Kevin Dykstra and his team have traveled
once again to Traverse City Michigan or
they have scheduled an important
face-to-face meeting with Marty lagina
gentlemen welcome why don't we all have
a seat for Kevin Dykstra everything he
has spent the past seven years
researching and working for now hangs in
the balance
well gentlemen I understand you're gonna
show me some stuff that brings me up to
speed I know you've been just intense
I've been busy yeah I'm hoping for a
special presentation here keV well I
think you're in store for one good you
want a tangible proof this is what we
have comes the box is a treasure chest
that's what this is okay what have we
got here
a lot of cool stuff it's a lot of rusted
parts but one of the most telling things
we found down in erlan Ville where
Jefferson Davis was captured we actually
found the wagon parts we went down there
to look for mm-hmm it's a bolt it's a
boat Freddie boat threaded bolt I think
what we're seeing is the iron remnants
of six burnt wagons yeah
it sure looks like it to me as we
uncovered the wagon parts
we then uncovered this coin right here
and Gary was very specific when he
pulled that out of the ground he said
that is a Confederate silver coin it's a
coin and it's an old from the Civil War
oh yeah you can see the Stars going all
the way around the edges of it
well I feel nervous because to look at
Marty the treasure hunter I think he
wants to be part of it but Marty is not
an easy sell Ackley got a hack lien for
me
Hackney becomes this exceedingly wealthy
individual claiming that it came from
the lumbering business but he never
could have earned the kind of money that
he spent from the lumbering business so
it had to come from somewhere here
Charles Hackney helped launder this
Confederate gold so in the archives we
were able to find he owned gold mines in
Utah we found that kind of interesting
gold mines and of course smelters with
the gold mines they could melt down the
gold worth which is a very reason we
feel that gold was going across Lake
Michigan out to Utah and then we come
across this article there was a man out
hiking in the mountains out in Utah and
he come across to cave and in the cave
were 280 gold bars all marked US Cavalry
did we bring enough did we share enough
with you to jump onboard with us on this
project financially and help us get a
boat to get to that goal that's on the
bottom of the lake
this is probably your best data I can
tell you for sure without this I would
for sure be out because this is the most
hard day to have this is necessary
because otherwise that gold there's no
business crossing the lake right yeah
but this is gonna be very expensive
I'm not completely convinced that this
is enough to go forward but I'm gonna
tell you I'm convinced enough I guess
I'm s I'm on board
awesome perfect that's more than what we
could ask for yep as I was telling Kevin
that I wasn't completely convinced I
didn't know honestly in my own mind what
the next words were gonna be till they
came out of my mouth
it was vaguely reminiscent of Oak Island
though I mean one of the thoughts in the
back of my mind was this is so familiar
this is enough to keep you going let's
move forward and go to the next step
let's get your boat let's see what it's
at the bottom of Lake Michigan awesome
Marty we can't thank you enough I mean
really these guys have worked tirelessly
they've chased this quest with me and
this is big this is really big now that
we have Marty's support I think the
whole team is just as excited as I am
we made a compelling case that I
verbally said a lot of things I think
with what we demonstrated and what we
showed Marty we got his support and I'm
very grateful for that okay what are we
waiting for let's get to the bottom of
Lake Michigan all right
you