What Does Josh Gates Discover at this Hidden Grave in Poland? | Expedition Unknown | Discovery

Check it out. Something big hit?

Yeah. This is where.

This is just right behind us, in a churchyard outside of the Polish town of Volyn.

I’m working with a team searching for the lost tomb of the Viking King Harald Bluetooth. And our ground penetrating radar is indicating there’s something large beneath us.

How deep down is that?

Well, it’s 6 to 10 feet down.

Oh, it’s huge.

Here it is. So this. This runs this whole area here.

Exactly how wide is it?

Well, it’s three feet wide and three feet high.

Ten feet is a pretty big hole. You think we can dig down to that?

I think we can. We can bring in the equipment, equipment, equipment. We have a kupaka.

Oh, I love a kupaka. A kupaka is what the locals call an excavator. And it just so happens to be the only word I know in Polish.

Hey, not my first rodeo here, people.

The kabaka goes to work next to the anomaly. Believe it or not, as I watch, the only word for this I can come up with is gentle. Even though we’ve got this piece of heavy equipment here, he is using the excavator like a scalpel, just shaving off an inch or two of topsoil at a time so that we carefully go down, creating a profile and not damaging whatever’s buried here.

While this hole is being dug. Let’s assume that Bluetooth is here. Yeah. What would we be looking for? What do we expect to find here?

Well. First of all, we’re looking for a crypt, right?

He’s not just going to be laid out in the ground.

No. Ideally, he’d be in a chamber of some kind.

In a chamber. We would expect to find a place with treasure. We would expect that he would probably be in finery, in armor. Maybe with a sword on his chest. Right. Other weapons.

In other words, I think we’ll know it when we see it.

Yes, absolutely.

The excavator slowly digs deeper and deeper, but nothing is visible in the profile of the earth until…

The top stops.

Whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait.

That’s ceramic. Okay. Something ceramic?

No. Oh, is that… Bone?

Yeah. It’s a skull. Skull. Oh, this is part of a human skull.

Wait. Check. Skull?

Yes. Yes, skull.

We’re not in a burial here, though.

No, these are not preserved graves. The layers of soil near the surface have been churned like a laundry machine for centuries. And bone fragments, both animal and human, are littered all over the area.

Okay. But we may find more bones then.

Yeah, we could just… We could expect more.

All right, let’s continue. As we move deeper, we continue to find scattered remains from long ago.

Got another bone here, it looks like.

This is an arm bone.

This is from the arm?

Yeah.

This is a humerus.

There’s nothing funny about this.