1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,700 We have a lawsuit that alleges that Brother 12 here has taken inappropriate funds and misused them. 2 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:21,000 Witness, if you will, a courtroom, though it's about to transform into a circus. 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:28,900 At the center of the proceedings is a most unusual man, who calls himself Brother 12. 4 00:00:28,900 --> 00:00:34,700 He is the spiritual leader of a secretive cult that operates on a mysterious island off the coast. 5 00:00:34,700 --> 00:00:39,700 And today, he's being sued by his bookkeeper for mismanagement of funds. 6 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:44,500 To use for his own nefarious purposes. This man right here. 7 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:47,800 Thomas P. Morton is the lawyer prosecuting Brother 12. 8 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:52,700 He's in the midst of making an argument when suddenly something goes terribly wrong. 9 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:03,700 The lawyer drops like a stone collapsing onto the courtroom floor. 10 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:14,500 And soon after, multiple people in the gallery pass out as well. 11 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:20,000 The judge attempts to regain control over the situation. 12 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:27,900 But soon finds himself unable to speak. 13 00:01:27,900 --> 00:01:34,400 And instead begins growling like a dog. 14 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:41,100 And in the midst of the chaos, Brother 12 calmly rises in the gallery as the courtroom empties out. 15 00:01:41,100 --> 00:01:42,900 So who is this man? 16 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:45,600 Does he truly possess supernatural powers? 17 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:50,400 And where are the millions of dollars in gold that he swindled from his followers? 18 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,200 Ultimately, this court case will be dismissed. 19 00:01:53,200 --> 00:02:12,600 But the legendary story of Brother 12 has only just begun. 20 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,200 Before there was Charles Manson. 21 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,500 Before Jim Jones. 22 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:21,600 And long before the madness of Heaven's Gate or the Branch Davidians. 23 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:28,400 There was the cult of Brother 12. 24 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:37,600 In the late 1920s, an English spiritualist has a vision in which he is anointed the 12th disciple of the Masters of Ancient Wisdom. 25 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,000 Now known as Brother 12, he forms the Aquarian Foundation. 26 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:51,500 And uses his mystical powers to convince his followers to surrender their worldly possessions on an isolated island off the coast of Canada. 27 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:57,300 But the idyllic life he promises them soon begins to crumble. 28 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:05,300 He converts hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations into gold coins that he buries in 43 mason jars around the island. 29 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:11,700 And when his followers rebel, Brother 12 burns their compound to the ground. 30 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:18,200 And vanishes, allegedly leaving his hidden treasure behind. 31 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:27,200 Now, descendants of an original cult member have uncovered new evidence that could lead to Brother 12's riches. 32 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,700 And then there's the question of his supernatural powers. 33 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:36,700 The man who literally wrote the book on Brother 12 is searching for the truth. 34 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:39,200 So give up your earthly belongings. 35 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,700 Say goodbye to your loved ones. 36 00:03:40,700 --> 00:03:46,700 And join me on a dark adventure into a secret society and a missing fortune. 37 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,200 My name is Josh Gates. 38 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:05,200 With a degree in archaeology and a passion for exploration, I have a tendency to end up in some very strange situations. 39 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,200 It's just straight down! Unbelievable! 40 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:15,700 My travels have taken me to the ends of the earth as I investigate the greatest legends in history. 41 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:16,700 We're good to fly, let's go! 42 00:04:16,700 --> 00:04:19,700 This is Expedition Unknown. 43 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:31,700 My journey to track down a cult leader's treasure begins on the majestic waterways of our friendly neighbor to the north. 44 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:37,700 Even though I've traveled all over the world, there's only a handful of places that I've ever fantasized about settling down in. 45 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:39,700 And this is one of them. 46 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:42,700 What else can you call British Columbia but spectacular? 47 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:51,200 Canada's westernmost province is this collage of mountains and forests and ocean, all framed by thousands of miles of coastline. 48 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:53,200 There's no place else like it. 49 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:06,200 To begin my investigation into the mystery of Brother 12, I'm ferrying about 40 miles west from Vancouver to the city of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. 50 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:14,700 Brother 12 was born Edward Arthur Wilson in Birmingham, England in 1878, the son of religiously conservative parents. 51 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:20,700 As a young man, he went to sea and had an interesting, if historically unremarkable life. 52 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:25,700 While at sea, Wilson becomes obsessed with studying religion and the occult. 53 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:30,700 In 1924, at age 46, he retires to the south of France where he falls ill. 54 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:34,700 What allegedly happens next changes everything. 55 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,200 There are no witnesses to the creation of Brother 12. 56 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,200 Alone and sick with a fever, Edward Arthur Wilson has a vision. 57 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,200 An Egyptian Ankh hovering before him. 58 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:56,200 And then he hears a voice, a voice of one of the 11 so-called masters of ancient wisdom, 59 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:02,200 who decree that he is to become their disciple and forever after known as Brother 12. 60 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:11,200 Brother 12 begins writing the teachings he claims are transmitted through him, 61 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,700 Egyptian spiritualism and occultist philosophy, 62 00:06:14,700 --> 00:06:19,200 intermingled with dark predictions of a crumbling financial system 63 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,200 and of a coming era of enlightenment called the Age of Aquarius. 64 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:30,200 His published works quickly attract followers who flock to join a spiritual community that he sets up in western Canada, 65 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,200 known as the Aquarian Foundation. 66 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,700 Around here, the foundation is more than just an old folk story, 67 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:41,700 as I learn when a passenger on the ferry takes notice of our subject. 68 00:06:41,700 --> 00:06:43,700 What is it you're doing here today? 69 00:06:43,700 --> 00:06:47,700 Oh, we're doing a television program on this guy called Brother 12. 70 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:49,700 Have you ever heard of him? 71 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:51,700 I overheard you talking a bit about him. 72 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:52,700 What do you know about him? 73 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:58,200 He started out with these altruistic kind of ideas and he seemed to end up with some really dark entity 74 00:06:58,200 --> 00:06:59,700 kind of attaching himself to him. 75 00:06:59,700 --> 00:07:00,700 Really? 76 00:07:00,700 --> 00:07:04,700 The first nations communities in this area, they wouldn't even live on these islands 77 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:07,200 because there was some really bad energy on them. 78 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,200 So you think though that there is something to it? 79 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:10,200 Oh yeah. 80 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,200 Are you planning to go out there? 81 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,200 We're going to go to Netanymo and then head out to the island. 82 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,200 You should be very careful. 83 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,200 You just don't know what you're going to get yourself into. 84 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,200 You think really tread lightly? 85 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,200 Yes. 86 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,200 Appreciate it. Cheers. Yeah. Have a good one. All the best. 87 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:28,200 Did you get that? 88 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:29,200 Yeah. 89 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,200 That was officially weird. 90 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:35,200 Warning heated. 91 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,200 We'll be careful. 92 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:46,700 The ferry ride terminates in the sleepy but charming city of Netanymo, 93 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:52,700 which is home to the courthouse where Brother 12 was unsuccessfully put on trial. 94 00:07:52,700 --> 00:07:57,700 From here, I'll take a much smaller boat to the remote island I've been warned about. 95 00:07:57,700 --> 00:07:58,700 Scott. 96 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:00,200 You're welcome. 97 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:09,200 It's 10 miles southeast through the Georgia Strait to Dacorsi Island, 98 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,200 the home base of Brother 12's Aquarian Foundation. 99 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:34,200 Being out here, you really understand how isolated these islands truly are. 100 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,200 In the winter months, this water is lethally cold, 101 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,200 which means that if you were in Brother 12's cult and you didn't have access to his boat, 102 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,200 you were literally stranded out here. 103 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:51,200 After an hour at sea, the location of Brother 12's cult looms into view 104 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,200 as we pull into the harbor of Dacorsi Island. 105 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,700 The Dacorsi Island 106 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,200 My initial impression of Dacorsi Island is that it's quiet. 107 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,200 Really, really quiet. 108 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:16,200 I have to say, the hairs on my neck have been standing up since I got off the boat. 109 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:22,200 Maybe it's the history out here, but this place has kind of an icky feeling. 110 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,200 It's one of those places where you feel completely alone, 111 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,200 but you also kind of feel like you're being watched. 112 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,200 The good news, though, is that I know that I'm not alone out here. 113 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,200 There's at least two other guys on this island who have come out here to meet me. 114 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,700 And they've asked me to find them on what's known as the farm, 115 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:44,200 the remains of Brother 12's compound, 116 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:49,200 which I'm told takes up most of the center of the island and is up this road. 117 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:52,700 How you doing? 118 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:53,700 Good. How are you? 119 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:54,700 I'm good. I'm Josh. 120 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:55,200 Ted. 121 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:55,700 Ted. I'm Ted. 122 00:09:55,700 --> 00:09:57,200 Oh, no. Two Ted's, really? 123 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:58,200 Oh, yeah. 124 00:09:58,200 --> 00:09:59,200 Father and son? 125 00:09:59,200 --> 00:09:59,700 That's right. 126 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:01,200 This is going to be very confusing. 127 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:02,200 Well, we call him Teddy. 128 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,700 Teddy. Yeah, we'll go with that. 129 00:10:03,700 --> 00:10:04,700 Okay, that helps. 130 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:05,700 Well, let's head up. 131 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:06,700 Sure. 132 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:10,700 This is the Brother 12 farm. 133 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:12,700 This is the farm. This is his place. 134 00:10:14,700 --> 00:10:17,200 And you have a personal connection to this story, right? 135 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,700 My father worked on this farm as a young man. 136 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:24,200 So he was in the cult. He was in the society. 137 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:25,200 He was. Yes, he was. 138 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:27,200 And how did that happen? 139 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,200 His parents were in Southern California. 140 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,700 So a lot of their goods moved up here to do what he called the work. 141 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:35,200 The work. Here on the farm. 142 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:36,200 Here on the farm. 143 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:37,700 What did he say that it was like out here? 144 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:39,700 Brother 12 worked people to the bone. 145 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:42,700 I mean, I think that was his goal was to break them down. 146 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:46,200 They were kind of maybe in a way brainwashed by this guy. 147 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:47,200 Right. 148 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:52,700 Brother 12's followers are lured in by promises of a kind of paradise, 149 00:10:52,700 --> 00:10:56,200 a so-called arc of refuge from the corrupt world. 150 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,700 But they soon learn that life here in Dekorsi Island is anything but a utopia. 151 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:05,700 Brother 12 preaches that spiritual enlightenment can only be achieved through manual labor. 152 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:09,700 He proves to be an effective, if terrifying, taskmaster. 153 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:16,200 Brother 12 may have been intimidating, but he didn't hold a candle to his mistress, Mabel Scato, 154 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,200 better known as Madam Z. 155 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:28,200 In time, she will be referred to as his enforcer and as a dominatrix. 156 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:33,200 But constantly, she will be referred to as the master of the world. 157 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:38,700 In time, she will be referred to as his enforcer and as a dominatrix. 158 00:11:38,700 --> 00:11:44,700 But considering how much pleasure she seems to derive from mentally and physically abusing the followers, 159 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:47,700 she could perhaps best be described as a sadist. 160 00:11:53,700 --> 00:11:56,700 But what happens on Dekorsi stays on Dekorsi. 161 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:03,200 Because by the late 1920s, the cult had attracted thousands of followers from the U.S., Canada and Europe. 162 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:08,200 Some of them moved to the island and gave Brother 12 substantial funds, 163 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:14,200 all of which he converted into gold eagle coins and hid around the compound. 164 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,200 And what do you think about these stories of buried gold out here? 165 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,200 Oh yes, definitely. I believe that there's buried gold. 166 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,200 Your father told a story of him doing it and helping him. 167 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:27,700 Really? 168 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:28,200 Yes. 169 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:34,700 If Ted's father really did help Brother 12 hide the gold, he could be the key to locating it. 170 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:39,700 Okay, so what do you got? 171 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:43,700 Okay, so this is a photo from here on the island? 172 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:44,700 Yes, it is. 173 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:48,700 I mean, these are kids. 174 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:50,700 Yes, my father was one of them. 175 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:53,700 That's right. And how did your father describe him? 176 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:56,700 He described him as a teacher. 177 00:12:57,700 --> 00:13:02,700 I think he was mentoring him to become him, to become the next one. 178 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:08,700 He was actually taken from his family and lived with Brother 12 with Madam Z. 179 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:09,700 So he was going to be Brother 13? 180 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:10,200 Yes. 181 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:12,700 What did your father tell you about this place? 182 00:13:12,700 --> 00:13:20,700 Well, he told me that I should go out to Dekorsi Island and that there was a place on the island that had a concrete platform. 183 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:24,700 And somewhere around this platform, he was sure that there was gold buried. 184 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:27,200 In my research, I came up with something really extraordinary. 185 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:32,200 It's a tape of my grandfather, his actual voice talking about the gold. 186 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,200 Can we hear it? 187 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:34,200 Yeah, absolutely. 188 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,200 Finally, he had five mason jars. 189 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,200 No fashion type with a zinc cover. 190 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:44,200 Full gold. 191 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,200 I know where the gold is. 192 00:13:51,200 --> 00:14:04,200 I'm in British Columbia, Canada, on Dekorsi Island, once the home of a cult headed by the charismatic Brother 12. 193 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:12,200 Ted DeBee and his son have discovered an audio tape of Ted's father, who was a former cult member, 194 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:18,200 describing the location of Brother 12's hidden gold, buried near a square concrete slab. 195 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:24,200 Finally, he had five mason jars full of gold. 196 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,200 I know where the gold is. 197 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,200 I know the gold was there. 198 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:36,200 The daily report this square meeting place. 199 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,200 That's the concrete platform, square meeting place. 200 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,200 Bruce and I busied ourselves with building a form. 201 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:47,200 And when we got the form done, the gold was gone. 202 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,200 A metal detector could tell us. 203 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,200 A metal detector could tell it's there. 204 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,200 That's incredible, isn't it? 205 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:54,200 It's unbelievable. 206 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,200 I remember the first time I heard this, it gave me chills. 207 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:03,200 It's one thing to hear a legend, it's another thing to hear it straight from someone's mouth who was there. 208 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:04,200 Absolutely. 209 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:12,200 The recording confirms that Ted's father helped lay a concrete platform somewhere on the island, 210 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:17,200 and believes that five of Brother 12's 43 jars of gold are buried right nearby. 211 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:20,200 And did he tell you where on the island it was? 212 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,200 He told me it was in the southern part. 213 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:28,200 So here's a map that we found, Josh, that once he had found the information out about being on the southern end of the island, 214 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,200 the story is that the gold was near a grouping of shallow bays, but we're not sure where. 215 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:33,200 Shallow bays. 216 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,200 Okay, so how do we find the gold? 217 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,200 Well, I think we either need to find the platform or find those shallow bays that we've heard about, 218 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,200 and I think we've got a plan to do that. 219 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:42,200 You do? 220 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:43,200 Yes, let's go do it. 221 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:44,200 I'm ready, let's go. 222 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,200 The Ted's have a simple plan. 223 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:55,200 They'll scout the island from the sky, looking for the concrete platform and the shallow bays that Ted's father said would point the way. 224 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,200 Josh, this is Sean, our pilot. 225 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:58,200 Hey Sean, nice to meet you. 226 00:15:58,200 --> 00:15:59,200 Pleasure. 227 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,200 Let's rock and roll, let's do it. 228 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,200 Okay, beautiful, up and out. 229 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,200 Okay, let's talk about the course of the island. 230 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:30,200 How big is this thing? 231 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:31,200 About 400 meters. 232 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:36,200 No, not a gigantic island, but still a pretty big piece of property for a guy to buy. 233 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,200 So how did he afford this? 234 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,200 No word, Mary Connolly. 235 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:46,200 Mary Connolly read one of Brother 12's pamphlets and started donating to his cause. 236 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:56,200 After he requested a face-to-face meeting with her, he persuaded her to fork over $25,000, or well over a quarter million in today's money. 237 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:00,200 That's insane. 238 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:05,200 I mean, this guy must have been a magician. Seriously, it's crazy. 239 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:15,200 Circling over to Corsi, we concentrate on finding the shallow bays that the recording says will lead us to the concrete platform where the gold was buried. 240 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,200 So where do we think these bays are that are close to the platform? 241 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,200 It seems that they're on the south side of the Corky Island. 242 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:28,200 It does look like, at least from the drawing, that if there is some undulation of the shoreline, there might be some bays in there. 243 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,200 Let's bring the seaplane over there and see what it looks like. 244 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:42,200 Okay guys, we're coming around here to the southern side of the Corky. 245 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,200 Josh, look at that. That could be one of those jell-o-bears that we're talking about. 246 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,200 Big time, look at that. There's a whole sequence of them on the southern edge here. 247 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,200 I mean, if it's supposed to be near a grouping of shallow bays, I'd say that's it. 248 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,200 I would completely agree. 249 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:09,200 The problem is, I don't think we're going to have much luck seeing the actual platform from up here. 250 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,200 The tree cover is pretty dense. 251 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,200 We probably should get on the ground and go take a look. 252 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,200 Alright, great. Well, we got a spot to look. Now we just got to get rich. 253 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:19,200 Wouldn't that be nice? 254 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,200 Absolutely. 255 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,200 With a promising search spot identified, the pilot prepares to land the plane. 256 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:30,200 But it seems that the Corky Island is putting up a fight. 257 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,200 We got a logger. 258 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:34,200 Hold up. 259 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,200 Here we got a logger. Pull it up. 260 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,200 Okay, we're going to try that again. 261 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,200 Do all the logging here. They get a lot of debris down in the water. 262 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:51,200 The plane skid hits the log. It's not a good thing to put it mildly. 263 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,200 Taking a second approach here. Here we go. 264 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,200 Okay. We know where we're going. Let's grab our stuff and get up there. 265 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,200 Alright, come on. Let's get in there. 266 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:32,200 We grab our backpacks and start to make our way toward the shallow bays we spotted from the sky. 267 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,200 So this takes us south, right? 268 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,200 Yep. Yep. Right in this general direction here. 269 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:55,200 A short walk from the picturesque to Corky Coast, we come upon a remnant from a particularly ugly side of the Brother 12 story. 270 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,200 What is that? 271 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:05,200 I think this is one of the gun pits that Brother 12 put together when he became a bit more paranoid. 272 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,200 So this is an actual defensive position that he built out here? 273 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:14,200 Yeah, he put followers in here with guns to watch over the bay here to make sure nobody came approaching. 274 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,200 All day, all night watching the bay to make sure there were no intruders. 275 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:31,200 So this went from this society that was supposed to be this kind of peaceful, you know, new world out here to a militia. 276 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,200 Yeah, absolutely. 277 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,200 Alright, let's press on. 278 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:35,200 Alright, let's do it. 279 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:43,200 We continue our trek toward the shallow bays we spotted at the southern end of the island. 280 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:55,200 Alright, south side of the island, here we are. 281 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:56,200 This is it. 282 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:12,200 From the bays we head inland, keeping our eyes peeled for a concrete platform that's likely hidden under decades of vegetation. 283 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:14,200 Bushwack in here. 284 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:17,200 Wait, what is this? 285 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,200 You got something? 286 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:19,200 Yeah, this is concrete. 287 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:22,200 Look at this! 288 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:34,200 I'm with Ted and Teddy to be on the southern end of Dekorsi Island, hunting for a cult leader's lost gold. 289 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:40,200 Using clues left behind by Ted's father, we've just found the marker we've been looking for. 290 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,200 Wait, what is this? 291 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:42,200 You got something? 292 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,200 Yeah, this is concrete. 293 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,200 Look at this! 294 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:46,200 This could be it. 295 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,200 This is concrete. 296 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:48,200 Oh my goodness. 297 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,200 This is literally a concrete platform. 298 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:50,200 Yes. 299 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:51,200 Look at this! 300 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,200 We have a concrete platform just like your father described. 301 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,200 We're near these shallow bays. 302 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:01,200 Yeah. 303 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:02,200 I mean, pretty perfect. 304 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:03,200 Looks right to me, Josh. 305 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:08,200 Okay, so according to the story, your father said that the gold is where in relation to the platform. 306 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,200 He said it was around the platform. 307 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,200 Okay. 308 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:11,200 And there was a specific. 309 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:12,200 We don't know how far. 310 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:13,200 We do know. 311 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,200 Let's get the metal detectors out and we'll just start radiating out from this point. 312 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:18,200 See if we find anything. 313 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:19,200 All right. 314 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:20,200 Let's do it. 315 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:21,200 Come on. 316 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:49,200 Hey, Josh, I got a hit over here. 317 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,200 Yeah? 318 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:51,200 Yeah. 319 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,200 Let me check it out. 320 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:53,200 What do you got? 321 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:54,200 I don't know. 322 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,200 Okay, let me see. 323 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:56,200 Let's back that off. 324 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,200 See if this picks it up. 325 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:00,200 Major hit. 326 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,200 Let's see what that is. 327 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:07,200 I mean, it looks like it's right here. 328 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,200 Aha. 329 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,200 Iron spike. 330 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:15,200 Nail. 331 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:16,200 Really old. 332 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:17,200 Look at it. 333 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:18,200 There was a rust on it. 334 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,200 I think there's every reason to think that this is from the Brother 12. 335 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,200 I agree. 336 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:23,200 Colt. 337 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:24,200 Nobody else was out here then. 338 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,200 You can see it's all roughed out and this is handmade. 339 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,200 Yeah, I think you're right. 340 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,200 Let's see if we can find those mason jars. 341 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,200 Let's do it. 342 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,200 We expand our search, staying within sight of the platform. 343 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:49,200 I got a hit. 344 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,200 Take a little shovel over here. 345 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:52,200 Yeah. 346 00:23:52,200 --> 00:24:01,200 Right underneath this. 347 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,200 It's in here. 348 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,200 Something here. 349 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,200 What is that? 350 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,200 I don't know. 351 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:13,200 Washer. 352 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:14,200 Washer. 353 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,200 It's the right shape. 354 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,200 I was hoping it was the lid of a mason jar. 355 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:20,200 Yeah, no kidding. 356 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,200 Well, it's not exactly a treasure. 357 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,200 No, let's keep looking though. 358 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:30,200 Yeah, let's keep going. 359 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:37,200 Another good hit. 360 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,200 Got it right there? 361 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:40,200 Yeah. 362 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:44,200 Big bolt goes with the washer. 363 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,200 We're going to build a tractor by the end of this. 364 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,200 We got the bolt, we got the washer. 365 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,200 Let's go find the nut. 366 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,200 We need the nut. 367 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,200 Okay, let's go. 368 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:58,200 The concrete platform and old metal objects we found here are clear evidence that this 369 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:05,200 exact spot saw human activity, likely in the form of Brother 12's disciples. 370 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:16,200 But hours of hunting yield no more finds, so we decide to suspend our search for today. 371 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:20,200 Well, some cool finds. 372 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,200 No treasure. 373 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,200 Unfortunately. 374 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,200 Yeah. 375 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,200 We found what may be the platform your father described, which in and of itself is pretty incredible. 376 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,200 It is. 377 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,200 But no jars filled with gold. 378 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:31,200 Not yet. 379 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:32,200 Not yet. 380 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,200 You think it's out here? 381 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,200 I believe my dad. 382 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,200 I believe him too. 383 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,200 I think there's every chance in the world that gold is still out here. 384 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,200 But it's going to take a lot of searching to find it. 385 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:42,200 A lot of effort. 386 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,200 Well, you guys come back out here and that metal detector starts going off. 387 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,200 You call me. 388 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:48,200 We'll do. 389 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:49,200 We'll think about it. 390 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,200 I appreciate it. 391 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:58,200 The guides take the seaplane back to the mainland, vowing to return and claim their family's legacy. 392 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,200 I leave the southern end of the island and hike back up toward the farm. 393 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:07,200 Having searched for Brother 12's gold with the descendants of his cult, I'm trying a different approach. 394 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,200 I'm meeting with perhaps the world's foremost expert on the Aquarian Foundation, who has 395 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:17,200 uncovered information about the gold's hidden location and discovered evidence that Brother 396 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:30,200 12 might have been guided by a dark force from the beyond. 397 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:35,200 I'm on a remote Canadian island that was once the center of operations for a terrifying cult 398 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,200 led by Brother 12. 399 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:43,200 Now, I'm walking to meet the world's foremost expert on the subject, author John Oliphant, 400 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,200 who's launching his own treasure hunting expedition. 401 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,200 Nice to meet you, sir. 402 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:48,200 Great to meet you. 403 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,200 And this is James. 404 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:50,200 Hey, James. 405 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,200 He's a metal detectorist. 406 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,200 Awesome. 407 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,200 He can find anything if it's under the ground. 408 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,200 Does that include mason jars full of gold coins? 409 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,200 Well, that's what I'm here for. 410 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,200 Okay, well, why don't you go and find the gold if you can and we'll link up with you later, James. 411 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:04,200 Sounds great. 412 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,200 Scream if you find gold. 413 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:06,200 I will. 414 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:07,200 Thank you. 415 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:12,200 So I have to say, John, I'm really excited to talk to you about this topic because you 416 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:13,200 literally wrote the book on this. 417 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,200 It's true. 418 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:15,200 I did write the book. 419 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,200 I researched when I was really young in my 30s, okay? 420 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:24,200 But what was great about that was that I was able to locate the disciples that were still 421 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,200 alive at the time. 422 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,200 I would assume that for a lot of the people who came out here, especially some of these 423 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,200 wealthy donors, must have been kind of a rude awakening. 424 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,200 Yeah, it was a shock. 425 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,200 Mary Connolly, for instance, gave me money to buy the island. 426 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,200 And then she came here and then she was forced to do brutal manual labor. 427 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,200 Right. 428 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,200 And she lost 28 pounds working in a field. 429 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,200 They said she was yoked to a plow like a beast of burden. 430 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:49,200 She's one of the example of what a hell this place turned into. 431 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:55,200 Brother 12's reign grows more and more delusional until he actually declares himself the reincarnation 432 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,200 of the Egyptian God Osiris. 433 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,200 The cult members can take no more. 434 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,200 There is dissent followed by an escape. 435 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,200 And ultimately, legal charges are brought against Brother 12 for misappropriating donations 436 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,200 for his own gains. 437 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:20,200 At the trial, the cult leader causes people in the courtroom to faint on command. 438 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,200 And what do you make of that? 439 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,200 Do you think that he had abilities? 440 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,200 Oh, yeah, definitely. 441 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,200 Really? 442 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:28,200 Yeah, because there's so many witnesses. 443 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:33,200 A lot of other occultists claim to have these powers, but Brother 12 demonstrated them in 444 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:34,200 a courtroom. 445 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:35,200 Right. 446 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,200 The judge also succumbed to Brother 12's spell. 447 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:56,200 The judge growled like a dog before he was able to say in a shaky voice, this court is 448 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:57,200 adjourned. 449 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:58,200 It's really crazy. 450 00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,200 He had power. 451 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,200 There's no doubt about it. 452 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,200 He had power. 453 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:02,200 He had the power of a respite. 454 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,200 And he had the destructiveness of Jim Jones. 455 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,200 And he had the brilliance of an Elron Hubbard. 456 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,200 So they were all together in Brother 12. 457 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,200 Right. 458 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:16,200 John and I continue toward another building on the property, a structure that he tells 459 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,200 me figures prominently into the slow degeneration of the cult. 460 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:21,200 This is one of the original buildings. 461 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,200 It's the best preserved building. 462 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:28,200 It was built as a school to house the children of the foundation members. 463 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:29,200 Wow. 464 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,200 It was converted to a woman's dormitory. 465 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,200 And here we are. 466 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,200 So how many women slept in here? 467 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,200 I would say about 20 at the maximum. 468 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,200 So there were 20 people in here? 469 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,200 Yeah, there were 20 here. 470 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,200 There was a lot of times going on in here. 471 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:48,200 Brother 12's secret colony was also a place of free love and his own personal harem. 472 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:53,200 He would separate couples and on a regular basis would enter this dormitory to choose 473 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,200 a different bed partner for the evening. 474 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,200 Even though Madam Z was his consort, these women would stay the night and she was always 475 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,200 very jealous in the morning. 476 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,200 Well, Josh, I brought a few things to show you. 477 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:11,200 Next, John shows me some of the artifacts he's collected over his decades of research. 478 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:12,200 This is the typewriter. 479 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:16,200 This belonged to Robert England, who was the secretary-treasurer of the foundation. 480 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:17,200 Wow. 481 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,200 He worked with Brother 12 for 18 months side by side and he became disillusioned. 482 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,200 This disillusionment wasn't just about an ethical dilemma. 483 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:30,200 In fact, the former follower was terrified of something connected to Brother 12, a dark 484 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,200 entity only he could see. 485 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,200 He writes about it in a letter that he wrote to Brother 12. 486 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,200 It's in that arm wall. 487 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:37,200 Here? 488 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:38,200 Yeah. 489 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,200 And this letter was typed on this very typewriter. 490 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,200 So this is from Robert England. 491 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:49,200 So he says you were surrounded with a dull gray mist or fog and a helmeted and evil-faced 492 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:54,200 monk who stood some feet behind you with a hellish leer upon his face. 493 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,200 Terrifying. 494 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,200 Yeah, I love this. 495 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:02,200 So people came to believe that he was, in a sense, kind of possessed? 496 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:03,200 Possessed? 497 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:04,200 That's a good word for it. 498 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,200 He was taken over by this force. 499 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,200 Wow. 500 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,200 That's scary stuff. 501 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,200 Wow, it is scary. 502 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,200 Robert England was one of the guys that got into illegal tangles, right? 503 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,200 Yeah, that's right. 504 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,200 And he's Brother 12 of Misappropriating the Funds of the Aquarian Foundation. 505 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,200 Apostates like England sue Brother 12 for fraud and embezzlement. 506 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:30,200 In 1933, with court judgments against him pending and the world he created crumbling, 507 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:36,200 Brother 12 flees the island with Madam Z, leaving parts of the compound burning in their wake. 508 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:40,200 But did they take all the gold with them? 509 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:45,200 John brings me downstairs to show me one place where he believes some of it was kept. 510 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,200 Now there was a vault in the basement. 511 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,200 What do you mean a vault? 512 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:54,200 Well, here in the floor, it's been filled in, but here in the floor was a vault. 513 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:58,200 And in this vault, there was a concrete lid with an iron ring. 514 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,200 And so how do we know that? 515 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,200 There was a famous photograph of a historian lifting the lid of the vault. 516 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,200 He was very excited. 517 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,200 He thought he had discovered Brother 12's treasure. 518 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:14,200 He lifted the lid and he reached down and his hands discovered a furled up roll of tar paper. 519 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,200 He unfurled the tar paper. 520 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:21,200 There was a message scrolled in Brother 12's handwriting and it said... 521 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:33,200 I'm on remote D'Corsi Island, the one time home of the notorious Brother 12. 522 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:40,200 Author John Oliphant has brought me to a basement vault where the cult leader might have once stashed hundreds of gold coins. 523 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:45,200 But as others who have searched for the treasure learned, Brother 12 was a clever adversary. 524 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:52,200 He lifted the lid and he reached down and his hands discovered a furled up roll of tar paper. 525 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,200 He unfurled the tar paper. 526 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:59,200 There was a message scrolled in Brother 12's handwriting and it said... 527 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,200 It seems like Brother 12 then maybe had a sense that people were going to be looking for his treasure. 528 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:14,200 Yeah, he put the note there thinking somebody's later is going to discover this and you know, I've got the last laugh. 529 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:19,200 Right. So if that treasure is still buried out on this island, it's probably not still in the house. 530 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,200 I would say it's not in this building, 100%. 531 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,200 Do you think some of it's still out here? 532 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:27,200 Yeah, I believe that some treasure still is on this island because he had 43 jars of gold. 533 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,200 So it's quite possible that he had divided his treasure up into different parts. 534 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,200 He didn't keep it all together in one place. 535 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:35,200 Like a pirate? 536 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:41,200 Yeah, like a pirate. They have different caches of treasure and he had so much treasure, Captain Kib would be jealous. 537 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:42,200 Right. 538 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:50,200 Even if Brother 12 was able to take some of his treasure on the run, the gold simply weighed too much for him to take all of it. 539 00:33:51,200 --> 00:34:01,200 To find the rest, we head outside and reconnect with his colleague James, who has been eagerly searching the farm with his metal detector. 540 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,200 How's it going, man? 541 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,200 Not too bad. It's been a long day. 542 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,200 Yeah, what did you find? What do we got? 543 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,200 A few farm implements. 544 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,200 Wow, look at this. 545 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,200 So we've got a big old nail here. 546 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,200 Yeah, we definitely found some nails today. 547 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,200 And then some kind of sheet metal. 548 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:22,200 A lot of the stuff is probably from the period. These are relics from the farm. 549 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,200 But they're not in the shape of gold coins. 550 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:26,200 Not yet. 551 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,200 Okay, so tell me where have you been looking? 552 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:33,200 The far lower field where they used to keep sheep and by the farmhouse. 553 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:34,200 Right, so where haven't you been? 554 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:39,200 I have not been on the outer edge where the fence line is over here. 555 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,200 Alright, well I think we turn our turner of sights on that. 556 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:42,200 Sounds good. Let's do it. 557 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,200 Alright, great. Yeah, let's go to the metal detector and do it. 558 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:53,200 Let's take a look around. 559 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:54,200 Okay, let's go. 560 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,200 Just bug out. 561 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:23,200 Hey James. 562 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:24,200 Did you find something? 563 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,200 I got something over here. 564 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:27,200 I'm on my way. 565 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:28,200 Hey, you in trouble? 566 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:34,200 Ooh, something. 567 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:41,200 Oh yeah, you got something. 568 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:42,200 Yep. 569 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,200 Oh yeah, there you go. 570 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:45,200 Look at that. 571 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:46,200 Big old spike. 572 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,200 Wow. It's been down there for a while, huh? 573 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,200 Absolutely. 574 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,200 Cool old but not gold. 575 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,200 Unfortunately, it's not gold. 576 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,200 I don't know. 577 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:57,200 I don't know. 578 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,200 I don't know. 579 00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,200 I don't know. 580 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,200 I don't know. 581 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:01,200 I don't know. 582 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,200 I don't know. 583 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:03,200 Not gold. 584 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:08,200 Unfortunately, 99% of treasure hunting is not finding treasure. 585 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,200 Right. 586 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,200 But that 1% definitely makes the other 99% worth it. 587 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,200 That's right. 588 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:14,200 You just need one good hit. 589 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,200 I'm just going to go right up to that fence line there. 590 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,200 I'm going to take it. 591 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:48,200 Hey, Josh! 592 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,200 You got something? 593 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,200 Come on over. 594 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,200 What do you got, man? 595 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,200 We've got potentially a mason jar here. 596 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,200 Look at that. 597 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,200 Ha! 598 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,160 Ha! 599 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,400 Ha-ha-ha! 600 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:04,840 It looks at the bottom of a mason jar. 601 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:05,740 Wow, incredible. 602 00:37:05,740 --> 00:37:07,200 This is a mason jar. 603 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,800 It's identical to the mason jars that he buried his gold 604 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:11,840 in, exactly the same. 605 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:12,940 And really old. 606 00:37:12,940 --> 00:37:13,800 That patterning? 607 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:14,480 Oh, let's keep digging. 608 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:15,280 Keep digging. 609 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:24,680 Oh, wow. 610 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:25,680 Look at that! 611 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:26,380 Oh, wow. 612 00:37:26,380 --> 00:37:28,360 That's a mason jar lid. 613 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,220 That's literally the lid to the mason jar. 614 00:37:30,220 --> 00:37:31,020 That's right. 615 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:31,920 Look at that. 616 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:32,520 Ball. 617 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:33,720 The mason jar company. 618 00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:34,880 Yep. 619 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:40,480 And then inside, genuine zinc cap. 620 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,600 That is an original zinc mason jar cap. 621 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,600 That's not 10, 20, 30 years old. 622 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:46,640 That's really old. 623 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,040 This is like 100 years old. 624 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:49,480 Yep, absolutely. 625 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,080 This is now definitively old enough 626 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,300 that this could be one of the mason jars 627 00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:55,940 that Brother 12 was using on this island. 628 00:37:55,940 --> 00:37:57,040 Absolutely. 629 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,480 That's crazy. 630 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,140 He may have held this cap. 631 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,960 He may have screwed this onto a mason jar filled with gold. 632 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:04,360 Right. 633 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,800 That's very possible. 634 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,200 Which means he either dug it up and emptied it 635 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,000 or about to get rich. 636 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:11,440 Right? 637 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:12,360 Yes. 638 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:13,000 Let's keep digging. 639 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:13,920 Come on. 640 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,640 Let's see what's in the bottom of this hole. 641 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:20,280 I think we need to dig this up a little bit better. 642 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:21,800 Let's see what else is down here. 643 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,440 It's almost like a cavity in there. 644 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:27,120 You can feel it. 645 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,120 Yeah. 646 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:29,360 Wide open. 647 00:38:29,380 --> 00:38:30,860 Let me get in there. 648 00:38:33,860 --> 00:38:34,660 What is that? 649 00:38:34,660 --> 00:38:37,140 I don't know. 650 00:38:37,140 --> 00:38:37,740 Is it a jar? 651 00:38:50,140 --> 00:38:53,100 I'm searching for jars of gold hidden by the disgraced cult 652 00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:56,140 leader, Brother 12, in 1933. 653 00:38:56,140 --> 00:38:58,660 After an exhaustive hunt with metal detectors, 654 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:03,400 we may be on the verge of finding what we came for. 655 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:04,880 It's almost like a cavity in there. 656 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:05,760 You can feel it. 657 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:06,320 Wide open. 658 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:10,040 What is that? 659 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,320 I don't know. 660 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:12,880 Is it a jar? 661 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,040 We got mason jar pieces. 662 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:21,600 Just more and more. 663 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,840 Pulling up these old pieces of these jars. 664 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:24,200 Oh, yeah. 665 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:25,480 There's way more. 666 00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:25,840 Look at this. 667 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,560 We dig deeper and deeper, unearthing 668 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,080 more of the cult era glass. 669 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,720 But there's no gold to be found tonight. 670 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:41,000 I think it's fantastic that we found a mason jar in the ground 671 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,720 that could have contained Brother 12's gold. 672 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:44,760 That's a feat in itself. 673 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,040 And the legend lives on? 674 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,440 The legend lives on with. 675 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,040 Well, thank you so much for taking the time 676 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,320 to draw me into this world. 677 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:53,120 I appreciate it. 678 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:53,840 You're really welcome. 679 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:54,440 It was a pleasure. 680 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:55,400 Hey, James, great work. 681 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,160 Great work, Josh. 682 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:56,680 Nice meeting you. 683 00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:57,120 Yeah, thanks, man. 684 00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:57,680 All the best. 685 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:05,480 The next morning, I take one more quiet moment 686 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,640 on D'Corsi to reflect on the end of Brother 12's story. 687 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,560 Having fled Canada, he allegedly dies in Switzerland 688 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,000 only a year later. 689 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,000 I say allegedly because the doctor who 690 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,120 signs the death certificate is one of his followers. 691 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,360 And an eyewitness places the cult leader in San Francisco 692 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,360 years after his death. 693 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,200 With all of his supposedly supernatural powers, 694 00:40:27,220 --> 00:40:30,700 perhaps Brother 12's final trick is escaping scot-free. 695 00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:36,900 In a wild, cold, hell, at the moon, 696 00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:41,420 there's a wilted rose that will never bloom. 697 00:40:41,420 --> 00:40:45,300 It devils my own demon stay. 698 00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:46,300 We're bound away. 699 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:50,900 We're bound away. 700 00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:02,200 My own hunt for the truth behind Brother 12's lost gold 701 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,200 turned up evidence that confirms the stories of D'Corsi's 702 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,900 dark past and relics that may have once held hidden gold. 703 00:41:09,900 --> 00:41:13,900 I remain skeptical about tales of black magic and the supernatural, 704 00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:16,200 yet can't deny that in the 1920s, 705 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,700 Brother 12 did indeed predict the, albeit temporary, 706 00:41:19,700 --> 00:41:21,200 downfall of the economy. 707 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,200 I'm not sure if you've heard of it, 708 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,200 but I'm sure you've heard of it. 709 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,200 It's believed to be a temporary, downfall of the economy 710 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,200 and worldwide turmoil. 711 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,200 And while it's always thrilling to search for treasure, 712 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:37,200 I can't forget that this is a story rooted in human frailty. 713 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,200 It's all too easy for good people to fall prey to manipulators 714 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,200 and false prophets, promising whatever it is we yearn for. 715 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:50,200 Brother 12's secrets may still lie buried on this remote island, 716 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:55,200 but perhaps some parts of history are best left forgotten.