oh what is this is there a cavity here find something oh there’s like a hole here look at this does that go back oh there’s there’s a hole here like a little hole between the Rocks yeah but it go oh it goes way back oh my God like right like right under where you’re sitting is all Hollow like it’s walled off what is it no it’s like another part of the chamber it goes back like a few feet how far does it go it goes back as far as I can see what dude it’s like a whole another room oh my [Music] God we step out into a steady rain on the edge of the property rumored to hold a Reno Hideout cave damp but undeterred we weighed into the stream now do we have any specifics about the cave itself what it looks like we just know that it was a really large opening okay the cavern itself is supposed to be big enough to ride horses into and several men be able to spend the night as a Hideway to get away from the the law okay so it’s not going to be some small discreet thing no it’s got to be big enough to horses would go into right what about the carvings he mentioned earlier supposed to be uh a boulder out in front of the cave and it’s got someone’s carved a hand print and a a horseshoe a Sunburst well that’s at least super specific it is find that we know we’re in the spot we’re going to know it when we see it for sure as the rain continues to fall we Trek through the creek keeping our eyes peeled but they don’t need to stay peeled for long oh what’s that look at that that is a cave that is definitely a cave that has to be what we’re looking for oh my God this fits the description to a team the cave appears to fit the bill but is it the Reno gang’s Hideout that remains to be seen But what I can tell you right now is that this is awesome if this is it then there should be symbols here right in the Rocks should be a boulder with symbols and there should be gold and silver buried somewhere near the entrance outside or inside that we don’t know okay we got to search everywhere we begin to metal detect while continuing to search for the mysterious symbols that are said to Adorn the Reno gang’s cave Josh Josh what do you got oh man I got carvings what rock carvings get out of here oh my god look look that’s a horseshoe that is a horseshoe and I got a hand that is a handprint deep in the Wilds of Indiana I’m searching for a remote cave that was reportedly used as a hideout for the legendary train robbing Reno gang and these markings may have just sealed the deal no way Troy this is real this is actually here these are initials these are initials that is an S for sure could be Simeon oh yes right Simeon Reno remember the Reno gang and that’s an M or a w that could be a w w could be William William Reno another brother that’s the look at that Circle in the middle and Rays coming out of it it’s a perfect representation this is actually here I don’t want to sound rude but I assumed this Legend was yeah this story of these carvings outside of this cave that part of it is true this is real I love it when a legend comes to life amen [Music] Wow Let’s look around on these slopes next to the cave this area looks pretty undisturbed I think it’d be a lot easier to bury something here in the dirt than it would down in the gravels of the cave and less chance of it getting swept away good point yep let’s look around so we move up to the bank of the creek to see if we can make a valuable withdrawal something here for sure Josh I’ve got a screaming hit over here yeah I got something here too it’s down about 8 in Josh I’ve got a mason jar lid over here you do does it look old oh definitely he still got the porcelain liner in it I mean that’s exactly what we’re looking for that’s part of this story right they’re burying stuff in fruit jars mason jars that’s right this very well could have held some coins well look around there for sure I got something here I don’t know what it is it’s right there we know that the Reno gang buried gold Double Eagle coins in fruit jars this could be a sign that we’re on top of another cache we may be inches from Treasure that’s deep enough down that could be something old oh holy Troy Troy yeah come here oh okay oh I got something I thought this was a spoon but it’s not look at this I think that’s a musketball mold it’s deep enough for a small caliber look you can see this you clearly see where it was hinged this was hinged and this is hollow that is right in the time period that’s like Civil War air not everybody carried those with them sitting around a campfire nothing to do so you’re making some extra bullets muskets weren’t fully replaced by revolvers until the late 19th century and the Reno gang would certainly have had some in their Arsenal find of the day right there nicely done that’s incredible and that and that jarid you got it’s right over there correct just right there I feel like maybe we’re in like a camp yeah big time the evidence of habitation is piling up quickly out here but it’s now time as a wise man once said to show me the money TR I’m still getting a signal down here in the same hole Yeah right near it what have you got I don’t know man so here I’ll turn this off I get a hit on the right side here do you get that I think there’s one right there boy that feels like there’s something there I see that shovel dry digging right there okay I’m going to take out a big piece see if that gets us [Music] anywhere oh oh oh oh oh oh is little silver circle is that a coin get the hell out of here is that a [Music] coin oh my gosh it is that is a coin that’s silver that’s silver right there look at that shine the Target that was trying to get away from us are you kidding me there’s somebody on it that’s a Seated dime what what is a Seated dime oh mid 1800s get out of here early to mid 1800s H more time there should be a date right underneath of that seated woman I know this sounds crazy but I swear to you it says 1840 something 41 43 Josh you nailed an old coin are you kidding me named for the seated image of Liberty on its face a Seated dime from the Reno era is a huge deal it’s potentially valuable from a collectible standpoint but more importantly it puts a firm date on when people were using this area dude this is literally buried silver you know the legend said they buried silver and gold near the mouth of the cave you found silver near the mouth of the cave um literally speechless and this was right next to that bullet mold handle that’s right I mean a foot away that’s a great coin any day of the year wow as is gorgeous it’s beautiful Buri treasure check we continue to search for signs of a shipwreck suddenly mindful of Bridget’s suggestion to search carefully do not put your hand that first my God backing up B B that is the largest B eel I have ever seen Mor eels aren’t venomous but their jaws and teeth are powerful with bites prone to to infection I’m so busy looking down I fail to notice the shadow overhead well CH look up whoa look at that it’s huge whale sharks are the largest fish in the ocean growing up to 60 ft long they’re gentle Giants gliding through the waves and dwarfing us in their wake what a thrill with the whale sharks swimming away we refocus on the mission Josh let’s head to our Target area current’s going to change through all right let’s do it fighting the currents as we scour the seabed something catches Bridget’s eye I got something here I think it’s oh my God Ceramics we got Pottery here look there’s a ton of them this looks like a cargo in the Indian Ocean I’m looking for evidence of Africa’s Atlantis the very real sunken port city of rapta which was once the southernmost Roman Trade Center on the continent we’ve just discovered a collection of ceramic vessels and resting beside them Bridget what do you make of these Stones they don’t look like they belong here they look different these may be B Stones Josh this is good this may be the evidence that we are dealing with a shipwreck ballast Stones were once used to steady the holes of ships weighing them down in the water so they wouldn’t tip over if this ship was made of wood it’s possible these Stones could be the only thing to survive centuries underwater so we likely have a shipwreck finding out if it’s from Rapa though will mean identifying its cargo so virent how are we going to date these paths we can have Alex identify one before attempting to raise one of the pots we have to carefully select one strong enough to survive the trip Josh this one’s quite vared it’s probably in good condition stand away the sand around it loosen it up a little we’ll do trying to be as delicate as I can I don’t want to crack it who knows how long this has been here from top side Alexandra sends down a recovery basket to cradle and raise our find it’s coming loose here we go careful careful okay let’s get that basket in here okay here we go let’s pick it up careful careful [Music] okay we got it it’s in we’re going to escort it up happy that safely loaded we bring the artifact to the surface until at long last this piece of pottery sees the light of day for what may be the first time in centuries oh wow it’s a complete vessel look at this all right let’s try to get that careful up we go careful this is amazing we never find complete V like this I’m always working with shs that are the size of a quarter you guys have a full vessel here it’s really beautiful I mean it is just almost complete now you are the queen of pottery here as I understand it so if you had to date this what would you say I would say that this is definitely post-medieval so not old enough not the Smoking Gun of Rapa not Rapa but the site was obviously important throughout history at the very least it does indicate that we may be in the right area any evidence is good evidence you guys had an amazing find today great work oh boy I’m riding through the woods of Pennsylvania with historian and Mario Kart Enthusiast Clint Flack we’re heading for a cave where the notorious revolutionary eraone gang may have hid millions in gold and [Music] silver we’re moving in the right direction but still nothing that sheds light on the Dones until oh hold on oh hold on hold on hold on whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa what is this oh is that part of a lamp it yes look at that it is it’s an oil lamp piece oh my word that is part of an oil lamp yep you can see the adjuster right there and the wick would have come out right there the top and it makes you wonder was somebody down here with this some early Explorer right I mean this would have been the headlamp of the day right right with the dones down here lighting their way in their Hideout this is so so cool this is incredible the artifacts we’re finding are bringing us closer to the Don’s era but we’re quickly running out of ground to cover oh what is this is there a cavity here find something there’s like a hole here look at this does that go back oh there’s there’s a hole here like a little hole between the Rocks yeah but it go oh it goes way back oh my God we right like right under where you’re sitting is all Hollow like it’s walled off what is it no it’s like another part of the chamber it goes back like a few feet how far does it go it goes back as far as I can see what dude it’s like a whole another room oh my gosh I think the floor of your chamber is down here oh my gosh look at how far far back that goes oh my God another teamer oh my God there’s a whole room down there there is right yeah holy oh my God like this is not the back of this chamber at all it goes way back oh my Goonies this is an actual blocked passage to a deeper section of this cave I think that somebody stacked these rocks up when they closed the cave off you think somebody walled this there’s clearly rocks stacked an in there’s an intent they’re trying to wall off this chamber we got to get in there that’s insane it’s insane can you see anything is there anything on the floor I mean rocks and it looks like untouched dirt it’s like the surface of the Moon like no one’s walked there in a 100 years or more okay this is amazing you don’t happen to see any inscriptions in there do you I can’t see that far back particularly Mone not yet but according to the newspaper article it should be this direction right it should be in this side well we got to get in there we got to get in there I mean now we got to move some serious Rock a l of rock I mean just the one you’re sitting on here feels like it’s going to be a chore and where’s this stuff going we got to get it up top we got to get it out of the way it’s going up it’s going up okay can you break them apart yeah with a jackhammer well sure but we’re not going a jackhammer down here right here we go the hammer is effective but it’s leaving a lot of rubble in its wake fortunately Clint has even more help at his disposal he’s called up the property owner Frank ltina who brings in some heavy metal okay Frank yes we’re going to need a lot of buckets all right coming down we run a Bucket Brigade to send the broken rocks to the top okay Frank pull it up where Frank empties them into a front loader to take them away bucket by bucket we clear the fragments from the cave hopefully getting us nearer to entering the ch chamber it [Music] up The Rock has been cleared away from the passage we get our first good look into the newly opened chamber of what we hope is the cave with Moses Don’s inscription all right how’s it look I think we’re almost ready to go in is that wide enough for you to pass through yeah I can get in there okay can I get in there you can definitely get in there all right you ready yeah nice and slow [Music] you in I’m in okay I’m try and come down okay oh my God oh my God you see anything down there there’s initials all over the place what oh my word there’s initials on the walls it’s everywhere historian Clint Flack has been searching for a cave mentioned in an 1859 letter that’s supposed to contain an inscription from the notorious D gang this really matches the description of the cave it matches it perfectly I mean this chamber is supposed to have it’s like a roof where two rocks meet and make a peak and then it tapers into a smaller point where it just dies off that’s insane look at these initials so j a w y and then over here J A and lore up here yeah look at this J R and then it looks like a diamond with a little Diamond what does that mean and more here oh my God it’s w i mean it’s everywhere and then there’s more down there more down there so somewhere in this chamber supposedly is the inscription Mone yeah so the article by Joseph fell right says that the the inscription that says Mone should be where in this direction right in this chamber he says it’s on the Southeast wall right and it’s how far in it’s as far as a man can reach and 9 ft up from the bottom I mean that should be somewhere around here right we searched the back of the chamber for Don’s initials hoping that the elements haven’t worn them away oh I got an M I got an M right here yeah oh my God that is an M for sure and then some sort of faded initial next to it but I can’t tell if that used to be a d or if this is something else part of a g I don’t know but it looks like there might have been something under it at one point as well oh my gosh I mean could that have said 1775 right there that would be amazing what do you think M for Moses it is the only M we’ve seen in this cave maybe that’s all this left is the m maybe maybe I’ll tell you what I’ll take it it can no longer be denied this is the right place the writing is literally on the wall I can’t believe this is here Clint I don’t want to say that I doubted you I totally doubted you I’m sorry I have to say it I mean I knew that you had found a cave I knew that it was historic obviously we were finding artifacts but the idea that it was this cave from the article and that it hadn’t been destroyed I mean it seems impossible it seems completely impossible for us to be here in this place in this moment looking at all of these initials I’ve spent my whole life trying to be right here you made it I did it this is one of the best days of my life oh man I’m so happy I could be here to see it I’m glad you’re here too this is incredible [Music]
