The boys are calling you
the Silver Fox. [narrator]<i> Rick and Marty Lagina
are about to join the operation</i> <i> to help Dumas reach
the potential treasure tunnel</i> <i> located just below
the garden shaft.</i> 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]<i> Before Dumas
can finish construction</i> <i> on the final wooden set</i> <i> that will extend the
garden shaft into the tunnel,</i> <i> several feet of hard clay
must be removed.</i> <i> It is a task
that Rick and Marty</i> <i> are more than eager
to help complete.</i> 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. <i> All kinds of thoughts are
streaming through my head.</i> <i> I mean, you can't help it.</i> <i> This is an exciting moment.</i> Ready. <i> We're gonna go down deep</i> <i> into the garden shaft,
big brother and I.</i> -[Paul] All set.
-[Rick] Let's go. My brother and I
are gonna be miners, and our heritage is mining. <i> Our grandfather came here</i> <i> in order to work in the mines
up in Michigan.</i> <i> It's really an amazing thing
that's happening here.</i> 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]<i> In order to break up
the hard clay</i> <i> below the shaft,</i> <i> Rick and Marty are using
a pneumatic jackhammer.</i> <i> Then representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited</i> <i> will use the three-ton
hammer grab tool</i> <i> to remove the materials.</i> [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 <i> It is some of the hardest work
I've done in many years.</i> All right, break time. [all] Whoa, whoa! [Rick]<i> In the moment,</i> <i> I'm an eyes and boots guy.
I'm down there.</i> 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]<i> I thought at the bottom
of the spade bit</i> <i>that I was on top of something,</i> and I thought, "Wow,
maybe I'm on a tunnel." [narrator]<i> Could Rick Lagina's
speculation</i> <i> that he may have reached
the mysterious</i> <i> and potentially ancient tunnel
be correct?</i> [dramatic music playing] <i> If so, the team may be
closer than ever</i> <i> to the answers and reward...</i> <i> that they've worked for more
than a decade to uncover.</i> [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. <i> So we need to keep going.</i> <i> We could be closer
than we've ever been</i> <i> to this actual treasure,</i> <i> or to where it was deposited.</i> 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]<i>
Later that afternoon...</i> [Paul]<i> So it seems like
we hit your target. Finally.</i> -You found her?
-Yeah. [chuckles] [narrator]<i> Rick Lagina,</i> <i> Scott Barlow,
and Craig Tester</i> <i> have just received
long-awaited news.</i> <i> After extending
the garden shaft</i> <i> to an approximate depth
of 95 feet</i> <i> in the money pit area,</i> <i> representatives from
Dumas Contracting Limited</i> <i>have finally reached a believed
seven-foot-high tunnel</i> <i> that leads toward
the baby blob,</i> <i> and perhaps a vast cache
of buried treasure.</i> -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]<i> Maybe, finally,
we can actually</i> <i> put eyes and boots
on the tunnel</i> <i> that was found by
the sonic drill program.</i> You get a little bit of chills. Let's go take a peek. <i> It's been frustratingly slow
at times,</i> <i> but it's exciting.</i> [Gary] Good luck, guys. -I'll take you a picture.
-Thanks. [Rick]<i> If it was original,
it's our belief</i> <i> that we're
talking hundreds of years ago.</i> [chuckles] Now, that...
that raises the bar. <i> There's hope, there's promise,</i> <i> there's the "you might find
the one thing,"</i> <i> so I think there are
some answers here.</i> 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]<i> There's only so much
you can see</i> <i> between the clay, the water...</i> but it's real, and that's
the important part. <i> There's a wood structure
down there.</i> <i> And at that point
it becomes, "Okay,</i> 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. <i> We did probe the logs</i> 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]<i> And the hope is
to extend the shaft</i> to explore this further. [over monitor]<i> We'll excavate,
square it up,</i> <i> and then keep digging.</i> [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<i> Reader's
Digest</i> article, <i>it does bring your mind back to</i> <i> round logs in the original
money pit,</i> <i> round logs in this feature,</i> <i> and so I don't have to believe
that we're making progress</i> <i> in solving the mystery,</i> 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]<i> You can't help but let
your mind go on this.</i> [chuckles] After 15 years, <i> we may be just a few feet</i> <i> above original work.</i> <i> It could be it.
It could be the thing.</i> 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.
