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Gates: This Is Completely
Untamed Wilderness Here.

There's No Fences,
There's No Moats.

Outside Of This Car Are Some Of
The Most Dangerous Predators

In The World.

[ Growls ]

Wow.

[Bleep]

Guys, Guys.

♪♪

Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow

To Find
That Your Bank Account Is Empty.

You Turn On The News To Discover

The Federal Reserve
Has Been Cleaned Out.

Millions In Gold
Has Vanished Overnight.

While It Sounds Like The Plot
To One Of The "Die Hard" Films,

This Incredible Story
Is Actually True.

[ Indistinct Shouting ]

♪♪

The Year Is 1900,

And The Capital
Of The South African Republic

Is Under Attack By The British.[ Gunshot ]

With The City About To Fall,
President Paul Kruger

Loads The Entire
Financial Reserves Of His Nation

Onto A Train --

Gold Coins Worth More
Than A Billion Dollars Today --

And He Flees To The East.

The British Win The War,

But Despite
Countless Treasure Hunters

Searching For Over A Century,

The Location Of The Vast Fortune
Has Never Been Found.

That Is, Until Now.

In One Of The World's
Oldest Caves,

An Archaeologist
Has Found Evidence

Linked To Kruger
And The Treasure.

Another Expert Has Found
An Actual Gold Kruger Coin

Believed To Be
From The Stolen Hoard.

But There's Just One Problem.

The Site
Where The Coin Was Found

Is Patrolled
By Dangerous Wild Animals

And The Even More Dangerous
Poachers Who Hunt Them.

The Tale Of The Kruger Millions

Is One
Of Africa's Greatest Legends,

And I'm Hunting Down
The Explorers

On The Verge Of Discovery.

So, Grab Your Passports.

We're Going On Safari.

[ Dramatic Music Plays ]

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 Good To Fly.
Let's Go.

This Is
"Expedition Unknown."

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From New York, It's A 14-Hour
Flight Across The Atlantic

To South Africa's Administrative
Capital Of Pretoria.

♪♪

The History Of This Nation Is
Complicated, To Say The Least.

What Do You Expect From
A Country That Has 11
Official Languages?

So, This Is
A Walking Stick?

It's A Walking Stick.What Kind Of Wood Is This?

[ Speaks Native Language ]I'm Sorry, What?

[ Speaks Native Language ]Ooh-Man-Goo-Ma.

Ooh-Ooh.
Ooh-Ooh-Ooh.

[ Laughs ]

There's Sounds
Coming Out Of Your Mouth

That I Can't Even Make.

[ Laughs ]

Gates: The Market
Has A Bit Of Everything,

Even A Home-Spun Version
Of Casino Royale.

It's All Fun And Games
Until Someone Has To Take It

To The Next Level.

Okay,
What Are We Playing For?

How About
For Your Dog, Sir?

This Is The Cutest Dog
In All Of Africa.

What Do You Think?

Yeah.

Oh,
This Is High Stakes.

♪♪

The Beers That Were Once
Attached To These Caps --

Any Chance There's Any More
Of Those Around?

Preferably Ice Cold?

And Before I Know It,
The Game Is Over And I've Lost.

That's It, Right?
It's Over, Yeah?

Sir,
Good Game.

Come Here.

It Looks Like The Puppy
Is Staying Here.

But Like All Problem Gamblers,
I Try To Chase My Losses.

[ Meows ]

Double Or Nothing
For The Cat.

[ Laughs ]

♪♪

The Heart Of Pretoria
Is In Its Streets.

I See Craftsmen, I See Artisans.

It's A Hat.

Does It Help Me
Blend In?

And More Than Anything,
I See Smiling Faces.

Where Am I
Gonna Wear This?

[ Laughs ]

♪ Better Than I Was Yesterday ♪

High Five.
High Five. High Five.

High Five.
High Five. High Five.

♪♪

[ Cheers ]

But It Hasn't Always
Been This Way.

♪♪

It's Been Over 350 Years

Since The First Dutch Settlers
Came Here,

And While Slavery And Apartheid
Are In The Past,

The Fight For True Equality
Is Not.

♪♪

Wherever You Go, It's Hard
Not To Notice The High Walls

And Razor Wire That Separate
The Haves From The Have-Nots.

♪♪

Here In Church Square, A Statue
Of Former President Paul Kruger

Watches Over
A Diverse New South Africa.

As A Leader Dedicated
To The Institution Of Slavery

Who Stole
His Entire Country's Fortune,

It's Not Surprising

That The Statue
Has Been Frequently Vandalized

And Has To Be Guarded
By A Fence.

♪♪

In Short, Everything
About Kruger Is Controversial,

Especially The Question Of Where
He Took Those Stolen Millions.

At Historic Fort Klapperkop,

Renowned Professor
Fransjohan Pretorius

Is Going To Give Me
A Crash Course In The Mystery.

To Me,
To An Outsider,

South African Politics
Are Very Confusing.

Yes,
For Us, Too.

The Tip Of Africa,
He Explains,

Is First Settled
In The 17Th Century

By Dutch Farmers Called Boers

Who Rely On Slave Labor
For Their Way Of Life.

Then, In 1806, The British
Took Over The Cape.

The British Abolished Slavery,
And Immediately,

There Was A Problem
Between These Farmers

And The British Authorities.

The Boers Don't Want To Live
Under British Rule,

So They Flee Into The Interior
And Form A New Country

Called The South African
Republic, Or Transvaal.

Among These Pioneers
Is Paul Kruger,

Who Becomes President Of
This Breakaway Republic In 1883.

Three Years After Kruger Came
To Power, Gold Was Discovered.

The Gold Changed The Face
Of South Africa.

The British Respond To
The Gold Rush In The Transvaal

By Attempting
To Annex The Territory,

Starting The So-Called Boer War.

Kruger's Republic
Holds Out As Long As It Can,

But In 1900, It's Clear That
British Forces Will Win The War.

In The Meantime,
There Was Still All This Gold.

This Had To Be
Removed.

It Was Taken To The Pretoria
Station In Wooden Boxes,

Put Onto
The Train,

And It Left For Machadodorp,
A Town Along The Railway Line.

And Machadodorp
Is The Last Place

That This Gold
Is Known To Have Been?

That's Right.

And That's Where The Legend
Of The Kruger Millions Started.

Kruger Eventually Escapes
To Europe,

But The Gold
Doesn't Make The Trip With Him.

No One Has Seen It
For Over A Century,

Which Means It's Still Here
In South Africa.

♪♪

To Solve The Puzzle,
I'll Have To Follow The Money.

And The Only Way To Do That
Is To Ride The Same Rails

That Paul Kruger And The
Treasure Did Over 115 Years Ago.

[ Train Whistle Blows ]

All Aboard
The Delagoa Bay Railway.

[ Train Whistle Blows ]

Completed In 1887 And
Just Barely In Operation Today.

♪♪

[ Train Whistle Blows ]

♪♪

Right Now, We Are Headed
Due East Away From Pretoria

And Toward
The City Of Machadodorp.

This Is Where Kruger
And The Gold Was Headed.

As The British Advance
On Pretoria,

Kruger Tries
To Get As Far Away As Possible.

He Boards His Opulent
Private Train Car,

Which Serves As A Mobile Command
Center For His Government.

The Locomotive
Travels 137 Miles To The East,

And At The End Of The Line,

The Gold Is Off Loaded
From The Train.

Where It Goes From There,
That's The Unknown.

We Rumble On, And I Settle In
For The Nearly Six-Hour Ride.

It Isn't Exactly A Bullet Train,
But It Does The Job.

That Is, Until It Doesn't.

And We Are Stopping.

♪♪

I'm Sure The Train's Fine.

♪♪

Or Not.

I Head To The Locomotive
To See If I Can Lend A Hand.

Let's See What's Going On Here.

After All, I Owned A Pretty
Sweet Model Train Set As A Kid.

Hello?

Man:
Hi. How Are You?

What Seems To Be
The Problem?

The Engineer Tells Me They Need
To Clean The Coal Chutes,

And It Doesn't Take Long
For Me To Realize

That I Am Totally
Out Of My Element.

Which One Of These
Makes A Cappuccino?

[ Laughs ]

A Few Hundred Gallons Of Water
Are Added To Make Steam,

And Beneath Me, The Spent Coal
Is Cleaned Out Of The Furnace.

Then It Just Needs
To Be Refilled.

Is It Possible For Me
To Shovel A Load In?

Man: You Want To Shovel?Yeah, Can I?

♪♪

That's...

Do I Still Have My Eyebrows?

All Fueled Up,

The Engineer Even Lets Me
Fulfill A Lifelong Dream.

[ Train Whistle Blows ]

And I'm 9 Years Old.

This Is The Happiest I've Ever
Been In My Entire Life.

♪♪

[ Train Whistle Blows ]

All Aboard! Whoo!

Several Hours

And Several Hundred Unnecessary
Whistle Pulls Later...

[ Train Whistle Blows ]

...We Arrive
In The Town Of Machadodorp.

♪♪

There's Not Much
To See Here Today --

A Spooky Abandoned Station...

...And Around The Corner,

The Old Train Tracks
Are Fragmented In Pieces.

These Are The Original Tracks

That The Kruger Train
Would've Run On Right Here,

And This Is The Original Tunnel
That The Train Came Through.

There Are Some People
Who Claim That The Gold

Was Actually Taken Off The Train
And Buried In The Tunnel System.

That's A Long-Standing
Urban Legend.

I've Also Read That
A Lot Of Dangerous Characters

Like To Hang Out In This Tunnel,
So...That's Great.

♪♪

[ Chuckling ] Oh.

Gates: I'm Entering
An Abandoned Railway Tunnel

In Machadodorp, South Africa.

Somewhere Near This Very Spot,
Millions Of Dollars In Gold

Was Off Loaded From A Train

Before Vanishing
From The Face Of The Earth.

Trains May Not
Run Through Here Anymore,

But I Have Been Warned
That Dangerous Gangs

Do Tend To Lurk In Here
From Time To Time.

[ Chuckling ] Oh.

Aah!

[ Laughs ]

The Old Guy Jumping Out
Of The Dark Tunnel.

I Got You, J.J.

♪♪

As You Can See,
It's Just Solid Rock.

There Have Been A Few Areas

Where The Rocks
Have Been Chipped Out,

And Legend Says
That People Have Actually

Broken Through Places Like This

And Actually
Looked For The Treasure.

But You Look In These,
And They Lead To Nowhere.

Nothing In Here Today.

Just A Lot Of Beer Bottles
And Garbage,

And So Definitely Urban Legend.

No Gold In The Abandoned Tunnel.

Okay, So The Train Tunnel
Didn't Pan Out,

But There Have Recently Been Two
Real Breakthroughs In The Case.

One Explorer Believes
He's Identified A Cavern

Where The Money Could Be Buried,

And A Treasure Hunter Claims
That He's Found

An Actual Kruger Coin
From The Missing Stash.

To Find Out More, I'm Heading
To The Gold Reef City Mint,

The Place The Coin Was Brought
For Authentication.

[ Door Beeps, Buzzes ]

Security Is Tight Here,
Since, Well, It's A Mint.

Gates: You're Literally
Printing Money Here.

We're Printing Money,
Yes.

This Is The Greatest Job
In The World.

Why Don't I Do This?
Why Don't I Run A Mint?

Glenn Schoeman
Is The Director Of The Mint

And Knows More
About The Kruger Pound

Than Anyone
Who Isn't Paul Kruger.

What's The Value
Of These Coins Today?

You're Probably Looking At
Anything Between $1,200

Up To
As Much As $1 Million.

Per Coin?
Per Coin.

Wow.

Recently, Glenn Received A Rare
Coin From A Treasure Hunter

For Authentication, One That May
Be From Kruger's Lost Millions.

The Reason
The Coins Are So Valuable

Is That They Were Minted
In The Form Of Pure Gold Pounds,

Custom-Stamped
With Kruger's Own Face.

Kruger Minted The Money
Using A Massive Press,

And A Similar Machine
Has Been Preserved In This Mint

To Help Distinguish Coins
That Are Forgeries

From Ones That Are Real.

♪♪

The Process Is Involved.

Pure Gold Is Heated To
More Than 1,000 Degrees Celsius

And Poured Into A Mold
To Create A Gold Bar.

Once Cooled,
The Bar Is Flattened, Punched,

And Fed Into The Final Press,

Where The Coin Is Imprinted
With Its Telltale Face.

Hello, Mr. Kruger.

Glenn Leads Me In The Back

And Shows Me A Freshly Minted
But Fake Kruger Pound.

He Then Reveals The Coin
That Was Recently Sent To Him

From A Treasure Hunter
Digging Somewhere East Of Here.

We Have A Good Look At It
Before We Actually Test It.

Glenn Visually Inspects
The Coin

And Checks
The Accuracy Of The Weight.

A Real Kruger Pound
Should Be Exactly 8 Grams.

Spot On 8 Grams.

8 Grams
On The Nose.

For The Final Step, He Uses
A Very Powerful Handheld X-Ray

To Verify The Gold Content.

Got To Get All Our Body Parts
Out The Way While We Test It.

I'll Just Be Back Here,
Glenn.

Many Forgeries Contain
Little Or No Pure Gold At All.

[ X-Ray Beeps ]

Our Test
Is Complete.

92.67% Gold.

Uh-Huh.

My Opinion On This One Is It Is
An Absolutely Genuine Coin.

♪♪

And This Guy Found This,
You Said --

Somewhere To The East
Of Pretoria.

Would You Like
To Speak To Him?

I Would Love To Speak To Him.
Are You Kidding?

We Can
Arrange That.

I'd Like To Know Where
He Found This And If
There's More Of Them.

I'd Like To Find Out, Too.[ Chuckles ]

♪♪

I Leave The Mint With
A Renewed Sense Of Optimism.

I Grab A 4X4 And Hit The Road.

Glenn Is Putting Me In Touch
With A Treasure Hunter,

And He's Also Tipped Me Off
To Another Explorer

Even Closer
To My Current Location.

I Follow My Gps
About 50 Miles East,

Where Archaeologist
Anton Van Vollenhoven

Has Found Military Artifacts
From Kruger's Era

In A Cave, Which He Believes
Could Also Be Hiding The Gold.

♪♪

By The Time
I Approach The Coordinates,

It's Well After Dark.

According To Gps,
We Should Be Almost There.

[ Gps Beeps ]

"Driving On Unpaved Road."

Yeah, No [Bleep]
[ Chuckles ]

♪♪

[ Gearshift Clicks ]

Anton.

Josh, Welcome Here.Thank You.

I Don't Know Where I Am,
But I'm Happy To Be Here.

You're At The Sudwala Caves
In Mpumalanga, South Africa.

The Sudwala Caves?
Yes.

[ Animals Chattering ]

Sounds Like
"The Lion King"

Is Happening
Over My Shoulder Here.

A Lot Of People Think
That This Kruger Millions

Could've Been Hidden
In Caves.

Do You Think
That's Possible?

We Know That In These Caves, The
Boers Did Hide The Ammunition,

And Therefore, Perhaps,
Even The Kruger Millions.

Anton Has Discovered
Various Kruger-Era Weapons

And Bullets
Hidden Deep In The Cave System,

And The Gold Could Be Next.

I'm Really Eager To See
What You're Doing In There.

God Knows I Don't Want
To Be Left Out Here.

Are You Ready
To Get A Little Bit Dirty?

How Dirty
Are We Talking About?

♪♪

This Is Some Serious
"Land Of The Lost," Tarzan,

Skull Island [Bleep] Right Here,
Anton.

And Here
We're At The Entrance.

Oh, Wow.

♪♪

Is There A Giant Stone Ball
That Rolls Out Of That?

No,
We've Already Removed That.

That's Why
We've Got This Hole.

[ Laughs ]

These Caves
Are Some Of The Oldest On Earth,

Dating Back
Over 250 Million Years.

♪♪

If You Get Lost Down Here,

You Stay Lost
Until The Next Ice Age.

Oh, Man.

When You Said Cave, Anton, I Was
Picturing Something Little.

This Is
A Cathedral.

Yes, It's About Four Miles
Of Cave That Has Been Mapped.

Okay.

But We Don't Really Know
How Much Deeper It Goes.

So, What's The Story
That Could Bring The Gold Here?

There's Many Stories,
But This Particular One

Is About
A Boer Officer

With The Name
Of Fritz Joubert Duquesne.

♪♪

He Was Trusted
With Some Of This Gold,

To Take It Further
From Machadodorp.

♪♪

But Along The Way,
There Was A Fight.

♪♪

[ Gunshot ]

And Only Himself And Some
Of The Black Carriers Survived.

So, He Ordered Them
To Bring The Gold To This Cave.

Duquesne Was Later Captured

But Never Gave Up
The Location Of The Gold.

Furthermore,
Ammunition Found Here

Appears To Match
The Time Period,

Meaning This Could Be
The Cave In Question.

You Promised
Dirtiness.

So Far, I'm Feeling Very Clean,
By The Way.

We're Moving To That Area
Just Now.

It's Gonna Get Worse.

We Don't Have To Go Far Before
Anton Delivers On His Promise.

[ Bats Chattering ]

Oh,
We Got Bats.

Lots Of Bats.

While The First
Few Hundred Yards Of The Caves

Were Massive Open Chambers,

The Passages
Have Gotten As Cramped

As An Airplane Bathroom --
And Twice As Filthy.

♪♪

Okay, Looking A Little More
Constricted In Here.

♪♪

After You.

It's Too Tight And Wet

To Bring Our Large Cameras
Through The Narrowing Cave,

So My Crew Is Forced
To Downsize.

Whew,
This Is Tough In Here.

In The End, It's Just Anton;
My Cameraman, J.J.; And Myself

With A Couple
Of Handheld Cameras

To Continue The Investigation.

And It's Wet And Cold.

As I Slog My Way
Through Thickening Bat Guano,

I'm Starting To Consider
Whether The Gold Is Worth

The Months Of Antibiotics
I'm Going To Have To Endure.

My Foot Is Literally Stuck
In The Mud.

[ Grunts ]
Right Behind You.

♪♪

[ Laughs ]

Are You [Bleep] Kidding Me
With This [Bleep]

This Cave Is Very Difficult
To Get Through.

Hey, Anton?

This Sucks.

[ Chuckles ]

♪♪

Gates: Finally,
The Flooded Chambers Open Up

Just Past An Area Where
Other Artifacts Have Been Found.

Armed With
A Handheld Metal Detector,

We Search The Caves, Crevices,
And Flooded Chambers

For Any Sign
That Duquesne's Men Were Here.

♪♪

[ Metal Detector Beeping ]

Got Something?

♪♪

Where Is It?

♪♪

[ Metal Detector Beeps ]

Ooh.

Got It.

Whoa.

Gates: Deep Inside A Dank
South African Cave System,

Archaeologist
Anton Van Vollenhoven And I

Search For Evidence Of
The Legendary Kruger Millions.

Got It. Whoa.

Look At That.

Not The Kruger Millions.

But A Definite Sign
That People Have Been Back Here.

Who Knows? Maybe A Coffee Break
As They Were Hiding It.

Van Vollenhoven:
Yes.

We Could Be Close.

We Continue Deeper
Into The Cave.

Unfortunately For Me,

That Means Squeezing Through
Another Tight Passageway.

♪♪

[ Grunts ]

[Bleep] God.

♪♪

[ Bats Chattering ]

Okay.

Just When I'm At My Lowest,
Anton Comes Through.

You Got Something?Yeah.

Okay,
Be Right There.

The New One?
The New One.

Yeah.

Okay,
So No Sign Of It.

That's Right. All Right, Well,
Batteries Are Running Low,

Media Is Running Low,

And I'm Running Out
Of Clean Spots On My Shirt

To Wipe
My Face Off With.

You Got My Number.I Do.

You Call Me
If You Find Those Millions.

Definitely.

[ Laughs ]

We Trek Back Out
Toward The Vehicles.

My Mission Now Is To Link Up
With The Treasure Hunter

Who Found The Authentic
Gold Kruger Pound

I Saw Back At The Mint.

But Currently, I Am
A Scraped-Up, Mud-Soaked Mess.

I Could Use A Shower, A Drink,
And A Bed.

Preferably In That Order.

Fortunately, The Local Motel
Up The Road Isn't Too Shabby.

♪♪

Hello.
Afternoon.

Welcome To Lion Sands
Ivory Lodge.

Would You Care
For A Cold Hand Towel?

I Would Die
For A Cold Hand Towel.

[ Sighs ]
Oh, My God.

Ooh!

Homemade Iced Tea?

Oh, God Bless You.

♪♪

Is This Place Real?

This Is The The Five-Star
Lion Sands Game Lodge,

A Family-Owned Private Reserve

That Has Been Protecting
Wildlife For Over 80 Years.

This Is An Experience
Unlike Any On Earth.

You're Surrounded
By Stunning Luxury

And Pampered
Beyond Your Wildest Dreams.

My Room For The Night --

A Remote Treehouse
That Words Can't Do Justice.

Africa May Be Filled
With Uncharted Wilderness,

But...Doesn't Mean
I Have To Live Like An Animal.

♪♪

After Scraping Off The Cave,

I Take A Long Nap
In Five-Star Bliss.

But As Much As I'd Like
To Lounge Here Forever,

I've Got A Legend To Solve,
And I'm Soon Back On The Road

To Find Treasure Hunter
Lukas Van Der Merwe.

There's Just One Problem.

He's Inside
The Kruger National Park,

A 7,500-Square-Mile
Nature Reserve

Brimming With Wild Animals
And Zero Fences.

The Area Where The
Treasure Hunter Found The Coin

Is Still Under The Dominion
Of The Native Shangaan Tribe.

To Enter Their Land
And To Film It,

I'll Need To Get The Permission
Of The Tribal Chief,

Who Lives In A Village
On The Edge Of The Park.

♪♪

Upon Arrival,
I'm Greeted By Edward Mabunda,

A Shangaana Tribesman
And The Chief's Right-Hand Man.

How Long
Has The Chief Lived Here For?

For Over 50 Years Now.Wow.

The Traditional Way Of Life
For A Shangaana Chief Means,

Among Other Things, Polygamy.

And How Many Wives
Does He Have?

Only Three Now.
Only Three.

He Has
25 Children.

Is Your Chief
Named Don Draper?

[ Chuckles ]

As We Approach
The Chief's Compound,

We Kneel
And Ask For Permission To Enter.

♪♪

[ Speaks
Native Language ]

♪♪

[ Conversing
In Native Language ]

Right.
Permission Granted.

We Are More Than Welcome
To Move In Their Village.

Okay.
Here We Go.

♪♪

It's Clear That The Chief
And His Wives

Are Living In A World
Unchanged For Hundreds Of Years.

Thank You Very Much
For Having Us Today.

My Name Is Josh.Josh.

[ Speaks
Native Language ]

He's Asking
Where Are You From.

I'm From America.

[ Speaks
Native Language ]

He Says We Are More Than Welcome
To His Village.

[ All Speak Native Language ]

♪♪

Like Any Good Host,
He Offers Me A Drink.

What Is This?

We Call That
[Speaks Native Language]

That's
The Traditional Beer.

Made From Maize.

It's Like A Corn-Based Alcohol?That's Correct.

The More You Keep It,
The Stronger It Becomes.

♪♪

Oh,
That's Good.

It's A Little Bit Like Milk
And Vodka And A Corn On The Cob.

Now That I'm Humming
On A Corn-Milk Buzz,

The Chief Signals The Tribesmen

To Welcome Us
With A Ceremonial Dance.

[ All Singing
In Native Language ]

♪♪

Whoo! Wow!

You Guys Are Really,
Really Amazing.

You Got To Take This
On The Road.

With The Formalities
Out Of The Way,

I Ask For The Tribe's Permission
To Search On Their Land

For Kruger's Millions.

This Search Does
Take Me Through Kruger Park.

Is It Okay
To Look On That Land?

[ Speaks
Native Language ]

You Are Permitted.

But Then,
When You Go Through The Bush,

You Have To Get Something
To Protect You,

And That's
The Spear.

A Spear?

♪♪

First Thing
When You Go Through The Bush,

There Are Snakes,
Leopards, Lions.

Very Dangerous.

♪♪

[ Speaks
Native Language ]

He Says
Now That Will Protect You.

Very Brave
When You Go Through The Bush.

Thank You.
This Is A Great Honor For Me.

I Really
Appreciate It.

[ Speaks
Native Language ]

[ Laughs ]

Is It Possible To Get
Wife Number Four Back
Home In America?

In America?

Oh, Yeah, I Can Get You
Wife Number Four Easy.

We Have A Town
Known As Las Vegas.

Ah.

♪♪

With The Blessing
Of The Shangaana,

I Eagerly Continue My Journey

To Meet Treasure Hunter
Lukas Van Der Merwe,

Whose Recent Discovery
Of A Genuine Kruger Pound

Could Be A Sign That He's On The
Verge Of A Major Breakthrough.

To Get To Him, Though,
I'm Going To Have To Make

One Of The Hairiest Commutes
In The Entire World.

♪♪

Thank You.

Thank You.

What Do They Got In There,
King Kong?

♪♪

We're Now Crossing
Into Kruger National Park.

When We Think Of The Word
"Park," We Think Of Some,

You Know, Nice,
Small, Contained Space,

But That's Not The Case Here.

Kruger Is Almost
8,000 Square Miles.

It Runs For 200 Miles
In One Direction.

♪♪

We're Driving Through Completely
Untamed Wilderness Here.

There's No Fences,
There's No Moats.

Outside Of This Car

Are Some Of The Most Dangerous
Predators In The World.

Only A Mile Down The Road,

I Discover
Just How Right I Can Be.

Not That I'll Be Getting
Out Of The Car To Take A Bow.

[ Lion Growls ]

♪♪

Gates: I'm In South Africa's
Kruger National Park

On The Hunt For Millions
In Lost Gold

When Suddenly,
Things Get A Little Hairy.

[ Lion Growls ]

Roll 'Em Up.

♪♪

Most Parts Of The World,
We Don't Think About

Driving Around In A Place

Where If You Just Pull Over
And Step Out,

Immediately,
Your Life Is In Danger.

♪♪

Okay, That Is A Hippo.

[ Grunts ]

That Is Actually The Most
Dangerous Animal In Africa.

Hippos Kill More People In This
Continent Than Any Other Animal.

♪♪

Oh, Elephant, Elephant,
Elephant, Elephant, Elephant.

A Couple Of Them.
Three Of Them, Four Of Them.

Elephants Are Normally
Not That Dangerous

As Long As They're, You Know,
Not Feeling Threatened

Or Trying To Protect
Their Young.

But You Do Want
To Give Them Some Space

Because When They Do Get Mad...

[Chuckles] They [Bleep] Up.

♪♪

That Is A Herd Of Impala.

Named, Of Course,
After The Chevy Impala.

One Of America's Best-Selling
Mid-Size Cars For Over 10 Years.

I Don't Really Know Much
About Wildlife.

I Follow My Gps
And Arrive At The Coordinates

Where I'm Supposed To Find

Treasure Hunter
Lukas Van Der Merwe.

Instead, I Find
A Lot Of Scary Guys With Guns.

[ Indistinct Shouting ]

And Amidst
The Automatic Weapons,

I Spot Two Guys Who Definitely
Don't Look Like Soldiers.

♪♪

Hey, Guys,
How Are You?

Yeah, Yeah.Nice To Meet You. Hi.

Good To Meet You.Mark. How Are You?

Mark. Josh. A Pleasure.Bravo!

I See A Lot Of
Very Serious-Looking Guys

Around Here,
Dressed In Camo.

Where Am I
Right Now?

This Is The Protrack
Anti-Poaching Unit's
Training Base Camp.

Gates: Sergeant Mark Preston
And The Team From Protrack

Are On The Front Lines,
Fighting Rhino Poachers

Who Are Decimating
South Africa's Dwindling Herds.

[ Indistinct Shouting ]

Gates: And They're Not Afraid
To Fight Fire With Fire.

Either That Or They're About
To Invade Botswana.

And You Guys Are, I Can See
From The Patchwork Alone,

Obviously Very Serious
About Treasure Hunting.

30 Years
Of Treasure Hunters,

And That's
A Paul Kruger Rand, Right?

When You Start The Treasure
Hunting In South Africa,

Everything Is About
The Kruger Millions.

Lukas And Nico May Look Like
Two Runners-Up

From A Hemingway Look-Alike
Contest, But Don't Be Fooled.

Lukas Is A Successful
And Wealthy Treasure Hunter,

And To Find The Kruger Gold,
He's Teamed Up With Nico,

Who Knows So Much
About The Boer War

That You'd Think
He Fought In It.

Nico's Research Has Revealed
That Kruger's Troops,

Who Were Transporting The Gold
To The Coast On Oxcarts,

Would Have Passed
Right Through This Very Spot.

[ Gunshot ]

He Also Thinks
That British Troops

May Have Been
Right On Their Heels,

Leading The Boers To Bury
The Gold For Safekeeping.

♪♪

So You Feel Like
This Is A Promising Spot?

Now That
They Have The Permission

And The Protection
To Search The Park,

Nico's Eyes Begin To Fill Up
With Dollar Signs.

Wow.

[ Chuckles ] No, Not At All.
Well, Let's Do It, Then.

Lukas And Nico Are Convinced

Kruger's Treasure
Was Hastily Hidden,

And It Turns Out
The Single Coin I Saw,

Which They Recovered,
Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg.

♪♪

What Are Some Of The Artifacts
You've Recovered

Up To
This Point?

Wow.

♪♪

Right Flank, Left Flank,
Stay Awake.

Gates: We've Left
The Safety Of The Car,

And By The Looks Of The Faces
On Our Security Team,

It's Clear This Isn't
Disney's Animal Kingdom.

They're Ready For Anything,

And It Isn't Just The Local
Wildlife They're Worried About.

So, Mark, I See You Have These
Guys Deployed Out To The Sides.

Is This
Kind Of A High-Risk Area?

The Whole Of Kruger
Is Being Poached.

We Have Had
A Lot Of Incidences Here.

Gates: "Incidence"
Is Mark's Charming Way

Of Referring To People
Trying To Shoot Him.

Given The Amount Of Money
On The Line,

It's Clear
That Poachers Won't Think Twice

About Killing Us
To Get To Their Prize.

One Rhino Horn Is Worth How Much
On The Black Market?

700,000.

700,000 Rand?Yeah.

So $50,000.

Do You Know
How Many Get Poached A Day?

One Rhino
Every Six Hours.

Wow.
It's Crazy.

All Right,
Are We Gonna Do This?

♪♪

Gates: As We Make Our Way
Into The Bush,

Lukas And Nico Have
Their Metal Detectors Fired Up

And Are Looking For Artifacts.

♪♪

According To Historical
Documents Found By Nico,

This Clearing May Be The Site

Of An Epic Standoff
During The Boer War.

[ Gunshot ]

Okay, The Shovel Is Ready.
Lead On.

♪♪

Nico Believes That The Authentic
Kruger Pounds They Found Here

Are Proof
That They're On The Right Track.

So, Metal Detecting Is Really
About Patience, Right?

Right.

I'm Thinking About What
I'm Gonna Spend The Money On.

Thinking About That Jet Ski
That I'm Gonna Be Buying
At The End Of This.

[ Metal Detector Beeping ]

What Did You Find?

[ Metal Detector Beeping ]

♪♪

Look At That!

Gates:
In The South African Bush,

With Two Treasure Hunters And
A Small Paramilitary Presence,

We Scan The Earth, Looking For
Signs Of Buried Treasure.

[ Metal Detector Beeping ]

♪♪

Look At That!

♪♪

This Is Incredible.

This Means That We Know
There Was Some Action Here.

Okay,
Carrying On.

We're On A Roll.
We Haven't Even Been Eaten Yet.

♪♪

Lukas And Nico Continue
To Sweep The Clearing

As The Sun Begins To Disappear
Over The Horizon.

With The Last Minutes
Of Daylight Fading,

Lukas Suggests
A New Treasure-Hunting Technique

From His Arsenal,

Involving A Drone And
A Cutting-Edge Thermal Camera.

Oh,
It Stays Warm.

And It Will See That
Even Underground?

Wow.

Right.

And, Mark, You'll Stand Next
To Me, As Close As Possible.

If You Insist.

[ Chuckles ]

We Need The Ground To Cool Off
For The Gold To Stand Out,

So We Kill Time At What Looks
Sort Of Like, But Not Really,

A Campsite.

This Is
What We Call A Picket.

This Is The Camp
That Our Teams Stay At.

So, At Night,
They'll Sit There

And They'll Be Listening
For Any Gunshots, Any Movement.

And This Is Sort Of Fencing
You're Building Up Around This?

Yeah,
This Is Thornbush.

Basically,
A Lion Will Come Here,

And He's Going To Get Thorns
In His Paws.

Lions Won't
Go Through That?

Not Gonna Get
Through There Easily.

This Is Where
You're Sleeping Tonight.

No, We're Not -- We Are?Yeah.

We're Not Hauling Back Out
To The Road Tonight?

No.
Okay.

This Is Information,
Mark,

I Could Have Used
When We Met Earlier.

[ Laughs ]

♪♪

Gates: Now That It's Dark,
It's Time To Try Lukas' New Toy.

Go For It.

[ Drone Whirring ]

Okay,
She's Up.

♪♪

Oh, Yeah,
There Is, Right There.

Everything That's White On Here
Is Hotter, Right?

Van Der Merwe:
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

Okay. Right There
Is A Hot Spot.

To My Surprise,
Lukas' Unique Search Method

Does Identify Several Hot Spots,
Which He Marks On Gps.

With Some New Leads,
He Brings The Drone Down,

And We Start To Check Out
Each Of The Contenders.

[ Drone Whirring ]I Got It, Guys.

Okay,
Let's Pack It Up.

Okay,
Let's Go.

All We'll Just Do Is Fall
In One Single File.

Single File?Single File And Follow.

Okay.
Let's Go. Okay.

I've Got A Guy At The Back
With A Weapon,

Two In Front
With A Weapon.

♪♪

We're Hiking Out
Into The Pitch Black,

And We're The Only Things Out
Here That Can't See In The Dark.

Even With The Cast Of "Predator"
Here As Backup,

It's Difficult Not To Feel
Extremely Vulnerable.

♪♪

[ Whispering ]
Guys, Guys.

Shh, Shh, Shh, Shh, Shh,
Shh, Shh. Quiet, Quiet, Quiet.

Oh!

♪♪

[ Whispering ]
Stay Quiet.

[ Gun Cocks ]

♪♪

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♪♪

I'm In The Wild Plains
Of South Africa,

Hunting For The Legendary
Kruger Millions.

♪♪

In Total Darkness, Though,

I've Got The Feeling That
We're The Ones Being Hunted.

♪♪

Okay, That Doesn't Sound Like
A Human Being Walking.

♪♪

Doesn't Sound Like
It's Human.

So I Think
It's An Animal.

And It's Moved Off, And It's
Moved Towards That Side There,

So I Don't Think
It's A Problem.

[ Whispering ]
All Right, Here We Go.

With The Team From Protrack
Standing Guard,

Lukas, Nico, And I
Get To Our First Hot Spot.

[ Metal Detector Beeping ]

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.

You Got It?

Something There,
Yeah.

♪♪

What Is That?

♪♪

Gates:
What Is This?

Look At That.

It Is Warm, Still, Actually,
From The Day.

It's Amazing.

You Think
It Is Boer?

Your Notion
That There Were Camps Here,

That There Was Stuff
Happening Here During The War...

That's Right.

...Certainly Seems Like
We're In The Right Area.

Okay, Let's Go Check Out
That Next Hit.

[ Metal Detector Beeping ]

Using The Gps Coordinates
To Pinpoint Our Search Areas,

We're Moving Quickly
From Site To Site.

[ Metal Detector Beeping ]There You Are.

Hold On.We Got It, We Got It.

Horseshoe.

With Each New Find,
It's Becoming Apparent

That We May Have Discovered
A British Campsite

From The Boer War.

♪♪

Oh.

Oh, My God.

Look!

Look At That!

Are You
Kidding Me?!

So, This Is Probably
From A British Camp?

When I Started This,
I Thought,

"Could There Really Be Anything
To Find From This War Still?"

And Now I Can't Believe How Much
There Is Yet To Be Found.

This Is Real Evidence That
We Are In The Right Time Period,

On The Right Track.

Having Exhausted
All Of The Targets

Found With The Drone...

We Call It A Night

And Head Back To The Security
Of The Picket.

Kind Of A Long Day.

Going To Call It A Night.

Uh, There Is An Automatic Weapon
In Here, If They Just...

I'll Just Leave That.

I'll Just Leave That
Where It Is.

♪♪

[ Sighs ]

My Search
For The Kruger Millions

Has Taken Me
On A South African Odyssey.

The Story Itself Is No Myth.

The Money Is Real,
Minted In Pure Gold.

Its Route Is Known,
Preserved Along Steel Tracks.

So, Where Did The Coins End Up?

Are They Buried Beneath The Park
That Shares Their Name?

Or Could They Be Hidden
In A Prehistoric Cave?

At This Very Moment,
Dogged Treasure Hunters

Are Searching Acre By Acre
To Find Out.

The Truth Is
That The Kruger Millions

Are More Than Just Treasure.

The Coins Reflect The History
Of South Africa Itself,

Stamped With The Face
Of A Divisive Founding Father

Who Helped Scar The Continent.

Unearthing The History
Of The Boer War Is Important,

But Perhaps It's Best
That The Money

And The Ideals It Symbolizes

Remains Buried Deep Under The
Veldt Of A New South Africa --

One Whose Real Treasures
Are Its People, Its Animals...

[ Roars ]

...And
Its Breathtaking Wilderness.