Andrew Gough. 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. Those who tired or died in the process were quickly replaced. Thats incredible, but tell me more. MacArthur was rendered speechless after walking down countless rows of gold bars stacked over two metres high, and promptly notified United States President Harry S Truman of the discovery, who immediately deemed it a state secret. This show is made possible by financial support from listeners like you. It was not a sense of being claustrophobic. While the Seagraves wrote from a historical and geopolitical perspective, conventional treasure hunters had also been in on the game. 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. The following day we departed for the mountainous, northern resort town of Baguio to meet with Roger Roxass son, Henry, and to examine his museum, which is dedicated to his father. Japan probably had no surplus from any foreign plundering, and it made no sense to send anything valuable to the Philippines where they knew it was soon going to fall into American hands. His friend preferred to stay anonymous, but lets call him Bob for the sake of the story. She was clearly in her 90s, and yet it was a long shot, but lo and behold we hit the jackpot. Rodger is also known as the father of Darrell Miklos, a TV personality and a treasure hunter too. There was also the odour; the smell of decomposed bodies. Today, only $1.4 million has been paid out to the Roxas estate. Eventually, Roxas and his team identified the entrance and discovered various artefacts, such as Japanese bayonets, rifles, and even a human skeleton in a Japanese uniform. When his sister learned of his tantrum she became enraged, for she understood that the map was designed to be read with the reflection of a mirror, a detail she would have shared with her brother had she known he was actively seeking the treasure. It was hardly secure. A rare photograph of Roxas in the Baguio tunnel system. 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. Robert Curtis: an American metallurgist employed by Marcos to help find Japanese treasure sites and sanctify the gold bars into a form consistent with the London Gold Standard. My dialogue with other Filipino treasure hunters had reached a fever pitch and this, coupled with the fact that I was keen to visit Klaus and inspect his work, prompted me to book a trip to the Philippines. While there, he learned that the village had been a former Japanese military base, and that the locals believed it was ripe with buried Japanese treasure. Whatever they did plunder had likely been well spent building the Imperial Navy well before the end of the war. 20 Nov. 2003, Volume 25, Number 22: 3-6. Andrew Gough. In fact, in Klauss humble village there was a new cemetery under construction when I visited the first time that would make Forest Lawn blush with envy. Intriguingly, the alleged body of Marcos was later reburied in the Cemetery of Heroes in Metropolitan Manila in a ceremony shrouded in secrecy. In his estimation, the only thing that could have caused the electrocution was large quantities of gold, acting as an electrical conduit. Japan's imperial war efforts were incredibly expensive and Japan had little wealth of its own. Fuchigami hastily reconstructed the map from memory and provided Roxas with a copy. Website designed by Artifice Design. 0000010608 00000 n The sudden, tragic death of Roxas overshadowed the trial, but did not negatively impact the outcome. One such individual was Eusebio Okubo, who as a young man had served as an interpreter for General Yamashita while he was stationed in Baguio. An estate lawyer looked over his Last Will and Testament. Conventional military site treasure symbols. "Yamashita's Gold." Torn Treasure Map 1: On the far left side of the map, at the start of the Little Creek River, inside a drawer of a wooden hut. 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. For weeks, the government deliberately tried to keep that digging a secret. He never came back. Long-lost ship found at the bottom of Lake Huron, confirming story of tragic collision, TikTok to set default daily time limit of up to 60 minutes for minors, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Jaguars, narcos, illegal loggers: One mans battle to save a Guatemalan jungle and Maya ruins, Dr. Simi is a TikTok star. Lives in La Mirada, California. Roxas was more convinced than ever that a great treasure was buried near Baguio Hospital, and who could blame him? Within seconds the cyanide had travelled to the surface and killed everyone in the vicinity. He seemed to revel in the horror of the story. Inexplicably, he was being electrocuted. If Amelia is correct, was this an orchestrated effort to reclaim the treasure? Dan Cathcart at his home, taking me through his Roxas v Marcos file or. It was almost a year to the date of my first visit and now, like then, I had managed to arrive in the middle of the monsoon season. In 1849 during the California Gold Rush, over 30,000 men flocked to trails where gold had been seen. Slowly putting his ruined life back together, he moved from Reno to Las Vegas . The massive and disproportionately large cemetery under construction in Klauss humble village Andrew Gough. Watch the two-hour special of The Curse of Yamashitas Gold on Forbidden History, Series 6, on Discovery Science and other international channels from April 2020. Others shared how he had ever so slightly removed their eyeballs, cleaned them, and put them back, fully restoring their vision in the process. #673 I unambiguously felt them probing around beneath the surface of my skin. He related how he had accompanied a friend who was ill to the Philippines so that he could visit a famous healer. 0000017483 00000 n 56 0 obj<>stream Regarding the Black Eagle Trust Fund, evidence also fails to show that any such program existed with that name but I'm not pointing a finger at anyone for making it up out of nothing. I went for a walk around campus and when I returned the production manager politely asked me to join them, as they were about to begin, and so I did. Klaus dismissed his dowser, who he felt was taking advantage, and began performing the task himself. Work was frantic and I soon lost touch with the Seagraves. The award was later substantially reduced and nothing was ever collected. The book is full of errors that could easily be corrected by a second-year student of the language Another author, Donald Gillin, felt compelled to devote an entire book to debunking the Seagraves' version of history. 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. We started filming after 11pm and finished at 2am; hardly condusive to peak performance, but it was nice of the director to squeeze me in. In subsequent days, the princes escaped to Japan by submarine, and three months later, on 2 September 1945, General Yamashita surrendered to American troops. In the Philippines treasure reclamation requires a permit that entitles the government to 30% of the findings. 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Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, 6 Mar. The incredibly ambitious, albeit cruel, initiative was overseen by Japanese princes, most notably Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, the brother of Emperor Hirohito. As he reflected on the significance of his experience, I remember thinking once more that I just wanted to leave. Andrew Gough. They were in their sleeping bags, but their heads were missing. Imagine countless fabulous tunnels bored through the green mountains of the Philippines, all filled with mind-boggling stacks of gold bullion and other riches, all waiting there even today for some lucky adventurer to discover them. In the background I continued to promote a treatment I had written for a reality TV show, that I would present, that would feature the quest for Japanese treasure in the Philippines, and sent it to all the usual history shows and their production companies. His luck was about to change. Andrew Gough. It felt like a flamethrower had pierced my stomach and opened me up below my navel. The president of International Precious Metals Inc., a private, limited-liability company, is Nevada businessman Robert H. Curtis, a man whose name has been synonymous with the hunt for buried Philippine treasure for more than a decade. 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 pressured Santy for information about the sites he had found and wanted him to turn over his bank accounts. Robert Curtis had paid a very high price for becoming involved in gold recoveries with Ferdinand Marcos, but he was stubborn, and he still had the only copies of the full set of Japanese treasure maps to have surfaced since the war. It is not a matter of if he will succeed, but when, and I believe it will be soon. As my interest in the mystery deepened, I reengaged with Sterling Seagrave, the almost singular voice of truth on the subject. Klaus was already at the bottom as I made my way down slowly, cautiously, and deliberately. 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. One sudden stop or turn and my head would be severed. The weather was only suitable for mosquitos and snakes. Is that really necessary? No autopsy was performed, despite Cathcarts request, and the official cause of death was ruled as tuberculosis. She reiterated that I was to be very involved in the whole Roxas affair. He had opened me up with only his hands, and now his fingers were inside me. 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. All Rights Reserved. I was also looking forward to seeing Patrick again, a larger-than-life friend of Klauss whom I had met on my first trip. There was more, but as I have signed a non-disclosure agreement, I will refrain from commenting further. Off camera, Patrick asked what I felt to be the most illuminating question of the afternoon. Seagrave stressed that I should proceed with caution, for the story was taboo and highly dangerous. 26 Apr. 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. The United States had stumbled upon the greatest treasure hoards in history, including more gold bullion than was known to be in existence, and would use this unfathomable wealth to influence world affairs, win the Cold War, launch a space programme, and create a new world order. I know nothing, he said humbly. How could he not get discouraged? I thought to myself with some alarm. Dont get me wrong. At two hundred and fifteen feet Klaus was literally on the doorstep of a discovery. We stopped on the outskirts of town in front of an old schoolhouse. A Filipino man named Rogelio Roxas filed a lawsuit against Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, then exiled in Hawaii, suing them for the value of the treasure. Jose was clearly a wind-up-and-go type of historian. 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. Cathcart recounted how he read the GBCs plea for legal assistance with incredulity. With a change of shirt I descended once again into the abyss. Marcos had them tortured until they gave up the location of the treasure, whereupon he took it all, thus becoming fabulously wealthy. I sat down with Cathcart and his wife in their affluent Beverly Hills home, and was joined by their live-in carer, who sat nearby, listening intently to our every word. Affiliation ASCAP Comments Singer-songwriter, poet, translator and occasionally recording artist, born Robert Burns. Later that day I drove to Klauss village. He had a PhD in theology and had his work presented in multiple Christian publications, including a terrifying pamphlet that claimed that the Antichrist was coming. I felt it was a heroic, yet tragic, story and one that needed to be retold. A month later American intelligence officers would learn of the existence of the vast treasure hoards but not before a gruesome fate awaited the men who had overseen the treasures safe deposit deep in the earth. Marcoss people informed Curtis that Marcos was intending to process over three hundred metric tons of gold each year for the next decade. And yet, the man does not charge for his services. Marcos quickly confiscated the booty. Andrew Gough, Henry highlighting the fake golden buddha affair I left the cobras meat for the caretakers family to consume and headed for the airport. 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. They needed money to purchase the land and were offering a very comprehensive excavation plan. Keep going. I had been miles away. I was especially interested in what had happened to the ancient relics of the East, and what exactly, if anything, remains to be discovered. 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. I returned to England and became engulfed by life and my time-consuming corporate job. What? 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. Evidently, she found what she was looking for., Ill be damned, I added. 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. He also showed me his hands and feet, which were missing various fingers and toes from a chemical booby trap that had been released in an underground water-filled chamber on the site. With a fragile intonation in her voice she recounted the story of her husbands last days. In addition to Okubo, Roxas gained valuable insight from Albert Fuchigami, whose father had been a Japanese officer in the Second World War. Burning Shinto-priest incense that was discovered in the backfilled tunnels deep underground Bob Curtis. Their attack on the East was brutal, and largely airbrushed from history. Klaus and I posing with the priest and the artefacts he discovered at a shallow depth in the ground Much to their horror, the driver then performed a three-point turn and accelerated at the Seagraves, forcing them to dive into the ditch where they collected themselves before running for cover in nearby woodland. The remains of the Shinto shrine entrance to the Japanese military headquarters in Klauss village %PDF-1.4 % Rights and reuse information. Unfortunately, my role in the narrative would be minimal. What if the so-called carer had been planted by a covert government agency? The United States had stumbled upon the greatest treasure hoards in history, including more gold bullion than was known to be in existence, and would use this unfathomable wealth to influence world affairs, win the Cold War, launch a space programme, and create a new world order. Roxas claimed they tried to sell the Buddha to finance removal of the treasure, and this attracted the attention of Marcos. Over the next several years the programme was featured on television stations around the world and on YouTube. As I suspected, he was questing for Japanese treasure pillaged from Asia, but how he had got started was another story altogether. I guess I had never imagined that Roxas had excavated that deep before discovering the golden buddha. It was peculiar and appeared to be a topographical map. The director reluctantly filmed it. Without receiving the whole story on the events of the day, many have classified this case as an unsolved mystery. Each day after class she dug in the back garden of the schoolyard. Within days of my return to England the director was sacked for mismanaging the episode and for essentially hijacking the narrative of the agreed storyline. Klaus interviewed him on camera, and afterwards we took turns examining the artefacts. We added each other on Skype and began a custom of speaking most days. Many return home empty-handed. Best known as lyricist for some of the best known Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead songs and his various collaborations with Bob Dylan. They received permission and resumed digging, attributing their failure to rediscover the fabulous treasure room to booby traps. She logged onto Facebook and discovered a post featuring a link to The Truth About Yamashitas Gold documentary. We arrived at the site to discover that the tunnel was too flooded to enter, and so we filmed what we could and moved on to the next one. Let us email you a link to each week's new episode. The idea is that during Japan's imperialist phase before World War II, they looted every country throughout Asia that they invaded, melted down all that booty into ingots of pure gold, and buried it all in Philippine strongholds to wait out the end of the war. I say successful, because I was not bitten by one of the many cobras lurking in the rice paddies along the way and was only partially bitten to death by hordes of mosquitos the size of hummingbirds. Andrew Gough. Andrew Gough. Skeptoid Media, No further. 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. The implausibilities pile higher and higher. The rest, as they say, is history, he concluded, slowly, his speech somewhat impeded by the advanced state of his illness. I was later told he had decided he did not like me before we ever met. He said they were building an extension to the hospital. Was the healer authentic? Bizarrely, the non-believer of a director was not interested in trying to speak to the old woman, who was only over yonder. Curiously, his death was not announced publicly until ninety days later. They drove down the road to an area called Topaz Point to search for minerals. The bogtalay leaves were associated with an Imperial treasure, the symbolism being that while the leaves of the bogtalay tree are near its fruit, the fruit of the tunnel system are its nearby chambers and the treasure they contain. The enormity of the tragedy is underscored by the fact that the Roxas family have yet to be paid their settlement. ; One of the best ways to earn a high chunk of money in Red Dead Redemption 2 is by High Stakes Treasure maps. The Asian Pacific Post. Many of these men were infected New Yorkers who had traveled to California. Eventually, he became so exasperated that he burned the map out of frustration. In 1993, treasure hunter Charles McDougald published Asian Loot: Unearthing the Secrets of Marcos, Yamashita and the Gold. I was not able to track down any good information explaining why the judge upheld the Golden Buddha Corporation's claim against Marcos, but it certainly wouldn't be the first time a court of law made a ruling that was not in harmony with true science or the true history of a case. Andrew Gough. It was different than that. Together they wrote a number of books on Asian histories which purported to be nonfiction, most of which portrayed either the CIA or Japanese figures as the villain, and all of which expressed a deep suspicion of all things Western and Japanese. It simply stood tall and proud and stared at me, gently nodding its head as though it had understood and had accepted its fate. Tunnels filled with a foot of water 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. It has budgeted another $60,000 for the project and has an additional $300,000 to spend if needed. Are the Philippines the wealthiest nation on earth? 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. He met his wife Peggy in the United States after both had become prominent figures in JFK assassination conspiracy theories. While this preceded the Japanese gold heists, each was confiscated as war booty and never returned to its owners. Eventually, Valmores tired of making the journey and brought all but three of the one hundred and seventy-five treasure maps to Curtis. The Japanese Massacre of Nanjing, the then capital of China, 1937. Much to his surprise, and with no background or training in the discipline, Klaus achieved instant success. The 49-year-old American treasure hunter has cordoned off this rectangular swath of Indian Ocean in the Seychelles, and now he's somewhere 25 feet below, chiseling off chunks of granite and. Darrell is best known among the media for his TV show entitled "Cooper's Treasure", broadcast on Discovery . He was quietly confident that there was more gold to be discovered. The site has been targeted by treasure hunters in the past, but nobody is patient enough to see it through. Andrew Gough. Nearby, in a man-made chamber measuring ten feet by thirty feet, Roxas found more gold, this time packed into hundreds of small wooden boxes. Baguio Hospital, where Roxas made his famous discovery He also informed the press, who also ignored him at least initially. This included dismissing cyanide as a poison that can travel through the air, and numerous character attacks on Seagrave and Curtis. Maybe Amelia was right after all, I mused. The bogtalay tree is regarded as sacred in the East. Still, I was excited to see Klaus again and to inspect some other treasure sites that I had been tracking for some time. In another hundred and seventy-five feet, by the looks of it, you may change your mind.. This was the result Marcos had been waiting for. Roxass brother, Danilo, attempted to resist the men and was badly beaten. In fact, treasure hunters die each week in the Philippines, mostly due to the accidental release of cyanide capsules hidden along the tunnel walls. It was January 2016, and my interest in the story had waned once more. When will Klaus enter his first chamber? Scientists competed in their attempt to somehow prove that a soul left the body at the time of death. 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. One was named Billy Murray. Further disappointment ensued when Bruce was no longer able to travel to the Philippines to direct the episode. One day, he got into his car and drove away. Bassist Phil Lesh remembers tasting the LSD as . Ten days later she was cured. In 1975, Marcos turned to an American mining engineer named Robert Curtis. I was intrigued, and worried for him, and a little for myself. Presenting on The Truth about Yamashitas Gold. Andrew Gough. 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. The driver proceeded to peer out of the passenger-side window, as if he was trying to confirm their identity. Santy, who tortured General Yamashita Tomoyukis driver, Major Kojima. If they had happened, and I had known about them, I would have punished the wrongdoers severely. For three years, people searched for Jesse and could not find any trace of his remains. We exchanged emails, became friends, and made plans to meet at his home outside Carcassonne, France. Could he have harnessed the legendary viral energy that I had read so much about? 24 Aug. 2005, Newspaper. trailer "Searching for the lost treasure of Yamashita." As usual, he did not want any money for his trouble. 0000001139 00000 n Klaus had briefed me as to what the sites would be like. All I remember is, there I was, possibly a short distance away from some of the greatest lost relics in history, and all I wanted to do was leave. Their uncle, Charlie McLeod, was worried because they never wrote home. They investigated and validated first-hand testimony that corroborated the existence of the golden buddha and the gold bullion. I wondered. We said goodbye to Henry and headed out for lunch. Reluctantly, I selected a cobra, which was promptly placed in a barrel-shaped mesh cage. In a separate but related ruling, Roxas was awarded $6 million for the torture and false imprisonment he endured. Andrew Gough, A leaf of the bogtalay tree 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. The men asserted that they had been blindfolded and taken to a warehouse, where they had been shown an enormous stash of gold bars. What does it mean?. 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. I thought he was a fascinating guy, and I was pleased to have made his acquaintance. Treasure hunting has been big business in the Philippines since the end of World War II, when former Japanese Lt. Gen. 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