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Previously on
Deadman's Curse...

[Adam] You like that?

[Kru] That's a frickin'
glacier, man!

[Narrator]
The legend of Slumach--

a tale of gold fever
and murder...

[Kru] This is
a miner's satchel.

Something happened to this guy!

Yeah.

[Narrator] ...led the team
to a family connection.

[Taylor] She was Katzie,
just like Slumach.

[Narrator] And on the trail
of a long-lost prospector...

Damn!

[Adam] We gotta get
down in that.

Volcanic Brown
would have checked this out.

[Narrator] ...one mystery
may have been solved...

-A massive amount of arsenic.
-Holy...

Don't drink the water.

It makes sense

how so many miners
came out here and died.

[Narrator]
...but more lie ahead.

We might have found gold,
you guys.

Seriously.

Look at it!

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Boom, this is going to be
in your ferrous range,

so that means it's iron.

"Eh!" That's not gold. "Eh!"

[Narrator]
At their Seabird Island base...

When you come down
to the gold section...

[beeping]

Boom, you get
that high-pitched frequency.

That's the sound
you're looking for.

[Taylor] I know
my ring is gold, at least.

[laughs]

[Narrator]
... Kru leads the team

on a crash course
in prospecting.

[Kru] There you go.

So this would be the area

and then I would use
the pinpointer

to pinpoint in on it--

but you're not going
to get a hit

until you're within
almost an inch to two inches.

Okay.

So that means
you're right on it.

Underwater metal detection.

This is brand-new tech.

Hit that copper.

And then go back to the gold.

-[high-pitched whirring]
-Oh.

[Kru] That's that hit
you're looking for.

Sounds like rock and roll, huh?

[Adam] I can't hear a thing
you guys are saying.

[Kru] That's even better.
-[laughing]

[Narrator] New tech
and modern methods

have a prospector,

adventurer

and a truth seeker

scouring British Columbia's
Pitt Lake region

in search
of a legendary gold mine

said to be worth billions.

Taylor Starr
is unpacking the legend

in her own way.

It's hard to tell

what is fact and what is fiction
in the Slumach story.

[Narrator] Slumach,

a 19th-century Indigenous man,

was said to have been the first
to have found the gold.

Slumach is also
Taylor's ancestor.

"At the Pitt River on Monday,

an old Indian named Slumach

picked up a gun
and shot Louis Bee,

a half-breed,

through the chest."

[Taylor] We know Slumach
was a real person.

We know in 1891 he was hanged
for shooting another man.

[Narrator]
The legend states

Slumach was a brash young man,

showing up

in the City of New Westminster
every year,

loaded with gold
and flaunting his wealth.

When he killed
to protect his mine,

he was hanged,

and, from the gallows,

cursed anyone seeking his gold.

Now the team continues

on Slumach's
100-year-old trail,

following those
that followed him.

Today, Adam presents
a new and intriguing lead

to the team.

[Adam]
...any elevation right away.

Two railway workers, in 1968,

they were prospecting
all along the creek,

going, making their way up,

and they saw a fire.

This little campsite,

they found some old guy,

and his legs were all swollen,

he couldn't move,
he had no food--

and that was Bernard Rover.

[Narrator] In 1962,

Rover laid his claim
near Thomas Lake,

high in the mountains
northeast of Pitt Lake.

He was alone at his cabin
when he had a massive stroke.

Disoriented and dazed,

Rover spent five days
crawling through the bush,

seeking help...

before he collapsed.

So those two prospectors
stayed with him,

the search and rescue plane
came and rescued him,

took him to the hospital.

What's crazy

is he spent months at a time
prospecting at Thomas Lake.

[Narrator] Not only had Rover
spent months in the wild,

it's clear
he dug in for the long haul.

There's a very good clue
in there.

This guy built a cabin.
This is serious.

Bernard Rover never mentioned
gold to his rescuers,

but he did mention
that he found copper.

But would he even mention it
if he found gold?

-Exactly.
-That's right.

And the last thing

he's gonna tell two people
that rescued him

that are prospectors

that he found gold.

-That's right!
-Obviously.

It's nothing but pyrite
up there.

Exactly,
so Bernard Rover was smart.

I think he had plans
on going back,

but he never did.

He died three years later,

so if he did find something,

it's still there.

[Narrator]
It's a lead so tantalizing

that just last year,

Adam made a solo trip
looking for Rover's cabin--

in the dead of winter.

Yeah, and what I found

are actually remnants
of his cabin,

but with everything buried
under three feet of snow...

Well, then there you go.

...I didn't have the tools
or the people necessary

to actually investigate it.

[Narrator] A return
to Bernard Rover's cabin

has proven elusive--

until now.

As crazy as it sounds,

if, you know,

an old prospector was up there,

and he did find gold,

maybe he hid it up there,
you know,

maybe he buried it up there.

So what we see on the map
labelled Thomas Lake,

that upper part
is where we gotta check.

[Narrator] For Taylor,

the map
has sparked a connection.

So, this is
the Katzie ethnographic notes.

This book basically
came out in the 1950s.

I found this map here.

That's an old map.

[Narrator] The book is a window

into the stories

and traditional lands
of the Katzie First Nation.

So we can use this

to cross-reference modern names
with the traditional names.

[Taylor] So, as I was
looking through these

and just going through
all the numbers,

one stuck out to me...

-...Slumach.
-Oh, wow.

And that is number 32,
Gurney Creek.

[Adam] "A nickname given

because of the Katzie man
of the same name--

Slumach."

So Gurney Creek
is the same creek,

and Bernard Rover,

his route of travel
was actually Gurney Creek.

There's no better area
in all of the legend

that has two direct clues
leading to a lost gold mine.

We have a prospector

that was spending 30 days
at a time at Thomas Lake.

Now we have the creek

leading from Thomas Lake
to Pitt Lake

called Slumach Creek.

I mean, what more evidence
do you need?

[Narrator]
The team's expedition

will take them through

the traditional territory
of Katzie First Nation--

the home of Slumach--

and Taylor hopes

traditional knowledge will help
guide their path once again.

[Taylor] So I reached out

to a couple
distant relatives of mine,

who I recently found out

have a strong connection
to the Slumach story.

I'm hoping they know
a few things

that the newspapers
and books don't.

-Hello, hello.
-Hi.

Good to see you, cousin.

Cousin.

I'm Adam.

-Adam, nice to meet you. Cyril.
-Nice to meet you.

-I'm Rain.
-Nice to finally meet you.

Nice to meet you, too.

Rain, you're the reason
for all this!

Yeah, I did my best.

-I'm Kru.
-Kru, nice to meet you.

Well my grandma is from
the Adams family.

It's a long cousin far off
with the Pierre family.

Yeah.

Peter Pierre is my grandfather.

[Narrator] Peter Pierre's
stories about Slumach,

as told
to his daughter, Amanda...

[Narrator]
...have already sent the team

into the heart
of the Upper Pitt.

So how long has this
been Katzie territory?

For generations
and generations,

thousands of years,

and then when contact came,

they literally
shoved our people out--

"You guys go down there
and live in the swamp."

[Kru] I couldn't imagine
going from this beautiful land

and being forced into a bog.

Yeah.

I've done a lot of research

and I want to know
who Slumach actually was.

If my grandfather

stuck so close to him
to the final last moment,

he had to be quite the person

to be recognized by Grandfather
as a good human being.

They didn't even give him
the chance to defend himself.

If there was a lawyer today,

they would state,

"You did wrong
to this human being."

Sadly, this kind of injustice
is very common in our history.

You and I both know

the media portray us as people
in a negative way,

like, you know,

the name
was dragged through the mud.

Right.

[Narrator]
Reclaiming Slumach's truth

is close to Rain
and Cyril's hearts.

I've heard that you've taken on
Slumach's name.

Yeah, I was
gifted with the name

when I turned 28 years old.

I am honoured
with the ability to carry it.

Yeah, I just got it
tattooed on my arm.

Slumach.

[Narrator] "Slumach" is
the traditional word for "rain".

He was done wrong

and it's time to see that name
in the right light.

[Kru] What I appreciated most

was a different viewpoint
of Slumach,

so to hear that
from Cyril's mouth,

and then to meet Rain,

and to see Rain
going on his journey--

oh, it was huge.

[Kru]
Well, after hearing everything

that you guys have said
abut Slumach,

what about the curse?

I do not like
to talk about the curse.

I'll never say it's not real.

Don't ever say it's not here.

This is Katzie territory,

and if you misbehave in here,

you're going
to have consequences.

It's very real.

We ask the Creator,

the Creator of the universe,

for strength and power
and safety

for all of my new friends
that I have here today.

[Cyril singing "Amazing Grace"]

[Taylor] We're going!

[Narrator] A new day
and a new mission--

to find evidence
of hidden gold--

takes the team across Pitt Lake,

and 3,400 feet up

to the wild sub-alpine.

It's a tough trek.

It's full of bush.

It's massive amounts of debris

that have come down that valley
over the years.

[Narrator]
But one team member is missing.

My health comes
first and foremost.

If I can't carry the gold out,
what's the point of finding it?

[groans]

[groaning loudly]

[Narrator]
After a tough glacier crossing

saw an old injury flare up...

[groans]

[Kru] I'm starting
to feel that fall now.

[Narrator]
...Kru is on mandated rest.

With a busted-ass back,
there ain't much you can do,

so I gotta get better first.

Hopefully,
things pan out for them.

[Adam] This was
the jumping-off point

for a lot of prospectors
back in the day.

We're going to go up
Gurney Creek,

get as far as we can.

[Taylor] All right.
Let's do this, shall we?

[Narrator]
With skilled teammates

by his side,

Adam is confident

they can handle
what lies ahead...

...but out here in the wild,

it appears the team aren't
the only ones on the hunt.

[Taylor] Oh.

[Adam] Cougar.

That has to be a wolf.

If it was a cougar,

all the claws
would be retract in,

and it would just be, like,
a pretty little kitty print,

but since these claws are out,

it's definitely like a dog.

This ain't no little puppy.

We got wolf tracks,

we could have cougar out here,
we could have bear out here.

There's more tracks
right down here.

It's as big as my hand.

[Adam] That's massive.

That's the biggest wolf track
I've ever seen.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Don] Bit of a game trail here.

[Taylor]
Yeah, I noticed that, too.

Maybe it's Mr. Wolf.

[Narrator]
After a night in the wild,

a new day begins,

in search of evidence

left behind
by prospector Bernard Rover.

[Adam] We'll stay low
and then follow that ridge.

The cabin should be
right on the top.

[Don] It's amazing
there's no bugs in the bush.

[Adam] It's hot, though.

Don and Taylor
are perfect for this.

They have the knowledge,

whether it's plants, the forest,
the animals, the land.

[Taylor] Ow!

Oh, nothing like a tree
in the face

right in the morning.

This is extreme camping
with my extended family.

[laughs]

I first met Adam
about 16 years ago.

-[Adam] Hey, Don?
-Yeah?

Just come up over
towards my voice.

Don and his wife, Gayle,
are like second parents to me.

[Don] When you speak
in such a high frequency,

it's hard to hear you.

Should I whistle like a marmot?

-[whistles]
-[Don] Oh, that's good.

Yeah, he pretty much
is like an adopted brother.

[Adam farts]

[Taylor laughs]

[Adam] You guys smell that?

[Don] Jeez, you stink.

[Adam] Smells like a Sasquatch.

[Taylor gags]

All three of us
have a great relationship.

[Adam] I found you a friend.

[Taylor] We're always
joking with each other.

[Adam] Don just ate
an inchworm.

[Don] That was a caterpillar,
it was juicy.

[Adam] Did it actually
taste good?

-[Don] Yeah.
-Really?

Yeah.

It's all about
walking this path together.

If our eyes are open
to our surroundings

and to each other...

we'll be fine.

[Adam] It's about
what you learn along the way,

and this is kind of
one of those pursuits.

The more you look,
the more you learn.

[Narrator]
With the rest of the team

in Thomas Lake,

Kru has arrived
in Victoria, B. C.

with Taylor's relative,
new friend Rain Pierre.

[Kru] Taylor's a blessing.

We would not be able

to meet the people
we're meeting,

go the places we're going,

and be accepted like family,

if it wasn't for Taylor.

She gave me all her research.

What I was hoping to do

is pretty much get to the bottom
of Slumach's real story.

Yeah.

What I'm looking for as well,

to really expose
the truth of what happened,

rather than what they portrayed
in the media.

Mm-hmm.

We really need to dig down
to the truth.

Well, if the truth's out here,
we'll find it here.

Yeah, absolutely.

[Narrator] The Royal
British Columbia Archive

is home to millions
of historical documents

and legal records,

some dating as far back
as the early 1800s.

All right. So this is
what we're looking for.

We've got
colonial correspondence.

That's hella old school.

[Rain] Yeah.

Anything we can find
about the Pitt,

about Slumach...

There's so much info here.

[Narrator] With a mountain
of material to search,

Kru and Rain
start with location.

Looking for New West here.

-There we go.
-New Westminster.

I'm going
to write that one down.

Okay.

We can actually find
the records.

Bam, that's it.
Pull 'er out.

30 years
since I've used one of these.

They're still
the top of the line.

[laughs] I guess so.

[Rain] I've never used
one of these in my life.

[Kru]
Oh, it's a unique technology.

[Narrator] They scroll through

court records
and registries from the past

and land on...

Oh! Whoa! What was that?

...a familiar name.

I swear I just saw Slumach.

Right there!

Slumach Mining Company.

Here, check that out.

[Narrator] It's a simple
registration certificate

for a new company.

[Rain] Slumach Mining Company.

Does it say, like, when?

[Kru] 1897, holy.

So it was created
seven years after he was hung.

It obviously isn't his company.

[Narrator]
Of the three listed owners,

one of them,
Frederick Glover,

was editor
of the local newspaper

during Slumach's trial.

His brother-in-law
was Slumach's defense attorney.

So these guys were going
right after the gold,

as soon as he was dead.

Right after his name.

Using him to make money.

Like, that's pretty messed up.

[Narrator] The company

immediately began
using Slumach's name

to sell shares.

This is info
that I've never even heard of.

Absolutely.

Here's evidence

that people were just monetizing
off of his name and who he was,

and this is, like, the beginning

of them twisting
the story of him

and creating a legend
that wasn't even the truth.

[Narrator]
Could this one company

be responsible
for a century-old myth?

Or did Slumach
really find gold

and kill to protect it?

[Adam] Maybe go up here.

[Narrator]
Back in the mountains,

Adam is struggling to find
Bernard Rover's cabin.

[exhales]

Okay... I can do it.

I can do it, I can do it.

Last time I was here,

the terrain was covered
under three feet of snow,

so it's different.

I would go this--
towards this way.

[Don] All right.

[Taylor] Leads us
all the way over here.

His cabin should be

somewhere on this plateau
up here,

but everything
looks so different.

I remember, like,

this tall cedar tree
being super close.

Here's a huge cedar tree, so...

Hey, guys!
There's something over here!

[Adam] You found it?

[Don] Holy smokes.
There we go.

[Adam] Yeah, that's it.

[Taylor]
Is it safe to walk in here?

[Adam] Taylor's ability

to spot clues
in the surroundings

is actually incredible.

She pays attention
to the little fine details

that I would totally
just run over, or walk over.

[Narrator] While little
remains of the cabin,

it proves Rover
had a reason for staying put.

Hey, get a load of this.

[Don] Huh, an old shovel.

[Adam] We need to find evidence

that Bernard Rover
was mining gold--

not copper, not anything else--

but Bernard Rover
was here looking for gold.

What do you think this...

these were used for?

Is this a part of a cart?

[Taylor] You know what?
A wheelbarrow.

-[Don] It's a wheelbarrow.
-[Adam] A wheelbarrow, yeah.

So he was digging somewhere...

wheelbarrowing the ore out.

[Adam] There's not much there
left of his cabin,

but when I saw
this piece of a wheelbarrow,

something clicked for me.

I mean, this guy
is moving material around.

[Narrator] But where
might Rover's gold be hidden?

Adam has an idea--

and it's a little...

unconventional.

[Adam]
That's where we're going.

[Don] That island out there?

What's the thinking behind that?

I mean...

If he was finding
something here--

Yeah?

He wasn't hauling it
all out at once.

[Don] Yeah.

He would have had a stash,

he would have been

putting it somewhere
where people wouldn't get it.

You know,
as cliché as it sounds,

you have to go
with your instincts.

This island is calling my name,

and I need to get there.

You really think something's
going to be on that island?

Well, yeah,
if he found something.

It's just the whole thing
of getting to this island.

I don't see people
dragging canoes up here at all

because it's a harsh hike
through here.

You know, maybe Bernard Rover
was a romantic.

You know, maybe he buried
his treasure on an island?

How we gonna get there?

I'll show ya.

Unless you wanna swim.

[Don] I ain't swimming.

That's why
we're gonna use this.

[Taylor] I swear he has,
like, a Mary Poppins bag.

I'm just blowing up
our pack raft here.

I've used these things
on the glaciers,

on coral reefs,

but what we're going
to use them for right now

is paddling out to that island.

Where's the paddle?

He brings this big pack raft,

but he forgot the paddle.

Really?
[laughs]

Can you make one?

We have Don,

so, you know,

luckily, we can make a paddle.

There's some good wood
around here.

This might work for a handle.

We're gonna have to do

what we used to do
a long time ago--

construct our own means
of getting over to this island.

[Taylor] We've done
lots of kind of stuff like that.

Like, it's just another
day in the life of me and Don,

and our adventures.

Get the final notches
in there.

There we go.

[Adam] I like it.

All right, you take us over.

You're the skipper.

I'll hold the boat
for you, sir.

No problem at all.

Well, you didn't tell me
you'd roll in.

-Bon voyage.
-We did it.

♪♪ Michael, row
the boat ashore... ♪♪

Oh, yeah, it's a good
bonding moment for them.

Can you put your knees
closer together

so I can rest my head?

This is a memorable moment.

You know, being together, close.

Oh, I just dripped
down my head.

A little too close.

-Oh!
-Oh, sorry.

[Don] The paddle's amazing!

Well, I've had lots of dreams,
but nothing like this.

All aboard!

That's exploration
at its finest.

Let's just spread out.

Let's just search
the whole thing.

[Narrator] Acting on a hunch...

[Adam]
We're not leaving this island

until we've checked
under every rock,

every tree.

[Narrator]
...the team is looking

for signs of stashed gold.

Yeah, there actually is
a little opening here.

Someone could have
stashed something

underneath these rocks...

No, just...

moss, twigs and ants.

I was looking for anything

that could indicate
that Bernard Rover was here,

and I see
these small tree stumps.

There's been a couple of trees
that have been cut right here,

and then
there's another one over here.

It's been hacked,

like, with an axe or something.

-Hey, Taylor.
-Yeah?

It looks like
there's been some trees

that have been cut down
a long time ago.

So someone was here.

[Adam] It's been hacked.

-Hey, Taylor.
-Yeah?

[Narrator]
On a remote island

in an alpine lake...

It looks like
there's been some trees

that have been cut down
a long time ago.

[Narrator] ...new evidence
points to human activity.

Did Bernard Rover

find Slumach's gold
at Thomas Lake?

And did he hide it
on the island?

[Adam] This island
is quite rocky,

and there's not a lot of soil,

so it's not going to be
necessarily buried deep.

I mean, it could be anywhere.

There's a hole in that tree.

Put your hand in there.

[Taylor]
I won't put my hand in there.

Screw that!

Nothing.

Checked this all out
and we're not getting any hits.

Lots of
blueberry bushes, though.

Tired of beating
around the bush.

[laughs]

I don't think anything's here.

I mean, you searched on top,
under the rocks, under the moss.

We've done our due diligence.

[Adam] We didn't find anything
on the island,

but we had to search it.

It doesn't matter
how far-fetched the idea may be,

you search.

That's all part of the puzzle.

Government records...

British Columbia
Attorney General

Coroner Inquiries,

1865 to 1937.

That lines up with 1891.

Well, let's put this one down,
definitely.

[Narrator]
At the B. C. Archives,

Rain and Kru

are piecing together
their own puzzle

of Slumach's final days

over a century ago.

Court records guide,
text in collections.

[Narrator]
The tale told in the papers

calls Slumach
a "cold-blooded killer"

and a "brash young man".

At his trial,
a similar narrative emerges.

While out fishing,

Slumach, without provocation,

shot and killed Louis Bee.

The victim's friend
fled the scene,

and is the only witness
to the murder.

Within weeks,
Slumach is apprehended,

tried,

and sentenced to hang.

But this version of events

differs from the one
Rain grew up with.

It's crazy
how many different stories

and versions there are,

but all I know

is what was passed down
from my People.

Well, what do you know
about Slumach?

He was holding out
in the forest

when they had,

like, people looking for him,

and the police and everything
went to Katzie,

saying that something
would happen to them

if he didn't come out.

-What?
-Yeah.

I never heard that part before.

So my great-grandfather,
Peter Pierre,

went in there and got him,

and told him

that something
was going to happen,

so he came out
and surrendered himself.

-In order to save his People.
-Yeah.

-Absolutely.
-Wow.

How old do you think
Slumach was at this time?

[Rain] My dad always told me
he was over 70,

and, you know,

he was, like, respected, and...

like an elder.

See, that's something
I've never heard in 20 years.

Yeah.

You always grew up

hearing stories
of the "insane Indian,"

you know,

and it was like,

"Damn, he must've been
a bad ass,

going around getting gold
and killing people."

Come to find out
he was nothing but an old man.

Ugh.

I don't know, it just is
a whole new perspective

than what I thought growing up.

There's a lot of missing pieces
to this puzzle, man.

[detector beeping]

I'll put the headphones on.

You be the detector,
I'll be the digger.

And I'll pinpoint location.

[Narrator] After coming up
empty-handed on the island...

Hold on.

[Narrator]
...Adam, Don and Taylor

turn their attention
back to Rover's cabin

for a deeper dive
with the metal detectors.

My first instinct is, like,

what else is here?

-Oh, yeah.
-Something in there.

The metal detector
is going crazy.

[beeping]

Some roofing material.

It's gonna be hard
to get through this.

[Narrator] What looks like
the cabin floor

is actually the collapsed roof.

[Taylor]
It's, like, right in there.

[Narrator]
The cabin remains buried

under three feet of dirt.

[beeping]

There's something good
right here.

[beeping]
Part of a nail?

Found something there?

All sorts of nails here.

Piles of nails.

The door's there.

The trail comes here.

This is probably the outhouse.

So you're digging through
50 years of shit.

Literally.

[Taylor]
Getting through the roof.

Lots of nails.

It shows how much work
one man had to go to.

To bring up
a bunch of nails like this,

that's a lot of weight.

I mean, he wasn't coming
up here for nothing.

[Taylor]
What the heck is this?

Come up
and look at what I found here.

[Adam] I look over,

and Taylor's holding a rock,

and I'm like,

[Narrator]
The ore sample indicates

Rover found
key signs of mineralization--

an indication
that could point to gold.

[beeps]

[Adam] Good piece of ore.

[Taylor] When we were looking
at this rock,

we noticed that it didn't fit
where we found it.

There is mineralization
in that vein.

Definitely.

That rock
came from somewhere else.

Hmm.

[Adam]
This is a huge discovery.

That's one of the most
tangible clues

we have at this point.

It smells like sulfur.

[Taylor] And reveal.

[Adam] It's a quartz vein.

[beeping loudly,
Adam laughs]

It's, like, right on the gold.

No, I'm serious.

[Taylor] And reveal.

[Adam] It's a quartz vein.

[Narrator] At the site

of prospector
Bernard Rover's cabin...

[beeping loudly]

[Adam laughs]

It's, like, right on the gold.

No, I'm serious.

[Narrator] ...a mysterious rock
has piqued the team's curiosity.

Seven, yeah.
See? See? Right there.

You can see flour gold
in that rock.

Under the magnifying glass,
you can see gold.

[Narrator] "Flour gold"

means there's actual gold
inside the rock--

only trace amounts.

[Adam] You know, normally,

when we find rocks
and ore samples,

we call them AFRs--

another [bleep] rock.

But these,

scanning them with a detector

and actually registering
as gold-bearing ore,

you know, that's huge.

Yeah, he knew
what he was doing.

So, we start out with
a rusty shovel, tin cans...

A wheelbarrow.

Wheelbarrow handles,

and we come up with...

Sample one.

[Don] Obviously,
this is where he was sleeping.

We need to find out
where he was mining.

[Adam] If Bernard Rover

is bringing this rock
back to his cabin,

he thinks that there's probably
gold in this rock.

So, let's find out
where that rock came from.

Maybe we can find
where he was digging.

[Narrator] The team plunges
further into the wilderness--

but to find Rover's mine,

they'll have to think
like Rover himself.

If he was following

where he thought
Slumach's gold was,

he would be somewhere

where he can get
down to the rock easily.

He's gonna find an area

that the bedrock's
already exposed.

Yeah.

That's where this came from.

People like Bernard,

people like Slumach...

[Adam] They would be looking
for waterfalls.

[Don]
They're looking for water.

They didn't need pumps
and machinery,

they would use the water.

Yeah.

That's the hydrology

that the prospectors
were using back in the day.

[Narrator] Prospectors know

to look for places

where water
has done the work for them--

eroding rock and revealing gold.

So, what you're saying is
we have to find a river,

like, a fast-moving river,
fast-flowing creek.

Yeah, we have to listen
to nature.

Follow the water.

[Taylor] Use our brains,
keep our eyes open.

[Narrator]
It's a challenging trek

through thick undergrowth

in search of water.

Hey. There's a river over here.

[Narrator]
It's no raging river,

but it's a start.

[Adam] You see this oxbow?

[Don] Yeah.

[Adam]
Natural oxbows like that

is where you would find gold.

[Narrator]
An oxbow is a U-shaped pool,

formed by the twisting
and turning of a stream.

[Don]
We'll have to check it out.

Little dicey.

[beeping]

[Adam] Go down again.

[beeping loudly]

[Don] Holy [bleep].

Come here.
Why's it going so crazy?

80, 70, 86.

-Really?
-Yeah!

-Do you got your shovel?
-Yeah, yeah.

-Do you have the pinpointer?
-Here, uh...

[beeping]

Right there.

[Taylor] It's this.

[Don] Yeah, we might have
found gold, you guys.

Right where gold would deposit.
Right in this...

Oh, there.
Look, look, look.

[groans]

It's big, I don't know.

Look at the colour
of that, Adam.

Is that gold?

It's got
quite a texture to it, eh?

[Taylor]
It looks like a giant bucket.

Yeah, it does, it does.
It feels like a bucket.

[Don]
It's something that's cast

by the looks of it.

Hey!

Do you think it could be
a wheel to a cart?

Well, I was just going to say--

-See how it's round?
-Yeah, I know.

-Look at it! Look at it!
-That's definitely a wheel.

That's a wheel.

That's a wheel
from an old mining cart.

[Narrator] Made of pure iron,

an element
close on the spectrum to gold,

a cart wheel
this large and dense

could easily have deceived
the team's metal detectors.

Wow!

[Adam] There's a mine here.

We are headed
in the right direction.

Oh, my god.

[Taylor] Yeah, we ain't moving
this sucker.

[Adam] This whole area
has been untouched.

[Don] Yeah.

Whatever was here
a hundred years ago

will still be here.

I wonder
what's farther upstream now.

If this is here,
what's up there?

Goes all the way back

from pretty much

when Louis Bee
got shot by Slumach,

all the way
up to the court case.

[Narrator]
Back at the archives,

the old image of Slumach
as a brash, young killer

is fading.

In their push for the truth,

Kru and Rain request

the original court records
from Slumach's 1891 trial.

So what we have here,
these are judges' bench books,

so they're documenting sort of

everything that's going on
in the case.

Wow.

At the beginning here...

[Kru] This is
Seymour's statement right here.

[Narrator] Charles Seymour
was in the canoe with Louis Bee

when the fatal shot was fired,

and the only witness
called to stand.

Seymour alleged

that while checking
their fishing lines,

Slumach emerged
from the tall grass,

aimed his gun at Louis Bee,

and wordlessly fired.

"The body was in deeper water
owing to the rise in the tide.

I recognized
Louis Bee's axe..."

[Kru] Wait a second--

he had a axe on him?

Yeah, it says here

he had an axe with him
in the canoe.

That's not an unarmed man.

I don't care who you are,
an axe is a weapon.

Yeah.

I mean, you just
don't shoot somebody

for no reason, right?

I have never heard
the self-defence story before.

It was almost like
watching a court drama

and being there
at that time period.

I mean, it's crazy

that we're, like,
finding these documents

and actually
looking into what happened.

I'm glad we're doing this.

-I am, too
-It means a lot.

[Narrator] Amidst
the 100-year-old documents,

Rain makes an astonishing find.

Whoa! This is
Slumach's actual words!

[Rain] That's crazy.

Whoa!

[Narrator]
Back at the B. C. Archives,

Rain and Kru have uncovered

a clear and haunting voice
from the past...

This is Slumach's actual words!

That's crazy.

It was like finding paydirt
of a whole 'nother kind.

"I the above named Slumach

made oath

and say that Louis Bee,
the deceased,

was habitually
quarrelling with me,

and that he frequently
harassed me

with improper language

and threatened me
more than once with violence,

and I was
in constant fear of him."

This just paints
a whole new picture,

like, a whole new picture.

What I heard

was an old man being bullied

and then thrown under the bus.

Technically hung from the tree.

I mean, let's keep it real.

This is really, like...

It's a lot of emotions
reading this, to be honest.

Um...

It really is parallel
to what my dad's been saying,

and the stories are true
from my end,

like, my family's
been telling the truth,

and...

and it's crazy

because this all happened
in 1890--

I was born
a hundred years later--

and, like, we're now
just uncovering the real story.

The injustice
that happens to our people

isn't new, you know.

It's just that these facts
make it real.

We all have the right
to due process.

He did not get that.

This just shows
that nobody cared.

-You do.
-Yeah.

We do.

And this is a new era now.

Yeah.

To actually be standing
next to a man

who's related to him,

it's like you see inside of him.

I feel pain for him
and, like, my People,

because this is
how we were treated.

But we're getting
to the bottom of it

and we need
to bring this to light.

To see the way it was done,

to see the way
it was rushed through...

[sighs]

...it's a tarnish
on our history.

He deserves justice

and he needs to have
his picture painted

with the right brush,

and that's with our People,

and our stories,

and our truth.

[Adam] It'll be slippery.

Okay, I got the root.

[Narrator]
North of Thomas Lake,

the team is hot on the trail
of Bernard Rover's mine--

possibly
Slumach's legendary lost gold.

After Bernard Rover's cabin,

we started following
the waterways,

and we're just trying
to follow in his footsteps

to try and find the mine

where he got all that ore from
that we found at his cabin.

Oh!

That sucks.

[Don] Just go
where I went, Tay.

Grab that root.

Right there.

Hold that.

Just come--
just jump right there.

-You okay?
-Yeah.

You okay?

That's cold.

Like--

-Whoa!
-It's cold.

[Narrator] Just upstream,

the team stumbles across
an unmistakable landmark.

[Don] That's huge.

That's where we wanna go.

That water--

that's enough water
to get down to bedrock.

-Wow.
-That's massive.

If he had a mine in this area,

it's gonna be in the side
of this cliff somewhere.

[Don]
Well, there's a cliff there

and a cliff here,

so you take that one,
we'll take this other one,

so that way,
we've got it covered off, okay?

[Narrator] The team splits up
to cover more ground.

They're looking for an adit--

the opening of a mine.

[Adam] We can, uh...

rappel down that.

If there's gonna be a mine,
it's gotta be on this cliff.

Shoot it through the hole.

[Narrator]
Rappelling will save some time,

but it's not without risk.

This is it.

[chuckles]
Bernard had a mine.

This is it.

[chuckles]
Bernard had a mine.

[Narrator] After a tough trek
from Thomas Lake,

Adam has found what appears
to be Bernard Rover's mine--

and possibly the source
of Slumach's lost gold.

Don! Taylor!

[Don] Coming!

[Adam] This is it.

[Taylor] We're coming!

Oh...

-Jeez...
-This is it.

This is why he was up here.

Look at that sucker.

-Holy...
-It goes.

I can't even see the end of it.

I want to check it out.

Ladies first.

[Don] Go ahead.

-That's deep.
-Jeez.

Oh, yeah,
it's going past my boots.

[Narrator]
Rover spent long periods of time

in the Thomas Lake area.

A mine this deep
could explain why.

[Adam] This mine

is hand-chiselled
into the side of the mountain.

This is a massive undertaking,

especially for someone...

that was supposedly by himself.

He was going deep.

I don't see any signs of...

I don't know
what he was going after, though,

there's no--

I don't see any veins or what.

[groans]

[Taylor] Oh, my gosh,
it's a cave cricket.

Aw.

Look to see if you can find
any signs of quartz.

See if you can find the vein.

He was looking for something
in here.

[Taylor] Oh, there's
a whole cluster of them

right there.

[Adam] There's something here.

Here's a vein.
Try scanning this.

Bring your detector up here.

[beeping]

[Don] Not getting
any hits at all.

It matches up with the rock
that we found at his cabin.

[Adam] The ore was definitely
coming from here.

That matches.

Yeah. It totally
matches up, right?

[Adam] But if he was
bringing all this back,

he must've found something.

Just probing, trying to find
where the vein is.

Looking for the motherlode.

He probably got to this point
and was, like, shoot.

[Taylor] Yeah, you see...

[Adam] That's a lot of work.

[Taylor]
...a drill hole there, there...

[Adam] Hand-- hand chiselled.
That's all hand-chiselled.

This is old.

[Taylor]
Oh, and above me here, actually.

Yeah, he was probing.

He was probing.

He was trying to find the vein,
trying to find the motherlode.

Gold fever.

You get the fever
and you just keep digging,

tunnelling...

until you're too old.

It might've been

that Bernard Rover
lost many years of his life

obsessing over something
that didn't exist.

There's nothing.

[Narrator] The lost gold
may not be Bernard Rover's--

but that means
it's still out there.

[Adam]
This is a huge puzzle,

and to actually
research the legend

and then go out in the field
and put those pieces together,

you need patience
on a different scale.

Oh, it's cold.

I can't feel my feet.

You need to come in
with the emotional armour

to navigate this landscape.

You follow each clue,

and each clue
is a piece of the past.

One piece at a time,

you gradually get
to the end of the story.

[Don] This is just
not a simple story

about Slumach
and gold the size of walnuts.

This is a lot of stories,

and that's part of
what our team is doing.

We want to explore
each one of those stories,

and keep our ears open,

because there's more to follow.

Next time on
Deadman's Curse...

Wait till you get
a load of this.

You've done the research,
but I've been there.

None of it adds up.

That's the lake.

That's where I want to go look.

So you know the exact location
of where this nugget creek is?

Yes, I do,

and I won't go back.

What are you doing here?

You lost?

I don't think Daryl knows
what he's doing out here.

It always has to be
better than me.

-What?
-What is it?

You're [bleep] kidding me,
right?

[Taylor] No way.