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[Narrator] Previously, on Deadman's Curse...

...in Pitt Lake, British Columbia,

a team unites in search of a legendary lost gold mine.

The legend describes there are nuggets everywhere.

We're talking billions of dollars.

[Narrator] The legend says

Slumach, from the gallows,

uttered a curse.

A death sentence to anyone that tries to find his gold.

[Narrator] But research casts doubt

on the hundred-year-old story.

Oh... Slumach's actual words?

[Narrator] Despite credible clues

found in a deathbed letter,

of one who claims to have found the gold.

[Don] This is just not a simple story

about Slumach

and gold the size of walnuts.

If you go looking for this lost gold mine

with gold fever,

that will get you killed.

[Narrator] And so the quest continues

to solve the mystery of Slumach,

and find his legendary lost gold.

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[Narrator] On the side of a remote highway,

Taylor Starr is waiting to meet a stranger.

[Taylor] She said she has a box from her stepdad

that I might be interested in.

[Narrator] A box once belonging to a prospector

in search of Slumach's gold.

[Taylor] I think that's her...

Yep. That's her.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Hi.

Hello. I'm Taylor.

Hi. I'm Lisa.

Thank you for reaching out and answering my...

-Yeah, of course. -...my... my Facebook.

So... you have this box.

I do. It's in the back of my trunk.

And this is all related to Slumach?

Yeah.

My, uh, stepfather researched it my whole life,

and my grandpa, too.

It was given to me, some of his possessions...

so I actually feel like it's kind of a bad omen for me.

Really?

My stepfather had an obsession looking for this gold.

It was more important than his family.

Where is your stepdad now?

He went missing in, um, Bute Inlet.

I've never found his body.

I think he was murdered for what he knew.

I can't explain enough how happy I am

to get rid of this box.

It's done for me.

Thank you.

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[Narrator] Back at the team's Seabird Island base...

[grunting]

-Taylor. -Hey, guys.

So I met Lisa Mould.

She gave me this box that belonged to her stepfather.

[Adam] Jack Mould?

[Kru] Jack Mould was actually the first book I ever read

about Slumach,

and it was the whole cover

with the skull and all the gold and...

-Wow! -...It just made it real.

[Narrator] One of the most modern

of the old Slumach prospectors,

Jack Mould's book chronicles his 30-year search

for the lost gold mine...

well into the 1990s.

We got... lots of stuff here.

Got books, maps, photos.

That the book, Kru, that you were talking about?

Yeah! That's the one.

The skulls are what got me. And the gold!

-[laughs] -What does that say?

"Slumach's legend lives on." It really does.

Here he is mining.

He actually looks like a Wild West cowboy.

-Let's see. -He's got the boots...

the hat, and the gun to go with it.

[Narrator] Mould is notorious in prospecting circles

for his controversial claim

that Slumach's gold

is not, in fact, buried in Pitt Lake,

but instead, in Bute Inlet.

He's 300 kilometres away from the heart of this legend.

According to Jack Mould,

Slumach had a lost gold mine way up in Bute Inlet.

That makes sense.

You're not a believer

that Jack Mould did find the Lost Creek Gold Mine?

No. Show me evidence.

[Narrator] Adam has long been skeptical about Mould's claim--

a story that appears to check all the boxes

in the Slumach legend.

Ooh... look at this.

[Adam] Um, there's a picture with him posing

with a piece of rock

that is in the shape of a tent.

He claimed

it was Walter Jackson's "tent-shaped rock".

I mean, look at this--

he's also using Walter Jackson's letter.

[Narrator] Jackson's death-bed letter

describes gold hidden under a tent-shaped rock--

a key clue in the search for Slumach's gold.

But so are we.

This is how we got onto this story, too.

[Adam] This is the legend of Pitt Lake,

not the legend of Bute Inlet.

So there's a map here, actually, and...

from the top of the Pitt, all the way up here,

all the way over to the Bute...

I think it's feasible

that Slumach could've travelled there.

I think that's what he's saying.

Traditional trade route trails? I don't know.

We'll have to look into it

and do some more research on that.

Could be the reason we don't know where the mine is.

Well, 'cause nobody knew where Slumach was going.

Looking in the wrong place.

Everybody's gone up the Pitt

and everybody's been unsuccessful,

so... he might be onto something,

looking at it from a whole new perspective.

[Narrator] According to mining records,

Jack and his business partner, Sulo Poystila,

staked claims on land all over Bute Inlet,

and used a floating barge as their base of operations.

Jack Mould, I mean... he was no dummy.

[Kru] Yeah, like, this is a serious expedition.

It wasn't like he was just out there playing around.

His whole life was dedicated to this.

This isn't something he just started overnight.

[Narrator] The items in the box

are personal,

including an old metal lockbox

that once belonged to the missing prospector.

-Oh! [laughs] -Is that his wallet?

We got his actual passport here.

[Don] I got something interesting here.

What do you see there, Tay?

-That was in his wallet? -Yep.

Oh... Southgate. [chuckles]

"Slumach's Mine."

That's the claim map.

[Narrator] Jack's map

identifies his claim as "Slumach's Mines,"

and, on the map, a distinct black dot...

[Adam] See that dot? "Slumach's mines."

That's your treasure map.

He obviously has a tie to Slumach.

So what is that tie?

[Narrator] The metal lockbox offers up

another compelling clue--

a videotape

featuring an interview with Jack himself.

I would go in over the last 30 years,

I'd go in a couple times a year, you know?

And we know that we're sitting on a major gold find--

probably the biggest one that will ever be in BC.

[Narrator] Then, the tape changes--

a dig site somewhere in a forest.

[Adam] See that? Right there.

Look.

You talkin' that? Is that dynamite?

[Don] Looks like dynamite.

[Adam] Watch. Right there. See?

[Kru] Could we pause it at that moment?

[Taylor] There's dynamite right there.

You seeing that dynamite?

Mm-hmm.

[Narrator] Dynamite and detonators...

enough explosives to move a small mountain.

-That's a lot of dynamite. -Mm-hmm.

[Don] So what is it they're blowing up?

[Narrator] Then...

a helicopter ride near a mountain peak.

[indistinct chatter on video]

This cave has my attention.

As much as I don't believe in Jack or his claims,

or his story, I mean,

the dot on the map could be pointing to the cave.

You can clearly see,

from the video, from the map, everything lines up.

This is worth checking out.

I think it's worth a shot.

-Don? -I'm ready to go.

[Taylor] Let's pack our bags.

[quietly] Whoa...

Take a look at this.

[Don] Let's see those!

Those bones are kinda suspect.

They definitely look like real skulls.

[Kru] Those are real skulls!

[Don] Look at the one with the noose...

These photos are the original skulls

that they actually used for the cover of this book.

[Don, sighing] Oh... my gosh.

I don't like that.

Definitely are human skulls.

Where'd they come from?

[Narrator] 300 kilometres northwest of Pitt Lake

is Bute Inlet...

a remote ancient waterway

feeding lush, old-growth forest.

Set against the wild Pacific Ocean,

its sheer granite cliffs

plunge deep from the icefields above.

This is one of the most unique spots

in the world--

the most remote that you will get

in this part of British Columbia.

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You're going into an area

where there's one way in and one way out,

and that way is by boat.

[Narrator] The long trek

up British Columbia's Pacific Coast

has the team entering the traditional territory

of the Homalco First Nation.

[Don] Chief Darren is, as we would say, the s'iem--

the respected leader in his community.

We want them to walk beside us on this path.

That's what it's about.

[Chief Darren] Well, we've been here thousands of years.

Our people are connected to the land

in many different ways from the different resources.

Lots of deer meat, lots of salmon--

and now, it's all starting to... change.

Can you tell me a little more about what you're, um,

what you're looking for?

There's a guy--

his name is Jack Mould.

He had something labelled on this map

called "Slumach's Mines".

[Chief Darren] Oh, yeah. I never met the guy,

but, uh, I heard-- I heard an awful lot about him. Yeah.

Good or bad?

[laughs]

Some of our People

have run into him from time to time up here,

and it sounds like he was always pulling a gun on 'em, so.

-Really? -Yeah, they didn't, uh--

-On your People? Yeah, on our People.

If he did have gold,

then he was trying to scare people outta here.

Do you know what happened to him, where he went?

There's... a barge in the area,

and, uh, I don't know where the barge is, though.

He might be still alive,

but, uh, it's, uh, pretty wild country.

I can show you where his cabin is.

It's in rough shape, but it's still standing.

[Narrator] A lead in Bute worth investigating.

It could be huge.

I mean, if we can find Jack's cabin,

maybe that gets us closer to where he was mining.

[Chief Darren] Up here, just a little bit closer.

[skipper] Okay, a little bit of a bump.

Hang on!

-[hull scrapes shore] -There you go.

Ooh!

Land, ho.

You're a guest in our territory,

and we want you to be safe.

[chamber clicks]

Nah-ku-say. Thank you very much.

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Just up the bank and into the bush there.

[Adam] There was something about Chief Darren

that led me to believe

he wasn't happy with what Jack Mould was doing up there.

Looks like something's already been through here.

Bear trails...

so be really aware.

And this is more than "bear aware,"

this is grizzly-aware.

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[Taylor] It's an eerie feeling.

Someone has gone missing.

[Kru] If he did find something...

and he was killed for it...

[Don] What's this?

[Taylor] Look at that old thing!

This is kind of like a murder mystery,

when you think about it.

It's, like, is he there, is he dead?

Like, should we be watching out

for Jack Mould while we're out there?

[Taylor] So, who wants to go in first?

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Frickin' creepy.

[Narrator] 300 kilometres north of Pitt Lake,

the team has located a cabin

belonging to missing prospector Jack Mould.

[Taylor] So, who wants to go in first?

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[Don] Look at this-- see the writings on here?

Up until 1993-- is that when it's telling us

that he had those claims?

-Pretty much. -[crash]

-Whoops! -What was that?

-You all right? -Fell through the floorboards.

Geez.

[Don] Either he's trying

to get away from something or he found something.

[Kru] What the heck is all this art on the wall?

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

What's this here?

Like, a ghost or something?

I don't know.

And then this creepy castle-- leading up to what?

[Kru] Seriously, though? Tombstones...

Slumach. Jackson. Brown.

[Adam] "Volcanic Brown."

[Kru] Hey! And then there's Mould over here, dude.

"1936 to 20--" he thought he was gonna live until 2032?

That's crazy.

It's... it's... it's trippy.

It's his mind.

It's unedited, unaltered.

And then, look, there's people down here, too.

Gravediggers.

[Kru] He's picturing himself

with the graves of those who came before him.

[Taylor] I definitely don't like this place,

that's for sure.

[Kru] The graves-- the graves really got me.

All of 'em dead, you know?

I just don't want to end up one of 'em. [laughs]

There's plenty of room for more tombstones.

[Narrator] If the cabin contained

any real clues pointing to gold,

they've long since disappeared.

[Kru] That was a pretty creepy place, man.

[Narrator] No new leads at Jack's cabin...

but, instead,

a window into the mind of a man obsessed.

If Mould did discover gold out here,

the team will need another clue to find it.

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East of Pitt Lake...

Slumach's gold has not been found

because the directions are wrong.

[Narrator] ...An unlikely prospector

is planning his next expedition...

I'm looking for the right-sized piece of wood--

"pole," I guess--

to make me a boat to get across the Lake.

A hundred people per year, minimum, have gone looking,

and each year, there's probably one or two that perish.

I see one.

And then there's some that are not even recorded

that might still be there-- we don't even know, right?

It's hard to say.

There's quite a few that actually perished

or lost everything,

you know, spent all their money trying to find it

and never did.

It's a hundred-year-old mine that nobody's been able to find

and I know it's real.

My name is David Muise

and I found Slumach's lost gold mine.

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I'm the real deal.

You ain't gonna find nobody that's gonna find what I found.

Thousands have gone lookin'

and I stood right at it-- literally, two feet away.

And there's lots.

I lit right up!

My heart just-- boom-boom-boom-boom!

Well, you know how gold is--

you start feeling different, I don't know what it is.

And yeah, I was tempted,

and I looked at it

and contemplated for a good hour--

"Should I take it? Should I not take it?"

But I left it.

That's where the curse comes in.

I believe in it, 100%.

100%.

Because I never touched it, I didn't actually die,

but I lost the life that I had.

I had a family. I had everything I needed.

We had the furniture. We had the apartment.

We had all that stuff.

Next thing I know,

I'm selling everything I have, and living in my car.

There, you wanna see?

This come out of that vein

that's just where the waterfall is.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

That's right where the vein is.

Slumach's mine is there!

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

So I spent...

ooh, three years, I believe, in my car.

Cost me so far--

besides everything I own,

you know, of my own money, $33,000.

It's cursed, yeah.

I lost everything I ever had.

I gotta rebuild from nothing.

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But...

I don't like giving up.

'Kay, this is my motorhome.

It's not the best, but...

for now, it's home.

It works, everything works on it.

It's just electrical problems right now,

but I did manage to get everything working.

It leaks a little if I keep it level.

But I kind of keep it on a tilt a little

and it drains out, so it don't leak.

I got a lottery ticket I didn't even realize I had.

It's worth $2 million.

There's people that don't believe in it.

I lost everything. Why would I give it up now?

Right? Like, that don't make no sense to me either.

Why lose everything

and then say, "Okay, I've had enough"?

No, it's there, it's real.

So, if I can prove it...

most of that, I'm gonna get all that back.

That recognition is what I need.

I have to prove to my friends and family what I did find.

I need the credibility.

44, 41...

Not a winner...

...that I can tell.

I put so much into it.

I'm not giving it up.

So yeah, don't quit now.

It's still there.

It's still laying there.

I'm gonna prove 'em wrong.

I found Slumach's mine, yeah.

I'm gonna prove it.

I will prove it. Yeah.

[Narrator] Back in Bute Inlet,

the team has scoured the area around Jack Mould's cabin...

only to come up empty-handed.

So what do we do now, Cap'n?

Found his cabin. We gotta find his mines.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] And their best clue so far

is the one they came in with.

[Adam] That's the claim map. See that dot?

"Slumach's Mines."

So that black dot?

The black dot.

[Narrator] Late-morning in Bute Inlet,

on the trail of missing prospector Jack Mould,

the team splits up to cover more ground.

I just wanna get to this location on this map.

We go to the mines.

You go back to Chief Darren.

You okay to get back to him?

-Oh, yeah. -Oh, yeah.

It's a straight shot.

I want to talk to Chief Darren

and get to the bottom of Jack's theory.

Could Slumach have travelled

all the way from Pitt Lake to Bute Inlet?

It's 300 kilometres away.

Is that even possible?

-Good luck, guys. -Same to you.

Stay safe. See you later.

You ready for this?

I'm as ready as I'm gonna be.

So where we going, Adam?

We gotta get across this river.

[Narrator] They're looking for a location

marked on Jack Mould's claim map

as "Slumach's Mines"--

a black dot that Adam believes lines up

with the mysterious cave seen on the videotape.

It's gonna be difficult to find the dot

because this map is just a general prospector's map

showing no terrain, no elevation.

[Narrator] The map is vague,

so they're looking for any evidence

that could point them in the right direction.

There's another trail and there's a log...

Look at that tree.

[Adam] Good-sized one.

It's gotta be 600 years old.

Look at this. Wow.

Grows big up here.

[Adam] A ladder!

Good eyes, Adam.

So what's with the ladder?

Uh... I don't know.

Lifting stuff down?

These ladders are the only evidence

of human activity for miles.

I'm guessing these are part of Jack's mining operation.

[Don] These ladders didn't fall out of the sky,

so it showed that we were on the right path.

See those cliffs right up there?

[Don] Oh, yeah.

That dot is essentially at the base of that cliff.

[Don] Keep on goin'.

-Oh, my gosh. -It's getting steep.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] All signs to the cave

point up.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Don] That's straight up.

Gonna be pretty dangerous climbing up here.

I don't know about this, Adam.

I think I'm gonna get outta here.

All the rocks are-- Whoa!

Shit! Don! Are you okay?

I'm okay!

[Adam] Tree caught ya...

just like it caught those rocks.

Can't go any further.

Look behind you, right behind you.

Look at the rock damage on that tree.

Oh, yeah, this is an active rockfall--

-Yeah. -...Right here.

Imagine if that was your head.

Yeah, and up above your head--

up above your head on the same tree.

[Adam] Fresh rockfall that's coming down.

[Don] This is real, uh, danger.

This is all gonna come down.

Yeah, this is a dead end. I'm not going up this.

Let's go down.

I'm gonna call in a favour.

Let's get out of here.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] Taylor and Kru re-unite with Chief Darren

to test Jack's wild claim

that Slumach travelled 300 kilometres

from Pitt Lake to Bute Inlet

and found his legendary gold

here.

So I got a question.

Could you tell us about the trade routes

that are around here?

[Chief Darren] The trade routes have been here

for thousands of years.

Actually, this road has been built

on a grease trail.

[Narrator] A "grease trail"

is an ancient overland pathway--

a trade route that once connected

First Nation communities

to resources such as fish oil.

This road was the trade route

for the Chilcotins and also Lillooet.

It goes the whole way?

Yeah.

Doesn't the one from the Pitt go all the way

up to Lillooet?

-I believe so, yeah. -Yeah.

So those two would connect, then?

Which connects to the Pitt, right?

These were grease trails.

Jack Mould knew about these grease trails.

He knew exactly

where they were, too.

Were these trade routes still active

when Slumach was around in, like...

mid-1800s?

Yeah.

My great-grandfather used to go on--

go interior all the time.

And we're walking on the route right now?

Yup, yeah.

This was it.

Slumach was gone for periods at a time, right,

and when you're part of that land,

you can travel through that land faster and better

than anyone else can.

He's got a highway going to these spots.

Just 'cause we don't know how to get there fast

doesn't mean that he didn't.

When they were...

building these roads for logging,

they just followed our trails.

[Kru laughs]

Slumach could've walked on this very trail right here.

Maybe Jack Mould was right after all.

[Narrator] 300 kilometres south,

just east of Pitt Lake...

David Muise is planning a return trip

to Slumach's gold mine.

I found Slumach's gold.

[laughs]

You wanna know where it is? [laughs]

[Narrator] True to the legend,

the route in and out is deadly.

[David] If I would've taken the gold out of that valley

when I found it that day,

I wouldn't have made it out.

I don't think my body would've ever handled hauling out gold.

I had so many things happen to me,

it just drove me crazy.

I know what I found.

I still gotta prove it, right?

I know what's there, I know what to expect--

[Narrator] With the window of opportunity

closing on the season,

today, David starts a new journey.

But his mission to find Slumach's gold

began five years ago.

So I read all the stories-- everything.

Figured it out 'cause I knew the errors.

Walter Jackson says

"a place you wouldn't go unless you knew it was there."

Just look at the words that are in that letter.

If you really look at the story,

you can see the errors that somebody else--

trying to send you off in a different place--

has changed.

But there's three mountain peaks.

You'll see 'em once...

then, after you go over a ridge,

they'll vanish.

If I was to tell you the names,

you would realize that I had the right spot.

Did you hear? I know I told you.

Are we still filming?

Yeah.

Oh, I'm not gonna tell you, then.

[cackles]

Now, that'll be my... the size of my boat.

I gotta get across...

23 kilometres long,

two miles wide.

But you gotta understand nature

and you gotta be able to understand

that not all things happen the way you want 'em to happen,

so when you plan for a trip like that,

you plan for the worst.

You gotta have everything-- all your ducks in a row.

I managed to get a motorcycle so far, a small one,

to help me haul my gear up the mountain.

Figured there's a road that'll take me most of my way up.

Well, everybody else,

they got a boat, they got a Ski-Doo,

they got choppers, they got...

they got the money.

I spent most of my money to get here,

so I'm totally different than everybody else.

I've gotta improvise with what I got.

It's supposed to go to your bike...

but I can make it hook up the same way on the...

on the motorcycle.

It's not heavy.

Weighs maybe... 80 pounds.

[putters]

This will be my outboard motor.

Right here, I've probably got... a week.

Everything's done.

Lock up shop.

As long as the weather's good, I'm outta here.

I think it's gonna be a nice day.

[puttering]

[sputters and chokes]

Nope.

[repeatedly chugging and failing]

Not gonna work.

Um... well...

I don't really have faith in that prop no more.

I need to build a sail.

I gotta improvise, yeah,

'cause I can't be wasting time

trying to figure out what I'm doing.

I have to get across.

I should be able to do it in a day.

Maybe try again tomorrow.

[Narrator] Back in Bute Inlet,

unable to access the cave from below,

Adam has called in a favour from a local helicopter pilot,

settling on a top-down approach.

[Don] Wow.

[rotors beating]

[Mould, on tape] Right here below us!

[Narrator] More than 30 years of overgrowth...

[Narrator] ...has blocked the entrance to the cave.

If that black dot

is pointing to a spot on the mountain

that's a sheer cliff face...

well, I mean, you're gonna have to rappel down.

This is it.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] High above the cave on Southgate Peak,

the mountaintop location matches video footage

of Jack's mining claim--

a place he mined for gold

and referred to as his "office".

[Don] What's that? What are those for?

[Adam] Survey marker.

Just a little bamboo stick

marking the top of Southgate Peak.

So if we look this way, up the Bute...

[winds howl]

Geez.

So you see the point out there, and the tent-shaped rock?

[Narrator] This location matches the spot

where Jack Mould claimed to have found

Walter Jackson's "tent-shaped rock"--

a key clue in the search for Slumach's gold.

[Adam] It was clear that Jack was here.

We gotta look around,

because, supposedly, under this tent-shaped rock

is a bunch of gold that he buried.

There's gotta be something left behind.

Just watch your step on that, Don.

That's loose. Don't trust that snow.

One slip on that,

you're gone.

[Don] How's it looking over there?

-I'm not finding anything. -Okay.

If he was mining up here,

I mean, I don't know what he was mining.

It's pretty rocky... silica-rich granite.

We've checked everything up on the mountain here

and we've found zero.

Jack Mould's office?

It looks like the files have been cleaned out,

is what it looks like to me.

[Narrator] If Adam's read on the map is right...

Jack's "office" above

should line up directly with the cave below,

a place Mould labelled "Slumach's mines".

Careful, Adam.

Geez!

It's all good.

Adam! Look at me.

This is as far as I'm-- s-see what I'm talking about?

This is as far as I'm going, Adam.

You're on your own from here on.

All right, I'll be quick.

Yup.

-Keep your eyes open! -Yeah.

Watch your hands.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] 300 kilometres south...

[David] I'll have to create a sail.

[snap]

My weed whacker didn't work,

so I have to make something that'll get me across the water

a lot better than just paddling.

[Narrator] David Muise is attempting a return

to the Pitt

and a second attempt at launch.

I gotta improvise, yeah.

I gotta change my plan

to sail power instead of motor power.

It's like walking on a waterbed.

[Narrator] Two years ago...

David's first trip in nearly killed him.

It's not a safe trip.

Every step you're gonna take is gonna be deadly.

I believe in that curse, that's for sure.

Ow...

ow!

Ah...

She should be ready to stand on her own.

That'll work.

This will get me back on my feet,

but I know it's there,

so I'm gonna persist until I can prove it,

and whoever's got a doubt...

won't.

[Narrator] For David,

proving his claim and getting back to the gold

begins at home.

I'm doing this for my son.

I got a picture here...

he just got his school picture done.

[laughs]

That's my boy.

He's the whole reason why I do all of this,

why I sacrificed my life for this gold mine.

I figure, well, the best way to do good for my son

is to get him a home.

I don't care what I go through.

At the end of it all, if he's got a home,

I did what I wanted.

I finished my quest.

And I'm not stopping until my quest is done.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Ahh... that should work fine.

Just like it was meant to be.

[Narrator] David's quest begins with a 23-kilometre trip

across neighbouring Stave Lake.

[David] The water won't disturb it--

it's what I hit--

and she's safe until you hit the shore,

as long as you don't puncture it.

Where there's a will there's a way.

Where there's a will... there's a way.

It's calm here right now.

It's, you know, it's like a mirror,

but hopefully,

I can get out into the main part of the lake.

There, the wind always picks up through the day.

I'm not giving up, I'm going all the way!

Made it this far.

I'm gonna make it the rest of the way.

I'm not as healthy as I used to be,

but I'm stubborn as I always was!

[tarp rustles]

Oh, yeah, she's gonna grab, once I get 'er turned here.

You will see.

The wind is pulling me.

And away we go!

All I gotta do is let the wind take me.

Ha-ha! Now we're talkin'!

I'm gonna prove it. I will prove it.

It's still laying there.

I wanna be known as the man who found Slumach's gold mine.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Adam] This cliff supposedly has a cave in it.

[Narrator] High above Bute Inlet,

Adam is on a solo mission.

[Adam] Gonna go find Jack Mould's mine.

[Narrator] It's a 500-foot rappel

down a sheer rock face,

to a mysterious cave

that could be the source of Slumach's legendary gold.

What's going on with this rope?

Whoa. Holy [bleep]!

Ah...

Whoa.

[Narrator] High above Bute Inlet,

Adam is caught in the very tree

obscuring the entrance to Jack Mould's cave.

[pants]

Yeah, this is it.

[Narrator] Jack's claim...

is only an illusion.

[Adam] Certain times of the day,

the sun shines on this face, and that looks like a cave.

It's a shadow.

It's an illusion,

like everything else in Jack Mould's story.

♪♪ I's the b'y that builds the boat ♪♪

♪♪ I's the b'y that sails 'er ♪♪

♪♪ I's the b'y that catches the fish ♪♪

♪♪ And brings them home to Lizer ♪♪

[laughing]

My boat is pointed in the right direction,

the sail is pointed with the wind.

Sure beats paddlin'.

[Narrator] David's route

takes him 23 kilometres across Stave Lake

to a "backdoor entrance" to the Pitt...

...but once on land,

his mission is far from over.

Slumach's gold is a hidden valley

that you don't even know is there

because it looks like it's all cliffs.

Like, it's deadly, it's dangerous,

and it's cursed.

Gotta cross the Stave River to get to the valley.

I still haven't figured out a way to cross the river

once I'm up there.

I have to climb this waterfall, say, 1,000 feet.

[Narrator] A rushing river

and a 1,000-foot waterfall--

two deadly obstacles protecting Slumach's valley.

Those two will get you there.

They'll get you right to it. [laughs]

You serious?

[Narrator] Only three kilometres

from the end of the lake...

Uh-oh! Don't touch the boat, buddy.

Go away.

I touch one of them things and we're sinking.

This is a mess.

Deadly.

Like you see, I got a lot of deadfall--

the dead trees

that are sticking out of the ground

and then there are some that are under the water,

and if I touch any one of those,

it'll put a hole in this little plastic.

The wind's blowing me back in.

I can't get nothing done.

My daylight is dropping, so I don't have much time.

Oh, I don't feel good.

Again, something telling me not to go.

That's freaking me right out.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] Back on Bute Inlet...

[Chief Darren] Yeah, just around there.

We're coming up on Potato Point.

[Narrator] Chief Darren has brought Taylor and Kru

to the far north end of the Inlet.

Potato Point

sits on traditional Homalco Reserve land.

It's a location mentioned numerous times

in Jack's box of paperwork

and videotape.

[Chief Darren] Take a look over here.

[Taylor] Okay.

All righty.

'Kay.

-Oh, whoa! -Holy...

[Kru] Whoa...

this is a big-ass hole.

This is where Jack Mould was looking for gold

and he blew it up with dynamite.

Pretty big blast.

[Narrator] Taylor and Kru have seen this place before.

[Taylor] There's dynamite right there.

That's a lot of dynamite.

[Kru] Mm-hmm.

[Don] So what is it they're blowing up?

[Kru] I guess he thought,

because the bedrock cliff was here,

it would've piled up against there.

Oh, yeah.

Well... this is a burial ground.

A burial ground?

[Chief Darren] That he blew up.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

And in those days,

they had the-- the burials would've been

in the branches of the trees.

As you see,

the blast knocked off all the branches on these trees.

That's messed up.

Do you think he knew it was a burial site?

I'm sure the boxes on the branches

would've been visible.

[Taylor] The burial boxes wouldn't be that high up.

They'd be just high enough

just to get 'em off the ground.

So it's very disheartening to...

to think that he could've seen those

and decided to blow up these sacred areas.

[Kru] Wow, that's messed up.

I just wanted to show you that this is what he did.

Sorry... that he did that.

Yeah, yeah. It's very sad.

Yeah, there's more.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

This is a huge one!

Yeah. Some pretty big sticks of dynamite.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Just blowin' holes and trenches

every 20 feet.

To be there with the Chief

and know that this is his ancestors' burial ground--

and here I am,

with my metal detector, out here prospectin'...

it was disgusting and I felt ashamed.

To the First Nations community,

that was their ancestors, that was their family.

But to Jack Mould...

it was just bones to him.

[sighs in disgust]

I get it. I get gold fever...

but, I mean, God have mercy.

Like, at what point is enough enough?

I'm a prospector.

It's a prospector who did this.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Chief Darren] It comes down to greed, I think.

His life was about finding that big gold nugget

and, um, he was willing to do anything for that.

It hurts your soul to see this, you know?

It's like you can feel it in here.

It's real.

You might've wrote a book about this

and caught my mind as a child,

but when I see the things you do as an adult,

I lost all respect for Jack Mould.

[Kru] Is that eagle?

[Chief Darren] Must be a nest up there.

[Kru] Well, at least something

made it through all that blasting.

[Chief Darren] Yeah.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

Where we came in,

we can grab some cedar branches from.

We'll brush off just so that we're protected.

I'll start off with your arms.

Brush your arms...

then your head.

Do your back.

Okay. There you are.

-Thank you. -Mm-hmm.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Chief Darren] Okay.

Thank you so much.

Okay.

Thanks for bringing and sharing this with us.

It's a reality we don't get to see.

You're welcome.

Glad to have you in our territory.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Taylor] So where do we go from here?

[Kru] Straight ahead. 12:00.

That's where I wanna go.

[Taylor] We don't know what we're getting ourselves into.

[Kru] When it comes to gold,

people kill, people take, people steal,

so... who knows what happened to Jack Mould?

Can you tell me what you're doing here?

[Taylor] Why did he go missing?

[Adam] Whatever they found, it's in there still.

[Taylor] Take a look at this!

"Slumach - Jackson."

[David] He said those who find the mine

won't live long enough to take it out.

I'm feeling sore. My legs are burning.

This is a fair-sized beast.

What the hell?

I made it this far... and I'm here!

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]