Twenty nerve-racking minutes later we parked up and began a rather gruelling trek through cobra-infested rice paddies. Klaus demonstrating the art of dowsing Wow, I mumbled under my breath. That fact doesnt stop thousands of people from trying to beat the odds. Although Roxas had been defeated, he had protected his secret longer than anyone could have reasonably expected him to. In another dream, Amelia said she had been contacted by Roger Roxas, who told her that Marcoss real body remained in Hawaii, where he was living after his exile from the Philippines. I thought to myself with some alarm. In all, Prince Chichibu is said to have managed the construction of one hundred and seventy-five treasure sites, all across the Philippines. I detected decades of guilt and sadness that had become imprinted on her face. Emmanuel Soriano, Aquinos national security director, offered a note of realism. When Curtis was finally convinced that the Aquino government was sincere about protecting and encouraging treasure hunters, he organized his company and moved in, McDougald said. We rode back to Klauss house for what was to be a fascinating evening. I had tried dowsing before with little or no success. In fact, treasure hunters die each week in the Philippines, mostly due to the accidental release of cyanide capsules hidden along the tunnel walls. It was difficult to be certain, but I knew what I believed. Those who did not kill themselves ritually would gradually suffocate, surrounded by gold bars. He related how he had accompanied a friend who was ill to the Philippines so that he could visit a famous healer. The director trying to get the old woman to recapture on camera what she had said off camera. The director films Klaus in the flooded tunnel complex over two hundred feet below the surface The show aired on the American History Channel in the United Statesand was well received. Andrew Gough. Japanese armies did indeed seize valuables and plunder national treasuries of southeast Asian countries. I was frustrated. The men asserted that they had been blindfolded and taken to a warehouse, where they had been shown an enormous stash of gold bars. In hindsight, I concluded that I had overstated my projected return on investment even though I knew it was real, and that it must have sounded outrageous and not very credible. The more cameras the better, he chuckled. Japan's imperial war efforts were incredibly expensive and Japan had little wealth of its own. Fortuitously, Cheatham took a photo of himself with the golden buddha. "Yamashita's Gold." 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. However, the legal fees and the cost of the trials ate up so much cash that only $175,000 remained. I was especially interested in what had happened to the ancient relics of the East, and what exactly, if anything, remains to be discovered. I am sorry that you must die for me, I repeated, over and over. The day before they were due to depart, she walked downstairs from their hotel room and entered the bakery at street level. Ultimately, Valmores gave up forty of the lesser site maps that he had in his possession, in order to save his life. In 1993, treasure hunter Charles McDougald published Asian Loot: Unearthing the Secrets of Marcos, Yamashita and the Gold. Let us email you a link to each week's new episode. A love of China and its people ran deep in young Sterling's blood. Locals commented that everyone knows to stay away from that area in the summertime because the extreme heat can be dangerous.[10]. Klaus leading me through the cobra-infested rice paddies Skeptoid Podcast. Curtis was an expert in changing the metallurgical fingerprints of gold to disguise its origins. Was that true, or simply a misdirection to conceal the fact that her husband may have embezzled billions from the Philippine people? He failed Why are we still having these debates? Roxass bodyguards were forced to lie on the floor at gunpoint, along with the rest of the Roxas family, while Marcoss men confiscated not only the golden buddha and the precious stones that had filled its retractable head, but the remaining seventeen gold bars, samurai swords, old coins, and even his childrens piggy bank. In order to protect himself from further abuse, he formed the Golden Buddha Corporation (GBC) with Felix Dacaney, a childhood friend who was living near Atlanta, and assigned his interest in the case to the GBC. You could smell it respectfully, both literally and figuratively. It simply stood tall and proud and stared at me, gently nodding its head as though it had understood and had accepted its fate. They decided it would be fun to go on a road trip to look for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. The covert Black Eagle Trust accounts were inspired by the Nazi black eagle stamped on the gold bars acquired by the Third Reich. Follow me.. 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. Most of it, he said, is Curtis own money. Andrew Gough, Exhausted, after returning to the surface There is every indication that this cave-in was caused by a booby trap, McDougald said, reporting the results of an investigation by his teams geologist and resident mining engineers. McDougald said the fatal accident may slow the treasure hunt. While the Seagraves wrote from a historical and geopolitical perspective, conventional treasure hunters had also been in on the game. 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. The pillbox at Baguio Hospital Klaus and I continued our daily Skype calls and I could sense he was making real progress. Patrick is a great guy, an avid treasure hunter, and was to interview Henry Roxas for the show. Like Cheatham, Cathcarts team discovered Curtis in Las Vegas, and made a videotape detailing how he had spent many hours with Marcos in 1975, and had visited the president in his summer palace, where he saw the distinctively styled golden buddha, which (he later testified) he had examined closely, including its removable head. Reassuringly, he informed me that I was fine and that he had simply performed a tune up a bit of preventative maintenance. Roxas had been caught out. It was impossible for any man in my position to control every action of his subordinate commanders, let alone the deeds of individual soldiers. Curtis to meet privately with a . 0000005640 00000 n Intriguingly, Santy introduced Marcos to Imelda, and once dated the former beauty queen back in the day. Understandably, they had become discouraged and had run out of funds. So far so good. Slowly putting his ruined life back together, he moved from Reno to Las Vegas . No matter where I go treasure hunting and metal detecting I have lot's of fun so thanks for subscribing and I hope you enjoy watching my treasure hunting adventures - I look forward to your . It was not a comfortable place to work. For reasons I will never understand, I responded to his email and mentioned something about the Philippines. Scientists competed in their attempt to somehow prove that a soul left the body at the time of death. Each time Curtis was requested by Marcos to select a new site to excavate, Valmores was dispatched to provide the treasure map. McDougald, who has lived here for more than a decade and secured his doctorate in business from the University of the Philippines in 1983, is not the moving force behind the dig. Obviously, this challenge made it into the press. Thank you for your nutrients and for their blessings. He was never seen again. You can also find her on Twitter. I protested and attempted to leave a second time, but was restrained. I felt it was a heroic, yet tragic, story and one that needed to be retold. Marcoss people informed Curtis that Marcos was intending to process over three hundred metric tons of gold each year for the next decade. As a result, experienced treasure hunters do not use explosives or, for that matter, motorised devices. He recounted how he was struck with a sense of justice and responsibility as he retrieved the flyer, uncrumpled it, wiped off the coffee stains, and dialled the phone number at the bottom. In 2009, he finally decided to take a month off work to go after his dream. As he detailed the story of how he first became embroiled with Roxas, his manner and cadence reminded me of Jimmy Stewart, or Tom Hanks. Nearby, in a man-made chamber measuring ten feet by thirty feet, Roxas found more gold, this time packed into hundreds of small wooden boxes. Henrys pride and respect for his father touched us all. Imelda Marcoss mother had been a big fan of the healer. Watch the two-hour special of The Curse of Yamashitas Gold on Forbidden History, Series 6, on Discovery Science and other international channels from April 2020. 0000001826 00000 n She reiterated that I was to be very involved in the whole Roxas affair. Andrew Gough. Did the Japanese deposit immense quantities of gold in the Philippines? The plane landed with a thud at Heathrow airport, and normality soon ensued. She was clearly in her 90s, and yet it was a long shot, but lo and behold we hit the jackpot. 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. I knew only a little about the story, let alone the fact that Peggy and her husband Sterling were the worlds most prolific experts on the subject, and had documented the whole sordid affair in their seminal book, Gold Warriors; Americas Secret Recovery of Yamashitas Gold. And yet, from the claims of the Seagraves, to those of Curtis and McDougald, to those of Roxas and his team of lawyers, and the stories of all the other countless seekers of the treasure over the decades, not one single speck of gold has been found, nor any piece of corroborating evidence of any kind. He never replied. Andrew Gough, Amelia after her second NDE I felt it was my duty to expose this sort of fraud, like I had the whole faked tomb of Mary Magdalene saga in Rennes-le-Chteau a few years earlier, and so we visited him the next morning. Johnson, C. "The Looting of Asia." I know nothing, he said humbly. His team went and searched and dug but never found anything. To reach the site that were targeting, we left the dense jungle behind and walked up a rapidly flowing stream and a couple small waterfalls; a tricky endeavour at the best of times, but while carrying camera equipment, it was rather treacherous. Bassist Phil Lesh remembers tasting the LSD as . Andrew Gough, Henrys father with the famous detachable buddha head photo Regarding Operation Golden Lily, although evidence fails to show such a program existed with that name, the basic idea makes sense. Two hundred and sixteen feet, Henry replied, without hesitation, seemingly before Patrick had finished asking the question. After all, that was why we were there. The director reluctantly filmed it. Neither of us now trusted the other. The implausibilities pile higher and higher. Do you know about Yamashitas gold?. One day, he got into his car and drove away. After they began damaging historical landmarks, public and political pressure kicked them out of the country yet again. The bogtalay tree is regarded as sacred in the East. I was amazed to see that a hundred feet away a dozen men with huge cranes and bulldozers were digging a massive hole. While in Baguio, Valmores pulled out a map of the hospital treasure complex from his secret portfolio and handed it to Roxas. In a now infamous moment of stubborn, albeit courageous, resolve Roxas returned to Baguio, and in the presence of lawyers and the media, defiantly proclaimed the golden buddha to be a fake. Honolulu: Supreme Court of Hawaii, 1988. or. I had felt the same energy when I was dowsing with Klaus. The point being, Klaus was now very close. He replied, Thats where I am. 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. Santy, who tortured General Yamashita Tomoyukis driver, Major Kojima. The wife and daughter of Roger Roxas Andrew Gough. I was amazed. After a raucous reception dinner we agreed a plan for the next several days. Andrew Gough. Thats how the healer works; the sheet serves as an X-ray filter and highlights what needs to be healed. Years after his disappearance, he was assumed to be dead. 20 Nov. 2003, Volume 25, Number 22: 3-6. They used the same water from the streams as everyone else and unwittingly infected many of the other men. For their safety I will refrain from stating where I met them, but suffice to say it was worth the journey. The suspicious and rather convenient dig on the site of Roger Roxass treasure site Their uncle, Charlie McLeod, was worried because they never wrote home. Hours later I arrived and was greeted by the caretaker. One was named Billy Murray. In fact, they told me it was a dreadful idea. He had a copper mining company and also staked a claim on plots of land that he used to mine gold. The Japanese are believed to have visited Germany in the late 1930s, where they not only learned the technique of carving tunnels out of sheer earth and stone, but also how to backfill the tunnels with naturally coloured concrete known as German cement, in order to camouflage them, and to ensure that they did not look man made to novice treasure hunters. The only way to recover his body was via helicopter. 0000001447 00000 n Bob woke up a couple hours later in the early evening and noticed that Billy was nowhere to be seen. See Photos. I wanted to leave, but the caretaker said I mustnt; the healer had sent me, and I needed to complete his process. Soriano, who has been quoted as estimating the buried wealth at $900 billion and is currently overseeing the Ft. Santiago dig, told The Times in a recent interview: To my knowledge, nothing has been recovered yet. Another of Roxass helpers was the American, John Ballinger, who had fought in a guerrilla unit in the region during the war. The site we were hiking to was remote, and near a natural landmark that was apparently mentioned in the Japanese treasure maps. General MacArthur returns to the Philippines, General MacArthur inspecting the looted gold. Its a known Japanese symbol that means the seeker is going to love what is below, he added in his hypnotic Austrian drawl. I guess I had never imagined that Roxas had excavated that deep before discovering the golden buddha. I had never been and was excited to take it all in. But there was more. I didn't wana lose the map so I quickly hogtied the npc and stole the map. 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. Although General Yamashita was spared torture during his inquisition, he would become the victim of the ultimate indignity death by hanging. Roxas was cautious of Oihara and his fascination with the golden buddhas neck. Cobra blood is thought to contain vital regenerative qualities and is said to bond the drinker to the cobra family Poster of the fake golden buddha (from the Roxas Museum in Baguio) The intimidating entrance to the tunnel shaft While he was talking a hostile player started attacking me, which caused the npc to run away. I suppose alls well that ends well. Roxas escaped from his hotel and testified in front of the Senate once more, before ultimately being arrested for not appearing at the court hearing for his alleged illegal arms possession. Regarding the claimed gold buried in the Philippines, the fact that not a single piece has ever been found is exactly in line with our expectations. One year later, after an extensive search-and-rescue effort, all three bodies were finally recovered. The healer, operating with nothing but his fingers Reluctantly, I selected a cobra, which was promptly placed in a barrel-shaped mesh cage. Anyway, it keeps me fit, he added with bravado. The rods always seemed dead. When the healer arrived back home a luxurious Toyota 44 that had been purchased for him was waiting in the driveway. Was the healer authentic? Sure, some of the Japanese treasure sites had been unearthed with similar methods, explosives, bulldozers, etc, but out of the one hundred and seventy-five sites, it is believed that the hundred or so that are left are the difficult ones the hidden sites, and many of those contain the coveted Imperial treasures. Sen. Ernesto Maceda, one of the more skeptical critics of the hunt, asked McDougald whether he still plans to finish his book on hidden wealth. It came in 1988, right after Curtis and McDougald's headlines renewed the public's interest in the treasure. Amelia claimed to have been contacted by Ferdinand Marcos, the deceased former president of the Philippines, who thanked her for her prayers and informed her that he was in purgatory. Abcarian: Mask mandates? LOS ANGELES Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead's finest songs, has died at age 78. The site has been targeted by treasure hunters in the past, but nobody is patient enough to see it through. Roxas claimed they tried to sell the Buddha to finance removal of the treasure, and this attracted the attention of Marcos. Executive Secretary Catalino Macaraig said 80 treasure-hunting permits had been granted in the last year from among the two to three applications received each day by the office of the President.. We ascended the tunnel system and on the surface above Klaus performed a master class in dowsing. No-one was interested. The initial award was $43 billion the largest civil judgement in history. 0000005407 00000 n Andrew Gough. <]>> Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. However, that's a far cry from the claim that the US filled this one with Japanese gold from the Philippines after World War II gold that we're pretty sure doesn't exist. Then, at an infamous event, where President Marcos ordered the slaughter of his opponents at a political rally and blamed the ensuing grenade attacks on the Communists, Roxas escaped once more. More of that, he encouraged. By JOHN ROGERS September 24, 2019. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. The disease spread quickly. It stopped moving at all. 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. Before I could comment Klaus had taken out his dowsing rods and located the entrance shaft to the tunnel system that the bent tree was pointing towards. Lansdale could not believe his luck and promptly informed US General Douglas MacArthur, who returned to the Philippines to inspect the extraordinary discovery for himself. Throughout his career in mainstream journalism, Seagrave descended deeper and deeper into conspiracy mongering. No thanks Cathcart recounted how he read the GBCs plea for legal assistance with incredulity. Torn Treasure Map 1: On the far left side of the map, at the start of the Little Creek River, inside a drawer of a wooden hut. 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. But the real treasure was buried much deeper still. Fair enough. Is that correct?. Complications ensued, however, when Klaus, who had permits for the entire region, was stopped from excavating by the Mining Department of the Philippine Government. They chose to go on a day when it was 46 degrees Celsius (115 F), but they didnt bring their cell phones with them. Hunter died Monday at his Northern California home . 0000003549 00000 n Andrew Gough. Burning Shinto-priest incense that was discovered in the backfilled tunnels deep underground How exciting is that?, Klaus posing with a Japanese treasure symbol, a heart, which he found in a backfilled treasure tunnel The relationship would end badly. 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. Curtis, who is now in the Philippines but insists that McDougald act as his spokesman, says that he and 10 other Americans successfully conducted a similar treasure hunt under the regime of Ferdinand E. Marcos in 1975 but fled for their lives after locating a huge buried Japanese vault on the outskirts of Manila that McDougald said contained $8 billion in bullion. The treasure locations are spread all across the land of Red Dead Redemption. In another hundred and seventy-five feet, by the looks of it, you may change your mind.. He met his wife Peggy in the United States after both had become prominent figures in JFK assassination conspiracy theories. 0000011401 00000 n Many people died a couple of months ago not far from here, Klaus continued. I inspected it closely and from all angles. When he had finished his verbal dissertation, which, to be fair, included some impressive insights, the director asked him some leading questions about other aspects of the story. Marcos became the mastermind of a covert gold retrieval operation and acted in partnership with both the Japanese and the United States Central Intelligence Agency. They picked the fort, he said, because it was a high-security location, off-limits to all but military torturers and the unfortunate Filipino prisoners destined for death. The first indication of a secret treasure came in April 1971 when a Filipino locksmith found a 1-ton. At a depth of approximately two hundred and twenty-five feet the Japanese had created the largest and most valuable treasure vaults. They looted museums, banks, gold reserves, private art collections even the sacred graves of ancient tombs were pillaged. 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. Roxas was shown a search warrant with Pios signature that mentioned something about illegal possession of firearms. My first Philippine adventure was nearly over, but there was one thing left to investigate: the natural healer who had brought Klauss friend to the Philippines in the first place. Klaus was already at the bottom as I made my way down slowly, cautiously, and deliberately. 1988. Are the Philippines the wealthiest nation on earth? ; There are a total of 4 of these High Stakes Treasure maps hunt, but you only receive a reward from the final treasure map worth $1500. It was bucketing down. In 2016 in Bolivar, Venezuela, 28 men who worked as gold miners left their homes to hunt for the precious metal and mysteriously disappeared. Apparently, it was my destiny to help. He wrote that he would leave all his money to someone who could prove the existence of the human soul. I knew we were essentially talking to the taxman about poetry. They received permission and resumed digging, attributing their failure to rediscover the fabulous treasure room to booby traps. Whatever I had expected a Japanese tunnel system to be was wrong or at least greatly miscalculated. Andrew Gough, Henry highlighting the fake golden buddha affair I followed Klaus down the third descending vertical shaft only to find myself standing in nearly a foot of water. Klauss partner had a video of a woman she had accompanied to the healer who had removed her friends stomach, cleaned it and then put it back; no surgical equipment required. I was amazed, and excited. I loved this kind of thing. In yet another act of serendipity, Roxas was given a map of the tunnel system at Baguio Hospital by Ben Valmores, a Filipino, who as a young man had assisted Japanese Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda in the construction of complex treasure sites in the Philippine Highlands. 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. Jim Hawkins, the protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson 's 1881 novel, Treasure Island. His gun was found a few feet away as if tossed to the side. Yamashita, known as the . Skeptoid Media, Still, I seized the opportunity and worked with the production team to shape the initial storyline and ensure that it did not become a hatchet job. There are five Americans from the company working at the Ft. Santiago site, McDougald said, along with about 30 Filipino laborers who are digging the 3-foot-by-7-foot tunnel through the forts long-buried catacombs. Needless to say, she remains convinced that her husband was murdered. Dametz was in poor health, so he needed help from McSherry to get to his digging spot, a small sandy pit in the middle of the forest. 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