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01x02 - Submerged Treasure

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch". Aired: January 2, 2021.*
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There are some places on earth where the land just seems different, and Blind Frog Ranch in eastern Utah is one of those places.

01x02 - Submerged Treasure

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[Duane] There's some kind

of a dark force

that keeps this gold

from being found.

[Charlie] We've had a problem

with theft, trespassing

Oh, [bleep]

[Charlie]

damaging of some equipment.

She's fixing that.

Bring him up.

[bleep]

[Duane] When it fights

this hard, that usually means

there's a fortune there.

[Eric] See that?

That's natural gold.

[Duane] Holy [bleep].

[laughs]

Now we just have

to get into that cavern.

[intense music playing]

[Duane] Hell yeah!

It's pretty damn dangerous,

but it's the only entry point,

right now,

that we know well.

[Eric] There we go.

He's on it.

Sediment coming through.

What is this?

[Eric] Duane,

we got something big.

Does that look

like a Spanish coin to you?

[Chad] We're not even

inside the cave yet.

We've got to keep going.

[thunder rumbling]

[Duane] There's some places

on Earth

that just don't seem right.

The land feels different.

It acts different.

And this here

is one of those places.

Some say the land

is trying to hold on

to something.

Aztec Treasure,

caverns of gold.

Look at this.

-[Duane] More than riches,

-It'd be a million dollars.

[Duane] Some even say

there's a buried space ship.

Hell yeah.

Me?

I never cared much

about the stories,

I just care about finding

whatever the hell's

in the ground.

-[man 1] Let's get out

of here!

-[man 2] No!

[intense music playing]

[Chad] There's so many

skeptics out there

that don't believe

anything like this

is possible.

It was a process

to get to this moment,

but it's paying off.

Kind of work

around the clock out here,

so we got some

lights right here.

This is just

like Field of Dreams

for my dad.

So this, uh,

this pond wasn't here.

Uh, what they did is

they drilled down,

and found

the underground cavern

and it was full of water.

And there's, like,

50 frogs that came out

that were blind and albino.

They've been in the dark

so long, they couldn't

see anything.

That just shows

there is a cave system

they were living in

because they

have oxygen to live.

The entrance was

right in there,

but since then,

it's been filled up

with all kinds of stuff.

We can't get back in there.

We're going to clean up

years of sediment sludge,

clean it all out,

so we can get in there.

[Duane] That's where

the treasure is.

[Chad] We know it's there.

[wind blowing]

[theme music]

[Duane] There she is.

Finally here.

It's right over there.

[Chad] We got

the whole crew here.

We got skid loaders,

[inaudible].

They getting after it, man.

[Duane] Once we get

on to something

we don't like messing around.

Now we know.

We know

there's gold down there..

Natural gold or treasure.

We just want to get down

in there.

[Chad] Right now,

we're just tracking

in a rathole rig.

We'll see how it goes.

[Duane] I just want

to get into these caverns,

and find out

what the hell's down.

So I got Charlie boy

looking into the coin,

to gather all the

information he can.

[Charlie] I sent a picture

of the coins,

to a professor at Utah State,

and he has some ideas on it.

He's agreed to meet with me

and discuss some of the facts

about it in the legends.

[John Barton] First off,

the legends are abundant,

but where it all starts

is the Spanish

with Hernán Cortés

attack the Aztec in 1519.

He starts

to round up all the gold

and then,

as they took their gold north

to their cousins to use

and ask them to watch over.

And they stored it

in a hiding place

in the Uinta mountains.

And on pain of death,

they would never reveal

where the gold was.

And if anybody else

tried to do anything there,

they'd be k*lled.

So do you think

that the Blind Frog Ranch

where we're at

is probably central

to all that?

Yes.

According to everything

I've read,

uh, not very far

from your ranch

is likely one

of the sacred storage caverns.

According to the legend,

in the larger depository,

there was one major entrance,

but it had seven chambers.

It's funny you say that,

because our resident geologist

has detected seven caverns.

[geologist] We have

seven faults with potentially

seven caverns.

Wow, on your property?

Yeah, I like that

now that's coming from you.

When you find them,

I want to see.

Now the eerie,

the spooky part kicks in.

You know, they're all cursed

that anybody who finds them,

tragedy will befall them

if they don't leave it alone.

And there's, you know,

myriad stories of people

who have found something

and died mysteriously.

I think

there's threads of consistency

and threads of truth

in almost all of them.

[Charlie] We've heard all

the stories about

the Aztec treasure

being buried somewhere

near the property,

and then finding the coin

and have the historian

connect the dots for us.

The stories were starting

to kind of fall in line

with each other a little bit,

and we have all indications

that we have everything

that's in the legends.

[sounds of nature]

[Charlie] You know, I spoke

with that history professor,

and he said you all are just

really right on top of it.

He mentioned

that this treasure

has been hidden underground

in these caverns

and there's seven chambers

or seven entrances to this.

[Eric] That brings two things

to my mind

is first of all,

that the faults swarm in here.

We have potentially

seven caverns there.

So, yeah,

we've got these parallels.

To me, that means

that there could be caves

to the north

and those could be caches

for treasures.

We very well could be sitting

on the largest

unfound treasure

in the history

of the United States, anyway.

[Duane] Hey, I like this.

I like this deal,

but, you know,

some of these professionals,

and I'm not trying to be rude,

but some

of these professionals

that's been doing it

for a long time

and had never come up

with something.

I don't want to sound c*ck,

but maybe

we're the professionals.

-Well, yeah,

-A little c*ck didn't it?

[laughs]

But guys, if we do this,

we got to take it

all the way through.

[tense music playing]

[Duane] In the oil business

we used rathole rigs a lot.

You can go about 150 foot

if you need to.

These rathole rigs

aren't cheap.

It's about 150 bucks a foot,

so this 30 foot hole

costs about five grand.

-We drill right there.

-Okay.

I know it's getting

a little close

to the edge there,

but you know

it's gonna be good.

Whenever I broke

into the void,

I was using a track hole

with a grinding disk on it.

So that hole flooded.

Now it's all clogged up

with rock and mud.

Trying to dig it out

is gonna take a while

and gonna be a mess.

So we're going

to use the rathole rig

to just move over

and drill us a new hole,

right next to it.

That way, we'll have a new,

clean way in.

The blind frogs

that came out of there

need air to breathe,

so we know

there's an air pocket close by

underneath it.

If we find that pocket,

we will have a dry entrance.

It's a lot easier

to find gold

when you're breathing air.

You make yourself comfortable,

but the closer we get

to that little spot

right out there,

the better off we are.

And then we'll just drill

until we hit the void.

We know

there's some riches there,

-Just got to find it.

-Just got to find it.

All right.

It's got to be the one.

[tense music playing]

We're as close

as we can really get

to the caves right there.

And we're up here

on dry ground.

We're like

about eight to ten foot

before we get

to the water table,

and after that

it's about 22 foot down.

Plus or minus, I don't know.

[Eric] Oh, yeah, it's wet.

It's wet.

The wet clay is good.

It means

we've tapped the same water

that's in the pond.

We're officially in ground

where it's saturated.

-How many feet?

-Nineteen.

We're at 23, Duane,

and water still coming in

from up above.

[Duane] We still got

a ways to go.

[Eric] It's got to be

down there somewhere.

[Duane] I kind of hoped to see

this little bit

drop a couple feet

and I have to catch it.

It means it drops

into the void.

That'd be the same thing

as what happened to me

on a track on it just fell in.

I don't know.

I just have to see it.

It's awful wet,

but wet

doesn't mean all that much.

We're looking for a void.

I don't know.

I don't know.

How deep are we now?

-Thirty-five feet.

-[Eric] Thirty-five?

Slow it down. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

It's like smearing out, right?

[Duane] And just like I said,

rathole rigs aren't cheap.

So at 35 feet, I've

already spent about six

grand on this hole,

so we got to punch through.

[machine whirring]

Something just got easier,

didn't it?

[Eric] I'm just waiting

for that drilling break.

That's all I'm waiting for.

I want to watch that Kelly

drop a few feet.

It's stressful

when you're trying

to find something

and it's not happening.

I've been through this before

in the oil field,

it always ends up happening

at, like,

three o'clock in the morning

and you're waiting

for this pay zone to come in

and you know,

sometimes it does,

and sometimes it doesn't.

[tense music playing]

[machine whirring]

[Eric] Duane,

we're feeling vibrations

We made the [inaudible]

in here.

[Duane] Feels like

the ground is shaking more.

[Eric] That's a whole

different ball game here.

You know, you could feel it

on your feet.

-Hell, man.

-[Eric] Yeah.

[metal banging sound]

[tense music playing]

[Duane] Feels like

the ground is shaking more.

[metal banging sound]

Holy [bleep] I hit something!

What you got?

What you got?

I'm whinking

we're about

to have drilling break here.

Look at how high

the water level is.

Did you feel a drop?

A sudden drilling break there?

-Felt like a drop.

-That's what it looked like

to me, yeah.

Duane, we had

a drill break here.

Significant, maybe five foot.

So we got,

we're into something here.

[Duane] On my way down.

[Eric] There it is.

That water is just flowing in.

You can see it right there.

-I think we're on the void.

-[Duane] Yeah.

-I'm sure a lot of water

-[Eric] Just coming in.

I think we may be in it.

[Eric laughing]

[water splashing sound]

[Eric] Listen to that.

That's the water

in the cavern.

[Duane] I tell you what.

This is huge.

[Eric] I know you have, Duane.

[Duane] Even though

it's not a dry entrance,

we want it.

The water means we've broken

into the same cave again.

So now we got a 30 foot

vertical drop in.

So I got a lot to think about,

but for right now it's okay.

This is good.

Hell, yeah.

Next step now, boys.

[Duane] But you don't want

to get too excited.

When you get too excited,

it drains you

for making a good decision.

[water splashing sound]

[Eric exclaims]

[Eric] Let's come back

to this tomorrow.

-[Duane] Let's do it.

-[Eric] Celebrate a little.

[Duane] So here's the deal,

fellas.

I have run companies

all my life,

and I did it

with telling everybody

the truth.

In saying that,

I don't know

where this deal's gonna go.

We've seen

a lot of things out here,

and now I've seen things

that y'all haven't seen,

and I haven't backed off yet.

But I need you guys' help.

I will make this work

and I'll make good

for everybody

that hangs in there.

And if and when

we can do anything

[cow mooing]

[Chad] What's that?

-Do you hear that?

-[Duane] Yeah.

-[Chad] There's cows

over here.

-Yeah.

[cows mooing]

[Chad] Something spooked them.

I'll go down here.

You go around over there?

-[Duane] We'll go down there.

-Yep.

[cows mooing]

[cow mooing]

[Duane] Hey, look.

[Chad] Do you hear that?

Did you see all of that?

[man] Oh, yeah.

[Chad] The cows

were super spooked.

So you could hear these, like,

huge branches snapping

running right towards us.

And we don't even own

[bleep] cows here.

It's from the neighbors

across the way.

It's crazy.

I thought I saw

something dark across here.

[bleep]

Look at that. Look at that.

Look over there.

It's like

the insides are gone.

Hey, Charlie,

come look at this.

Can you see this?

[Charlie] Oh, [bleep].

That's a deer.

[Duane] What the [bleep]?

-[Charlie] It got ripped

apart.

-[Duane] [bleep] head is off.

Oh, man.

[Charlie] Look at that

son of a b*tch.

Something got a hold

of his a*s.

His [bleep] head

has been chewed off.

[Duane] That's what scared

the cows?

[Charlie] Yeah,

I would think so.

[Duane] Chewed

the damn head off

[bleep] here.

[Charlie] Oh, man.

Ugh.

[Duane] Some weird [bleep]

goes on around here.

I know that.

[Charlie] This sun buck

was ripped open

from the belly.

[Duane] Yep. Look at that.

[Charlie] It's like

it ripped out

his sex organ.

What the hell?

[bleep]

[Duane] What would rip out

the guts

of this son of a b*tch?

[Charlie] What would eat

the head off of it?

You know, you don't see

where it was pulled through

or anything like that.

It's just like boom.

It just happened here,

and it was done.

There's no drag trail.

It's the kind of stuff

that goes on

over at that Skinwalker place.

It's a pretty intense scene.

I've just never seen

anything like that.

[Duane] I don't know

what to tell you, fellas.

[Charlie] I'll tell you what,

you better start

watching your back

around here.

[thrumming sound]

[Carissa] For a period

of three days,

I would come back from working

and there would be

pieces of rabbit

all spread around my trailer.

On the fourth night,

I had my windows open,

and I heard something

tugging on the door.

I thought it was just

one of my co-workers

playing the joke

or coming to see

if I was awake.

I looked out the window,

then saw something very big

and very not human

move silhouetted

against the moon.

I've never seen

a human being move like that.

It kind of seemed disjointed,

and it just moved very slowly,

like it was purposely

looking for something.

That still terrifies me

to this day.

[thrumming sound]

[Duane] We're in, guys.

It's the same color.

So they're connected?

[Eric] Yeah. There's a conduit

between the pond there

and this.

So, yeah, the other thing

is that those last couple feet

that you insisted

on drilling, Duane,

we got into a different type

of rock.

[Duane] You could sure hear

the different tones

in the ground.

And last night

it was

a completely different tone.

[Eric] Yeah, so right here

we have this formation.

It's called

the Nugget Sandstone.

It was deposited

as wind-blown dunes, OK?

This material

is completely different.

-Take a look at it.

-[Chad] Yeah.

See how this is

really fine-grained.

That's coarser-grained.

So what that rock is,

it's called limestone.

It's a sandy limestone.

And that's the type of rock

all the major cavern systems

in the world

are made of.

-[Duane] Good yield.

-[Eric] Yeah.

[Duane] Eric is a legend

in the oil industry.

He's the real deal.

So having Eric here

as a geologist

is a game changer for us.

[Eric] So we got

a wet entrance here.

I mean,

we need to move on this

and figure out

how to enter this.

[Duane] Well,

there's still water

out there,

but it would've been nice

to have a dry entrance.

[Eric] Yeah.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Chad] So we'll have to get

all the gear prepped up.

-Oxygen tanks?

-Yeah.

-Get them filled up.

-[Duane] Get all those

picked up and loaded up.

-Get everything out here.

-Yeah.

-We're in the cave.

-Yeah.

Yes, we're in the cave.

[Duane] And so the thing about

that whole deal is,

where we're at in this hole,

the water table's still high.

-So we still have to go down

a long ways in that pipe

-[Chad] Right.

[Duane] Before we even get

into the opening.

There's way too many

risk points on this deal.

This is huge

that we found this hole.

But we need to stop

for a minute and say,

"Hey, look, you know,

way could have cave-ins.

"We could have air problems."

"We have

all these different things."

I'm totally against

entering that hole right now.

There's a lot of things

I just don't like right now.

[Chad] I'm ready to dive,

though.

We have to get in there.

That's what this whole thing

is about.

We have to get in there

somehow.

[Duane] You will not go in

through that hole.

It ain't going to happen.

[thrumming sound]

[Duane] I'm totally against

entering that hole right now.

There's a lot of things

I just don't like right now.

[Chad] I'm ready to dive,

though.

We have to get in there.

That's what

this whole thing is about.

We have to get in there

somehow.

You will not go in

through that hole.

It ain't going to happen.

The reason

we brought the rathole rig in

was to find the dry entrance.

If we would have gotten that,

we would've just

rigged up a winch,

and just lowered

Chad down into the cave.

When he need to get out,

we just bring him up.

So since it's flooded,

lowering Chad down in there

is dangerous,

and there's no way

of us getting him out

if there's a problem.

I would never

put you into something

that I wouldn't go into.

We just need

to make sure it's right.

-[Chad] That's it?

-[Duane] That's it.

-Yeah.

-Done.

[Chad] I mean,

this whole season

we're focusing

on getting in that hole,

getting in the cavern system,

and when he shut that down,

it kinda I mean,

I don't know,

we just have to get in there.

I feel like we have

a window that's closing.

[Duane] If you wanna dive,

we're gonna go in

through the pond.

I know what it is.

I know how to open

that son of a b*tch up.

When I first punched

into the cavern,

I dove in.

The chute was clean.

I couldn't get into the cave.

[Eric] Duane? Holy [bleep].

[Duane] It ain't gonna work.

Chad's a much better diver

than I am.

So if I can get all the muck

out of the hole

and secure it

without nothing falling in,

then we can get Chad

and another diver in there.

How soon

can we have it cleaned up?

-You give me two days

on that deal.

-Give you two days.

-Two days.

-Yeah. Good.

[tense music playing]

[Duane] I trust my gut

about these things.

I've been right a few times.

So we only have one rig

and one operator,

and that's me.

Right now what I'm gonna do

is take the track hole

and pull out the sediment,

pull it out of the vault,

and see if we can't

get down into that hole.

Well,

I have a lot of digging to do.

And so the rest of the team,

they just might as well

go home or go to the bar

right now.

And go have fun.

[thrumming sound]

[Charlie] For me,

there's really no such thing

as a day off.

There's no such thing

as a headless deer

just falling out of the sky

in the middle

of your property.

When that happened

as a law enforcement officer,

they have a lot of questions

on how and why.

Something did that

to that animal.

And to be

in the place that it was,

was mighty strange.

-Mark?

-Yeah.

You know, I tracked down

Mark Julian.

He's a member

of the Navajo Nation.

I have some concerns

about some things

out on our ranch,

and I can't get anybody

to talk to me.

What's happening?

We've had some strange things

happen out there.

Recently we had a mutilation,

a deer.

I mean, the head

was gone off.

This is something

that our people

don't really talk about.

You know,

I just don't know

what I'm dealing with.

It sounds

like you might be dealing

with the Skinwalker.

And that, you know,

they're like medicine men

that went bad,

that took their abilities

and decided to use it

for the dark side.

You know,

medicine man wanna help you

and Skinwalkers

wanna hurt you.

They're able

to shape shift

into different animals.

If they need strength,

that may shift into a bear.

If they need speed,

they may shift

into a coyote or even a cat.

Then you need

to be very, very careful about

because they're there

to do you harm.

They're not there

to do you any good.

You know,

they may see something

and they don't like

what you're doing,

so they could very well

easily transform

and, you know,

interrupt whatever it is

you have going on.

[Charlie] So we might

be doing something

if we're having a problem,

we'll not be doing something

to stir up that.

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Yes. You know, the Skinwalkers

may not want you

disturbing things.

So, if these Skinwalkers

are shape-shifting Navajo,

which is I mean,

how did they get here?

In the 1860s.

That's when the Navajo

cursed the land

with Skinwalkers.

That's how they were released

as part of the curse.

They're not

just passing through.

-They're out there somewhere.

-Right.

-All the time.

-Right. Yes.

Well, that brings up

a lot of concern

for, uh, you know, our people

that we have working

out there.

[Mark] Yes, You need to be

very careful.

-Yeah.

-Very careful.

[Charlie] Based

on what I know now,

the main thing

is keep everybody safe

that's out there,

I've got to ramp

up the security

a little bit more too.

Take those precautions

for that type of scenario

that might happen.

[tense music playing]

[thrumming sound]

[Duane] Charlie Boy.

What's up?

[Charlie] Yeah, I've been out

doing some research

on this

whatever the Skinwalker

thing is.

-All right.

-Mutilation.

And I just met

with a guy back in town.

-He's a full blooded Navajo.

-Really?

And he gave me convo,

a full rundown on it,

and he was telling me, said,

"If you have a problem

out there with Skinwalkers,

be very, very careful."

Said they will hurt you.

He said they're not out there

just running around,

he said they're out there

for a reason.

Kind of has me

a little bit concerned.

We're getting ready

to drill again.

We want to put Chad down

in the pond, in the hole

and get him into the caverns.

Makes you wonder

why they're wanting

to start showing up now.

Yeah.

I mean, what's their intent?

[Charlie] Well, he said

if you have

something they want,

then they'll just take it

no matter what they have to do

to get it.

Well, if they're here,

then that means

we're doing something right.

Yeah. Absolutely.

All I can say is

we're not going to slow down,

and we're going to do

exactly what we need to do.

And, you know, hopefully,

hopefully that talking to him

didn't give you cold feet.

[Charlie] No, but, you know,

at the same time,

now I gotta rethink some

of the security issues again.

Because it's all

a whole other ball game,

so I'll kind of map house.

Okay. All right.

-Let's go.

-If you need me,

just holler at me.

[Duane] Got you covered.

Thank you, Charlie boy.

So I don't know

anything about Skinwalkers.

What they talk about,

what the legends are.

And if we're doing something

so called, it's supposed to be

irritating them.

We must be

doing something right

or getting close.

So for me, it's all about

finding out what's down,

and there is

not a creature on Earth

that's going to stop me.

[tense music playing]

[tense music playing

continues]

[Duane] I'm gonna tell my son

I'm gonna get something done

in two days.

You can bet your a*s

that I'm going to get it done.

If we need to go all night

on this deal, we'll do it.

The hole we dug

with a rat hole rig

is just too small

and too vertical,

especially

since it's a wet entrance.

So I need

to take a track hole in there

and dip it out, clean it out.

So it's wide enough

for Chad and another diver

to get in there

and enter safely.

Hopefully,

I can just reach in there

and grab the rest of the pipe,

wiggle my bucket down in there

and see if I can't

jar that loose.

And it might

just open up those caves,

like draining a bathtub.

If I follow through,

I got my door open,

I should be able to get out.

[Chad] This is typical.

If he has a goal,

he's gonna accomplish it.

So I have faith.

This could be make or break.

Okay, Dad, let her rip.

[Duane] Give her hell.

[whirring

and splashing sounds]

[Duane] I need to get deeper.

[Chad] We're at an angle.

I don't know

if we straighten up

we're getting further in.

[Duane] Copy that.

[dramatic music playing]

-[Chad] Yeah.

-[Eric] That's a good amount

of material there.

Bleeding her out right there.

[Chad] He's put a lot of,

did stir it out,

which that was holding us up

in the first place.

So this is awesome news, man.

[Eric] Another full bucket.

He's, he's on it.

[Charlie] He's in there now.

[Duane] Bingo.

That's the bottom, boys.

[Chad] Hey, we're in.

[all exclaiming]

[Eric] Sure enough,

after working on it

for a while,

Duane just started

getting deeper and deeper.

He's pulling out

more material.

We've opened up that hole.

It looks like

Chad's going to be able

to get down in there.

You're going diving, buddy.

[all cheering]

[Duane] Didn't have to wait.

-Yeah, buddy.

-Good job.

Good deal, man. Good deal.

[Charlie] That was

a major obstacle force,

that hole.

It's sealed back over.

[Chad] Finally,

we [bleep] did it.

-Top grade.

-Yeah.

[Duane] This is

a good entry point,

but we need to let

the water calm down

so, you know, we got

some kind of visibility.

So tomorrow morning

we're going to check it

with a drone.

I think it's open,

and if it is open,

then Chad's going

to go in for a swim.

[tense music playing]

[Eric] Yeah,

that water's clear.

[Duane] Used to have

frogs too . They didn't

hitch hik e in here.

To get this deal

back opened up

and see the fresher water

coming in

and see the new sets of frogs

coming in.

They're coming from somewhere,

and it takes oxygen.

You know, this whole deal

was so murky.

It was unreal last night.

Now it's just crystal clear.

So we know

that we're in the live water

instead of a stagnant pond.

-Right.

-Yep.

[water splashing sound]

[Chad] I mean, it looks clear

right now already.

[Chad] Y eah.

[Eric] Wow.

-[Eric] Look at that.

-[Chad] Yeah.

[Eric] Much clearer.

Got to go down.

Look at that. Wait.

[Chad] Is that the hole?

I'll be damned.

-[Eric] Wow, look at that.

-[Chad] There it is.

[Eric] There it is.

-You can see in there.

-You can see it.

[laughs]

[Chad] Hell, it's going deeper

than we ever ha ve.

[Eric] Look at that.

[Duane] Chad, you ready

to get in there?

Hell, yeah.

We could get ready for this.

[Duane] Yeah, that's going.

It's a solid hole,

I worked on both sides of it.

Banged on most sides.

So it's solid rock going down.

[Chad] When I got the drone

over there to the hole,

it kept getting deeper

and deeper.

Started at 30,

and it kept going deeper

to, like, 42 foot.

That's the deepest

and the cleanest water

we've ever seen.

That just lets us know

that there's fresh water

in there.

We're inside the cave

right now.

-[Eric] Look at that.

-[Chad] There it is.

- Yup.

-[Eirc] Wow.

[Ryan] Let's get

ready to dive, huh?

[Chad] Oh, yeah. Let's do it.

Good stuff.

We finally get

to get in the hole.

We've been waiting for it

all year.

I mean, it's super stoked.

[Ryan] What do you think

about putting a rope on ya?

You could at least

find your way out.

-Yeah, I agree.

-I think you need it.

[Duane] Chad's going

to check it out first

because he's he's got a touch

a hard head into him,

which is fine.

He got that from somebody.

[tense music playing]

This is high risk.

It is and you know,

it's a scary move.

[tense music playing]

So we have to make this right

and it will be.

[tense music playing]

Chad goes in, Ryan goes in,

two always come up. Always.

We're going to find

the entry point.

Well, here's

what we're not going to do.

We will not go in.

Not now.

You can look around.

You can play that game

all you want.

To look in, shine it,

see what kind of voids are.

But we do not want

to enter the horizontal.

Not at all.

I want them guys to be safe

and I won't take

no bull [bleep].

All right, let's do it.

-You ready?

-Yeah, sir.

[Duane] In contracting

in the oil field,

you break things in the steps.

If you don't,

people don't just get hurt.

They get k*lled.

So, excited

as we all are,

the first trip

is just a scout trip.

See what the visibility is.

See what our access is

to the cave

and see what we need to do.

Chad, come here for a second.

[Duane] Chad's done a lot

to make this thing work.

And I'm not dumb.

I know he's doing

a lot of it for me,

and right now

I just need to make sure

he doesn't get himself k*lled

trying to make his dad proud,

because it's

[bleep] dangerous.

All right, you're going down.

[tense beats playing]

We're down about 27.5.

Thirty-one.

[Duane] He's right

over the hole.

[Eric] Thirty-six.

He's on the bottom.

[machine starting sound]

[suspenseful music playing]

[Eric] All right,

going down deeper in.

Forty feet.

[suspenseful music playing]

Forty-five feet.

He's at the bottom plus.

He's going in the cave.

[bleep]

[suspenseful music playing

continues]

[bubbling sound]

[bubbling sound]

[suspenseful music playing

continues]

[suspenseful music playing

continues]

-Keep an eye

on that air, too.

-Yeah.

[Eric] The 1200.

[Duane] He gets to 508,

tug on the rope two times.

[Eric] Copy that.

[bubbling sound]

[suspenseful music playing]

[bubbling sound]

[bubbling sound]

[bubbling sound]

[bubbling sound]

[Eric] Just above 1000 pounds.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Eric] He's down there now.

[Duane sighs]

Damn it!

[suspenseful music playing]

[suspenseful music playing

continues]

[suspenseful music playing]

[tense music playing]

[bubbling sound]

[Eric] All right.

He's coming up.

[tense music playing]

[Chad] There's a box

down there.

Another man-made something?

-No [bleep].

-Yeah.

[Chad] It's like over ten foot

down right in there,

right through the hole.

[Ryan] Man, it's huge.

[Duane]

Finding a man-made box,

this is a whole new ball game.

Now you don't put a box

that deep down in a cave

unless you're trying

to hide something

that's very valuable.

[Chad] Someone put something

right here.

-We're on the spot.

-[Eric] That's awesome.

[laughing]

[Charlie] You know,

all of the stories we hear

about the treasure here,

it really is looking

more like they're real

than just stories.

[Chad] Finally

we [bleeped] did it.

[Chad exclaiming]

[Duane] That's the Chad

I know.

[Chad] Definitely man made.

You could see on the corners.

It's held together with rope.

[Chad] The only thing

I could see inside of there

was rocks.

But it looks like

you could open from the top,

kind of like a lid.

And it had to be, like,

ten foot by ten foot.

I mean, if someone

put it a box down there,

it would have to be

something very important.

Like gold, I would imagine.

We're gonna have to open

this whole thing up.

There's no way we'll come out

of the hole.

We can have

the boys dig it out.

[Duane] Even though

he's a hardheaded [bleep]

I'm so excited

about what Chad did.

The best day of your life

is when your children

become your hero.

It's an honor

for him to be here for me.

It's It's an honor.

[tense music playing]

[Chad] Ah, look at this, 1849.

[men] If any of these

are real, they will be well

over a million dollars.

[tense music playing]

Oh, whoa!

What's this?

Did you hear that?

-Everyone out of here.

-Let's get out of here.