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Previously on "Blind Frog Ranch"...

It would have to be the Mormons.

They were the ones that were here.

With the help of a recently acquired journal...

See, people were working out of this.

This was a working journal.

Josh, Ron, and the team are following Mormon pioneer.

Thomas Rhoads' century-old quest for Aztec gold.

I think we're at the entrance of the mine.

This could very likely be the way into the Keyhole.

Set!

Whoa!

And after a decade of searching, they believe

they've finally broken into the Keyhole Chamber.

Guys, we're standing on a pile of gold.

We gotta dig this whole freaking room out.

Their excavation of the cavern is underway

with intriguing results.

Whoa! What? What?

- It's gold! - It's as plain as day.

Meanwhile, Ron's visit

with the Timpanogos tribe leader

has led to a groundbreaking revelation.

I'm sure Walkara knew

- several locations. - OK.

And he's using the Mormon journal

to find more chambers

of Aztec gold.

The code is something that has to be cracked.

We've got to find out what this says.

Legends of ancient treasures...

It could go thousands of years back.

And unexplained phenomena...

I'm not messing with that.

Meet at a 160-acre property in northeast Utah

known as Blind Frog Ranch.

For decades, teams have searched the land

for long-lost Aztec gold.

But the closer they get...

Look at that! That's gold!

The harder the land fights back.

Whoa! What the hell's going on?

Now, a prolific miner...

We're standing on a pile of gold.

And a legendary treasure hunter...

There must be another tunnel entrance... something.

Armed with new evidence...

- Look at this! - What the hell is that?

And a fabled artifact...

There's a date on that, 1912.

Will take on a 500-year-old curse...

Fire in the hole!

And a land littered with traps...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

To find a three-billion-dollar treasure.

Whoa!

They won't stop until they uncovered the mystery

of what lurks below...

Guys, it's caving!

Whoa! Run!

At Blind Frog Ranch.

Hey, if you wanna break more of that up and I'll move it out.

I mean, we've got to be getting

- close to the floor here. - Yeah.

Running out of places to put piles.

After a passage from the Rhoads Journal led them

to a hidden mine entrance...

I think we might be in, boys.

The team uncovered a massive chamber

300 feet beneath Blind Frog Ranch...

Whoa.

That they believe is the legendary Keyhole Chamber.

Guys, we've gone in far enough.

The distance is right. The bearing is correct.

This has to be the Keyhole Chamber.

After two days of excavation in search of Aztec treasure,

they made a breakthrough discovery.

Whoa! What, what?

You just pulled out gold ingots.

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Now, as Ron heads to Arizona

to have the gold ingots analyzed,

the team continues excavating the chamber,

hoping to find more treasure.

I believe that that gold probably originated

from the Aztec.

That means there could be untouched gold back here.

Moctezuma's treasure could be right in front of us,

and we're not gonna stop now.

That's interesting.

So come here and check this out.

- You got something? - Yeah.

So if you look here,

- look how we have everything in the 200s. - Yeah.

Look at this right where I'm at.

We have 201.

It looks like it's the start of a void right there.

So that blue, where the blue is,

- that's showing there's a void? - Yes.

So what I think...

is it's sloping down and we're at the top.

If this is a void going down further,

I mean, God only knows where that leads.

Chili, let's start digging that.

We got to know everything

- about this chamber. - Yep.

We can't leave until we have searched every square inch

- of this thing. - I'm gonna start digging.

As we get deeper in our excavation

of the Keyhole Chamber,

you have all these different feelings.

It's exciting and it's scary at the same time,

because I don't know where the hell I'm going.

There's a lot of risk involved when you're digging into voids,

not knowing what we'll find on the other side.

But at the same time, it's worth it

because I know there has to be more treasure down here.

And I'm not giving up on finding it.

- Hey, Dick. - Hey, Ron, how you doing?

- Pretty good. How are you, sir? - Nice to see you.

After uncovering three ingots hidden in the Keyhole Chamber,

Ron turned to his trusted gold analyst

to determine their origin.

First of all, here's your ingots back.

Well, let's just check those first

to make sure they're all there.

Dick is an associate that I've used a lot.

Of course, I've been mining, prospecting a lot of my life,

and any time I have a question or I want something analyzed,

something assayed, I go to Dick.

He's very quiet, he's secretive.

If I tell him not to say something,

he does not say anything.

He gets me the results, but he can analyze

anything I give him.

Well, I've got some interesting results

- for you here. - OK.

The thing that's really strange is this high percentage

of copper. We have a sample here at 25%.

Gold's more typically around 1%.

20 to 25% is extremely unusual.

That's pretty interesting.

When you make bullion, you don't want copper in it,

- that much copper. - Exactly.

The only thing that that would indicate to me is that it was

added to the sample.

To get a higher percentage

for whatever reason they wanted it.

Number two is the grouping of the trace elements.

We've got platinum, rhodium, and palladium.

This grouping is simply not found in Utah.

I've seen samples that have come from Australia,

South America, Mexico.

Mexico?

Supposedly in Mexico, the Aztecs used a lot

of copper, mixing it into their bullion,

make it harder, to change color.

And the grouping of those trace elements,

Mexico is a good candidate.

The fact that we tested these bars

and the results came out as they did

kind of proves that it is Aztec gold.

Most miners do not add copper to gold bars.

Aztecs would have.

The Aztec added copper to their gold

to create tumbaga,

a versatile alloy prized for its rich color

and added strength that gave their jewelry and artifacts

an unmistakable quality.

The amount of copper

and other elements in the ingots

suggest the gold has Aztec origins.

We think the gold-copper alloy in these ingots point

to the Aztec, possible Aztecan gold long buried

in the Keyhole Chamber. In the Uintas.

These results would correlate with where these came from.

So your theory might be that this was actually Aztec.

- Yes. - OK.

Very interesting.

Yeah. Yeah.

This is huge.

Makes me pretty excited that these tests indicate gold

that could have originated from the Aztecs

exist on Blind Frog Ranch.

And it's not just the Keyhole Chamber.

For the past few weeks, my research

into the Rhoads Journal suggests

that there are other chambers full of Aztec gold.

My next goal is to figure out where these other chambers

of gold could be.

There's nothing there.

Shovels are far enough away?

- Yeah, they're not interfering. - All right.

Hey, guys.

I think I see something. I think it opens up.

Chili, what do you got?

- What'd you find? - What do you got, man?

There's an opening.

It looks like it keeps going back up in there.

It's small, but it keeps going.

It does. Holy, Chili.

Man, that has to be the void that my magnetometer picked up.

We gotta get in there.

If Chili's found the void that James picked up

with the magnetometer,

and it looks like a small tunnel,

but we have no idea where it's leading.

What I'm standing on right now, for all I know,

there's a giant void underneath me.

I have no idea what this mine ever looked like,

what was dug out, nothing.

We have to check every inch of this Keyhole Chamber.

Any tunnel or void could lead us to more gold.

Let me get in here,

I think I can fit this first part.

Is it open back there, Chili?

It's more than an opening.

It keeps going.

It's got a twist and turn.

Just a little tighter.

Might have to hold your breath for a second.

It opens up.

This is crazy.

This is like a solid, solid cave.

But if you look around,

it looks like it's been altered or it's like a passageway

that has been cleaned up.

So it's like there's at one time there was traffic in here,

which is really cool.

Josh, Josh, you guys copy out there?

This is Josh. How you doing?

I found an opening. It keeps going.

I want to see how deep it goes.

Copy that. Be careful.

OK, let's keep going.

Over here there's another tunnel down this way.

Yeah, right there.

Hold on, let me check this.

Hold on.

You see what I'm seeing?

I think that's an effigy stone.

Don't move.

Those things are used to communicate with spirits.

Effigies are spiritual stones

used by many Indigenous cultures.

Carved into the shape of animals or people,

they often serve as guardians against danger

on sacred ground.

Many people believe disturbing them

has severe consequences.

Yeah, no, back up, back up, I'm not messing with that.

- OK. - Look...

No bueno.

I've heard about these in South America.

My uncle used to say, if I come across one of these,

I should leave an offering.

- Do you have some change? - Yeah.

Do you have anything? What do you have of value?

It's something. I'm just... just hang on.

As a peace offering,

Chili leaves behind a carabiner,

and with no further tunnels to explore,

he decides it's best to leave the effigy undisturbed

and head back to the main chamber.

Not messing with those things.

It's not good. Never is, never will be.

2 Charles! Hey, hey!

Before the team begins their fourth day of excavation

in the Keyhole Chamber, a vital member returns

to Blind Frog.

Hey, guys!

Head of Security, Charlie Snider, has spent

months battling a mysterious illness.

Amid his recovery,

he's back to resume his duties on the ranch.

Good to see you back here.

Hey, I tell you what, it feels good being out here.

It's good to see you, sir.

- It's been months. - Welcome back.

- Charles. - Thank you.

Charles is the security person for Blind Frog Ranch.

He's one of Duane's oldest friends.

What is it, Charlie boy?

It's a decoy.

It kind of sucked when Charlie wasn't here.

You know, he was one of the original OG

on Blind Frog Ranch.

He's always looking out, has your back, not just

for trespassers,

but there's a lot of wild animals out here.

What was that?

Hey, will y'all wait here?

So having Charles just makes you feel safer.

Hey, Charlie, nice to meet you.

Nice to see you, brother. Good to meet you.

- This is Chili. - Chili.

We go way back, treasure hunting, mining.

You still want to work with him?

Always.

How much did he pay you to say that?

- We go way back. - I'll bet.

This plot of land here is like a home for me.

And not being able to be here

was kind of hard on me, to be honest with you.

I'm not used to not being here.

Charlie, we've had some interesting developments

we'll have to inform you of.

Yeah, a lot of going on.

I have a lot to catch up to. I'm making a comeback.

Fellas, I want to find out what's going on

with me and Duane.

I got an interesting call from someone who detected

strange anomalies on the ranch.

So I've got a lot of work on my end.

I've got people coming in, and we're gonna see

if we can't get to the bottom of it.

So I'll take care of that.

OK, we'll get back to what we're doing.

We'll show you that drift too,

so we'll show you where the work site is.

Good, yeah, I want to see that.

Well, let's get on it. So great to have you back.

It's been a long summer for me.

I was sick since January,

and Duane's been sick even longer.

I have been worried about him for a year and a half now.

I recently got a call from someone who detected

strange anomalies on the ranch.

If that has anything to do

with what's been happening to me and Duane,

I'm gonna get to the bottom of it.

There's a lot of things going on

on this ranch that people don't understand.

I'm making it my mission to finally get some answers.

See you later, Charlie.

Got to get these out of here.

- See, I think that's even floor material right there. - Yeah.

- You think we're already there? - Yeah, I think that's the hole.

- There. - Yeah.

Would have been a great place to store.

Yep.

This is now our fourth day of excavation.

Just working in the Keyhole Chamber,

making sure that we don't miss anything.

So far, we've covered about 70% of the chamber.

We haven't found any additional gold ingots yet,

but I'm still hopeful there's more in here to be found.

I'm hitting something.

I think I can get my hand... yeah, got my hand around.

- What the hell is this? - What is that?

- That glass is old. - It was a big jug.

- It was a big jug. - Now that is old. Look at that.

That is old glass, man.

You see how that glass is not perfect?

- Yeah. - See how it's lopsided?

This is an applied lip. So that's old style.

They just took a piece of glass

and wrapped it around there to make the lip.

Maybe 1870s, but probably before that,

1860s, 1850s.

Well, that would set right in with that Mormon era here

when they... from the 1850s onward.

You know?

Well, somebody had a stash

- right there in that hole, beneath the floor. - Yeah.

And along with the other artifacts we found,

that wasn't the Aztecs who put them there.

- This is something, man. - Yeah.

This is some incredible finds.

All of the artifacts we're finding in here are pointing

to the fact that modern people were in here.

Based on the design of the glass,

it's from the early Mormon era.

And if we're talking Mormon era,

Thomas Rhoads could have been down here.

There's a story that he once arrived at Salt Lake City

with so much gold that ingots were falling off of his wagon

on his way through town.

We think Thomas Rhoads financed Mormonism with gold

from the Uinta Mountains.

And I believe they were successful.

I believe that that success is what a lot of the legends

were built off of.

It just makes me think

that we're onto something really big right now.

All right, we've got a lot of stuff.

And more sections still left to excavate,

so let's keep going.

Go ahead and grab some with your shovel.

There's still enough material in there.

Thanks for coming. I appreciate it.

- Hey, Ron, how you doing? - Hey James.

The next morning before the team returns

to the Keyhole excavation,

Ron and James are meeting with Mormon expert

Dr. Roger Blomquist to decipher a clue that might lead

to more chambers of Aztec gold.

You bet, only way to travel.

Through my research the past few weeks,

I'm convinced that the Keyhole Chamber

isn't the only place with stored treasure.

We're looking for other chambers

where there could be Aztec gold.

And I think the Rhoads Journal was the Mormon's search

for all of those chambers.

And one passage I found in particular piqued my interest.

They seem to be very old, written in some kind

of a language, a map.

It may be Deseret, the Deseret alphabet.

If something was written in a code with a map,

my treasure-hunting senses are always up.

So, to help us decipher this passage,

I'm meeting with Dr. Blomquist,

who is very knowledgeable on Mormon history.

So, this was in between two of the pages

and we think we know what it might be.

What it is, this is the old antiquated obsolete.

Deseret alphabet.

The Deseret alphabet is a phonetic alphabet.

It started in the 1850s

- and lasted for about 20 years, give or take. - Really?

Under Brigham Young, the Deseret alphabet

was created for Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory.

Its cryptic characters made it nearly impossible for outsiders

to decipher and perfect for writing coded messages.

So, Doc, can you decipher this?

Yeah. Yeah.

And we'll take it sentence by sentence and break it down

and correlate with Ron with what he knows.

OK, so the first line, "Have had the offering in hand"

"and come to believe there are others."

"Chief is gone, but many of his people have spoken

of property of ancients in the breathing earth."

Breathing earth to me would be caves.

- A cave system. - A cave system.

And I think maybe the property of the ancients must mean

the Aztecs, the Aztec treasure.

- You agree with that James? - Yeah.

The Aztecs were the ancients.

OK, so the next line...

"Small hawk leads to stairs of gold."

"Big hands hold safe the Golden Staircase."

"I believe this could be the big resting place."

"Big," I would imagine, means important.

So this is interesting to me because,

based on my research,

it's not just the Keyhole Chamber

that contained gold.

We believe there's several locations

where this treasure could be.

Maybe what this Golden Staircase,

whatever it is, holds this treasure.

And I think that's what the maps are trying to lead us

- to in the journal. - For sure.

So the passage that Dr. Blomquist translated

indicates there is another chamber of gold

called the Golden Staircase.

What we gotta do now is find the location of it.

Thank you so much, Roger.

It was my pleasure.

There's no description

of what the Golden Staircase looks like.

Are the stairs themselves gold?

We don't know.

All we have to go on is this map.

So I still need to research this a bit more.

But one thing is clear, that this may be

the most important thing in the journal,

is the Golden Staircase. That's our next target.

2 Appreciate you coming back out. I know it's a long trip.

Yeah, it's been about a...

- It's been a few months since I've been here last. - Yeah.

As the fifth day of the Keyhole excavation begins,

Charlie has invited physicist and engineer Dr. Jim Segala

back to the ranch.

Segala placed seismic recording devices

on the property last year

and uncovered unexplained electromagnetic activity

on the ranch.

Now he's returned to Blind Frog to discuss

another mysterious anomaly deep below the surface.

Something strange going on under the property.

Some days ago there was a earthquake

right underneath Blind Frog.

In fact, it's right smack dab in the center of it.

It was very strange for this area.

That's interesting, because we felt that

when we were underground heading to the Keyhole Chamber.

- Hey, you guys hear that? - What was that?

Sounds like something rumbling underneath us.

It's about 70 kilometers deep,

- which is pretty deep. - Wow.

It was into the mantle.

On September 10th, a rare earthquake struck Utah

68 kilometers below the surface.

At more than 10 times the depth of typical Utah quakes,

this one occurred in the Earth's mantle.

It's very possible there is something strange

under this property

that's causing all the things happening.

So I worked on a little bit of a plan

to put some devices out there,

record over a period of 24 hours,

and see if we can actually measure this thing.

Well, given this information, I would say let's get started.

Yeah.

Dr. Segala is strategically placing sensors

around Blind Frog Ranch.

If they detect underground anomalies,

he'll use those hits to triangulate the source,

zeroing in on the true epicenter of the disturbances.

So we're gonna leave it in here,

try to get it as flat as possible,

and then we're gonna come back later tomorrow

and basically pick the data out.

- That's it? - That's it.

- OK. - Very, very simple.

It makes me wonder if these underground anomalies

have anything to do with Duane and I getting

sick and then maybe

we were impacted by whatever is going on here.

I'm gonna lay it right down in here.

We're hoping that Dr. Segala's equipment will be able

to pinpoint what's happening in the Blind Frog Ranch.

And that's it.

Not there.

We've detected all of this here.

We've dug through all of this around us.

I mean, we have explored this room,

and I'm not hitting any other metal targets.

After six grueling days of excavation,

the team has finally cleared the Keyhole Chamber.

But the long search failed to yield any additional treasure.

All right.

I think we searched the entire chamber.

We've been through...

I don't know where else to look.

Yeah, I mean, God, we worked everything.

I mean, down to the floor, you know?

- No, I've detected all of this. - Yeah.

- This is all... - I don't think there's gonna be anything else.

We've been through everything.

- So this is it. - OK.

We have excavated everything in this room.

We've taken everything down to bedrock.

We've searched every nook and cranny.

We have been all over this thing.

We found every artifact there is to find in here.

I'm confident there's nothing else

left in this room. We've gotten it all.

Keyhole Chamber's done.

Based on the evidence, the team believes that the gold

that was once stored here in the Keyhole Chamber

was already cleared out by the Mormons.

But as the excavation of the Keyhole Chamber

comes to an end,

the chase for the Aztec gold is only beginning.

It's a huge accomplishment

to find something that was lost

for over a century.

I mean, this is a huge moment for us,

but our work's not done. We've got a lot more to do.

I'm sure that gold had friends at one time.

I want to know where the rest of it is.

I spent years looking for this spot.

Spent blood, sweat, tears, and lots of money

to get us to right here.

I'll be damned if we're gonna stop here.

I agree. You know what?

If we found this chamber, we can find the others.

Damn right.

After so long looking for this thing,

you have all these different feelings.

You can't imagine what it felt like

to find those gold ingots.

It's gold. It's plain as day.

- Ho-ho-ho! - , yeah.

Yeah, it was only three.

And do I wish it was more? Absolutely.

But it just tells us another part of the story,

that it was here.

All right, let's wrap everything up.

We got to get all this stuff out of here,

have all these artifacts analyzed.

We need to head back, regroup with my father,

and track down those other chambers.

Yeah, let's go.

My dad's research is saying

that there could be six more chambers out there.

If that's the case, we can't stop.

You ready for that several-hundred-feet crawl?

Yeah, here we go.

This is definitely the Keyhole Chamber.

This chamber existed and that tells me that the other ones

probably do too.

We won't stop until we track down those other chambers

and find the rest of this gold.

2 All right, let's wrap everything up.

We gotta get all this stuff out of here.

Have all these artifacts analyzed.

We need to head back, regroup with my father

and track down those other chambers.

Yeah, let's go.

After completing the excavation of the Keyhole Chamber,

the team believes Thomas Rhoads removed

all the gold that was once stored inside

and will now set their sights on other caches

of Aztec treasure in the area.

With the Keyhole Chamber completely excavated and empty,

we need to move on.

There's more gold to be found out there.

Let's see what we've got going here.

Let's get that topo.

Based on my research, there's six other chambers

of gold out there.

And after Blomquist deciphered this passage

from the Rhoads Journal, I believe we found one of them.

James and I spoke

with a Mormon expert, Dr. Blomquist,

and he was able to decipher

this passage in the Rhoads Journal.

"Small hawk leads to stairs of gold.

"Big hands hold safe the Golden Staircase.

I believe this could be the big resting place."

"Big," I would imagine, means important.

I believe that this Golden Staircase is one

of the other six chambers.

They are caches of gold from the Aztecs.

This map is depicting somewhere in the Uinta Mountains,

but all we have to go on are these symbols

and the topography drawings, which stands out to me

as this H symbol here, which is often used to signify

something of important.

I think that could be the Golden Staircase entrance.

It's gonna be hard to decipher, but we're trying

to look at the topo and figure out

if the land formation looks

like what's drawn on Thomas Rhoads' map.

What we're looking at on the topo

is some similarity to the map that's in the journal.

These two lines could be ridge lines.

It might be a valley.

We just don't know until we get out there and maybe see

some similarities to what's on the map in the journal.

Well, James, you were talking about something

over here, weren't you?

Yeah, more on an eastern direction,

right up in this area.

Right here, there was a ridge here,

a ridge line here, but it's not an exact match.

It's not a ridge, but it's linear.

It has sort of the shape of that.

But then, I mean, how sure are we

that it was gonna be an exact

- way of drawing? - Yeah, it's hand drawn.

- Yeah, he's not above looking down. - No, hand drawn.

He's on a ridge drawing from a ridge line.

And we have the benefit of this modern map.

Right, right, and who then...

- He didn't have that. - Yeah.

I mean, there's lots of ridges in this country here.

We've got a few locations.

We just need to narrow it down because we've got

to start somewhere.

Maybe this area up here then fits that.

And we've got two ridges coming in on either side,

just like this. The angles look right.

It's the only spot that has two ridges close together

in the way that this looks like it's orientated.

So maybe that's our target zone right there.

The team has identified a location just northeast

of Blind Frog Ranch that seems to align

with the Golden Staircase map from the journal.

- Maybe Chili and I should go out there and investigate that. - OK.

From there, we'll have to improvise

and see if we can locate any other markers from this map.

Just prepare for a pretty long hike.

My dad uncovering this Golden Staircase

is a great lead for us.

All right, I think we got a plan.

We're gonna get to work.

The great thing about treasure hunts is you're always

uncovering something new.

Maybe we go up through here, Alex.

Starting to get rocky right through here,

so the trees are starting to open up.

The hunt for the Golden Staircase begins two miles

northeast of the ranch on a ridge line of the Uintas

that reaches 12,000 feet in elevation

and stretches 43 miles long.

We're seeing a marker on the map that we think maybe indicates

where the Golden Staircase is.

It looks kind of like the shape of an H.

And that can indicate some sort of opening,

an entrance, a portal.

And if we can figure out where these other markers are,

we can orient ourselves and find that marker.

There's a rock outcrop right there.

Yeah, this must be the top of that ridge line.

Find a good little lookout.

Yeah, this looks good right here,

good vantage point.

Well, by looking on the map, you think you can find

the exact spot where we're at?

That's this jut right here.

So I think we're right about here.

OK.

- Let's get that journal out. - OK.

Because I want to compare it to the geography here.

So I'm thinking that this

is the ridge line we're standing on

- right now. - OK.

And I'm thinking that this is

depicting this cliff edge right here.

I think that's right over there.

And you see this symbol here?

What is that?

To me, it looks like it's a marking

that's like a depression in the ground.

Maybe it's an old working, like a prospect or something.

Let's follow the ridge line

and search for something that could be this symbol.

We have to be able to figure out

what this meant to whoever the heck put this in here.

Deciphering treasure maps is hard.

You don't know what the author of that meant, you know,

what they were thinking, what that symbol meant to them.

It might be difficult to spot all these years later

because the landscape changes constantly.

It's tough, but this is what my dad and I live for,

using the past to figure out the present.

Let's get down, let's find more of these clues.

Let's head out, maybe down the ridge this way.

All right, let's do it, man.

2 Data back already, Jim?

Yeah, it was amazing. Absolutely amazing.

And we were able to correlate those with their timestamps.

After placing recording devices around Blind Frog Ranch

yesterday, Dr. Segala has returned to share his findings.

After looking at it for quite a while,

we saw a periodic bump

in three spots at about an hour and a half interval.

So every hour and a half,

you would see a bump in each one.

So that leads me to believe

that there's this undulating, large energy mass

that was flowing around the ground.

That could be the thing that's actually disturbing the plates

and making it slip and go... and crash into each other.

But it's not a continuous energy flow,

it has different densities depending on where it is.

And the biggest density, the biggest spike,

was at the Bead Site.

It could be the epicenter.

This type of thing, if it's strong enough,

the human body's gonna perceive that as something dangerous.

That's why you see a lot of people that have these

autoimmune symptoms.

This concerns me.

Could this be what's made some of our team sick?

Well, that's a really good question.

That's something that we're trying to understand.

It's very possible that this energy system

that's underneath here is actually causing that.

The closer you are to the source,

the more dangerous that's gonna become.

That all could tie into working in that area.

Yep.

Thank you for your time. Thank you for your effort.

This really helps us continue to put things together.

Absolutely.

You have a place to now go and look.

- Yeah. - Which is super important in science.

The Bead Site looks to be at the center of this vortex.

There's always been strange things happening

at that site,

so we have to get out there and investigate it further.

We've got to solve the problem.

- Thanks, Jim. - Thank you.

- Yeah. - Appreciate it.

Trying to figure out how they thought and what they saw.

I'm hoping that we'll know when we find it.

After an hour of hiking down mountain,

Josh and Chili continue

their search for the first marker

on the Golden Staircase map.

Like in down this direction?

Yeah, it looks like it opens up here.

It's just, I mean, this isn't looking right, right?

No, I mean...

Get the map out real quick.

Yeah, where are we at, here?

Yeah, I mean, we're down in it.

It's just, I'm not seeing much.

I mean, where, I mean, Rhoads...

where in the hell was Rhoads?

Man.

I just don't know, Alex.

All I see is a bunch of trees.

The thing is, it's like,

OK, the ridge line's up there.

If those clues were to fit, like, I would think

that we'd have found more than this.

Where the hell do you go with it?

We could be very near that treasure right now.

Next time on "Blind Frog Ranch"...

This could be Thomas Rhoads' base camp.

The team tracks the journal's cryptic markings...

This definitely would fit the timeline.

To a strange barrier that could open the way

to the Golden Staircase.

What if this is an entrance into some sort of a mine?

James digs into the past...

Tell me, you know, what I'm looking at here.

In an attempt to decode the present.

- Are we looking at giants? - We are.

And the team throws everything they have...

Here goes!

Into their quest for the lost Aztec gold.

Instruments are going haywire up here!

Chili!

Are you guys all right?