The boys are calling you the Silver Fox.
[narrator]
to help Dumas reach the potential treasure tunnel
located just below the garden shaft.
What are we gonna do?
Explain to us what we're gonna do.
So, uh, we gotta excavate a bit more.
-Gotta chip some of that clay. -Right.
-And then put another set in. -Okay.
We're now at 90... 93 feet.
Gotta be within two feet. Something like that.
Somewhere around there. Yeah.
Let's get suited up and have a go at this, big brother.
[laughter]
[narrator]
on the final wooden set
that will extend the garden shaft into the tunnel,
several feet of hard clay must be removed.
It is a task that Rick and Marty
are more than eager to help complete.
It's gonna be exciting. To go down in that shaft
and actually do some digging
and maybe be part of unearthing an original tunnel
would be incredibly gratifying.
All kinds of thoughts are streaming through my head.
I mean, you can't help it.
This is an exciting moment.
Ready.
We're gonna go down deep
into the garden shaft, big brother and I.
-[Paul] All set. -[Rick] Let's go.
My brother and I are gonna be miners,
and our heritage is mining.
Our grandfather came here
in order to work in the mines up in Michigan.
It's really an amazing thing that's happening here.
A confluence of heritage.
[Paul] Very good.
[Marty] That's right. Now we can begin.
Marty, that's gonna be your corner.
-That beam there. -Okay.
[Paul] Yours is called the Destroyer.
-Mine is? -Yeah, yours is Destroyer.
-[Rick] All right. -[Paul] You got Big Betsy.
[Rick] Cool.
Here's the deal, Rick. You could be standing
a couple feet above the tunnel we've been looking for
for at least two years.
-Right there. -"Could"? We are.
Well, let's get busy. How do you work this thing?
[Paul]
Little bit at a time? Yeah, okay.
-[Paul] Pump going on. -[man on radio]
[Paul] Silver Fox and his brother are ready to go.
[chuckles]
[air hissing]
[whirring]
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator]
below the shaft,
Rick and Marty are using a pneumatic jackhammer.
Then representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited
will use the three-ton hammer grab tool
to remove the materials.
[jackhammer whirring]
Yeah, baby!
This is no job for old men! [chuckles]
Jackhammers themselves weigh 60 or 70 pounds.
They tend to get stuck in the clay
It is some of the hardest work I've done in many years.
All right, break time.
[all] Whoa, whoa!
[Rick]
I'm an eyes and boots guy. I'm down there.
I wanna get that clay out of the hole,
I wanna find the tunnel, I...
I didn't think of much else, to be honest.
[jackhammer whirring]
[jackhammer straining]
[Marty] What do you think you hit?
The last spade bit, I thought I hit something different.
See that?
Try digging right up there.
[Rick] Look at that, it's nothing.
Really soft.
Hand me a bar? Do you have a bar down here?
-[Paul] Yeah, right there. -Right there.
[tense music playing]
[Rick]
[Paul]
[Rick]
that I was on top of something,
and I thought, "Wow, maybe I'm on a tunnel."
[narrator]
that he may have reached the mysterious
and potentially ancient tunnel be correct?
[dramatic music playing]
If so, the team may be closer than ever
to the answers and reward...
that they've worked for more than a decade to uncover.
[Rick]
"Right there" is a relative term, isn't it?
"Right there" is a relative term.
Well, we got it all loosened up for you.
[chuckles]
Now the hammer grab's gonna come down?
Yeah, we'll hammer grab, we'll clean that hole.
Wood delineates man made things, obviously,
when it's way underground.
So we need to keep going.
We could be closer than we've ever been
to this actual treasure,
or to where it was deposited.
When we start doing the tunnel,
you guys gonna come down for a day?
-Yes. -Try and keep us out.
That's gonna be an experience.
That would be cool.
We gotta be really close. We gotta be.
[Paul] We are.
[narrator]
[Paul]
-You found her? -Yeah. [chuckles]
[narrator]
Scott Barlow, and Craig Tester
have just received long-awaited news.
After extending the garden shaft
to an approximate depth of 95 feet
in the money pit area,
representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited
have finally reached a believed seven-foot-high tunnel
that leads toward the baby blob,
and perhaps a vast cache of buried treasure.
-You can actually see wood. -Okay.
But it's either collapsed or whatever, who knows...
-Yeah. -[Paul] Until we uncover more.
Okay. Get us dressed. Let's get going.
[Paul] Okay.
[dramatic music playing]
[Rick]
put eyes and boots on the tunnel
that was found by the sonic drill program.
You get a little bit of chills.
Let's go take a peek.
It's been frustratingly slow at times,
but it's exciting.
[Gary] Good luck, guys.
-I'll take you a picture. -Thanks.
[Rick]
that we're talking hundreds of years ago.
[chuckles] Now, that... that raises the bar.
There's hope, there's promise,
there's the "you might find the one thing,"
so I think there are some answers here.
There you go.
So what are we looking at here, Paul?
[dramatic music playing]
[Paul] That's where we got the sample outta the wood.
You feel anything?
[Rick] Uh...
Yeah.
There's definitely wood right here.
[music intensifies]
-See the bar here. -[Paul] Yeah.
We drove that bar down just for a guiding...
[Rick] Yeah?
So here's the round log here.
[Rick] Oh, okay.
Right here, that's wood?
-[Paul] That's wood right there. -[Rick] Oh.
-See that? -[Paul laughs]
There's some wood right there.
[Rick] But that's right here. See that right there?
That looks like wood there, too.
You know, there's something going on there.
[Paul]
[thudding on wood]
[Rick] Hear that?
That sound hollow?
Yeah.
[Rick] Listen to that.
That's... That's one of the beams.
This beam is hollow wood.
[thudding]
[Rick]
between the clay, the water...
but it's real, and that's the important part.
There's a wood structure down there.
And at that point it becomes, "Okay,
you can't stop now."
If you wanna expose more of it,
we can add one more section and then go deeper.
That'll give us another 32 inches.
You have to go deeper.
-Absolutely. -The board this way,
if you pound on it, it sounds hollow to me.
Like there's empty space below that.
-[Paul] Right. -And that would be
indicative of the top of the tunnel.
We did probe the logs
that were in line with the projection.
It seemed hollow underneath it.
Hit that-- Hit that one timber. It sounds hollow to me.
-[thudding] -[Paul] Yep.
[Rick]
to explore this further.
[over monitor]
and then keep digging.
[Scott] It's exciting seeing round timber down there.
To me, round timbers are a great indication it's potentially old.
You have to go back to the original story, right?
You know, logs every ten feet
in the money pit. Logs. That's the description.
It's an interesting possible connection.
Round timber's associated with the original construct
of the money pit, and round timber here.
When I look back and think about
reading the
it does bring your mind back to
round logs in the original money pit,
round logs in this feature,
and so I don't have to believe that we're making progress
in solving the mystery,
I know we are.
If we only saw square timbers down there,
I'd think we were more into modern searcher times.
So we'll just square off the excavation,
and we'll add another section on top,
and then we'll be ready to dig for another three feet,
and we'll be right on top of the structure.
[Marty]
[chuckles]
After 15 years,
we may be just a few feet
above original work.
It could be it. It could be the thing.
I am very excited that this is going to lead us to a treasure.
Yeah, it's gonna be quite a day
when we set eyes on it completely.
Let's get it done.