There was more, but as I have signed a non-disclosure agreement, I will refrain from commenting further. As we walked between sites with the camera crew, Klaus pointed out the many Japanese treasure symbols in the landscape. Literally, out from the shadows, another treasure hunter emerged and interrupted, asking, Did I hear you say that you have found leaves in the tunnel? He left Colorado in search of the lost gold mine in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. I was having a laugh with Klaus when suddenly I screamed and, for lack of a better explanation, went into shock. Klaus extended his elbows and fixed his clenched fists against his chest. However, the legal fees and the cost of the trials ate up so much cash that only $175,000 remained. One mans wallet was apparently thrown near his remains. Klaus Dona. 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. Fuchigami hastily reconstructed the map from memory and provided Roxas with a copy. Andrew Gough. 0000008710 00000 n I was especially interested in what had happened to the ancient relics of the East, and what exactly, if anything, remains to be discovered. These sites were protected by ancient rituals performed by Shinto priests. Andrew Gough. Privacy Policy. 0000004492 00000 n But Japan needed that money badly to pay for its war effort; it would not have converted it to gold bars and sent it away to be buried. Charles McDougald looked every bit a real-life Indiana Jones one recent afternoon as he sat cross-legged outside the World War II-era Japanese torture chamber where he and half a dozen other American treasure hunters are convinced lie buried more than 400 tons of gold worth at least $7 billion. Nope, we had to move on; places to be. 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. 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. He quickly set out to tell his own story, one that did not follow the agreed storyline. Even Imelda Marcos confessed that her husbands wealth had come from Yamashitas gold. After all, they are man made; Japanese made, I muttered to myself. 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. I never made the trip to Carcassonne, and a few years later, when I had moved back to the United Kingdom, I lost Seagraves email. Cite this article: 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. Hours later I arrived and was greeted by the caretaker. Andrew Gough. With a change of shirt I descended once again into the abyss. Andrew Gough. In 1942 Prince Chichibu is said to have examined potential treasure-vault sites around greater Manila, and further afield. It was January 2016, and my interest in the story had waned once more. President Marcos consults with Las Vegas-based psychic, Olof Jonsson. He recounted one incident when he and Peggy were going for a walk down a country lane when a car crept along behind and slowly overtook them. 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.. While in Los Angeles I also met with Dan Cathcart, the lawyer who had famously represented Roxas in the Supreme Court and had heroically won the case over Ferdinand Marcos. When I came across leaves in my tunnel complex I had only another ten feet or so left until I was in the chamber. I was fascinated, not only by the camaraderie between treasure hunters, and the fact that other Imperial treasures had been discovered, but also by the fact that Klaus was actually as close to the prize as he thought he was. What are you waiting for? the caretaker shouted, as though I should have known what was expected of me. [7] It was given to the Barrow Neurological Institute of Phoenix, Arizona. She said that the second NDE had occurred relatively recently, when an elderly man had accelerated his car into her, while she was crossing an intersection, when he should have braked. But there was more. Andrew Gough. Many Japanese soldiers and engineers involved in the project were also sealed inside the tunnels in order to keep them from revealing the location. He left clues in a poem about the location of this hidden treasure and challenged the public to find it. But the picture changed with the deaths last month of the two Filipino workers, suffocated in a cave-in that McDougalds engineers now attribute to a booby trap left behind by the Japanese. Cancel at any time: 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. Billy and Bob were prepared to camp for several days near the Norris ranch while they looked for gold. No explanation was offered as to why the map's original owner simply gave it away. The facts behind the urban legend that billions in Japanese gold lie buried in the Philippines. This was a time, Cathcart stressed, when the town was buzzing with rumours of a local mans discovery. 2019. Such a thing is well proven to be one way that intelligence agencies move funds around. Andrew Gough, Exhausted, after returning to the surface He described the odds as 5% more chance than highly probable, approaching absolute certainty.. McDougald, C. Asian Loot: Unearthing the Secrets of Marcos, Yamashita and the Gold. 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. There, some say, it remains today waiting for someone possibly for you to find it and walk away. Johnson, C. "The Looting of Asia." 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. What is that, I asked. Andrew Gough, A leaf of the bogtalay tree Subscribe Now:http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ehowtechWatch More:http://www.youtube.com/ehowtechClaiming a treasure hunter bounty alive i. I had packed industrial-strength gloves and knee pads! Treasure comes in two forms: Treasure Maps Unique Gold Bars In order to find a treasure, the player must obtain a Treasure Map, decipher it, and travel to the location depicted. Rather, Klaus and others embark on a more laborious, albeit secure and spiritually attuned, process using a hammer and chisel, while observing the symbols that the Shinto priests had left behind, and heeding the vital guidance that they provide. Never-before-seen photos of authentic Black Eagle Trust bank statements, representing but a small portion of the wealth acquired from Japanese gold. 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. Eventually, Marcos concluded it was futile to torture Roxas further and released him after what had amounted to two years imprisonment. Without receiving the whole story on the events of the day, many have classified this case as an unsolved mystery. I protested and attempted to leave a second time, but was restrained. When no one could find proof, it went to retrial in 1971 with 102 researchers trying to claim the money. 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. The Japanese constructed their subterranean treasure networks with the aid of a thousand young men, mostly prisoners of war who worked three eight-hour shifts a day to create a complex series of tunnels and chambers deep underground. Author Forrest Fenn is a former art dealer who hid millions of dollars in treasure in the wilderness of New Mexico when he was 80 years old. Ricardo T. Jose during his interview We are not at the bottom yet? Bob Curtis. On the way home Klaus instructed our tricycle driver to take us along the coastal road. The sheriffs department brought in a search-and-rescue team with dogs. 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. I had seen the photos, but they did not prepare me for the sheer enormity of the quest he was undertaking. Our conversation prompted me to reach out to Roxass wife and daughter. If they had happened, and I had known about them, I would have punished the wrongdoers severely. International Precious Metals already has spent $40,000 on its hunt, McDougald revealed. Los Angeles Times. Each would have been an ideal candidate to contribute to the legal and organised excavation of Klauss treasure sites. Many return home empty-handed. They had written a message that said, We have found a fine prospect. None of their valuables were taken. 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. McDougald denied that the fort has been desecrated, except for a 4-by-2-foot hole in a wall, and contends his operation is legal. After a long morning of work, Bob and Billy decided to take an afternoon nap. After Marcos was deposed in 1986, Curtis and McDougald lobbied the new government of Corazn Aquino that allowing them to find the gold would be a great way to pay off the Philippines' debt. In all, Prince Chichibu is said to have managed the construction of one hundred and seventy-five treasure sites, all across the Philippines. I guess I had never imagined that Roxas had excavated that deep before discovering the golden buddha. The treasure locations are spread all across the land of Red Dead Redemption. In 1971, Dametz claimed that (The AntiChrist) will be a political, religious, commercial autocrat of the world.. After about two hours of digging, McSherry walked over to Dametz to let him know that it was time to drive home. He was integrity personified. Ballinger recounted the story to Roxas, who he often visited on his trips to the Philippines, adding that the entrance to the tunnel had been in the vicinity of a concrete pillbox, the name given to a small, partly underground concrete fort used as an outpost. His luck was about to change. In the Philippines treasure reclamation requires a permit that entitles the government to 30% of the findings. 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. New York: Verso, 2003. Few would persevere and dig that deep, especially after finding so many valuables at the intermediate level. 0000005640 00000 n Bob assumed that Billy must be nearby. Klaus confided that he was working on four different sites and shared the many clues and symbols that he had discovered in each. Little did they know the arduous effort that a successful excavation would require. The director reluctantly filmed it. The golden buddha was real but not the gold bullion. I could not believe he knew about it all, let alone had such a peculiar opinion about it. Marcos men were elated, and they never enquired about the other one hundred and thirty-five treasure maps. 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. Roxas reported the incident to the police, who predictably ignored his pleas. 1.5 metres by 1.5 metres thats the size of shaft you just entered. One even had a cobra as its spiritual guardian that Klaus had encountered before. You can also find her on Twitter. This show is made possible by financial support from listeners like you. As I did, the cobra stopped thrashing. Cathcart shared how his office had received a call saying that Imelda Marcos had ordered the killing death by poison and that the CIA had carried out her orders. Given the lack of any findings and the shaky nature of the most prominent support for there being any truth to the legend of Yamashita's Gold, we can summarize a few points about the Yamashita's Gold story: If that gold does exist anywhere, it exists in a superposition: it was plundered and spent long ago by the corrupt Marcos regime; it was plundered and spent long ago by the CIA; it was taken back to Japan and distributed among the organized crime community; and it somehow still exists in tunnels waiting for History Channel camera crews. 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. See Photos. Andrew Gough. I believe its here. Kidd had decided to create a treasure hunt of his own. 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. His friend preferred to stay anonymous, but lets call him Bob for the sake of the story. She reiterated that I was to be very involved in the whole Roxas affair. The plane landed with a thud at Heathrow airport, and normality soon ensued. What convinced you to take this seemingly ludicrous case? I enquired. 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. Marcos had whet his now insatiable appetite for gold and the riches and power that it brought. In 1849 during the California Gold Rush, over 30,000 men flocked to trails where gold had been seen. 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. I thought to myself with some alarm. About a month after my return I opened WhatsApp on my iPhone and discovered a message from Roger Roxass daughter, whom I had visited in the States a few years earlier, but who I had not spoken with for some time. I never expected such a gruelling journey. I stared at the inexplicably responsive dowsing rods in silence. Although Roxas had been defeated, he had protected his secret longer than anyone could have reasonably expected him to. 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. This cannot be real. 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. Most treasure hunters go searching in the daytime and then return to local motels. Klaus interviewed him on camera, and afterwards we took turns examining the artefacts. 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. Andrew Gough. Reluctantly, I selected a cobra, which was promptly placed in a barrel-shaped mesh cage. The smell of decomposed bodies was palpable and they halted work while the disconcerting gasses subsided. 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. Ballinger had photographed the Japanese ship, Huzi Maru, which was masquerading as a hospital ship, unloading boxes northwest of Manila, in Subic Bay. The initial award was $43 billion the largest civil judgement in history. Could these mysterious deaths have been murder, or as some believe, could something supernatural have been afoot? The healer, operating with nothing but his fingers 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. In 1908, two young men were searching for gold in Arizona. They were apparitions; ghost soldiers. It would later be appealed and reduced to $22 billion, because the court could not be certain of the contents of each and every wooden crate that was removed from the tunnel system behind Baguio Hospital. Poster of the fake golden buddha (from the Roxas Museum in Baguio) Andrew Gough. ; One of the best ways to earn a high chunk of money in Red Dead Redemption 2 is by High Stakes Treasure maps. He had opened me up with only his hands, and now his fingers were inside me. It was a fascinating place; a former Japanese military base with large boulders carved into animal shapes. Andrew Gough. 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. Andrew Gough. Slowly putting his ruined life back together, he moved from Reno to Las Vegas . It began The Great Soul Trial of 1967. Things became even worse. Andrew Gough, A young Henry Roxas pays his loving respects to his late father With Roxass discovery, Marcoss hopes had become a reality. The first clue to the treasure reportedly came in 1971, when a locksmith in the mountain resort of Baguio found a Buddha statue filled with gold and jewels. The director films Klaus in the flooded tunnel complex over two hundred feet below the surface You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. London Review of Books. It was 2001 and I was living in Istanbul and working for IBM. But at least I had aimed high. They used the same water from the streams as everyone else and unwittingly infected many of the other men. #673 For Roxas, greater Manila was ripe with hiding places 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. However, it was not until she had purchased a third new car that the authorities became suspicious, and she swiftly fled, never to be heard of again. 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]. 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. The town had been occupied and governed by General Yamashita in the early 1940s. 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. Twenty percent of the men who moved to California during the Gold Rush died from diseases like cholera within six months of their arrival. I was intrigued and found myself engrossed in the mystery once more. Inexplicably, he was being electrocuted. Had he been part of the Golden Lily conspiracy? He said they were building an extension to the hospital. Looking slightly perilous at the bottom of the tunnel system with Klaus No-one was interested. Seagrave also shared how his offices were bugged, not by Marcos, but by Washington, and that his researchers were often confronted and intimidated by shadowy figures who demanded they cease their investigations immediately. Are the Philippines the wealthiest nation on earth? Santy, as he was known, tortured Yamashitas driver, Major Kojima Kashii, until he gave up his secrets; the Japanese had buried unthinkable quantities of gold and vast hoards of ancient treasure in subterranean vaults across the Philippines. In 1949, a 70-year-old man named James Kidd was a professional treasure hunter from Phoenix, Arizona. 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. Cathcart replied without hesitation, as though it were yesterday, and proceeded to list several witnesses who had, in fact, collaborated Roxass story: Ken Cheatham: an American GI who was stationed at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines in the 1970s. We had adjoining rooms in the hotel and shared a laugh. Fair enough. Marcos quickly confiscated the booty. 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. Its a known Japanese symbol that means the seeker is going to love what is below, he added in his hypnotic Austrian drawl. 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. At midnight, General Yamashita and the princes slipped out, and dynamite charges were set off in the access tunnels, entombing the engineers. For reasons I will never understand, I responded to his email and mentioned something about the Philippines. He was quietly confident that there was more gold to be discovered. 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.. She was greeted by a well-dressed, professional looking man who gave her some medicine for Roger, as he had noticed how poorly he was looking and was concerned for his health. Do you know about Yamashitas gold?. It was, and the Roxas brothers are said to have extracted three handfuls of assorted precious stones and diamonds, which they promptly hid before reattaching the golden buddhas head. The moss-covered marker stone that could be a topographical map of the treasure sites in the region Their car was parked at the beginning of the popular trail. To come this close and not visit it would be such a shame, I thought. We embarked on the long drive back to Klauss village and our last night as a team. Fred C. Dobbs, the protagonist of B. Traven 's 1927 novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and the movie of the same name. Needless to say, she remains convinced that her husband was murdered. Bob Curtis. Rights and reuse information. I replied, Well, keep digging. Honolulu: Supreme Court of Hawaii, 1988. 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. I hung on for dear life as I precariously wrapped my 6 5 frame around the back of the passenger seat while Klaus rode shotgun. His team went and searched and dug but never found anything. Nor, to be honest, did I. I could do that, I thought. The process was known as sanctifying, and via a series of chance encounters Marcos was led to the American metallurgist, Robert Curtis. 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. After some diligent detective work Cathcarts team discovered Cheatham working as a night-time security guard in a Las Vegas hotel. Burning Shinto-priest incense that was discovered in the backfilled tunnels deep underground Andrew Gough. Bob had not heard his friend get up, and his jacket was sitting on the ground. It was difficult to be certain, but I knew what I believed. As I suspected, he was questing for Japanese treasure pillaged from Asia, but how he had got started was another story altogether. Not only are ancient Thai documents written on the bark of the bogtalay tree, its leaves provide oral hygiene, and even cure cancer. 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. I arrived late, dined with Klaus, and the following morning he and his trusted colleague picked me up in the quintessential Philippine vehicle of choice, a motorised tricycle. They brought dogs and donkeys to help carry their supplies. Why wouldnt they be, I thought to myself, after a moments reflection. She was clearly in her 90s, and yet it was a long shot, but lo and behold we hit the jackpot. The cobra-infested rice paddies 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. Out of fear that the maps would be stolen, or thrown out by the cleaning crew, Curtis photographed each one and burned the originals. The treasure vaults that Major Kojima had shown Santy were not only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what the Japanese had hidden in the Philippines, they also represented a relatively small portion of the overall war booty that had yet to reach Japan. 0000001447 00000 n Fuchigami recounted a time when his father had taken him to a treasure tunnel behind Baguio Hospital, and explained how the tunnel tracks and handrails had been used for transporting large quantities of gold. Curtis to meet privately with a . 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