Of course it does, I added. As he reflected on the significance of his experience, I remember thinking once more that I just wanted to leave. When no one could find proof, it went to retrial in 1971 with 102 researchers trying to claim the money. Read about more bizarre, untimely deaths on 10 Creepily Ironic Historical Deaths and 10 Unusual Ways to Die Through the Ages. Henry proudly highlights the victorious Roxas v Marcos Supreme Court case It was a fascinating place; a former Japanese military base with large boulders carved into animal shapes. I unambiguously felt them probing around beneath the surface of my skin. Dont get me wrong. Amelia was a survivor, but had paid the price for her misfortune; she had lost a leg and a hand in the process. When the cave-in become public Feb. 29, McDougald and his group were forced to go public as well. Anderson reported that Curtis group supplied the maps, which marked an estimated $100 billion in treasure, to Marcos, who used the group to track and recover about $14 billion. I soon learned what Klaus was doing in the Philippines, and how he had ended up there. Filed under Conspiracy Theories, History & Pseudohistory, Urban Legends, Skeptoid Podcast When we opened the tunnel, air hit the sand. If Amelia is correct, was this an orchestrated effort to reclaim the treasure? The bogtalay leaves were associated with an Imperial treasure, the symbolism being that while the leaves of the bogtalay tree are near its fruit, the fruit of the tunnel system are its nearby chambers and the treasure they contain. Robert Hunter, the longtime lyricist for Grateful Dead, died on Sept. 23, 2019; he was 78. Web. One day, he got into his car and drove away. We stopped on the outskirts of town in front of an old schoolhouse. No autopsy was performed, despite Cathcarts request, and the official cause of death was ruled as tuberculosis. Since Feb. 12, with the full sanction and protection of President Corazon Aquinos government, McDougalds group has been tunneling more than 20 feet into the catacombs under Manilas oldest structure, 16th-Century Ft. Santiago. Curtis got plugged in and unexpectedly became far more than a mere key cog in the gold-hunting wheel, overseeing not only the retrieval and sanctifying process, but the site discovery process as well. Amelia claimed to have been contacted by Ferdinand Marcos, the deceased former president of the Philippines, who thanked her for her prayers and informed her that he was in purgatory. They were in their sleeping bags, but their heads were missing. Its akin to what was found in Egypt in the pyramids. It was clear, however, that as brilliant as Jose was at Second World War history, he was pretty much winging it with the rest. Andrew Gough. The wife and daughter of Roger Roxas Not long after his disappearance, hikers found a tin can on the edge of the 55-meter (180 ft) cliff that simply said, Jesse Capen was here. A single boot, drivers license, and camping gear were all recovered, but he was nowhere to be found.[9]. McDougald said the fatal accident may slow the treasure hunt. He had opened me up with only his hands, and now his fingers were inside me. I felt it was a heroic, yet tragic, story and one that needed to be retold. How to Extract Adrenochrome from Children, Why You Needn't Worry About the Missing 411. It was January 2016, and my interest in the story had waned once more. For these, the Shinto priests communicated to those with eyes to see in a different language of symbols to that of the military treasure sites, as I would soon discover. As if that was not sensational enough, he added that this site was the one that President Marcos had visited and declared he was going to excavate next, only he died before getting the chance. Andrew Gough. Maybe in two or three weeks well have some news., According to reliable intelligence sources in the government, the Ft. Santiago dig holds out the greatest promise for hitting pay dirt, and in an official press release March 1, Soriano announced that he expects the group to uncover enough bullion to help pay off the countrys foreign debt in approximately 10 to 15 days.. He followed the Japanese into the mountains and watched as they buried the boxes in a tunnel and sealed the entrance. The director trying to get the old woman to recapture on camera what she had said off camera. Over the next several years the programme was featured on television stations around the world and on YouTube. After working on my prostate, the healer opened up my liver, heart and spine in the same manner with only his hands. It was 2001 and I was living in Istanbul and working for IBM. Hunting for topaz was just a hobby for Dametz. See Photos. 32 25 In 1849 during the California Gold Rush, over 30,000 men flocked to trails where gold had been seen. I could do that, I thought. Lansdale could not believe his luck and promptly informed US General Douglas MacArthur, who returned to the Philippines to inspect the extraordinary discovery for himself. McDougald, who has lived here for more than a decade and secured his doctorate in business from the University of the Philippines in 1983, is not the moving force behind the dig. In fact, in Klauss humble village there was a new cemetery under construction when I visited the first time that would make Forest Lawn blush with envy. Could these mysterious deaths have been murder, or as some believe, could something supernatural have been afoot? He also informed the press, who also ignored him at least initially. As I was banned from listening to the conventional historian do this thing, I became more convinced than ever that the director was orchestrating a hatchet job for the two-hour season premiere of the show. But the picture changed with the deaths last month of the two Filipino workers, suffocated in a cave-in that McDougalds engineers now attribute to a booby trap left behind by the Japanese. Back in Tokyo, the healer worked on the Princes daughter, who was suffering with a brain tumour. They had been in hiding in Manila, where they were awaiting word from Cathcart. Random encounter with treasure hunter. A notoriously horrific acid trip that Robert Hunter endured in June 1969, thanks to apple juice dosed with "probably a full gram of crystal LSD worth perhaps $50,000," was the lyrical impetus for "Black Peter.". The first indication of a secret treasure came in April 1971 when a Filipino locksmith found a 1-ton. Many of these men were infected New Yorkers who had traveled to California. It was time to see an excavation in progress. Andrew Gough. Cathcart recounted how, on 24 May 1993, he had spoken to Roxas and had informed him that he would be escorted on a flight from Manila to Honolulu the next day. Andrew Gough, A young Henry Roxas pays his loving respects to his late father 0000017483 00000 n Roxas claimed that some 25 years earlier, using a map given to him by the son of a Japanese soldier, he and a team of friends discovered a cave filled with gold, including a golden Buddha, plus the skeletons of the soldiers and engineers who had been sealed inside. Im betting its here.. The only way to recover his body was via helicopter. Parts of it appeared carved. The Japanese, in particular, were notorious for this. Klaus had nailed it. Santy, who tortured General Yamashita Tomoyukis driver, Major Kojima. I want to show you something. I struggled to untangle my torso from the back seat and limped over to where Klaus was standing. I sat down with Cathcart and his wife in their affluent Beverly Hills home, and was joined by their live-in carer, who sat nearby, listening intently to our every word. The suspicious and rather convenient dig on the site of Roger Roxass treasure site Bruce and I had been discussing the subject for years and wanted to feature Klaus and his quest. For a short time Roxas went into hiding near Manila and was provided with bodyguards and a place to live. startxref One mans wallet was apparently thrown near his remains. It detailed the work he had done in the Philippines as part of a team led by Nevada treasure hunter Robert H. Curtis. Their relationship was complex to say the least. I am only an instrument of God. For years, 35-year-old Jesse Capen was obsessed with the legend of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. In the Philippines treasure reclamation requires a permit that entitles the government to 30% of the findings. This technique was true for most of the Japanese military treasure sites; that is, those that contained predominantly gold bullion. They used the same water from the streams as everyone else and unwittingly infected many of the other men. After some diligent detective work Cathcarts team discovered Cheatham working as a night-time security guard in a Las Vegas hotel. He left Colorado in search of the lost gold mine in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. %%EOF They were retaken by the Allied forces over the course of a brutal year culminating with the Japanese surrender in September 1945. Within hours of the news becoming public, the Philippine Senate adopted a resolution urging Aquino to bar foreigners from hunting for treasure in the Philippines. Henrys pride and respect for his father touched us all. In reviewing their 2003 book, he wrote: The Seagraves are not fully reliable as historians. Dan Cathcart at his home, taking me through his Roxas v Marcos file Let us email you a link to each week's new episode. He was reclusive, choosing to work in private with researchers he trusted and, in recent years, he had gone completely dark. They were always building this or that in the Philippines as an excuse to look for treasure, due to the fact that obtaining permits was difficult and brought unwanted attention. It was a very difficult meeting to secure and I was essentially vetted before being granted an audience. Non-indigenous artefacts discovered buried near Manila The cobra was violently thrashing about. We proceeded to film three of Klauss four sites, the fourth being too flooded to enter. #673 They were buried alive. On the contrary, this young man was conspicuously well informed and appeared to possess some highly classified information. Juan Quijon: a Filipino army cook who later testified that in 1972 he had been assigned to a newly formed unit called Task Force Restoration, which was created by Marcos to recover treasure, mostly gold, from Japanese treasure sites. Valmores knew where the gold in the region was buried, and although he never violated Prince Takedas trust for his own benefit, he emphatically supported Roxass mission and wanted to help. Is this what Klaus should expect to find in his treasure chambers? His friend preferred to stay anonymous, but lets call him Bob for the sake of the story. This was going to happen. With Roxass discovery, Marcoss hopes had become a reality. The bogtalay tree is regarded as sacred in the East. "Yamashita's Gold." The Japanese gold heist, however, would dwarf the earlier Nazi thefts and would be exploited by United States presidents from Truman to Trump, representing one of the greatest conspiracies of our time. I have to! Klaus retorted. His treasure tunnels would be sure to dazzle viewers. Johnson, C. "The Looting of Asia." Before he died, Sterling Seagraves participated in Internet forums where he told increasingly unbelievable stories about many people he knew being murdered by the CIA with all sorts of exotic spy weapons "snuffed" was the term he always used. He quickly succeeded, for he was saying something about cyanide. What is that, I asked. Crawling through the inhospitable tunnel system This time he remained hidden for a year, before being arrested after he returned to Baguio in July 1972. He had a PhD in theology and had his work presented in multiple Christian publications, including a terrifying pamphlet that claimed that the Antichrist was coming. I never expected such a gruelling journey. Despite his altruistic intentions (ie not wanting to risk more of the team getting injured than was necessary), this approach would prove fatal, as he did not do a very good job, and Klaus would have to reshoot the tunnel footage himself, weeks later, and with far inferior equipment. He was integrity personified. Once again, the best conversation was off camera. Prospective buyers took their turn examining the buddha, including Joe Oihara, a Japanese man who, on 1 April 1971, visited Roxas and shared the worrying detail that he was staying at the home of Ferdinand Marcoss mother, Josefa Edralin Marcos. 0000002983 00000 n Roxas estimated the golden buddha to have weighed one metric tonne and thus, with considerable difficulty, he transported it to his home where he placed it in a spare bedroom and covered it with a blanket. We are not at the bottom yet? None of the prospecting equipment had been taken. Andrew Gough, Amelia after her second NDE Out of fear that the maps would be stolen, or thrown out by the cleaning crew, Curtis photographed each one and burned the originals. Unfortunately, there had also been a cholera outbreak in New York City from the drinking water at that time. No-one was interested. It was a daily effort of divide and conquer; some manned the other sites, pumping the monsoon floods out of the tunnels, while most supported excavation efforts at the site that Klaus and his team were most focused on that week. Now they moved with a kinetic energy I had never experienced before. Klaus had briefed me as to what the sites would be like. Looking slightly perilous at the bottom of the tunnel system with Klaus We embarked on the long drive back to Klauss village and our last night as a team. I go deep underground in an effort to try and find out It was difficult to be certain, but I knew what I believed. More of that, he encouraged. The plane landed with a thud at Heathrow airport, and normality soon ensued. But Japan needed that money badly to pay for its war effort; it would not have converted it to gold bars and sent it away to be buried. I detected decades of guilt and sadness that had become imprinted on her face. My business proposal for additional funding to expedite Klauss work had been met with a polite not interested from Richard Bransons people, while Elon Musks people had been less gracious they blocked my IP address. It was entirely out of context of our discussion to have done so. Then, at an infamous event, where President Marcos ordered the slaughter of his opponents at a political rally and blamed the ensuing grenade attacks on the Communists, Roxas escaped once more. Or we all die. Multiple men began to go missing or die in Deadmen Valley following the decapitation of the McLeod brothers. Klaus Dona. We said goodbye to Henry and headed out for lunch. They decided it would be fun to go on a road trip to look for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. For reasons I will never understand, I responded to his email and mentioned something about the Philippines. It was peculiar and appeared to be a topographical map. Marcos courted Curtis with talk of incredible stashes of WW2 loot hidden on the island. Show that to your doctor back home, the healer would tell them. The Cultural Committee is investigating whether the search should continue. The show aired on the American History Channel in the United Statesand was well received. I thought he was a fascinating guy, and I was pleased to have made his acquaintance. McDougald was reluctant to discuss details of the groups actual mining methods, but he stayed in character when describing what he expects to find at the end of the tunnel. What I am really being charged with is losing the war. He described the odds as 5% more chance than highly probable, approaching absolute certainty.. We all like to imagine were going to knock a stone wall down and were going to find golden chests overflowing with emeralds and rubies and diamonds, all guarded by a big cobra snake, he said. The organisation was named Kin no yuri, meaning Golden Lily, the name of a poem written by the Emperor. Within days of my return to England the director was sacked for mismanaging the episode and for essentially hijacking the narrative of the agreed storyline. Slowly putting his ruined life back together, he moved from Reno to Las Vegas . Klaus has been shut down for several months as he awaits his permit from the Mining Department of the Philippine Government, but he is optimistic and believes he is tantalisingly close to unearthing the greatest treasure hoard of this century. 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He also showed me his hands and feet, which were missing various fingers and toes from a chemical booby trap that had been released in an underground water-filled chamber on the site. This was a time, Cathcart stressed, when the town was buzzing with rumours of a local mans discovery. I wondered. Marcoss men took Roxas back to Baguio and photographed him with the bogus buddha. The liberal opposition party rallied around Roxas, as they saw an opportunity to gain ground on Marcos, and encouraged him to testify in the Philippine Senate. The treasure still has not been found. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins, but the thought of stumbling upon buried treasure is seductive to everyone. Still, this was easier than hiking through the thick underbrush. And so, while we all love a story of lost gold and would thrill to plunge a shovel into a green hillside that we suspect conceals an endless fortune, the urban legend of Yamashita's Gold is another of those most unlikely to have a happy ending. Many were husbands and fathers who had traveled in hopes of providing for their families back home. I found it to be legitimately interesting. The caretaker had lost fingers and toes from chemicals released in the treasure site Is that really necessary? Serendipitously, later that year I reached out to Klaus Dona, the respected ancient-history authority, to ask if he would write an article for the magazine. It read, I understand you met with my brother, Henry, in Baguio. My spare time was spent editing the Heretic Magazine with my friends Mark Foster and Beth Johnson. Their uncle, Charlie McLeod, was worried because they never wrote home. Cathcart replied without hesitation, as though it were yesterday, and proceeded to list several witnesses who had, in fact, collaborated Roxass story: Ken Cheatham: an American GI who was stationed at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines in the 1970s. She was greeted by a well-dressed, professional looking man who gave her some medicine for Roger, as he had noticed how poorly he was looking and was concerned for his health. Not only are ancient Thai documents written on the bark of the bogtalay tree, its leaves provide oral hygiene, and even cure cancer. He had a copper mining company and also staked a claim on plots of land that he used to mine gold. They were not disciplined and were not dowsing for danger, he sternly proclaimed. I was amazed to see that a hundred feet away a dozen men with huge cranes and bulldozers were digging a massive hole. Those who tired or died in the process were quickly replaced. With a change of shirt I descended once again into the abyss. I had never been and was excited to take it all in. We rode back to Klauss house for what was to be a fascinating evening. She recounted that she ran for cover when she feared she had been spotted. Bassist Phil Lesh remembers tasting the LSD as . I went for a walk around campus and when I returned the production manager politely asked me to join them, as they were about to begin, and so I did. Twenty percent of the men who moved to California during the Gold Rush died from diseases like cholera within six months of their arrival. Pi $@Z%">Nq. He was never seen again. Not bad for a sixty-nine-year-old. I nodded and reflected on how pathetically difficult I found traversing the tunnel to be. I was also disappointed to learn that the History Channel had made a reality TV series about a team of questers seeking Japanese treasure in the Philippines, after every channel and production house informed me it was a bad idea. Conventional military site treasure symbols. I was told of bus loads of cancer patients who arrived with hope and left with their cancer extracted and physically placed in their hands. Supreme Court of Hawaii. Roxas at the Golden Buddha hearing (from a clipping at the Roger Roxas museum in Baguio) An estate lawyer looked over his Last Will and Testament. 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I was further astounded by the conversation that continued off camera. Unlike most treasure hunters, Roxas followed the official protocol, but was unlucky in that his permit was granted by Judge Pio Marcos, the uncle of President Ferdinand Marcos. Thank you for giving me your life. Over the years Roxas became convinced that Yamashita had buried a great treasure in Baguio, and his stature as president of the Philippine Treasure Hunters Association attracted many acquaintances who would confirm his hunch. Descending into another of Klauss amazing tunnel systems His efforts proved fruitless, however, and Fuchigami became despondent about the fact that he could not locate the tunnel system that his father had shown him as a child, even with a map. Fortuitously, Cheatham took a photo of himself with the golden buddha. As a result, experienced treasure hunters do not use explosives or, for that matter, motorised devices. While there, he learned that the village had been a former Japanese military base, and that the locals believed it was ripe with buried Japanese treasure. Those who did not kill themselves ritually would gradually suffocate, surrounded by gold bars. 30 Apr 2019. Had he been part of the Golden Lily conspiracy? As it turns out, Klaus had also been in contact with Sterling Seagrave. The treasure vaults that Major Kojima had shown Santy were not only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what the Japanese had hidden in the Philippines, they also represented a relatively small portion of the overall war booty that had yet to reach Japan. Darrell is best known among the media for his TV show entitled "Cooper's Treasure", broadcast on Discovery . Robert Curtis had paid a very high price for becoming involved in gold recoveries with Ferdinand Marcos, but he was stubborn, and he still had the only copies of the full set of Japanese treasure maps to have surfaced since the war. Seagrave, S., Seagrave, P. Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold. Seagrave also shared how his offices were bugged, not by Marcos, but by Washington, and that his researchers were often confronted and intimidated by shadowy figures who demanded they cease their investigations immediately. Heres a list, Greek transportation minister resigns over train collision that killed at least 36, Ohios senators to unveil rail safety bill in wake of East Palestine derailment, After months of pounding, Ukrainian official says military may pull back from Bakhmut, 19 cafes that make L.A. a world-class coffee destination, Shocking, impossible gas bills push restaurants to the brink of closures, Elizabeth Holmes cites her new baby as a reason she should avoid prison for Theranos scam, What time is it on the moon? He had spoken to the village elders and learned of locations from their first-hand accounts as to where the Japanese were observed to have buried boxes in tunnel systems deep underground. Understandably, they had become discouraged and had run out of funds. Claiming a treasure hunter bounty . 0000001447 00000 n No matter where I go treasure hunting and metal detecting I have lot's of fun so thanks for subscribing and I hope you enjoy watching my treasure hunting adventures - I look forward to your . Absolutely not, the healer said. Whats more, during 1974 and 1975 he excavated the tunnel behind the hospital in Baguio and personally witnessed gold bars falling from wooden crates as they were removed from the site. April 30, 2019 He never replied. Roxas would need more time and money in order to proceed, and thus he sold seven of the gold bars and initiated the sale of the golden buddha. And, of course, Marcoss men went even deeper to reclaim the real gold bullion reserve. You dont mind if Klaus videotapes this, do you? I asked cautiously, but with a tone that suggested I would not be denied. Podcast transcript | Subscribe. Tunnels filled with a foot of water Andrew Gough. The oddest chapter in this urban legend is often cited as legitimate proof that the United States recognizes the treasure to be real. The award was later substantially reduced and nothing was ever collected. 0000004492 00000 n Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. For weeks, nearly a dozen members of Aquinos elite presidential security guard cordoned off the entire fort to keep the treasure hunt a secret and to ensure that the government receives its rightful 75% cut of anything McDougalds group finds. She logged onto Facebook and discovered a post featuring a link to The Truth About Yamashitas Gold documentary. He had not given up he had simply changed tactics and shifted his attention to individual members of Roxass excavation team, who were tortured. His team went and searched and dug but never found anything. After all, they are man made; Japanese made, I muttered to myself. But then, at 11 p.m. on Feb. 22, the tunnel caved in, killing two Filipino workers and focusing national attention on the depth of McDougalds undertaking. Find your friends on Facebook. Whilst on trial, General Yamashita defended the charges of war crimes that were levelled against him: My command was as big as MacArthurs or Lord Louis Mountbattens. When will Klaus enter his first chamber? Curiously, his death was not announced publicly until ninety days later. Wait a minute not so fast, I quipped. In January 1973 he was sent to Baguio prison camp, where he was beaten repeatedly. Since he was a professional fur trapper, he surely felt confident in his ability to hunt and survive in the wilderness. Curtis then used another old miner's trick to attract funding to go back and continue the hunt: he claimed his team's expulsion was the result of being just inches away from a fabulous treasure room worth billions that Marcos wanted for himself. What convinced you to take this seemingly ludicrous case? I enquired. 0000000016 00000 n See Photos. That would be too dangerous. Before hiking the final mile to the site, I was introduced to the caretaker of the land. Andrew Gough. He pressured Santy for information about the sites he had found and wanted him to turn over his bank accounts. Ill explain, but were not at the bottom yet. In 2015, IBM UK had their annual kick-off meeting in Los Angeles, and so I took the opportunity to visit Amelia. We followed a muddy path, not too far from a river that was roaring with monsoon-induced floods, and arrived at the site. Despite the fact the Klaus always lights incense and states his intentions before descending, they have experienced the same sensation I have plus the even more disturbing impression that someone was tapping them on their shoulder. Prepared: kneepads, waterproof shorts and gloves In 1931, a fur trapper named Phil Powers decided to try his luck at striking it rich. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. The implausibilities pile higher and higher. In the end, their ambitious plans were foiled when approaching allied forces, namely the United States, began sinking Japanese cargo ships that were in transit to or from the Philippines. Was that true, or simply a misdirection to conceal the fact that her husband may have embezzled billions from the Philippine people? Roxas was shown a search warrant with Pios signature that mentioned something about illegal possession of firearms. 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