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00:01In the Polish countryside, a decades-old legend of Nazi riches.
00:11They put all of this treasure on this train track to try to hide all of the loot.
00:16A monster trove of Third Reich plunder, rumored to be buried deep inside a remote mountain fortress.
00:23You wonder why they built this bunker in here when everything else is just tunnel.
00:28Now, our advanced scanning technologies are uncovering staggering new leads.
00:33This is a new tunnel that nobody's ever explored before.
00:36Are we on the verge of bringing billions in Nazi loot back to light?
00:40She just keeps going.
00:42Buried deep below the Earth's surface, there are countless unsolved mysteries.
00:48And today, we finally have the tools to unlock them.
00:52That's amazing.
00:53It's super deep.
00:55I'm Rob Nelson, a scientist and explorer investigating our planet's hidden depths.
01:01Rob, getting deeper.
01:02Holy moly, Stefan.
01:04And helping me uncover these subterranean secrets is tech specialist, Stefan Burns.
01:10Oh my God.
01:11Look at that.
01:14Together.
01:15I got something.
01:16We are uncovering new leads in our quest to solve Earth's most enduring mysteries.
01:22There we go.
01:23Woo!
01:24These are the secrets of the underground.
01:32Southwestern Poland, part of Germany during the Second World War.
01:37Stefan and I are here to investigate one of the greatest Nazi legends of all time.
01:43It's a neat little square, huh?
01:44Yeah, it's beautiful.
01:46It's said that buried in the mountains outside this town lies a colossal cache of treasure,
01:52hidden by the retreating Third Reich just months before the fall of Berlin.
01:57The way the legend goes is that late at night when nobody could see, they put all of this treasure,
02:03artwork, gold, bullion, worth millions of dollars, essentially on this train track to try to hide all of the loot.
02:13It's a tantalizing tale.
02:15It's a tantalizing tale.
02:15As Russian troops closed in, a German official named Herbert Klose was tasked with safeguarding the region's riches.
02:22He gathered up money from banks, jewelry, and gold from locals,
02:27and possibly even priceless works of art stolen by the Nazis from around the continent.
02:31The treasure was sealed in iron chests, and from the city of Wroclaw, it's said it was transported southwest on
02:38the main rail line,
02:40into the nearby Owl Mountains, where many believe it disappeared into a sprawling underground bunker system called Project Risa.
02:50Stefan and I are headed to that very complex.
02:54This is it.
02:55All right.
02:56Where we plan to search for new clues using powerful high-tech tools never before deployed here.
03:03I think it'll be really cool to get boots on the ground and then run some geophysical tech and see
03:08what we can find.
03:10That's why I brought you along, Stefan, because you've got all the tech.
03:14In the waning months of the war, Allied forces did just that.
03:19They intercepted a 24-car freight train traveling from Hungary to Germany.
03:25Loaded with plundered gold, jewelry, and paintings, valued in the billions in today's dollars.
03:34It's not that this treasure is hidden and we never find it.
03:38Yeah.
03:39We could very easily come across some clues here that lead to the golden train.
03:46All right.
03:49The first stop on our quest, the headquarters of Project Risa, Kshans Castle.
03:55Wow.
03:56Look at that.
03:58This centuries-old castle, now a museum, was to be a Third Reich command center in the later years of
04:04the war.
04:05And we're here to explore claims that it was the Nazi gold train's final destination.
04:12Inside, we meet up with Bogdan Ryzhitsky, a Shans historian.
04:17Is it true that this was supposed to be Hitler's residence?
04:20Yes.
04:21It was supposed to be a residence for important officers, as well as private apartments for Hitler.
04:32Wow.
04:35This was supposed to be Hitler's bedroom.
04:37And right next to the bedroom, there were meant to be other rooms for the apartments.
04:44But according to Bogdan, the Führer had more sinister plans than to furnish a gaudy country retreat.
04:51When the Nazis seized the castle, SS officers were ordered to seal off the structure and keep passers-by from
04:57coming too close.
04:59Soon after, the castle servants began hearing explosions coming from deep beneath the building.
05:04It turned out, the Third Reich was constructing an elaborate system of tunnels.
05:10Most historians assume the passages were intended as a fallout shelter or escape route for the Nazi elite.
05:16But no one knows for sure why they were built.
05:20Is there a way from here, down into the tunnel systems?
05:25Yes.
05:26Yes, there is.
05:28Bogdan tells us that the Nazis installed elevators in the castle, connecting the private residences to the tunnels 165 feet
05:36below the surface.
05:37Wow.
05:38Oh my goodness, this was one of the shafts?
05:40Yes.
05:43This is one of the elevators, which was built in the castle during World War II for the officers to
05:49use.
05:49Wow.
05:52Far below.
05:53The tunnels are much bigger than I imagined.
05:56Wow.
05:58Oh my goodness, look at that.
06:02Wow.
06:03This is impressive.
06:05Heavily reinforced.
06:07Oh my goodness.
06:09This is huge.
06:13Whoa.
06:15Look at those chambers.
06:17Yeah.
06:18No idea what those would have been for.
06:21Some have speculated the tunnels connected to six other Project Risa systems that dot the countryside, forming a massive bunker
06:30or underground city for the Nazi elite.
06:32Or could it have been designed as a covert access point for Hitler, a private train station like those found
06:39at some of his other regional headquarters?
06:42So far, no one has found a tunnel extending outward from the castle for either purpose, but there's circumstantial evidence
06:51that such a tunnel may have existed, fueling the claims that the stash of Nazi gold, jewelry, and artwork could
06:58have ended up here.
07:00It's this place right here.
07:03Bogdan tells us that prisoners who worked on these tunnels reported seeing a large chamber off to the side here,
07:09behind what is now a concrete wall.
07:12Behind this wall, there's something back here?
07:15It's not confirmed.
07:17There was drilling done five feet into the wall, and it's just concrete and rock.
07:22Could there be a tunnel back there?
07:24One that could connect the castle to other parts of Project Risa?
07:27Have you ever scanned this with any type of technology?
07:31I mean, you only drilled two meters here.
07:35Have you ever used something that you can see deeper into the wall?
07:38Those kind of tests were done.
07:40But the scanning technology used was less powerful than the device we have with us today.
07:46Stefan and I are eager to look at the area ourselves.
07:49For this scan, we are using a cutting-edge ground-penetrating radar unit.
07:54The device, called GPR for short, works by firing radio waves into the ground or into walls.
08:00Tunnels or chambers will bounce these waves back to a sensor mounted on the machine,
08:05and our device will peer deeper into this wall than ever attempted before.
08:10The reason why we have such a big unit here is because it's 160 megahertz, and that'll get us really
08:16good depth penetration.
08:17It's not typically meant to be used on walls, so it's going to be pretty awkward.
08:21Stefan, you're not going to like this, but my shoulder's acting up right now, and I think you're going to
08:26have to hold it up against the wall.
08:29Once we sort out who's going to do the heavy lifting...
08:32I'll tell you when to hit start.
08:34...Stefan hoists the device into place.
08:36All right, here we go.
08:37Hit new?
08:37Yep.
08:38It's going.
08:39Could there really be something hidden behind this rough-hewn wall, deep beneath Sean's castle?
08:45Our scan holds a shocking breakthrough in the case.
08:48We just started to hit the edge of a large anomaly.
08:52Has our tech revealed proof of the long-lost chamber beneath the castle?
08:56We need to investigate this more.
08:58And later, an advanced 3D scanning tool reveals a mysterious network of Third Reich tunnels in an entirely new way.
09:07Will the modern treasure map we create finally turn up the legendary Nazi plunder?
09:12Wow.
09:22Stefan and I are in Poland, searching for a cache of stolen Nazi gold, jewelry, and artwork that disappeared in
09:30the final months of World War II.
09:32And right now, we're down in the tunnels below Sean's castle, scanning a wall that may be hiding an opening
09:38of some sort.
09:39Hold it steady.
09:40Finding a chamber or tunnel, as reported by the castle laborers, would be an incredible find,
09:46indicating a possible railway passage that could house the fabled gold train or an entrance intended for the Fuhrer himself.
09:53All right, let's do two more profiles, one higher, and then the last one at the top.
09:59Amazingly, historical evidence exists for the possibility of such an entrance.
10:04Hitler often traveled to his regional headquarters aboard a specially appointed train.
10:09Comprised of over a dozen cars, it contained a mobile communications center and armored flockwagens, fitted with anti-aircraft guns.
10:18Bunkers, such as the Wolfschlicht II, were built surrounding train tunnels to provide the Fuhrer direct access.
10:25Okay, here we go.
10:26New.
10:31There we go.
10:32One more profile.
10:35All right, you ready?
10:36Go for it.
10:37Great.
10:43Okay, number three, done.
10:45We have some preliminary data, Stefan.
10:48It looks like we're seeing 30 feet in, if not a little bit more.
10:52I don't think anyone has looked this far yet.
10:58What do you think of that?
11:00I'm not seeing anything obvious in that data.
11:03The preliminary scan is inconclusive, so Stefan wants to create a 3D composite that will map more clearly what lies
11:11behind the wall.
11:12So we head back to town, where we can create the model.
11:16Back at our hotel, Stefan has finished the render and has made a substantial find.
11:21This right here is really significant.
11:24So I don't know about you, but look how perfectly square this is.
11:29The scan indicates the presence of a large chamber that opens up 8 feet into the wall, continuing for another
11:3730 feet, or deeper.
11:39Wow.
11:40Could this be anything other than an air gap?
11:42We can't, you know, definitively say it's a tunnel, but it's just so consistent, it all strikes me a little
11:51strange.
11:51Stefan's model suggests it's an empty tunnel, so it's unlikely we're looking at a loot-laden train.
11:57But our finding is a tantalizing piece of evidence pointing at the long-rumored possibility of a rail entrance to
12:05the castle,
12:05and a connection to the other sections of the massive Risa complex.
12:10It's a possibility Stefan and I want to explore further.
12:13Polish countryside is really beautiful in a rustic sense.
12:16It is.
12:17So we're heading to the so-called Vodars tunnels, part of the sprawling Risa complex.
12:24A Nazi mega-project in the Owl Mountains with a still-unknown purpose.
12:29I like.
12:30Here, we'll search for new tunnels that could connect to the castle and house the infamous gold train.
12:37We've arranged to meet up with a local treasure hunter named Christoph Spakovsky.
12:41A retired businessman, Christoph leased the Vodars tunnels, the largest part of the Risa complex.
12:47And for the past several years, he and his crew have been excavating the passageways below.
12:53So, tell me a little bit about the tunnels here.
12:56The Risa tunnels.
12:59These tunnels, which we'll go down to, they're two and a half miles in length.
13:04But I think those that we can get to are only about 5% of what was built.
13:10Christoph says that his team has found a variety of artifacts inside the tunnels,
13:14including Nazi weapons and old mining supplies.
13:18Do we know what the Germans were going to do with these tunnels?
13:23Well, there are different theories.
13:25I'm convinced that it was meant to be an atomic shelter in case of attack.
13:30Some believe the complex was to serve as a Nazi headquarters.
13:34Others think it was intended to be an underground weapons factory.
13:38Whatever its purpose, it's likely a rail line would have connected to a complex of this scale and importance,
13:44which is why many believe it would have been the most logical hiding spot for the Nazi loot.
13:49What do you think the probability is that there is a golden train in the tunnels here, somewhere in this
13:57complex?
13:59I personally am convinced that in this particular complex, there's going to be not one train, but tens of trains.
14:07If there was hidden treasure, it would probably be here in this tunnel complex.
14:12Maybe you've already found it. You haven't told anybody.
14:15I haven't thought you'd tell much.
14:21Sweet!
14:28Holy moly!
14:31Christoph's crew is going to help us enter the tunnels through this ventilation shaft, which appears to be quite deep.
14:37I am very excited to go down, but I think probably the wisest thing is if you go first.
14:44Don't you think?
14:46Just so that I'm up here for safety.
14:49Yeah, send a test dummy down.
14:59Deep, deep.
15:03We're all good?
15:05You don't need a harness or anything?
15:07Hey, just hold it.
15:08It's fine.
15:09What if you let go?
15:10What happens?
15:12It's Poland.
15:13It's totally fine.
15:14Aren't you supposed to be harnessed up for that or no?
15:16I'm ready, close it.
15:20I think you're nervous, Stefan.
15:27This would have been incredibly difficult to bore through.
15:31Do you see any bats?
15:33Yes, it's raining now.
15:37No bats?
15:39I don't really care.
15:40I was just wondering.
15:45Coming down!
15:48Holy moly, this is bigger than I expected.
15:51I can only imagine digging this tunnel in the 40s.
15:56As I descend, it's hard not to think about the people who built this system, mainly prisoners
16:02from the nearby Gross Rosen concentration camp.
16:05It was grueling work, blasting and carting away the hard rock that makes up this mountain.
16:11By the time the construction was halted, an estimated 5,000 people had been killed.
16:30There's no sign of train tracks in this section of the system, but some of the passages certainly
16:36seem large enough to house a locomotive.
16:39It's pretty wet in here, huh?
16:41You ready to sink in about my foot?
16:45Oh my gosh, it's muddy.
16:48This is not what I expected it to look like.
16:51No?
16:52No.
16:53But I bet if there's any hole to be found on a train, it will be able to be found.
17:01Really, to figure out how it all connects, we're going to need to map it a little more
17:05precisely.
17:06Yeah, I think having a map, I'll let us see some patterns, possibly, as to maybe what
17:11they hid.
17:12Or if it wasn't something they hid, what is still hidden to us.
17:16Yes.
17:17Stefan has brought along a LiDAR device to scan the system.
17:22LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging.
17:24A device sends out laser pulses and uses return time measurements to create three-dimensional
17:30renderings that can be analyzed with precision.
17:34Today, we have a handheld system, which will allow us to move easily through the tunnels.
17:39This is incredible.
17:40This technology used to be huge.
17:43It was only able to be used on a plane or ships, and now we can just walk around with
17:48it.
17:49The device is not designed to see into walls like our GPR unit.
17:54Rather, it creates a high-resolution 3D map that will allow us to scan the tunnels for
17:59suspicious features, like cave-ins that could indicate the Nazis have concealed an entrance
18:04or passageway.
18:05Essentially, we're looking for irregularities, anything that may have been covered up.
18:11Lasers turning on in three, two, one.
18:19Oh, man.
18:21Muddy.
18:22Will this cutting-edge device finally turn up the legendary Nazi treasure?
18:27Wow.
18:28That's pretty cool.
18:30Or reveal the purpose of this mysterious bunker?
18:33Is there a second level?
18:34There's a whole level that we may be missing.
18:48I'm in Poland, in what used to be the heart of Nazi territory.
18:52Sweet.
18:53In search for a legendary train full of gold and Third Reich riches.
18:57Holy moly.
19:00We're conducting a high-tech scan in hopes of finding suspicious features that could point
19:05us towards the infamous plunder.
19:07Or help us understand what sinister plans the Nazis had for this mysterious tunnel complex.
19:14Stefan and I take turns collecting measurements with the handheld device.
19:19We'll later generate the final 3D images and map.
19:28When we reach some of the system's flooded sections, we board a rickety boat that our contact
19:34has hauled in so that we can access the otherwise unreachable portions.
19:40Wow.
19:41This is huge.
19:47I'll light up objects so we don't hit our heads on them.
19:50The Nazis were highly secretive about what purpose Project Risa was to serve.
19:55When construction began, the Third Reich deployed 4,000 SS officers to guard the area, ordering
20:01them to shoot any trespassers on site.
20:04Whoa.
20:06Look at that.
20:08Crazy.
20:10Wow.
20:11I could very easily see this place as the bunker system.
20:15This is creepy.
20:17Oh.
20:17Careful there.
20:19Though it's highly doubtful the project was built specifically to store Nazi gold reserves
20:24or plundered riches, many believe it would have been the most logical place in the region
20:28for the retreating Germans to have hid their loot.
20:31It's an idea that has a compelling historical basis.
20:34In early April 1945, just weeks before the fall of Berlin, General Patton's Third Army
20:40stormed the village of Merckers in the heart of Nazi Germany.
20:44There, they heard rumors of a salt mine in the town where Nazis had hidden millions in
20:49bank reserves and stolen treasure in a last-ditch effort to protect their riches from allied
20:54hands.
20:55On April 8, 1945, Americans broke into the mine to find 8,000 bars of gold, 3,000 bags
21:02of gold coins, and dozens of priceless works of art.
21:06All of it was removed from a subterranean lair, not unlike the one Stefan and I are navigating
21:11right now.
21:12Maybe somewhere in this vastness lies a clue about this region's infamous trove of treasure.
21:17Alright, let's get going.
21:19It's time for us to build our high-tech treasure map of this long-lost tunnel system.
21:23Alright, check this out.
21:25My one of truth here.
21:26See what this tunnel looks like, huh?
21:29From the scanning we did, sophisticated algorithms use millions of data points to build a high-res
21:34model.
21:35Could there be sealed off tunnels hiding behind these walls?
21:39And, are they big enough to house a trainload of gold?
21:43There it is.
21:44Wow.
21:45That's pretty cool.
21:48Okay, so you can see where we entered right there.
21:53And then, look at this.
21:55Is that a second level?
21:58Whoa.
21:59There's a whole level that we may be missing.
22:02Yeah, we definitely get a second layer there.
22:05Stacked right on top.
22:06It's all very organized.
22:08Our model is opening up a breathtaking new way of exploring the mysterious Risa complex.
22:15Tunnels run lengthwise for over a mile, and are criss-crossed by intersecting side passages,
22:22all creating what we can now see is a very orderly grid pattern.
22:26But most fascinating of all, our model reveals hints of a second level, stacked above at least one of the
22:33tunnels we scanned.
22:35I mean, this could be a huge tunnel system, and we're only seeing a piece of it.
22:40Yeah.
22:41We definitely need to probe the area right above us further.
22:45Okay, so I think, Stefan, the next plan is that we need to go up above and start scanning the
22:50ground here.
22:51Back in the light of day, we go to the spot right above where we started to see that second
22:56level.
22:57Could a fortune of gold be lurking just beneath our feet?
23:00To help us find out, Stefan's arranged to meet up with a geophysical team from Warsaw.
23:05They've brought all the gear he needs to run some additional tests.
23:09We could set the survey up along this roadway here.
23:12Around 150 meters.
23:13Perfect.
23:14Yes.
23:16Stefan begins by laying seismic sensors down on a straight line that crosses above the area where we saw that
23:22second level.
23:23For this first scan, we'll take turns driving pulses of energy into the ground using a sledgehammer and a metal
23:30plate.
23:30Ready?
23:31Okay.
23:32Go ahead.
23:33Go ahead.
23:41These pulses travel at different speeds depending on the type of material they're passing through.
23:47Revealing a rough picture of any tunnels or chambers that lie beneath.
23:51Let's move it over there.
23:58While we hammer away, Stefan's also set up another tool called electrical resistivity tomography.
24:04Known as ERT for short, this tech works by injecting electrical current into the ground through pairs of electrodes.
24:11Additional electrodes then measure how easily that current can flow through whatever lies below.
24:17Hopefully confirming the presence of any tunnels that show up on our sledgehammer test.
24:22If there is a hundred foot train beneath us, there's no hiding from our scans.
24:26Getting you ready for the gulag.
24:29Will our hard work amount to anything?
24:32After about an hour, we can finally find out.
24:35Did you get the data?
24:36Yes.
24:37We have the results.
24:38Let's see it.
24:39Let's see it.
24:40That's ERT.
24:41Whoa.
24:41This is a new tunnel.
24:51Stefan and I are in Poland, searching for a legendary stash of Nazi plunder.
24:57We're reviewing the results from a ground-probing electrical scan we conducted directly above the Project Reza complex.
25:03And we've made a startling find.
25:06Whoa.
25:07Our scan seems to indicate the presence of three tunnels.
25:11A lot of colors there.
25:12So this is 10 meters down.
25:15Not even five meters down, there's another hole.
25:18Yes.
25:19And there's another one here.
25:20And they're all the same, you know, depth, too.
25:24All about the same width.
25:25So this is...
25:26This is cool.
25:27Looking really good.
25:28The sledgehammer test we ran should confirm these possible new tunnels.
25:32And it does.
25:34We have essentially three anomalies again.
25:37And that lines up exactly with the ERT.
25:40It's like a foot off.
25:41Yeah.
25:42This is incredible.
25:43I don't even know what to say.
25:45It's, uh...
25:46This is...
25:47This is a new tunnel that nobody's ever explored before.
25:52The network carved into the mountain is growing.
25:55Far from one single layer,
25:57the tunnels here seem to be stacked.
25:59One on top of another.
26:01And not just in one stretch.
26:04I...
26:04I am blown away.
26:06You know, I knew that because of the network,
26:08that there may be upper layers.
26:10Mm-hmm.
26:10But finding three of them side by side,
26:13there could be even more.
26:15If we kept scanning that entire road,
26:17we might tie the rest of the complex.
26:20The discovery of these new layers is an exciting lead
26:23in our quest to figure out the purpose of this mysterious complex.
26:26The stacked levels could be a clue
26:28that the complex was intended to be a weapons or aircraft factory.
26:33While constructing other underground manufacturing facilities,
26:36Nazi engineers found they could hollow out large chambers
26:39by tunneling several layers on top of one another
26:43and blowing up the rock barrier in between.
26:45The resulting caverns were sizable enough to build and store large weapons
26:50out of reach from allied bombing raids.
26:52Beyond simply hinting at the purpose of this mysterious complex,
26:56our discovery of possible new tunnels makes the long-rumored connection
27:00from here to Sean's castle seem more plausible.
27:03But the uniform shape of the cavities on the scan imply the tunnels are not filled with Nazi loot.
27:09So we need to consider other options that could explain where the train could have ended up.
27:16Stefan and I make our way back to the town of Wolbschik
27:19to meet with local journalist Christoph Shiznowski,
27:22who we've heard is developing a new theory that could point to the missing Project Risa connection
27:27and to the location of the gold train.
27:30Stefan and I are trying to just understand what's going on with the train, the tunnels,
27:36maybe the connection to the Shah's castle.
27:39And what I find interesting is you have a different theory than everybody else has had so far.
27:46Is that right?
27:48That is correct.
27:49There were accounts given by witnesses that showed that this train may be located somewhere else.
27:56Also in this region, everything started in 1972.
28:02That year, Polish TV broadcast a documentary about the search for some of the missing valuables.
28:09Afterwards, letters came pouring in about these long-lost artifacts.
28:13One of them was very interesting.
28:15I brought this letter, which was sent to the TV studio from a guy from Germany.
28:22He said that in April 1945, there was a train standing on the side rails between the city of Lubiehu.
28:33That's a spot between the Vodarsh tunnels and Shah's castle.
28:37He said that the train had many carriages loaded with stuff.
28:42He suggested that this might have been hidden somewhere in the castle Książ.
28:48And this started a theory that, first of all, there must have been some side rails nearby.
28:55And secondly, is it possible that there was a tunnel leading from the side rails to the castle?
29:02It's an exciting new theory that a side rail connected the main rail line, where the train is rumored to
29:09have been last spotted, to Shah's castle.
29:12Again, the castle seems to be taking center stage.
29:15But Kristoff and his colleagues knew they needed more than one eyewitness account to support this new theory.
29:21So they started looking for any documents that could prove, first and foremost, that there was a branch off the
29:27main rail line in the area.
29:29And we found it.
29:30Really?
29:31Kristoff shows us a map from the 1930s.
29:35Here, we can see the side rails leading towards the castle.
29:41Oh my gosh.
29:43In his research, Kristoff also came across a remarkable aerial photograph taken by the Nazis in 1945,
29:49of the same area featured in the map.
29:53And here, we see the same spot as here.
29:57Definitely, there is some kind of construction here.
30:01Wow.
30:02So it looks like the construction on both sides, on the east side?
30:06Yes.
30:06And on the west side?
30:08That is correct.
30:09Wow.
30:10Could the Nazis have been at work on some sort of track or tunnel leading to Shah's?
30:15And could its connections to the main rail line mean the infamous Nazi treasure could have been shuttled through this
30:21corridor to the castle?
30:23But the most surprising thing was that at the end of this track, there is kind of old platform, which
30:32is still visible.
30:34So you found a platform right here?
30:37Yes.
30:38A platform seems to be very real and solid evidence that there was a side rail line in that spot.
30:44Is it possible for you to take us to that platform?
30:48Sure.
30:48It's not far away.
30:50We can do it.
30:50Fantastic.
30:52Are we on to a major break in the decades-old case of the mythical gold train?
31:08I'm in Wojcik, Poland, along with tech expert Stefan Burns, trying to get to the bottom of the legend of
31:14the Nazi gold train.
31:15Local journalist, Kristof Shizanovsky, thinks he has a lead for us.
31:20An old rail branch and platform near the 40-mile mark on the main rail line.
31:25A spot where an eyewitness said he saw a train laden with boxes at the end of the war.
31:36Where did the track veer off on this side of the track?
31:40If you remember the map which I showed you earlier, this is the place where it was possible to split
31:46off the rail.
31:47And we are right in this split rail, this sideline.
31:53What you can see here is the concrete construction for the track of the sideline.
32:02Oh, cool.
32:03That's the beginning of this place.
32:05Wait, so this would be the edge of the track?
32:07That is right.
32:09Książ Castle is about 2,000 meters in a straight line from this point.
32:20As we walk towards the platform, Kristof points out drainage wells.
32:24Here's another well.
32:26That he believes ran alongside the old rail line.
32:31This is the platform right here?
32:33Yes.
32:33Here and here, behind me.
32:35This is the edge?
32:36Yes.
32:39Yeah, you can even see these rusted anchors or supports.
32:44That's right.
32:46Or something.
32:46It wasn't just concrete that was put down.
32:50It's almost 200 meters.
32:53This is a promising site for further testing, but not right now.
32:57A thunderstorm is rolling in.
32:59You know, it's obviously pouring right now, and I'm concerned that we're not going to get good readings in the
33:04rain.
33:05And I definitely cannot send up the drone in this weather.
33:09I think we're done for the day.
33:10Yeah.
33:10We're going to have to come back.
33:16First thing the next morning, we get to work identifying the best spot to search for a covered-up tunnel
33:21or rail passage.
33:24There we go.
33:25I want to get my own aerial view of the site and see if I can't pick out any clues
33:29from high above.
33:31Whoa.
33:32This is great.
33:32You're very close to those power lines.
33:34Yeah.
33:35Well, you can definitely see the platform, huh?
33:37Right there.
33:38Yeah.
33:38Yeah.
33:38Let's go up.
33:40And actually, it looks like the old tracks are following the road right now.
33:46He said that these tracks led towards Shaw's.
33:50Let's just kind of back up and look at it and see where it's heading.
33:54Oh, look.
33:54That's the castle.
33:56That's cool.
33:57There does seem to be a visible pathway from the platform towards the castle.
34:02Today, trees mark some of the line.
34:04Well, it is hard to see down here on the ground the elevation.
34:08But we're right here, and there's the castle.
34:12And look how it starts.
34:13Like, basically right here, the mountains start.
34:16So you could dig into the ground not too far up there and then essentially access the tunnel system underneath
34:21the castle.
34:22Yeah.
34:23And then also, this location, you were split off from that main train track line.
34:28You know, right here to the castle is the shortest distance.
34:32And those finished tunnels are definitely big enough to hold a train.
34:35There are a lot of factors that make this a good spot to look.
34:38Yeah, let me land this drone and then we can get started.
34:46Yeah.
34:47There we go.
34:49Stefan thinks that ERT and electromagnetic testing will give us the best shot at finding any evidence of an old
34:56rail line or a tunnel.
34:58ERT can detect tunnels deep in the ground.
35:00We used the same method earlier at RESA.
35:04Not far from the end of the platform, we lay out an 80-yard line.
35:08Keep going until you get to 72.
35:11With electrodes approximately every yard.
35:16We'll also use a magnetometer to identify any buried metal objects that contain iron, like rail ties or a train
35:23car.
35:24It works by measuring very small variations in the Earth's magnetic field.
35:27A disturbance in the readings could mean there's something below.
35:31This magnetometer will, you know, help us find metals and also help us find, you know, infrastructure.
35:36So maybe reinforced concrete.
35:38Things that you would need to build a tunnel, let's say.
35:41But you couldn't take this over gold, could you?
35:44Like if there was a big gold bar, would this detect it?
35:46You use slightly different equipment for that.
35:49But before we can get started taking measurements, there's a surprise interruption.
35:56A woman who lives nearby tells a member of our crew that she has some information for us.
36:00So we've stopped what we're doing to meet her.
36:10She tells us she's lived here since the 1950s.
36:13And that when she was a little girl, there was a small hill with an entrance.
36:17And stairs leading down.
36:19Right here.
36:19When we were kids, we found steps going down.
36:22Five of them.
36:23Steps going down?
36:25Down.
36:25Five steps down.
36:27All in concrete.
36:28All under construction.
36:31And where did it go?
36:33Five steps down and then nothing more.
36:36So steps down and then nothing?
36:40Nothing.
36:41Do you think it filled in a tunnel?
36:53Stefan and I are hot on the trail of the Nazi gold train in Poland.
36:57We've just learned from a local resident that there used to be some sort of hill here and steps leading
37:02down.
37:03We're wondering if this could be evidence of a long lost tunnel that could have served as a possible escape
37:09route for the Nazi gold train.
37:11Do you think it filled in a tunnel?
37:15We don't know.
37:16We don't know.
37:16We never checked it.
37:19She also tells us there's a gorge in the woods, one that was quite deep when she was a young
37:23girl.
37:24Could this also indicate the start of a tunnel?
37:29It was a deep gorge and then it rapidly ended.
37:34They wouldn't just drop a train in like this, you know?
37:36They would go ahead and slowly ramp it down and the whole gorge thing makes perfect sense.
37:40And then all of a sudden, boom, there's your tunnel.
37:42Wow, this changes everything completely, doesn't it?
37:46We head into the woods to see if we can find any remnants of the gorge.
37:49I mean, here's the gorge right here and it looks like it's going up in elevation.
37:54So, you know, in theory, there could easily be a tunnel big enough for a train right underneath us.
38:02As we make our way back out to the road, we spot additional drainage wells, just like the ones that
38:07Christophe believes ran along the side rail line.
38:11It seems like further evidence of some sort of large scale construction here.
38:15I can't see the end, it just keeps, it just keeps going.
38:21Because of the suspicious features, we decide to extend our testing to this area as well.
38:29Let's go to the beginning of the line and let's collect this.
38:34I'm really excited to see how this data matches up.
38:38There's definitely enough evidence to show that there's something here.
38:43If anything's going to see it, it's going to be resistivity and this magnetometer.
38:51Into the forest.
38:53We repeat the testing in the area the woman pointed out to us, which is closer to the castle.
38:58We then pack up the equipment and head back to our hotel.
39:03From what we've seen on the ground, it appears there may have been a side rail line, possibly leading to
39:08a tunnel into Sean's castle.
39:11Stefan pulls up the ERT data collected by the main rail line, just shy of the 40 mile mark.
39:17Whoa, look at that, right there.
39:19It's a huge anomaly.
39:21Stefan spotted something beneath the ground that's about 50 feet long and 15 feet high.
39:27Is that an air gap under there?
39:29So this is unusual. We might see that feature if there was perhaps a tunnel filled with water.
39:39This is where the lady said there might be a passage, right?
39:43That's right around that area.
39:45It could also be somewhere where they put a bunch of metal.
39:48Yeah, that's what it would look like.
39:50I feel a little bit weird going here, but like maybe a giant train filled with gold.
39:57We need to investigate this more for sure.
40:00I mean, this is a huge discovery.
40:03But will the magnetometer back up the ERT findings?
40:06So you look here, you see these natural fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field over the course of the survey.
40:12But then look at here how it just completely amplifies flat lines at a very high signal, and then it
40:20goes back to this normal pattern.
40:22The increase in signal indicates the object is highly magnetic.
40:26And this matches up with the anomaly that we saw from the ERT.
40:29Yeah, it's right in the middle. This could be, you know, a train, a large pile of metal. I don't
40:36know how to explain it. It's very bizarre.
40:39Well, this is incredible.
40:41It's a pretty astounding find. What could be a large metal object right near the spot where the side rail
40:47began.
40:47It's tantalizing to consider what exactly this metal structure could be, and to imagine that these blips on a graph
40:54could be showing us the final resting spot of the legendary Nazi gold train.
40:59At the very least, it's compelling evidence towards our new theory that a side rail line really did connect to
41:05the castle, giving a direct path for a train bearing loot to disappear somewhere between here and Sean's.
41:11It is very bizarre, and I don't know if we can definitely say what we're seeing here, but the one
41:18thing that is for sure is it keeps this mystery of the gold train alive.
41:22Yeah, without a doubt.
41:24With our cutting-edge tech, we've made enormous progress in our search. We've established evidence of a long-rumored chamber
41:31at Sean's, one that could have been designed as a private train entrance for Hitler.
41:36We've discovered possible new tunnels stacked beneath the Risa complex, tunnels that could explain the site's purpose as a monstrous
41:45underground weapons factory.
41:46And found clues pointing to a connection between the two sites, what seems to be a long-buried side rail
41:52line or tunnel with an enormous, unidentified metal object within.
41:59Next, we'll begin the process of filing permits with the Polish government to excavate at the site of this metal
42:05object. It's a lengthy process, but worth a try.
42:09One thing is for sure, with the new evidence we've uncovered, and with so much of the Owl Mountains still
42:16unexplored, the legend of the Nazi gold train lives on.
42:20On the other hand giveaway they have the store behind.
42:22Everyone feels like you've heard from the historical property.
42:23I'm gonna try to follow up your mind.
42:23That's the exact message he's called.
42:24I am with по ülke
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