Aquinos executive secretary, Catalino Macaraig, said last month that the government has granted more than 80 permits to foreign and local treasure seekers in the two years since Aquino took power, and that applications continue to arrive at the presidents office at the rate of one a day. Valmores was entrusted with detailed maps of each of the 175 treasure sites, a privilege that President Marcos would later exploit. Anyway, it keeps me fit, he added with bravado. I wondered. International Precious Metals already has spent $40,000 on its hunt, McDougald revealed. Its a known Japanese symbol that means the seeker is going to love what is below, he added in his hypnotic Austrian drawl. She shared how he had been stressed and run down in the time leading up to the trial. These sites were protected by ancient rituals performed by Shinto priests. For three years, people searched for Jesse and could not find any trace of his remains. In 2009, he finally decided to take a month off work to go after his dream. The treasure still has not been found. The Seagraves seminal whistle-blowing book, Gold Warriors. 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. A rare photograph of Roxas in the Baguio tunnel system. 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. 0000005867 00000 n 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. Maybe Amelia was right after all, I mused. So McDougald has dropped his previous secrecy and found the spare time to schedule daily press conferences on the lawn outside the torture chamber--at least until he hits pay dirt. Best known as lyricist for some of the best known Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead songs and his various collaborations with Bob Dylan. Roxas with the detached head of the golden buddha (from the Roger Roxas Museum in Baguio) Cheatham later testified in the Supreme Court trial. In another (unrelated) incident, Ballingers unit had made their way to Baguio and witnessed the Japanese loading heavy boxes into a tunnel system near the hospital. Roxas reported the incident to the police, who predictably ignored his pleas. Over the next several years the programme was featured on television stations around the world and on YouTube. Despite his altruistic intentions (ie not wanting to risk more of the team getting injured than was necessary), this approach would prove fatal, as he did not do a very good job, and Klaus would have to reshoot the tunnel footage himself, weeks later, and with far inferior equipment. Today, only $1.4 million has been paid out to the Roxas estate. But it never works out that way. It was impossible for any man in my position to control every action of his subordinate commanders, let alone the deeds of individual soldiers. This was but the precursor to the sobering conditions I would encounter when I explored Klauss first tunnel-system site. Later that day I drove to Klauss village. 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. Frustratingly, he was unable to recapture what she had so convincingly and spontaneously said previously, leading the director to believe we had made it all up. 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. Once European settlers started showing up to hunt for gold, the Naha mysteriously disappeared. Their 2000 book The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family included their story of how Japan went about accumulating this staggering wealth from all the Asian nations they looted, via a secret initiative called Operation Golden Lily. I was intrigued and found myself engrossed in the mystery once more. Jim Hawkins, the protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson 's 1881 novel, Treasure Island. The vaults would remain secret. In hindsight, Roxas had been aware of the implications of this clandestine relationship, but had had no choice in the matter. "Yamashita's Gold." I was having a laugh with Klaus when suddenly I screamed and, for lack of a better explanation, went into shock. 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. Why would three months pass before the public was informed? The guerrillas attacked the Japanese with grenades, sealing many workers inside. Andrew Gough, Learning the art of dowsing Privacy Policy. 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. Subsequent lawsuits were filed on the back of Roxas v Marcos. I watched a rough cut of the episode and was relieved that Burgess had salvaged it with his skillful editing, and that the tone was objective. I was frustrated. We followed a muddy path, not too far from a river that was roaring with monsoon-induced floods, and arrived at the site. 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. Klaus Dona before settling in the Philippines 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. Im betting its here.. Andrew Gough. It has budgeted another $60,000 for the project and has an additional $300,000 to spend if needed. Roxas had been caught out. The covert Black Eagle Trust accounts were inspired by the Nazi black eagle stamped on the gold bars acquired by the Third Reich. No sooner than I was reflecting on the creepiness of being there, Klaus screamed. Many return home empty-handed. Over the course of the next twelve months Marcoss men extracted a vast amount of gold out from the Baguio Hospital site. They chose to go on a day when it was 46 degrees Celsius (115 F), but they didnt bring their cell phones with them. In 1942 Prince Chichibu is said to have examined potential treasure-vault sites around greater Manila, and further afield. I was impressed and, dare I say, convinced. 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. Is that really necessary? Marcos was ruthless. We said goodbye to Klaus and Patrick and drove to Manila for the final shoot of the day, my studio interviews. After all, that was why we were there. It does not need to be any wider, Klaus added authoritatively. The director trying to get the old woman to recapture on camera what she had said off camera. 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. His team went and searched and dug but never found anything. 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Its going to be dusty, dirty, and there are going to be rodents and spiders, and were probably going to find the gold bars lying on the floor down there somewhere., McDougald said he based his belief that treasure exists on the material that his group is using to locate the site--World War II-era Japanese maps and later engineering drawings and photographs supplied by Curtis. Presenting on The Truth about Yamashitas Gold. 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. In hindsight, I concluded that I had overstated my projected return on investment even though I knew it was real, and that it must have sounded outrageous and not very credible. 0000017241 00000 n No further. Norman Tony Darcus: a Las Vegas investor who visited the Philippines and was shown secret tunnels where gold bullion was awaiting transportation to the United States. New York: Verso, 2003. They rapidly constructed complex tunnel systems that led to vaults constructed deep underground. With a fragile intonation in her voice she recounted the story of her husbands last days. The liberal opposition party rallied around Roxas, as they saw an opportunity to gain ground on Marcos, and encouraged him to testify in the Philippine Senate. xb```Vvk>c`0p s*9yZJa`Xl Q|bg7633;,3i One year later, after an extensive search-and-rescue effort, all three bodies were finally recovered. 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. 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. The sheer brutality of the working conditions is what struck me the most; the small, incremental gains that each day brought; hand and chisel, hauling rubble from the reclaimed tunnel backfill back up to the top. In a now infamous moment of stubborn, albeit courageous, resolve Roxas returned to Baguio, and in the presence of lawyers and the media, defiantly proclaimed the golden buddha to be a fake. He wrote that he would leave all his money to someone who could prove the existence of the human soul. The organisation was named Kin no yuri, meaning Golden Lily, the name of a poem written by the Emperor. The incident became known as the Golden Buddha Affair. In 2015, IBM UK had their annual kick-off meeting in Los Angeles, and so I took the opportunity to visit Amelia. The enormity of the tragedy is underscored by the fact that the Roxas family have yet to be paid their settlement. Theyre sand traps. Non-indigenous artefacts discovered buried near Manila I am sorry that you must die for me, I repeated, over and over. 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. He was dazed, and yet actually excited about what he believed had caused it. I had packed industrial-strength gloves and knee pads! 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. His conviction was supported by four first-hand accounts and multiple treasure maps given to him by eyewitnesses. For weeks, nearly a dozen members of Aquinos elite presidential security guard cordoned off the entire fort to keep the treasure hunt a secret and to ensure that the government receives its rightful 75% cut of anything McDougalds group finds. Once the cameras stopped, Henry continued taking us through his files, highlighting important photos and newspaper clippings, including one very poignant photo of himself as a young man standing alongside his deceased father. Not only are ancient Thai documents written on the bark of the bogtalay tree, its leaves provide oral hygiene, and even cure cancer. 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. A search team began combing the nearby jungle, hoping to find the bodies of the missing men. Andrew Gough, A leaf of the bogtalay tree They decided it would be fun to go on a road trip to look for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. I guess I had never imagined that Roxas had excavated that deep before discovering the golden buddha. I watched the show and their drive-by shooting approach to treasure hunting with dread. One day, he got into his car and drove away. Roxas claimed they tried to sell the Buddha to finance removal of the treasure, and this attracted the attention of Marcos. With a change of shirt I descended once again into the abyss. Roxas at the Golden Buddha hearing (from a clipping at the Roger Roxas museum in Baguio) Fair enough. Andrew Gough. The smell of decomposed bodies was palpable and they halted work while the disconcerting gasses subsided. Andrew Gough. He explained how a team had successfully excavated a large portion of the site before a typhoon and resulting mud slide had buried years of excavation work. 0000017483 00000 n Operation Golden Lily and the Black Eagle Trust Fund are absent from all the world's historical texts that I searched, save those written in support of this particular mythology. People named Bob Curtis. Yes, thats correct, Klaus replied pensively. 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. Real or imagined, I was perceived as an expert on the subject. Work was frantic and I soon lost touch with the Seagraves. I knew what it was, but I could not believe my eyes. The cobra was violently thrashing about. I was still processing the trip and trying to find a balanced view on it all. Andrew Gough. Fortuitously, Cheatham took a photo of himself with the golden buddha. When McDougald replied that he does, Maceda asked wryly, Well, the publicity about all this is not going to hurt your book, is it?, McDougald leaned forward, smiled and replied, No sir, I dont think so.. Klaus and I continued our daily Skype calls and I could sense he was making real progress. There are far more people attempting to find treasure than there are success stories. Marcos had them tortured until they gave up the location of the treasure, whereupon he took it all, thus becoming fabulously wealthy. Website designed by Artifice Design. 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. Ive already invested a lot of my time, my energy and money on this. Another of Roxass helpers was the American, John Ballinger, who had fought in a guerrilla unit in the region during the war. Prepared: kneepads, waterproof shorts and gloves 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. Bob Curtis. There was no doubt in my mind that Henry was every bit the fortune hunter his father had been. 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. While in Baguio, Valmores pulled out a map of the hospital treasure complex from his secret portfolio and handed it to Roxas. In my mind I visualised a hole running straight through my body and out the other side. The Skeptoid weekly science podcast is a free public service from Skeptoid Media, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit. After numerous failed attempts they found him. I followed Klaus down the third descending vertical shaft only to find myself standing in nearly a foot of water. Bob assumed that Billy must be nearby. As I prepped for my studio interview, I found myself captivated by Roxass quest. In 1975, Marcos turned to an American mining engineer named Robert Curtis. 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. Klaus interviewed him on camera, and afterwards we took turns examining the artefacts. We stopped on the outskirts of town in front of an old schoolhouse. He had opened me up with only his hands, and now his fingers were inside me. At one point Cathcart questioned Roxas for five days straight. Slowly putting his ruined life back together, he moved from Reno to Las Vegas . 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. Honolulu: Supreme Court of Hawaii, 1988. In reviewing their 2003 book, he wrote: The Seagraves are not fully reliable as historians. As I suspected, he was questing for Japanese treasure pillaged from Asia, but how he had got started was another story altogether. Never-before-seen photos of authentic Black Eagle Trust bank statements, representing but a small portion of the wealth acquired from Japanese gold. See Photos. He related how he had accompanied a friend who was ill to the Philippines so that he could visit a famous healer. Fuchigami hastily reconstructed the map from memory and provided Roxas with a copy. 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. With Henry Roxas, Rogers treasure-hunting son 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. His mother had told him that she and his father felt honoured to have had their property chosen, and when the Japanese finished they joined in a ceremony that celebrated the completion of the project, and the sacredness of what was buried below. 0000005407 00000 n After some time she purchased a new home for her parents and one for herself. Explaining how the fatal cave-in happened, McDougald began to sound as if he was talking about the Temple of Doom, as well as looking the part. I had seen the photos, but they did not prepare me for the sheer enormity of the quest he was undertaking. 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. My neck was pressed against the sharp edge of the rusted metal tricycle roof. 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. Treasure-hunting equipment After about two hours of digging, McSherry walked over to Dametz to let him know that it was time to drive home. More of that, he encouraged. In an interview, he claimed that he wanted to start this treasure hunt to encourage people to get outside and explore nature. I examined it closely. Congratulations you are almost there. Parts of it appeared carved. The site we were hiking to was remote, and near a natural landmark that was apparently mentioned in the Japanese treasure maps. See Photos. His gun was found a few feet away as if tossed to the side. For these, the Shinto priests communicated to those with eyes to see in a different language of symbols to that of the military treasure sites, as I would soon discover. The first indication of a secret treasure came in April 1971 when a Filipino locksmith found a 1-ton. A look of relief radiates from his face 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. I knew only a little about the story, let alone the fact that Peggy and her husband Sterling were the worlds most prolific experts on the subject, and had documented the whole sordid affair in their seminal book, Gold Warriors; Americas Secret Recovery of Yamashitas Gold. 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. When he walked back to Dametzs spot only fifteen minutes later, the doctor was gone. They were buried alive. They had written a message that said, We have found a fine prospect. None of their valuables were taken. The old woman was sensational and described how she and her family had hidden in the hills as the Japanese processed by with an ox pulling a cart that contained what appeared to be a heavy box. Singer-songwriter, poet, translator and occasionally recording artist, born Robert Burns. 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. Most were situated on Japanese military bases, while others were located near landmarks that would be remembered in coming years, such as hospitals, schools, churches, mountains and waterfalls. Regarding the claimed gold buried in the Philippines, the fact that not a single piece has ever been found is exactly in line with our expectations. Anderson reported that Curtis group supplied the maps, which marked an estimated $100 billion in treasure, to Marcos, who used the group to track and recover about $14 billion. 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