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Previously on Deadman's Curse...

[Taylor] So who wants to go in first?

[Narrator] ...New leads in a hunt for Slumach's gold.

[Adam] There's a guy, his name is Jack Mould.

[Lisa] I think he was murdered.

[Taylor] We got lots of stuff here.

He's also using Walter Jackson's letter.

He claimed it was

Walter Jackson's tent-shaped rock.

See that dot?

That's your treasure map.

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

This cliff supposedly has a cave in it.

It's a shadow, it's an illusion.

[Chief Darren] Some of our people have run into him.

He was always pulling a gun on them.

This was a burial ground that he blew up.

That's messed up.

I found Slumach's mine, yeah.

I'm going to prove it.

I touch one of them things,

and we're sinking.

[♪♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] Bute Inlet...

a remote waterway

on British Columbia's West Coast.

Here, the land is wild...

and the waters deep.

It lies 300 kilometres north of Pitt Lake,

far from the heart of the Slumach legend,

but compelling evidence has brought the team here,

following the trail

of missing prospector Jack Mould...

[Kru] Did you guys find anything out there, or what?

-No. -Nothing.

-Nothing? -Really?

[Narrator] ...but so far,

none of their clues are lining up.

Yeah, it's an illusion.

The sun shines down,

it casts a shadow against the cliff,

it looks like a cave.

What about the geology? What'd it look like?

Granite.

Silica-rich granite.

[sighs]

What did Chief Darren have to say?

[Chief Darren] This is where

Jack Mould was looking for gold,

and he blew it up with dynamite.

[Taylor] Yeah, and Potato Point is a burial site

for the Homalco People.

Jack Mould took some dynamite in there,

and... blew it up.

Holy smokes.

And, I mean, like, he went to war.

The explosives were so big,

it blew the branches off the top of the trees,

like, 50 feet up.

That's messed up.

This is a burial ground.

It was sad.

It was just really sad to see, you know.

This guy was... not a good guy.

[sighs]

What he's done to the people that lived there,

in the process of finding gold,

that's not how we prospect.

There's a lotta gold out there.

We can get it,

but not that way.

[Narrator] Evidence says the gold eluded Jack,

despite years selling his story...

while blasting holes in Bute Inlet.

But now there are new questions

around the prospector's motivation...

and mysterious disappearance.

[Adam] His disappearance raises a lot of questions.

His remains have not been found.

Jack Mould is one of the most recent prospectors

missing, or some would say deceased.

Some would say victims of the curse.

[Taylor] Bute Inlet is totally off the beaten path.

There had to be something drawing Jack Mould here.

[Narrator] Mould's own daughter

has long suspected foul play.

He went missing in Bute Inlet.

I think he was murdered for what he knew.

I wasn't willing to give up

until we searched through

every single aspect of this man's mission.

We're not here just for gold.

We're here for the truth.

So where do we go from here?

I say we start at the source.

You know, if you're putting in that much work,

he's gotta have a serious base of operations

somewhere out here.

The barge.

Chief Darren talked about the barge.

That's where I wanna go.

So that had to be his base camp.

So if we're gonna find out about more about Mould,

we need to find that barge.

[Narrator] Jack's barge,

the one-time headquarters for his mining operation.

[Taylor] If we can find it,

we can start unravelling this mystery.

Is that it over there?

Straight ahead, 12 o'clock?

-[Taylor] You see it? -[Don] Yeah.

[Kru] Hey, Adam, Don's got eyes on it.

[Narrator] The once-floating structure

has beached high on the land.

[Adam] Yeah, there it is.

It's seen better days.

[Taylor] Geez. Look at that thing.

-Wow. -Gee whiz.

[Kru] You're doing something out here

to have a barge that big, man.

-Like, full-on operation. -Yeah.

He was obviously serious about it, right?

[Taylor] What happened to this guy,

and why did he go missing?

Did he possibly die out here?

He was definitely up to something.

[Narrator] 300 kilometres south...

[David] Are you serious?

[Narrator] ...and not far from his destination...

[David] Yeah, you don't wanna go nowhere near those things

in this boat.

[Narrator] ...David Muise drifts into trouble...

[David] I touch one of them things,

and we're sinking.

This is a mess.

I got a back-current,

and I got lots of logs in the water.

Again, something telling me not to go.

I believe that curse

is preventing people from getting there.

The mountains protect that gold.

[Narrator] It's a return trip into a deadly valley,

where David claims that, two years ago,

he found Slumach's motherlode.

[David] I stood right at it, literally two feet away.

But I left it.

That's where the curse comes in.

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

but I lost the life that I had.

I lost my house.

Whatever I could fit in my car was all I had left.

But I don't like giving up.

Not stopping until I get there.

Don't touch the boat, buddy!

Go away!

Puncture my boat.

I got a current here.

I think I'm out.

I'm out.

I think that was it there.

I'm out.

Ah!

I'm doing this for my son.

That's my boy, David Jr.

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 finished my quest.

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

Land, ho!

I didn't bring nothing to celebrate.

I'm here.

I made it.

Yeah, time for the gold.

Time for the gold.

[Narrator] With the first leg of his journey complete,

David now reveals his next milestone...

a 30-kilometre trek to a river crossing

marking a back-door entrance into the Pitt--

the next step in his return to Slumach's lost mine.

[David] I didn't know what I was getting into, really,

when I went the first time,

but this time, I know what's there,

I know what to expect,

and how to get in and how to get out.

The time is now.

[chuckling]

The time is now, yeah.

Yee-hoo!

I'm here!

[Narrator] Back in Bute Inlet,

the team is closing in on the grounded barge.

[Kru] Oh, sweet.

Bute's in the middle of nowhere. Yeah.

You've got grizzlies up there galore.

[cocking gun]

You got cougars and wolverines that'd tear you to shreds.

Barge is just up there.

Geez.

Walking towards this barge

beached at the head of the inlet,

it's creepy.

[Kru] Looks like a bloody house.

[Adam] Looks like someone's house.

[Don] Just keep your eyes open.

Just a sec, Adam.

Let me get ahead of you a little bit.

As we came up on that barge,

you could see it was like time had forgotten it.

We got a full-on operation here.

Look at all these fuel barrels over here.

[Don] Don't be in a big rush.

Let's just assess this a little bit here.

[Narrator] 300 kilometres from home...

[Don] Hey, man! We're okay.

We're coming in peace.

My gun's not loaded, so...

[Narrator] ...the team has followed clues

to an abandoned barge...

once headquarters

to missing prospector Jack Mould's mining operation.

[Don] But how about you?

It's loaded?

Well, maybe just keep it pointed down.

Somebody standing in front of us with a shotgun,

and we're, like, stopped in our tracks.

Well, maybe we should just introduce ourselves here.

So, I'm Don.

[Kru] What was it?

Sulo?

[Kru] That's from the cards.

[Don] Well, there's a business card here...

Sulo.

[Don] We're here because we were given this box...

[Sulo] Yeah?

[Don] From Jack Mould's daughter.

Yes.

-So you know Jack? -Yes.

[Adam] This is Jack Mould's place?

[Sulo] Well, it's mine now.

Tell me more about what you're doing here.

So, on this claim map...

Yeah.

He was calling something "Slumach's mines".

[Narrator] With map in hand on Southgate Peak,

Adam determined Jack's map is a fraud.

[Sulo] He went public with this here,

and Jack and I got together and made J & S Gold Mining.

[Adam] What were you trying to mine?

There's a lot of gold in this mountain.

-A lot of gold in here? -Yeah.

[Adam] So you had geological surveys?

[Sulo] Yeah, he did drilling on stuff,

and that happened to be my hobby too.

I'm a licensed prospector.

And you were getting investors to invest?

No, I financed the whole thing.

-Oh, okay. -Oh, okay.

[Kru] You know, he got money from people,

whether it was Sulo, whether it was investors.

It took a lot of money to build up what he had.

But you'd also expect to see a bunch of gold,

so I mean, two and two didn't add up.

Is there any way that you could show us

some of the things that Jack might have left behind?

[Sulo] Yes, come in.

[Kru] How long have you been here?

-Just under 30 years. -Wow.

[Sulo] This is all dark in here.

Right now we don't have the generator running,

but there's all kinds of tools.

[Kru] It's like walking through history in here.

[Sulo] Yeah. Here are some of Jack's shovels.

They don't make them anymore like this.

Here is some old-type axes,

and here's some of the sledgehammers.

Jack had boats.

He had motors.

You gotta remember, when you're prospecting,

you have to have helicopter fuel.

[Kru] This is a pretty serious operation.

Like, where was he doing the mining?

He planned on a serious operation,

but it didn't take place.

Come take a look at this.

-Good find. -Slumach Jackson.

[Don] Part of the logo here looks awfully familiar.

[Narrator] Walter Jackson's tent-shaped rock...

a key clue and icon in the legend of Slumach.

[Taylor] Yeah, that's it.

-Hey, Taylor. -Yeah?

Look at that.

This could be it.

I think that's the rock.

I mean, this is on his logo.

When Adam and I were up searching,

we couldn't find this.

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

They took this rock up there just to take a photo.

That's also a possibility.

That's a real good possibility.

[Narrator] Photos of Mould

posing next to his tent-shaped rock,

often used to promote his mining venture.

[Adam] Jack Mould used Slumach, used Walter Jackson's name,

got investors excited,

what we would call clickbait nowadays.

He was ahead of his time.

[Taylor] Oh, there's a plate here.

It's in Spanish, but I can't read that,

but 1780.

[Don] Totally out of place. I mean...

[Taylor] Absolutely.

[thunder rolling]

[Narrator] Just east of Pitt Lake...

...David's overland journey begins.

[David] Calm day to a stormy day in, like, 15 minutes.

Look, I'm already wet, and I just got here.

[laughing]

Oh, well.

It's just Slumach telling me not to go.

[Narrator] His route continues

30 kilometres down an old logging road

to a river crossing--

the next leg of his journey into the Pitt.

[David] First time using this thing.

What the hell?

What the hell is that?!

[Bleep]! [Bleep] sakes.

[Narrator] David Muise is on the road to Slumach's gold...

[David] What the hell?

What the hell is that?

[Bleep]! [Bleep] sakes.

[Narrator] ...but his return trip in

hasn't been smooth.

[David] Everything fell forward, the tire grabbed it.

All right. Try again.

What the hell is that?

Oh...I locked this on.

I should've brought the cover for it.

I shoulda brought that.

It would've saved my gear from falling out.

[revving]

All right.

[Narrator] By noon, the end of the road.

A familiar marker signalling David's route inland.

[David] That's been here a few years, actually.

Yeah, it's not something you see every day in the woods.

This might be a cemetery.

Who knows?

But I'm not gonna bother it,

not while that cross is sitting there.

Yeah, I think about Slumach's curse...

[laughing]

...'cause he said those who find the mine

won't live long enough to take it out.

Kinda makes me...

...respect it, that's all.

We all end up there.

Rest in peace.

[Narrator] 12 kilometres later,

Muise arrives at his next destination.

All right.

So now we're gonna go take a look

at what I gotta contend with to get across the river.

Well, it's a fair current,

but it's quite shallow, lots of rocks.

I gotta make sure I'm not gonna puncture it.

So I gotta get geared up.

We gotta bring it to bring myself across.

Any branch will do.

[Narrator] As David begins to build his new boat,

a minor irritation...

Ow.

[Narrator] ...has become a major problem.

Well, last night, I was starting to feel hurt.

Today, it's... I see the swelling,

and it's turning red, so I don't know what I did.

Right here.

Right there, actually.

That's the spot right there, and it's hurting.

I'm gonna keep going.

It don't matter what happens to me.

I'm getting up there.

Unless I lose my legs, I'm getting there.

Yeah, this is gonna happen.

Hard on the hand.

Ah, ow!

Ai-yi-yi.

Yeah, that's hard.

I spent so much time and energy to get up here.

I can't go home for a simple hand or a broken leg

or anything foolish like that.

You don't get nowhere

if you're too scared to do something.

Yeah, look at that, b'y!

Just like I knew what I was doing.

She's ready.

Ooh.

Hoo-ah.

Wilma! I'm gonna call you Wilma.

Wilma boat make it or not?

[laughs]

Wilma boat make it?

Doing a good job, girl.

We're gonna make it.

Get on the other side of them rocks, I'll be good.

No, I'm not going to get deterred.

I'm gonna keep on going.

Now that she's here, I'm gonna call her Betsy,

'Cause I Betsy will!

Hoo-aah!

Wow, that's heavy.

Okay, break time.

[Narrator] Back inside Jack Mould's barge...

[Adam] Did you find any clues?

[Don] Check this out.

[Narrator] ...Taylor's discovery...

I found this.

It's a galleon.

[Narrator] ...has the team's attention.

[Sulo] Look at the age on it.

1780?

Yeah.

That's when the Spaniards were here.

The Spaniards were here?

[Sulo] They were here.

They took millions of dollars' worth of gold from here.

[Kru] I've studied them a little bit.

Yeah. They actually

were supposed to be exploring for the British,

and so they started mining themselves,

and when the British found out about it,

then they sunk 11 or 12 ships in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

We had Spanish and we had British.

The British won.

This is what we know.

This is what's forgotten.

[Narrator] Masters of the high seas,

history tells us the gold-hungry Spanish

were the greatest prospectors of all...

and the most ruthless.

From 1774 through to the early 1800s,

the Spanish explored and pillaged

the west coast of North America.

Their mission--

claim land, find gold,

and return with it to the motherland.

Rumours of lost Spanish mines and gold expeditions

deep inland

fill North America's unofficial history books.

So what was Jack doing?

Was Jack looking for

where the Spanish were mining for gold?

Yes. He found a ship.

He found a real ship out there?

The real one, yeah.

About halfway down,

in between here and the other side.

-Right here? -Yeah.

That was one of the reasons why he-- the barge is here.

[Adam] This is pretty big.

I mean, maybe Jack Mould was using Slumach's gold

as a cover for something else he actually did find.

Jack Mould organized a diving expedition

into that bay out there,

and found a Spanish galleon?

[Don] All of a sudden now,

there's a new chapter in this Jack Mould story.

[Narrator] In Bute Inlet, British Columbia,

the team has stumbled across a new clue

left by missing prospector Jack Mould--

evidence that says Jack,

in the search for Slumach's gold,

may have found something entirely different.

[Sulo] These navy divers went down.

I got some... some pictures.

Here's when they're going diving for it.

Here is another one.

[Kru] Wow, they were serious.

[Adam] This is an actual diving expedition.

Jack organized this?

-Yeah, he organized it. -Wow, that's a lotta guys.

[Sulo] Nine or 10 Navy divers went down there.

[Adam] So what happened?

-We found it. -You found it?

But you could see a little bit of a ship...

like, it's not clear water down there.

There's a lot of silt in the bottom there,

but it's in real, real bad shape.

There's a galleon in the silt,

which would preserve it,

which would keep it stuck in place,

not strewn all over the ocean floor.

If they weren't able to get it,

possibly we could.

The theory is

Jack Mould was kind of using Slumach's name,

but he didn't find Slumach's gold.

He found Spanish gold.

Whatever they saw in that water,

whatever they found,

it's in there still.

[Narrator] And if Jack did find something,

could it be connected to his disappearance?

[Kru] You know, where Spanish are, gold is.

Plain and simple.

[Narrator] East of Pitt Lake...

[David] I'm looking for dens

that could possibly hold a bear or a cougar,

'cause if I spend the night around here,

I wanna make sure I'm not in a guy's home.

If you're gonna be in the wilderness,

you gotta think like the wilderness.

That's a bear scratch.

It's a black bear. Yeah.

This is a fair-sized beast.

If I was to judge

by the strength he has to push into that bark,

I would say he's about 300 pounds.

Looking like a good spot for a camp.

I'm good here for-- for a night.

99% of the people that go in the woods camping,

they just find a trail, they get into the woods,

they find a spot next to a lake, and they set up camp.

This bottle I brought so I can mark my territory here.

This way, the animals know I'm here as well,

just like they do.

The best thing to do, the wisest thing to do,

is do like the animals, mark your territory.

Good spot.

Gotta make sure they know I'm here.

You have a cup with some urine or whatever,

you pour it on the ground, you scrape the dirt,

you put it on the dirt that you scraped,

and do that all the way around.

Just like an animal of the woods.

The idea is they're gonna smell this

before they smell my camp.

They mark their territories to keep the other animals out,

to let them know that they're there.

Do the same and they'll leave you alone.

I'm all out.

[Narrator] Early morning...

David reveals his final route in...

...a six-kilometre trek through the bush

to a 1,000-foot waterfall

guarding the entrance to the valley above,

and what could be the source of Slumach's gold.

[David] Hand's still bugging me.

Shit! [Bleep] sakes!

Wow!

My glasses!

[Bleep]!

Shit! My only pair.

If I come too close, I can't see nothin'.

Slumach's been doing that to me

since I've been going there.

He's not gonna deter me.

The mine, the curse, no way!

I'll still see gold.

I gotta keep going. I'm already here.

It's a three-day hike.

I've already wasted a day and a half to get here.

I gotta make my way to a waterfall,

and I have to climb this waterfall,

which is really steep,

and I have to go up to a hidden valley.

That's where the mine lies.

I'm playing with fire, yeah, for going back, for sure,

because the curse is still there,

and it's not an easy trek.

The mountains and the ridges around it protect it...

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

and unless you know how, you ain't getting there.

I'm close enough now, I'm not turning around.

I don't care what happens.

I get to the waterfall...

Wow!

...and I'm devastated.

My heart just sunk

when I saw that much water coming down.

The last time I was at the waterfall,

it was a trickle.

Oh, my goodness.

How am I gonna get up that?

[Narrator] Off the shore of Bute Inlet,

a new clue points to a fortune in lost gold

somewhere deep on the ocean floor.

If you come across anything Spanish

and you're a prospector,

you better damn well look for it.

[Narrator] And for this search,

they'll need some help.

[Dowell] You know, when Chief Darren called

and said we needed to meet these people,

we were quick to jump to it.

[Narrator] Marine archaeologist Andrianna Dowell and her crew

have been investigating

seismic changes to the ocean floor

ever since a massive landside

ripped through Bute Inlet six months ago.

So we're talking about a couple hundred years old, then.

[Adam] Yeah, at least.

[Narrator] A galleon, if located,

would rewrite history,

and rethink our understanding of where the Spanish explored

in their search for gold.

Were they bringing up any artifacts?

Was there any sort of

credible material culture that they were finding,

or is this just on hearsay?

[Kru] They actually worked

with Canadian Navy divers for this one,

and they saw it, too.

This is not a small dive.

They wouldn't do all that work for nothing.

[Dowell] I mean, for the time,

this is definitely a lot of equipment,

a lot of technology.

Do you actually think the Spanish were in this area?

I know that the Spanish were out here

looking for the Northwest Passage.

They were pretty secretive about their exploits.

[Adam] We're essentially following

in Jack Mould's footsteps.

He commissioned a dive here.

Did Jack Mould know something that nobody else knew?

Maybe he did find gold or some other kind of treasure.

Did he disappear because he found something?

Who knows?

Let's get going.

[Narrator] Andrianna's team uses a side-scan sonar system

known as "the fish".

The sonar bounces sound waves off the ocean floor,

sending a clear image of what's below

to the research vessel above.

[Don] So we're doing, like, a grid pattern?

Kind of like mowing the lawn, we go in one straight line...

[Narrator] They're searching the exact location

Jack's dive team explored decades ago.

[Kru] Whoa, whoa. What's that?

What's that right there?

So this, I don't know what that is,

but I'm gonna mark it as a target.

[Kru] Look, look, there's circles.

You got straight edges.

What's this? This is a square box.

It's kinda like the end of the galleon.

Yeah.

[Kru] Look at that area. Wow, look at that.

That's another debris field right there, eh?

'Kay. I've marked it as a target.

I mean, that's definitely

some sort of a man-made structure.

Why don't we get the ROV started?

Let's get it up and running and drop it.

[Kru] Away we go.

[Narrator] An ROV is a remote-control

deep-sea video camera

designed to provide a closer look in real time.

-Whoa, there we go. -Ooh.

All right, so we can see some visibility, yeah.

Is that just the silt?

That's the silt.

That's what makes the visibility difficult. Yup.

All right, let's go try to find that structure

that we saw on the side scan.

[Adam] Something's there.

-Wow. -What's that?

[Don] Is that a cable?

[Kru] Looks like a mast.

-A ship? -That's not a log.

You know, I think this is ending up

being a little too silty.

I can't really verify anything that we're seeing here,

so I say we get in the water.

[Narrator] Three days in and worse for wear,

David has finally reached his biggest obstacle--

a 1,000-foot waterfall

guarding the entrance to a hidden valley above...

Ah!

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

So, one less obstacle,

and away we go, and we'll be there.

But it's a big obstacle.

Big obstacle.

Get out the way. I'm coming through.

Ow, my hand hurts.

Ugh.

Man, that's hurting.

All swollen.

[Narrator] ...but an injured hand

is complicating his climb.

I'm feeling sore. My legs are burning.

My hand, I can hardly... I can't even close it no more.

My herniated disc is giving me pains in my legs right bad,

because I'm spazzing out from moving.

It's just one thing after the other

that's trying to stop me from going.

When you're looking at a waterfall

that you're-- gotta climb 1,000 feet,

that could be quite slippery,

and once you start sliding, you're not gonna stop.

Slumach's lost gold mine curse is for real,

because I've had more bad luck on this trip

than I've ever had on any other trip.

Not good.

[Narrator] Many search...

and many don't return.

Oh, yoi.

Ah, that hurts.

Ooh.

I don't know.

Oh, yoi.

I did some damage.

It was kinda the last straw

with that water coming off that waterfall.

Right now my glasses are gone, can't see.

Let's say I was to fall and break my leg,

then I'm ruined.

All I gotta do is climb this cliff,

and I can't.

It's too dangerous.

If I try to climb that now with the way my hand is

and my vision is not the best,

I slide down that, hit the bottom, I'm dead.

I'm done for.

It's, it's, it's like a suicide run.

If I get hurt, my son's without a dad,

so I gotta go.

I'm disappointed.

You know, it was a hard go,

a lot of bad things happened on the way,

and now I'm here.

I gotta go back home.

Slowly but surely rebuild, re-gear, restock, you know?

But I'm gonna come back, yeah.

I'll figure out a way to get there one way or another.

[Narrator] The search for Slumach's gold

has taken much from many,

but today one prospector lives to return home.

Back in Bute Inlet,

Adam and Andrianna prepare to dive

on the same spot

prospector Jack Mould may have found

a 200-year-old sunken galleon laden with gold.

Something's under there.

It gives us a reason to dive.

[Dowell] Right now, I'm really excited.

I think that this is a neat spot they discovered.

It presents a really unique opportunity

to see if the Spanish were here.

They might have left some artifacts, you know,

obviously, the motherlode

would be some sort of a shipwreck.

[Taylor] Okay, pressure.

[Dowell] I'm at about 29.

-Good. -Be safe.

Okay.

[Adam] The water's super murky. I mean, it's full of silt.

This is a glacial-fed inlet,

which means it reduces visibility almost down to zero.

When we get down to the bottom,

something is down there.

[Narrator] 180 feet below the surface

the murky water has finally cleared.

[Adam] What we can see is it looks like a mast.

You know, a tubeish-looking object.

We can see a bunch of wood, debris.

Something's there.

It looks like pieces of an old ship.

[Kru] Yeah.

[Adam] That's not Spanish.

I don't know what that is.

[Kru] What'd it look like, though?

It looks like a wreck.

But it's not... it's not a ship.

[Don] Yeah, doesn't look Spanish.

Looks worn down and old.

Yeah, it's old.

This is it? Seriously?

[Adam] It's the steering console

of some sort of boat or something, I don't know.

[Kru] Just, I mean, bloody on top of a mountain,

and this is what we come up with?

I mean, come on now.

So much for Jack Mould's Spanish galleon.

Yeah, it's just another part

of his little tale he weaved, you know.

Yeah.

[Kru] This guy's a frickin' con man.

A person has to take a step backwards

and focus in on the truth.

[Adam] Yeah, like the investors gave him money

for Slumach's gold mines.

The investors are now gonna give him money

to dive on a Spanish ship.

It's frustrating.

[Don] We shouldn't be disappointed

in Jack Mould's story,

because we had to check it out.

If we hadn't have checked it out,

there'd always be that doubt, right?

People go on, keep believing him.

[Taylor] We are correcting history.

We're exposing lies

and letting people know what really happened here.

[Narrator] With Jack's claims debunked

and wild theories exposed,

a final mystery remains.

[Adam] We know Jack Mould disappeared.

Technically, we don't even know if he died.

What if he's alive?

When it comes to gold, people kill,

people take, people steal,

so who knows what happened to Jack Mould?

[Narrator] In 2007, Jack Mould disappeared,

gathering water in Southgate River.

Investigators found his empty truck and dog nearby.

[Sulo] That's it.

-So this is the spot? -Yeah.

Here was the car, okay?

He came up here looking for water.

The can was half,

and it was very close to the edge,

and the other can, it was still empty.

He was filling up water.

Yeah. It went down here, steps went down, and...

Huh.

The newspaper reports of his disappearance

say that his dog was left alone in his truck.

[Kru] You don't leave your dogs behind.

I don't care how hardcore of a criminal you are,

you always bring your dogs with you.

[Sulo] The divers and the frogmen

went all under the banks and everything,

and looked all the way to the ocean.

And nothing?

And nothing, no.

[Adam] Don't fall in, Kru.

Just saying.

[Kru] Whoa!

Oh, hell, no!

Oh, wow.

I've never seen anything like that in my life.

Ooh!

Ooh, that's scary.

That stuff is liquid cement.

Have you ever seen anything like this before?

Could easily get you stuck.

The more it gets into quicksand...

Oh, shit.

And then the more you move and struggle,

the more it liquefies,

and it's like, it sucks you in.

It was a death trap, plain and simple.

So if he fell and got stuck in that...

ain't nobody helping him get out.

Jack Mould, he was a big man,

and at the end time, he was out of shape.

Could only imagine the more you struggle,

the deeper you sink.

You know, the more you yell, no one hears you.

I've never seen anything like it before.

It's like pure silt quicksand.

[Sulo] Yeah.

[Kru] That's BC quicksand, man.

And look, once you're in, you're in.

That's nuts.

And it just breaks away.

Jack Mould is underneath that silt.

That's where he is, and what a horrible way to go,

but especially, how ironic to be taken back by the earth,

the same that he was destroying, my god.

Yeah.

[Don] The curse, is that what caused Jack to go missing?

I don't know. I don't discount it.

[Adam] In the history of Slumach,

he's written his own chapter.

You know, as strange of a story and as a legacy

and a rabbit hole that he led us down,

his story led us on a journey

that gets us closer to finding the truth.

I'm just glad that we could be the first people on the ground

to be able to find out the real truth

of what happened to him...

for his daughter,

and especially for Chief Darren and his people.

We're writing the final chapter in Jack Mould's book,

and closing the book forever.

We learned some really valuable lessons.

We learned the wrong way and the right way

to do what we're doing.

We got to see in real time, person to person,

the effects that this had on the Indigenous communities.

What he did, it's done forever.

It can't be taken back...

...so if anything,

it just taught me the value and importance

of taking care of the land that takes care of you.

I've got something good for you.

This is huge.

This is "X" marks the spot.

[Adam] This is your one shot.

The weather window is closing in.

It's stuck!

See that opening?

[Taylor] This is incredible.

[Kru] We're not just talking about a legend anymore,

we're talking about facts.

[Adam] This wouldn't be here if there wasn't gold.

[Kru] This is what I live for.

[Taylor] Come check this out.

Oh!

[Kru] It is a cave!

[Adam] Cave means mine,

and mine means Slumach.