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Man: Very Old Passageway.

Wow, This Is Amazing.

Do You Think That Robin Hood
Was A Real Man?

Ugh!

So If The Story's True,
Somewhere On This Property,

Robin Hood Is Buried.

Absolutely Incredible.

Good Lord!

This Is Amazing.

Robin Hood Could Be
Right Here?

[ Beeping ]

-Oh!
-Look At That!

♪♪

Look In An Movie Theater,

And You'll See Screens
Filled With Superheroes.

They Fight For The Powerless.
They Have Loyal Sidekicks.

They Defeat Their Enemies,
And They Get The Girl.

And They All Have A Common
Ancestor -- Robin Hood.

Meet The World's
First Superhero.

He's Been A Fixture Of Folklore
Since The 1300S,

And His Popularity
Shows No Signs Of Waning.

But With So Many Stories,

One Simple Question
Remains Strangely Elusive --

Was Robin Hood A Real Person?

Was There A Vigilante
In Sherwood Forest

Who Stole From The Rich
And Gave To The Poor?

Recent Archaeological
Discoveries In Nottingham

Have Revealed Miles
Of Tunnels Beneath The City

That May Provide Clues
About Robin Hood's Identity.

And Researchers In Two Different
Locations May Be On The Verge

Of Uncovering
The Final Resting Place

Of The World's Most
Famous Thief.

New Evidence Is Revealing
A Robin Hood Legend

Unlike Any You've Ever Heard.

And It May Change
Who You Root For.

My Mission -- To Dive
Into 800 Years Of Legends,

To Investigate The Tunnels
Beneath Nottingham

And Join Historians
In Search Of Hood's Grave.

My Hope Is To Learn Once
And Of All, Who Was Robin Hood?

And Was He Really The Hero
We've Made Him Out To Be?

♪♪

My Name Is Josh Gates.

With A Degree In Archaeology
And A Passion For Exploration,

I Have A Tendency To End Up
In Some Very Strange Situations.

Good Lord! [ Laughs ]

My Travels Have Taken Me
To The Ends Of The Earth

As I Investigate
The Greatest Legends In History.

We're Gonna Fly, Let's Go.

This Is "Expedition Unknown."

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A Long Flight Across
The Atlantic

Lands Me In London, England.

More Than Just A World Capital,

London Sometimes Feels
Like The Capital Of The World.

♪♪

The City Of London,

Maybe More Than Any Other
Major City In The World,

Defies A Simple Description.

London Isn't Just A City.

It's Every City, A Mecca
Of Art, Music, Fashion, Culture.

And While It's Dripping
In History, Somehow London

Manages To Be Totally Modern.

And All The Pieces Seem
To Fit Together Into Something

That Is Inherently British.

It's Here In The Center
Of The British Empire

That I'm About To Start My Quest
To Find Robin Hood.

For A Moment, Though, I Just
Want To Soak All Of This In.

In Case You Hadn't Noticed,

The English Drive
On The Left Side Of The Road.

That Takes Some Getting Used To.

God.

This Is A Very Dangerous City
To Be An American In.

Welcome To London!

Oh, My Gosh.

You Are London.

Do I Recognize You
From Somewhere?

Yeah, I'm On Tv.

Really?
Which One?

Uh, It's Called
"To Catch A Predator."

Sir, Why Don't You
Have A Seat?

[ Laughs ]

The Stereotype Of The Repressed,
Uptight Englishman

Takes Yet Another Hit.

Sightseeing Has Been A Blast.

But I'll Admit,
I Was Expecting A Bit

More For One London Landmark.

I Got To Tell You, I Don't Know
Why They Call This Thing

Big Ben.

It's Tiny.

Total Disappointment.

I'm In London To Check Out
The Humble Beginnings

Of The Robin Hood Legend

Here In The British Library,

Home To Just About
Important Document

In The History Of The Empire.

The Original Robin Hood Stories
Weren't In The Movies,

They Were Ballads Sung
By Medieval Troubadours

Traveling From Town To Town
As The Entertainment Of The Day.

Eventually The Songs Were
Written Down As Lyric Poems.

And Some Of The Earliest
Versions Still Exist Today.

In A Special Viewing Room,

I've Been Granted
Extremely Rare Permission

To See An Original Printing,
First Hand.

And What Year
Is This From?

It Was Published In London
Around About 1560.

450 Years Old.

The Overdue Fines
On This Thing Are Brutal.

That Is
Absolutely Amazing.

"Here Beginneth
A Little Jest

Of Robin Hood
And His Merry Men

And Of The Proud Sheriff
Of Nottingham."

That Beginning Is Really
What We Think Of When

We Think Of The Beginning
Of The Story Of Robin Hood.

"The Jest Of Robin Hood"

Is A Collection
Of The Original Ballads,

Which Have Many Of The Essential
Robin Hood Details That We Still

Associate With Him Today.

He's A Proficient Archer
Who Lives In Sherwood Forest

With His Merry Men.

Including His Faithful
Righthand-Man,

The Immense Little John.

And The Perennially-Plastered
Friar Tuck.

And He Of Course,
He Does Battle

Against The Wicked
Sheriff Of Nottingham.

While The Core Elements
Of The Story

Have Remained Un-Changed
For Hundreds Of Years,

It Turns Out There Are Also
Startling Differences

In The Source Material.

Many Of The Tales
Are Brutally Violent.

And Robin's Love Interest,
Maid Marian,

No Where To Be Found.

Most Shockingly,

The Original Robin Hood
Robs Wealthy Travelers,

But Doesn't Seem Too Concerned
About Giving To The Poor.

That Character Trait
Doesn't Appear For Centuries.

Do You Think That These Writings
Are Based On A Real Man?

Characters Throughout The Ages
Were Called Robin Hood.

And I Would Think Probably
A Grain Of Truth In There.

How Much, I Don't Know.

Somebody
Starts Telling The Story,

Are They Always Based
On Something?

That's The Mystery.

Now That I've Seen On Of The
Original Ballads For My Self,

My First Stop Is One
Of The Most Famous Locations

In The Robin Hood Legend --
Nottingham.

[ Engine Turns Over ]

There We Go, She's Alive.
All Right.

Robin Hood, Let's Do This.

My Sweet Ride
Through The English Countryside

Is Older Than I Am,

But It's Still A Triumph,
One Might Say,

Of British Engineering.

This Is A 1968 Triumph
Bonneville, 650 Ccs,

This Is The Bike
That I Dream About

When I Go To Sleep At Night.

Although I Am On The Wrong Side
Of The Road,

And My Brake
And My Shifter Are Reversed,

I Can't Imagine
What Could Go Wrong.

Nottingham Is Just Over
100 Miles North Of London.

Which I Means I Can Get There
Without Missing Tea-Time.

This Is The Heart Of Where Many

Of Robin Hood's Adventures
Took Place.

And Of Course, Was Home
To His Arch-Enemy,

The Sheriff Of Nottingham.

And Even Today, Hood's Influence
Is Felt Everywhere You Look.

♪ It's All About The Journey
From The Bottom To The Top ♪

♪ Hold On Tight
Till You Get There ♪

♪ It's A Long Time
Till You Stop ♪

When I Think Of Nottingham,
I Think Of A Legendary Place,

A Medieval City
With An Infamous Outlaw.

Which Is Why It Is Very
Surprising To Find This --

♪ Even With
The Rain And Thunder, Baby ♪

♪ Heading On Down The Track ♪

A Modern, Bustling Town.

Including The Suburbs,
There's More Than A Million

And A Half People Here.

It's Brimming With Shops
And Pubs And Students.

It's A Place That Robin Hood
Would Hardly Recognize.

♪ I Know I Ain't Alone
When I Walk A Wondering Soul ♪

On The Other Side Of Town,

I Nervously Make My Way To Meet
Someone Who's Made A Career

Out Of Hunting Down
Robin Hood --

The Dreaded, And Very Real,
Sheriff Of Nottingham

Next To The Monarch Of England,
The Sheriff Of Nottingham

Is The Oldest Continuously Held
Office In The Country.

We Know The Sheriff
Of The 12Th Century Stories

As A Treacherous Villain
Who Led A Corrupt Regime.

As For The Sheriff Of 2015...

I'm About To Find Out.

Hello?

Gates: My Search For
The Real Robin Hood

Has Brought Me, Naturally,
To Nottingham --

Home Jurisdiction Of Hood's
Nemesis, The Evil High Sheriff.

Hello?

Hello.

Very Nice To Meet You.

Welcome To Nottingham.

Thank You Very Much?

You Are The...

Real Sheriff
Of Nottingham.

I Have To Say,
That Is So Cool.

For Someone With The Most
Notorious Job Title

In The World,
She's A Lot Less Alan Rickman

And A Lot More Maggie Smith.

Actually, I Actually Felt
Nervous Knocking On Your Door.

Nobody's Nervous Of Me.

Are You Out There
Busting Crime?

It's A Ceremonial Role
These Days.

Your Predecessor Has
Kind Of A Bad Reputation.

Yes.

They Administered The Land
For The King,

And They Had The Powers
To Condemn People To Death.

Do You Have The Power
To Condemn Me To Death?

Not Now.
Not Since 1972.

Well,
Nobody Was Better At --

At Capturing Robin Hood
Than The Sheriff Of Nottingham.

Do You Have Any Tips
For Me?

Well, We Didn't Hold Onto Him
For Very Long,

So It Wasn't Much Good.

I Think He Died An Old Man,
Apparently.

You Were Good At Catching Him,
But Not Keeping Him?

Not Keeping Him, Yeah.

Jackie Tells Me That In
"The Jest Of Robin Hood,"

The Sheriff Of Nottingham
Captures Our Hero And Imprisons

Him In The Infamous Dungeons
Of Nottingham Castle.

But He Flees Through A Series
Of Tunnels Beneath The Fortress.

But Is This Even Possible?

The Ability To Verify The Story

Could Tell Us Whether Or Not
Robin Hood Was A Real Man.

And Lucky For Me, The Remains
Of The Castle Survive Today.

This What's Known
As Castle Rock.

Really Commanding Position,

It Looks Out More Than 100 Feet
Over The City And River Beyond.

And There Has Been
Some Sort Of Fortress Here

For At Least 1,000 Years.

Tim.
-Pleased To Meet You.

How Are You?

Tim Pollard Is A Life-Long
Nottingham Resident

And Researcher
Who Has Spent Decades

Studying The Legend
Of Robin Hood.

This Does Not Look
Like Nottingham Castle,

This Looks Like A Nice,
Stately Home.

Pollard: Uh, It Is,
But At The Time Of Robin Hood,

There Would Have Been
A Stone Castle Here.

And That Would Have Been
The Seat Of The Sheriff

Of Nottingham,
Who Of Course, You've Heard Of.

Okay, Well Let's See
Where Robin Hood Was Locked Up.

Absolutely, This Way.

Let's Uh, Head Down
Into The Darkness Now.

Oh, It Is Dark.

A Proper
Old-Fashioned Gate.

Wow, This Is Amazing.

A Very Old Passageway.

Going Down Underneath
The Sandstone

That The Castle
Is Built On.

It Does Go Quite Deep
Underground.

Absolutely, From The Top
Of The Castle Rock,

40 Meters All The Way
Down To Ground Level.

And Then It Continues To Go
Further Underground Then That.

Eight Centuries Fall Away,

Just Going Down The Stairs
From The Surface

To The Dungeon
Of Nottingham Castle.

We Are Coming
Into A Genuine Medieval Dungeon.

This Would Have
Been Here From 1068.

This Is Original Stonework
From The Dungeon?

Yeah, Absolutely,
Feel The History.

Imagine You're Robin Hood,

You've Been Captured
By The Sheriff Of Nottingham.

You're Trapped In Here,
There's Really No Way Out.

And If You're Gonna Get Out
Of This, You Need To Go Be Good.

One Of The Rooms
Attached To This Cave System

Is The Sheriff Of Nottingham's
Wine Cellar

Where He Kept All The Good Stuff
For Himself.

One Of The Legends Tells
That Robin Engages The Sheriff

In Conversation.

Get's The Sheriff
And His Guards Very, Very Drunk.

He Manages Then To Escape
Through Some

Of The Other Exit Ways.

Now, We Just Came Down A Single
Stair Case, A Single Tunnel,

Into This One Room.

That Seems Pretty Hard
To Escape From.

Is That Everything That's
Down Here Or Is There More?

No, Underneath The Castle
Is Riddled With Caves.

We're Actually Coming Down
Further Underground.

Whoa.

This Is Wild.

So This Is The Entrance
To Some Of The Caves.

Oh, Wow.

Underneath The Castle Is Riddled
With Natural Caves

As Well As
The Man-Made Ones,

And There's Areas Caves
Underneath And Tunnels

Underneath The Rock
That We Still Haven't

Explored Fully, Either.

And If Robin Could Find His Way
Into One Of Those Passage Ways,

He's Gonna Be Able
To Make His Out

Through The Castle Rock
And Escape To Freedom.

A Lot Of These Passages Haven't
Been Explored, Even Today?

Not Even Today, No.

There's There's A Project
Going On

To Map A Lot Of The Tunnels
And Caves

Under Nottingham Castle
And Around The City Center.

They're Building A 3D Map
Of All The Tunnels

And Caves That They Find.

That's Amazing.

Do You Think
There Was A Robin Hood.

Pollard: Yes, There's Lots Of
Things That Tie This Together.

And There's Every Reason
To Believe That Was A Real Man

At The Basis Of That.

So If A Labyrinth Of Caves Under
Nottingham Is Being Mapped,

Perhaps One Those Caves Contains
A Clue To Robin's True Identity.

Tim Directs Me To Meet With
Archaeologist, Peter Hammond,

Part Of A Team That's Been
Making Incredible New Findings

Underneath Nottingham.

But Instead Of A Dig-Site,

The Address He's Given Me
Appears To Be

A High-End Men's Clothing Store.

Ah, Josh?

Yes, Are You Peter?

I'm Peter Hammond,
Welcome To Paul Smith Shop

Here In Nottingham.

I'm Happy To Be Here But I'm
Very Confused To Be Here.

So This Is A Lovely Store,

But I Was Told
That You Are A Man

To See About Caves And Dungeons
And Things Like That.

Correct.

Like Many
Of Nottingham's Buildings,

There Are Secrets Beneath.

Come This Way.

I Do Need Some Pants, Too,
While I'm Here.

Just This Way.

Like Most Stores,
There's A Basement.

Unlike Most Stores,
There Is A Secret Sub-Basement.

This Way, Josh.

Look At That.

This Goes Way Down.

Whoa.

Gates: Deep Underneath The City
Of Nottingham, Archaeologist

Peter Hammond
Is Excavating A Network Of Caves

That Could Verify Aspect
Of The Robin Hood Legend

Of The 13Th Century.

This Is Not What I Expected
To Find

Under A Posh
Men's Clothing Store.

Certainly Not.

This Is Incredible.
What Is This?

It's Basically
A Wine-Cellar.

All Hand-Dug?

All Handmade,
You Can See The Pick Marks.

This Is Amazing.

Are There Many Of These Caves
Under Nottingham?

There's Hundreds, There's Over
500 Caves Discovered So Far.

500? And There's Still Things
Being Found Down Here?

In Fact,
They're Doing Some Work

Down In These Caves
At The Moment.

Just Down Here.

Dr. Hammond Leads Me Deeper
Into The Caves

Where I Make Another Discovery.

This Guy.

Hello.

This Is Dr. Lukasz Bonenberg

From The University
Of Nottingham.

He's Been Using
Cutting-Edge Laser Mapping

To Make 3D Renderings
Of The Nottingham Caves.

Beams Of Light Pour Over
Every Inch Of Surface Area

Creating An A Detailed Map
Of The Cave.

Far More Accurate Then Any Hand
Measurement Could Ever Be.

Here We Go.

Look At That.
That Is So Cool.

So It's A Full 3D Laser Scan
Of The Entire Room.

Yes.

The 3D Images That This Thing
Creates Are Amazing.

There's Nothing That Could Hide
From The Lasers, Including Us.

And In Terms
Of Archaeological Evidence,

Could You Show Me A Bit Of
What You're Finding Down Here?

Sure, Yeah,
If You Come Over This Way.

Sure, Yeah.

Wow,
This Is Something Else.

Look At All Of This Glass.

Are You Finding Things
Down Here From The Era

That Robin Hood
Is Supposed To Have Lived In?

Yes, 1200S, 1300S, 1400S.

Lots Of Material, Particularly
Pottery From That Time.

Here's An Old Clay Pipe

From Just Before The
English Civil War, I'd Just Say.

That's Incredible.

And A Lot Of Bottles.

Someone Had
A Real Blow-Out Down Here.

A Smashing Time.

What A Neat Window
Into The Past?

It Is Amazing.
-'Tis Amazing.

And To Say They're Still
Being Excavated All The Time.

And You'd Just Never Know
What We're Find Next,

That's What Makes It
So Exciting.

When I Find Artifacts
Like These In The Caves,

And I Think, "Who Last
Held These, Was It Robin Hood?"

You Never Know.
-Wow, Amazing.

Well, Thank You So Much For
The Tour. I Appreciate.

-Thank You.
-All The Best. Thanks, Doctor.

The Final Scans
Reveal Not Just This Cave,

But A Spider Web
Of Passages Beneath The Castle,

Along With Materials
From Robin Hood's Era.

We Now Know That His Legendary
Escapes Were Possible

And Hold Up To The Scrutiny
Of Modern Archaeology.

Satisfied That New Evidence
Could Emerge Here In Time,

I Leave Nottingham
To Get Back On The Case.

But Like Everywhere Else
In The World,

You Exit Through The Gift Shop.

Hard To Believe They Have This,
Very, Very Rare

And Original
Robin Hood Mouse Pad.

I Am Robin Hood.

I Am Friar Tuck.

We've Scaled Way Back
This Season In Our Budget.

We've Got Robin Hood,
We've Got Friar Tuck.

And Of Course, Maid Bear-Rian.

Back On The Trail,
My Trusty Bike And I Head Out

To The Most Famous Location
In Robin Hood Lore.

It's 20 Short Miles
North To Where Else?

Sherwood Forest.

Sherwood Forest Isn't Just Where
Robin Hood Robbed The Rich,

It Was Said To Be His Home
And That Of His Merry Men.

So In Medieval Times,
Sherwood Was A Royal Forest.

It Was Huge, Stretched On
For More Than 30 Miles.

It's Much Smaller Today.

But You Could Still Imagine --

Good Lord!

Oh, Boy.

Who Are You That Walks
Through My Forest?

Uh, I'm Josh.

Are You...

-Robin Hood?
-Yes.

I Stand Before You,

Hero Of Sherwood Forest,
Champion Of England.

I'm Definitely Having
An Acid Trip Right Now.

I'm Sorry To Intrude.
I Appreciate You Not Killing Me.

You Are Welcome.
You Are Granted Safe Passage.

Ade Andrews Is
The Robin Hood Of Sherwood.

Of Course He Is, What Else Is He
Going To Do Dressed Like That?

He's Dedicated His Life
To Studying And Recreating

The Persona Of The World's
Most Famous Thief.

There's This Huge Legend

And It's Changed So Much
Over Time.

But What I Want To Know Is, Is
There A Man Underneath It All?

If You Want To Understand
The Truth

Of The Legend
Of Robin Hood,

You Need To Know What It Was
Like To Live In Those Times.

You Need To Feel It
In You're Bones, My Friend.

I Got A Funny Feeling
This Is Going

To Be Very Embarrassing
For Me.

How's It Going, Man?

Gates: I'm Pretty Sure
I Look Ridiculous.

[ Laughs ]

It'll Do, My Friend.

The Forest Is Waiting.

[ Chuckles ]

I Feel Like You Look
Like A Bad-Ass Warrior.

I Look Like An Extra
In A Monty Python Sketch.

-Like A Peasant?
-Yes, I Look Like A Peasant.

Well, Robin Hood Was
A Peasant.

-So I'm In Good Company?
-You Are, Indeed.

Well, Let's Step
Into The Greenwood Path And Show

You What It Was Like To Be
An Outlaw In Medieval England.

Let's Do It.

Now Appropriately Attired,
I Follow Ade Into Sherwood,

Trying To Connect The Stories
Of 800 Years

With The Woods
That Surround Us Today.

What Are The Elements
In The Legends

That We Know Are True?

The Locations,
The Geography,

Passing Right Through
Sherwood Forest

Was The Great North Road,

Which Is The Main Road
Linking London With York.

So, Of Course, There Are
Many Travelers On This,

Whether It Was The The Fat
Bishops Or The Norman Lords,

They Would Of Been Easy Prey For
Those Sort Of Outside The Law.

And, Of Course,
This Tree Here Is The Major Oak,

The World's
Most Famous Tree, Surely.

Legend Tells Us Robin Hood
And His Merry Men Met Here.

The Heartwood Of The Oak Tree
Dies Away And Becomes Hollow,

So There's A Natural Cave In
There, You Could Fit 14 People.

Wow.
How Old Is The Tree?

It's Around 1,000 Years Old.

That's Insane.

So If Robin Hood Were Real,

This Tree May Been Alive
When He Was Alive?

-Indeed.
-Who Knows That This Tree Saw.

We Go Deeper Into The Forest,

And As The Trees
Close In Around Us,

I Begin To Consider What It

Might Have Been Like To Actually
Live Here In Medieval England.

We See Robin Through
Kind Of A Disney Lens Today,

This Sort Of Sanitized,
Noble Outlaw.

That Is Far From The Truth.

Can You Imagine
Living In This Forest

In The Deepest Mid-Winter?

Mud, Sleet, Rain, Ice,
No Food, Darkness.

It Would Have Been
An Absolute Nightmare.

And Of Course,
These Real Outlaws,

They Were Desperate
And Dangerous People.

The Robin Hood Legends
Were Born Of A Time

When A King Ruled Over Nobles

Who Heavily Taxed The People
Of Their Districts.

Outlaws Like Robin Hood
Rose Up To Strike Out

Against The Only Class
In England With Money

And Became Heroes For The Poor
And The Disenfranchised.

They Would Have Robbed
And Killed Anyone

Who Crossed Their Path.

Stop It,
You're Breaking My Heart.

In A Clearing, Ade Introduces Me
To A Couple Of His Merry Men.

Robin Hood Had Little John.

He's Got These Two Guys.

My Outlaws --
Wolf And Friar Tuck.

-Nice To Meet You.
-Bless You, My Son.

-Wolf Is It?
-Pleasure, Yes.

-So, Merry Men?
-Indeed.

But If You Really Want To Know
What It's Like To Be Robin Hood,

You've Got To Be Able
To Fight Like Robin Hood.

Okay,
So What Are The Options?

Well, You Could Either Fight Me
With A Sword,

Or I Could Show You
The Bow And Arrow.

Well, Let's Do The Sword.

Okay.

♪♪

♪♪

Let's Do The Arrows.

Gates:
Ade Andrews And His Merry Men
Are Helping Me On My Quest

To Uncover The Real Robin Hood

By Showing Me How Medieval
Bandits Actually Fought.

For His Hands-On Lesson
In Sherwood Combat,

I've Been Given A Choice --

Archery Or Sword Fighting.

Let's Do The Arrows.

Despite Having Spent His Life
As Robin Hood,

Ade Isn't The Best Shot
In His Bunch.

His Friend Wolf Is Going To
Teach Me The Art Of The Longbow.

This Is The Type Of Bow
That Generally Would Have Been

Used In That Period?Very Similar.

This Looks Quite A Bit Bigger
Than A Modern Bow.

The Length Has It's Purpose,

It Doesn't Have
To Draw Back As Far.

You Can't Hold Them At Full Draw
For Very Long

At All,
'Cause They Will Snap.

That's Sort Of In The Movies
What We See.

The Whole Army Draws Back...

-Yes.
-Hold...

-Yes.
-Hold...

Yes, And That's Wrong.

My Dreams
Are Getting Crushed Today.

Friar, Do You Have
Any Booze On You?

Come Back Later Tonight, We'll
Sort Something Out For You.

Okay, Perfect.

Archery Is Very Simple.

You Focus On Your Target,

You Draw It To A Point Of Anchor
On Your Face.

Come On.

Have He Alerted Everybody
In This Area Of The Forest.

Children, Families,
Squirrels, Anybody?

When You're Ready.
Release The Arrow.

That Was A Nice, Clean Shot.

It Came Out Of The Bow Nice
And Quiet.

Thank You. Thank You.

You're Very Polite Band
Of Outlaws.

You're On The Board.

I'm On The Board.

Come On.

A Little High.

Brian, How You Feeling,
Standing Right There?

Relatively Safe?

I Got This.
I Got This.

[Bleep]

Oh, Sorry, Friar.

You're Forgiven, My Son.

I Love This Guy.

It's Not Easy.

No, It's A Simple Process,
But Not Necessarily Easy.

And So I Certainly Have A Feel
For How Difficult

It Would Have Been
To Be An Outlaw

Out In These Woods.

But Do You Think That Robin Hood
Was A Real Man?

The Background
To The Story Is All True.

Gates: By Apprenticing With Ade,
I've Been Able To Verify

That The Geography
Of Robin Hood's Stomping Grounds

And The Weapons Of The Day Both
Align Closely With The Legends.

Having Gained
A Better Understanding

Of The Realities Of Outlaw Life,

I See Now That It
Isn't Nearly As Romantic

As The Hollywood Version
Of The Legend.

But In Terms
Of Identifying An Actual Man,

I Have No Names And No Body.

But All That May Be
About To Change.

I'm Driving North
Into Yorkshire

To Investigate One Of The Most
Compelling Leads In The Case.

Kirklees Priory May Have
Something That No Other Place

In England Claims To Have --

Robin Hood's Grave.

This Is Private Land,

And I'm Lucky To Have Been
Given Access

By Historian David Hepworth.

Kirklees Is Mentioned By Name In
The Very Last Robin Hood Story.

According To The Legend,
This Is Where Robin Hood Died.

Gates: Robin Hood Comes Here,
Why?

She's The Head
Of The Nunnery? Okay.

The Ballads Say
A Wounded Robin Hood

Is Brought To The Priory
For Medical Care.

His Cousin, The Prioress,
Treats Him By Bleeding Him,

A Common Medical Practice
Of The Time.

But She Goes Too Far
And Soon Robin Hood Is Dying.

And So What's The Final End
Of All This?

So If The Story Is True,
Somewhere On This Property,

Robin Hood Is Buried.

Yeah.

Okay, So Where?

As Rain Begins To Fall
Over Kirklees,

David And I Make Our Way
Up A Tree-Lined Path

To A Clearing That Seems Like
It's From A Children's Book.

There, Under The Oak Trees,

Stands The Crumbling Grave
Of Robin Hood.

This Is Amazing.

Here, Underneath
This Little Stone...

So How Long
Has This Been Here?

So This Was Built
400 Or 500 Years

After Robin Hood's Death,
Right?

And Has The Gave Ever
Been Fully Excavated?

No.

-Never?
-Never.

Despite This Being
A Hotly Contested

And Totally Possible Final
Resting Place For Robin Hood,

The Previous Estate Owners Never
Consented To An Investigation.

But New Owners
Now Want The Question Settled.

Determined To Solve The Mystery

And With Unprecedented Access
To The Grave.

We Call In
Thomas Graut-Javes...

-Tom.
-Hello.

Hey, I'm Josh.

...And His Miraculous
Ground-Penetrating Radar.

Gpr Uses Pulses Of Sound
To Look Underground

Without The Trouble And
Potential Damage Of Excavation.

So, Tom, Walk Me Through
What We Are Seeing Up Here.

Okay. So The Smaller Spikes
You Can See Are Tree Roots.

If You Were Looking
For Something Like A Grave,

You'd Look
For A Big Disturbance.

It Would Be A Lot More Clear.

Gates: We Begin By Scanning
The Perimeter Of The Grave,

Checking For Any Other
Ground Disturbances

That Might Indicate
A Larger Grave Yard On The Site.

All Right.
Tom, Where Are We At?

Um, There's Nothing Really.

It Is As Clean As It Could Be
Down There, It Looks Like.

Yep, Just Tree Roots,
Nothing Substantial At All.

Gates:
The Scanning Is Tedious,

But The Prospect
Of Confirming The Location

Of Robin Hood's Body
Is Beyond Exciting.

I Literally Can't Wait
To Scan This Grave.

Now Are We Okay
To Go Inside?

Yeah.

We Drag The Gpr Unit
Over The Wall And I Get To Work.

[ Gpr Pulsing ]

Oh, Got Something.

Got Something.

We Got Something Here.

Gates:
At Kirklees Priory In England,

Historian David Hepworth And I
Are Using

Ground-Penetrating Radar
To Determine If The Grave Here,

That Bares The Name
Of Robin Hood,

Actually Contains His Body.

This Monument Has Been Here
For Over 300 Years,

But Only Now For The First Time,
Has Anyone Scanned The Grave.

We're About To Finally Know.

Is Robin Hood Buried Here?

Oh, Got Something.
Got Something.

-Yeah?
-Yeah?

Yeah, There's Definitely A Layer
Down Here.

It's Really Distinct.
Here Tom, David, Look At This.

What Is That?

There's A Clear Disturbance
In The Ground There.

There's Definitely Something
Down There.

What I'm Looking At Dave?
Kind Of A Black Layer Here?

It's Not
Particularly Large.

It Could Be A Rock
Under The Ground Or...

Robin Hood?

Well, No -- Well...

Tom. Tom.
Be Hopeful, Tom.

I Would Describe It
As An Anomaly.

The Ground Above It
Is Un-Disturbed.

If It Were To Be A Grave,

The Top Would Have
Been Disturbed.

Are You Saying You Don't Think
The Soil Has Been Tuned Over?

No, It Hasn't, At All.

So I Guess The Real Question Is,
Is Anybody Buried Here?

No.

It Would Be Clearer.
-Wow.

Gates:
You Can Amend The History Books.

The Monument,
His Gravestone, All False Leads.

This Is A Big Deal, I Mean
It Does Settle This Grave Site.

There Has Always
Been This Question,

Did This Grave Contain Bodies.

Now We've Got Firm Evidence --
Nothing Here.

So That Means
The Hunt Continues.

It Continues.

Gates: With No Body In The Grave
With His Name On It,

Could Robin Hood Be Buried
Somewhere Else At Kirklees?

David And I Return To The Priory
To Continue Our Investigation.

David Has An Incomplete Estate
Map From The 15Th Century

That May Help Us Locate
The Building Where Robin Hood

Fired An Arrow To Choose
His Final Resting Place.

How Many Buildings Would Have
Been In Here, Do You Think?

-About 20.
-And Today, How Many Are There?

Uh, Three To Four.

For Your Money, Where Do You
Think That Arrow Shot

Could Have Happened From?

I Think It Had To Have Happened
In The Enclosure

Of The Nunnery, Itself.

Is That Where A Sick Person
Would Have Been Taken?

Yeah, What Would Be Helpful
Is To Be To Get An Aerial

So That You Could Look
At The Buildings That Exist Now.

Look At The Buildings
On The Oldest Maps.

And Collate
The Data Together.

Okay, Well Now
We Just Need A Plane.

Well,
There Are A Few People

That Have Got Planes
Around Here,

But You're Gonna Have To Accept
That It's A Bone-Shaker.

-A Bone-Shaker?
-Yeah.

A Bone-Shaker.

This A Bone-Shaker.

A World War Ii-Era Tiger Moth

That Was Once Part Of The Most
Valiant Fleet In The Air,

The Royal Air Force.

The Plane Comes With A Pilot

Who Also Appears To Be
World War Ii Vintage.

This Is Amazing.

She's An Absolute Beauty,
Isn't She?

Yeah.
I'm Talking About The Mustache.

Why, Thank You Very Much.

And I Have Some Amazing News
For You.

-Huh?
-The War Is Over, We've Won.

With The Open Cockpit,
I Can Scout Kirklees Priory.

And Photograph And Tag
The Buildings With Gps

To Create A Precise Map
Of The Site.

♪♪

This Aircraft Is Living History.

And To Soar Over Britain
In One Of The Planes

That Helped To Win World War Ii

Is Just About The Most Thrilling
Thing I Have Ever Experienced.

As We Approach The Airspace
Over Kirklees,

We Begin To Photograph
And Scan The Site From Above.

With Exact Readings,

We Should Be Able To Overlay
The Ruins Detected Today

With David's Old Site Plan.

To Make An Accurate Picture
Of The Priory

As It Appeared
In Robin Hood's Time.

♪♪

♪♪

Whew!

I'm Never Getting
Out Of This Plane.

I'm Literally Sewn
Into This Plane.

With My Bones Thoroughly Shaken,

I Return To Kirklees
With A New Chart

Based On The Gps Coordinates
That I Took From The Air.

David Has Brought In
An Expert Archer To Help Us

Recreate On Of The Most
Famous Arrow Shots In History.

I'm Josh.
-Rob.

-Robin?
-Robert.

Damn.

So Close.

So We Got Up In The Plane,
We've Got Some Better Data Now.

And We've Gps Markered
So That We Can Get Our Distances

A Bit More Exact.

Where Do You Think
That Arrow

Could Have Been Fired From,
The Most Likely Place?

The Most Likely Place
Is Down In That Area, There.

Because You've Got Water Inlet.

So For A Guy
Receiving Medical Treatment.

Fairly Essential.

Gates:
Our Scans Are Able To Recreate
The Layout Of Kirklees

As It Would Have Appeared
To Robin Hood.

Based On The Layout
And Proximity To Fresh Water,

David Believes This Structure
Is The Most Likely Spot

For The Hospital
Where Robin Lay Dying.

Here's The Plan --
Rob, Our Longbow Archer,

Will Short Form The Exact Spot
We Think Robin Would Have Fired.

Well Use His Arrows
To Establish A Radius

For Where Robin's Arrow
Might Have Have Fallen.

And Then We'll Scan The Radius
With Ground-Penetrating Radar,

Hopefully Giving Us A Chance

At Finding The Long-Lost Grave
Of Robin Hood.

♪♪

Whew!

All Right, Last One,
Here We Go.

You're Getting High Marks
From Us.

All Right, Great.
So, Let's Go.

Let's Find Some Arrows.

Hand-Held Gps
Gives Us Precise Distances

On All Of Rob's Arrows.

Arrow One.

283. Pretty Good.

It's All Right.

310.

462.

You're Getting Better.

Last One -- 671.

That's Lethal.

With The Farthest Arrow
Reaching 600 Feet.

And The Shortest Arrow
At Only 200 Feet.

We Have A 400-Foot Diameter To
Search Around The Firing Site.

We Link Back Up With Tom

And Once Again Unleash
The Ground-Penetrating Radar

To Begin The Scan.

We've Identified This Kind
Of Doughnut Shape Of Space

That We Need To Scan.

We'll Be Relying On You

Of Interpret The Screen,
Of Course.

Sound Good?
-Yeah, Brilliant.

All Right.
Let's Get Cracking.

-Uh-Huh.
-Okay.

After Hours Of Scanning,

We Find No Evidence Of A Ground
Disturbance In This Area.

But The Absence
Of Evidence Here Is Significant.

With The Marked Grave

Turning Out
To Be No Grave At All,

And With No Other Burials
In The The Search Diameter,

Kirklees Has Faded As The Site
Of The Real Robin Hood's Burial.

But What Is Robin Hood
Was Buried Somewhere Else

Under A Different Name?

A Monumental New Theory Suggests
That Man Behind The Legends

Might Not Be
The Man We've Assumed

And He Might Not Be The Hero
We've Always Hoped For.

In A Lonely Church Yard
Near Loxley,

I Find Robert White,
Another Robin Hood Aficionado.

But One With A Theory
About His True Identity

That Could Completely Up-End
The Robin Hood Legend.

This Is Loxley?

It Is, That's Right.

You're A Member Of The...

World Wide
Robin Hood Society.

As You Know, I'm Trying
To Separate The Legend

Of Robin Hood
From The History Of Robin Hood.

-Yes?
-So How Does That Bring Us Here?

Because One Of The Contenders

Is Reputedly Buried Here,
Under This Stone.

So Robin Hood
Could Be Right Here?

He Could Be Right There.

Gates:
In A Quiet English Church Yard,

Historian Robert White And I
Are Standing Above The Grave

Of A Man Who Could Be
The Real-Life Inspiration

For The Robin Hood Legend.

Right Here?
-Right There.

-Who's That?
-Roger Godberd.

Roger Godberd?

And Godberd,
He Was A Real Man?

He Was A Real Man, Yes.

Roger Godberd Was A Convicted
Arsonist, Burglar, And Murderer.

There Aren't Many Stories

Where I Could Imagine
Him Being The Good Guy.

His Story And Elements
Of The Robin Hood Story

Fit Quite Nicely.

He Was In Sherwood Forest
In The Right Period Of History.

He Also Was An Outlaw From This
Particular Village Of Loxley.

He Was Even Captured
By The Sheriff Of Nottingham

At One Point And Taken
To Nottingham Castle.

To Tie The Thing
Even More Closely

With The Robin Hood Legend,

The Records From This Church
Show That This Gravestone

May Well Have Been Moved From
A Place Called Kirklees Priory.

That's The Place
Where Robin Hood Actually Died.

Right, Yeah,
We Were Just There.

Where He Fired His Last Arrow
And Consequently,

There Is
A Grave Site There.

And This Stone
Was Reputedly Moved From There.

And In The 16Th Century,

Someone Drew
What The Grave Stone Was Like

And It Bears
A Remarkable Resemblance

To The One We've Got Here.

So, Robin Hood
Could Be Right Here?

-He Could Be.
-Wow.

So If Robin Did Die
At Kirklees,

He May Have Been
Buried There,

But Then They Moved
The Grave Here.

Now Did They Move The Stone,
Or The Stone And The Body?

Oh, We Don't Know
At The Moment.

So That's The Mystery,
Then.

Yes, That's The Mystery.

And I Take It That Excavating
Here Is Probably Not An Option.

No, It's Not, No.

It's Sacred Ground.

It Would Be Wrong
To Disturb It.

So What We're Really Going To Do
Is Scan This Area

And Find Out Once And For All Is
There Something In This Grave?

Once Again, I'm Bearing Witness
To A World First.

This Is The First Time
That Robert And The Society

Have Been Granted Permission
To Scan The Grave.

And We're Using A Device Known
As A Ferro Scanner To Do It.

Am I Safe To Be Holding This?
-Oh, Yes.

-I'm Okay To Have Children?
-You Are.

Okay. Here We Go.

Scanning Starting Now.

A Ferro Scanner Detects
Iron-Based Materials
Underground.

If Robin Was Indeed Buried
With His Spear, Bow, And Arrows

As The Legend Says,
This Scanner Will Detect It.

It Should Also Tell Us
If There's A Burial Here

Or Just The Stone
Moved From Kirklees Priory.

All Right, Well.

Whoo.
That's A Lot Of It.

I Think You Had
The Better Deal Up Here.

Oh, Definitely,
Without A Doubt.

Now I'll Import The Data
Onto Here.

And We'll Have A Look
And See What We've Got.

So What Am I Looking For, Here?
A Guy Holding A Bow.

What We're Now Looking
For Any Indications Underneath

As We Move Across
From Left To Right.

This Up Here Is Just Kind
Of The Stone On Top.

Is That Was I'm Seeing There?
-Yeah.

So I'm Looking
At A Profile View?

-That's Right.
-Okay, I Got It.

Nothing Yet Down There.

No, Nothing Only Just --

Oh! Look At That!Oh, Oh!

Loot At That Right There!

-Crikey.
-There's Something Down There.

That's Really Significant.

Bob, There's Something
Down There.

There Is, Absolutely.

That's Amazing.

I Mean That Is As Clear
As The Stone Above.

It's A Clear, Solid Object
There.

It Could Be A Burial.

It Could Be A Burial.
That's Right.

How Cool Is It To Be
The First People

To Look Under This Grave
In Hundreds Of Years.

That's Quite Something.

-Isn't It?
-Absolutely.

We've Hit Pay Dirt.

This Is An Occupied Grave.

Confirming That This Is Godberd
Will Take Future Dna Analysis.

But There Is A Distinct
Possibility

That We Are Standing
On The Grave Of Robin Hood.

So It Could Be That The Legend
Leads Right Here?

Yeah. We May Well Be Looking
At Robin Hood Himself.

That's Amazing.

My Travels Have Carried Me
Across England

Chasing Down The Many Sights
And Stories

Associated
With The Robin Hood Legend.

I Languished In The The Dungeons
Of Nottingham Castle,

Soared Over
The British Countryside,

And Fired Arrows With The
Merry Men Of Sherwood Forest.

I've Recreated
Robin's Final Moments

And Searched Underground
For His Remains.

I've Even Explored
The Possibility

That The Greatest Hero
Of The English Language

May In Fact Be The Villain
Of His Own Story.

I've Been Able To Confirm That
Many Of The Important Elements

Of The Robin Hood Ballads

Are Not Only Possible
But Almost Certainly True.

But Was Robin Hood
A Flesh-And-Blood Man?

The Events Of His Day Seem Too
Clearly Reflected In The Ballads

To Be Pure Fiction.

Perhaps There Was A Little
Of Godberd In Him,

Along With Dozens Of Other
Bandits That Roamed The Forests.

And Though They Were Important

In Forming
The Robin Hood Legend,

The Most Important Authors
Of His Story

Have Been You And Me.

His Story May Have Begun
In The 12Th Century,

But It Continues To Grow Today,

With Robin Always Becoming
What We Need Him To Be.

And No Matter What Lies Ahead,
We Can Rest Assured

That Robin Hood Will Be There
To Save Us.