right there, that round thing.

‐ This one right here?

‐ This round thing, right here, see it?

What is it? What is it, Manny?

‐ What the hell is that?

‐ That's a pretty interesting find.

This thing could be pretty old.

I mean, it's really pretty intricately woven.

It could've been an animal trap,

or maybe it was part of a tripwire.

This definitely proves that someone else

was here before us.

We'll save it for later.

The boys'll be happy to see we found something.

That's cool. So yeah.

Grab that metal detector, though.

‐ That's it.

Do you hear that little change in the pitch there?

There's something down there. It might be a hot rock,

which is a rock that has a lot of metal content in it.

‐ Mm‐hmm.

So small, whatever it is the signal is onoop

‐ John. ‐ It's in here, somewhere.

Oop.

Wow, look at that.

‐ Ooh!

‐ It's a bullet casing.

Wow, look at that.

That's freakin' awesome.

That's a freakin' awesome find.

That proves something was going on over here.

You know, maybe this means more than just,

you know, just being a bullet.

Wait until the guys see this.

‐ Excited that they may have found confirmation

of a Japanese military presence around the turtle,

John returns to base camp

to share their discoveries.

‐ Manny and I were metal detecting around the rock

and wewe found this.

You know, to me, it kinda looks like

maybe it was a snare for an animal.

‐ Or it was a part of a booby trap.

‐ Exactly. But that's not all we found.

‐ Oh good, what else you find?

‐ Found this.

‐ This looks like ammunition.

‐ It looks like a casing from a big rifle, like a

‐ Big‐time ammunition, yeah.

‐ This was right underneath the turtle's head.

‐ Underneath the turtle's head.

So what would someone be doing there

underneath the turtle's head?

Maybe a little skirmish?

‐ Protecting that position.

Supposedly there was no action on our mountain,

there was no fighting on our mountain.

So somebody was doing something, because it's a spent bullet.

It's not like it's a live round.

‐ Mm‐hmm. Yeah, you think it's Japanese?

‐ It could be.

‐ Yep, really, really interested.

Imagine if this was from a Japanese gun?

Just show that much more that the Japanese were here.

So let's get this off to Bingo.

I wanna know if this was an American or Japanese round.

‐ I agree.

‐ We need to find out more about what was going on

at the turtle rock. ‐ I agree.

And also, Iyou know, it makes me wanna get out there

with the ERT and really start doing some testing.

‐ Electrical resistivity tomography, or ERT,

is a technique for determining the structure and density

of the ground below

by firing pulses between electrodes.

By using the ERT test,

the team may be able to find evidence for a void space

or tunnel below, which could indicate

that this turtle rock was once a main entrance

into the tunnel system leading to Yamashita's treasure.

‐ Is there something worth looking at in this location?

So the sooner we get out there and test it,

the sooner we'll know. ‐ All right.

I wanna see the results before we do any digging down there.

I don't wanna take any chances. ‐ Okay.

‐ John, Jeremy, and Manny

have returned to the turtle rock

to run electrical resistivity tomography tests

to try and determine if there is a possible tunnel

starting from the base of the turtle.

‐ Once we get the ERT set up and in the ground,

we'll know pretty well right away

whether there's a tunnel or a void space

or something in the ground.

Okay.

All right, boys, we're goin' hot, ya hear?

Ready? It's pulsing.

Okay, it's good measurement.

‐ The team begins to methodically

move through the area and take readings

in order to get a comprehensive density analysis

of the ground surrounding the turtle rock.

‐ All right, boys, pick it up.

Ready? It's pulsing.

‐ Looking good.

‐ Well, what's that mean?

‐ Yeah, that means that it

passed through a void space.

Jeremy ‐ Go ahead.

‐ Goin' hot. Good.

The ERT numbers are going down.

That's great news. Yay.

We could be on the verge of a void space,

or possibly a tunnel.

Pulsing. Looking good. Good sign.

You guys clear, Jeremy?

‐ Clear.

‐ Pulsing. Andah!

Where the hell did my tunnel go?

It's gotta be goin' down.

It's either down below under us or it turned somewhere.

‐ I'm gettin' a little down.

‐ You getting a little discouraged?

Don't get discouraged. This is why you don't

want to go and right then and just dig.

Nothing ever goes perfectly smooth, you know that.

Life is like that.

We'll move on to plan B.

‐ All right, so what's the next step, John?

‐ We're gonna go back and crunch some of these numbers.

And once we're sure that we've got something,

then we'll put a drill in the ground,

poke a hole in there,

and see what's goin' on inside that.

Fair enough? ‐ Fair enough.

‐ While John returns to base camp

to analyze the ERT data, back in the US,

head researcher Bingo Minerva

travels to Texas

to meet military historian and munitions expert

Gordon Rottman.

‐ Good to meet you, Gordon.

‐ They have arranged to compare the shell casing

the team discovered at the turtle rock

with the two most common rifles

used in the Philippines during World War II

to see if they can discover the casing's origin.

‐ This one laying here is a US M‐1 Garand rifle.

That was the standard shoulder rifle

used by American soldiers and Marines in WWII.

This other one is a Japanese Arisaka Type 99,

based off the German Mauser action.

‐ Both the Japanese Arisaka Type 99

and the United States M1 Garand

were standard issue in World War II.

The Garand had a larger magazine capacity

and a faster rate of fire

than the Japanese Arisaka rifle,

giving considerable advantage to the American forces.

‐ So what can you tell me about this casing?

‐ What we wanna see is if we can verify if it's Japanese or not.

‐ Well, it's what we call a rimmed cartridge.

It's obviously not the American M1 rifle.

And when I first saw it,

I thought it was a Japanese cartridge.

Now it's about the same length

as the Japanese Arisaka Type 99,

but again, the length of the neck,

the slope of the shoulder,

makes it a different cartridge.

‐ So definitely not shot from any of these rifles here, then.

‐ No. What it looks like

is a Japanese navy cartridge

for a Type 92 machine gun.

‐ The Type 92 machine guns were standard issue

in the Imperial Japanese Navy,

and were mounted in the navy's aircraft.

They were light and small enough to be operated handheld.

‐ And sometimes they took craft machine guns,

modified them so they could use them

as a ground machine gun, out of desperation.

It would make this a very unusual find,

but we'll verify it

when we can compare it to other cartridges.

‐ So what can you tell me about this casing?

‐ What it looks like is a Japanese Navy cartridge

for a Type 92 machine gun.

‐ In Texas, head researcher Bingo Minerva

is attempting to learn the origin of a shell casing

the team discovered,

to see if it has any ties

to General Yamashita and his men.

‐ We'll have to clean it up better to tell,

but we'll verify it

when we can compare it to other cartridges.

‐ Meanwhile, back in the Philippines,

John shares his initial data with Peter.

‐ I'm seeing a big void space.

‐ How big?

‐ That void space is looking like

it's about 20 feet tall

and about 15 feet wide.

‐ You could fit a truck inside that.

‐ Many trucks. ‐ Many trucks.

‐ The problem is is that as I go towards the turtle

where we think the opening would be,

instead of getting a void, I got nothing.

Andah!

Where the hell did my tunnel go?

I lose it altogether.

‐ It's inconclusive, then.

‐ It's baffling.

So the tunnel's either blown closed

or it collapsed on itself,

or they just closed it all the way out to the turtle.

‐ According to legend, after the treasure

was loaded into the tunnels,

General Yamashita blasted the entrances shut...

sealing the POWs and Philippine workers inside.

If there was a tunnel heading off from the turtle rock,

it is possible that it could have collapsed

when the entrance was detonated.

‐ Maybe the turtle itself is not the way to get in.

Maybe that's not the entrance.

Maybe we're going about it in the wrong way,

maybe we're in the wrong spot.

Maybe we're looking for the wrong clues.

The fact that the head is lifted like this

and it's pointing in a certain direction

maybe it's a directional marker. ‐ That's possible.

‐ Now we have to figure out where that's leading us to.

‐ Maybe looking where the head is looking

is the way you're supposed to go.

‐ And that's what we should do.

I'll take Brad and we'll follow where the head

may be pointing to, if it is pointing somewhere,

and we'll see where that goes.

We need to get more information

before we know what this turtle is telling us.

‐ Well, I'm gonna continue testing.

‐ And crunch the rest of your numbers.

‐ And crunch the rest of the data.

‐ Okay, so we both got a lot to do.

One way or the other, we're gettin' into this mountain.

‐ I agree with you.

‐ You keep your eye off to the right and off to the left,

I'll look down at the ground here.

‐ Peter and Brad return to the turtle rock

and search in the direction

that they believe the turtle's head is pointing.

‐ Meanwhile, back in the US,

Bingo is on his way to identify the origin of the shell casing,

with the assistance of military historian Gordon Rottman,

to see if it could be linked to a possible

Japanese military presence on the mountain.

‐ So let's take a look at this cartridge.

‐ So what's the first step in determining

what we're dealing with here?

‐ Well, first we'll take a measurement of how long it is,

and then we'll clean it off

and see what we can find on the head stamp.

‐ A head stamp is a mark impressed on a cartridge case

by the manufacturer.

Depending on the type of ammunition, the head stamp

may indicate its origin or even production date.

If Gordon is able to find this information,

it could tie the shell casing to one of Yamashita's men.

‐ It should be 58mm,

and...

It's roughly 58mm.

‐ Mm‐hmm.

‐ The best thing to do is clean off this head stamp,

and see what we can make out of it.

The Japanese army didn't put head stamp markings

on their cartridges. ‐ Okay.

‐ But the Japanese navy did,

and this has got head stamp markings on it.

Okay, this is unusual.

It's not shot from the Type 92 machine gun.

Okay, there's a six

that means it was manufactured in June.

And this year marking is 08.

This cartridge was made in 1908.

It's got "FA" that's Frankfurt Arsenal

and it's a .30‐40 Krag cartridge.

That's American.

‐ Really?

‐ At base camp, the team receives a call from Bingo. ‐ Comi

‐ Hey Bingo, how you doing?

‐ Oh, I'm doing good, guys.

I got an ID off that casing you sent me.

It's an American cartridge, it's not Japanese.

‐ Hmm, that's not the best news.

‐ It gets worse.

It's a cartridge from 1908.

It comes out of a .30‐40 Krag rifle,

which was a pre‐World War II issue American rifle.

‐ Oh, that's way before World War II.

How does an American bullet casing from pre‐World War II

get on our mountain next to our turtle?

‐ In 1898, tensions between the United States

and Spanish forces in Cuba

sparked into the 10‐week Spanish‐American war,

fought around the last remaining Spanish colonies

in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

As part of Spain's surrender,

they ceded control of the Philippines to US forces,

who would remain in control there

until the Japanese invasion in 1941.

Now, the team must determine why a US shell casing

was found next to what could be a Golden Lily treasure marker.

‐ Thank you, Bingo. ‐ No problem, guys.

I'll talk to you soon. ‐ See you later.

‐ Bye‐bye.

‐ What do you think the Americans were doing

running around our mountain before World War II?

‐ Maybe the bullet was American, but not the shooter.

Towards the end of the war,

the Japanese resources was running low.

Well, they've been plundering and taking anything they got,

they've been bringing stuff over the whole time

to hide in the mountains, so whatever they picked up,

they would've brought those along with it.

‐ As the American blockade in the Pacific

cut off Japanese supply lines,

Yamashita's men may have been forced

to replenish their depleted resources

with plundered weapons,

including possibly US Krag rifles

left over from the Spanish‐American War.

This could be the source of the casing at turtle rock,

which is the latest mystery the team must decode.

‐ Something important is happening around that turtle.

Come hell or high water, we're gonna figure it out.

‐ Absolutely.

‐ On the mountain, Peter and Brad

continue searching along the line of sight

of the turtle rock's head,

looking for any signs

that may lead to a possible tunnel entrance.

‐ Grandpa told me where to go to find the turtle rock,

and hopefully we can prove that the turtle

is actually pointing to a treasure.

‐ Look at this.

‐ Let's get the rest of the crew down.

Get John on the radio.

‐ John, we got something you'll be pretty interested in.

Youyou better come over here.

‐ While searching in the path of the giant turtle rock's head,

Peter and Brad have discovered what they think

is a Golden Lily symbol,

and called the rest of the team down to determine

if it is a clue to the location of Yamashita's treasure.

‐ Wow, that thing's pretty awesome.

‐ It is hand‐carved.

‐ Is this anything that you've ever seen before?

‐ This could be a Golden Lily symbol

showing us a back door.

‐ Based on Martin's research,

it is believed that Yamashita strategically constructed

his tunnel systems with a main front door entrance

where the treasure was loaded,

and a smaller, more concealed back door,

where the Golden Lily could access the tunnels.

‐ So you're saying that this symbol is

telling us about a back door?

‐ Exactly.

When the Japanese and the Golden Lily would come back,

they wouldn't want to use the front door,

because they'd have blasted it shut

and loaded up with all kinds of tripwires,

all this kind of stuff,

because so many people saw.

‐ Too many trucks coming in and out,

too many people seeing what was going on.

‐ So the Imperial family would've needed

a different way to get into the treasure tunnel.

‐ Exactly.

They needed a back door to get in

where not a lot of people could see them.

‐ I don't think it's gonna be that easy to find.

The Japanese were smart. ‐ Exactly.

So they probably would've put,

like, cover stones in it,

or put rocks together to close that up

so they could get in and out easy,

and seal it back all at one time.

‐ This could very easily tell us where the back door is.

I think, guys, all we need to do is go back to this marker.

Everything so far has led us to this point.

Grandpa tells us to go look for the pyramid rock,

we find that. ‐ Holy crap!

Now that's a frickin' pyramid.

‐ We find Breach 6. ‐ Holy cow.

‐ We go up to the waterfalls, we find the gorilla head.

‐ That's the one, Manny!

‐ We find the plunge pools.

We find the turtle.

This is the best thing we found so far.

Everything that we've done so far

has brought us to this one point

to the back door.

This could be our entrance into the mountain.

‐ If we can find it, we can open it.

‐ Now I'm excited. Today, I'm excited.

Let's go find the back door.

‐ On the next "Lost Gold of World War II"...

‐ We're looking for a back door.

Just gotta find the right way in.

‐ I think I found somethin'!

‐ Mother Nature is saying, "No, boys, not today."

‐ Fire this baby up.

We've waited weeks to get to this point.

Yamashita, I'm comin' for ya.

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