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[thunder rumbling]

[dramatic music playing]

It's a dark and stormy night.

The perfect weather for a hot cup of tea

and a good story.

And lucky for you, I have one of the best ever told.

It's about four misfit kids from Oregon

who find a pirate map that leads to the adventure

of a lifetime and a treasure worth millions.

OK, you got me.

I'm talking about "The Goonies."

But the truth is that I've been talking about this movie

since I was about eight years old.

Sorry, Dr. Jones, but it was Mikey, Mouth, Data,

and Chunk who first inspired me to explore the legends

and mysteries of the world.

This year, "The Goonies" turns 40,

and we have reason to celebrate.

Because it turns out that my favorite movie was based

on a real-life legend. That's right.

There is an actual treasure on the Oregon coast

that has never been found.

-[thunder roars] -[electricity buzzes]

Huh, must have blown a fuse.

[whimsical music playing]

[clicking]

[thunder rumbling]

[Josh] It's a map of the Oregon coastline.

And something written in Spanish.

Three, two, one.

[glass shatters]

Whoops.

[mysterious music plays]

"Ye intruders beware.

Crushing death and grief."

Wait, my dad told me all about this once.

According to local legend, shipwrecked pirates buried

treasure near where "The Goonies" was later filmed.

And recently, timbers from a Spanish galleon were found

there that have been identified as a treasure ship

from 1694.

And now, one researcher believes that there may be

other precious cargo just waiting to be discovered,

like rubies and emeralds and diamonds.

And that's not all.

The discovery of a mysterious skeleton is leading historians

to a secluded beach, rumored to be dripping

with pirate plunder.

What if?

What if, you guys, these stories could lead

to real-life rich stuff and solve a mystery

that's more than 300 years old?

Then we wouldn't have to leave the Goon Docks.

So the only question is, what are we waiting for?

1694.

The past is all around us.

Oh, my god!

It goes on forever!

A world of mystery.

Come on! Look at that!

...danger

Hang on!

...and adventure.

It's just straight down!

I gotta get a new job.

I travel to the far corners of the Earth to uncover

where legends end...

We got it!

Yes!

...and history begins.

Woohoo! Here we go.

I'm Josh Gates, and this is "Expedition Unknown."

My quest for buried riches begins where else but

at the Goon Docks, a place I have dreamed of seeing

since I was a kid.

[adventurous music plays]

While "The Goonies" is an extraordinary adventure,

it begins in a rather ordinary setting.

That's right, this is the Goonies house.

The treasure map was found in that attic.

Josh Brolin was tied up with a chest exerciser

in that living room.

Guys, Chunk truffle shuffled right here.

-[crew] Do it! -Come on.

-[crew] Do it! -It's not happening!

In the movie, this and all of the houses

in Astoria's Goon Docks are in danger of foreclosure

to make way for the evil country club.

And with that admittedly thin plot device,

so begins a film that inspired an entire generation

of rejects like me to seek out adventure.

How much do I love this movie?

Well, I'm wearing full denim

in front of somebody's private property.

That much.

So, let's go on one last Goonies adventure to find

the real treasure. Come on, guys.

This is our time. Now all I need is a ride.

[bell dings]

♪ What goes around always comes around, hey! ♪

♪ What goes up, up, always must come down ♪

♪ You want my kisses, my sugar rush ♪

[Josh] I'm on my way to meet a researcher

who has the details on the real-life Goonies treasure

-Hi, Josh! -[Josh] Hi!

My crew has a bet on whether I can manage to get

through Astoria without stopping at any more

of the locations from the movie.

So as long as I keep moving, guess who's winning, turkeys?

[upbeat music plays]

Oh, wow!

Aw, [bleep]!

[upbeat music continues]

[bicycle whirring]

♪ What goes around always comes around, hey! ♪

[Josh] OK, I stopped.

But come on, guys, this is the jail that Jake Fratelli

escaped from.

It even has the Fratelli getaway car,

complete with bullet holes.

Today, this is the Oregon Film Museum,

and it's loaded with Goonies memories,

like the note Jake used to escape

and Data's gadget filled costume.

There's a message board where diehards can reminisce,

and a display where a lucky few can play

"Six Degrees of Corey Feldman."

OK, Corey Feldman was in "The Goonies"

with Anne Ramsey, who played Mama Fratelli,

and she was also in "Throw Momma from the Train"

with Danny DeVito, and Danny DeVito

starred in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,"

with Christopher Lloyd, and I was with Christopher Lloyd

in "Expedition Back to the Future."

You're someone who's paid to be on television?

Ehh...

Huh? Pretty good.

[adventurous music plays]

Yeah, this is one gift shop I am not missing.

OK, don't go crazy. Just the essentials.

Oh.

Sloth socks.

[adventurous music continues]

Too small?

OK.

Can I start a tab? Is that possible?

[magical music plays]

[Josh] Guys, I'm hungry.

I know when my stomach growls there's trouble.

The expert that I am headed to meet is south of Astoria,

at a place called "Neahkahnie Mountain."

It's a place filled with legends about curses,

pirate ships, and most importantly,

Spanish treasure. So, let's ride.

[whimsical music plays]

I pedal my borrowed bike through the forests.

Until I arrive at a foggy, windswept cove

on the Pacific coast.

It's where I meet diver Matt McCauley.

Matt! Hey.

[Matt] Hey! Nice to meet you.

[Josh] Nice to meet you, too. Wow, what a view!

Matt is the president

of the National Shipwreck Alliance,

a nonprofit dedicated to the discovery,

recovery, and preservation of lost ships and artifacts.

I know you are serious about shipwrecks.

-[Matt] Yes. -When did you first get the bug?

Well, probably back around 1978

when I made my first scuba dive. I was 14 years old.

Diving in Lake Washington, I started finding old bottles,

relics, and even steamboat remains.

So, from that point on, I was hooked.

And then "The Goonies" came out?

I absolutely loved it.

I thought it was fantastic.

The kids running around, searching for this treasure,

and the mysterious One-Eyed Willy in the Inferno.

It was really captivating.

Like, I credit at least half of my career

to seeing that movie. -[Matt] Right.

[Josh] It just got me so hooked on the idea of adventure.

[Matt] Absolutely.

I love the fact that it was set in the northwest.

but also, it aligned with a tale as old

as I can remember.

So "The Goonies" being set in Astoria was not a coincidence.

[Matt] No.

I love a good legend, so what's the story?

Well, the story is that sometime back in the 1600s,

a Spanish galleon wrecked on the shore right here,

and the sailors or pirates came ashore with a wooden chest

filled with gold and silver, took it up here,

up Mount Neahkahnie.

So this is Mount Neahkahnie here?

[Matt] Yes.

[thrilling music plays]

[Josh] According to according to this legend, pirates swam

from the wreck into the cove.

And then buried the gold nearby,

killing one of their crewmates and throwing his body on top

of the buried treasure.

And the idea was to keep away the natives,

to make them think it was cursed.

This is, like, right out of "The Goonies".

It is.

This is like One-Eyed Willy's treasure, right down

to the skeleton, right on top of the gold.

[Matt] Absolutely.

[Josh] It's an awesome legend.

Any chance that it's true?

Josh, I can prove to you that a Spanish treasure galleon

wrecked right here on this coast.

-For real? -For real.

All right, challenge accepted.

Why would a Spanish galleon be all the way up here

off the coast of Oregon in the 1600s?

In the 1600s, the Spanish controlled much

of the North American West Coast.

[Josh] By 1690, Spain had also established colonies as far

away as the Philippines, while still having

the resources to conquer and control Mexico, as well

as much of South America.

Spanish treasure galleons loaded with valuable goods from

Asia would sail from Manila, crossing the Pacific Ocean

to Northern California before catching the southerly current

to Mexico, unless that is something went horribly,

violently wrong...

[thunder roars]

...which is what Matt believes happened here.

[crew yelling indistinctly]

For one of those ships to blow off course in a storm

and come this far north, it's certainly not impossible.

OK, so it could happen. How do we know that it did?

Well, when she wrecked,

she spilled her cargo all over this coast.

And one of the things that was in that cargo was beeswax.

I'm sorry, beeswax?

While it might not sound as sexy

as One-Eyed Willy's treasure, in the 17th century,

beeswax was worth its weight in gold.

It was used for candles and to waterproof timbers on ships.

It was so prized that it was even traded as currency.

But honeybees were not native to North America, so the wax

had to be imported from Europe and Asia,

over the sea in galleons.

And that beeswax turned up here?

-Yeah, like 90 tons of it. -90 tons of it?

-[Matt] Absolutely. -Wow.

The natives found it right away and started putting it

to good use.

They would waterproof their canoes.

They'd use it to start fires.

And then later, as we started to have some white settlement

in the area, they would use it as a trade medium.

There are even reports of homesteaders having mined it

in the 1800s.

One individual found a 125-pound chunk.

Wow!

Today, several of these remarkable waxy relics,

still marked with the shipper's emblems, are displayed

at local museums.

So much of it was found over the years, this became known

as the "Beeswax Wreck."

[Josh] The ship itself is assumed to have smashed up long ago

when she wrecked on the coast,

but her cargo went way beyond wax.

This had Goonies level treasure.

Gold, silver, lot of very valuable

Chinese porcelain that broke up into shards

that the natives would find

and then carve into arrowheads and spear tips.

Wow, that's incredible! Porcelain from all the way

across the Pacific and China being repurposed

as an arrowhead. -Absolutely.

So we have reports of all of this stuff turning up,

literally in the sand. -Right

[Josh] But the ship's identity

was a major mystery. To solve it,

archaeologists started by radiocarbon dating the beeswax

and identifying the porcelain as Qing dynasty.

Together, they narrowed the production of both relics

to a 20 year window, from 1680 to 1700.

OK, so we've got a window of time that this ship must

have wrecked. -Exactly.

And over the centuries, the Spanish lost

hundreds of galleons.

But on the West Coast, only a handful vanished

without a trace.

And of those, only one was lost within that 20 year period

of time. -Which is?

The Santo Cristo de Burgos.

[Josh] Bingo.

432 feet long. Complement of crew, 45.

The Santo Cristo de Burgos was capable of carrying

1,500 tons of cargo before she vanished.

But the real proof, Josh, came just a couple of years ago

when a local historian found ships' timbers in a sea cave.

-And that was found where? -[Matt] Right out behind us.

-Out there? -Yes.

[Josh] The lost treasure of the De Burgos

is somewhere nearby.

And Matt tells me there's one man who's the key to finding it,

a treasure hunter and real life Goonie

who was the first person to discover the wreck.

[epic music plays]

[Matt] Josh, I'd like to introduce you to the man who found

those timbers, Craig Andes.

[Josh] Craig, nice to meet you.

This is, like, a real Goonies moment, like you actually found

the remains of a Spanish galleon

on the coast of Oregon.

Yeah.

You're a real Goonie?

Yeah, I was a Goonie before I was, but yeah,

I'm still a Goonie.

[Josh] I'm on the Oregon coast,

the setting for the greatest movie ever.

Its treasure hunt was inspired by a local legend,

one that's looking more and more real.

That's because of the historic wooden timbers discovered here

by Craig Andes.

When you found those timbers,

did you know what they were right away?

I did, because there was really little doubt

from the spike holes in the larger beam.

And it was a type of wood I've never saw.

The material is like iron.

[Josh] When Craig first discovered the beams protruding

from the sand, people thought he was crazy.

But testing revealed that this is 300 year old Asian hardwood

that only grows in the Philippines,

making this a Manila Galleon, one of only three ever found

in North America.

Not to mention the fulfillment of Craig's childhood dreams.

I saw "The Goonies" in Colorado when I was a kid,

and I came out here, and my friends were, you know,

talking about it and all excited about it.

I don't remember which one of my friends mentioned it,

but they were saying, "Hey, my dad says there's a treasure

that was buried related to 'The Goonies.'"

And I remember sitting there telling myself, "Treasure?

Spanish treasure? I'm going to find that someday."

And when it comes to this Spanish galleon, which we now

know is real, it didn't just have beeswax on board.

It had very valuable Chinese porcelain,

but it also had gold and silver, right?

Yes, there's definitely a ton of treasure on the ship.

[Josh] The total haul can only be guessed at,

but considering that these are the doubloons that inspired

"The Goonies", it's safe to say the ship's cargo

would be worth millions.

Now, the legend is that pirates or Spaniards came ashore

and buried this treasure somewhere on the mountain.

These stories became more popular

in the early 20th century,

prompting a frenzy of treasure hunting.

These were the Goonies before "The Goonies,"

and so many of them grabbed

their shovels and flocked to Neahkahnie

that it became known

as the "Mountain of a Thousand Holes."

But nobody ever found the gold and silver.

So somewhere here, maybe like right under our feet,

there could be Spanish treasure.

Yes, I know there is. We just have to find it.

-OK, well, should we do that? -We should look.

-Let's look. -[Craig] OK.

[Josh] Come on. Here we go.

The cave where Craig first found the timbers is flooded

by the onshore swells,

so we start to scan the most promising area,

the spot where De Burgos relics have been found,

on the beach.

But to paraphrase Sloth, "It's a rocky road."

So, this is a hugely challenging place to search.

First of all, you get these massive tidal swings here.

We're almost at low tide, but in just a couple of hours,

where I'm standing is going to literally be underwater.

Also, this is state park land, which means we have to use

all non-invasive techniques,

no metal detectors allowed here.

So, if we're going to find whatever's on this beach,

we're gonna have to actually see it.

So, you know, look around.

[adventurous music plays]

-That is a mussel shell. -That'll trick you.

Hey, "The Goonies" didn't have metal detectors, so we scour

the soggy beach for hours, the old fashioned way.

At least the water's not freezing cold.

Gah!

Hey, here you go. Here's a piece.

[Josh] What did you find?

[Craig] Uh, there's a little, see the cobalt?

-[Josh] Wait, where? -[Craig] You see the cobalt?

-The blue? -[Craig] Yeah.

[Josh] That's not a shell?

No, that's a piece of Qing Dynasty porcelain

from the wrecked galleon.

What?

Ha!

[Josh] It absolutely is porcelain.

Look at that blue patterning.

That is beautiful.

Wait a minute.

This is Qing Dynasty porcelain

on the coast of Oregon.

You're the first person to touch that in over 300 years.

[Josh] Intact pieces of porcelain from this dynasty,

founded in the 17th century,

have sold for millions of dollars,

putting the "Qing" in "cha-ching."

That was part of a big vessel.

There's thousands more pieces of that laying

around here somewhere. -[Josh] Insane!

That's a piece of treasure right there.

Did you really think you were gonna find a piece

when you came here? Was it gonna be that easy?

No! I still can't get over the fact

that there's the wreckage of a Spanish galleon

off the coast of Astoria.

Guys, we are in "The Goonies" right now.

This is the real Goonies treasure.

It really is!

If we find more of this, we might be able

to save the Goon Docks.

Let's go.

Come on! I'm in now.

We're not leaving.

The search drifts closer to the cliff face.

We're hoping to find more pottery...

A needle in a needlestack.

...or the next best thing, gold doubloons.

Oh,

that...

is a mussel shell.

[motivating music plays]

[Josh] Tide's turning.

And it's turning in more ways than one.

Hey, you guys! Guys, come here!

Oh, my word. Is that what I think it is?

[Craig] You found your first piece there.

-[Josh] Is that it? -[Craig] Yeah.

-That's it. -That's Chinese porcelain.

[Craig] That is. That's from the wreck.

[Josh] Dude!

-Amazing! -[Craig] Nice.

Unbelievable!

Courtesy of the Santo Cristo de Burgos.

OK, now I'm officially hooked.

-[Craig] Yeah. -This is my life now.

I live in this cove. One piece at a time, right?

[Craig] One piece at a time.

Sooner or later, you get the whole vessel

put back together. -Unbelievable.

[Craig] You got a lot of gravel to look through, though.

A lot.

We got our work cut out for us.

And the tide's coming in. Let's move.

The tide starts rushing back in,

making the beach more difficult to search.

We reposition to some higher ground nearby that looks like

it leapt right off the silver screen.

Look at this!

Whoo!

It doesn't get any more Goonies than that.

-Just like the big water slide. -[Josh] Totally!

Must be the old Moss Garden Wishing Well.

-Look for spare change, guys. -[Craig] OK!

Troy!

Bucket!

If you see a bucket come down, let me know.

OK.

Whoo!

Look at this view.

[epic music rises]

-OK, let's look around. -[Craig] OK.

This just feels like such a prime place for stuff

to get trapped.

Well, this is, like, yeah, a big bowl that stuff

gets shot up in here.

[Josh] Not only that, but this natural depression

beneath the waterfall isn't far from where Craig first found

those timbers that turned out to be from the wreck.

-Matt, you got anything? -Nothing yet.

[Craig] There's something like, looks like this might be some

sort of metal, you guys.

Metal?

-[Matt] Where? -[Craig] Right here.

That orange rusty looking thing.

[Josh] That's not rock?

[Craig] No, it looks like uh, iron.

[Josh] That is metal. Look at that.

-[Craig] Yeah. -[Josh] Right?

Hold on. I can move it.

[Craig] Oh! Is this?

[Josh grunts] Oh, my word!

[thrilling music plays]

[Craig] Oh! Is this?

[Josh grunts] Oh, my word!

-Oh, look! -That is a huge spike!

That's a spike!

That's a big old spike from the ship.

[Josh] For the 40th anniversary of my favorite movie,

"The Goonies", I'm exploring the real Oregon legend that

inspired what my parents still insist is a fictional story.

Now, we've just found something extraordinary.

-That's a ship spike! -Yeah, that's all concreted.

Look at that!

Look at the level of incrustation here.

It's been there a long time.

And you usually don't see that level of incrustation up here

in these waters.

When marine minerals stick to metal objects

in the salty ocean, they slowly build into a rocky compound

known as a "concretion."

That means this spike is old.

And the fact that the sea has deposited it in the tide pools

near the previously found timbers suggests

it's downright historic.

So, no question, that's a spike, right?

Oh, yeah, there's no question that's a spike.

It's been bent in the rack.

[Josh] Just the fact that it's been bent like that

tells you something about the violence.

[Craig] ...happened catastrophic.

-[Matt] And that's a lot of force. -[Craig] Yeah.

That could easily be one of the oldest colonial artifacts

found in Oregon. -Definitely.

This is a piece of a Spanish galleon!

[Craig and Matt] Yeah!

Dude!

That's amazing!

[Matt] Right there.

We could walk right past it.

Just wedged here in these rocks for centuries.

-Yeah. -Wow!

You know, people always say to me, "I want to go have

an adventure," you know, and they think they have to go

half a world away to have it. -[Craig] No.

-I mean, we're in Oregon. -Yeah.

We're in the U.S. holding a piece

of a Spanish galleon.

Amazing.

Amazing!

We continue to scour the shore until sunset, having discovered

actual treasures, Qing dynasty porcelain, and a piece

of the lost Santo Cristo De Burgos herself,

the ship that inspired "The Goonies".

[whimsical music plays]

[Josh] This is our time. Goonies never say die.

Oh, downhill. Thank the Lord.

By the light of a new day, I'm back on my bike

to continue the adventure.

Matt and Craig aren't the only two explorers searching

for buried treasure.

There's another team nearby with their own theory of what

happened to the loot.

And since the Fratellis are probably catching up to me,

we should get moving.

Here we go.

The team I'm meeting left me directions on how to find them,

but it appears they're leading me off road.

[eerie music plays]

[panting]

Guys, I think I have a match.

I'm sure of it!

The rocks all fit the doubloon.

That must mean the rich stuff is this way.

[crew] Can't we just use the GPS?

You're really not getting into the spirit of this, guys.

Come on, I have a doubloon!

Gah!

[adventurous music plays]

Eventually, the clues bring me to Cascade Head, Oregon,

by the Salmon River.

"Diez veces diez."

That means, "10 times 10."

100.

Stretching feet to nearest northern point.

North is that way.

One, two, three, four...

In the TV business, this is what's known

as "committing to the bit."

And I am nothing, if not committed.

96, 97, 98, 99, 100.

-Oh, hi, guys. -Oh, hey! Glad you found us.

-I'm JB. -[Josh] Nice to meet you!

I'm Doug. Nice to meet you.

[Josh] Doug, how are you? Nice to meet you as well.

Doug Kenck-Crispin and JB Fisher

have written extensively about the treasure hunts here

on the Oregon coast and even made a documentary about them.

What first got you interested

in this story of a wrecked ship here?

It was just all of these legends that remain consistent.

These treasure tales of, you know, these large chests

filled with treasure with a dead man on top of them,

buried there for hundreds of years.

-[Josh] Right. -And native people have been talking about them

for generations. -[Josh] Right.

People haven't been looking for this treasure

just since "The Goonies".

They've been looking for it since the first

kind of non-native settlers arrived here. -[Doug] Exactly, exactly.

Day one Oregon Trail is when these people were looking

for this, right when they got here.

In terms of the beeswax wreck, we know that that's real.

I've held, you know, remains of it in my hands at this point.

But you guys think there's a different ship that fits this

Goonies legend that wrecked here, not the De Burgos?

There's some very compelling evidence

about a possible treasure shipwreck here,

right on the banks of the Salmon River, just a couple

yards from where we are now. -All right, I'm all ears.

What version of the story have you heard?

[Doug] According to the native stories,

you have a winged canoe that was coming up

the Salmon River right out here.

"A winged canoe" would be their term

for a large sailing ship. -Exactly, exactly.

And what kind of ship is this?

It might be a pirate ship. It might be a Spanish ship.

-We just don't know for sure. -And the story is, what?

So the ship comes on up the river here.

It has some sort of catastrophic incident,

maybe a shipwreck,

so they offload treasure from the ship.

And what they're talking about when we talk about treasure is

gold doubloons, silver pieces of eight,

other jewels, and so on.

-The good stuff -The good stuff in a big chest,

and they buried it in the sand,

and then they leave two men to guard that chest.

[Josh] According to the story,

One of the two pirates left to look after the treasure was

described as an extremely tall, nearly eight foot African man.

The native Americans who lived in this area were not familiar

with Africans and were in awe of what they thought

was a giant.

But at some point, the relationship soured,

and the native Americans killed both pirates,

throwing their bodies on a pile

of discarded clam and mussel shells.

This sounds like a classic pirate yarn, right?

You've got your pirate ship,

you've got your buried treasure, your slain buccaneers.

Doesn't really sound true, though, does it?

Josh, we didn't believe it either.

Until we saw the photographs.

What photographs?

Do you want to see a real deal pirate skull?

-Yes. -[chuckles] Well...

Wait, what are these photographs of?

[adventurous music plays]

Do you want to see a real deal pirate skull?

-Yes. -[chuckles] Well...

Wait, what are these photographs of?

What is this?

A real pirate treasure in Oregon may have been

the inspiration for the greatest movie

that eight-year-old me ever saw, "The Goonies."

One version of the story goes that the chest of gold is

buried by the Salmon River, and that the two pirates

guarding its location, including one described

as a giant, were killed before it could be recovered.

Now, these two documentarians

have unearthed a nearly century-old newspaper article

that contains evidence of two very real skulls.

This is a photograph taken in this area in 1931.

[Josh] OK.

[Doug] And this gentleman here is Elmer Calkins.

He was out here plowing his land.

It was very uneven.

And he came through one section there and ended up being

a shell mound. -A shell pile.

-[Doug] Yep. -[JB] And he found a bone.

And then it turned out he found a whole pile of bones.

-In the shell pile. -[Doug] Exactly.

-[JB] Correct. -[Josh] Ooh!

-There are two skulls here. -[JB] But get this, Josh.

One of the skeletons was about eight feet tall.

-No. -[JB] Yeah.

Wait a minute!

Two skeletons on top of a shell pile,

just like the legend says.

Just right on the banks of the Salmon River.

The story appeared in "The Oregonian,"

the oldest continuously published newspaper

on the West Coast of the United States.

"Large skeleton found.

"A human skeleton of extraordinary size

was found today by E.D. Calkins on a shell bed."

-So, this is not just a legend. -No, this is documentation.

Were these skeletons scientifically examined?

They were, and they found some really interesting things.

The smaller skeleton actually had an arrow

-lodged in the vertebrae. -[Josh] Wait a minute.

There was literally an arrow point in the vertebrae.

-[JB] Correct. -[Doug] Yeah.

I mean, this is the story to a T.

-[Doug] Absolutely. -[JB] Yeah.

That's insane!

And I'm sorry, what is this photo?

[JB] That's X marks the spot for the ship.

-[Josh] That's it? -[Doug] That's where the ship wrecked.

But wait, this is where? The mouth of the Salmon River?

[Doug] Right out there, exactly.

And you can see the three rocks and the other formation

Cascade Head there.

And who put this X on here?

[Doug] That was what Calkins uh, had determined

was the location of the shipwreck.

That's where he thought the ship ran aground.

Yeah.

And one of the reasons why he was confident about that was

he was a fisherman, and he would go out

with his net, and he kept hooking on something out there.

And eventually, he pulled up some pieces of old wood,

some copper bolts. -Wow.

OK, so this is another article, "Buried Treasure Sought."

-This is from when? -[JB] The late '70s.

And this is Edward Calkins. Is that his kid?

That's his son, exactly.

And he says that he's going to "try to unearth the legendary

"winged canoe from its resting place.

"Calkins feels he knows the location of the canoe

and believes there may be booty in the bilge."

Quote, "I have the key to One-Eyed Willy."

No, sorry, that's a different article.

-But this is, like... -[Doug & JB] Yeah.

...Copperpot! -It is.

-Absolutely. -I mean, this is a guy who feels convinced that

there's pirate treasure here.

He didn't disappear down a labyrinth of tunnels, did he?

-No. -Not that we know of.

But he also never found the treasure.

[Doug] He never found the treasure.

Josh, it could be right beneath our feet.

[Josh] I love that.

We're actually the first to be able to look on this land.

How is that possible?

[Doug] This land is owned by a private organization,

and they've allowed us the permission to search

for this treasure today.

The treasure that Calkins and his son believed was here.

That they never got to look for.

So we not only have this exclusive permission,

but we have this. Should we start looking?

-X marks the spot. -X marks the spot.

[JB] Yeah.

[adventurous music plays]

[Josh] To determine where the pirate ship wrecked, Doug and JB lead

me out onto a spit of land that matches the one

in the newspaper photo.

All right, this is the spot.

All right, so we've got the Salmon River here,

and it is literally flowing out into the ocean.

[JB] Right there.

[Josh] So let's look at this photo from '31.

Here we go.

[Doug] So right over there, that formation in the top

right-hand part of the photo is Cascade Head, which is this

land mass right here.

[JB] Then we have the three rocks.

[Josh] I mean, definitely, definitely, those are

those three rocks. No question.

And let's look at where Calkins put that X.

[JB] Right about...

right here.

I mean, like, literally right here, right?

We are standing on this X.

[JB] Yeah.

So at high tide, I assume all this is underwater?

That's right.

So you could easily imagine a ship running aground here

on this sand. -Yeah, you bet.

So if I'm trying to get my treasure off this ship,

where am I taking it? -High ground.

-[Josh] Right? -[JB] Probably right over here.

[Josh] Definitely.

Above the high tide mark, maybe up in those dunes?

-[JB] Yeah. -Back by those trees?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

What do you think? Should we get rich?

-Let's do it. -Let's do it.

[epic music plays]

[Josh] In hot pursuit of pirates' plunder,

we break out our metal detectors and get to work,

searching the high ground near the purported shipwreck site.

-You guys got anything? -Nothing.

[Josh] Me neither. Very quiet in here.

[adventurous music plays]

We don't have any specifics as to where they buried

this treasure, right?

No, all we know is they offloaded it and buried it.

I wonder if they set any booty traps.

Booby traps.

That's what I said, booby traps.

They might have.

[pirate music plays]

[detector beeping]

[Josh] Good hit here.

That...

is a piece of scrap metal.

Well, hold on.

No.

[detector beeps]

[sighs] That's a lot of work.

[exhales]

-[detector beeping] -What do you got?

-Quarter. -It's currency.

I'll take it.

[pirate music resumes]

[detector beeping]

-Oh, I got something. -Got a hit?

[Doug] Yeah.

-Can I borrow your pinpointer? -[Josh] Yep, sure.

[both] Whoa!

Oh!

Sorry, sorry. Pinchers of peril.

Pinchers of peril. I'm sorry about that.

Here you go. Still working out the kinks.

At least it wasn't a boxing glove.

The hit turns out to be more scrap metal, but soon we get

to sink our teeth into something significant.

[detector beeping]

I got a hit!

A strong, clear hit right there.

-Let's see what that is. -[Doug] All right.

[intriguing music plays]

-OK, hold on. -[detector beeping]

Something here. Can you feel it?

Just be careful of this log. I don't want this to roll.

-You feel it? -[Doug] Yeah.

[Josh] Yeah? What is it?

[Doug] Feels flat.

[Josh] If this log rolls, we're all going to be flat.

Sorry.

Got it?

-That's a nail! -Oh!

-[Doug] Whoa! -[Josh] Oh! That's a nail!

-[Doug] Look at that. -[Josh] That is a very old nail.

-[Doug] Look at that. -[Josh] It's an old square head nail.

-Lord, look at that. -Fantastic.

-[JB] Oh, yeah. -[Josh] That's incredible.

-That's almost like a spike. -[Doug] Yeah.

So where there's nails, there's chests.

Where there's chests, there's doubloons.

So let's keep looking around here and see if there's

anything else. That's a great start.

The nail is an encouraging discovery,

so we return to the detectors.

Even though the sun may be setting, I'm not ready to say

goodnight to this adventure.

There's something out here.

[device beeping]

Now that is a good hit.

[thrilling music plays]

[detector beeping]

[Josh] That's pretty deep.

Ooh! There he is.

Ooh! Guys! Come here!

Hey! Come here! Come here!

Oh my word!

[detector beeping]

[Josh] The Oregon wilderness holds more than just the real loot

that inspired One-Eyed Willy's treasure.

It's a regular lost and found.

I got something here.

Oh!

Somebody lose their wallet?

I got mine.

Mine's here.

[Josh] It's a driver's license.

"Chester Copperpot."

Tough break.

Hey, what's a mint condition Lou Gehrig baseball card

worth these days?

A lot.

Maybe I'll just hold onto this.

Sorry.

[thrilling music plays]

Oh, my word!

-[JB] What is it? -[Josh] It's not aluminum!

Look at this!

Look at this! Look...Oh!

-Is that a coin? -[JB] What is that?

I don't know what it is.

Oh, it's broken.

What are you?

I'm on the Oregon coast,

investigating a legend of buried treasure

that inspired the classic 1985 movie, "The Goonies".

We've been digging for hours looking for the rich stuff,

and now we may have found some.

Is there writing on it?

Oh, look at that.

There's, like, a tip on it.

-Oh, there's a figure on it! -Whoa.

[JB] These look like pins, like maybe it's set

in something. -[Josh] Right.

Yes, it's like a pendant, right?

It definitely looks pretty old.

[Josh] Oh, there's writing on it!

[Doug] Oh, look at that.

[all] S, M, D. And then, P, I, L, A, R.

-[Josh] "Pilar." -[JB] Whoa.

[Josh] Look at that. Is that two figures?

Somebody with a crown, it looks like, almost.

-Yeah, it looks like it. -And then someone down below.

[Josh] Oh, and yes, someone down there.

This is an image, I think, of the Virgin Mary.

[Doug] I believe so, yeah.

And "pilar" is associated, I believe, with Spain.

That's right, yeah.

[Josh] "Our Lady of the Pillar" is one name for the Virgin Mary,

who is said to have miraculously appeared

to the Apostle James on a pillar in what is now Spain.

From then on, she became the patroness

of Spain and protector of all Hispanic people.

If a Spanish ship did come this way,

this talisman could easily have been aboard.

So this is not only a Christian Catholic pendant,

but this "pilar" means

that it is associated with Spain in particular.

-Exactly, exactly. -Yeah.

I mean, did this come here on a Spanish ship?

I would definitely call that "treasure."

-For sure, right? -[Doug] Absolutely.

And lots of people traveling by ship would carry things

like that. -Yeah, absolutely.

So the whole ship would be full of things like that.

[Josh] I mean, think about this.

We're in this area where these skeletons were found,

where there is this story, this long-standing story,

that pirates or Spaniards were here,

and this is a Spanish metal.

Right within the space that we've said

is where the X marks the spot. -X marks the spot.

That is beautiful!

Guys, I think we just saved the Goon Docks.

-Yeah. -[Josh] Right?

Oh, it's like it's the end of the movie.

The sun is setting. We're here on the beach.

You guys are going to come live with me now.

I'm going to take care of you because I love you.

-What am I, Sloth? -Well, you know.

Guys, I'm just saying. I'm just saying.

This is -- I feel very emotional right now.

I wonder what else is down here.

Well, we're not leaving. We're not leaving.

Don't worry. All right.

Back to it. Let's search this whole area.

Who knows?

There could be a bag of treasure right beneath this.

Exactly.

Unbelievable. Guys, nice work.

-Excellent. -Amazing.

[Josh] When I first saw "The Goonies", I was just a kid.

And if you can't tell yet, it's stayed with me ever since.

The fun, the friendships, the adventure.

To me, these weren't just elements

of childish escapist fantasy.

They were all the things that I dreamed of having in my life.

Well, a lot has happened since then.

This is crazy.

I've gotten to experience adventure.

-[Josh screams] -[splash]

Woah!

[Josh] More than I could have ever imagined.

Look at that.

Wow.

I have a steadfast crew who has walked every step

with me, no matter how perilous.

[crew] Hold on, Josh!

Ah!

And fun?

[heavy thud]

I'm alive!

God!

Kind of just trying to focus on the straight ahead here.

Oh, snake! Back up, back up, back up.

Maybe this would have been my life without "The Goonies".

But I doubt it.

And the legend here in Oregon that became the basis

for the film is part of that.

[both] Whoa!

Life inspired art,

which in turn inspired life.

Mine and countless others like me.

That's why I'm certain that someone, someday, will find

this treasure, and other buried treasures like it.

There are too many of us for them to stay hidden forever.

After all, we're Goonies...

And Goonies never say die.