02x02 - Aztec or Not?

[bunniefuu]

[narrator] Previously
on Mystery
at Blind Frog Ranch.

[Chad] We're giving it
everything we got this year.

[Duane] Here's the bad boy
right here.

If you can get a sample
of that wood, we can
get it analyzed.

[bleep]

[Chad] I got disoriented.

[Duane] We got a lot
of stuff going on out here.

-[flies buzzing]
-[bleep]

She had just shot herself.

[man] I've never seen
anything like what I saw
that night.

I'm gonna find out
what's going on.

Everyone would've [bleep]
heard about that.

They don't know anything.

Gonna have to figure out
another angle on this.

-Guide me through, huh?
-Right.

[Duane] You're there, Chad,
you're on top of it.

Woo! I got it.

[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.

Don't go in the [bleep] cave.

Aztec treasure...

[Chad] Holy [bleep].

[Duane] Caverns of gold.

-[Chad] Look at this.
-[Duane] More than riches.

It'll be
a million dollars here.

[Duane] Some even say
there's a buried spaceship.

Hell yeah.

Me? I never cared much
about the stories.

I just care about finding
whatever the hell's
in the ground.

[Chad] Let's get down there.

[shouts]

[Duane] So, uh, we got quite
a bit of work to do.

Chad, what'd you find out
on that core sample?

We should be getting
the results back any day now.

I mean, if this shows
that the Aztecs built this,

that means we know
we are sitting on gold
and we have to get in there.

-[Eric] Yeah, I wanna see
what's inside that box.
-Yeah.

-[Duane] No kidding.
-Yeah.

[Duane] So we're really
picking up steam investigating

the box that somebody hid
down those caverns.

After the archaeologist said
it might be Aztec,

Chad, he, pulled a good wood
sample off the box.

I got it.

[Duane] And we shipped it
off to be analyzed.

Basically, that's gonna
tell us what we're gonna spend
the next three months doing.

If the type of the wood
and the age of the wood
matches up with the Aztecs,

then I'll spend every cent
I have risking our a*s to pull
it all out of the ground.

And if it doesn't,
we'll just cross that bridge
when we get there.

Jamie, you give us an update
on what you got going on?

Yeah, sure.
Yesterday was a very
interesting day for me, very.

I first looked up
ambulance companies.

Trying to find out
what was going on
with the woman that was found,

uh, dead at the gate.

-[siren wailing]
-I found out
that there was only one

ambulance company
that would cover a call
for this area.

And speaking
with the paramedics,

there was four of them
that was working there,
you know, that day.

And there was no call.

None of them knew anything.

-Wow.
-So my question is,

is, uh, if they weren't them,
who was it?

Who was it?

You know, so after that,
uh, I met with a local
news reporter.

There's been
some similar circumstances
all over the Uinta Valley

that seemed not quite right.

She wrote a couple
of articles just recently
about stuff like this.

And she tried to publish them,
put them out there,
and they were just squashed.

[reporter] Nothing
got published, nothing.

No article, no obituary.

Just [imitates wind blowing].

She was telling me, like,
almost, like, uh, around here,
there's a bigger entity

that's controlling
what kind of information
is released to the public.

So she gave me the name
of a guy by the name
of Dave Miller.

So I'm gonna try to, like,
connect the dots here
and see what I can find out.

Going to help, that's good,
that's real good.

-[Eric] Yeah,
that's good work.
-[Jamie] Appreciate it.

[Duane] So we know
what we have to do,
I guess, fellas,

so let's just go after it
and let's go do
what we're best at.

You guys do your deal
and we'll do ours.
How's that?

-[Jamie] Sounds good.
-Let's go.

[Eric] Let's do it.

[Jamie] News reporters have
to have a good eye

on who's credible
and who's not credible.

And, uh, this guy Dave,
got a meeting,

according to the reporter
I talked to,
he's the real deal.

He's been investigating
strange and unusual cases

throughout the Uinta Basin
for over a decade.

He's gotten a lot of people
to talk to off the record.

This reporter seemed
to think that...

...Dave knows something
that could be connected

with the m*rder slash suicide
at the ranch.

So I'm pretty excited to hear
what he has to say.

[Dave] This story is something
that I hear all the time.

Strange cars, stone-faced
individuals come in

and they claim the body
and they move on.

Nothing said anymore.

You don't hear about it
on the news, you don't see it
in the papers,

-you don't see anything.
-[Jamie] Wow.

[Dave] But they're pretending
to be something
that they're not.

-[Dave] And they're here
investigating other things.
-[Jamie] Yeah.

[Dave] Which is why I asked
you to come here.

This is what I brought you
out here to see, Jamie.

-[Jamie] NASA?
-[Dave] NASA.

People in town, they knew
that there was something
going on out here,

but there was
a perimeter here,
everything was fenced off,

so they couldn't
really see it.

And then, just one day,
it's gone and they leave
this behind.

[Jamie] What were
they doing out here?

[Dave] That's the question.

Very hard to find
any information
on it being here, first off.

But the name of the location
was Gravity Base Ferno.

Gravity Base Ferno.

The reports that I found,
one of them described

that they were
just tracking satellites.

Another one
was they were studying
the curvature of the Earth.

And another one said
that they were out here
studying gravity anomalies.

But the stories
that I'm being told
from the underground

are that they were actually
out here studying
the UFO phenomenon.

But this is proof
that they were here

and in just one day,
mysteriously, they're gone.

Wow.

They left in a hurry,
that's for sure.

And I'm sure somebody
was not happy
that they left this behind.

Not to the same scale,
but this is some
Area 51 stuff.

Right in the middle
of nowhere.

[narrator] In June of 2021,
NASA's new chief,
Bill Nelson, admitted

that NASA is getting serious
about studying unidentified
aerial phenomena

as part of their mission
to search for life
in the universe.

Prompted in part
by footage recorded
by US military forces.

[man 1 on radio] On padlock.

[man 2 on radio] Oh, my gosh.

[man 1] But seriously,

[narrator] But the true
purpose behind this base
remains unclear.

We've got all kinds
of different government
activity that's out here.

Just down the road,
you have Skinwalker Ranch.

Which, at one point,
was an actual science lab.

Some of the rumors
that I've been told

is they think that they were
doing experiments
on people's reactions

of how they handle seeing
these things in the sky.

-Wow.
-The government seems
to be spending more time

trying to keep people quiet
about it

than they're wanting
to admit there's any activity
out here.

[Jamie] Yeah.

I just don't know
what to think of it yet.

It's hard to sink in.
Once it does, it just creates
more questions.

Yeah.
Appreciate you coming out.

-Man, I really do.
-[Dave] All right.

-[Jamie] Thank you, brother.
-[Dave] You got it.

[Jamie] Dave's talking
about a shady NASA base.

Obviously, high level
government stuff.

And, you know, it sounds
a little crazy,
to be honest with you.

It's a lot to process.

And I have no idea
how it might be connected
to the dead woman.

[Duane] It's gonna get
awful hot today, fellas.

We better load up
what we need.

[Eric] Yup,
it's already getting hot.
Heck yeah.

[Duane] Yeah, yeah, it's hot.

[Charlie] Hey, Duane.
Look at that.

Right up there.

[Duane] What's going on?

[Chad] What is it?

[Charlie] It's like a bubble
sticking outside a tree.

Yeah, I do see
something there.

[Charlie] We were getting
ready to start work
for the day,

when I noticed something
on the ridge above us.

[Chad] The hell is that?

[Duane] How we doing?
It's kind of a crazy looking
thing right there.

Check that deal out.
Something's going on there.

[Chad] Yeah,
there's some [bleep].

[Duane] All right,
let's go check this deal out.

[Charlie] It's right there
by the tree.

-[Eric] Right by the tree
there?
-[Charlie] Yeah.

[Chad] Yeah, look at that.
There's solar right there.

-Wow.
-[Chad] Son of a b*tch.

[Eric] Oh, man. Look at this.

[Chad] Wow. Look at this.

[Charlie] Camera, too.

[Chad] Look at this [bleep].

So we got panels
that are charging
the 12-volt here.

[Charlie] Got these screwed
in also 'cause they drilled
into the rock.

-[Duane] Do they?
-[Charlie] Yes.

And that's a pretty
elaborate setup.

[Chad] We got the wifi
and that's 4G, so they can
control this right here.

-And so they can
control this wirelessly?
-Yeah.

This is [bleep].
This is an elaborate [bleep]
spying setup.

We come up here
and there's this elaborate
setup.

Solar panels going to a camera

that can be controlled
remotely through wifi.

And so, somebody can
be in Salt Lake City

and focus this camera
on our camp,

they can focus it
on where we're prospecting,

you know,
what we're collecting,
wherever the hell they want.

And this is a total breach
of our privacy.

-So at this point, they know
we've disconnected it.
-[Chad] Right.

So they knew
that we disconnected it.

So we may expect
some visitors tonight.

Right?

Yeah.

I'ma put two game cams up,
Duane.

I'ma put one up there
and I'ma put one over there
in that tree,

looking at this point,
so we can see who comes
back for it.

[Eric] All right.

[Duane] You know,
this is a sad day.

Because somebody's trying
to ruin a lot of good things,
first of all.

but then they're invading
our privacy, I mean,
man, they're just...

It's like somebody was snuck
in and put a camera
at your living room.

I mean,
where does that stop at?

Not good.

This tells me that somebody
with a lot of resources

is breaking the law
and using high tech gear
to spy on us.

Why would somebody do that?

I think
it's because we're damn close
to making a huge discovery.

The question
is who's watching us?

I don't know yet.

I'm damn sure they'll be back.

This isn't the end of this.
No.

We're just getting started.

[Duane] Hey, Jamie,
there you are.

We're about to get started
on this whole project

and I know you're looking
into some stuff for me,

but we need to get you
to start looking
into that camera

that was mounted up there
on those rocks.

-[Chad] Look at this [bleep].
-[Eric] Look at this.

[Charlie] Camera, too.

We don't know nothing
about it.

We need to find out
if you can hack
into this camera system.

And see who's watching us
'cause, you know, that's...

-that's just flat out evil.
-[Jamie] Yeah.

That piece of equipment
is very sophisticated.

That's not your regular camera
that you'd buy at a regular
retail store.

You're looking at that camera,
you know, to me it looked
kind of military.

Somebody was trying
to put that together
like that,

there's no doubt about it.

So let's see what we can do
and get on it now.

-Yeah.
-We need to get on it now.

I'll dig into it.

I'll get you a professional,
we'll figure out
what the hell this thing is.

Okay, good deal.

You know, I want Jamie
to get to the bottom

of that dead woman
at the gate,

but first, I need to see
what he can find out
about that camera.

Because if somebody's
watching us,

they could jeopardize
the whole operation.

-[Chad] Gentlemen.
-[Charlie] Hey, hey, hey, hey.

[Eric] Hey, how you doing?

-[Chad] Make another deb.
-[Duane] Yeah,
look at that deal.

-Hey.
-How you doing, guys?

Here's some of the results.

It's about the wood sample.

Core sample out of the wood.

-[Eric] From the box?
-[Duane] Yup, yup.

-Ooh, nice.
-Ooh.

[Duane] This analysis
is gonna tell us
if that box is Aztec or not.

According to the legend,

when the Spanish conquistadors
attacked the Aztec king,
Montezuma,

he sent his people north
with billions of dollars
of gold.

And they buried it deep
in the caverns, somewhere
in Utah to keep it safe.

And that was in 1520
and the gold's never
been seen since.

So we know that the Aztecs
used flooded caves and water
traps to hide things.

We have two miles
of those on the property.

[Chad] Oh, look at this.

We have petroglyphs
that look like they're
showing Aztecs.

And the archeologist said
the box looks like
Aztec construction.

It does look similar.

This core sample
could be the final piece.

These results are gonna
tell us when that box
was put into the cavern.

And the type of tree
that was used to make it.

Now, if that matches up
with Montezuma,

we could be sitting
on a huge treasure,
and we'll go after it.

No matter how much it costs
or how dangerous it is.

[Chad] Okay...
"Species Identification."

Uh, the report shows
wood is pine leiophylla.

Common known
as Chihuahua pine
or yellow pine.

[Eric] These are large
trees similar to the size
of the logs in the box,

Uh, though they primarily
grow in Mexico,

they also grow in many areas
of the American Southwest.

How about the, um...
The map of the distribution?

-[Chad] Ah.
-[Eric] So it does show
it coming right up here.

-It does go into Utah, then.
-[Eric] Yeah. Yeah.

[Duane] Okay.

Unfortunately, the species
of the tree doesn't
tell us much.

The logs could have came
from Mexico

or they could have been
chopped down right
here in Utah.

But this sure
doesn't tell us everything.

[Chad] Okay, we got
radiocarbon dating results.

"Dating shows the logs
were cut in the 16th century,
between 1510 and 1545."

-[Jamie] Okay,
so there you go.
-[man whistles]

Holy cow.

-Five hundred years ago.
That's Aztecs, huh?
-[Jamie] There you go.

[Eric] Oh, my.

-[Chad] Huh!
-[Eric] Yeah.

[Chad] That's great.

[narrator] When a tree
gets cut down,

the rings in the tree
stop exchanging carbon
with the biosphere,

so the radiocarbon test
tells scientists when
the tree actually died.

So this test confirms
that the logs that
the box are made out of

were cut down
around 500 years ago,

which matches
up with the fall
of the Aztec empire,

when Montezuma is said
to have sent 8,000 Aztecs
north with the gold.

[Chad] [bleep], we're linked
in with Aztecs.

-Aztecs are known for...
They had a lot of gold.
-[Duane] Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

-[Chad] Is that not crazy?
-Hey, that's great.

[Chad] We gotta get in there.

[Duane] Montezuma's gold
is probably the most
searched-for gold

in the history of the planet.

And we have all these signs
pointing right here.

[Duane] I'll be darned.

And now we have a box made
from logs that was cut down

at the end
of the Aztec empire.

That's right when
all the gold was sent north.

Call me crazy,
but we might be right
on top of Montezuma's gold.

Here we go, fellas.
This is great information.

If this is Aztec,
that means we will
spend all we need to do

to get down
to that freaking box.

-And extract it and get it
up to the surface.
-Yep.

-Let's do this.
-[Eric] Sounds good.
Let's do it.

[Duane] Last year,
we spent a ton of money
and a lot of effort,

trying to find a dry entrance
at the end of those caves
so we wouldn't have to dive.

At the end of the season,
we came up short.

So I spent a lot
of time this winter

trying to figure out
how to get the box
out of there.

And so I think I might have
come up with a plan so crazy,
it just might work.

So, here's... Here's what
we're gonna do.

This is gonna sound
a little sketchy, and I know
this is gonna be dangerous.

But for us to physically
get that box out of there,

we're gonna need to drag
it out with some heavy-a*s
chains tied around there.

-[Eric] Yeah.
-[Duane] The easiest
way to do that is just

to lower them down
on top of the box.

We're gonna have
to bring a rathole rig in

and drill a 36-inch hole
right over the top
of that box.

And then we can drop
those heavy-duty
chains down there.

And Chad, you're gonna
have to come in...

We'll... We'll call this
the easy way, but it's not.
I understand that.

But it'll be the more
simple way.

What you'll do is,
you'll take a tether rope
in there with you,

and you'll take your tether
line all the way down,
tie the chain around the box.

You'll tie off to that chain.

And then, with the trackhoe,
we'll drag this thing out.

You're gonna pull
it out laterally, then.

-[Duane] Right.
-The same way
that Chad goes in.

-[Duane] Yeah.
-[Eric] You're gonna
pull the box out.

Yeah. And... And
because that mountain
above the pond is so steep,

we're gonna have
to do a blast.

So we can get
a flat spot to get
that rathole rig on top.

Eric, it's gonna be up to you
to tell us how far we need
to go down to get a good pop.

-[Eric] Yep.
-The whole nine yards.

We do not wanna
fracture too far down.

-Yeah, we could, uh,
stand to collapse it...
-Yeah.

...and fill it up.

It'd be a little tricky,
but we'll work with
the blaster and, um...

It's all about getting
that right charge.

-Good stuff. We just don't
want it caving in.
-[Eric] No. No.

We don't need
any part of that.

[Eric] Duane's plan
is extremely ambitious,
to put it lightly.

I mean, we're talking
about digging, drilling,
and blasting.

There's a lot of moving
parts where things
can go really wrong.

Especially considering
that box is over
500 years old,

and it's filled
with God-knows-what.

I've never heard
of anything like this
ever being done before.

But Duane made his money
in the oil business going
after these hard projects.

So if anyone
can pull this off, it's him.

[Duane] So, I... I know
it's squirrelly, I know.

But if you all kind
of agree, then we'll just go
to working towards it,

because the, uh, blasting crew
will be here in two days,
and we got a lot to do.

-[Charlie] Uh, I... I agree.
-[Eric] Sounds good.

-[Chad] Yeah.
-All right. Let's go.

-[Eric] Okay.
-[Duane] Let's get
out of here.

-[vehicle accelerating]
-[intense music playing]

Should be pretty close
up in... Up in here.

-[Duane] You got
the coordinates?
-[Eric] Yeah.

-[Duane] Okay.
-I got the coordinates here,
and I put the GPS on here.

[Duane] Let's go on up.

[Eric] First thing we need
to do is find the spot that's
directly above that box.

Fortunately, we have
the exact GPS coordinates

from the LiDAR scan
that we took inside the cave.

This should put us
right on top of it.

[Eric] We're just about good
on our latitude here.

Should be... [exhaling]
approximately right in
this direction here.

[tense music playing]

This is it, guys.

-[Duane] Mark it, will you?
-[Charlie] We're standing
on top of it?

[Eric] This is the exact spot.
Right on top of the box.

Right there.

-[Chad] Hell, yes.
This is right on top?
-[Eric] Yep.

So just... Just blast and...
Getting down to it now.

If we can make a pop
right here and get down
to good hardpan,

-then we can
drill the rest.
-[Eric] Yeah.

Using the dynamite
is basically a much easier

and faster way
to remove that dirt,

which we need to do
to set up that rathole rig.

But it would also make
drilling down to that cavern
a hell of a lot quicker.

And if we do that blast right,
it'll loosen up the earth.

I'm gonna take some readings.
Uh, do some measurements
on the rock here.

I wanna get a feeling
for how this might, uh,
break up when we blast it,

so I can meet you
about down at the, uh,
cabin later, and--

Okay. All right. Let's go.
It's good stuff.

[Eric exhaling] All right.

[sighing] Let's see
what we got here.

Different rock and soil types
respond to blasting
in different ways,

depending on the geological
makeup of the ground.

Knowing exactly
what this mountain is made of

will tell me exactly
which way that blast will go.

Up and out, which would
simply clear off the top
layer of soil

or downward,
which would cause
a cave-in below.

If that happens,
it's gonna bury that box

with half a mountain
of soil on top of it.

[sighing] Oh, man.

[suspenseful music playing]

It's soft.
Breaks up pretty easily.

Almost by itself.

[exhales and whispers] I don't
know. I don't know.

After a little, uh, geological
study on the blast site,

I found that
it's highly fractured.

It could break up too easily.

And if we over-charge
it... We put too much
charge in there,

it can jeopardize
this whole project.

Oh, man.

I do not, at all,
want to risk a cave-in
above that box.

[quietly] I don't think so.

Taking all of this
into account,

I may have to give
Duane some bad news.

-[Eric] Hey, boss.
-[Duane] Hey, hey, hey.

[Eric] What's up?

Uh, I just got down
off the mountain there,
where we're gonna blast.

And, um, unfortunately,
I have some, uh,
not-so-good news

-to... To give you.
-Okay. Let's hear it.

Uh, we're not gonna
be able to blast up there.

-Really?
-Yeah. I, um, did some
measurements on that rock.

-Mmm-hmm.
-And when
those charges go off,

the energy's gonna
go downward
and not upward.

And so, my concern is,

uh, it might be
too much fractured
when we do that blast.

And, uh, we could potentially
cave in that entire box
and under tons of rock.

And so, you know,
I hate to give you this news,

and so we're gonna have
to find some other way

around that, um,
to make that drill pad,

because we've got
to do the drilling.

Can we not drop down
in shallower ways?

Drop and pop, drop and pop,

-until we get down
to where we need to be or--
-Yeah--

...you still think
it's too fragile?

I think it's too fragile.

Uh, I couldn't live
with myself if we lost
that hole, if that caved in,

or, even worse,
if somebody got hurt.

We're not here
to get somebody hurt,

but we are here...

-Yeah.
-Always remember this:
we are here to take chances.

That's true. That's true.

But, you know,
for me as a geologist,
this is what I do.

I weigh the risks, and
this is my recommendation.

Okay.

[inhales] Mmm-mmm-mmm.

Well, it's just gonna make
it a little harder to set
that rathole rig up there.

I know.

[Duane] Well,
if it's too soft,

then that big Cat
with the tiger teeth

might be able
to build us a pad.

Yep. It's gonna take longer.

It's gonna take a lot longer.

[Eric] At the end of the day,
if we make a mistake,

and bury what may be
millions of dollars of gold,

or, even worse,
one of our team members,

that's something
we just can't live with.

-Sorry about that news, and--
-No, no, no. We'll get
down there. Thank you.

-Sounds good.
Thank you, Duane.
-Appreciate it. Yep. See you.

Well, sure as [bleep]
not the way I thought
this was gonna go.

Eric's out here for a reason.
To keep us kind of
out of harm's way ourself,

and he's good at what he does.

We'll get it done.

Now we're gonna have
to get the big Cat up there,

and dig out a flat pad
for the rathole rig
to sit on.

And that'll take
a little time.

So we gotta get our a*s
in gear, get on top
of the mountain

and start building a pad.

[intense music playing]

It takes a lot to ride
one of those rathole rigs
down something like this.

Looking good.
Stay a little left.

[Duane over radio] I wanna
take this down
as far as I can.

We'll back that drill
in there, we'll be flat.

But I'd rather take
off the top instead,
it gives at the bottom.

Copy that.

Here we go, boys.

[Duane] So the first thing
I need to do is create
a flat area

for that drilling
rig to sit on.

Those things weigh
70,000 pounds, plus or minus.

And this ridge
has a real steep gradient.

So if we don't get
this perfectly level,

that rig could tumble
right off the side
of the mountain.

And that would be a disaster.

-Man, this thing
just rips it, huh?
-Yeah, it does.

Just eyeballing it, it looks
like you need to go down

another two foot
or something here.

-[Duane] Copy that.
-[Eric over radio] We'll
get it done.

[intense music playing]

[Eric] Well, today's
the big day, guys.

-[Duane] Yeah, this is good.
-[Chad] What time are they
supposed to be here?

-What, 11:00? 11:30?
-[Eric] Yeah.

-Totally.
-[Eric] Just about now, yeah.

[Duane] Yeah.

-[vehicle approaching]
-Here it comes.
Right up there.

[rock music playing]

[Duane] This rathole rig
can drill down about
150 foot, plus or minus,

which should be plenty
to punch into the cavern,
right above the box.

Nice.

And once we do,
we'll drop the chains
down there.

Chad will dive in,
attach them to the box.

And we'll drag it out.

We're close. We're damn close.

[Eric] It's gonna be tight.

[Chad] Yeah, it's close.

All the work we've done
has gotten us to this point.

It feels like we're just one
step away from finding...
I mean, who knows?

Maybe one of the biggest
treasures, literally,
in the entire world.

This is nuts, man.
This is insane.

Here we go.

[Chad] Come on, baby.

[Chad] How long till he gets
to 50 foot, you think?

[Troy] [bleep].

[Chad] What is it?

[Troy] The computer went out.

-No way.
-[Troy] Yeah.

[Chad] We're ready, we're set,
and it goes a half a foot
and the computer malfunctions.

Something happened to it.

We don't know
what the [bleep] it is.

But it's... But it happens
all in this whole area.

It doesn't surprise me.

-[machine beeps]
-Machine's fixing to die.

-[Chad] I'm losing it.
-[crashes]

[static]

I've never seen that before.

[Duane] Turn it off!
Turn your trackers off!

[Duane] What's up, Chad?

The [bleep] computer
quit working.

[Duane] Copy that.

Well same [bleep],
just different day here.

Things just have a way
of shutting down when
we're getting close.

So the operator's trying
to fix the computer.

And if he can't,
we're done for the day.

Yeah, so we can't drill
any more today.

Sorry, man.

[bleep]

[Chad] Can't you do anything
with the computer?

No, I ain't got a computer,
I can't run.

God almighty, we're supposed
to have this dug today.

Well, uh, I can't fix it till
I get a new computer in.

[Chad] Do you have to bring
a whole other one in?

[Troy] Whole other one in.

[Chad] Ah, [bleep].

[Troy] It was running perfect
till I got here.

Ahhh! b*stards.

[Charlie]
Can that be overnighted?

-Yeah, we can overnight
and get it here.
-Okay.

Don't matter what it cost,
we gotta get it here.

I'll have a mechanic
get up here and get it in
in the morning.

[Chad]
It is [bleep] frustrating.

But at least tomorrow
we'll be back at it.

But I'm just ready
to get down in there.

See what...
See what we have, you know.

[bleep]

[Eric] So we all ready to go?

-[Troy] Yeah, we just got
the new computer in, just now.
-Nice.

-[Eric] Good deal.
-[Chad] Good, good,
good, good, good.

Yesterday,
the computer malfunctions.

But we're back out here
with the drill, and, uh,

hopefully we see
the box today.

[Eric] I'm ready
to get going here.

-[Chad] All right.
-Let's start... Start turning
it to the right.

All right, let's do it.

[Duane] We know for a fact
that there's energy under
the ground

that makes the equipment
go haywire.

It happens all the time.

The only thing I can do
is keep my fingers crossed

that whatever it is
will give us a break today.

[Chad] So what are we at now?

Twenty.

[Eric] This is a ridiculously
expensive piece of equipment
that Duane has brought in.

So I'll take the opportunity
to log the material
that comes up.

You never know
when you might find
something valuable.

[Eric speaking]

I'll be working closely
with the driller.

I'll be taking samples.

I'll be doing what's called
a boring log, and so I'm...

I'm describing all the soils
in the formation
that we drill through.

Can you get me
a little scoop of that,
Charlie, after he dumps it?

Thank you, sir.

The cool thing about drilling
is you never know
what you're gonna find.

I mean, the last time
we dug like this...

Look at that.

We found iridium.

Which, I mean,
Duane could be sitting on
$3.5 million of.

-I think that's a success.
-[Duane] Yeah, it is.

So, um...

Who knows what
we can find up here.

Hey, Troy. What's the depth?

[Troy] 27.60.



-[Eric] You see
the little white flecks?
-[Chad] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think it might be
little calcite.

At about 27 feet
below surface,

I start to see these little
white flecks in the sample.

And it looks to me that those
are actual pieces of calcite.

So they could be small chunks
of the limestone that may
be beneath.

Hey, Duane!

Hey, Duane, can I come over
and show you something?

Copy that.
I'm shutting it down.

We're down.

[Eric] So...

All major cave systems
are made out of
calcium carbonate.

In other words, limestone.

This could indicate
intermediate layers
above a cave system.

Now, I'm hoping
it's 'cause we're close
to the top of that cavern.

-Really?
-[Eric] Yeah.

Hell. No bull [bleep]?

This is no bull [bleep].

-Okay, all right.
-I'm like,
this is no bull [bleep].

I like this deal.

[Charlie] You want
a sample of that?

[Eric] I'll get a sample
of this fresh one here.

[Charlie] Okay.

There's a lot of money being
spent, uh, getting this rig
up here and drilling.

It's pretty...
Pretty damn expensive.

And we haven't hit
what we're looking for yet.

Uh, it's gonna be
disappointing if we don't
break through here,

in the, uh,
next few hours anyway.

[Eric] I should be right
on top of that box.

How wide is that right...
Can we miss it right there?

We've already drilled
almost 50 foot.

And from our lidar scan,
we should be...
We should be there.

I mean, we gotta be close
if not right on top of it.

It's showing exactly right...
Right where we're at.

Hopefully, we keep on going
and we find...
Find where it's at.

If we're off a foot, I mean,
we could have to drill
another 10, 20 feet.

They checked it several times
with the level going down.

It's straight, we should be
right there.

This is such an irregular,
um, cavern system.

If we're off just a...
A degree or something,

we could just...
Just barely miss it.

[Charlie] We should
be right over, shouldn't we?

Yeah, by rights we should be.

Yeah.

I'm stressing out here.

At this point it's like
we're either gonna hit it
or we're not.

The only thing we can do
is keep drilling.

[Chad] Today's been
a long day.

We, uh... We didn't bust
through the cave yet.

We're still... Still drilling.

Still hard rock
that's just taking a while.

But, uh, we're...
We're getting closer.

[Eric] Hey, Duane.

But this light is getting
so bad, I'm having
a hell of a time seeing.

We could be right above
that cavern system.

And we should be.

Um, but the artificial light
doesn't, uh...

It doesn't allow me
to see what I need to see.

I can't describe it adequately
because I've got these
LED lights.

I don't wanna miss anything.

There's a point where
we just gotta, you know,
shut it down.

We gotta start this
all over again in the morning.

Hey, Troy.

We might as well
shut this little bad boy
down tonight.

-It's getting dark.
-[Troy] Yeah, yeah.

-[Duane] Let's just pick it up
tomorrow morning.
-Yeah.

[Duane] It is frustrating,
but, uh, we'll get there.

I really think we're gonna
get there tomorrow.

[Charlie] We didn't get where
we wanted to get right, uh...
Right now.

But, uh,
we'll get started again.

And I've got a feeling
that we're not far off of it.

[Duane] All right,
let's get out of here.

[man] Drop it!

[Chad] Yesterday, we were here
all day. Super long day.

[Eric] It's got a little bit
of moisture in it.

[Chad] We thought we would
have hit something for sure.

It's like, uh, we don't...
We don't know if the angle's
off a little bit.

We could be off of our spot.

I don't know,
but we haven't hit it yet,
which we thought we would.

Hopefully, we'll see it
here shortly.

I'm telling you, man,
it's almost... This is
hit or miss right now.

We're down to, like,


We'll keep going but, um...

This is... This is...

This is do or die right now.

I just wanna see
that cavern drop.

You get into a... A formation
that has high porosity

the drill is just gonna, like,
wanna drop basically.

And so, when I see a big drop
like that, that tells us
we're in the cavern.

[drill clangs]

Troy!

Did we drop?

-[Eric] We're in the void!
-[Chad] Hell, yeah.

Yeah!

-[Chad] Get in here.
Look at that.
-Yeah!

-Wow!
-[Chad laughs]

What... What depth
are we at, Troy?

-[Troy] Fifty-five.
-[Chad] Fifty-five?

-[Troy] Yeah.
-[Chad] Yeah!

[whistling]

Uh, sure enough, man,
we dropped right
into that cavern.

It was, uh...
Just an awesome feeling.

Our plans are just
coming together.

Everything's coming
together here.

I can even see water in there.

[Charlie] Excellent.
Excellent.

-Look at that.
-Wow.

We're in the cave.

-Nice!
-[Chad] Yeah.

[Charlie] Good job!

[Chad]
The adventure's just begun.

We have a long ways to go
but this is... This is where
it gets really cool.

-Duane.
-[Duane laughs] Hey.

[Eric] You did it, buddy.

-[Charlie] Good job, man.
-[Eric] You did it.

-[Charlie] Good job.
Way to go.
-[Eric] Awesome.

[Duane] They're happy as hell.
I am happy.

But I... I gotta hold back
just a little bit because we
still have a long ways to go.

[Eric] Here it comes.

-[Charlie] Yeah, we got water.
-[Eric] Oh, yeah!

-[whistling]
-That's the water right there.

[Eric] That's your cave water.

-[Charlie] That sure is.
-[Duane] That's a beautiful
sight right there.

The next step will be that
we'll bring these chains in.

We're gonna drop them
right down over the box.

We'll get Chad to go in,
wrap that around there,

and then we'll start
extracting that box.

[Chad] Let's get the chain.

[Eric] Yeah!

[Chad] Keep an eye
on that hole.

Right there.

We know we're in the cave.

But before we go dropping
hundreds of pounds of chain
down this hole,

we have to make sure
that we've punched in
at exactly the right place.

Right on top of the box.

It's recording.

That's why we're sending down
a GoPro.

All right,
we got the light on.

Yeah. Yeah, we'll be able
to see perfect.

So we got the GoPro on.

Now, we'll fire up the genny
and then, uh, put it down.

Here goes nothing, boys.

Copy that.

Fingers crossed.

Yeah, all right. Here we go.

Oh, it's lighting it up nice.

[Eric] Nice.

[Charlie]
The hole is beautiful,
the sidewall's are very solid.

A, uh... A stable hole.

[water splashing]

-[Eric] Beautiful, we got it.
-There we go.

I really hope we're right
on top of the box.

Oh, good.
The camera's still on.

-[Eric] Yeah, yeah.
-[Chad] Haha!

All right, let's check it out.

-All right, here we go.
-Here we go.

It's going down.

[Charlie] Wow.

[Chad] So the lighting
is good right there.

-Yeah, very good. Very good.
-Going down.

-Is it not water?
-[Charlie] It looks
like water.

-[Eric] There's water.
-[Charlie] There it is.

Nice.

Okay.

-Let's keep on going down.
-Keep going.

Keep going.

That's water.

-Little cloudy.
-[Chad] Yeah.

-See it, is that--
-[Eric] Is that it?

Is that a log?

-That looks like a log
right there.
-[Chad laughs]

-[Eric] Oh, oh, man!
-[Charlie] Yes!

-It's the box!
-[Chad] That's it.
That's the box, baby.

-Hell, yeah.
-That's a pretty sight
right there.

-Thank God.
-[Eric] Yeah, man.

-[Chad] Whoo! Yeah.
-[Eric] We're on it.
All right!

-The precision there.
-[Charlie] Finally.

-We're on it, man.
-We're on top of the box!

-Right on the top.
-We're on the top
of that box, Duane.

Copy that. Good job, fellas.

Wow.

We know we're right
on top of the box.

Finally something goes right.

[Chad] Now, all we have
to do tomorrow

is drop the heavy chains
down the hole.

And then I'll dive back in
through the pond entrance,

wrap them around the box,

and then
we are pulling it out.

[Duane] I'd like to say that
I'm gonna go home,
get some sleep.

But there's no way
anyone's sleeping tonight.

Tomorrow, if everything
goes right,

we'll be one step away from
holding the most sought after
treasures in the world.

You can bet your a*s on that.

[narrator] Next time on
Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch.

-[Duane] We're right on top
of the box.
-[Eric] Here we go.

We're there.

[man] Looking here
at the specs,

it can see
your entire property

from wherever that
camera was at.

[Chad] God.

[man] You definitely
have something here
that they're after.

[man on radio]

If you look up the road
where the moon is,

you can see them up there,
there's two guys up there.

[Chad] You see them?

Oh, I can assure you
we're being watched.

-Oh, [bleep].
-Look at this.

[Eric]
We had a huge wind storm.

What the hell?

And it dumped tons
of silt in the water.

[Duane speaking]

Chad is pretty fearless
to do this.

[Duane] Once you got
that box locked, Chad,
give us two tugs.

Yeah, that wood's
not coming out
like it is right now.

Think we're gonna need
to bust those rocks up first.

[Duane] There are so many
things that can go wrong.

[Duane speaking]