Josh Gates Finds Silver Coins in Bootlegger Tunnels! | Expedition Unknown

That’s the entrance to the tunnel.
You’re gonna have to crawl in there.
Are we doing this? Let’s do it. Yeah, all right.
Ashley, you keep the moonshine cold.
All right, all right, we’ll be back.
Boy.
Okay, are you ready?
Yeah.
Okay, here we go.

These tunnels were a secret underground highway where illegal booze could be transported under the property. Who knows what kind of maze is under our feet, or what could be living down there.

So,
it goes straight back. I can see that.
About 20 feet down, there’s some sort of pipe that bisects the tunnel. And then, beyond that, maybe 30 or 40 feet down, it looks like a shaft of light.

So you think there’s another way in?
Well, there’s definitely a sliver of light coming through, so maybe.

Okay, time to shimmy. Yeah, can somebody heat up a stick of butter for me, please?
Player.
Okay, there you go.
There you go. You got it.
Okay, I’m through.
He’s in like Clinton. Oh, okay.

I’m in. How’s it look down there?
It’s great. You’re gonna love it.
It definitely goes back, I don’t know, 60 feet or so. Looks fairly stable in here, at least.

Fairly stable. You guys want to come down?
Yeah.

Steve and Ryan climb in after me and hand over my trusty metal detector.
Thank God I only ate half that wrap for lunch.

Okay.
All right, welcome everybody. All the piping in here looks really old. I don’t think anyone’s been down here in a while.

With slightly more room to breathe, we’re able to actively search the tunnel.
Lots of bones down here.
Animal parts. Gross.
Nothing up here.
[Music]

Ryan, you see anything up there?
Nothing yet.
Check this out.
What do you got?
Oh, look at that.
Top of an old jug.

That is so cool. This could literally be a bottle of bootlegged moonshine.
Yeah, piece of prohibition history right there.

Our discovery has us feeling intoxicated at the thought of what else could be down here, and we keep scanning every inch of the tunnel.

Oh, I got a good hit over here.
What? Yep, you do?
Yep. What do you got?
That’s a coin.
Get out of here. Are you kidding me?

That is a coin, dude.
Unbelievable. Look at this.
Yeah, it’s silver.
Damn right, it’s silver. Look at how clean it is.
Eagle on the back. E pluribus unum. United States of America.
This is a half dollar.
Yeah.
Yeah, a walking liberty.

A walking liberty.
Other than being worn, though, it’s just absolutely incredible the condition it’s in.
Anyone know walking liberty years?
Roughly 1915, 1916 until the late ’40s. So, we’re in the period here.
700, definitely. I mean, right in the period here.
Yeah.

So there is definitely people coming through these tunnels with money in their pockets. I mean, come on.
That is so dope.

Okay, the first of many, I hope.
Amen, let’s keep looking. Come on.

In the darkness just ahead of us, we realize our tunnel singular has just turned into tunnels plural.
Josh, we got a ladder here.
What?
Oh, look at that.
Where does that go up to?
I can’t see where it goes, but let’s try up the ladder and then we can continue forward after.
Sounds like a plan. All right, give it a whirl. Let’s see what you got.

Ryan leads the way with Steve and I close behind.
All right, coming up.
Look at this.
It’s like a hallway.

Dude, there is a door here.
Whoa, look at this thing.
Holy, look at the size of the door, and look at the size of the hinges.
Yeah, this right here, the cutout, this is the kind of thing you put in a door when you’re trying to control access to it. You know, if you’ve got something in here and you want to control who’s coming through.

Okay, here, can you pull that?
Oh.
Wow.
This is crazy.

Also, guys, what’s the password?
Touch.
That’s correct.
[Music]

Wow, it’s huge.
Look at this brick.
What do you think?
This is definitely part of the oven or furnace.
Totally right. This could have been a chimney or something. Looks like we got something boarded up there that might have been vents.

And they were cooking moonshine in here, right?
Oh yeah, for sure. It looks like it’s bomb-proof.
I was just thinking the same thing. I mean, look at the thickness of this concrete. It’s insane.
You wouldn’t get in here.
No, you wouldn’t get in here at all. No treasure, no moonshine left behind.

Back down the ladder?
I think so.
Boy, it just keeps going and going.
The maze where lost in was once traveled by Dutch and his gang of bootleggers as they distilled hooch and moved it secretly beneath the farm to who knows where. But that’s not to say they didn’t leave anything behind.

Oh, I got… I got something good here.
You do?
Yep.
Get out of here.
Are you kidding me?
It’s like a pocket watch.

Really?
This is insane. Come here, look at this.
This is crazy.
You gotta be kidding me. Look at this.
Oh my God, look at that.

Crazy.
And it says,
West Clock.

Dax. Like, think like there’s guys going through there with this stuff on their bodies. Like, this is period.
It’s definitely another piece to the puzzle of what’s going on here in this tunnel system. Incredible.

Look at that. Like, have you noticed, like, the farther we get deeper, the better the finds are?
It’s incredible.
Absolutely. So, let’s keep going.

We continue down the tunnel and there’s a lot of continuing to go.
They may have chiropractors in this town.
Okay.

Oh.
Oh.
Guys, just found another huge tunnel. It goes as far as the eye can see.
I’m not kidding, this is starting to get crazy.

Look at this.
Oh, wow.
Insane, right? How’s that possible? Look at it. Look at that.
I don’t even feel like I’m in New York anymore.
No, gosh, no. We’re in the pyramids now. I mean, it’s sloping uphill. What do you think?
You go that way, and Steve and I will go this way, and then we’ll meet you up top.

You’re less excited about going on the uphill tunnel.
Well, I know travel’s downhill.
[Applause]

Is that someone’s gotta go up there?
What do you think? Split up? Rock, paper, scissors?
Odd man.
Oh, it’s one, two, three, shoot. One, two, three, shoot.
Oh, that’s a tough break, Ryan. I never win.

Okay, good luck.
Yeah. All right, like, all right, I’ll let you know. Be safe.
Here we go. That’s for us.

Back into the darkness, Steve, here we go. Let’s go.
[Music]

Oh.
Hold on, look at this.
What the hell is this?
Oh, dude, do you see this?
Yeah.

Well, is that a room?
What is a whole room?
Oh my God.

What is that?
I don’t know what it is, man. A raccoon maybe?
Whoa.

My concern is that this whole floor here looks like it’s about to give way above us.
It’s given way totally. I mean, it’s just being held up by the debris now. So, I don’t know what the hell this is. I think we should stick to this concrete wall.
Yeah, for sure. And just try to hug the corner. I wouldn’t touch any of this. It looks like it’s all gonna fall.
This is crazy.
Holy hell.

I think we’re in a house.
This is outdoors. We lost the light, it’s dark out. That’s a tree. God.
This place just never ends.
It’s crazy. There’s a trunk in here.
There’s a trunk? Yeah, look at that.

It’s amazing, dude. Look at this. There is literally a trunk in here.
You can’t… I mean, I can’t even step there because I’ll go right into that basement.
Yeah, you can see, look at the floor. You gotta be careful.
[Music]

Anything?
Just spider webs. I think this house is as old as the distillery.
Obviously, it is. The tunnels come into it, but it must have been remodeled over time, and somebody must have been living in it until eventually it was abandoned.

Originally, I bet you this was part of that whole labyrinth. There was a whole reason this place was here, for sure.
Right. Let’s get out of here before this whole thing collapses