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. Regarding the Black Eagle Trust Fund, evidence also fails to show that any such program existed with that name but I'm not pointing a finger at anyone for making it up out of nothing. Henrys pride and respect for his father touched us all. 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. It detailed the work he had done in the Philippines as part of a team led by Nevada treasure hunter Robert H. Curtis. Klaus demonstrating the art of dowsing The show aired on the American History Channel in the United Statesand was well received. The year was 1976. This was going to happen. This cannot be real. Maybe in two or three weeks well have some news., According to reliable intelligence sources in the government, the Ft. Santiago dig holds out the greatest promise for hitting pay dirt, and in an official press release March 1, Soriano announced that he expects the group to uncover enough bullion to help pay off the countrys foreign debt in approximately 10 to 15 days.. For the most part the program was the story of Roger Roxas, the Filipino locksmith who discovered a golden buddha and, allegedly, an enormous chamber full of gold bullion (both of which were later stolen by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos), only to have the US Supreme court demand that Roxas be awarded what amounted to the largest civil settlement in history: US$22 billion. Or we all die. I was impressed and, dare I say, convinced. In the years that followed the broadcast of The Truth About Yamashitas Gold I continued to be inundated with requests from Filipino treasure hunters who naively believed that, with a little cash and a metal detector, they could discover a treasure, just like Roxas had. The cobra was violently thrashing about. What struck me instantly was how deep Klaus had dug since I first visited. Torn Treasure Map 2: Top right side of the map, inside a drawer of the house called "Manito Glade". As my interest in the mystery deepened, I reengaged with Sterling Seagrave, the almost singular voice of truth on the subject. Whilst on trial, General Yamashita defended the charges of war crimes that were levelled against him: My command was as big as MacArthurs or Lord Louis Mountbattens. The Japanese Massacre of Nanjing, the then capital of China, 1937. Roxas was more convinced than ever that a great treasure was buried near Baguio Hospital, and who could blame him? The comprehensive excavation proposals that I had developed upon my return had been rejected. I never expected such a gruelling journey. Ballinger had photographed the Japanese ship, Huzi Maru, which was masquerading as a hospital ship, unloading boxes northwest of Manila, in Subic Bay. We ascended the tunnel system and on the surface above Klaus performed a master class in dowsing. What did Roger say? He described the odds as 5% more chance than highly probable, approaching absolute certainty.. 32 25 It was January 2016, and my interest in the story had waned once more. Roxass wife was particularly keen to speak. They were buried alive. I knew we were essentially talking to the taxman about poetry. Since there were so many people, everyone was in close proximity to one another. Seagrave stressed that I should proceed with caution, for the story was taboo and highly dangerous. In 2010, Curtis Merworth, Ardean Charles, and Malcolm Meeks were three friends in Salt Lake City, Utah. If you like this programming, please become a member. Andrew Gough. Curtis was an expert in changing the metallurgical fingerprints of gold to disguise its origins. The Awa Maru went to the bottom of Formosa Strait, 14 miles off the Chinese mainland with 2,007 souls and at least $500 million worth of war loot hidden aboard. Since that day, the location has been known as Headless Creek in Deadmen Valley. I detected decades of guilt and sadness that had become imprinted on her face. 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. I wondered. One year later, after an extensive search-and-rescue effort, all three bodies were finally recovered. They dug through and then, almost a year to the date when they had first plunged a shovel into the ground, they discovered a golden buddha, along with twenty-four small gold bars, each one inch wide, two inches long, and half an inch thick. Robert Hunter, who died on Sept. 23 at age 78, matched words to Jerry Garcia's melodies and served as the public conscience for the Grateful Dead, whom he joined as a non-performing member in 1969. Subscribe Now:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ehowtechWatch More:http://www.youtube.com/ehowtechClaiming a treasure hunter bounty alive i. In the days following the extraction of the golden buddha, Roxas returned and blew up the entrance to the tunnel so that others could not follow in his footsteps. One was named Billy Murray. Affiliation ASCAP Comments Singer-songwriter, poet, translator and occasionally recording artist, born Robert Burns. Europe and others push for a standard lunar time zone, Bola Tinubu, the declared winner of Nigerias presidential election, appeals for unity, A 5,000-year-old restaurant highlights Iraqs archaeological renaissance, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot ousted; Vallas, Johnson in runoff. We added each other on Skype and began a custom of speaking most days. I was horrified to learn that I had to select which cobra would be sacrificed. Klaus confirmed that he too had drunk the cobras blood, and that a local shaman had approached him and told him that he knew Klaus had bonded with the cobra family, and so had the spirit-guardian cobra at his one site. Suffice to say I was impressed. For weeks, the government deliberately tried to keep that digging a secret. 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. That is exactly what United States Captain Edward Lansdale and Intelligence Officer Santa Romana are alleged to have done to those loyal to Japanese General Yamashita Tomoyuki, who was posted to the Philippines at the end of the Second World War. More of that, he encouraged. Marcos had them tortured until they gave up the location of the treasure, whereupon he took it all, thus becoming fabulously wealthy. 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. With Henry Roxas, Rogers treasure-hunting son Santy, who tortured General Yamashita Tomoyukis driver, Major Kojima. Andrew Gough. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. I was having a laugh with Klaus when suddenly I screamed and, for lack of a better explanation, went into shock. The governor claims that there was no evidence of a massacre, so no one can assume that it happened. Web. 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. Thats incredible, but tell me more. I had packed industrial-strength gloves and knee pads! 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. Torturing surrendered military leaders was a war crime, but those of minor rank were considered fair game. I had never been and was excited to take it all in. A rare photograph of Roxas in the Baguio tunnel system. During one fateful visit Cheatham visited Roxas just days after his discovery. They began holding press conferences to try to raise more money in which they claimed to have found tunnels stacked to the ceiling with gold bars (but hadn't thought to take any pictures or bring back any evidence), and these claims sufficiently irked the government to the point that his team was expelled from the country in 1975. The following day we departed for the mountainous, northern resort town of Baguio to meet with Roger Roxass son, Henry, and to examine his museum, which is dedicated to his father. The group fled the country in July, 1978, and did not return until late last year. MacArthur was rendered speechless after walking down countless rows of gold bars stacked over two metres high, and promptly notified United States President Harry S Truman of the discovery, who immediately deemed it a state secret. The Japanese strategy was two-fold: strip the East of their cultural identity, while returning priceless treasures back to Japan to fund their military, political and economic world dominance for the next thousand years. I was also disappointed to learn that the History Channel had made a reality TV series about a team of questers seeking Japanese treasure in the Philippines, after every channel and production house informed me it was a bad idea. Eventually, Marcos concluded it was futile to torture Roxas further and released him after what had amounted to two years imprisonment. She introduced herself on Facebook and proceeded to say that she had been pronounced dead, not once but twice, only to survive each time. I inspected the impressive collection of museum artefacts that Roger Roxas had discovered and listened as Patrick interviewed Henry. Roxas testified, returned to hiding, was discovered by Marcoss men and tortured. They decided it would be fun to go on a road trip to look for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. Looking slightly perilous at the bottom of the tunnel system with Klaus This, according to the urban legend, is the time frame over which the Japanese military, using Filipinos as slave laborers, transported their gold up into the mountains and sealed it all into vast tunnel systems. The Japanese, in particular, were notorious for this. I could do that, I thought. I had tried dowsing before with little or no success. For Roxas, greater Manila was ripe with hiding places 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. In the middle of the night, at approximately 2.30am, there was a knock at the door; Marcoss thugs had arrived eight in total all armed with machine guns. Thirty years after the disappearance, David Paulides, a former police officer and researcher on missing people, filmed the video above and brought the case to the attention of the Colorado government. Back in Tokyo, the healer worked on the Princes daughter, who was suffering with a brain tumour. I could hardly move. According to Curtis, he had helped the dictator dig up $14 billion in gold bars, with over $85 billion remaining to be found. Pi $@Z%">Nq. Curtis to meet privately with a . Roxas informed her that Marcoss air-conditioned burial crypt in the Philippines, at the Ferdinand E Marcos Presidential Center in Batac, Ilocos Norte (which was secured twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week by arm guards), contained a fake corpse full of precious stones and diamonds. The United States could not risk the truth about the gold and treasures that the Japanese had buried in the Philippines coming to light, especially as a large portion of it was now theirs. At one point Cathcart questioned Roxas for five days straight. Off camera, Patrick asked what I felt to be the most illuminating question of the afternoon. Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. While he was talking a hostile player started attacking me, which caused the npc to run away. What if the so-called carer had been planted by a covert government agency? The elderly woman recalled the Japanese hauling a box towards one of Klauss treasure sites Bob Curtis. Are the Philippines the wealthiest nation on earth? Evidently, she found what she was looking for., Ill be damned, I added. I met her at Soho House and found her to be a gracious and grateful lady, albeit quite fixated on the messages that the alleged spirit of Roxas had been sharing with her. It simply stood tall and proud and stared at me, gently nodding its head as though it had understood and had accepted its fate. 24 Aug. 2005, Newspaper. Burning Shinto-priest incense that was discovered in the backfilled tunnels deep underground Since he was a professional fur trapper, he surely felt confident in his ability to hunt and survive in the wilderness. Many of these men were infected New Yorkers who had traveled to California. I was fitted with wellies, an old helmet and a rusty harness that consisted of a single metal hook that latched onto a solitary harness strap on my back. 0 After lunch, I persuaded the director to stop at the hospital on the way out of town. 0000001059 00000 n Im betting its here.. What? He left clues in a poem about the location of this hidden treasure and challenged the public to find it. The director reluctantly agreed to film her, but she became tense and anxious in the spotlight of the film crew. Andrew Gough, Learning the art of dowsing Robert Curtis: an American metallurgist employed by Marcos to help find Japanese treasure sites and sanctify the gold bars into a form consistent with the London Gold Standard. During Fridays Senate hearing, several senators indicated that they plan to pursue criminal charges against the treasure hunters for violating an old law against desecrating national shrines, of which Ft. Santiago is one of the most famous. How to Claim a Treasure Hunter Bounty Alive in "Red Dead Redemption". I have to! Klaus retorted. Klaus shared that he felt many were not reputable insomuch as they often claimed to not be feeling it today and concluded I need to come back tomorrow, effectively doubling their income. The driver proceeded to peer out of the passenger-side window, as if he was trying to confirm their identity. Multiple men began to go missing or die in Deadmen Valley following the decapitation of the McLeod brothers. This guy is a celebrated rock star in the Philippines, and there were posters of him all over campus. Hunting for topaz was just a hobby for Dametz. By the time I arrived at the next bamboo ladder my knees were cut and bleeding. Over the course of the next twelve months Marcoss men extracted a vast amount of gold out from the Baguio Hospital site. Why are we still having these debates? He met his wife Peggy in the United States after both had become prominent figures in JFK assassination conspiracy theories. Slowly putting his ruined life back together, he moved from Reno to Las Vegas . Wow, I mumbled under my breath. He heard of what the locals called Second World War ghost ships; large Japanese freighters that arrived in the evening and, after unloading countless boxes into a tunnel system, had disappeared by daybreak. What I am really being charged with is losing the war. We had adjoining rooms in the hotel and shared a laugh. 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. When the cave-in become public Feb. 29, McDougald and his group were forced to go public as well. 0000005640 00000 n I laid back down and thought to myself, What the hell had I just got myself into. Understandably, one of the diggers confessed after Marcos henchmen began extracting his teeth, one at a time. I had retreated to a solitary place inside my head where I was contemplating the whole astonishing quest when I heard Klaus attempting to get my attention. Andrew Gough, A young Henry Roxas pays his loving respects to his late father 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 want to show you something. I struggled to untangle my torso from the back seat and limped over to where Klaus was standing. Roxas was assassinated. You can also find her on Twitter. Cobra blood is thought to contain vital regenerative qualities and is said to bond the drinker to the cobra family According to Curtis, who gave his exclusive story to Washington columnist Jack Anderson in 1978 and once offered it to adventure magazines for a fee of $50,000, he used World War II-era maps and testimony from survivors who helped to bury the treasure at the end of the war to identify 172 sites throughout the Philippines. The wife and daughter of Roger Roxas At midnight, General Yamashita and the princes slipped out, and dynamite charges were set off in the access tunnels, entombing the engineers. When the healer arrived back home a luxurious Toyota 44 that had been purchased for him was waiting in the driveway. Cathcart recounted how, on 24 May 1993, he had spoken to Roxas and had informed him that he would be escorted on a flight from Manila to Honolulu the next day. The Japanese gold heist, however, would dwarf the earlier Nazi thefts and would be exploited by United States presidents from Truman to Trump, representing one of the greatest conspiracies of our time. As I did, the cobra stopped thrashing. Andrew Gough. 0000001318 00000 n I had delivered Discovered Science a sensational story, one that would feature Klauss network premier. He struck me as a good guy, claiming to know very little about the Roxas story and wanting to learn what the fuss was all about. Although General Yamashita was spared torture during his inquisition, he would become the victim of the ultimate indignity death by hanging. When his body was finally discovered in 2012, it was 11 meters (35 ft) off the ground inside a crevasse on the edge of a cliff. About us | Our programming | Become a supporter | Privacy. The director was also our health and safety manager for the shoot, and he opted to leave the cameraman behind and do the filming at the bottom of the tunnel complex himself. The sheriffs department brought in a search-and-rescue team with dogs. Andrew Gough. Andrew Gough. I was intrigued, if not humoured by his attitude, and his attire. Andrew Gough. President Marcos consults with Las Vegas-based psychic, Olof Jonsson. I inspected it closely and from all angles. Marcoss men took Roxas back to Baguio and photographed him with the bogus buddha. Intriguingly, Santy introduced Marcos to Imelda, and once dated the former beauty queen back in the day. The covert Black Eagle Trust accounts were inspired by the Nazi black eagle stamped on the gold bars acquired by the Third Reich. Was that true, or simply a misdirection to conceal the fact that her husband may have embezzled billions from the Philippine people? What convinced you to take this seemingly ludicrous case? I enquired. #673 %PDF-1.4 % The initial award was $43 billion the largest civil judgement in history. The cobra-infested rice paddies 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. Skeptoid Media, I say successful, because I was not bitten by one of the many cobras lurking in the rice paddies along the way and was only partially bitten to death by hordes of mosquitos the size of hummingbirds. Marcos soon learned that if he wanted to maximise the value of his finds, he needed to transform the ancient gold bars into a format that could be exchanged on modern gold markets, namely the London gold standard. It smelled remarkable. Scientists competed in their attempt to somehow prove that a soul left the body at the time of death. You climb down and back up each of these sites twice a day? I asked in disbelief. 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