Presenting on The Truth about Yamashitas Gold. They were retaken by the Allied forces over the course of a brutal year culminating with the Japanese surrender in September 1945. Klaus confided that he was working on four different sites and shared the many clues and symbols that he had discovered in each. I was impressed and, dare I say, convinced. Cathcart recounted how he read the GBCs plea for legal assistance with incredulity. Please contact us with any corrections or feedback. Everybody was shattered by that point, but none more than me. Conventional military site treasure symbols. 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. I felt it was my duty to expose this sort of fraud, like I had the whole faked tomb of Mary Magdalene saga in Rennes-le-Chteau a few years earlier, and so we visited him the next morning. Most were situated on Japanese military bases, while others were located near landmarks that would be remembered in coming years, such as hospitals, schools, churches, mountains and waterfalls. The comprehensive excavation proposals that I had developed upon my return had been rejected. I sensed wetness and as I propped myself up and looked down at where he was working all I could see was blood. At one point Cathcart questioned Roxas for five days straight. After the McLeods had been gone for two years, people began to believe that the brothers had actually struck it rich and decided to start a new life somewhere else.[1]. Thats how the healer works; the sheet serves as an X-ray filter and highlights what needs to be healed. He complained at length that none of his journalism colleagues would help him and Peggy with their book. All six bullets had apparently been fired at whoever or whatever had killed him.[2]. startxref Shannon Quinn is a writer and entrepreneur from the Philadelphia area. April 30, 2019 I was moved by Cathcarts story; it was epic, tragic and inspirational. I will always appreciate your sacrifice. Few would persevere and dig that deep, especially after finding so many valuables at the intermediate level. The initial award was $43 billion the largest civil judgement in history. It is not a matter of if he will succeed, but when, and I believe it will be soon. Within hours Roxas was dead. Andrew Gough. Understandably, they had become discouraged and had run out of funds. The moss-covered marker stone that could be a topographical map of the treasure sites in the region You dont mind if Klaus videotapes this, do you? I asked cautiously, but with a tone that suggested I would not be denied. That evening Klauss team brought some incense, that had been burned by the Shinto priests as they sealed the chambers, that they had found deep in the tunnels that week, and we burned it. 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. Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. In addition to Okubo, Roxas gained valuable insight from Albert Fuchigami, whose father had been a Japanese officer in the Second World War. Roxas was convinced there was treasure buried around the Baguio Hospital, but was unsure exactly where to look. Klaus shared that he felt many were not reputable insomuch as they often claimed to not be feeling it today and concluded I need to come back tomorrow, effectively doubling their income. Curtis fled back to the US in the late '70s, claiming he had destroyed his maps and escaped the Philippines ahead of Marcos's assassins. One day he was approached by two men representing Josefa Edralin Marcos, who offered to return a replica of the golden buddha and pay Marcos three million pesos if he publicly acknowledged that their buddha was the one that had been confiscated. It did not work that way. Marcos had them tortured until they gave up the location of the treasure, whereupon he took it all, thus becoming fabulously wealthy. Treasure hunting has been big business in the Philippines since the end of World War II, when former Japanese Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita was captured and hanged in Manila. Andrew Gough. Roxas was seeking damages, not only for the torture he had endured (and, of course, the golden buddha and its concealed precious stones and all the miniature gold bars that accompanied it), but also for the large quantities of gold that Marcoss men had recovered from the tunnel system that Roxas had discovered. Remarkably, Roxas never revealed the location of his treasure site, for he knew that doing so would result in his death sentence. It would later be appealed and reduced to $22 billion, because the court could not be certain of the contents of each and every wooden crate that was removed from the tunnel system behind Baguio Hospital. Twice a day I climb into each of the sites that we are excavating to check for cyanide, he added in his authoritative Austrian accent. His conviction was supported by four first-hand accounts and multiple treasure maps given to him by eyewitnesses. His team went and searched and dug but never found anything. I examined it closely. Klaus interviewed him on camera, and afterwards we took turns examining the artefacts. They know the Philippines well, but are unreliable on Japan and do not read Japanese. While Santy had resorted to torture, Lansdale offered Major Kojima a lifeline he proposed a share of the treasure if he showed the Americans where the Japanese had hidden the gold, and within weeks Major Kojima led Santy and Lansdale to a dozen easily accessible treasure sites in and around Manila. 0000000016 00000 n Years after his disappearance, he was assumed to be dead. Cathcart proceeded to tell me in his gentle manner how forthright and convincing Roxas was, and what a surprising amount of evidence there was to support his claims. In Red Dead Redemption 2, you can run out of money fast as there are many things that you need to buy to progress further. He was reclusive, choosing to work in private with researchers he trusted and, in recent years, he had gone completely dark. Andrew Gough, Patrick interviews Roger Roxass son, Henry Nor, to be honest, did I. As a result, I was frequently contacted by Filipinos who believed they had located lost Japanese treasure hoards and were seeking both expertise and financial assistance in support of their proposed excavations. Andrew Gough, Learning the art of dowsing No further. After a raucous reception dinner we agreed a plan for the next several days. Kidd had decided to create a treasure hunt of his own. His remains were not found until seven months later.[5]. One sudden stop or turn and my head would be severed. The remains of the Shinto shrine entrance to the Japanese military headquarters in Klauss village or. What did you uncover? I asked inquisitively. It was impossible for any man in my position to control every action of his subordinate commanders, let alone the deeds of individual soldiers. It could have happened to General MacArthur, you know. Death was one idea that neither Burchfield nor the Dead shied away from. We were all devastated, especially Klaus, as he wanted to open a treasure chamber in time for us to film it for the show. "Searching for the lost treasure of Yamashita." Estimates of the total buried treasure start at $100 billion and soar to a high of $2 trillion in gold bullion, a figure cited by a respected Manila columnist, Hilarion Henares. Clearly, the Japanese had returned enough of their war booty to Japan to be satisfied and were not overly concerned about the breadcrumbs they had left behind. Cathcart and his team had done their homework. These sites were protected by ancient rituals performed by Shinto priests. Roxas was cautious of Oihara and his fascination with the golden buddhas neck. Its a heart a symbol placed in the tunnel by the Shinto priests, he replied proudly. The organisation was named Kin no yuri, meaning Golden Lily, the name of a poem written by the Emperor. We are not at the bottom yet? Two Australian brokers: who testified that in the early 1980s they had negotiated nine contracts with Marcos to sell what amounted to $1.63 trillion-worth of gold bullion. Regarding Operation Golden Lily, although evidence fails to show such a program existed with that name, the basic idea makes sense. In one 1999 case hundreds of men signed an affidavit attesting to the fact that they had worked on a so-called restoration project that had covertly performed massive digging operations to recover thousands of metric tonnes of gold, not to mention precious gemstones. Klaus and I continued our daily Skype calls and I could sense he was making real progress. The day before they were due to depart, she walked downstairs from their hotel room and entered the bakery at street level. Klaus confirmed that he too had drunk the cobras blood, and that a local shaman had approached him and told him that he knew Klaus had bonded with the cobra family, and so had the spirit-guardian cobra at his one site. Andrew Gough. Lets put it this way, McDougald said. But it never works out that way. 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. No thanks When the Japanese were covering up the (treasure) chamber, they put in layers of clay, then sand, then clay, then sand. In his extensive research on the subject, Seagrave recounted how in one horrific incident in June 1945, as US tanks approached from twenty miles away, the one hundred and seventy-five chief engineers who were responsible for each of the sites were given a farewell party two hundred and twenty feet underground, in a complex known as Tunnel 8. Many people died a couple of months ago not far from here, Klaus continued. The buddha was decidedly Burmese in style: 22 carat gold and of a type produced in Asia prior to 1940. The Naha tribe were the indigenous people who lived in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The director reluctantly filmed it. Im sorry what was that? I retorted apologetically. With Henry Roxas, Rogers treasure-hunting son Roxas informed her that Marcoss air-conditioned burial crypt in the Philippines, at the Ferdinand E Marcos Presidential Center in Batac, Ilocos Norte (which was secured twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week by arm guards), contained a fake corpse full of precious stones and diamonds. 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. I watched a rough cut of the episode and was relieved that Burgess had salvaged it with his skillful editing, and that the tone was objective. Andrew Gough. Bizarrely, the non-believer of a director was not interested in trying to speak to the old woman, who was only over yonder. Why wouldnt they be, I thought to myself, after a moments reflection. Thank you for your sacrifice, I mumbled awkwardly. This was a time, Cathcart stressed, when the town was buzzing with rumours of a local mans discovery. I loved this kind of thing. Many Japanese soldiers and engineers involved in the project were also sealed inside the tunnels in order to keep them from revealing the location. Over time I reached out to Klaus in the hope that he would write an article for the magazine. 0000006813 00000 n Wait a minute not so fast, I quipped. Klaus had nailed it. It was peculiar and appeared to be a topographical map. In reviewing their 2003 book, he wrote: The Seagraves are not fully reliable as historians. Such a thing is well proven to be one way that intelligence agencies move funds around. They were always building this or that in the Philippines as an excuse to look for treasure, due to the fact that obtaining permits was difficult and brought unwanted attention. The only problem was he was already dead. Since there was no evidence that he had attempted to climb the cliff, his parents believe that he must have fallen and his body was miraculously caught on the ledge, which is how his remains stayed fully intact for three years. They investigated and validated first-hand testimony that corroborated the existence of the golden buddha and the gold bullion. Juan Quijon: a Filipino army cook who later testified that in 1972 he had been assigned to a newly formed unit called Task Force Restoration, which was created by Marcos to recover treasure, mostly gold, from Japanese treasure sites. I wondered if he was employed by the same people that had assassinated Roxas? Look at this tree, he abruptly proclaimed, stopping us dead in our tracks. The vaults would remain secret. According to Curtis, he had helped the dictator dig up $14 billion in gold bars, with over $85 billion remaining to be found. During the war, the Japanese Imperial Army tortured hundreds of Filipino prisoners in the Spanish colonial-era fort. I thought he was a fascinating guy, and I was pleased to have made his acquaintance. 24 Aug. 2005, Newspaper. As my interest in the mystery deepened, I reengaged with Sterling Seagrave, the almost singular voice of truth on the subject. Andrew Gough, Amelia after her second NDE Operation Golden Lily and the Black Eagle Trust Fund are absent from all the world's historical texts that I searched, save those written in support of this particular mythology. 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. Phil never returned from his trip, so the police were called. So far so good. Cathcart shared how his office had received a call saying that Imelda Marcos had ordered the killing death by poison and that the CIA had carried out her orders. The director was beaming with approval. After working on my prostate, the healer opened up my liver, heart and spine in the same manner with only his hands. My neck was pressed against the sharp edge of the rusted metal tricycle roof. But in war someone has to lose. Despite his altruistic intentions (ie not wanting to risk more of the team getting injured than was necessary), this approach would prove fatal, as he did not do a very good job, and Klaus would have to reshoot the tunnel footage himself, weeks later, and with far inferior equipment. He was there as the Imperial Japanese army ransacked much of China and southeast Asia, and he was there for the duration of World War II; and he grew up knowing little about the Japanese besides that they were the world's aggressors, and the brutal assailants of a peaceful people. I was amazed, and excited. We rode back to Klauss house for what was to be a fascinating evening. With Roxass discovery, Marcoss hopes had become a reality. He brushed off the incident as an attempt to stir up trouble by the opposition, the name given to citizens who are against Nicolas Maduro, the current president of Venezuela. A notoriously horrific acid trip that Robert Hunter endured in June 1969, thanks to apple juice dosed with "probably a full gram of crystal LSD worth perhaps $50,000," was the lyrical impetus for "Black Peter.". Maybe Amelia was right after all, I mused. Roger ROXAS and The Golden Budha Corporation, a foreign corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. Ferdinand E. MARCOS and Imelda Marcos, Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees. Before I could comment Klaus had taken out his dowsing rods and located the entrance shaft to the tunnel system that the bent tree was pointing towards. His efforts proved fruitless, however, and Fuchigami became despondent about the fact that he could not locate the tunnel system that his father had shown him as a child, even with a map. There is every indication that this cave-in was caused by a booby trap, McDougald said, reporting the results of an investigation by his teams geologist and resident mining engineers. Baguio Hospital, where Roxas made his famous discovery The smell of decomposed bodies was palpable and they halted work while the disconcerting gasses subsided. A love of China and its people ran deep in young Sterling's blood. Jose was clearly a wind-up-and-go type of historian. Andrew Gough. I stared at him with a knowing look one that could not conceal the fact that I was now questioning his identity. Fineman, M. "Japanese War Loot Sought: Gold Diggers May Help Manila Pay Off Huge Debt." Many of them had pointed out that the Japanese knew they had little hope of holding the Philippines very long, and it would have been the last place they'd have sent history's biggest treasure. What is worse, it triggered a political backlash. What interests might the United States have that would enable the Supreme Court decision to be ignored? What ensued was madness. For the Ft. Santiago dig is just one of the many treasure hunts now being conducted in the Philippines, as the government increasingly hopes to save its moribund economy through archeology as well as increased productivity. The director simply said, whenever you are ready, and he proceeded to speak uninterrupted for over an hour. Rodger is also known as the father of Darrell Miklos, a TV personality and a treasure hunter too. But the picture changed with the deaths last month of the two Filipino workers, suffocated in a cave-in that McDougalds engineers now attribute to a booby trap left behind by the Japanese. After some time she purchased a new home for her parents and one for herself. I knew what it was, but I could not believe my eyes. Soriano, who has been quoted as estimating the buried wealth at $900 billion and is currently overseeing the Ft. Santiago dig, told The Times in a recent interview: To my knowledge, nothing has been recovered yet. Those who did not kill themselves ritually would gradually suffocate, surrounded by gold bars. Valmores was entrusted with detailed maps of each of the 175 treasure sites, a privilege that President Marcos would later exploit. Curtis was an expert in changing the metallurgical fingerprints of gold to disguise its origins. Andrew Gough. 0000017483 00000 n They were not going to give up their secrets to a production team with hi-tech equipment and a $1 million an episode budget, who were on location for a week to excavate. Whilst on trial, General Yamashita defended the charges of war crimes that were levelled against him: My command was as big as MacArthurs or Lord Louis Mountbattens. 56 0 obj<>stream In fact, treasure hunters die each week in the Philippines, mostly due to the accidental release of cyanide capsules hidden along the tunnel walls. He explained how a team had successfully excavated a large portion of the site before a typhoon and resulting mud slide had buried years of excavation work. Andrew Gough, Seashells with cement in them, black stones with gold dust, incense, and a heart, complete with artery Others shared how he had ever so slightly removed their eyeballs, cleaned them, and put them back, fully restoring their vision in the process. He left clues in a poem about the location of this hidden treasure and challenged the public to find it. The year was 1944, and the Japanese had spent the previous fifty years pillaging the East of their national treasures; twelve Asian countries in all. They drove down the road to an area called Topaz Point to search for minerals. Robert Hunter, who died on Sept. 23 at age 78, matched words to Jerry Garcia's melodies and served as the public conscience for the Grateful Dead, whom he joined as a non-performing member in 1969. Web. They used the same water from the streams as everyone else and unwittingly infected many of the other men. They had been in hiding in Manila, where they were awaiting word from Cathcart. On the contrary, this young man was conspicuously well informed and appeared to possess some highly classified information. I was later told he had decided he did not like me before we ever met. Then McSherry returned to his own pit to clean up the tools and collect the stones. Their families believe that the men were all killed by a gang who decided to take the gold mine for themselves. Frustratingly, he was unable to recapture what she had so convincingly and spontaneously said previously, leading the director to believe we had made it all up. Seagrave stressed that I should proceed with caution, for the story was taboo and highly dangerous. 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. LOS ANGELES Robert Hunter, the man behind the poetic and mystical words for many of the Grateful Dead's finest songs, has died at age 78. A powerful, all-purpose line that hit the sweet spot of subversive clichs, it made speakers appear smarter than they are. With a change of shirt I descended once again into the abyss. Another of Roxass helpers was the American, John Ballinger, who had fought in a guerrilla unit in the region during the war. The Japanese gold heist, however, would dwarf the earlier Nazi thefts and would be exploited by United States presidents from Truman to Trump, representing one of the greatest conspiracies of our time. I replied, Well, keep digging. 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. Roxas with the detached head of the golden buddha (from the Roger Roxas Museum in Baguio) 0000000796 00000 n Without receiving the whole story on the events of the day, many have classified this case as an unsolved mystery. What is that, I asked. Andrew Gough. The Awa Maru went to the bottom of Formosa Strait, 14 miles off the Chinese mainland with 2,007 souls and at least $500 million worth of war loot hidden aboard. Its akin to what was found in Egypt in the pyramids. Sign Up. I laid back down and thought to myself, What the hell had I just got myself into. Amelia did as the dream-induced spirit encounter with Roxas instructed. Are the Philippines the wealthiest nation on earth? One day, he got into his car and drove away. 0 The incredibly ambitious, albeit cruel, initiative was overseen by Japanese princes, most notably Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, the brother of Emperor Hirohito. If Amelia is correct, was this an orchestrated effort to reclaim the treasure? Editors. Bob Curtis. Years after his disappearance, he was assumed to be dead. Roxas testified, returned to hiding, was discovered by Marcoss men and tortured. Ive already invested a lot of my time, my energy and money on this. He said, until recent times a large metal stake had been secured by the Japanese in a nearby tree that pointed to the spot. Wow, I mumbled under my breath. I had heard many stories about this guy. It smelled remarkable. Speak to it and explain what is going to happen, and why, he instructed. I was excited to hear what Jose had to say about Japanese treasure in the Philippines, but was informed by the director that my presence was not welcome in the interview room. His friend preferred to stay anonymous, but lets call him Bob for the sake of the story. I had to see the Baguio Hospital treasure site for myself. The treasure still has not been found. 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