1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:03,330 [narrator] Previously, on Blind Frog Ranch... 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:06,760 Duane Ollinger assembled a new team, 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:08,760 to help him breach the cavern system. 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:10,300 What the hell are you doing? 5 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:12,400 [narrator] And to find the treasure. 6 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:13,660 I'm bringing on an expert. 7 00:00:13,660 --> 00:00:16,200 James Keenan, he knows more about ancient, 8 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,000 underground cave systems than anybody out there. 9 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:20,860 [James] There's this cavern system. 10 00:00:20,860 --> 00:00:23,300 They've got to connect to what's under Blind Frog Ranch. 11 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:27,800 [narrator] But they discover trespassers illegally digging on their property. 12 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:29,560 [Duane] Where's your boss at, slick? 13 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,800 [Chad] Someone came in here and dug an illegal hole on our [bleep] damn property. 14 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,430 They're trying to find the [bleep] treasure we are. 15 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:37,900 Get this [bleep] outta here, boys. 16 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:39,700 [man] Call the law, right now. Call 'em. 17 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:42,860 [narrator] Then, the team learns startling new information 18 00:00:42,860 --> 00:00:43,960 about the ranch. 19 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:45,200 We did two analysis. 20 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,860 Duane, what you're staring at is the Doppler shift. 21 00:00:49,860 --> 00:00:54,860 I've only ever seen that in super massive black holes. 22 00:00:54,860 --> 00:00:58,100 [narrator] Which revealed what might be an underground chamber. 23 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:00,860 That's a series of caverns and tunnels. 24 00:01:00,860 --> 00:01:02,060 That's gotta be a cave. 25 00:01:02,060 --> 00:01:04,560 That circle under the energy zone looks man made. No doubt. 26 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:09,400 [narrator] And a landmark of an ancient Indigenous God known as Towats. 27 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,960 It's this natural formation that looks like an individual's head. 28 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:16,660 He's their creator that's guarding something. 29 00:01:16,660 --> 00:01:18,500 What the hell is he protecting? 30 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:20,630 Biggest treasure ever. 31 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,760 [narrator] Blind Frog Ranch stretches over 160 acres. 32 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:33,460 A remote and rugged area in northeastern Utah. 33 00:01:33,460 --> 00:01:37,360 It's a place shrouded in legends of ancient civilization. 34 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,400 -[Chad] Wow. Look at that. -This has to be hundreds of years back. 35 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,460 [narrator] And a mysterious phenomena. 36 00:01:42,460 --> 00:01:44,060 [man 1] There's some kind of dark force. 37 00:01:44,060 --> 00:01:45,900 [man 2] We got something really weird here. 38 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:47,560 I've never seen anything like that. 39 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:51,760 [narrator] Duane Ollinger has owned Blind Frog Ranch for over a decade. 40 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,300 Convinced that the land holds secrets. 41 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:55,700 What the [bleep]? 42 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:58,800 [narrator] And a massive cash of Aztec gold hidden underground. 43 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:00,500 We're sitting on something huge. 44 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:03,460 [narrator] Rumored to be worth more than $3 billion. 45 00:02:03,460 --> 00:02:07,100 Your ranch is part of most famous treasure hunt that's never been solved. 46 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:09,560 [narrator] But every time he's gotten close... 47 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:10,660 [Duane] [bleep] look at that. 48 00:02:10,660 --> 00:02:12,800 [narrator] ...the land fights back. 49 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,530 What would eat the head off of it? 50 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:19,560 -Whoo! -[man 3] I'm flagging red. 51 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,060 -Close your mask. -Let's get out. 52 00:02:21,060 --> 00:02:23,230 Go! [bleep] go! 53 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,060 [James] All right, gentlemen. I brought you out here for a reason. 54 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,800 [Duane] So what are you thinking? 55 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:47,860 We're standing on a spot that's a cash site for treasure and gold. 56 00:02:47,860 --> 00:02:51,160 We have our expert James Keenan helping us out here. 57 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,000 He has more knowledge than anybody I've seen, 58 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,900 and I know he can help me find this treasure. 59 00:02:57,900 --> 00:02:59,660 [James] I mean, look around. 60 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,160 There are no [bleep] banks here. 61 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,860 Where's your vault gonna be? 62 00:03:07,860 --> 00:03:11,860 Underground in the caverns that the quantum scans found. 63 00:03:13,060 --> 00:03:14,400 [narrator] A few days earlier, 64 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,860 after scanning the 160-acre ranch and analyzing the images, 65 00:03:18,860 --> 00:03:20,860 Stephen Leeha and his quantum team 66 00:03:20,860 --> 00:03:24,860 identified an area of unusual phenomena. 67 00:03:24,860 --> 00:03:28,860 I've only ever seen that in super massive black holes. 68 00:03:28,860 --> 00:03:31,460 [narrator] As well as a keyhole shaped cavern. 69 00:03:31,460 --> 00:03:36,500 That's a series of resonances that we've seen before inside known tunnels. 70 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:38,060 That's gotta be a cave. That's what it is. 71 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:39,660 And it looks like a cave to me. 72 00:03:39,660 --> 00:03:42,000 [narrator] Researcher James Keenan believes 73 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,700 the keyhole cavern could contain 74 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:45,660 the lost Aztec treasure. 75 00:03:45,660 --> 00:03:48,860 Somewhere below our feet where we stand 76 00:03:48,860 --> 00:03:52,500 could very well be a chamber filled with treasure. 77 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:55,360 What do you need to protect a vault? 78 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,860 A fortress, this big freaking geological castle. 79 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:05,460 You have that high point up there. 80 00:04:05,460 --> 00:04:09,560 You have this battlement station up here and behind us. 81 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,900 So if you think about anybody coming in from the north 82 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:16,000 from the south, from the west or from the east 83 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,660 you have this easy defensive positioning to protect the treasure. 84 00:04:20,660 --> 00:04:23,560 [narrator] According to legend, 500 years ago 85 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,960 when Spanish conquistadores invaded the Aztec Empire in Mexico, 86 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:32,260 the Aztec king sent his gold and riches to modern day Utah. 87 00:04:32,260 --> 00:04:35,160 Considered the ancient homeland of the Aztecs, 88 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,560 where it was hidden in deep underground caverns. 89 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:46,030 We're talking about eight tons of gold and treasure. 90 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,960 -He kind of knows some [bleep] . -Yeah, he does. Nice. 91 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:54,000 You're right about this being a really great fortress 92 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,260 that they can defend everything from here, 93 00:04:56,260 --> 00:05:01,100 'cause I've been all over this thing and it is absolutely safe. 94 00:05:01,100 --> 00:05:02,600 Where do we start? 95 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,200 This natural formation over here that looks like a Native American's head, 96 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,100 Towat. 97 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:12,230 According to local oral histories that I've researched, 98 00:05:13,260 --> 00:05:14,460 the Head of Towat 99 00:05:14,460 --> 00:05:17,730 potentially sits above a chamber filled with treasure. 100 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,600 And when you look at that quantum map, 101 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,860 you have this structure underground that looks like this key 102 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:28,330 that runs right under the Head of Towats. 103 00:05:30,460 --> 00:05:33,600 [narrator] Towat is the Native American God of protection, 104 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,060 mentioned in rare manuscripts and local lore, 105 00:05:37,060 --> 00:05:39,000 but never authenticated. 106 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,460 Through his research, 107 00:05:40,460 --> 00:05:44,660 James Keenan believes the landmark he's identified on the ranch 108 00:05:44,660 --> 00:05:47,760 is a representation of Towat. 109 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:51,700 The original entrance of the caverns has gotta be around this area. 110 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:53,760 -Somewhere where they overlap. -Makes sense. 111 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:55,560 James, this is what we've been needing. 112 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,860 So, we need to do a systematic grid search 113 00:05:57,860 --> 00:06:01,600 for anything that looks like an entrance that was filled in. 114 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,160 I got a better idea, why don't we just find that thing from above? 115 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,100 Get Chad to run Cessna and do a couple flyovers. 116 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:09,560 That's a hell of a lot faster. 117 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,660 This boy's a champion crop duster from way back. 118 00:06:12,660 --> 00:06:13,960 He's a crack of Jacks. 119 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:15,960 So he can spot anything we need to see. 120 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,000 This is exactly why I brought James onboard here. 121 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,560 He's the guy that can take the legends and the science 122 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,660 and find us a way to get that treasure. 123 00:06:23,660 --> 00:06:26,800 This is amazing, James. Let's get to it. Let's go. 124 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:28,330 -[James] All right. -Let's do it. 125 00:06:48,260 --> 00:06:50,360 [narrator] The search area near the Head of Towats 126 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,900 is approximately one square mile. 127 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:55,100 Chad will fly at low altitude, 128 00:06:55,100 --> 00:07:00,460 looking for any geographical irregularities that could indicate a potential entrance. 129 00:07:04,060 --> 00:07:05,830 Holy [bleep]. 130 00:07:23,260 --> 00:07:26,260 Roger that. Yeah, it's pretty windy down here. 131 00:07:26,260 --> 00:07:30,360 Can you go do a south to north over the Towats? 132 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,930 And then an east to west or west to east? 133 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,760 You said he was 10 minutes out. Where's he at? 134 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,000 You can hear him, he should be here any second. 135 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,630 [plane approaching] 136 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:50,860 [Duane] There ya go. 137 00:07:50,860 --> 00:07:53,260 -[James] Oh! -[all laughing] 138 00:07:53,260 --> 00:07:55,860 [James] Could've reached up and grabbed on. 139 00:07:55,860 --> 00:07:57,900 He'll never get that [bleep] outta his system. 140 00:07:57,900 --> 00:07:59,460 [Chad laughing] 141 00:07:59,460 --> 00:08:03,200 [bleep] damn. Man, this is [bleep]. It's great. 142 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,360 [James] Could've knocked your hat off your head. 143 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,230 There's the ranch right in front of us, right there. 144 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:12,330 So we're gonna get a hell of a shot at Towats, bird's-eye view. 145 00:08:15,060 --> 00:08:16,600 Oh, [bleep]. 146 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:17,860 Feel that? 147 00:08:17,860 --> 00:08:19,960 The turbulence is so hardcore right now. 148 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:21,930 It's hard even to keep it level. 149 00:08:24,460 --> 00:08:26,060 Jesus Christ. 150 00:08:26,060 --> 00:08:29,830 It's like there is something trying to push you back as we get close over Towats. 151 00:08:31,260 --> 00:08:32,600 That's wild, man. 152 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:33,960 It's almost like he doesn't want us to be here. 153 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,830 I keep flying over and it's pushing us away. 154 00:08:38,100 --> 00:08:41,260 Oh! [chuckling] 155 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:45,700 Holy [bleep] this is rough up here. 156 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:49,760 -[James] He's looking a little shaky up there. -Chad, knows what he's doing. 157 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,430 If I ride with anybody, it's damn sure gonna be him. 158 00:08:54,660 --> 00:08:56,460 We're doing a couple of east to west passes, 159 00:08:56,460 --> 00:08:58,260 but I don't see anything that looks like an entry. 160 00:09:00,260 --> 00:09:03,000 All right, so we turned around, go back over the ranch. 161 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,060 I'm gonna pass back over, then we'll bypass this bitch, 162 00:09:05,060 --> 00:09:07,160 and then we'll, uh, get some good shots from the side. 163 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:15,230 Whoa. 164 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,700 [narrator] Chad has discovered a potential site 165 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:25,160 at the southern end of the Head of Towats. 166 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,460 Just above the keyhole formation that the quantum team 167 00:09:28,460 --> 00:09:30,660 identified in their scan. 168 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,360 -[Chad] We're at five right now. -[James] That's amazing, Chad. 169 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,600 That's exactly what we were looking for. 170 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,160 Good work, Chadbo. 171 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,960 All right, I'm heading back. That's a good place to start looking. 172 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,260 All right, gentlemen, we have our map here. 173 00:10:02,260 --> 00:10:03,760 And this is Towat, 174 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,100 as you can see, right here. 175 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:08,160 Chad's possible cave is right here. 176 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,800 It's almost like the throat of the God. 177 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,600 Now watch this, when we line up 178 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,500 Stephen Leeha's quantum photo, check this out. 179 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:19,000 It looks like a keyhole cavern is just under Chad's cave. 180 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,460 Yeah. Jeez. 181 00:10:20,460 --> 00:10:23,260 So I know where the cave is, it's just right around the corner over here. 182 00:10:23,260 --> 00:10:26,360 So we can go down the creek and look for an entrance covered up. 183 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,000 We'll just look for something that's been backfilled. 184 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,760 [narrator] According to local folklore, 185 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,560 after Aztec warriors hid the king's treasure in Utah, 186 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:37,800 they filled in all the entrances to the cavern system 187 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,800 so that it would not be stolen. 188 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,260 The cave that Chad spotted from the air 189 00:10:42,260 --> 00:10:45,000 appears to match this description. 190 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,460 The team will head to the location 191 00:10:46,460 --> 00:10:50,100 with the possible filled in entrance to take a closer look. 192 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:51,330 -Let's do it. -All right. 193 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,630 -It's right up here. -[James] Here? All right. 194 00:11:01,660 --> 00:11:03,360 -[Chad] I think this is it. -[James] All right. 195 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,760 That does look like a recessed area. 196 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,400 It looks like it's just been piled back up. 197 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,260 Like, backfilled. 198 00:11:10,260 --> 00:11:16,160 Looks to be an entrance into a back area. 199 00:11:17,460 --> 00:11:19,460 So this is all soft dirt. 200 00:11:19,460 --> 00:11:20,800 It looks like it goes back in there. 201 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,800 [narrator] The cave mouth Chad spotted from the air 202 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,860 appears to be backfilled with hundreds of cubic feet of soil, 203 00:11:27,860 --> 00:11:30,860 which could take weeks to excavate by hand. 204 00:11:37,060 --> 00:11:38,360 That's just a... 205 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,360 -crap ton of work by hand. -Yeah. Right. 206 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,860 So here's what we'll do, we'll just blast this whole son of a buck out. 207 00:11:45,860 --> 00:11:48,700 We'll pop that, then we'll dig that ash out. 208 00:11:48,700 --> 00:11:50,200 And that, uh, powder out. 209 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,060 [James] Yeah, I agree. Let's go do that. 210 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:03,660 [Duane] Jack, here's where we're gonna pop the first one. 211 00:12:03,660 --> 00:12:06,300 Right down in that ravine. 212 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:08,900 We brought in, uh, these dynamite experts. 213 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:12,800 So they're gonna be loading up the filled in cave entrance that I saw with dynamite, 214 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,100 and they're gonna have a controlled demolition. 215 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:18,460 [Jack] It looks like a natural cave opening 216 00:12:18,460 --> 00:12:21,100 that just back backfilled with river mud. 217 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:23,460 I can make hand charges and shoot that out 218 00:12:23,460 --> 00:12:26,260 and see how much rock there is to get up into that cavern. 219 00:12:26,260 --> 00:12:27,800 Perfect. Let's do it, fellas. 220 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,430 See what we got here. 221 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,300 Sandstone right there. 222 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:35,000 -[Chad] Braced right up, huh? -[Jack] Yeah. 223 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,460 [narrator] To clear the area, 224 00:12:36,460 --> 00:12:40,500 the demolition team plans to remove the top layer of soil by hand, 225 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:44,000 and then place three small 10-pound explosives 226 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,560 that will detonate the remaining dirt outward. 227 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:49,360 We should be able to blow all this loose stuff right outta here... 228 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,260 -[Chad] Yeah. -...so we can see, you know, what's under there. 229 00:12:52,260 --> 00:12:55,860 The idea with the dynamite is, just to blow the loose dirt out of the cave. 230 00:12:55,860 --> 00:12:58,760 The ledge overhead is solid rock 231 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,560 so the easier path for it to go is outward. 232 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:03,260 [Chad] We're ready to rock and roll. 233 00:13:03,260 --> 00:13:05,660 -So that's all of it right there, huh? -[Jack] That's it. 234 00:13:05,660 --> 00:13:07,760 -[Chad] How much is that? -Ten pounds. 235 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,260 [Duane] If there's a hole behind all that sediment, we should blow it wide open. 236 00:13:11,260 --> 00:13:15,260 It sure is damn exciting. This could be the way into our cave system. 237 00:13:15,260 --> 00:13:17,560 [Jack] So we're gonna set three of these in, 238 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:19,260 but we wanna keep the integrity of all this, 239 00:13:19,260 --> 00:13:21,800 'cause ideally this is gonna be our entrance walking in. 240 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:22,960 [Chad] Okay. 241 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,500 -We're gonna put some mud over the cones. -Oh, okay. 242 00:13:28,500 --> 00:13:31,100 [Jack] And that helps direct that energy down. 243 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:33,430 Okay. We're good. We're golden. 244 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,500 [Chad] We're stringing this all the way up to the cabin 245 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:41,200 to get far away, so none of the debris gets to us. 246 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,460 Big rocks and other [bleep] blowing up. 247 00:13:43,460 --> 00:13:45,360 All right, everyone get to a safe place? 248 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:46,830 [Jack] You ready to do this? 249 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,030 All set, boys. 250 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:55,560 [air horn blasting] 251 00:13:55,560 --> 00:14:01,130 Three, two, one. Fire in the hole. 252 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:08,330 -[Jack] Boom! -[Chad] Whoo! Holy [bleep]! 253 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:13,160 [Chad] Three, two, one. Fire in the hole. 254 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:18,530 -[Jack] Boom! -[Chad] Whoo! Holy [bleep]! 255 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,030 Boom! Whoo-hoo-hoo. 256 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,100 -Do you hear that? -[Jack] Charge fired successfully. 257 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:26,560 -[man mimics hissing] -Yeah, what was that? 258 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:27,730 [man] That was weird. 259 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:30,160 [Charlie] Oh, hell, Lookit, this fell. 260 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,360 -[James] Wow. -[Chad] Look at that [bleep]. 261 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:34,460 [James] Man. 262 00:14:35,260 --> 00:14:37,100 [Jack] Yeah, it hit pretty hard. 263 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:38,800 [Chad] Yeah, you could feel it. 264 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,530 [Jack] Oh, man. So the top fell down. 265 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,130 [Charlie] So we gotta move all this [bleep] outta the way, then. 266 00:14:46,660 --> 00:14:49,800 All that rock fell down just from the shockwave. 267 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,600 That's a lot of trash. We've got a bit of a complication. 268 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:57,860 The force of the blast knocked off a big chunk of that ledge. 269 00:14:57,860 --> 00:15:00,700 [narrator] Instead of blowing the dirt outward 270 00:15:00,700 --> 00:15:03,700 the force of the explosion has travelled upward, 271 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:08,100 collapsing the overhanging rock above and covering the area in debris. 272 00:15:08,100 --> 00:15:11,100 You know, uh, I think I can get that trackhoe down here, 273 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:14,760 that'll help us understand if we got into the tunnel there. 274 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:17,560 [trackhoe beeping] 275 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:22,900 [Chad] We just blasted and we have tons of rock to move, 276 00:15:22,900 --> 00:15:24,760 so we're gonna bring down the trackhoe, 277 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,730 take a few scoops, get all that [bleep] outta there. 278 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:34,260 I've been spotting for him since I was a little kid. 279 00:15:34,260 --> 00:15:36,460 I was probably like six or seven years old. 280 00:15:36,460 --> 00:15:37,960 Whenever my dad was babysitting 281 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,360 he'd put me and my sister on a crane in this open filed, 282 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,160 we'd just play around with the crane 283 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,060 and that was how my dad babysat us. 284 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,900 If the caves can give us access in, it's gonna be huge. 285 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:53,300 So that's exciting as ever. 286 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:55,830 This is very likely one of the best shots we've had. 287 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:05,830 [rocks scraping] 288 00:16:11,660 --> 00:16:13,160 That's solid rock, son. 289 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:21,660 Well, I was hoping we'd hit dirt in all that rock. 290 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:29,560 That rock is just... 291 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,960 -[Jack] Too hard. -Too hard, yeah. 292 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:36,360 Well, I damn sure dug as far as I could. It's solid rock right there, fellas. 293 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:41,700 You could tell by the drag in those teeth it ain't there, it's not there. 294 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:43,100 I've been digging the soil out, 295 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:45,260 there's no hope behind it or below it. 296 00:16:45,260 --> 00:16:47,160 It's just more solid rock. 297 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,460 I really want to get us into the cave system, so, you know, 298 00:16:50,460 --> 00:16:53,160 this is a little bit of a bitter pill to swallow. 299 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,160 [Chad] Oh, man. 300 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:01,330 My guess is, this formation's just limestone all the way across here. 301 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:06,100 So this is sure not their original entrance. 302 00:17:06,100 --> 00:17:08,660 [Chad] That's just about as disappointing as you can get, right there. 303 00:17:14,860 --> 00:17:17,860 [narrator] After failing to find an entrance to the keyhole formation 304 00:17:17,860 --> 00:17:19,100 under the Head of Towats, 305 00:17:19,100 --> 00:17:23,060 Duane and the team regroup to discuss their next move. 306 00:17:23,060 --> 00:17:25,700 [James] Where we're standing is this circle. 307 00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:30,660 And the false cave is over there on the left side of the circle cavern. 308 00:17:30,660 --> 00:17:34,500 We just gotta get some more information to figure out our best shot. 309 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:36,760 So we can do that by foot, right now. 310 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,300 Run the magnetometers over. 311 00:17:39,300 --> 00:17:43,660 That can, hopefully, go at least 60, 70, 80 feet into the ground. 312 00:17:43,660 --> 00:17:48,400 And bring us back, uh, a pretty decent picture of what's below us. 313 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:50,800 [narrator] James has proposed conducting a grid search 314 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,260 of the area with a magnetometer, 315 00:17:53,260 --> 00:17:57,000 a device which measure the magnetic fields emitted from the earth. 316 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,430 And can detect geological features and voids underground. 317 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:04,260 I think that might help, too 318 00:18:04,260 --> 00:18:06,300 to maybe narrow it in, to give us the best 319 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:09,760 noninvasive underground picture of what we have below. 320 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,560 You give us a mark and we'll bring in the trackhoe. 321 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:13,930 -[Chad] Sounds good. -[James] All right. 322 00:18:22,260 --> 00:18:24,300 We're gonna grid it right here. 323 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:26,760 [narrator] To preform the magnetometer search, 324 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,260 James and Chad first plot out a grid... 325 00:18:29,260 --> 00:18:31,000 -Ten right there? -Ten right here. 326 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,260 ...to help them track their position above the keyhole cavern 327 00:18:34,260 --> 00:18:36,460 shown on the quantum scans. 328 00:18:36,460 --> 00:18:38,730 We're just powering it up right now. 329 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:45,600 [narrator] James will then scan the ground in half-foot increments, 330 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:50,660 looking for signs of a void or anything that might suggest a hidden cave opening. 331 00:18:50,660 --> 00:18:52,160 Come on, James, find that tunnel. 332 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:56,160 [machine beeping rhythmically] 333 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,160 [narrator] The grid search is a painstaking 334 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:00,360 and time-consuming process. 335 00:19:00,900 --> 00:19:03,200 Each step must be precise 336 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,760 so as not to miss any critical data on what lies below. 337 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,260 -How deep does it go? -One hundred and thirty-two feet. 338 00:19:11,260 --> 00:19:16,000 My magnetometer locates differences in the localized magnetic field. 339 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,100 Any reducing in the magnetic field means that that's a void. 340 00:19:20,100 --> 00:19:23,700 And that void could very well be a cave entrance. 341 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:26,400 So did you find some cool [bleep] down in Mexico? 342 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:31,100 Yeah. I, uh, located a metal object inside the pyramid at Tula 343 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:32,760 with this exact magnetometer. 344 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,030 -Really? -Unbelievable find. 345 00:19:37,660 --> 00:19:38,960 [alarm blaring] 346 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:42,260 -You found something? -Yes. 347 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:44,660 This is odd. 348 00:19:44,660 --> 00:19:49,160 -There is a void right here. Look at that. -[Chad] [bleep]. 349 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,200 [James] There has been a hole there before. 350 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:52,660 -Huh. -Right here. 351 00:19:58,460 --> 00:19:59,860 -Can you grab the paint? -Yeah, yeah. 352 00:19:59,860 --> 00:20:02,260 [James] So we gotta mark this spot. 353 00:20:02,260 --> 00:20:05,160 There is a straight drop right here with no soil. 354 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,360 This could be really significant. 355 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:08,860 [Chad] Yeah, we better tell everybody. 356 00:20:15,460 --> 00:20:17,660 [James] We've got some new data to share. 357 00:20:17,660 --> 00:20:19,100 -[Duane] Let's hear it. -[James] Okay. 358 00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:22,060 Chad and I were running the magnetometer, 359 00:20:22,060 --> 00:20:26,660 we did the grid pattern search and right over here in this quadrant, 360 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:28,660 we had an anomaly. 361 00:20:30,460 --> 00:20:34,000 And if you look right here, what it's showing is that, 362 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,260 there was a 38.23 meter hole of sorts. 363 00:20:38,260 --> 00:20:42,000 Very small, only within a square foot area. 364 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,700 It's really interesting, 365 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:46,300 when you look at it in three dimensions. 366 00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:50,660 -[Duane] [bleep] -Yeah. So we have the surface up top. 367 00:20:50,660 --> 00:20:54,630 And we have what appears to be a vertical shaft of sorts. 368 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,600 If you look at the quantum scans, 369 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,730 there is a cavern right below where the shaft is. 370 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,760 I don't think it's natural. I think this was man made. 371 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,660 -[Charlie] The shaft? -The shaft. 372 00:21:10,660 --> 00:21:13,860 If we have some type of underground cavern system, 373 00:21:13,860 --> 00:21:16,200 what are they gonna have to do, to be able to breathe? 374 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,360 -So you're saying, that could be a vent? -Exactly. 375 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:22,200 That may have been a man made vent for whatever's underground. 376 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,530 -[Chad] Just air flow. -To get air flow down underneath. 377 00:21:27,460 --> 00:21:30,600 [narrator] The top of the 130 foot vertical shaft 378 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,900 is 15 feet below the surface. 379 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:36,260 And sits directly over the keyhole formation below, 380 00:21:36,260 --> 00:21:40,100 where the team believes the treasure might have been cashed. 381 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:44,260 Experts believe the Aztecs constructed shafts like this one 382 00:21:44,260 --> 00:21:46,960 to ventilate underground chambers. 383 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,360 In 2003, archaeologists unearthed a similar 384 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:52,600 60 foot shaft at Tenochtitlan, 385 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,460 the Aztec empire capital, 386 00:21:54,460 --> 00:21:58,030 which is thought to have been used for subterranean ventilation. 387 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:03,760 [Duane] James said he found some kind of vent shaft 388 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,600 that leads some 100 feet down. 389 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,860 And he'll take a long time to get down to. 390 00:22:08,860 --> 00:22:10,760 Oh, I know that plateau. 391 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,460 -It's all hard packed dirt. -How do we get down there? 392 00:22:13,460 --> 00:22:15,900 [Duane] Once we blast that dirt off the top, 393 00:22:15,900 --> 00:22:18,800 we should be able to dig down there and find that... 394 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,360 [narrator] The 15 feet of hard-packed dirt 395 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:24,800 that covers the vent shaft will require the explosive 396 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,260 power of dynamite to crack it open. 397 00:22:27,260 --> 00:22:29,400 What might take days with a drill, 398 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,660 can hopefully be accomplished in hours instead. 399 00:22:32,660 --> 00:22:35,300 If it's a small vent with blasting effect, 400 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:37,360 that vent would close it up. 401 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:39,460 Yeah. It can be a surface blast. 402 00:22:39,460 --> 00:22:41,660 Just to crack that sweet candy 403 00:22:41,660 --> 00:22:43,660 with... with tiger teeth on it. 404 00:22:43,660 --> 00:22:46,800 -It should be okay. -We have to get in there. No matter what. 405 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,160 We need to get in there. 406 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,100 Let's get some dynamite and blow it. 407 00:22:50,100 --> 00:22:51,430 -Let's go. -[Duane] All right. 408 00:22:57,660 --> 00:22:59,300 [Chad] Right down here. 409 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:01,160 [James] Yeah, this is it. This is the hole. 410 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,030 [Chad] This X is where James found the spot. 411 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,660 So right here, when we hit it with the magnetometer, 412 00:23:08,660 --> 00:23:10,860 it seems like it was some type of shaft, 413 00:23:10,860 --> 00:23:14,100 -that has just been covered up over time. -[Duane] Interesting. 414 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:17,360 [narrator] Duane and his team have called in dynamite experts, 415 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:20,800 to help them open up a suspected Aztec vent shaft, 416 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,660 leading down to a mysterious keyhole shaped cavern. 417 00:23:24,660 --> 00:23:27,700 They'll need to remove around 15 feet of dirt, 418 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:30,760 to reach the top of the 130 foot vent shaft. 419 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:35,460 So my plan is to do a 10 foot diameter circle pattern 420 00:23:35,460 --> 00:23:37,460 with X in the middle, marking the spot. 421 00:23:37,460 --> 00:23:39,630 -[Duane] Copy that. Let's do it. -[all] Let's do it. 422 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,930 [man] Let's paint some rocks to make the circle. 423 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,660 We're ready for the drill. 424 00:23:54,660 --> 00:23:58,160 [narrator] The team will drill 16 holes around the shaft, 425 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,060 and place dynamite charges. 426 00:24:00,060 --> 00:24:01,660 [man] Let's get that drill down here. 427 00:24:01,660 --> 00:24:03,600 [narrator] If all goes according to plan, 428 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,830 the detonation will expose the top of the vent. 429 00:24:10,860 --> 00:24:12,060 [air hissing sound] 430 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:14,460 [man] Hey. 431 00:24:22,660 --> 00:24:26,160 I need you to replace the gasket. One's just blowing out real bad. 432 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:34,230 Light that bitch up. 433 00:24:51,900 --> 00:24:53,060 [man] Yeah, that's better. 434 00:24:55,100 --> 00:24:56,230 Nice move, boys. 435 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,130 So we've got 16 holes there, marked, ready to drill. 436 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:09,260 'Kay. Good to go. 437 00:25:09,260 --> 00:25:10,260 [man 1] That was quick. 438 00:25:31,460 --> 00:25:34,530 -Just the last hole right there. -Just one more. 439 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,060 -[Chad] Look at that. -It's muddy. 440 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,230 Let's have a look. Oh, man. 441 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,460 What do you think? 442 00:25:44,460 --> 00:25:46,760 -Yeah, the problem is that it fell-- -Caved in. 443 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:47,730 It filled in. 444 00:25:48,460 --> 00:25:50,860 -Get that water. -Oh, man. 445 00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:53,360 [Chad] It's filling up the water. 446 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:55,860 So the strange part is, 447 00:25:55,860 --> 00:25:57,360 as we drilled all these holes, 448 00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:59,160 and it was dry powder coming out. 449 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,430 And that last hole, 450 00:26:00,430 --> 00:26:03,030 that's where we got the water, and it just flooded all of 'em. 451 00:26:03,660 --> 00:26:05,260 I mean, this is a big problem. 452 00:26:05,260 --> 00:26:06,960 Like, if these holes keep filling up water, 453 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,800 they'll be hard to get the dynamite down at the bottom, 454 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,160 so we can get a good blast. 455 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,500 [man] We're gonna get these holes loaded, 456 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:17,000 precise as we can. 457 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,200 This was dry powder when we was coming up. 458 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,860 That was dry dirt. 459 00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:22,730 [man] This hole's... I think. 460 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,400 Damn. 461 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,100 [narrator] In order to get explosives into the drilling holes 462 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:30,960 before they fill with water and collapse, 463 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,360 the team will attempt to re-drill 464 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:35,700 and immediately insert the explosives 465 00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:37,460 as the drill is removed. 466 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:42,160 We thought we were already gonna blow this, probably, two hours ago. 467 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,000 But, uh, we're still waiting to plug the dynamite 468 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,160 and so it's taking forever. 469 00:26:47,860 --> 00:26:49,160 [man] Oh, that's on it. 470 00:26:54,660 --> 00:26:56,330 Those cuttings were dry coming out. 471 00:26:57,260 --> 00:26:58,230 I don't get it. 472 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,530 I'm gonna mount the pole. You get in there fast. 473 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:07,230 Come on, baby. 474 00:27:07,230 --> 00:27:09,660 -Come on. That's it. That's it. -You got it. That's it. 475 00:27:09,660 --> 00:27:11,530 -Beautiful. -Yeah. 476 00:27:14,460 --> 00:27:16,100 All right, you guys. 477 00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:17,300 We're loaded and ready to go. 478 00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:20,260 Let's get these vehicles out of here. I gotta string a line out. 479 00:27:20,260 --> 00:27:21,730 [man over radio] Copy that... 480 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:34,430 'Kay. Shooter is live. 481 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:37,260 Stand by for countdown right now. 482 00:27:37,260 --> 00:27:40,000 Three, two, one. 483 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,230 Fire in the hole. 484 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:44,530 [bleep] 485 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,100 -The line didn't shoot though, did it? -It might have. 486 00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:52,360 It could have blew a part of your connection. I don't... 487 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:53,530 That's the only thing. 488 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,130 [Chad] That was weird. 489 00:27:56,130 --> 00:27:58,460 That we're shot the line, and it didn't connect. 490 00:27:58,460 --> 00:28:00,460 This is exactly the [bleep] I was talking about. 491 00:28:00,460 --> 00:28:03,060 We have live dynamite out there that's not exploding. 492 00:28:03,460 --> 00:28:04,800 [bleep] 493 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,660 I ain't checking that fuse, man. 494 00:28:06,660 --> 00:28:08,260 Babies in there good and tight. 495 00:28:08,260 --> 00:28:09,760 I cut both. Checked both. 496 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,560 All right. Good, good, good. 497 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,460 'Kay. Stand by for countdown. Here we go. 498 00:28:15,460 --> 00:28:19,260 Three, two, one, fire in the hole. 499 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,030 [all exclaims and laughs] 500 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,130 [Duane] [bleep] Finally. 501 00:28:28,860 --> 00:28:31,560 Three, two, one, fire in the hole. 502 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:36,030 [all exclaims and laughs] 503 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,700 We started blasting right under the head of Towats. 504 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:42,200 This is exactly where James' magnetometer 505 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,500 found the shaft, the underground caverns 506 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:46,460 that were seeing on the quantum map. 507 00:28:46,460 --> 00:28:48,460 [James] We have what appears to be 508 00:28:48,460 --> 00:28:50,730 a vertical shaft of sorts. 509 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,930 -That was cool, -Good work, everybody. 510 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,100 [Chad] We got some depth in there, huh? 511 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:04,760 [James] Well, he blew the [bleep] out of it. 512 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,700 [Charlie] So we got fracture rocks right here. 513 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:08,960 But we just need to clean this out. 514 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,200 Straighten down in there. 515 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,100 So Jack was not in my crew. 516 00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:13,260 He did a good blast. 517 00:29:13,260 --> 00:29:15,760 But now we got a lot of loose material there. 518 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,230 We gotta clear the hole out. 519 00:29:46,660 --> 00:29:47,930 Oh, [bleep]. 520 00:29:55,260 --> 00:29:56,730 [bleep] 521 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,160 [James] Wow. 522 00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:01,160 -Oh, man. -[Chad] Damn. 523 00:30:01,660 --> 00:30:02,860 That's a lot of water. 524 00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:06,260 You can see that we hit something when we're drilling. 525 00:30:06,260 --> 00:30:07,730 And this whole area is flooded. 526 00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:12,060 How the hell did this happen? 527 00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:14,400 [Duane] I don't know. There's something going on. 528 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,900 [narrator] After blasting and excavating to reach the vent shaft, 529 00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:21,700 the team finds the area is flooding with water. 530 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:24,730 It seems to be seeping up from underground. 531 00:30:30,260 --> 00:30:33,000 [Charlie] Hey, guys. Come here. Let's check this out. 532 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,630 The holes the trespassers dug are all full of water down. 533 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,200 Water everywhere. 534 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,060 [Chad] This whole thing is super unstable. 535 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,830 [Charlie] That's ready to collapse, right there. 536 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,630 -[indistinct] -[Chad] Yeah. 537 00:30:48,260 --> 00:30:49,500 [Charlie] Whatever we hit, 538 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:51,560 seems to be affecting the entire ranch. 539 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,000 'Cause there's just... There's more water that I've ever seen. 540 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,700 Those trespasser holes filled up with water 541 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:00,260 and it was... it was really, way too fast. 542 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,200 [James] That's a [bleep] of water. 543 00:31:08,460 --> 00:31:12,760 [narrator] The team discovers water levels rising in areas throughout the ranch. 544 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,360 Including the holes dug by trespassers. 545 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:16,630 And even the pond, 546 00:31:16,630 --> 00:31:20,030 where Duane has attempted to breach the caverns in the past. 547 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:25,060 With water flooding the ranch, 548 00:31:25,060 --> 00:31:27,900 Duane and his team need to reassess their plan 549 00:31:27,900 --> 00:31:30,200 to excavate the vent shaft area. 550 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,260 Oh, yeah. There's no doubt something's going on here. 551 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:42,100 Hell, hell. 552 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:45,560 I've never seen that much water coming through on the system like this. 553 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,100 Yeah, even the guy who was drilling 554 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:50,100 said he'd never seen anything like this before. 555 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:54,660 You know, maybe the snow melt, raised the water table. 556 00:31:54,660 --> 00:31:57,500 That's way too fast for snow melt. 557 00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:00,430 Did we crack open a underground river or something? 558 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,660 More like an underground tsunami. 559 00:32:05,860 --> 00:32:10,060 You know, it's a lot like, what we see in Mesoamerica. 560 00:32:10,060 --> 00:32:12,100 It's not out of the realm of possibility 561 00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:16,730 the Aztecs created some type of water traps to secure the treasure. 562 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,200 Like a booby trap, 563 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,500 that they set underground for this? 564 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:26,360 The Aztecs were masters of creating 565 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,360 aqueducts and passage ways at Tenochtitlan. 566 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,230 This is something they were fully capable of doing. 567 00:32:34,460 --> 00:32:37,160 [narrator] The Aztecs were master water engineers. 568 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,800 Able to create ingenious aqueducts and flood control barriers. 569 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,200 They even built their capital city, Tenochtitlan, 570 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,560 in the middle of a massive 2,000 square mile lake. 571 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,660 Could they have used their mastery of water 572 00:32:51,660 --> 00:32:53,460 to create an aquatic trap, 573 00:32:53,460 --> 00:32:57,330 at Blind Frog Ranch to protect their treasure? 574 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,100 Well, whatever it is, 575 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:03,660 it's pouring water into every hole we have out here. 576 00:33:03,660 --> 00:33:06,760 We have no dry access anywhere inside. 577 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,760 But here's the deal. This is from the quantum map right here. 578 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,860 Here's where we drilled, right there. 579 00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:13,160 And it flooded. 580 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,600 But it also flooded at the pond at the same time. 581 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,030 What if there's a direct connection from the blast site to the pond? 582 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,160 Maybe we can get to the keyhole cavern from the pond. 583 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,360 [narrator] Three years ago, 584 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,360 the crew tunneled under the pond on Blind Frog Ranch 585 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,860 and discovered an underwater cavern. 586 00:33:32,860 --> 00:33:35,560 And a mysterious timber box. 587 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,360 Chad, now wonders if the pond 588 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,160 maybe directly connected to the cavern beneath the blast site. 589 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,060 And that diving into the pond, 590 00:33:43,060 --> 00:33:46,260 might be an alternate way into the keyhole. 591 00:33:46,260 --> 00:33:49,900 But previous dives into the pond have proven dangerous. 592 00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:52,530 Making Chad's proposal a risky one. 593 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,760 You know how it is, son. That's pretty damn dangerous down there. 594 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,100 Let's think about that before you go back down in that deal. 595 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:05,860 More than, I'm like, concerned to have going back down in there again. 596 00:34:05,860 --> 00:34:08,160 We don't know what the currents are right now. 597 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,800 We don't know what damage has been done. 598 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,160 Yeah, I mean, I know it's dangerous. 599 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,700 But we're shut down over there for now. 600 00:34:14,700 --> 00:34:17,200 I think we have to go back in there, 'cause that's our number one lead. 601 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:18,660 [Duane] The pond's dangerous. 602 00:34:18,660 --> 00:34:21,660 You got waters that are coming in even worse. 603 00:34:21,660 --> 00:34:25,060 And I sure don't want to see Chad get hurt. 604 00:34:25,060 --> 00:34:27,700 But, you know, Chad will do what he does. 605 00:34:27,700 --> 00:34:30,000 Um, like I taught my son, 606 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,330 you're supposed to do what you believe is right. 607 00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:36,430 I've always said, if you start, you finish. 608 00:34:36,860 --> 00:34:38,860 Who am I to stop, 609 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,230 when I made my child 610 00:34:41,860 --> 00:34:44,160 not get the capability of stopping? 611 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:45,630 All right, son. 612 00:34:46,660 --> 00:34:48,660 We'll put tether on you. You go check it out. 613 00:34:48,660 --> 00:34:51,130 -We gotta get in that [bleep]. -All right. 614 00:34:56,260 --> 00:34:58,030 What was wild is, when they did the side buzz, we had that hiss. 615 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:02,230 [exclaims] 616 00:35:02,230 --> 00:35:03,460 [hissing noise] 617 00:35:03,460 --> 00:35:05,660 Do you hear that like, [imitates hissing]? 618 00:35:05,660 --> 00:35:07,360 -Yeah, what was that? -That was weird. I don't know... 619 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,660 What's that... What's the... What's hissing? 620 00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:12,160 It wasn't the fuse. 621 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,660 And it was too loud to be like, the gas leak. 622 00:35:14,660 --> 00:35:16,160 I had no idea what it was. 623 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,030 It was almost like, pressure coming out. 624 00:35:18,030 --> 00:35:20,030 Would that make sense? The pressure release, 625 00:35:20,030 --> 00:35:21,230 if there is a cavern there? 626 00:35:21,230 --> 00:35:24,000 An expansion like explosion would make sense. 627 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,760 And there's a pressurized something in another void. 628 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,160 And it hiss out. 629 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,330 Yeah. 'Cause it did seem like pressure from somewhere coming out. 630 00:35:31,330 --> 00:35:33,030 I don't know what's going on here. 631 00:35:33,030 --> 00:35:35,430 But we'll have to check that whole deal out. 632 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,230 [James] The hell's up with the color of it? 633 00:35:50,460 --> 00:35:52,730 [Duane] We gonna find out once we get in there, I guess. But... 634 00:35:52,730 --> 00:35:54,100 Yeah. 635 00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:57,260 [Charlie] So the massive flow of water coming through here now, 636 00:35:57,260 --> 00:36:00,760 the currents is what concerns me. 637 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,760 If Chad goes down in there, 638 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,560 are we gonna be able to get him back out? 639 00:36:06,830 --> 00:36:08,360 [Duane] So here's what we need to do, son. 640 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,160 We'll just get over that hole and you drop straight down. 641 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,460 With the current down there, it could get real nasty. 642 00:36:13,460 --> 00:36:15,060 [James] Yeah, first time I won't push you too hard. 643 00:36:15,060 --> 00:36:18,130 We'll just check it out. Check the hole. See what's in there. 644 00:36:18,130 --> 00:36:21,130 Just drop down, come right back out. 645 00:36:21,130 --> 00:36:23,600 [narrator] To understand why the water level has risen, 646 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,360 and whether there is a connection to the water flooding the energy zone, 647 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,760 Chad and team are preparing for an exploratory dive 648 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,600 into the pond cavern. 649 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,600 All right. So we'll keep tension on it. 650 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,460 Not too much, so we could still float around. 651 00:36:36,460 --> 00:36:38,560 But you never [bleep] drop the rope. 652 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,500 -Two pulls, call everyone and pull me out. -[James] Okay. 653 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:43,160 [Chad] I'll have Joe with me down there. 654 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,360 But you're my lifeline. 655 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,060 [James] Oh, wa-- I don't know if that was a tug or not. Hold on. 656 00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:08,660 Duane, you see anything? 657 00:37:08,660 --> 00:37:11,160 [Duane] He's just dropping straight down the hole right now. 658 00:37:12,130 --> 00:37:13,100 [Charlie] Okay. 659 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,060 [indistinct talking under water] 660 00:37:41,330 --> 00:37:43,600 [Chad] Something just [bleep] touched my leg. 661 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,160 There's something swimming around in there. 662 00:37:52,460 --> 00:37:53,930 [James] Well, [bleep]. 663 00:37:56,330 --> 00:37:57,830 [Charlie] Don't give him... Don't give him much slack. 664 00:37:57,830 --> 00:38:00,800 I won't. I'll keep the tension pretty tight. 665 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,130 -Duane, is he okay? -[Duane] I don't know. 666 00:38:11,130 --> 00:38:13,530 [Charlie] He might be in the current. [bleep] 667 00:38:21,030 --> 00:38:23,660 [Ryan] I [bleep] lost him. 668 00:38:23,660 --> 00:38:26,430 -[James] Where's his bubbles? -[Ryan] I can't see anything in here. 669 00:38:27,030 --> 00:38:28,730 Pull him up. Pull him up. 670 00:38:28,730 --> 00:38:30,760 -I'm pulling. -[Duane] Double tug. 671 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,300 Double tug, James. 672 00:38:33,930 --> 00:38:34,930 Double tug. 673 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,400 Duane, I'm double tugging and I have him. 674 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,630 But he's locked up on something. 675 00:38:45,860 --> 00:38:47,300 Help me, Charles. Pull. 676 00:38:48,930 --> 00:38:50,300 [Duane] [bleep] 677 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,500 [Charlie] Right behind you. Right behind you. Right behind you. 678 00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:56,030 Bubbles coming up. 679 00:38:58,360 --> 00:38:59,930 -[James] There you go. -Are you all right? 680 00:39:01,460 --> 00:39:02,900 [Chad] [bleep] tugging me in. 681 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:04,400 [Chad exclaims] 682 00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,060 So you're down there. Find the hole. 683 00:39:07,060 --> 00:39:09,730 And it has like, tons of trash and [bleep] in there. 684 00:39:10,460 --> 00:39:11,730 It has a huge current in it. 685 00:39:11,730 --> 00:39:13,530 It starts sucking me, kind of down there. 686 00:39:16,830 --> 00:39:20,060 -[Duane] That's the trespasser's tent? -[Charlie] Yep. 687 00:39:20,060 --> 00:39:22,960 [James] Chad comes out with a sopping wet tent. 688 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:24,400 How did it get down there? 689 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,260 Maybe one of the trespassers dropped it in their hole. 690 00:39:27,260 --> 00:39:29,830 And then it went through the underground system and came up. 691 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,760 They're sure as heck not camping underwater. 692 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,200 Chad, get your ass out of the water. That's enough of this. 693 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,660 [bleep] 694 00:39:38,660 --> 00:39:41,860 It sucked me in. And then I felt y'all pulling. 695 00:39:41,860 --> 00:39:44,660 I think if we go back down, we can [bleep] dig a little bit out of it. 696 00:39:44,660 --> 00:39:46,230 [Duane] I think you're full of [bleep]. Get out. 697 00:39:47,260 --> 00:39:49,160 I know Chad well. He can handle himself. 698 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,400 But, he's my son. I don't want him 699 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,500 or anybody else to get hurt. 700 00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:56,960 [narrator] The danger of being swept away by the strong current 701 00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,630 is too great for Chad to risk further exploration. 702 00:40:01,230 --> 00:40:02,730 [Chad] It's gnarly now. 703 00:40:02,730 --> 00:40:04,360 The risk is gone way up. 704 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,500 I'm scared that if I got sucked out in there, I couldn't get back out. 705 00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:10,130 That current's coming from the blast site. 706 00:40:10,130 --> 00:40:12,960 [narrator] However, Chad's made an important discovery. 707 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,460 The underwater current is flowing away from the keyhole. 708 00:40:16,460 --> 00:40:18,500 And toward the pond. 709 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:19,930 Which seems to confirm 710 00:40:19,930 --> 00:40:22,560 that there is a connection between the two sites. 711 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,600 A series of caverns extending under the ranch, 712 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,660 all the way past the pond. 713 00:40:27,660 --> 00:40:29,560 [James] The current's underground. 714 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,860 Means there's potentially miles of caverns underneath Blind Frog Ranch, 715 00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:34,460 that we've yet to explore. 716 00:40:34,460 --> 00:40:37,000 So, is the underground system connected? 717 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,730 I've been telling people for years, 718 00:40:38,730 --> 00:40:40,360 that the answer is, yes. 719 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,860 And that may just be another freakin' clue 720 00:40:43,860 --> 00:40:45,400 to what's going on underground. 721 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,760 That means this whole cave system's flooded. 722 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:52,230 So, we got to find new ways to get in there somewhere. 723 00:40:52,230 --> 00:40:53,960 You start, you finish. 724 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,060 We don't have a choice about quitting. 725 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,660 We've started this whole deal. 726 00:40:58,660 --> 00:41:00,400 And we're sure as hell going to finish it. 727 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,860 [narrator] Next on the Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch... 728 00:41:07,860 --> 00:41:11,400 If we excavate here, we might find the cave entrance. 729 00:41:12,130 --> 00:41:13,760 [man exclaims] That was a close one. 730 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:14,830 Hold on, boy. 731 00:41:15,460 --> 00:41:16,730 [man] Come on. 732 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:18,230 [man exclaims] 733 00:41:18,230 --> 00:41:19,400 [Chad] Hey, guys, you ready to drill? 734 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:20,760 [man] Drill, baby, drill. 735 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,200 Go [bleep] cave now. 736 00:41:22,830 --> 00:41:23,930 [bleep] 737 00:41:23,930 --> 00:41:25,160 Y'all have to come look at this. 738 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:26,760 Look at this. Whoo-hoo. 739 00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:28,760 Finally get to hold gold in my hands.