<]>> Since he was a professional fur trapper, he surely felt confident in his ability to hunt and survive in the wilderness. In January 1973 he was sent to Baguio prison camp, where he was beaten repeatedly. Roxass quest continued to attract other like-minded seekers. There was more, but as I have signed a non-disclosure agreement, I will refrain from commenting further. After a long morning of work, Bob and Billy decided to take an afternoon nap. Supreme Court of Hawaii. By the time I arrived at the next bamboo ladder my knees were cut and bleeding. We said goodbye to Klaus and Patrick and drove to Manila for the final shoot of the day, my studio interviews. Burning Shinto-priest incense that was discovered in the backfilled tunnels deep underground Skeptoid Media, Andrew Gough. The rest, as they say, is history, he concluded, slowly, his speech somewhat impeded by the advanced state of his illness. Andrew Gough. Hunting for topaz was just a hobby for Dametz. Japanese armies did indeed seize valuables and plunder national treasuries of southeast Asian countries. The facts behind the urban legend that billions in Japanese gold lie buried in the Philippines. It was entirely out of context of our discussion to have done so. That fact doesnt stop thousands of people from trying to beat the odds. This way, he could use them as ransom against Marcos, who owed him money for the gold they had already retrieved and sold. Imelda Marcos now claims her husbands wealth came from Yamashitas gold. 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. They needed money to purchase the land and were offering a very comprehensive excavation plan. ; One of the best ways to earn a high chunk of money in Red Dead Redemption 2 is by High Stakes Treasure maps. He left clues in a poem about the location of this hidden treasure and challenged the public to find it. Eventually, Roxas and his team identified the entrance and discovered various artefacts, such as Japanese bayonets, rifles, and even a human skeleton in a Japanese uniform. In one 1999 case hundreds of men signed an affidavit attesting to the fact that they had worked on a so-called restoration project that had covertly performed massive digging operations to recover thousands of metric tonnes of gold, not to mention precious gemstones. He is even said to have approached the Japanese about entering into a partnership to extract the gold together, to which he was coldly informed not to bother, for it would take a hundred years to unearth what they had deposited in the Philippines. This was but the precursor to the sobering conditions I would encounter when I explored Klauss first tunnel-system site. 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. 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. I wondered. Still, I was excited to see Klaus again and to inspect some other treasure sites that I had been tracking for some time. If you like this programming, please become a member. In 1931, a fur trapper named Phil Powers decided to try his luck at striking it rich. Sign up! The suspicious and rather convenient dig on the site of Roger Roxass treasure site Speak to it and explain what is going to happen, and why, he instructed. In 1981, an elderly man named Dr. Maurice Dametz went hunting for rocks with his friend David McSherry in Pike National Forest in Douglas County, Colorado, near a famous lookout called Devils Head. 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. Still, this was easier than hiking through the thick underbrush. Andrew Gough, Henrys father with the famous detachable buddha head photo By JOHN ROGERS September 24, 2019. Yamashita is removed from the courtroom by military police immediately after hearing the verdict of death by hanging. Local authorities never explained where they found the bodies or what they believed was the cause of death. Bob Curtis. Andrew Gough. They were always building this or that in the Philippines as an excuse to look for treasure, due to the fact that obtaining permits was difficult and brought unwanted attention. No thanks What struck me instantly was how deep Klaus had dug since I first visited. %PDF-1.4 % We ascended the tunnel system and on the surface above Klaus performed a master class in dowsing. The first indication of a secret treasure came in April 1971 when a Filipino locksmith found a 1-ton. 2019. His cabin had been burned to the ground. Andrew Gough. His remains were not found until seven months later.[5]. Fineman, M. "Japanese War Loot Sought: Gold Diggers May Help Manila Pay Off Huge Debt." 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. Amelia with me at Soho House, Los Angeles A notoriously horrific acid trip that Robert Hunter endured in June 1969, thanks to apple juice dosed with "probably a full gram of crystal LSD worth perhaps $50,000," was the lyrical impetus for "Black Peter.". It smelled remarkable. What does it mean?. Hes also a sign of Mexicos healthcare crisis, Some pharmacies in Mexico passing off fentanyl, meth as legitimate pharmaceuticals, TikTok faces bans in a number of countries over security fears. Andrew Gough. And, of course, Marcoss men went even deeper to reclaim the real gold bullion reserve. After lunch, I persuaded the director to stop at the hospital on the way out of town. There was no blood or any sign of struggle. The site has been targeted by treasure hunters in the past, but nobody is patient enough to see it through. The Seagraves seminal whistle-blowing book, Gold Warriors. The enormity of the tragedy is underscored by the fact that the Roxas family have yet to be paid their settlement. However, before we left, her son recounted the eerie story of how, on multiple occasions, he and many of his neighbours had witnessed the unsettling sight of Japanese soldiers marching down the street in front of his house only they were not there. Estimates of the total buried treasure start at $100 billion and soar to a high of $2 trillion in gold bullion, a figure cited by a respected Manila columnist, Hilarion Henares. I had come across some real charlatans in my time, but nevertheless I was listening politely and was relieved to discover that Klaus agreed with my bias. Ken Cheatham with Roger Roxas and the golden buddha. Regarding Operation Golden Lily, although evidence fails to show such a program existed with that name, the basic idea makes sense. He followed the Japanese into the mountains and watched as they buried the boxes in a tunnel and sealed the entrance. Klaus had briefed me as to what the sites would be like. Yet Hunter, who passed away on Monday evening at the age of 78, did . Bob woke up a couple hours later in the early evening and noticed that Billy was nowhere to be seen. It was time to see an excavation in progress. In 2015, IBM UK had their annual kick-off meeting in Los Angeles, and so I took the opportunity to visit Amelia. Understandably, they had become discouraged and had run out of funds. Shannon Quinn is a writer and entrepreneur from the Philadelphia area. 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. 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. It is not a matter of if he will succeed, but when, and I believe it will be soon. The Supreme Court ruled that Roxas had recovered a plundered Japanese buddha, and that it was solid gold, and that on multiple occasions Marcos sold large quantities of gold on the black market. What is worse, it triggered a political backlash. Billy and Bob were prepared to camp for several days near the Norris ranch while they looked for gold. While he kept an active presence on the speaker circuit, he flat-out refused to appear in the usual history/mystery TV shows, claiming that they were not serious enough. 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. Klaus had nailed it. After the McLeods had been gone for two years, people began to believe that the brothers had actually struck it rich and decided to start a new life somewhere else.[1]. I thought. I detected decades of guilt and sadness that had become imprinted on her face. The 49-year-old American treasure hunter has cordoned off this rectangular swath of Indian Ocean in the Seychelles, and now he's somewhere 25 feet below, chiseling off chunks of granite and. Roxas was more convinced than ever that a great treasure was buried near Baguio Hospital, and who could blame him? 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The cobra-infested rice paddies Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead's finest songs, has died at age 78. 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. He wrote that he would leave all his money to someone who could prove the existence of the human soul. Curiously, my GoPro showed only the opening and concluding moments of the procedure and nothing in between; a physical impossibility. While in Baguio, Valmores pulled out a map of the hospital treasure complex from his secret portfolio and handed it to Roxas. A rare photograph of Roxas in the Baguio tunnel system. I could do that, I thought. This technique was true for most of the Japanese military treasure sites; that is, those that contained predominantly gold bullion. Cancel at any time: See Photos. No one disputes that the Japanese did plunder most of the Southeast Asian countries they conquered and stored some of their loot in the Philippines, which was among the last of their subjugated territories to be liberated by the Allies. 0000017483 00000 n That evening Klauss team brought some incense, that had been burned by the Shinto priests as they sealed the chambers, that they had found deep in the tunnels that week, and we burned it. Twice a day I climb into each of the sites that we are excavating to check for cyanide, he added in his authoritative Austrian accent. A powerful, all-purpose line that hit the sweet spot of subversive clichs, it made speakers appear smarter than they are. Although born in the United States, Sterling Seagrave grew up deep inside China, on the border with Myanmar (then called Burma). I had heard many stories about this guy. There was no doubt in my mind that Henry was every bit the fortune hunter his father had been. He believed that what he had discovered was the tip of the iceberg; the proverbial teaser that the Japanese placed a short distance above the real prize; a treasure that most seekers would be thrilled with, believing they had found it all, when in fact the real treasures were hidden further below, deep underground. The Skeptoid weekly science podcast is a free public service from Skeptoid Media, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit. The caretaker had lost fingers and toes from chemicals released in the treasure site McDougald said the fatal accident may slow the treasure hunt. 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. 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. Slowly putting his ruined life back together, he moved from Reno to Las Vegas . As dozens of Filipino reporters crowded around, firing questions, the 47-year-old San Francisco author and academic casually adjusted his white Panama hat, shifted his bronze-hilted hunting knife and explained just how convinced he and his Nevada-based company are that they are digging in the right place for buried treasure that could help retire the Philippines $29-billion foreign debt. Andrew Gough. Most of it, he said, is Curtis own money. As I suspected, he was questing for Japanese treasure pillaged from Asia, but how he had got started was another story altogether. 0000000016 00000 n 0000002983 00000 n Henry proudly highlights the victorious Roxas v Marcos Supreme Court case We all like to imagine were going to knock a stone wall down and were going to find golden chests overflowing with emeralds and rubies and diamonds, all guarded by a big cobra snake, he said. I had delivered Discovered Science a sensational story, one that would feature Klauss network premier. Andrew Gough. Subsequent lawsuits were filed on the back of Roxas v Marcos. As the film crew selected a suitable location, I took the opportunity to explore the Cloud 9 antiquities museum, which contained a large number of artefacts discovered buried in the ground near Manila that were not indigenous to the region. To come this close and not visit it would be such a shame, I thought. Affiliation ASCAP Comments Singer-songwriter, poet, translator and occasionally recording artist, born Robert Burns. This is the basic theme of the urban legend known today as Yamashita's Gold. Ive already invested a lot of my time, my energy and money on this. Silliest of all is an old story promoted by a History Channel TV series called The Lost Gold of World War II, which asserts that the Japanese carved symbols on rock faces leading to the locations of all the treasure tunnels, in plain view for the general public to see. I was intrigued, and worried for him, and a little for myself. After a few days, his wife reported that he was missing. 0000005640 00000 n Cheatham was obsessed with legends of Yamashitas gold and frequently visited Baguio in search of Japanese artefacts. One even had a cobra as its spiritual guardian that Klaus had encountered before. 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. The intimidating entrance to the tunnel shaft 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. Klaus leading me through the cobra-infested rice paddies 0000010608 00000 n This included dismissing cyanide as a poison that can travel through the air, and numerous character attacks on Seagrave and Curtis. The site we were hiking to was remote, and near a natural landmark that was apparently mentioned in the Japanese treasure maps. As I was banned from listening to the conventional historian do this thing, I became more convinced than ever that the director was orchestrating a hatchet job for the two-hour season premiere of the show. The guerrillas attacked the Japanese with grenades, sealing many workers inside. What could go wrong? And so, while we all love a story of lost gold and would thrill to plunge a shovel into a green hillside that we suspect conceals an endless fortune, the urban legend of Yamashita's Gold is another of those most unlikely to have a happy ending. After looking for five days, they found no trace of Dametz and the case was closed. I was not aware that Peggy had passed away the previous year, and that Sterling had only just passed in May 2017, aged 80. Needless to say, she remains convinced that her husband was murdered. 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. The Cultural Committee is investigating whether the search should continue. Andrew Gough. Seagrave, S., Seagrave, P. Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold. I suppose alls well that ends well. Lets put it this way, McDougald said. Curtis fled back to the US in the late '70s, claiming he had destroyed his maps and escaped the Philippines ahead of Marcos's assassins. Bob had not heard his friend get up, and his jacket was sitting on the ground. As I prepped for my studio interview, I found myself captivated by Roxass quest. He has been a guest speaker on numerous national radio and television stations and is a five time published author. Marcos courted Curtis with talk of incredible stashes of WW2 loot hidden on the island. 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.. What is that, I asked. While the Seagraves wrote from a historical and geopolitical perspective, conventional treasure hunters had also been in on the game. In total, Klaus had the support of a dozen or so workers; humble villagers, not craftsmen. They were buried alive. Im betting its here.. On our last day of filming we set off for Manila, and with a strong dose of persuasion the director agreed to stop along the way to visit a treasure-hunting priest whom Klaus had arranged for us to meet. I was further astounded by the conversation that continued off camera. 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. The pillbox at Baguio Hospital Many believed the whole Golden Lily affair was pure fiction, and yet United States President George Bush was on record as saying the Philippines was the richest nation on the planet. Roger Roxas was a former Filipino soldier turned locksmith, and president of the Treasure Hunters Association of the Philippines, who lived in Baguio, a mountainous resort town about 130 miles north of Manila. If Amelia is correct, was this an orchestrated effort to reclaim the treasure? 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. In 2013 I was contacted by Peggy Seagrave, who invited me to present for a television documentary entitled The Truth About Yamashitas Gold. What did Roger say? It has budgeted another $60,000 for the project and has an additional $300,000 to spend if needed. Typically, they had left a marker, such as a small buddha, around ten to fifteen feet underground. In 1849 during the California Gold Rush, over 30,000 men flocked to trails where gold had been seen. Klaus confided that he was working on four different sites and shared the many clues and symbols that he had discovered in each. Andrew Gough. I was still processing the trip and trying to find a balanced view on it all. Ballinger had photographed the Japanese ship, Huzi Maru, which was masquerading as a hospital ship, unloading boxes northwest of Manila, in Subic Bay. A silver lining soon emerged, in that Bruce Burgess, my good friend and creator/director of Forbidden History and many other shows that I contributed to, informed me that the sixth season of the programme had been purchased by Discovery Science and they wanted to do a two-hour feature on Japanese gold in the Philippines. 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. They used the same water from the streams as everyone else and unwittingly infected many of the other men. At a hearing Friday by the Philippine Senate into the treasure hunt, McDougald said that his group is using a sophisticated detection device that pinpoints the depth and density of buried metals. She recounted that she ran for cover when she feared she had been spotted. The first near-death experience (NDE) was in 2013, when she claims to have been dead for nearly twenty minutes. And over here we have a marker stone, Klaus added in his patented Austrian deadpan. #673 The bad news was that nobody on the production team believed that the Japanese had buried treasure in the Philippines, let alone that Klaus was about to discover some of it. Robert Hunter, the longtime lyricist for Grateful Dead, died on Sept. 23, 2019; he was 78. San Francisco: Bookmark, 1993. One hospital worker, who claims to have witnessed the process, asserted that he saw Marcoss men extract ten boxes a day, and estimated that the haul would have consisted of nearly eleven thousand gold bars. Ten days later she was cured. 32 0 obj <> endobj She watched it and became convinced that I was the one that the spirit of Roxas had alluded to. After Oihara departed, Roxas and his brother Danilo began prising the head of the golden buddha with a wooden plank and hammer to determine if it was detachable. They were not only deposited in the deepest tunnel systems, they also did not offer intermediate chambers or directional validating artefacts a short distance beneath the surface. Even one, the political scientist Chalmers Johnson who was a China specialist and shared the Seagraves' distrust of Japan, could not get entirely on board with their quest. We stopped on the outskirts of town in front of an old schoolhouse. For weeks, the government deliberately tried to keep that digging a secret. Part of me understood why the director struggled with the filming, and ultimately did a poor job. Marcos had whet his now insatiable appetite for gold and the riches and power that it brought. 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. 1 Mar 2023. In 1942 Prince Chichibu is said to have examined potential treasure-vault sites around greater Manila, and further afield. Roxas was seeking damages, not only for the torture he had endured (and, of course, the golden buddha and its concealed precious stones and all the miniature gold bars that accompanied it), but also for the large quantities of gold that Marcoss men had recovered from the tunnel system that Roxas had discovered. It was a very difficult meeting to secure and I was essentially vetted before being granted an audience. Each time Curtis was requested by Marcos to select a new site to excavate, Valmores was dispatched to provide the treasure map. Klaus and I continued our daily Skype calls and I could sense he was making real progress. 20 Nov. 2003, Volume 25, Number 22: 3-6. I tried not to get carried away with the possibility. trailer What? Sadly, the worst scenario materialised. As I did, the cobra stopped thrashing. He also showed me his hands and feet, which were missing various fingers and toes from a chemical booby trap that had been released in an underground water-filled chamber on the site. I returned to England and became engulfed by life and my time-consuming corporate job. Andrew Gough. Marcos was overthrown in February, 1986, and Mr. Curtis began making overtures to the new government soon after, McDougald said last week, adding that he got involved in Curtis new venture while researching a book he plans to write on hidden wealth in the Philippines. 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. The show aired on the American History Channel in the United Statesand was well received. Each day after class she dug in the back garden of the schoolyard. Over the next several years the programme was featured on television stations around the world and on YouTube. Now they moved with a kinetic energy I had never experienced before. About us | Our programming | Become a supporter | Privacy. I had never been and was excited to take it all in. He also informed the press, who also ignored him at least initially. On the way home Klaus instructed our tricycle driver to take us along the coastal road. As my interest in the mystery deepened, I reengaged with Sterling Seagrave, the almost singular voice of truth on the subject. Death was one idea that neither Burchfield nor the Dead shied away from. 0000002456 00000 n A few moments later I closed my eyes and chugged a glassful of its blood. When the healer arrived back home a luxurious Toyota 44 that had been purchased for him was waiting in the driveway. The organisation was named Kin no yuri, meaning Golden Lily, the name of a poem written by the Emperor. Once again, the best conversation was off camera. I was to tone down my enthusiasm, and bias, for the benefit of the narrative. Four days later Roxas paid the price of his ill-advised actions. Few would persevere and dig that deep, especially after finding so many valuables at the intermediate level. Such a thing is well proven to be one way that intelligence agencies move funds around. Things became even worse. Unfortunately, some people never come back. Unlike most treasure hunters, Roxas followed the official protocol, but was unlucky in that his permit was granted by Judge Pio Marcos, the uncle of President Ferdinand Marcos. I had met Klaus in 2010, when we had both presented at an alternative-history conference called Megalithomania, in Glastonbury, England. He was there as the Imperial Japanese army ransacked much of China and southeast Asia, and he was there for the duration of World War II; and he grew up knowing little about the Japanese besides that they were the world's aggressors, and the brutal assailants of a peaceful people. This was a game changer. It came in 1988, right after Curtis and McDougald's headlines renewed the public's interest in the treasure. It was clear, however, that as brilliant as Jose was at Second World War history, he was pretty much winging it with the rest. Holes are being dug in virtually every one of the 73 Philippine provinces by treasure hunters like McDougalds group, all of whom believe that fleeing Japanese generals left behind billions of dollars in booty when Gen. Douglas MacArthurs forces retook the islands in 1945. They investigated and validated first-hand testimony that corroborated the existence of the golden buddha and the gold bullion. Andrew Gough. 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