[detector blares]
Whoa.
What?
NARRATOR: In El Paso, Texas, Marty Lagina and Matty Blake,
along with treasure hunters Jackson Polk and Enrique
Guajardo, and metal detection expert Gypsy Jewels,
have just discovered evidence of a void,
and metal objects beneath the floor of the Stash House,
once used by the famed Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
GYPSY JEWELS: There's definitely a fairly
large object right there.
It's right on the box.
JACKSON POLK: Mhm.
But Gypsy, you're sure it's metal?
This machine would not go off unless there
was some metal in there.
So--
Oh my, and that's a big bunch of metal.
GYPSY JEWELS: There's something big right there.
JACKSON POLK: Well, we're going to find out soon.
ENRIQUE GUAJARDO: How 'bout this?
Let's get it out? [laughter]
Yeah.
How 'bout we quit guessing?
ENRIQUE GUAJARDO: Yeah. Let's go.
Let's go for it. - All right.
JACKSON POLK: Let do it. MARTY LAGINA: Go get cutter.
Let's go. - All right.
We'll be back.
We'll get the heck out of your way.
CINDY MEDINA: I'm excited. - We're this close.
Great job.
I knew. I knew coming would pay off.
We've done the house.
Let's go do the yard.
MATTY BLAKE: We've got to get the same technology
we used in the house outside the house on this back lot.
We got to run a grid pattern GPR survey, look at the data,
and see if there's any targets.
There you go.
All right.
MATTY BLAKE: I.e.
Voids, spaces, perfectly square objects, things like that.
We can identify the targets and then hopefully dig.
Well, it looks like we do have something here, gentlemen.
Look at this scan right here.
We got an anomaly right there.
This is a dark indication.
MARTY LAGINA: Oh yeah, that's nice.
--that there's obviously something there.
What you think?
It's anomalous, anyway.
Yeah.
I would recommend the digging commence right here.
X marks the spot.
Is this the only anomaly?
Well, I think it wouldn't hurt to take
another pass in this direction.
Please.
[suspenseful music]
Well, hey, it looks like we got another point of interest
here, guys.
Really?
Kind of the same signature as we're seeing over there.
ENRIQUE GUAJARDO: Oh, yes.
Mark it, please.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of looking like there might have
been a series of tunnels here.
Maybe partially filled in.
CINDY MEDINA: Villa used tunnels to store weapons,
ammunition, money, escape.
You know, the one La Quinta Luz in Chihuahua City,
was big enough to even ride horses underneath.
OK.
CINDY MEDINA: Yeah.
Well, that's what we're--
He could've done that here.
Is this a tunnel running along the outside,
the back of the house?
The other thing I see is that the first target
seems to line up with the hole dug in the stash house.
So is that a tunnel?
Do we have a tunnel system now?
It's definitely possible.
NARRATOR: During the Mexican Revolution,
Pancho Villa's use of elaborate tunnel systems
is well documented.
For his estate in Chihuahua, purchased in 1911,
and which is now the Historical Museum
of the Mexican Revolution, Villa commissioned elaborate tunnels
to be built under the property.
Constructed from brick, cement and sandy clay,
he used the tunnels to secretly hide and move
soldiers, weapons, provisions, and even horses,
along with the riches he accumulated
during the course of his numerous heists and robberies.
Is it possible that the team has now found evidence of tunnels
on this property, where Pancho villa
was known to have hidden valuables
more than a century ago?
I would find it hard to believe that a place he
spent this much time at, he wouldn't
have some sort of escape plan. Right?
- He had to. - Yeah.
OK.
Well, let's find it out.
MATTY BLAKE: All right, let's go.
[suspenseful music]
Oh my god, what does he have?
Nice.
Well, that's a serious machine.
It's not really a treasure hunt until Marty
Lagina is in an excavator.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Step forward, yeah.
Cool as a cucumber!
OH yeah, baby.
[cheers]
CINDY MEDINA: Perfect.
JACKSON POLK: Hey.
MATTY BLAKE: That wasn't easy.
MARTY LAGINA: Success.
Scoop number one, coming up.
Oh yeah.
MATTY BLAKE: Hey, we've broken ground
at Pancho Villa's Stash House.
ENRIQUE GUAJARDO: Yep.
[speaking spanish] Woo!
There's a brick.
You see, there's--
Another brick.
That's different-color dirt.
I think there's something there.
- Right there. - What do you got?
You think that's a coin?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Oh my god, it does look like a coin.
Where?
You see a coin?
JACKSON POLK: It is.
GYPSY JEWELS: It's a coin. MATTY BLAKE: Wow.
- Really? - Right there.
Wow.
It's got a green patina.
Well, you just found that?
You two just found that with your eyes?
Well, we both kinda saw it at the same--
JACKSON POLK: Yeah.
It came up from a pretty far depth.
Oh, it is smaller, yes.
JACKSON POLK: What is that?
What is it, Gypsy? MATTY BLAKE: Wow.
JACKSON POLK: Is it an eagle?
GYPSY JEWELS: Oh, it is a foreign coin, I think.
MATTY BLAKE: See the ridging around the end?
GYPSY JEWELS: Yes.
Ooh.
It's got a lot of patina, Marty.
It's green.
More than likely, copper.
MATTY BLAKE: I know what this is.
ENRIQUE GUAJARDO: What?
That would be a Mexican penny, my friends.
- Ah. - Mhm.
Centavo.
And there's a--
It's got the C for centavo.
MATTY BLAKE: OK.
CINDY MEDINA: The wreath.
GYPSY JEWELS: Can you see a date?
CINDY MEDINA: Hard to tell what's back here.
GYPSY JEWELS: May I check?
It is--
Can you read a word?
1905.
[cheering]
We're on the trail of Pancho Villa!
Right.
That puts it right in the time frame we want it.
Finding a 1905 coin is significant to us,
especially here at the Villa Stash House.
Because when the raid happened, that was 1915.
Even though the coin is from 1905, that was in circulation.
So that could have been dropped by one
of the Mexican Revolutionaries visiting the house at the time.