02x05 - The Lost Josephine Mine

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Tonight on Beyond Oak Island...

This lost Josephine Mine could
be hiding an untold fortune.

There was 72,000 pounds of gold.

That's $2.37 billion.

- Wow.
- Whew.

There's a legend
about a mysterious door.

You don't often
get an eyewitness account.

With our flashlights,
we could see the door.

- Let's do it.
- It's time.

Oh, my goodness.

We're about
200 feet below the surface.

- Matty! Gypsy!
- What you got?

- Oh, my goodness.
- Oh, no way.

All the while
we were growing up,

my brother and I were fascinated
with finding treasure.

Pirate treasure,

cursed treasure.

Civil w*r gold.

Since then,
our work on Oak Island

has shown us
there's a world of mysteries...

- Whoa.
- Waiting to be explored.

So, we like to reach
out to other treasure hunters.

X marks the spot, right there.
Brilliant.

- We want to hear their stories...
- That's right.

- And share our insights.
- "Ill-gotten gains."

- And who knows...
- I got it.

Maybe we can help them
with their search.

Not only in America.

Wow. That is gold.

- But all over the world.
- Yeah!

Beyond Oak Island.

It's funny how these
different mysteries,

you know, sometimes the more
people you get to know on them...

The different treasure hunters...
It's-it's like, a...

- it can be a small circle.
- Mm-hmm.

Treasure networking, Matty.

- Treasure networking.
- Yes.

And it-it's actually
that network

that I want to talk to you guys
today, because Gypsy Jewel...

who's looking for Sambas Gold...

- Yeah.
- She actually told me

about a treasure hunter that
she met named, uh, Terry Carter.

- Okay.
- She learned from him

a story that he's involved with,

and I think
you guys will like it,

because it kind of checks
a lot of boxes.

Let's hear.
What's the substance of it?

- Well...
- Is it a pirate treasure or something?

- What are we talking about here?
- I think even bigger than that.

- Really?
- Yeah. Think Spanish gold.

- Okay.
- And think Spanish efforts in America

- mining gold.
- Where?

Utah. The lost Josephine Mine?

Following the Spanish conquest

of the Aztec Empire
in central Mexico

and the execution
of their emperor Montezuma,

surviving Aztecs fled north
with a vast treasure

of gold, silver and jewels.

Spanish expeditions
led by conquistadors

including Hernán Cortés

and Francisco Vázquez
de Coronado

searched far and wide
for the missing riches

as well as literal
rumored cities of gold

in the land that would become
the United States.

Although these treasures
were never located,

the Spanish did succeed
in finding numerous

natural deposits
of precious metals,

and forced the indigenous people
to help them mine the riches.

The Spaniards
put Native Americans

into, essentially sl*very,
a system called the encomienda,

which was a law that enabled
the Spanish to enslave

any non-Christian peoples
who they ended up subjugating

as part of their
colonial expansion.

For the next 150 years,

Spanish conquistadors,
aided by Jesuit priests,

established a number
of silver and gold mines

reaching as far east
as Louisiana,

and according
to some researchers,

as far north as Utah.

Spain starts shipping
back about two million pounds

worth of silver every year.

They set up
these mining operations,

and every Spaniard that can
lay a claim to this land

will start using,
essentially, Indian sl*ves

to mine this silver.

By the 1680s,

the Indigenous peoples
began to rebel.

In New Mexico, the Pueblo Revolt

united a number of tribes
in organized

and brutally violent retaliation

against their
European colonists.

Other uprisings would soon
follow across the territories,

forcing the Spanish to abandon

or conceal many of their
lucrative mining operations,

leaving a number of them
lost to history.

There are stories everywhere...

- Oh, yeah.
- About treasure mines,

Spanish conquistador
connections,

establishing outposts
or missionaries

across the-the great Southwest.

So, this isn't surprising,

but I'd be very interested
to see, you know,

how these gentlemen
came upon this "story."

Because if it is indeed
the "lost Josephine Mine,"

how did it get "un-lost,"
shall we say?

How did they stumble upon it?

It's important
that treasure hunts continue,

because it's all about history.

This lost Josephine Mine,
in treasure hunting circles,

especially in Utah,
is famous and much sought-after.

And it could be hiding
an untold fortune.

Gypsy tells me it's got
a great story

wrapped around it,
involving a-a door,

and it's just incredible.

The lost Josephine Mine

is one of the most famous
lost mines in North America.

It's right up there
with-with the Lost Dutchman,

the-the Lost Adams Diggings.

According to legend,
it was a very, very rich mine.

Some historians suggest

that the Josephine Mine
produced as much

as a billion dollars
of gold in today's value

before members
of the Indigenous Ute tribe

staged a violent uprising,

k*lling a number
of their Spanish captors

in the early 1800s,

and leaving a vast fortune
lost to history.

The mine, according
to most sources, is in Utah.

And a place called Hoyt Peak
is probably

the most likely spot,

and it's still, uh,
you know, a big area.

The legend, of course, persists.

We now have generations
of treasure hunters

who have ventured up
into the Uinta Mountains,

searching for the existence
of the lost Josephine Mine

somewhere in Utah.

Terry is on the verge
of something really incredible.

He has a partner
named Gary Holt.

- Mm-hmm.
- And I believe Terry and Gary

feel like they're on top of it,
and that they can find it.

I don't know any of the details
other than Gypsy telling me,

"You have to talk
to these guys."

- Well, let's do that then.
- Right?

- Call them up.
- Yeah, absolutely, -Okay.

That sounds quite interesting.

- Hello, gentlemen.
- Hey, guys.

Hey, how you guys doing?

Good. How are you?

We don't know yet.

It depends on w-what
you want to know.

Gary Holt is an
entrepreneur and treasure hunter

who has lived most of his life
in Summit County, Utah,

near the Uinta Mountains.

After growing up
enamored with the legends

of lost Spanish mines
in the Western United States,

he has just secured
the legal rights

to explore a property
near Hoyt Peak

that he believes to be
the lost Josephine Mine.

I found out about
the lost Josephine Mine

from my brother,
who got a book from someone

that owned claims up there.

I've spent 12 years

doing a lot of empirical
observations, uh, research.

I think there's about
a 99.9% chance

that the Josephine's gold
is still there.

Unfortunately, Gary had to fight

the National Parks
Service of Utah

for more than a decade in court
to secure the rights

to his mine claim.

Now, at 85 years old,
he is no longer physically able

to search
for the believed gold himself.

But thankfully,
Terry Carter has the experience

and determination to help
Gary now attempt

to realize his dream.

You know, I've been
treasure hunting since 1981,

not only looking for Spanish
gold, Spanish treasure,

but the out-of-place
archaeology stuff,

the ancient records,
the things like that.

So when I heard the story
of the lost Josephine Mine,

that really intrigued me.

And so, I made it a point
to try and become friends

with Gary Holt
and go after this stuff.

So, you think you've found
this lost Josephine Mine, Terry?

Tell me about that.
What's happening?

What we have is a waybill
that's left for this mine.

This waybill was written
by a-a Captain Garcia...

He was a captain
over this mining division...

And they had to flee
for their lives.

The-the natives was

chasing them out of the country.

According to
Gary and Terry's research...

in 1814, Jose Joaquin Garcia,

the Spanish military captain
in charge of the Josephine Mine,

found himself
and his 42 soldiers

under attack by the Indigenous
laborers

who had been enslaved there.

Although 34 of his men
perished in the siege,

Garcia reportedly managed
to seal off a chamber

inside the mine
containing a vast cache of gold

before narrowly escaping
with his life.

In the hopes of one day
returning for the riches,

he penned a detailed waybill,
or instructions,

of where the mine was located
in the Uinta Mountains.

However, he would never
have the opportunity

to return for the hidden gold.

So, a friend of mine went

and researched
and found the Garcia family

and talked with them,
got the documents from them.

- So we got the waybill.
- Hmm. Wow.

And the waybill gets you
right there.

It's so many leagues
from the headwaters

of the River Timpanogos,

which is the Provo River,

and so many leagues
from the Santa Anna River,

which is the Weber River,

and that takes you right
to a canyon

that opens up from the east.

You go up there,

which is right
where Gary's mine is.

- Yeah.
- And-and not only does it talk about how to get there,

but it also talks
about what's inside of it.

That's right.

And there was 240 cargoes,

300 pounds per cargo,

which was 72,000 pounds of gold.

And, uh, at today's price,

that's about $2.37 billion.

- Wow.
- Wow.

Whew.

Based on what they said
in the waybill

for the Josephine Mine,

the Spanish left
72,000 pounds of gold,

doré bar gold, in a tunnel.

That's about $2.37 billion.

And they described
exactly where it was...

20 feet from a wooden door

that we had to go through
to get to it.

Wow.

Do we have any proof

that, like, say, for example,
that door exists

or anything like that?

So-so I have an older gentleman

that told me that he was
down there in the '70s

and he found not just a door...

An elaborate door.

So what we got here is
an eyewitness to a wooden door.

This is probably the entrance
to where this treasure is.

And so we're hoping...

we're hoping we can find it.

- Wow.
- So is it

a pretty complex structure?
Have you been down in there?

Are there lots of passageways
and tunnels and things?

What do you know about it
right now?

I haven't been down there,

but it's a limestone cavern,
this area is.

- Oh.
- And-and there's all kinds of tunnels.

It's riddled with tunnels.

There's some treacherous parts
to this.

Well, and are you interested

in us kind of helping out
a little bit on this?

'Cause this sounds really cool.

Man, I think we'd love that.

You know, I've seen
how you guys operate.

And with some modern technology,

maybe we could find this door.

I-I like the whole premise.

I think this is...
This is cool, fun.

I tell you what though, Matty.

We got so much to do here.

Why don't you take
the first trip and report back?

I always certainly talk
about eyes and boots.

In this scenario,

- he will be our eyes and boots.
- Yes.

And then you come back,

- and then we'd love to go.
- We might go, yeah.

- Yeah.
- Terry and Gary, can I be there

on the day of the descent,

when you actually go
into the caves?

Man, we'd love to
have you there, Matty, but I hope

you're not claustrophobic.

Because the guy who found
the door, the older gentleman,

he told me that you've got
to go through one tight,

um, wormhole, he called it,
and it's pretty tight.

So it's gonna be one heck
of an adventure.

Man, I want you there.

Just don't be claustrophobic
on me.

Are you?

I am. I can do heights.

I can do snakes.

I can do u-underwater.

Claustrophobia's
a bad one for me.

You know, if I go all the way
there representing these guys,

scouting it out, I-I think...

I'd love to try
and see that door.

Let's get it set up.
Let's do it.

That'll be step one,
and then we'll see what happens.

- Yep. I agree.
- I'm excited.

- Thank you, guys.
- All right,

guys, I will coordinate
with you the details

of-of my trip.

And, um, I can't wait.

We'll be in touch. Thanks.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

I think it's time to pop
this baby into four-wheel drive.

Wow. Already getting steep here.

They weren't kidding when they
said it was a rough terrain.

Uh-huh.

Three days
after his meeting on Oak Island,

Matty Blake
and treasure hunter Gypsy Jewels

are heading some 50 miles east
of Salt Lake City, Utah,

into the rugged terrain
of the Uinta Mountains

to meet Terry Carter and his
team at the believed location

of the lost Josephine Mine.

There they are.

- Gypsy, how you been?
- Hey, Terry! It's great to see you again.

- It's been a while.
- Man, it's good to see you. It has been.

Matty, it's good
to finally see you.

Good to see you in person,
my friend.

- How are you?
- Matt. All right.

Hey, I want you to meet
some of these people.

- All right.
- In order to aid the team

in their effort
to safely navigate the mine...

We got Jon, the tech guy.

Rick and Marty Lagina
have arranged

for subsurface imaging expert

Jon Madsen to join

- today's search.
- This is Quinn Pack. - Hi.

He's the mine coordinator.
This is Tom Beardall.

- He's the guy that's seen the door.
- Hey, Tom.

- Good to meet you.
- I knew it. I said to Gypsy coming in,

- I go, "That's got to be Tom."
- Yeah.

- How are you, sir?
- Now retired,

Tom Beardall earned his living
as a professional miner

for more than 30 years,

unearthing gold, silver
and other precious metals

throughout Utah.

In the early 1970s,

he and his brothers,
Timothy and Robert,

worked on a crew
at this very location.

And on one fateful
and suspenseful day,

while navigating

through the mine's
treacherous tunnel system,

they made a stunning discovery.

Talk to me about,
you know, how you got here.

I know a little bit
about the background,

but how did you end up here?

Me and my two brothers

went down
through a little wormhole.

And the only reason
we kept going

- is we had a breeze.
- Sure.

We could feel a breeze
going through there.

So we continued on
through the wormhole and...

got into the first room and...

we went down this steep 45 drop,

got into the second room
and we thought it was the end,

but we could see a crack that
dropped into the third room.

And it was pretty steep
going down.

And with our flashlights,
we could see the door.

Ah.

And so we kept going.

We went right down
in front of the door.

And I'd never seen such...

work in the wood.

- It was sealed.
- You mean... you mean ornate work

or the fact that it was...

- It was sealed?
- It was solid.

There was no leak or cracks

- or nothing in that.
- Ah.

I remember you
telling me it looked like though

that the-the calcite had been
dripping down the walls,

- dripping down the doors, and that was kind of hiding it, too.
- Yeah.

Kind of camouflaging
with the calcite over the years

of covering that door up.

Whatever it was, they didn't
want air getting in there.

They wanted it sealed.

So, I-I want to understand this.
The airflow.

You're following the airflow.
Then you find the door.

- Did you think that was the source of the airflow?
- We-we found...

The airflow led us past
the door.

- So it was basically drifting right-right...
- Right in front of it.

- Really?
- And we just kept following that draft.

- And-and Tom was a miner at the time.
- Yeah, I was.

- Ah.
- So he knew the dangers of bad gases.

- Yeah, I...
- He knew if he followed the good air,

he would be okay.

Sure.

When traveling underground,

experienced miners often use
the direction of fresh air

flowing in from the ground above

to help guide them through
unfamiliar tunnels and caverns.

It is those airflows that help
to dispel dangerous gases,

such as methane
and carbon monoxide,

that naturally accumulate
in mines

and also help to identify
safe pathways for the miners

as they navigate narrow passages
and treacherous terrain.

So you make
this unbelievable find

of this door.
What happens after that?

We had flashlights.

And we was in there
the whole day.

But, um, the lights were getting
so dim you couldn't see.

And then the air got stagnant
in there.

We felt like you wasn't
getting enough air or something.

But I think
it was panicking for...

- 'Cause our light was gone.
- Mm.

And so I prayed to God

if I could get out of there,
I'd never come back.

And once we got out alive,
we was happy.

We would go on with life now,

and we'll-we'll stay away
from there.

But that's the reason
I've never been back.

Well, that's
an incredible story.

So, Jon, is there a more modern
approach we can take

to try to follow
in his footsteps?

Yeah, I-I think, uh, thermal
imaging down in that cave,

so we can see where
those airflows are coming from,

so we can see
the different temperatures,

so we can trace
where that air's coming from.

So I think that'd be great
to do in this.

So we could just still follow
that airflow, potentially.

- Yes.
- God willing, find the door,

follow the airflow at least
though and maybe find

- its source.
- Yeah, 'cause if that airflow went past the door,

we should find it.
And the other nice thing, too,

is wood will be
a different temperature

than the surrounding rock. So if
we're using the thermal imaging,

that door should show up
really well.

- Oh, wow. Okay. Great.
- Wow.

The forward-looking
infrared device, or FLIR,

can detect fluctuations
in temperature

as small as 70 thousandths
of a degree.

Its ability to display these
differences as a visible readout

will allow the team

to follow the invisible airflow
more precisely...

Technology that didn't exist
when Tom and his brothers

conducted their search
more than 40 years ago.

You think that door's still
down there, waiting for us?

I haven't heard of anybody
that's found that door.

Tom says the same thing.

That's what we're here
to find out.

- I don't know what's behind the door.
- Well...

You know? That's another story.

- Yeah.
- But, to me, the way he describes that door,

that's a historical find,

whatever...
Just finding that door,

man, that's a treasure.

That's a mission
that I really can get behind,

is-is wanting
to validate his story.

And I know that Rick and Marty
would love that, too.

Tom, thank you so much.
Your story's incredible,

and, um, I know
that I'm really motivated

and you are to-to prove
your story correct.

I'm gonna bow out and
wish you guys the best of luck.

Well, thank you for sharing.

You're welcome.

I say let's get underground now.

Let's do it.

- There he is.
- Yeah, there he is.

- Jeremiah! - All right.
- Howdy, everybody.

I'm glad you made it up here.

- Good to see you.
- Hey, uh, everybody,

this is Jeremiah.

Jeremiah, our mine guide,

he's gonna help us
be safe going down the hole,

and he's gonna help us be safe
inside the mine.

He's-he's done this all
over the Western United States.

- He does this for a living.
- Wow.

You know, we not got
a lot of time here.

- Okay.
- We're burning daylight. I want to get going.

So let's get you backed up

and into place,
and, the rest of us, let's get

- our gear ready and let's go from there.
- Yeah.

That's it.

In Hoyt Peak, Utah,

Matty Blake has joined

treasure hunter Terry Carter
and his team

to explore a mine that its owner
believes may contain

$2.2 billion
in 18th century Spanish gold.

- All right.
- Matty.

How you doing, everybody?
Looks like we're close.

- We are.
- It looks like we're ready.

- So how we gonna do this?
- So, Jeremiah

is kind of our mine guide.

Jeremiah, what you got in store
to keep us safe?

- What do you got for us?
- Yeah.

Well, let's do a safety briefing
really briefly.

We're gonna want to watch
for anything we can fall on,

slip on, uh, bump our head on.

Another thing that we want to be
very careful of underground is

the atmosphere. So we want
to make sure we're monitoring

so that we have enough oxygen
and that we have, uh,

no buildup of carbon monoxide
or other bad gases.

So we have a 4-gas meter.

You've got an additional meter
so we have extra backup.

- I got one. Yeah.
- Fantastic.

The other thing that we're gonna
be doing, just so we make sure

that we can find our way out, is
we're gonna run a string line.

That's gonna be
everybody's safety.

Everyone can refer to it.

It'll make us all feel
more comfortable.

And we'll get that set up
when we get down there.

Here's
where it's getting tricky.

I am definitely claustrophobic.

Um...

And... it's time.

It's time to get ready
to go down there,

and, uh, I'm fighting it.

I'm fighting...

my fear.

It's like I know
I'm not gonna chicken out.

I know I'm gonna do it.

And so, right now,

I'm making a decision
to focus on the mission

and to focus on the minutiae
of tasks at hand.

Okay. So everybody's comfortable
with the rules?

- Yep.
- All right.

- Let's do it.
- Okay.

Okay, Quinn, you're up.

- Let's do this.
- All right.

The team will begin
their exploration by using a winch

- to lower themselves and their equipment...
- See you down there.

Through a mine entrance
originally used by

treasure hunter Tom Beardall
in the early 1970s.

The ladder was put
there after Gary was able

to get the claim rights.

So it's a way that they can
just easily get down there

when they need to,
and the top is sealed

for safety unless
they need to get in there.

Okay, Quinn, GPR coming down!

Tom has claimed
that, while searching underground,

he found a large
wooden door hidden deep

in a cavern that he believes
was the entrance

to the legendary
lost Josephine Mine.

That all looks solid.

This door,
along with the potential riches

that might lie behind it,
is what the team

is hoping to find today.

You're good to go.

Right off the
bat, it's nerve-racking

because the first thing
you have to do is descend this

really long ladder
into a very scary-looking hole.

It's time.

The entrance of this thing
looks like 10-X.

Oh, you can feel
the temperature drop,

that's for sure.

Oh, my goodness.

We are underground.

Wow.

Harness coming back up!

All right.

- Gypsy, you're doing great, pal.
- It's opening up a little.

Yeah, you're at about six,
seven feet; you're fine.

I don't care for heights.

And this ladder was
about 50 feet down.

- So, it's a little scary.
- You're doing awesome.

About ten more rungs,
you're home.

But it didn't matter
how deep I was gonna have to go.

I wanted to get down there
and find this door.

I'm gonna unhook you.
You did it!

All right,
I'm gonna send this back up.

Wow, it's different to see it

- from this perspective.
- Yeah.

You realize how far down we are,

- and we're about to go further.
- When you're looking up?

- Right?
- Oh, someone's coming down.

- Welcome to the party, Jon.
- Yes.

Hey, guys, here comes Terry.

Oh, okay. Here you go, Terry.

So, I'm getting my flare out
right now so we can start seeing

where these airflows are,
so we know where to go.

- The wind kicked up up there.
- Oh, good.

So that's gonna help
the air movement

- in here, so...
- Okay, we're getting some good visual.

- Oh, man, look at that. It's working great.
- Okay.

- Look at those heat signatures.
- Yes. Uh-huh.

And so, what we want to do is

look for these airflows,
like right there.

- Right.
- We want to spot 'em.

And we want to see if you have
a temperature change.

So, see it's darkest
right there?

And so, that's where it's gonna
be the coldest,

so that's where the cold air is
coming from, is that direction.

- Right there.
- So that's where we want to go.

Watch out,
there's a drop-off right here.

Ah, our fearless leader.

All right, looks like
we all made it down safe, so

I'm gonna go ahead and lay
our string line out,

so we're gonna follow
this string.

Everyone can see it.

According to
the thermal imaging,

we want to go that direction,

so I'll follow you down
with the rope.

Sounds good.
All right, everybody watch

your footing
and let's walk carefully.

There are holes all on your
right and your left as you

make your way, and they go down
further than your eye can see.

And they're tight.

- Just follow the string, huh?
- Yep.

If you took a misstep...

you're going down,

and you're gonna be trapped
like that.

It is treacherous. It's no joke.

- Coming down.
- Oh, man.

- You okay, Matty?
- Eh... Focus on the mission.

How you doing, Gypsy?

It's good. There's a little bit
of a drop-off here.

I got you. If you fall,
I got your backpack.

All right, thank you.
I think I've got it.

- All right.
- Teamwork. Thank you, guys.

This way, Gypsy.

- Hey, is that you, Quinn?
- That is.

- All right, I made it down here.
- Been waiting on you.

- Isn't this awesome?
- Yes.

Yep, airflow is definitely this
way, you guys, we're doing good.

Okay. So keep going.

Keep to the left.
This is where the airflow is.

Focus on the mission.

Here I come.

Okay, Matty, come down this way.

The flow of air is
this direction.

- Okay, I hear you.
- It really is a challenge.

I have to calm myself.

So it looks like
the airflow is coming from that

direction when you follow
it that direction down there.

- So let's keep going.
- Okay.

Well, thanks, Jon.

- Oh, my God. Hey, Terry?
- Yeah?

I think we found our wormhole.

That's exactly what Tom said.
That's a good sign.

We have to go forward.

More than 100 feet
under the ground

- in Utah's Uinta Mountains...
- Coming down.

Deep inside
an abandoned mine tunnel

called the Pueblo Shaft,

- Matty Blake...
- Equipment coming down.

And a team of local
treasure hunters

are searching for evidence of

the legendary
lost Josephine Mine.

- Tight squeeze.
- They have just discovered a narrow opening

that matches
a description given to them

by a previous treasure hunter
named Tom Beardall.

It is their hope that if
they can successfully navigate

through it, they will
soon discover something else Tom

claimed to have found more
than 40 years ago: a wooden door

marking the entrance to a vast
treasure cache of Spanish gold.

- Hey, how's it looking?
- Tight!

Tom's story is that he
crawled through a wormhole,

and he describes it
as very tight.

Well, we've come upon it,

and these little moments
of panic well up in you as

you're crawling through
a space this big and you start

to think bad thoughts.
I'm just focusing on what needs

to be done, and that's
getting me through it.

Oh, no way.

Look at this space.

- Oh, man.
- All right.

All right, fellas, I'm through.

This is unbelievable.

- Definitely.
- Right?

Matty, I'm proud of you.

You made it through that
tight wormhole. Good job!

I mean, I-I just, I want
to know from you and Terry

if everything's still matching
up with Tom's story.

So far it's matching up.
There's the wormhole.

Then it opens to a room,
which we're in now.

- Looks like a room to me.
- Yeah, we just need to follow

those thermal flows, and I think

- we'll still be on track.
- Great.

Jeremiah, how you feeling?

You're our leader. I mean,
how deep are we, do you think?

I think we're about
200 feet below the surface

- where we entered.
- Now I'm sorry I asked.

- Wow.
- So let me look at the thermal.

You picking up anything?

Well, it looks like the thermal
is pointing in that direction,

so that's where we need to go.

- Right through there?
- Right through there.

Oh, my gosh.

If you don't
have this modern technology,

you're just gonna be digging
a lot of holes

and guessing where you're at.

You need this modern technology
to try and pinpoint

and help you figure out
what your next move is.

Jeremiah, how's our air looking?
What do you got for oxygen?

- I got on mine 20.4.
- 20.3.

Yep, mine just turned
to 20.3 and zero gases,

so we're still good.

I don't know if Tom told
you guys this or not,

but he's told me in the past

that when he crawled
through the wormhole,

he came into a room,
and then he went down

a boulder fill
on about a 45-degree angle

that kind of spiraled down.

And then it opened up
into a crevice.

And he could walk through it
into the big room.

And then he seen the door.

Does that look like
it's a natural crevice?

It looks like a natural crevice.

It's all making sense.

- It's matching.
- Yes.

Man, if we can crawl through

this crevice, man,
and find the door...

- All right.
- Let's do it.

Following
the airflow is bringing us

down a 45-degree angle,
exactly as Tom described it...

This over
here looks a little steep.

Into this huge void space,

exactly as he described it.

Man, this is just like
Tom says. You can walk in it.

And if what he said is true,

we're going to make our way
through this room right now,

and at the end of it is
where they saw the door.

- Matty! Gypsy! Jon!
- Coming.

- What you got?
- Oh, my goodness.

Whoa!

It looks like, to me, that
the ceiling is caved in

right here, you can see
all the fresh dirt here.

Man, we've seen everything
that Tom's seen,

except for when we got
into this fissure,

it was caved in.

We-we couldn't go any farther.

I'm speculating, y'all, that

the tunnel kept on going
for Tom.

This, to you, looks like,

post-Tom,
something happened here

- and collapsed.
- Something's happened here.

So the door might be
right behind there.

That's right. I still have
the thermal showing that we have

- a flow coming through here still.
- Really?

- Even with the cave-in, we still got it?
- Yeah.

So, I'm thinking this
could lead to the big room.

There's only one way
to find out.

Let's get Jon's equipment

- and figure this thing out.
- Hey, we lugged it down 250 feet

- for a reason, right?
- That's right.

Man, we've used GPR
on Oak Island

but never in a space this tight,
I don't think.

You want to handle the wheel?

- I got the wheel.
- We're using a 750 antenna.

So, this particular
ground penetration radar

will see up to about 20 feet,

which should be enough
to see behind walls

or behind boulders, and that
should give us the range

- that we're looking for.
- Okay.

Want to shift it over
and do it again?

Yeah, shift it over
and do it again.

Let's make sure
we got the same data.

Some things that
you want to look for

to know that there's a void

is you look for a slight "U,"

and you see a little bit
of a different signature.

All right, okay, you guys,
it looks like we have

a little bit of void signature
behind this boulder.

Yes. You got a void, baby.

So if we can drill through this

and see what's behind there,
we may see a door.

- Let's get it in there.
- All right.

Jon, here's the water.

Oh, beautiful.
So that's what we start with.

As we go deeper and deeper,
we'll just add more

and empty the core out.

And we'll go
as far as we need to go

- to see what's on the other side.
- Awesome.

- All right, let's do this.
- I'll stand out of your way here.

Start the water.

To break
through the layers of rock

blocking the team's path,

Jon uses a custom-built,
in-cave drill rig.

- I got some core samples here.
- Powered by battery,

its diamond-tipped bit
is capable of drilling

through 80 feet of solid stone.

We're drilling at 250 feet.
Not bad.

All right, you guys,
let's add another pipe

on here, so I have
a little more length.

- Let's break through this bad boy.
- Let me help you.

- Yep, we're good.
- Is that working?

Okay, push.

Keep pushing.

That's it, keep it going.
Okay, more water.

Okay, have we made it through?

Get that core out.
There we go. Look at that.

- That's the last piece, boys.
- Wow. You broke through.

We are through.
Let's do this.

Let's do this. Yeah,
let me get out my snake camera.

Very excited.

In Hoyt Peak, Utah,

more than 250 feet
underground...

Okay, so let me pull out
my phone

- and push it on through.
- Yep, yep.

Matty Blake and a team
of local treasure hunters

are exploring an area they
believe may lie just outside

the entrance to the legendary
lost Josephine Mine.

Okay, push it on through.
Oh, yeah, there we go.

Having
just drilled through a layer

of fallen rock blocking
their path,

the team may be just a few steps
away from a wooden door

they were told guards
the mine's treasure vault

and more than $2.2 billion
in Spanish gold and silver.

Hey, I just felt it give.
I think it broke through, guys.

- Are you serious?
- Yeah.

- I-I see some opening there, wow.
- Oh, sweet.

All right, I'll try
and guide it.

You guys call it out,
I'll try and guide it.

Keep it going.

Wait, wait a minute.

Stop! Hold it, Matty.
Hold it right there.

Look at that, look at that.

Now, that's
a very big void right there.

- Yeah, there's some void over there.
- So, I can see

it's a big void,
but I'm not seeing the door.

No door? Can I turn it?

- Yeah, try turning it.
- Yeah, try turning it.

- Try turning it.
- All right, how's-how's that?

That's better. I can see
more down the... well, let's see.

Turn it a little more.

There we go, see, see
the void there behind that boulder.

Yeah. It's just too far, though.

Yeah, guys,
I can feel definitely

that I've broken through,
but it's actually making

the-the camera harder
to control.

It's kind of dropping
outside the end of the hole.

Although drilling into
a void behind the caved-in boulders

blocking their path
offers the team great hope

that they may be within mere
feet of a major discovery,

unfortunately,
at least for today,

they are not equipped to go
any further to confirm it.

This team got further
in the Josephine Mine

than anyone else has been.

They corroborated Tom's story
to the step.

You know, I'm really excited
how far we got

and that we were able
to break through and prove

that Tom was right...
There's a room back there.

When you get that close
to potential treasure,

you want to dig.

Well, I think we got enough here

that we need to dig down later

and follow this crevice down
to see if we can't get into

- the big room and the big, the big door. Yeah.
- Okay.

So, I'm gonna start
retracting it, okay?

- Okay. - Okay.
- You got enough-enough images?

Yeah, oh, yeah. You know,
I'm convinced enough

that we want to get
to the other side of this thing

because I'm pretty sure
that's where the door would be.

We have to figure
this has been many years

since Tom had eyewitness
to this door,

and there's bound to have been
earth shifts, cave-ins,

so we felt like we were close
to this door,

but still it was beyond reach.

This is probably
as much as we can do today.

Oh, my gosh. You guys,
yeah, we've been down here hours.

- Yeah, we've got to get out.
- All right. Uh, okay.

Before we head out, I...
Can we look at that footage?

- Yeah, let me get it here.
- All right. Let's bring it over here.

- Look at that.
- See, I was operating,

- so I couldn't see any of this.
- Oh, wow.

Look at that. Now, you
can see it's about to break through.

That's where I felt it break
through, right about there.

- Yup.
- Look at that void.

- Yeah, that's gorgeous.
- Oh, wow!

See that void?

It's huge.

- I mean, you've got something going on there.
- Yeah.

The camera
can see close to 40 feet

as long as light can
reach that far.

- Look at this.
- The problem in this case was the lighting.

So we were only able
to see maybe ten feet,

but it was enough to see
that the chamber opened up

big enough for someone
to fit through

and to get further up
the chamber.

Jeremiah, you've-you've seen...
you've seen this

your whole career.
I mean, do you think...

Would you want to explore
more there?

Yeah, I definitely would.
Following the narrative

and following the evidence,

I definitely would want to get
behind that rock.

- That's incredible.
- Yeah.

I mean, everything fit
along the way. Right, Gypsy?

- Definitely.
- Like, we followed the air.

Every void seemed to match
his story.

I was becoming more and more
convinced as we went.

And I wasn't exactly comfortable
down here the whole time,

but I kept wanting
to move forward

because everything was fitting.

- Right?
- Yeah.

So, I'd love to see
you guys get back down here.

I know the team would.

And I think if there's gold
anywhere, it's right there.

I think it's an amazing thing
you guys have done.

It's an amazing thing
what you guys have done.

Bringing the technology in here
that we haven't had.

So I'm just excited
for everybody,

and I'm grateful to be
a part of this.

I've said it a million times,
there's, like,

People
who can hear these stories

and just go on with their lives,

and the people
who hear these stories

and got to know more.

And I tend to gravitate and bond

with those type of people.

All right, well, I mean, I've
actually had a blast down here,

but I also wouldn't mind being
aboveground

because this is not
my natural habitat...

- 250 feet underground.
- Right?

So if our leader could
lead us out, please.

- All right, let's get out of here.
- All right.

Matty Blake,
I have one question for you.

Is the lost Josephine Mine
still lost?

Or did you find it?

Oh, man.

- That's the question, right?
- Yeah.

I think they're close.
I think they're real close.

I think, I think
they might be on it.

So, how close were you
to the door?

We think we were right there.

The very last place we could be,
where the door supposedly was,

there's a collapse.
That's kind of weird.

I didn't see any other collapses
blocking any other entrances.

Oh, you think it might have
been intentional.

- Maybe.
- Yeah.

Maybe someone else knew
that door was there.

Or maybe someone else tried
to breach it or something.

And just said,
"We're gonna leave this here,

and we'll come back
and we'll get it."

- Yeah. Yeah.
- I don't know.

Well, guys, uh,
Terry and Gary are standing by,

- and they actually have footage for us to look at.
- Oh, great.

- So...
- Well, let's get 'em on the phone.

- Hello, guys.
- Hey, guys.

How you guys doing?
Matty, how you doing?

Oh, I'm still queasy.

I just got some things
I want to show you guys.

I know Rick and Marty,
you're probably dying

to see what happened down there.

- There you go.
- All right.

Here's-here's what
we was looking at

down through the hole.

This actually looks way better
than when I saw it.

It was hard to see down there

in the cavern
while looking at a monitor.

You know, this I can really see.
Wow.

We can see that
there is a tunnel

still going on from there.

So, what we're looking at
right now,

that's the last shot
of that snake camera,

and there's an opening there,
so that would be the room

that Tom reported
and that door could be

right over that rock
right there, correct?

- Yep.
- Oh, boy.

- You were close.
- So close.

We're close. We just got

some excavation we got to do
to see where this thing leads.

- When's the plan to do that?
- ASAP.

It's an incredible story
Tom tells about this,

and he deserves to be able to
at least see this door

on video if nothing else.

There's a human component to it.

Terry was just articulating
that, you know,

the door and-and what may lay
beyond the door

is every bit as exciting
as when they first found out

about the mine,
but the compelling thing is

that I want to do it for Tom.

I want Tom to see the door.

I mean, here
on Oak Island, right?

Yes, there is a huge
treasure component to it,

but it's also about
paying respect to the people

that have come before us
wanting to know that,

you know, what Dan Blankenship
sought all those years

is still there,
it's still viable.

So, that's what
I find interesting.

- It's not just treasure.
- Right.

Well, I agree with you 100%.

You know, it's-it's the treasure
that gets you there.

But even if there's no treasure
behind this door,

that door is a treasure.

That'll do.

Well, I mean, I think
you can feel Terry's energy,

and working with him
was just awesome.

The whole team, I just want
to thank you guys

for this incredible experience,
and I-I hope we can stay

in touch with you guys
and-and see what's next to try

and find that door right
through that hole hopefully.

Man, I think we'd love that,

and, man, we thank you
for bringing your expertise.

It was a big help.

Well, guys,
if we can help any more,

we-we certainly will.

And this time,
Rick and I might tag along,

- so...
- Might?

Yeah.

Sounds, sounds great, man, and
we appreciate all your help.

- And thank you guys.
- Thank you.

- Pleasure to know you.
- Thank you for sharing the story.

- See you guys.
- Take care, guys.

Well, there you have it.

That's a life changer. That was,
that was an experience, man.

That was incredible,
and I just hope they can do it.

One chapter closed,

- another chapter begins.
- Yeah.

And, I mean,
one of these, just one,

we've got to hit a big cache
of treasure just one time.

- I'm actually hoping it's here.
- Yes.

- Let's start with this, okay?
- Okay.

- Fair enough.
- Let's go. Let's go start now.

No more tight spaces,
though, for a while, guys.