Andrew Gough. Reward: Otis Miller's Revolver & 5 x Erotic Photograph. In 1949, a 70-year-old man named James Kidd was a professional treasure hunter from Phoenix, Arizona. They decided it would be fun to go on a road trip to look for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. Treasure-hunting equipment 0000001447 00000 n
It seems Henry returned to the site as an adult, many years later, in the late 1980s, and dynamited the entrance shut once more, in order to protect what he believes to be even more gold bullion buried beneath Marcoss excavation. Cheatham later testified in the Supreme Court trial. 0000002177 00000 n
It detailed the work he had done in the Philippines as part of a team led by Nevada treasure hunter Robert H. Curtis. Regarding the Black Eagle Trust Fund, evidence also fails to show that any such program existed with that name but I'm not pointing a finger at anyone for making it up out of nothing. Fair enough. I arrived late, dined with Klaus, and the following morning he and his trusted colleague picked me up in the quintessential Philippine vehicle of choice, a motorised tricycle. 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. 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. Klaus demonstrating the art of dowsing He shared that he and his wife had their emails and phone calls monitored and had received repeated death threats. Robert Curtis meets Ferdinand Marcos in 1975. Subsequent lawsuits were filed on the back of Roxas v Marcos. Non-indigenous artefacts discovered buried near Manila When the cave-in become public Feb. 29, McDougald and his group were forced to go public as well. We rode back to Klauss house for what was to be a fascinating evening. The plane landed with a thud at Heathrow airport, and normality soon ensued. Reassuringly, he informed me that I was fine and that he had simply performed a tune up a bit of preventative maintenance. Needless to say, Klaus was buoyant with the news. Throughout his career in mainstream journalism, Seagrave descended deeper and deeper into conspiracy mongering. After looking for five days, they found no trace of Dametz and the case was closed. He followed the Japanese into the mountains and watched as they buried the boxes in a tunnel and sealed the entrance. Andrew Gough. Much to his surprise, and with no background or training in the discipline, Klaus achieved instant success. As a result, I was frequently contacted by Filipinos who believed they had located lost Japanese treasure hoards and were seeking both expertise and financial assistance in support of their proposed excavations. The sheer brutality of the working conditions is what struck me the most; the small, incremental gains that each day brought; hand and chisel, hauling rubble from the reclaimed tunnel backfill back up to the top. Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, 6 Mar. After her second NDE she began to have prophetic dreams, and claims to have been in regular contact with the spirit world. The vaults would remain secret. Andrew Gough. We started filming after 11pm and finished at 2am; hardly condusive to peak performance, but it was nice of the director to squeeze me in. I replied, Well, keep digging. I, on the other hand, was experiencing a fair bit of disappointment. Ive already invested a lot of my time, my energy and money on this. Cheatham was obsessed with legends of Yamashitas gold and frequently visited Baguio in search of Japanese artefacts. One even had a cobra as its spiritual guardian that Klaus had encountered before. 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. Klaus had briefed me as to what the sites would be like. As usual, he did not want any money for his trouble. 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. Twenty nerve-racking minutes later we parked up and began a rather gruelling trek through cobra-infested rice paddies. I was particularly intrigued with a photo Klaus shared of a cement doorway that he had arrived at in one of his tunnel complexes, and was anxious to inspect it in person. Many of them had pointed out that the Japanese knew they had little hope of holding the Philippines very long, and it would have been the last place they'd have sent history's biggest treasure. They had written a message that said, We have found a fine prospect. None of their valuables were taken. They began holding press conferences to try to raise more money in which they claimed to have found tunnels stacked to the ceiling with gold bars (but hadn't thought to take any pictures or bring back any evidence), and these claims sufficiently irked the government to the point that his team was expelled from the country in 1975. The United States had stumbled upon the greatest treasure hoards in history, including more gold bullion than was known to be in existence, and would use this unfathomable wealth to influence world affairs, win the Cold War, launch a space programme, and create a new world order. The 49-year-old American treasure hunter has cordoned off this rectangular swath of Indian Ocean in the Seychelles, and now he's somewhere 25 feet below, chiseling off chunks of granite and. I followed Klaus down the third descending vertical shaft only to find myself standing in nearly a foot of water. In August I flew to Manila and was greeted by a group of treasure hunters, including ex-military men, who transported me to a site to the north east. Keep going. I protested and attempted to leave a second time, but was restrained. I never expected such a gruelling journey. The award was later substantially reduced and nothing was ever collected. In fact, treasure hunters die each week in the Philippines, mostly due to the accidental release of cyanide capsules hidden along the tunnel walls. The book is full of errors that could easily be corrected by a second-year student of the language Another author, Donald Gillin, felt compelled to devote an entire book to debunking the Seagraves' version of history. 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We had adjoining rooms in the hotel and shared a laugh. 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]. In the days following the extraction of the golden buddha, Roxas returned and blew up the entrance to the tunnel so that others could not follow in his footsteps. In 2015, IBM UK had their annual kick-off meeting in Los Angeles, and so I took the opportunity to visit Amelia. While the Seagraves wrote from a historical and geopolitical perspective, conventional treasure hunters had also been in on the game. None of the prospecting equipment had been taken. In particular, I was keen to investigate one mans courageous efforts to unearth Japanese buried treasure, and the tons of gold bullion that accompanied it. 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You could smell it respectfully, both literally and figuratively. Billy and Bob were prepared to camp for several days near the Norris ranch while they looked for gold. Much to my surprise he responded straight away and said he was busy with something very important and very ancient. Even one, the political scientist Chalmers Johnson who was a China specialist and shared the Seagraves' distrust of Japan, could not get entirely on board with their quest. Phils skeleton was lying on the ground outside the cabin. The audacious treasure hunter would not stand a chance against the might of Ferdinand Marcos, he thought. In the process I sought to confirm that Japanese treasure hoards in the Philippines were not only real, they were about to be unveiled in all their glory. Since that day, the location has been known as Headless Creek in Deadmen Valley. So McDougald has dropped his previous secrecy and found the spare time to schedule daily press conferences on the lawn outside the torture chamber--at least until he hits pay dirt. After some time she purchased a new home for her parents and one for herself. We said goodbye to Henry and headed out for lunch. No problem. Ricardo T. Jose is treated as a rock star in the Philippines Bruce and I had been discussing the subject for years and wanted to feature Klaus and his quest. I stared at him with a knowing look one that could not conceal the fact that I was now questioning his identity. 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. After a few days, his wife reported that he was missing. Those who did not kill themselves ritually would gradually suffocate, surrounded by gold bars. Torn Treasure Map 2: Top right side of the map, inside a drawer of the house called "Manito Glade". A few days after the update released I came across that treasure hunter npc encounter where you can buy a map from him. It was difficult to be certain, but I knew what I believed. Klaus dismissed his dowser, who he felt was taking advantage, and began performing the task himself. Was the healer authentic? After all, that was why we were there. When I came across leaves in my tunnel complex I had only another ten feet or so left until I was in the chamber. I was fascinated, not only by the camaraderie between treasure hunters, and the fact that other Imperial treasures had been discovered, but also by the fact that Klaus was actually as close to the prize as he thought he was. Is that correct?. In 1975, Marcos turned to an American mining engineer named Robert Curtis. After numerous failed attempts they found him. Kidd had decided to create a treasure hunt of his own. Its akin to what was found in Egypt in the pyramids. Many versions of this story have long been floating around, but by far the best known and most influential is a series of books by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave. Frustratingly, he was unable to recapture what she had so convincingly and spontaneously said previously, leading the director to believe we had made it all up. The massive and disproportionately large cemetery under construction in Klauss humble village See Photos. The Japanese, in particular, were notorious for this. He wrote that he would leave all his money to someone who could prove the existence of the human soul. #673 Their attack on the East was brutal, and largely airbrushed from history. Oihara was there too. While he was talking a hostile player started attacking me, which caused the npc to run away. Their car was parked at the beginning of the popular trail. What did you uncover? I asked inquisitively. Amelia did as the dream-induced spirit encounter with Roxas instructed. My interest in the story had been rejuvenated, albeit under the most peculiar of circumstances. In 1908, two young men were searching for gold in Arizona. Patrick is a great guy, an avid treasure hunter, and was to interview Henry Roxas for the show. But at least I had aimed high. Andrew Gough. Johnson, C. "The Looting of Asia." General MacArthur returns to the Philippines, General MacArthur inspecting the looted gold. April 30, 2019 The plan was that I was to be the quester and Klaus was to be the person who convinces me the whole thing is real. Filed under Conspiracy Theories, History & Pseudohistory, Urban Legends, Skeptoid Podcast It seems Burgess was so impressed with the man-made-tunnel footage that he had changed his mind and was open to the possibility that Klaus was close to a discovery. He found the whole thing rather ridiculous and naive, and hastily threw the flyer in the rubbish bin beneath his desk. Still, this was easier than hiking through the thick underbrush. 2019. The men asserted that they had been blindfolded and taken to a warehouse, where they had been shown an enormous stash of gold bars. The story has inspired many books to be written, and many artists have created works based by the event. That evening Klauss team brought some incense, that had been burned by the Shinto priests as they sealed the chambers, that they had found deep in the tunnels that week, and we burned it. Each day after class she dug in the back garden of the schoolyard. The old woman was sensational and described how she and her family had hidden in the hills as the Japanese processed by with an ox pulling a cart that contained what appeared to be a heavy box. 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. After lunch, I persuaded the director to stop at the hospital on the way out of town. I met her at Soho House and found her to be a gracious and grateful lady, albeit quite fixated on the messages that the alleged spirit of Roxas had been sharing with her. I was not aware that Peggy had passed away the previous year, and that Sterling had only just passed in May 2017, aged 80. Not surprisingly, some of Klauss workers will no longer venture to the bottom of the tunnel complex. Curtis to meet privately with a . Rights and reuse information. The Skeptoid weekly science podcast is a free public service from Skeptoid Media, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit. Goodness knows, hes close. His friend preferred to stay anonymous, but lets call him Bob for the sake of the story. Klaus interviewed him on camera, and afterwards we took turns examining the artefacts. You dont mind if Klaus videotapes this, do you? I asked cautiously, but with a tone that suggested I would not be denied. When he walked back to Dametzs spot only fifteen minutes later, the doctor was gone. They were retaken by the Allied forces over the course of a brutal year culminating with the Japanese surrender in September 1945. Within seconds the cyanide had travelled to the surface and killed everyone in the vicinity. He seemed to revel in the horror of the story. Is this what Klaus should expect to find in his treasure chambers? They received permission and resumed digging, attributing their failure to rediscover the fabulous treasure room to booby traps. Baguio Hospital, where Roxas made his famous discovery Real or imagined? Charles McDougald looked every bit a real-life Indiana Jones one recent afternoon as he sat cross-legged outside the World War II-era Japanese torture chamber where he and half a dozen other American treasure hunters are convinced lie buried more than 400 tons of gold worth at least $7 billion. Do you know about Yamashitas gold?. I will always appreciate your sacrifice. Not only are ancient Thai documents written on the bark of the bogtalay tree, its leaves provide oral hygiene, and even cure cancer. She reiterated that I was to be very involved in the whole Roxas affair. One day, he got into his car and drove away. I could hear the priest explaining to others that he had, in fact, discovered a golden buddha of his own, but it was so deep and so heavy that he was unsure how to excavate it. We learned that he had found marker artefacts at a shallow depth in the ground at various sites nearby. The Japanese had muscled control of the Philippines away from the United States, and were transferring their war booty from Singapore to Japan, when they were forced to come ashore and secure their treasures. The director films Klaus in the flooded tunnel complex over two hundred feet below the surface Eventually, Marcos concluded it was futile to torture Roxas further and released him after what had amounted to two years imprisonment. 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. This guy is a celebrated rock star in the Philippines, and there were posters of him all over campus. Unfortunately they lost that war and lost the Philippines, and thus never recovered the gold. Literally, out from the shadows, another treasure hunter emerged and interrupted, asking, Did I hear you say that you have found leaves in the tunnel? After Marcos was deposed in 1986, Curtis and McDougald lobbied the new government of Corazn Aquino that allowing them to find the gold would be a great way to pay off the Philippines' debt. At one point Cathcart questioned Roxas for five days straight. I was impressed and, dare I say, convinced. Are the Philippines the wealthiest nation on earth? Andrew Gough. The relationship would end badly. There was no doubt in my mind that Henry was every bit the fortune hunter his father had been. As he reflected on the significance of his experience, I remember thinking once more that I just wanted to leave. 0000006813 00000 n
I soon learned what Klaus was doing in the Philippines, and how he had ended up there. 2023 Skeptoid Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. No autopsy was performed, despite Cathcarts request, and the official cause of death was ruled as tuberculosis. And yet, the man does not charge for his services. Web. The Asian Pacific Post. Kidd originally left $500,000 behind. Hours later, on the plane back to London, my brain was in overdrive. Andrew Gough. 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 cobra was violently thrashing about. They looted museums, banks, gold reserves, private art collections even the sacred graves of ancient tombs were pillaged. Curiously, my GoPro showed only the opening and concluding moments of the procedure and nothing in between; a physical impossibility. 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. For years Fuchigami studied his fathers treasure map and secretly searched for the entrance to the site. Each time Curtis was requested by Marcos to select a new site to excavate, Valmores was dispatched to provide the treasure map. Regarding Operation Golden Lily, although evidence fails to show such a program existed with that name, the basic idea makes sense. Or we all die. Andrew Gough. The following day we departed for the mountainous, northern resort town of Baguio to meet with Roger Roxass son, Henry, and to examine his museum, which is dedicated to his father. London Review of Books. It simply stood tall and proud and stared at me, gently nodding its head as though it had understood and had accepted its fate. In the morning we drove to the University of the Philippines Diliman for the last interview of the trip: the Universitys renowned Second World War historian, Ricardo T. Jose, PhD. 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. He finished and I sat up, slightly dazed and in disbelief. The process was known as sanctifying, and via a series of chance encounters Marcos was led to the American metallurgist, Robert Curtis. After a long but successful walk I arrived at Klauss most remote treasure site. 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. While he kept an active presence on the speaker circuit, he flat-out refused to appear in the usual history/mystery TV shows, claiming that they were not serious enough. Curtis had raised funding for his treasure hunt by claiming that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos himself had personally invited him to recover the gold based on his unique expertise. In addition, American, French, Belgian, British and Australian divers are spending millions of dollars combing the bottom of the Philippine Sea in search of old Spanish galleons and other commercial ships that sank with thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars in treasure as long ago as the 1500s. 32 25
In the early 1960s, Hunter volunteered as a test subject for a psychedelic chemicals research program (MKULTRA) sponsored by the CIA and was paid . I returned to England and became engulfed by life and my time-consuming corporate job. I had packed industrial-strength gloves and knee pads! It could have happened to General MacArthur, you know. I was further astounded by the conversation that continued off camera. Why are we still having these debates? One hospital worker, who claims to have witnessed the process, asserted that he saw Marcoss men extract ten boxes a day, and estimated that the haul would have consisted of nearly eleven thousand gold bars. These sites were protected by ancient rituals performed by Shinto priests. Andrew Gough. Sign up! After they began damaging historical landmarks, public and political pressure kicked them out of the country yet again. I never made the trip to Carcassonne, and a few years later, when I had moved back to the United Kingdom, I lost Seagraves email. Although Roxas had been defeated, he had protected his secret longer than anyone could have reasonably expected him to. It was 2001 and I was living in Istanbul and working for IBM. I could hardly move. What are you waiting for? the caretaker shouted, as though I should have known what was expected of me. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the . The first clue to the treasure reportedly came in 1971, when a locksmith in the mountain resort of Baguio found a Buddha statue filled with gold and jewels. When his body was finally discovered in 2012, it was 11 meters (35 ft) off the ground inside a crevasse on the edge of a cliff. 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. Nor, to be honest, did I. She gave the pills to her husband, who took them and swiftly died. As I suspected, he was questing for Japanese treasure pillaged from Asia, but how he had got started was another story altogether. The initial award was $43 billion the largest civil judgement in history. I wondered. The other reason the treasure failed to reach home was the Japanese criminal underworld, and the immensely clever and powerful people who were its patrons. I was moved by Cathcarts story; it was epic, tragic and inspirational. Cancel at any time: Andrew Gough, I informed the site manager that he was digging on the spot where Roger Roxas had made the most famous discovery in the history of Yamashitas gold, to which he curtly replied, Yes, I know. Andrew Gough. When Marcos discovered that the photo had been widely published he made the CIA pressure Cheatham into signing an affidavit certifying that the golden buddha was not gold, or else face certain death in Vietnam. The disease spread quickly. Robert Hunter, the longtime lyricist for Grateful Dead, died on Sept. 23, 2019; he was 78. The six-hundred-pound gorilla at the site was a guy whose mother had been alive when the Japanese had arrived and asked if they could create a tunnel complex in their back garden for the purpose of depositing large quantities of boxes. I laid back down and thought to myself, What the hell had I just got myself into. 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. Dan Cathcart at his home, taking me through his Roxas v Marcos file Okubo recounted to Roxas how General Yamashita had transferred large quantities of gold and silver from Manila and stored them in wooden boxes deep underground, accessible by a tunnel complex near Baguio Hospital. According to Curtis, he had helped the dictator dig up $14 billion in gold bars, with over $85 billion remaining to be found. In 2009, he finally decided to take a month off work to go after his dream. The massive collection of vaults was stacked top to bottom with row upon row of gold bars. The suspicious and rather convenient dig on the site of Roger Roxass treasure site I had forgotten about the legend of Japanese treasure buried in the Philippines, save for the occasional outreach of Filipinos who had seen The Truth About Yamashitas Gold and were looking to secure funding for their own excavations, when I was contacted by a very curious woman from Los Angeles. Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. Andrew Gough, Henrys father with the famous detachable buddha head photo He also learned the secret language of the Japanese Shinto priests, who left clues symbols in the landscape, and in the ground. Our conversation prompted me to reach out to Roxass wife and daughter. The treasure still has not been found. "Searching for the lost treasure of Yamashita." 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. We added each other on Skype and began a custom of speaking most days. Roxas never saw a penny. Roxas reported the incident to the police, who predictably ignored his pleas. Even a Japanese prince was said to have arrived and whisked the healer away in his private jet. 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