Valmores knew where the gold in the region was buried, and although he never violated Prince Takedas trust for his own benefit, he emphatically supported Roxass mission and wanted to help. Cheatham later testified in the Supreme Court trial. In 2010, Curtis Merworth, Ardean Charles, and Malcolm Meeks were three friends in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is not a matter of if he will succeed, but when, and I believe it will be soon. I tried not to get carried away with the possibility. She logged onto Facebook and discovered a post featuring a link to The Truth About Yamashitas Gold documentary. With the Baguio treasure hoard now lost to Marcos, Roxas went into hiding for the next ten years, awaiting the day when he could fight for his treasure once more. Bassist Phil Lesh remembers tasting the LSD as . Filed under Conspiracy Theories, History & Pseudohistory, Urban Legends, Skeptoid Podcast Or we all die. Though the loot is generically referred to here as Yamashitas Treasure, after Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the last Japanese commanding general in the Philippines, McDougald said the treasure that his group is seeking was probably buried in the fort during 1943, 1944 and 1945 by various Japanese generals. The incredibly ambitious, albeit cruel, initiative was overseen by Japanese princes, most notably Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, the brother of Emperor Hirohito. The Skeptoid weekly science podcast is a free public service from Skeptoid Media, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit. In another hundred and seventy-five feet, by the looks of it, you may change your mind.. It does not need to be any wider, Klaus added authoritatively. Could he have harnessed the legendary viral energy that I had read so much about? The president of International Precious Metals Inc., a private, limited-liability company, is Nevada businessman Robert H. Curtis, a man whose name has been synonymous with the hunt for buried Philippine treasure for more than a decade. We learned that he had found marker artefacts at a shallow depth in the ground at various sites nearby. I believe its here. Can it? 0000001447 00000 n
All Rights Reserved. Years after his disappearance, he was assumed to be dead. Remarkably, Roxas never revealed the location of his treasure site, for he knew that doing so would result in his death sentence. The only problem was he was already dead. Andrew Gough, I informed the site manager that he was digging on the spot where Roger Roxas had made the most famous discovery in the history of Yamashitas gold, to which he curtly replied, Yes, I know. For years, 35-year-old Jesse Capen was obsessed with the legend of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. I stuffed a generous amount of notes into a contribution vase, said goodbye to Klaus and headed for the airport, via a cobra farm. Wow, I mumbled under my breath. 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 had forgotten about the legend of Japanese treasure buried in the Philippines, save for the occasional outreach of Filipinos who had seen The Truth About Yamashitas Gold and were looking to secure funding for their own excavations, when I was contacted by a very curious woman from Los Angeles. 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. 0000000016 00000 n
The sudden, tragic death of Roxas overshadowed the trial, but did not negatively impact the outcome. Years after his disappearance, he was assumed to be dead. Podcast transcript | Subscribe. Although General Yamashita was spared torture during his inquisition, he would become the victim of the ultimate indignity death by hanging. Andrew Gough. Andrew Gough. Symbol markers Klaus discovered in the tunnel backfill Andrew Gough. Rights and reuse information. Never-before-seen photos of authentic Black Eagle Trust bank statements, representing but a small portion of the wealth acquired from Japanese gold. My spare time was spent editing the Heretic Magazine with my friends Mark Foster and Beth Johnson. They followed that with a treasure chamber at around a depth of approximately one hundred feet, knowing that most treasure hunters would consider that the final prize. My interest in the story had been rejuvenated, albeit under the most peculiar of circumstances. Even a Japanese prince was said to have arrived and whisked the healer away in his private jet. The treasure still has not been found. She introduced herself on Facebook and proceeded to say that she had been pronounced dead, not once but twice, only to survive each time. The buddha was decidedly Burmese in style: 22 carat gold and of a type produced in Asia prior to 1940. Roxas at the Golden Buddha hearing (from a clipping at the Roger Roxas museum in Baguio) He had a PhD in theology and had his work presented in multiple Christian publications, including a terrifying pamphlet that claimed that the Antichrist was coming. The year was 1944, and the Japanese had spent the previous fifty years pillaging the East of their national treasures; twelve Asian countries in all. 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. After a long but successful walk I arrived at Klauss most remote treasure site. Andrew Gough. Since he was a professional fur trapper, he surely felt confident in his ability to hunt and survive in the wilderness. Our conversation prompted me to reach out to Roxass wife and daughter. 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. Torturing surrendered military leaders was a war crime, but those of minor rank were considered fair game. The director reluctantly agreed to film her, but she became tense and anxious in the spotlight of the film crew. Others shared how he had ever so slightly removed their eyeballs, cleaned them, and put them back, fully restoring their vision in the process. What I am really being charged with is losing the war. In 1971, Dametz claimed that (The AntiChrist) will be a political, religious, commercial autocrat of the world.. I was to tone down my enthusiasm, and bias, for the benefit of the narrative. 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. 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. International Precious Metals has a year-long permit to hunt for treasure, estimated to be as much as $200 billion in gold that the Japanese looted from the country. LOS ANGELES (AP) Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead's finest songs, has died at age 78. Twenty nerve-racking minutes later we parked up and began a rather gruelling trek through cobra-infested rice paddies. Bob assumed that Billy must be nearby. According to Curtis, he had helped the dictator dig up $14 billion in gold bars, with over $85 billion remaining to be found. As there was no easy way for others to get in contact with the families of the deceased, thousands of people simply disappeared from the lives of their loved ones.[8]. I had heard many stories about this guy. Local authorities never explained where they found the bodies or what they believed was the cause of death. Intriguingly, the alleged body of Marcos was later reburied in the Cemetery of Heroes in Metropolitan Manila in a ceremony shrouded in secrecy. Japan's imperial war efforts were incredibly expensive and Japan had little wealth of its own. The first-hand accounts corroborated those of Robert Curtis, who has so often been unjustly discredited in the story. 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. Roxas claimed that some 25 years earlier, using a map given to him by the son of a Japanese soldier, he and a team of friends discovered a cave filled with gold, including a golden Buddha, plus the skeletons of the soldiers and engineers who had been sealed inside. Bob Curtis. The only way to recover his body was via helicopter. Curtis had raised funding for his treasure hunt by claiming that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos himself had personally invited him to recover the gold based on his unique expertise. Andrew Gough. Of course, everyone acts oblivious and says there is no such landmark in the area. McDougald said the fatal accident may slow the treasure hunt. Hunter died Monday at his Northern California home with his wife, Maureen, at his side, former Grateful Dead publicist Dennis McNally told The Associated Press on . Needless to say, she remains convinced that her husband was murdered. Hunting for topaz was just a hobby for Dametz. The initial award was $43 billion the largest civil judgement in history. I scaled the second descending passage with slightly greater confidence and speed than the first, and as I arrived at the bottom and crept along the next tunnel passage to where Klaus was standing, I was amazed to see that the floor and walls were perfectly smooth. Imelda Marcoss mother had been a big fan of the healer. The other reason the treasure failed to reach home was the Japanese criminal underworld, and the immensely clever and powerful people who were its patrons. Crawling through twelve inches of water at the bottom of a tunnel complex after walking through rice paddies in the rain was not my idea of fun. 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. He described the odds as 5% more chance than highly probable, approaching absolute certainty.. This was a time, Cathcart stressed, when the town was buzzing with rumours of a local mans discovery. I was later told he had decided he did not like me before we ever met. The relationship would end badly. Locals commented that everyone knows to stay away from that area in the summertime because the extreme heat can be dangerous.[10]. Claiming a treasure hunter bounty . Thank you for your sacrifice, I mumbled awkwardly. Two hundred and sixteen feet, Henry replied, without hesitation, seemingly before Patrick had finished asking the question. Net Worth: $1 Million Occupation: Treasure Hunter, TV Celebrity & Former Police Officer Birthday: January 6, 1941 Birthplace: Summerland Key, Florida Birth Sign: Capricorn Date of Death: February 19, 2018 Place of Death: Iraan, Texas Nationality: American Ethnicity: Caucasian Married: Twice Children: Darrell, Lauren, Kim, and Kelly Instagram: NA We arrived at the site to discover that the tunnel was too flooded to enter, and so we filmed what we could and moved on to the next one. Then McSherry returned to his own pit to clean up the tools and collect the stones. Okubo recounted to Roxas how General Yamashita had transferred large quantities of gold and silver from Manila and stored them in wooden boxes deep underground, accessible by a tunnel complex near Baguio Hospital. It is not a pleasant journey to the bottom of the tunnel complex: three descents down makeshift ladders and three separate crawls on ones hands and knees. 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. The first indication of a secret treasure came in April 1971 when a Filipino locksmith found a 1-ton. Patrick is a great guy, an avid treasure hunter, and was to interview Henry Roxas for the show. I inspected it closely and from all angles. I was tempted and left with a belief that their site was an authentic Japanese treasure site. In 1931, a fur trapper named Phil Powers decided to try his luck at striking it rich. For three years, people searched for Jesse and could not find any trace of his remains. McSherry left Dametz and found his own sandpit about 45 meters (150 ft) away. Jim Hawkins, the protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson 's 1881 novel, Treasure Island. In 1849 during the California Gold Rush, over 30,000 men flocked to trails where gold had been seen. I guess I had never imagined that Roxas had excavated that deep before discovering the golden buddha. Torn Treasure Map 2: Top right side of the map, inside a drawer of the house called "Manito Glade". Cathcart said his team researched Roxass claims for seven years before concluding that there was a sound legal case. Not bad for a sixty-nine-year-old. I nodded and reflected on how pathetically difficult I found traversing the tunnel to be. The caretaker had lost fingers and toes from chemicals released in the treasure site Each day after class she dug in the back garden of the schoolyard. 0000005867 00000 n
Ricardo T. Jose during his interview People named Bob Curtis. Privacy Policy. In 1949, a 70-year-old man named James Kidd was a professional treasure hunter from Phoenix, Arizona. 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. Was the healer authentic? Twenty percent of the men who moved to California during the Gold Rush died from diseases like cholera within six months of their arrival. All six bullets had apparently been fired at whoever or whatever had killed him.[2]. Pi
$@Z%">Nq. Despite the depth, there were still twelve inches of water that needed negotiating. Klaus Dona. Roxas may have been a beaten man, both literally and figuratively, but he was no fool. He met his wife Peggy in the United States after both had become prominent figures in JFK assassination conspiracy theories. It could have happened to General MacArthur, you know. 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. For Roxas, greater Manila was ripe with hiding places Together they wrote a number of books on Asian histories which purported to be nonfiction, most of which portrayed either the CIA or Japanese figures as the villain, and all of which expressed a deep suspicion of all things Western and Japanese. I had to see the Baguio Hospital treasure site for myself. Regarding Operation Golden Lily, although evidence fails to show such a program existed with that name, the basic idea makes sense. I recalled thinking at the time. She watched it and became convinced that I was the one that the spirit of Roxas had alluded to. Few would persevere and dig that deep, especially after finding so many valuables at the intermediate level. As I suspected, he was questing for Japanese treasure pillaged from Asia, but how he had got started was another story altogether. . I left the cobras meat for the caretakers family to consume and headed for the airport. I unambiguously felt them probing around beneath the surface of my skin. Andrew Gough. Curtis was an expert in changing the metallurgical fingerprints of gold to disguise its origins. 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. Descending into another of Klauss amazing tunnel systems I protested and attempted to leave a second time, but was restrained. However, the legal fees and the cost of the trials ate up so much cash that only $175,000 remained. I was impressed and, dare I say, convinced. If Amelia is correct, was this an orchestrated effort to reclaim the treasure? In particular, I was keen to investigate one mans courageous efforts to unearth Japanese buried treasure, and the tons of gold bullion that accompanied it. Andrew Gough. It came in 1988, right after Curtis and McDougald's headlines renewed the public's interest in the treasure. 0000007779 00000 n
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They were not disciplined and were not dowsing for danger, he sternly proclaimed. Roxas was shown a search warrant with Pios signature that mentioned something about illegal possession of firearms. Andrew Gough. Whatever I had expected a Japanese tunnel system to be was wrong or at least greatly miscalculated. The intimidating entrance to the tunnel shaft And there it was the Japanese bunker that John Ballinger had told Roxas to look for back in 1970. I was intrigued, and worried for him, and a little for myself. The elderly woman recalled the Japanese hauling a box towards one of Klauss treasure sites [7] It was given to the Barrow Neurological Institute of Phoenix, Arizona. Families of the victims pleaded with the governor of the local area to do something. Klauss team said that every so often Japanese treasure hunters come to the village enquiring if anyone knows where that landmark is. Many of these men were infected New Yorkers who had traveled to California. Klaus had nailed it. In the Philippines treasure reclamation requires a permit that entitles the government to 30% of the findings. The United States had stumbled upon the greatest treasure hoards in history, including more gold bullion than was known to be in existence, and would use this unfathomable wealth to influence world affairs, win the Cold War, launch a space programme, and create a new world order.
Roxas was more convinced than ever that a great treasure was buried near Baguio Hospital, and who could blame him? We had adjoining rooms in the hotel and shared a laugh. International Precious Metals already has spent $40,000 on its hunt, McDougald revealed. The pillbox at Baguio Hospital In 1993, treasure hunter Charles McDougald published Asian Loot: Unearthing the Secrets of Marcos, Yamashita and the Gold. Imagine countless fabulous tunnels bored through the green mountains of the Philippines, all filled with mind-boggling stacks of gold bullion and other riches, all waiting there even today for some lucky adventurer to discover them. 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. Los Angeles Times. I wanted to leave, but the caretaker said I mustnt; the healer had sent me, and I needed to complete his process. Seagrave stressed that I should proceed with caution, for the story was taboo and highly dangerous. Bob Curtis. Japanese armies did indeed seize valuables and plunder national treasuries of southeast Asian countries. The Japanese, in particular, were notorious for this. Marcos had them tortured until they gave up the location of the treasure, whereupon he took it all, thus becoming fabulously wealthy. One day, he got into his car and drove away. The director films Klaus in the flooded tunnel complex over two hundred feet below the surface I go deep underground in an effort to try and find out I sensed wetness and as I propped myself up and looked down at where he was working all I could see was blood. I was told of bus loads of cancer patients who arrived with hope and left with their cancer extracted and physically placed in their hands. Many versions of this story have long been floating around, but by far the best known and most influential is a series of books by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave. These were not symbols found in military treasure sites. ; 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. Cobra blood is thought to contain vital regenerative qualities and is said to bond the drinker to the cobra family Roxas was cautious of Oihara and his fascination with the golden buddhas neck. 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. Klaus leading me through the cobra-infested rice paddies Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. Website designed by Artifice Design. There was no follow-up after Bilyeu was pronounced dead. 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. 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. 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. The charges are completely new to me. 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. Do you know about Yamashitas gold?. Even Imelda Marcos confessed that her husbands wealth had come from Yamashitas gold. 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. They received permission and resumed digging, attributing their failure to rediscover the fabulous treasure room to booby traps. 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. There was also the odour; the smell of decomposed bodies. Its old but healthy, and yet it is growing parallel to the ground due to the fact that it is chemically drawn to the gold. The story has inspired many books to be written, and many artists have created works based by the event. I went for a walk around campus and when I returned the production manager politely asked me to join them, as they were about to begin, and so I did. Andrew Gough. 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. Roxas was assassinated. Andrew Gough. Andrew Gough. Ive already invested a lot of my time, my energy and money on this. When the healer arrived back home a luxurious Toyota 44 that had been purchased for him was waiting in the driveway. He has been a guest speaker on numerous national radio and television stations and is a five time published author. Klaus dismissed his dowser, who he felt was taking advantage, and began performing the task himself. 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. Off camera, Patrick asked what I felt to be the most illuminating question of the afternoon. 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]. This was going to happen. He shared that he and his wife had their emails and phone calls monitored and had received repeated death threats. No explanation was offered as to why the map's original owner simply gave it away. His treasure tunnels would be sure to dazzle viewers. I was not surprised by their rejections. There are far more people attempting to find treasure than there are success stories. For their safety I will refrain from stating where I met them, but suffice to say it was worth the journey. Look at this tree, he abruptly proclaimed, stopping us dead in our tracks. Is this what Klaus should expect to find in his treasure chambers? 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. I have to! Klaus retorted. 0000001826 00000 n
Their attack on the East was brutal, and largely airbrushed from history. The director was oblivious. 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. Thank you for your nutrients and for their blessings. 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. 56 0 obj<>stream
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