Welcome to the Stash House.
Yeah.
MARTY: Clearly we're at the right place.
All right?
MATTY: This is great.
Very cool.
Hey! How are you guys?
How are you? Welcome.
- This is Enrique? - Enrique.
- Cindy. - Enrique, nice meeting you.
Good to meet you.
NARRATOR: The former hideout, or Stash House,
of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa
is now a historical landmark.
Well, welcome to the Stash House.
NARRATOR: And was purchased by Enrique Guajardo, in 2015.
To help in today's search of the property,
Enrique has also invited the US Representative
of the Pancho Villa Foundation, Cindy Medina, to join the team.
- Very cool. - It's incredible.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: It was Cindy who introduced Enrique to Jackson,
in the hopes that he could help organize an effort to verify
if any of Villa's plundered fortune
remains hidden on the grounds today.
It's a very unique piece of property.
And it carries a lot of history.
My plans for the stash house is to convert it
into a restaurant, bar, museum, or Galleria.
But we stopped the renovation.
Because we started finding so many artifacts so many items
that belong to Pancho Villa.
So we wanted to have a professional help here,
in the site.
It's now or it's never.
Let's have a look, if it's OK.
Let's go.
Come on in.
Marty, we're about to walk through Poncho
Villa's front door.
We're stepping in his footsteps.
I love it.
NARRATOR: Between 1910 and 1920, during the height
of the Mexican Revolution--
To Pancho Villa's lair.
NARRATOR: --this adobe structure,
which sits only 1,000 feet from the US/Mexico border--
This is awesome.
NARRATOR: --was an ideal hiding place
to stash weapons and treasure that
could help Pancho Villa wage war against the government
of Mexico.
Built in 1899, both the house and the 4,200 square feet
of grounds surrounding it have never
been searched using modern scanning
and metal-detecting technology.
However, when Enrique began to remodel the property
earlier this year, he quickly made
some surprising discoveries.
This is it.
This is where he used to hide weapons, jewelry, cash.
Oh, wow.
I mean, this is the first thing that my eye catches.
You found this?
Yes.
Actually, when we start renovating the house,
we lift the floors.
And when we were lifting the floors,
we saw some holes in here.
Oh my gosh.
So this was under the floor?
ENRIQUE: This was under the floor, yeah.
MATTY: This is the original flooring here?
ENRIQUE: That's the original flooring.
Briefcase was here as well.
MATTY: That was the actual briefcase in there?
ENRIQUE: Yes, sir.
I mean, that must have been an incredible moment,
opening that briefcase.
What was in it?
It was empty.
There was something there at one time, it's just no doubt.
There's just no doubt.
You just don't do that.
Is it the Lone Ranger?
I don't think so.
There's got to be more of these around, Matty.
Yeah. That's right.
Sure, sure.
We'd love to help you find some.
Do you guys believe that we will find something of value
here on this property?
Most definitely.
Yes.
People used to bury their treasures on the backyards.
And he has some horse stables right
in the back in the patios.
- Let's look at that. - Oh, wow.
Let me keep showing you?
Yeah.
ENRIQUE: Yeah, right here used to be the horse stables.
MATTY: Mhm?
Wow.
ENRIQUE: He used to keep all his horses.
Remember, he used to travel with his military.
Of course.
So it was more than 20 horses here.
Has this ever been metal detected?
No, sir.
MARTY: Oh, really?
MATTY: Oh, that's good. - Ooh, you're gonna love this.
Yeah MATTY: That's good.
You haven't even really done a treasure
hunt or a proper search. - Nah.
But in your just, work here, you found stuff?
Yes, I have.
That's why you guys are here.
We find boxes, boxes, and boxes of stuff.
Let's have a look, please.
I'll show you.
Let's take a look, please.
Please.
This is the soldier's house, right here.
OK.
[suspenseful music]
So we've got bullets and dynamite as well.
- Oh! - Oh.
ENRIQUE: Look at this.
MARTY: Let's play with that.
MATTY: I mean, historically, is this something that Pancho
Villa would have used? Oh yeah, look at that.
Yeah, the old stick of dynamite. ENRIQUE: Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
MATTY: The old stick of dynamite.
ENRIQUE: Oh Yeah.
Pancho Villa would use dynamite.
He loaded up a train one time, lit it
off and sent the train down the tracks, took care of what was--
what was down track.
And this is probably the most interesting.
Oh. MATTY: Oh yeah.
ENRIQUE: Silver coins.
MARTY: Oh, wow!
Ooh, baby. Ooh.
CINDY MEDINA: I like the sound of that.
ENRIQUE: And bills.
Yeah, that does sound nice, doesn't it?
Doesn't it?
And bills from the 1900s.
MATTY: My goodness.
Hold that.
That's awesome.
And where was that found?
ENRIQUE: That was inside here, the soldiers' house.
Oh, look at that.
This is issued by the State of Chihuahua.
Really?
Yeah, "El Estado de Chihuahua," right?
It says.
MATTY: So's this one.
That's where he was from.
So could this be the so-called Pancho Villa money?
That is right.
It is?
That is right.
He was the Governor of Chihuahua,
and we have Chihuahua bills.
Exactly.
That's-- that's at his Stash House?
- At his Stash House, yeah. - Right.
I don't think there's any doubt
that Pancho Villa was here.
No. I mean, look.
No.
I am fully convinced, OK?
Yeah.
If he has found this much material in just working here,
and no digging, no technology, he's just eyeing these things.
I mean, what else can we find here today?
So the GPR Team is almost here.
Gypsy will be here any minute.
So let's get going.
- Let's find you more. - Let's get it.
- All right. - OK.
Good stuff.