The Doan Gang’s Secret Cave | Expedition Unknown | Discovery

There are initials on the walls. There’s
all kinds of carvings in here. H
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 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, yep. 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 a W. I mean,
it’s everywhere. And then there’s more down
there. There’s more down there.

So somewhere in this chamber, supposedly, is the
inscription “Mone.” Yeah.

So the article by Joseph Fellwright says that 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 search 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 game. Maybe that’s all that’s
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.

After decades of searching,
Clint has found the cave he’s been
looking for since he was 8 years old.
But this is only the beginning. The chamber
has just started to reveal the secrets
of the D gang, and Clint has his work cut
out for him to fully excavate the site.

As for the Dons themselves, the ending of
their story does not lie in this
cave.