01x04 - Someone Was Here

[bunniefuu]

ERIC DRUMMOND: Ha!

There's a coin, 1849.

This gold of

Thomas Rhoades came

from the Spanish conquistadors.

The lost Rhoades

Mine is someplace up

in these mountains, and

your ranch is in that area.

There's a box down there.

There's no way it'll

come out of that hole.

We can maybe find another

entrance or another place

to drill.

Wow, look at that.

OK, Duane, stir it up.

DUANE OLLINGER:

Plunging this water

is going to get that dye spread

out throughout the cavities.

CHARLIE SNIDER: What the hell?

Wow.

You know, when we

first drilled there,

and the blind white frogs came

up out of the drill hole--

You can actually see

right through it.

Now, we're seeing

a translucent worm.

Oh, look at that.

That, to me, indicates

that these things might

be living in a-- in a cavern.

[thunder crashing]

[suspenseful music]

DUANE OLLINGER: There

are some places on Earth

that just don't seem right.

The land feels different.

It acts different.

And this here is

one of those places.

Some say the land is trying

to hold on to something.

DUANE OLLINGER: Aztec treasure--

CHAD OLLINGER: Holy [bleep]!

DUANE OLLINGER:

--caverns of gold.

Look at this!

DUANE OLLINGER: Mormon riches.

It'll be $1 million here.

DUANE OLLINGER: Some even say

there's a buried spaceship.

Hell, yeah.

Me?

I never cared much

about the stories.

I just care about

finding whatever

the hell is in the ground.

CHAD OLLINGER: Let's

get out of here!

No!

[flute music]

[engine humming]

How much pressure

you putting on it?

I'm just trying to get to the

bottom of something, really.

The truth is very important.

And right now,

we're just piecing

together a lot of information.

We're just trying to

figure out the best

way to get into the caverns

with a dry entrance.

That way, we just

walk in and take

the gold right out with us.

[suspenseful music]

[phone ringing]

[beep]

Hey, there.

Hey, Forrest.

Thanks for checking

out that worm for us.

When we found the worms,

I mean, none of us

really knew what--

what they were,

so I figured I'd reach out

and send it to a biologist.

It sent me down

quite the rabbit

hole to figure out what it was.

Wow.

Turns out that the worm you

have there is actually a larva

of the horsefly or deer fly.

The adult horsefly will

lay its eggs in the air,

and when the eggs

hatch, as little larvae,

they drop into water.

So what that means

is that animal

that you found, although

you found in water,

has actually come from

an open air system.

So that means

they could be flying

in from a different opening,

then, right, somewhere?

Yeah, I-- 100%.

Without any doubt,

these horseflies

are indeed getting

into the cavern system

and laying their

eggs above the water.

Ha!

Basically, what he told me was

that there's an entrance that

flies can get into,

a dry entrance,

and that they lay their

larvae inside a cave.

And then, they go back out.

So there is another entrance

that we haven't found yet,

which is super exciting,

that's open right now.

That's probably

the same entrance

that whoever put the box down

there used to move it in.

Just this last week, we started

plunging the pond there,

and that's when we saw them.

We haven't seen them

before that here at all.

That's fascinating.

And as far as you know,

is there no open-air way?

No.

We don't have one yet, no.

Well, that we know of.

Yes.

That's great news, man.

I mean, that's what we've

been looking for, is an entry.

So we know there is

an entry somewhere.

But if I can give you any

advice, follow the horseflies.

Follow the horseflies.

How are we going to find this?

He said follow the

flies, and there's

flies all over over there.

So it just gives us a

different perspective

to look for, though,

that there is something

that could be another entrance.

Good luck with

the investigation.

Cool, man.

Thank you, brother.

[dramatic music playing]

We know that the flies are

entering the cave somewhere

that has a dry entrance.

And what we know about

horseflies is the way they feed

is by biting wild animals.

So follow the

horseflies means follow

the wild animals

on our property,

and that's where the

entrance will be.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yep,

they like it up here.

We got some good

outcroppings, see small voids

here and there, and--

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah.

ERIC DRUMMOND: And so

you've got a crevice here.

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah.

ERIC DRUMMOND: In addition to

that, when you have faulting,

you have a zone of

weakness, and that could

be a substantial cave system.

I suggest we head up,

right up in this area here.

Yeah, there's

a little opening.

Hey, look at this.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Wow!

ERIC DRUMMOND: Oh, that is a--

CHARLIE SNIDER: Oh, that's--

ERIC DRUMMOND: That's

a k*ll right there.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Hey, keep

an eye around you now.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Or part

of a k*ll, anyway.

CHAD OLLINGER: It's fresh.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah.

CHAD OLLINGER: It's warm.

CHARLIE SNIDER: You can see

a little bit of scuffle kind

of in here a little bit,

where it maybe drug it around.

Yeah, some--something went on.

CHARLIE SNIDER: See, look--

see, look at this

mark right here.

CHAD OLLINGER: That looks

like claw marks there.

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah.

Because it's kind

of drug a little bit,

I can't really tell

what type it is.

It's like there's so

many missing parts that--

where are they?

Like the legs, the--

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah,

where's the skin?

CHAD OLLINGER: Yep.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Fur.

- Yeah, there's no skin.

CHAD OLLINGER: But there's

so much meat still here.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah.

Whatever did this would

take the good stuff--

Yeah.

--and the guts, the

soft stuff, and leave

the skin and head and the--

CHAD OLLINGER: Right.

--antlers or whatever it was.

I don't know what it was.

Or they'll bury it

and come back for it.

Yeah, they come back

for it occasionally--

- Yeah.

- --to eat it.

It's almost as if

we came upon this,

and maybe we scared

this cat off.

In one of these caves, maybe.

ERIC DRUMMOND: It could be.

Whatever it is,

ain't far away.

It's close, yeah.

It's close.

I mean, I don't want

to see whatever did this,

but we're following the flies.

So this is a good sign.

SHIRLEY LLOYD: As a

little girl, we lived

in the middle of a big ranch.

We just had 20

acres, but the ranch

was all the way around us.

They had cows in the

back of the property.

At night, about 3

o'clock in the morning,

you would hear this

creature scream.

[suspenseful music]

SHIRLEY LLOYD: The

cows were going insane.

It sounded like a stampede.

And so the next day, the rancher

would come over to our house.

And he'd say, hey, I lost

another cow last night.

If you say any

coyotes, k*ll them.

And I kept telling the

man, it's not the coyotes.

It's this thing, this creature.

This is what's

doing the k*lling.

I like using the word

creature, because I

don't know what they are.

[bleep] man.

[suspenseful music]

CHARLIE SNIDER: Hey.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Well,

there's part of the leg.

CHARLIE SNIDER:

Another one right here.

ERIC DRUMMOND: The foot.

Another one right here.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Another one here.

CHAD OLLINGER: Well, it's

like it is leading up there.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Wow.

CHAD OLLINGER: Maybe to the den.

But that's where

we've got to go.

OK.

[suspenseful music]

All these caves

that we see here,

regardless of the

size of the opening,

are very significant, because

they could lead to a very

large underground cave system.

[suspenseful music]

Yeah, so this is it.

That's the cave we were seeing.

It goes in their a ways.

It does, doesn't it?

What do you think that is?

Beaver?

Yeah, maybe.

But what's a beaver

doing up here?

It's too high for

a beaver, right?

ERIC DRUMMOND: There's

another bone right there.

This might be a den for cats.

It's definitely

a den currently,

or was one, for sure.

That's another bone, yeah.

Yeah, different type.

Yeah.

So we found the

guts back there,

and that just says

that there could be

a mountain lion in this cave.

That could be its den.

Obviously, I don't

want to pressure

a mountain lion in its

own home, because it

could definitely attack.

So we're just going

have to be ready to back

out of there really quickly.

Brought out the

respirator for you--

Nice.

--with particulate cartridges.

Chad's using a

half-face respirator,

and that will protect him from

both poisonous gases and what's

called hantavirus, which is

an airborne disease caused

by rodents.

He's using an oxygen meter

to protect him in the event

that there's very

low oxygen levels.

[suspenseful music]

If something happens

to you, we're just going

to haul your a*s out of there.

CHAD OLLINGER: Cool.

All right, good luck.

CHAD OLLINGER: Thanks, brother.

Be safe.

[suspenseful music]

CHAD OLLINGER: Erg.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Everything good?

Yeah, good so far.

It's pretty-- it's pretty tight.

Normally, I don't go crawling

into caves with bones for fun.

So we know a long

time ago that someone

buried a box in one

of these caverns.

And the box they have in

there is not full of trash.

It has to be something

valuable that they don't

want someone else to find.

So if we can find

another way inside,

I feel like we're on the

verge of a huge discovery.

How's your O2 meter, Chad?

O2 is Looking good.

So I'm in quite a ways, and

it's starting to go down a lot.

It goes down maybe 20 feet.

Wow.

It's getting a little bit

bigger the deeper I get.

That's a good sign.

[suspenseful music]

[grunt]

I'm still going in.

Ha!

He's never met a

cave he doesn't like.

[grunt]

He's probably 100 foot in.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah, at least.

CHAD OLLINGER: I think

this is as far as I can go.

It's getting tight.

[static]

[alarm]

ERIC DRUMMOND: You all right?

Check your O2.

O2 is low.

I guess just want to--

let's get out of here.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Extract!

CHARLIE SNIDER: Extract!

ERIC DRUMMOND: Extract!

CHAD OLLINGER: Pull me out.

[dramatic music]

[alarm]

CHARLIE SNIDER: Still can't--

[grunt]

ERIC DRUMMOND: See him, Charlie?

CHARLIE SNIDER: I

still can't see him.

[grunt]

[dramatic music]

ERIC DRUMMOND: Come on, buddy.

[grunt]

ERIC DRUMMOND: Can

you see him, Charlie?

[alarm]

I guess just going to--

let's get out of here!

ERIC DRUMMOND: Extract!

CHARLIE SNIDER: All right--

ERIC DRUMMOND: Extract!

Pull me out!

[alarm]

[grunt]

ERIC DRUMMOND: You

see him, Charlie?

CHARLIE SNIDER: I

still can't see him.

[grunt]

[cough]

ERIC DRUMMOND: Come on, buddy.

[grunt]

[bleep]

[bleep]

[bleep]

ERIC DRUMMOND: Sit down.

[bleep]

ERIC DRUMMOND: Breathe.

CHARLIE SNIDER:

You're breathing--

ERIC DRUMMOND: Just breathe.

CHARLIE SNIDER: --hard.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Just breathe.

[cough]

ERIC DRUMMOND: Got a

little dicey in there, huh?

Yeah.

ERIC DRUMMOND: The

gas went off in there,

the, huh, the monitor.

- Yeah.

[coughing]

You were going down,

downhill, down slope--

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah.

ERIC DRUMMOND: --and

maybe something

was displacing that oxygen.

It had to have been something

sitting in the bottom there.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Yeah.

I'm glad you got

the hell out of there.

[bleep]

CHARLIE SNIDER:

Why don't you come

out and get in some more air?

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah.

Nothing like getting

out of a cave--

Yeah, right.

--seeing the sun and--

Yeah.

--the sky.

CHAD OLLINGER: The oxygen

level started going down.

I started getting

dizzy, so I had

to get the F-[bleep] out quick.

When I finally got out, I

mean, it was like fresh air

has never felt so good, man.

Do you think maybe

it was back-filled in?

Could be.

I mean, it was all this kind

of soft dirt the whole way.

Yeah.

I made it all the way

back to the end of the cave,

and it was kind of a

dead end right there.

So we're going to find another

entrance to the cavern.

You feeling OK?

Yeah, I feel good now, man.

ERIC DRUMMOND: You ready to go?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm ready.

Good.

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah.

Good deal.

[dramatic music]

We're really glad to get

Chad out of there safely.

And he seems fine.

And so, we're going

to keep looking.

[dramatic music]

CHAD OLLINGER: Oh, look at this.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Oh, wow.

CHAD OLLINGER: Look at that.

ERIC DRUMMOND: What you got?

CHAD OLLINGER: This huge--

ERIC DRUMMOND: Wow--

CHAD OLLINGER: --carving.

ERIC DRUMMOND:

--Charlie, look at this.

These are obviously

petroglyphs.

How intricate they are.

That is so cool.

That-- that thing is huge.

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah, look at

the headdress on it there.

Uh-huh.

That's got to be like a

ruler or a king or a chief.

CHAD OLLINGER:

What is the circle?

What does that represent?

World, planet-- it's a little

bit out of my realm here.

CHARLIE SNIDER: You know what?

The story of the lost gold

dates back to the Aztecs.

So these petroglyphs

even look like they

could be Aztec, possibly.

I don't know.

But one kind of

looks like Montezuma.

ERIC DRUMMOND: I agree.

They do have sort of

an Aztec look to them.

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah.

CHARLIE SNIDER:

This kind of lines

up with what the historian

told me just the other day.

According to the legend, the

Aztec took their gold North

and stored it in

the Uinta Mountains.

When things line

up this neatly,

I tend to get a

little bit suspicious.

But it's kind of starting

to look pretty good.

[inaudible]

ERIC DRUMMOND: Take

some pictures of them.

Chad, would you mind climbing up

there so I can get some scale?

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah, yeah.

This one looks more

like a child here.

CHARLIE SNIDER:

Yeah, that's cool.

That seems really

evident to me--

CHARLIE SNIDER: Yeah.

--that is a royal family.

This must be the rulers that

were immortalized in stone.

We need to get these

images back to Duane.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Duane needs to--

- Yeah, he needs to see this.

CHARLIE SNIDER: --all this.

[dramatic music]

ERIC DRUMMOND: We were working

our way around up here.

DUANE OLLINGER: Right, right.

And we came around the

corner, and we looked up,

and bam-- there's these

big ancient petroglyphs

carved into the rock.

Wow.

And it was just like--

Wow.

And so Duane, here

are some of the images--

DUANE OLLINGER: Really?

ERIC DRUMMOND: --that we took.

DUANE OLLINGER: OK.

Oh, wow.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Look at that.

CHARLIE SNIDER:

See that headdress

right underneath the neck?

ERIC DRUMMOND: Um, there's Chad.

You can see the scale

of the whole thing.

That's one-- that's

the family unit.

DUANE OLLINGER: If those are

the Aztec markings, it's huge.

But we're not experts.

What if it's marking a Native

American burial ground?

I know it's got

you guys excited,

but it's got me more worried.

And if there's a

burial ground out here,

it shuts this whole

son of a b*tch down.

So we need to do

some investigating

as far as we can go back.

If we do run into something,

we shut it down ourselves.

We don't have to be told to

be respectful to the Indian

Nations or anything like that.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah.

That's a no-brainer

on this deal.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Yeah.

I'll get on that this week.

[music playing]

Well, you know, the

depiction of the one

with all the headdress and the

regalia and all that, that--

that they had on, that was kind

of Montezuma-looking stuff.

CHAD OLLINGER:

Yeah, I don't know

the word "regalia," so maybe.

[laughing]

CHAD OLLINGER: Those

petroglyphs, though, it

was pretty-- pretty neat.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah,

that was pretty neat.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Yeah.

CHAD OLLINGER:

Yeah, that was good.

So I know it's my dad's job

to kind of worry about burial

grounds and stuff like that.

But us finding these

petroglyphs, I mean,

it's amazing.

Yeah, it's pretty neat to

realize that those things

were made like late 1300.

I'm hoping that

those petroglyphs

could be a big clue.

Yeah, it could

be part of where

the original source of this

treasure came from, the Aztecs.

Duane was excited, too,

but he had some concerns.

CHAD OLLINGER: What

would they do if there

is a burial ground here?

They'll they'll

have to report it.

To the Indians or--

ERIC DRUMMOND: The

Indians will come in, yep,

and it'll become sacred

ground basically.

So you'd risk not

only shutting it down,

but you could potentially risk

a portion of your property.

Yeah, and rightly so.

If it's a graveyard or something

like that, my goodness.

Yeah.

[dramatic music]

[crickets chirping]

DUANE OLLINGER:

What the [bleep]??

(ON RADIO) Charlie

boy, you better

come up here by the ponds.

Looks like we got another one.

CHARLIE SNIDER: (ON

RADIO) Copy that.

Be there in a minute.

Damn, another one?

DUANE OLLINGER: Same type of

scenario, it looks to me like.

This son of a buck

was mutilated.

CHARLIE SNIDER: It's

the same damn thing,

ripped the head off.

Kind of makes you

wonder if somebody

ain't leaving a message here.

Where's Chadro at?

I hadn't seen him

in a little while.

Hey, Chadro, you better come

and look at this by the ponds.

Still dripping.

Damn sure got some

liquid coming out of him.

[engine roaring]

[suspenseful music]

It was just laying here?

DUANE OLLINGER: Mm-hmm.

When did you see it?

I just walked up

about a few minutes ago.

God almighty, another one?

Seems like every

day it's something--

something different, isn't it?

For years, we hadn't seen

anything like this, nothing.

And this here is the

third one we've seen.

According to

over at Skinwalker,

they-- you know, they had these

mutilations over there, too.

Yeah, about three months ago.

Well, apparently we got

a little bit of it now.

We've never had these kind

of problems before, so whatever

is going on here, I--

I sure hope it stops,

because, you know,

you can just tell

it's not right.

Might be getting a little

dangerous out here.

We need to kind of be watching

our backs all the time now.

I mean, everything--

every animal,

they'll clean this mess up.

They don't do this.

They don't gut the son of

a buck and take the head.

My gosh!

I hope this isn't some

sort of a warning sign

that we're on top

of a burial ground.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Now, what

do we do with this one?

I just think we ought

to leave it here as a trap

and set a camera up right

over in those trees.

And let's just

leave it right here,

and see if we can't

pick something

up on the game camera.

Good to me.

I'll move a camera over here.

[ominous music]

CHARLIE SNIDER: What the hell?

CHAD OLLINGER: Holy sh-[bleep]!

CHARLIE SNIDER: That's

a frigging wolf!

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah, it's big.

It's definitely not a coyote.

That's a wolf.

CHARLIE SNIDER: I don't know.

There's a wolf on here.

It's huge, man, just right

there, right on the road.

CHARLIE SNIDER: He's a

good 3 foot tall, easy.

Wow.

What the hell is a

wolf doing down here?

They should be up

9,000--10,000 feet up

there with the elk herd and--

What's crazy about this, when

my two-year-old daughter was

out here, she was pointing

on the top of the hill,

saying, there's a white dog up

there on the top of the hill.

And none of us could see it.

I mean, not saying

it could be, but

all the locals say

that the skinwalker's

natural form is a wolf.

It does bring up

a lot of questions.

The Skinwalker Ranch

has had some mutilations

on some of their cattle.

So are we getting the

same thing that they're

getting over there?

[eerie music]

At my house

where I live, we've

had our own little experience.

Gives me goose bumps just

to even talk about that.

A tribal member used to walk up

and down the front of our house

all the time, lean on

our fence, and dance.

I got really worried about

it, and I called a friend

of mine who is a shaman.

He said you need to do

something about him.

He's trying to suck the good

out and to let the evil in.

So now, of course,

I'm freaked out.

And then, we started

seeing this big dog.

I never saw the guy and

the dog at the same time,

but he had always came

from that direction.

Then, the dog started

coming onto our property.

I felt like we were

constantly being watched.

One day, the sun was

starting to come up,

and I'm looking out the window.

Well, there's my horses,

and all four of them

are standing butt-to-butt.

And there's that dog again.

And this time, he's

circling my horses.

[neighing]

And I'm like, OK, I'm

done with this dog.

So I grabbed my g*n off the bar.

I literally had one b*llet

left in the chamber.

So I'm like trying

to sneak up on him.

And that dog stops

looks right at me.

And I just pulled

up, and I shot.

And he dropped, just dropped.

He didn't twitch.

He didn't run.

He just dropped.

I called my husband.

And I said, when

you get home, will

you please get rid of the dog?

And he could not find a b*llet

hole, no blood, nothing.

REPORTER: And how

do you explain that?

I don't.

I can't.

I don't know.

But about two days later,

we read an obituary.

That Native American kid

was found dead in his home.

It was a skinwalker.

These mutilated animals

are totally a distraction,

but we have to stay focused just

on getting into the caverns.

What we do from here?

There's got to

be an entry point

around this son of a buck.

I don't think it's going to be

on top mountain, where the--

No.

Hell, that wouldn't be

very feasible for them

son of a bucks to--

Yeah.

Enter up there anyway.

I mean, those

petroglyphs up there,

they're probably

labeling something.

They're showing that

something's there.

I mean, we don't know what, but

we just have to keep looking

around that area, I guess.

Mm-hmm.

Let's just use common

sense about this deal.

If we were whoever's hiding it,

you know, we would cover it up

where it looks pretty natural.

All right.

If you was hiding a

daggum stash of whatever--

1,000 pounds of gold, you

would do a lot of things

to make it look natural, to

cover that son of a buck up.

Right.

You'd have to.

Yeah, true.

So we got to think

like they thought.

Yeah.

We still need to check if

these are sacred grounds.

Yeah.

But in the

meantime, let's keep

searching for another entrance

without disturbing anything.

So I'll just go on foot

around the petroglyphs

and see if we can

see something there.

Yeah, I think that's the

only way to do it right now.

That's perfect.

Let's do it.

OK.

[dramatic music]

Most of the time

we've been here

has all been at the

cavern, you know,

where all the water was, just

looking for a hole in there.

But at least like 80%

of all this other stuff

hasn't been explored to

the extent that we need to.

I mean, as far as to

find another entrance,

it could be anywhere out here.

So we're just really trying

to spend some time and--

and look all around

here for any--

any little cracks or

holes or something

that we can get in that cavern,

because we know they all

go through here.

We know that there is

gold in the caverns.

We just have to find

the best spot to enter

and the safest spot, you know.

No one wants to get

hurt, but we definitely

know that there is stuff here.

[dramatic music]

So there's a cavern up here.

But we'll just check it out.

[eerie music]

CHAD OLLINGER: There are

small little caverns in there,

but I can't see

anything in there.

[crickets chirping]

[eerie music]

I mean, this-- this

whole area is pretty new.

Basically, we're on the

other side of the mountain.

That's where our dig site is.

So we're just trying

to cover this part

of the ranch to see, you know,

if we're missing something.

On the roads, you can't

see all these spots at all.

So just hiking it is

definitely the best

way to find something for sure.

Uh, just kind of get

boots on the ground

up here to see if we can

actually find something.

I don't know.

We haven't had any luck yet.

[suspenseful music]

Oh, yeah, we'll

probably just head back.

Might as well, man.

Sorry for keeping

you out so late.

CHAD OLLINGER: All right.

Cool.

Let's head back.

Oh, what the F-[bleep]?

Hey, right over here.

Look at this.

What the [bleep]?

What the [bleep]?

It's a cave.

Holy [bleep] man.

This thing's huge.

[ominous music]

See this?

It's a huge cave.

It goes I don't how far in.

There's a bat in there.

There's three bats, four.

[bleep]

PRODUCER: Here they come.

[bats squeaking]

CHAD OLLINGER: There's

bats all in the, man.

[bats squeaking]

CHAD OLLINGER: No

telling how far it goes.

I can't even see the

end of it all, man.

Holy [bleep].

I gotta call the crew, man.

Hey, y'all need to come

over south of the dig site.

I found a huge cave over here.

I think I found the entrance.

I gotta call the crew, man.

Hey, Dwayne?

DUANE OLLINGER: (ON RADIO) Yeah?

Hey, y'all need to come

over south of the dig site.

I found a huge cave over here.

I think I found the entrance.

There's all kinds of stuff.

There's bats in there.

I don't know how far it goes.

DUANE OLLINGER: (ON

RADIO) What'd you find?

Someone dug out a

huge cave over here

just south of the dig site.

DUANE OLLINGER: (ON

RADIO) Copy that.

You want us to head there now?

Y'all just come.

Bring the whole crew.

We need hard hats and headlamps.

DUANE OLLINGER: (ON RADIO) 10-4.

[dramatic music]

CHAD OLLINGER: I mean,

this property is huge.

And we've been camped out at

the main dig site pretty much

the whole time.

And finally getting

out and doing some

exploring and finding this--

whoever put that box

down in the cave,

they could have used

this entrance right here.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Wow.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Damn.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Chad,

what have you got here?

Look at this.

ERIC DRUMMOND:

What have you got?

Wow.

CHAD OLLINGER: I haven't gone

all the way in yet, but--

OK.

CHAD OLLINGER: I just looked

from the entrance here--

Yeah.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Wow.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Look

at that son of a b*tch.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah,

it goes in quite a bit.

CHAD OLLINGER: Took

some work, huh?

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah.

Somebody spent a lot

of time doing this.

So it could be

another entry point.

This cave is directly on the

other side of the mountain

from our main dig site.

So the cavern system could run

all the way under the mountain.

This mine shaft could be an

entrance to the same cave

with the wooden box.

It's amazing this

is on our property.

I want to go in just

real carefully at first.

My initial impression

on this one

is it looks like it was

dug a long time ago.

And that's a good thing,

because it's still open.

The idea here is, why

was this put here?

Was it-- was there

something of great value

they're looking for?

What was-- what was

the tunnel put in for?

DUANE OLLINGER: Well,

this is wild as a hammer.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Wow.

DUANE OLLINGER: Look at that.

ERIC DRUMMOND: How

far does this go?

There's a rat's

nest right there.

I'm not seeing any, like,

drill holes that they

would use to put dynamite in.

CHAD OLLINGER: Right.

CHARLIE SNIDER: So this

was probably hand dug?

Yeah, it looks

like it's hand dug,

so somebody spent a

lot of time doing this.

DUANE OLLINGER: This

hard-a*s work here.

ERIC DRUMMOND: What

were they mining?

That's the big question.

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah, do you

see any clues of anything?

ERIC DRUMMOND: Not--

this is all sandstone,

and so let me try

something here.

Let's all turn off

our lights here.

All right, I'm going to try

to light this up with the UV

and see what we see here.

Oh, wow.

DUANE OLLINGER: Look

at that, glowing.

CHAD OLLINGER:

Green, what is that?

ERIC DRUMMOND: Wow.

That looks to be

feces from rats or bats

or something like that.

See how it's dripping

out like that?

CHAD OLLINGER: Right.

Look at it.

It's all over the place.

CHARLIE SNIDER: But

no mineralization?

ERIC DRUMMOND: Doesn't

look like much at all.

CHAD OLLINGER: OK.

ERIC DRUMMOND: The rest

of the mine looks--

appears to be sandstone,

similar to the rocks, you know,

right at the-- that blind front.

CHAD OLLINGER: Exactly.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Yeah.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Let's turn our

lights back on, and let's go.

I thought I saw--

just saw one up there.

CHAD OLLINGER: There it is.

ERIC DRUMMOND: There it is.

[bleep]

ERIC DRUMMOND: OK, guys,

this is where it gets dicey.

But we've got to be in a

good, what, 150, 200 feet?

Boy, it does look like

it goes down over there.

DUANE OLLINGER: Oh, yeah.

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah, it does.

But look at-- look

at the ceiling here.

It's caved.

We have all the debris

on the ground here.

CHARLIE SNIDER: So it appears

to go a little bit to the right.

CHAD OLLINGER: Uh, it

looks like it goes down.

ERIC DRUMMOND: I would now--

I would not suggest

going back in there.

CHAD OLLINGER: I mean, that's

what we got our hard hats

for, though, right?

CHARLIE SNIDER: Yeah.

Yeah, I'd love to see

if it goes any further.

ERIC DRUMMOND: I'm up for it

if you guys are, but it's--

CHARLIE SNIDER:

Let's push forward.

[inaudible]

CHAD OLLINGER: It does go down.

Look at that.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Watch your--

[indistinct yelling]

[bleep]

[bleep]

CHAD OLLINGER: There it is!

ERIC DRUMMOND: Get out of here!

[bleep]

ERIC DRUMMOND: It [inaudible].

CHAD OLLINGER: The

bat keeps [inaudible]..

Ahhh!

[bleep]

He's going after-- let's get--

let's get out.

[laughing]

Get the [bleep] out of here!

CHARLIE SNIDER: He

likes you, doesn't he?

Yeah, he likes me.

DUANE OLLINGER: You guys act

like he's going to k*ll you.

CHARLIE SNIDER: He's

up on the ceiling now.

[laughing]

He's in my face.

[bleep]

It ain't funny, man.

CHARLIE SNIDER: Well,

I kinda thought it was.

I don't like those

little suckers.

DUANE OLLINGER: Oh, wow.

ERIC DRUMMOND: All right.

DUANE OLLINGER: Damn.

[bleep]

ERIC DRUMMOND: It looked

like it ended right there.

CHAD OLLINGER: Yeah, that's

the end of it right there.

And I'm still not

seeing an obvious--

like an obvious vein,

a mineralized vein,

or anything like that so--

DUANE OLLINGER: Did they just

dig it for the hell of it?

There's no way.

There had to be a motive, but--

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah, what--

what-- that's the question.

There could be a

different motive to digging

this huge mine shaft.

You know, it's like, why would

you keep on digging if there's

no evidence of any minerals?

So it's someone

came in here and dug

this by hand, which took a long

time, and a lot of work, too.

Where they looking for

some cavern, like we are?

I mean, it very

possibly could be.

What if they were looking

for a way in, too, you know?

I don't think that far from

your main dig site there.

Right.

It's just straight

north of there.

Based on those numbers.

We can track this

all the way out.

And we might track it all

the way across the mountain

to where we're at.

Whoever dug this is searching

for the same cave full of gold

that we're searching for.

So we're right on track.

They just didn't have the

good information that we got.

And they damn sure don't have

the equipment that I have,

so it's huge.

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music]

This whole place is a

mystery, but these pieces

are starting to line up.

We've got stories about

the Aztec treasure.

And we also have stories

about the Rhoades Mine.

We have Spanish coins, and

we also have Mormon coins.

And then, we find

those petroglyphs that

look like they could be Aztec.

And to top it all off, we

have a giant box in the caves

down below us.

Now, we find this tunnel that

someone spent a lot of time

in digging.

You know, it feels like

we're just one piece away

from putting it all together.

What can I help you with?

I'd like to look at the

records, the county records,

on the Blind Frog

Ranch property.

You want to come

back over to the vault?

We want to be

respectful, so we

need to make sure these

petroglyphs aren't

a part of a burial

ground, something

that we need to

be respectful to.

So we just need to know.

Our books start back

in 1880, and the property

that you are looking for has

been recorded in a patent

from the United States in 1945.

So it comes from the

United States land office.

Yes.

So then, that

was federal land?

That was federal land.

OK.

And not Indian land?

No.

We did have Indians roaming the

area here, but at that point,

it was federal government.

Federal government.

OK.

Deed.

OK.

You know, we found some

petroglyphs around there.

We wanted to make

sure that we weren't

on some type of

Indian burial ground

or sacred ground or

something like that.

Is there any records on that?

We don't have any tribal

records whatsoever in--

- OK.

- --our office.

OK.

The good news, there

is no sacred ground.

So we're-- we're OK there.

I'm very comfortable with that.

You know, and also, we--

there's a mine shaft off

the back of the property.

Is there any mining claims

on Blind Frog Ranch?

So what I have is

what's found in this book.

And it's called the

"Black Cap Mining Book."

So the-- so there is

actually mining claims on?

RECORD KEEPER: There are.

There are.

Right here, the Black Cap.

CHARLIE SNIDER: OK.

RECORD KEEPER:

And it talks about

here's your northeast quarter.

And this is a

noticeable location

on the Crow Creek drainage.

OK.

Does it tell what

they were mining for

or anything on there?

Did they list that?

So on here, they have

listed gold, silver, copper,

lead, or other valuable.

OK.

And is that the people that--

That is the people that were

filing the notice of location.

OK so it's Rhoades?

What?

These are all

Mormon gold pieces

from the lost Rhoades Mine.

The story goes Thomas Rhoades

took the gold and hid it.

And people have been looking for

it ever since. (ECHOING) Since.

Since.

So that's very interesting.

Fable or history, whatever

you want to call it,

you know, I find it kind of

odd that someone named Rhoades

would have mining claims

on a particular section

of our property that

the same last name is

the Rhoades lost mines.

And it's from the

1850s, which is

the same time that

Rhoades was showing

up with 60 pounds of gold.

So this is real good.

[dramatic music]

[phone ringing]

CHAD OLLINGER: Hey,

what's up, Charlie?

Yeah, he's right here.

He's on the tractor.

Let me get him.

Hey!

What's up?

Hey, Charlie

called and said he's

trying to get a hold of you.

All right.

Hey, Charlie, here's my dad.

What's up, Charlie boy?

Hey, you guys are not

going to believe this.

What is it, Charlie?

I found two mining

claims on the property.

Charlie don't be [bleep] us.

And guess whose name

was on the claims?

Rhoades.

DUANE OLLINGER:

That's huge, Charlie.

Get your a*s back here.

[engine rumbling]

All these ranchers

around here,

they are sneaking

on the property

to see what's going on.

I don't play those games.

Anybody that is that

interested, that means we're

doing something right.

No.

DUANE OLLINGER: But they are

fascinated about this property

out here.

Been too many decades of strange

occurrences, things happening.

We call it the energy zone.

ERIC DRUMMOND: Yeah.

There's an anomaly here.

How can I either disprove

or prove this energy

field smelting data?

I'm going to have to

rethink everything.

[machine signal]

It's something

highly reflective.

It is possible that

something's buried up there.

Our main objective is

to get into those caverns

and find the [bleep] gold.

It's got to be a void.

Turn it off!

Turn-- turn it off!

CHAD OLLINGER: He's

going into a trance.

[moaning]

My whole family's out there.

I gotta go.

[vroom]