1 00:00:01,827 --> 00:00:03,960 RRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Civil War Gold... 2 00:00:04,004 --> 00:00:05,266 I believe that there are, 3 00:00:05,309 --> 00:00:07,007 potentially, billions in gold 4 00:00:07,050 --> 00:00:08,225 hidden by the Knights of the Golden Circle. 5 00:00:08,269 --> 00:00:09,574 And it played out in Muskegon 6 00:00:09,618 --> 00:00:11,011 because of Charles Hackley. 7 00:00:11,054 --> 00:00:13,187 -He fits the profile. -KEVIN: Wow. 8 00:00:13,230 --> 00:00:15,667 AKRAM: Here you're in the Mason's Temple. 9 00:00:15,711 --> 00:00:18,453 I've always felt that the Masons collaborated 10 00:00:18,496 --> 00:00:19,845 about the missing Confederate gold. 11 00:00:19,889 --> 00:00:21,673 What gold? 12 00:00:21,717 --> 00:00:24,894 -Vault number one. -[laughs]: Oh, my goodness. 13 00:00:24,937 --> 00:00:27,418 Every history textbook in America has this wrong. 14 00:00:27,462 --> 00:00:29,072 Absolutely. 15 00:00:46,220 --> 00:00:48,352 ALEX: Are you saying that Stanton was involved 16 00:00:48,396 --> 00:00:49,832 in the murder of Abraham Lincoln? 17 00:00:49,875 --> 00:00:52,617 -Yes. -You are? 18 00:00:52,661 --> 00:00:54,967 -How do you know that? -I know it for a fact. 19 00:00:55,011 --> 00:00:56,621 -BRAD: Wow. -Wow. 20 00:00:56,665 --> 00:00:59,320 NARRATOR: While tracking down connections 21 00:00:59,363 --> 00:01:01,191 between the men who arrested Jefferson Davis 22 00:01:01,235 --> 00:01:04,281 on the morning of May 10, 1865 23 00:01:04,325 --> 00:01:07,371 and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, 24 00:01:07,415 --> 00:01:12,637 the man who gave the orders, treasure hunter Kevin Dykstra, 25 00:01:12,681 --> 00:01:16,728 his brother Al, along with researcher Brad Richards 26 00:01:16,772 --> 00:01:18,687 and Marty Lagina's son Alex 27 00:01:18,730 --> 00:01:20,471 have traveled to Washington, D.C. 28 00:01:20,515 --> 00:01:23,866 They are meeting with investigative journalist 29 00:01:23,909 --> 00:01:28,175 and author Warren Getler, whose bookRebel Gold 30 00:01:28,218 --> 00:01:30,786 makes numerous connections between Stanton 31 00:01:30,829 --> 00:01:32,918 and an elaborate plot to assassinate 32 00:01:32,962 --> 00:01:34,833 President Abraham Lincoln 33 00:01:34,877 --> 00:01:37,140 and then steal millions in gold and silver 34 00:01:37,184 --> 00:01:39,316 from the Confederate treasury-- 35 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,189 a portion of which, Kevin believes, 36 00:01:42,232 --> 00:01:45,670 now lies at the bottom of Lake Michigan. 37 00:01:45,714 --> 00:01:48,543 The story that I've heard is that 38 00:01:48,586 --> 00:01:50,327 John Wilkes Booth was just, like, 39 00:01:50,371 --> 00:01:53,200 a rogue Southern sympathizer who executed Abraham Lincoln, 40 00:01:53,243 --> 00:01:55,463 -but you're saying that that's not the case. -WARREN: Right. 41 00:01:55,506 --> 00:01:57,900 That's the established history, but it's, it's not true. 42 00:02:00,685 --> 00:02:04,646 NARRATOR: On the evening of April 14, 1865, 43 00:02:04,689 --> 00:02:07,997 President Abraham Lincoln was attending a production 44 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:09,738 ofOur American Cousin 45 00:02:09,781 --> 00:02:13,220 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. 46 00:02:13,263 --> 00:02:16,875 John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor, 47 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,139 entered the president's private box 48 00:02:19,182 --> 00:02:21,837 and fired a single .44 caliber bullet 49 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,926 into the back of his head. 50 00:02:23,969 --> 00:02:27,147 As chaos erupted in the stunned theater, 51 00:02:27,190 --> 00:02:29,018 Booth leapt to the stage, 52 00:02:29,061 --> 00:02:31,499 injured his leg and then shouted, 53 00:02:31,542 --> 00:02:35,459 "Sic semper tyrannis"-- death to tyrants. 54 00:02:35,503 --> 00:02:38,549 He then escaped out the back door of the theater 55 00:02:38,593 --> 00:02:41,378 and fled into the night on a waiting horse. 56 00:02:43,293 --> 00:02:45,643 But Booth's act of treachery 57 00:02:45,687 --> 00:02:48,603 was by no means a solitary one. 58 00:02:48,646 --> 00:02:51,214 That same night, there were similar plots 59 00:02:51,258 --> 00:02:53,782 against two other members of Lincoln's cabinet: 60 00:02:53,825 --> 00:02:56,611 Vice President Andrew Johnson, 61 00:02:56,654 --> 00:03:00,267 and Secretary of State William H. Seward. 62 00:03:00,310 --> 00:03:02,921 Although the attempt on Johnson was foiled 63 00:03:02,965 --> 00:03:04,706 before it could take place, 64 00:03:04,749 --> 00:03:08,492 the attack on Secretary Seward-- while not fatal-- 65 00:03:08,536 --> 00:03:11,234 was exceptionally brutal, leaving the statesman 66 00:03:11,278 --> 00:03:13,236 scarred for life. 67 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,979 There were eight people who were convicted and four were hung. 68 00:03:17,022 --> 00:03:22,332 We are talking about one of the most elaborate schemes 69 00:03:22,376 --> 00:03:26,031 of what we call today "regime change." 70 00:03:26,075 --> 00:03:28,120 Whoa. 71 00:03:28,164 --> 00:03:31,080 The actual act by Booth, I believe, was organized 72 00:03:31,123 --> 00:03:32,734 by the Knights of the Golden Circle. 73 00:03:32,777 --> 00:03:35,171 And I think there is a real possibility 74 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:38,870 that Edwin Stanton was a major coconspirator. 75 00:03:38,914 --> 00:03:42,091 NARRATOR: The Knights of the Golden Circle? 76 00:03:42,134 --> 00:03:45,660 The secret organization that was reportedly planning 77 00:03:45,703 --> 00:03:49,185 to take the remains of the Confederate treasury to Mexico 78 00:03:49,229 --> 00:03:51,927 and then use it to set up a rogue government? 79 00:03:51,970 --> 00:03:55,104 In 1854, 80 00:03:55,147 --> 00:03:59,151 as anti-slavery sentiment began growing in the United States, 81 00:03:59,195 --> 00:04:02,807 pro-slavery advocates formed a secret society 82 00:04:02,851 --> 00:04:07,682 known as the Knights of the Golden Circle, or KGC. 83 00:04:07,725 --> 00:04:11,860 Members are believed to have included John Wilkes Booth, 84 00:04:11,903 --> 00:04:15,080 the outlaw Jesse James 85 00:04:15,124 --> 00:04:18,475 and Confederate President Jefferson Davis. 86 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:21,565 When the Confederacy lost the Civil War, 87 00:04:21,609 --> 00:04:25,656 the KGC plotted to form a new nation of slave territories 88 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:27,745 known as the Golden Circle, 89 00:04:27,789 --> 00:04:31,314 that would stretch from Mexico to the Caribbean. 90 00:04:31,358 --> 00:04:33,577 Is it possible, 91 00:04:33,621 --> 00:04:35,927 as Warren Getler's research suggests, 92 00:04:35,971 --> 00:04:39,017 that not only was the KGC behind the plot 93 00:04:39,061 --> 00:04:40,845 to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, 94 00:04:40,889 --> 00:04:42,978 but that one of the conspirators 95 00:04:43,021 --> 00:04:48,113 was Edward M. Stanton, a member of Lincoln's own cabinet? 96 00:04:48,157 --> 00:04:52,074 If we want to look at some very incriminating evidence 97 00:04:52,117 --> 00:04:54,990 -against Stanton... -Okay. 98 00:04:55,033 --> 00:04:58,472 ...the question becomes, did Booth lose his diary, which is-- 99 00:04:58,515 --> 00:05:01,866 I actually have a copy of this here to show you guys. 100 00:05:01,910 --> 00:05:04,304 -AL: John Wilkes Booth's diary? -Yes. 101 00:05:04,347 --> 00:05:06,436 -BRAD: Whoa. -And isn't it interesting 102 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,135 that when Stanton returned it, 18 pages were missing? 103 00:05:10,179 --> 00:05:11,528 Wow. 104 00:05:11,572 --> 00:05:13,835 NARRATOR: 18 pages? 105 00:05:13,878 --> 00:05:17,360 Missing from the diary of John Wilkes Booth? 106 00:05:17,404 --> 00:05:21,408 Is it possible that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton 107 00:05:21,451 --> 00:05:23,366 was involved in the plot to assassinate 108 00:05:23,410 --> 00:05:26,282 America's 16th president? 109 00:05:26,326 --> 00:05:29,503 And, if so, what had Booth written 110 00:05:29,546 --> 00:05:33,463 that Stanton would have wanted erased from history? 111 00:05:33,507 --> 00:05:35,552 They're obviously missing for a reason. 112 00:05:35,596 --> 00:05:39,208 Somebody didn't want people to know what was on those pages. 113 00:05:39,251 --> 00:05:41,384 WARREN: Lincoln, he wasn't just fighting the Confederacy, 114 00:05:41,428 --> 00:05:44,387 he was fighting a secret society. 115 00:05:44,431 --> 00:05:48,260 The Knights of the Golden Circle had the power, I would argue, 116 00:05:48,304 --> 00:05:51,002 of the CIA, the FBI 117 00:05:51,046 --> 00:05:53,657 and the National Security Administration combined. 118 00:05:53,701 --> 00:05:56,181 -Oh, wow. -Why do I say that? 119 00:05:56,225 --> 00:05:57,835 Because the U.S. government 120 00:05:57,879 --> 00:05:59,881 was after the Knights of the Golden Circle. 121 00:05:59,924 --> 00:06:02,405 And this is where it gets really interesting. 122 00:06:02,449 --> 00:06:05,147 If we recall, the Knights of the Golden Circle was two things: 123 00:06:05,190 --> 00:06:07,584 it was a Confederate organization 124 00:06:07,628 --> 00:06:08,629 and a Scottish Rite organization. 125 00:06:08,672 --> 00:06:10,935 Oh, my goodness. 126 00:06:10,979 --> 00:06:14,504 NARRATOR: The Scottish Rite is a branch of Freemasonry 127 00:06:14,548 --> 00:06:16,767 designed to advance Master Masons 128 00:06:16,811 --> 00:06:19,466 beyond the organization's third degree. 129 00:06:19,509 --> 00:06:23,948 Formed in 1801, and then later refined 130 00:06:23,992 --> 00:06:27,256 by noted Freemason Albert Pike in the 1850s, 131 00:06:27,299 --> 00:06:29,911 Scottish Rite Freemasonry is considered 132 00:06:29,954 --> 00:06:32,435 one of the most prestigious and elite branches 133 00:06:32,479 --> 00:06:34,437 in the organization. 134 00:06:34,481 --> 00:06:38,093 It is also one of the most secretive. 135 00:06:38,136 --> 00:06:41,444 If you look at the Masonic connection, 136 00:06:41,488 --> 00:06:43,577 he was a Mason, he was a Mason, 137 00:06:43,620 --> 00:06:45,100 he was a Mason. 138 00:06:45,143 --> 00:06:47,624 There it is. That's the package. 139 00:06:47,668 --> 00:06:50,018 BRAD: All the major players are Scottish Rite 140 00:06:50,061 --> 00:06:51,802 33rd degree Masons. 141 00:06:51,846 --> 00:06:53,761 KEVIN: Does any of your research 142 00:06:53,804 --> 00:06:57,852 reveal Stanton in an effort to seize Confederate gold 143 00:06:57,895 --> 00:07:01,464 of any kind and then store it or hide it in places? 144 00:07:01,508 --> 00:07:03,988 The Knights of the Golden Circle were all about 145 00:07:04,032 --> 00:07:06,251 seizing gold and keeping it. 146 00:07:06,295 --> 00:07:08,993 -Okay. -A classic modus operandi 147 00:07:09,037 --> 00:07:10,473 of the Knights of the Golden Circle 148 00:07:10,517 --> 00:07:13,781 was to have sentinels in place 149 00:07:13,824 --> 00:07:17,698 who would protect this money at all costs under a blood oath. 150 00:07:17,741 --> 00:07:19,656 -Wow. -KEVIN: Really? 151 00:07:19,700 --> 00:07:23,355 WARREN: I believe that there are potentially billions in gold 152 00:07:23,399 --> 00:07:25,183 that are underground, hidden by the Knights 153 00:07:25,227 --> 00:07:27,664 of the Golden Circle. 154 00:07:27,708 --> 00:07:29,274 -Still, to this day? -Yes, absolutely. 155 00:07:29,318 --> 00:07:32,756 These huge depositories of underground gold exist, 156 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,193 in Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Texas. 157 00:07:35,237 --> 00:07:38,066 They would have people who would be in charge of them, 158 00:07:38,109 --> 00:07:40,982 and, if they were smart, they'd give to the town. 159 00:07:41,025 --> 00:07:44,159 To keep the town happy, maybe to keep the town quiet. 160 00:07:44,202 --> 00:07:47,379 And it played out in Muskegon because one interesting fellow, 161 00:07:47,423 --> 00:07:49,773 Charles Hackley, who was a high-level Mason, 162 00:07:49,817 --> 00:07:52,646 -did exactly that. -He fits the profile. 163 00:07:52,689 --> 00:07:56,214 He built hospitals, he built schools, libraries. 164 00:07:56,258 --> 00:07:58,086 He really pulled the town on his side. 165 00:07:58,129 --> 00:08:01,045 So you're saying Charles Hackley could have been a KGC sentinel? 166 00:08:01,089 --> 00:08:03,526 It's very hard to eliminate the possibility. 167 00:08:03,570 --> 00:08:06,181 We knew it. 168 00:08:06,224 --> 00:08:09,184 NARRATOR: According to Kevin Dykstra's research, 169 00:08:09,227 --> 00:08:12,274 the Union officers who arrested Jefferson Davis 170 00:08:12,317 --> 00:08:13,971 at the end of the Civil War 171 00:08:14,015 --> 00:08:16,452 took possession of six wagonloads 172 00:08:16,496 --> 00:08:19,542 of gold, silver and jewelry. 173 00:08:19,586 --> 00:08:23,024 After being hidden in Georgia for five years, 174 00:08:23,067 --> 00:08:26,244 the treasure was then brought to Muskegon, Michigan 175 00:08:26,288 --> 00:08:28,290 where lumber tycoon-turned-banker 176 00:08:28,333 --> 00:08:30,684 Charles Hackley began laundering it 177 00:08:30,727 --> 00:08:33,164 through a number of local banks and charities, 178 00:08:33,208 --> 00:08:36,472 as well as in gold mines out west. 179 00:08:36,516 --> 00:08:39,214 According to a deathbed confession 180 00:08:39,257 --> 00:08:42,173 made by a lighthouse keeper in the late 1800s, 181 00:08:42,217 --> 00:08:45,089 it was while transporting the stolen gold 182 00:08:45,133 --> 00:08:47,831 to one of Charles Hackley's gold mines in Utah 183 00:08:47,875 --> 00:08:49,572 that a boxcar full of it 184 00:08:49,616 --> 00:08:52,227 was deliberately pushed off a ferryboat 185 00:08:52,270 --> 00:08:56,100 and sent crashing to the bottom of Lake Michigan. 186 00:08:56,144 --> 00:09:00,017 Although Kevin believes he has found a possible debris field, 187 00:09:00,061 --> 00:09:02,193 he must wait for the necessary permits 188 00:09:02,237 --> 00:09:05,153 to see if his theory is correct. 189 00:09:05,196 --> 00:09:08,112 So the question with Stanton is, 190 00:09:08,156 --> 00:09:12,508 was seizing that gold important to keep the economy going? 191 00:09:12,552 --> 00:09:15,424 Right? He made a big fuss about this money. 192 00:09:15,467 --> 00:09:17,295 Or was it that he was an operative 193 00:09:17,339 --> 00:09:18,949 of the Knights of the Golden Circle? 194 00:09:18,993 --> 00:09:21,343 ALEX: Right. 195 00:09:21,386 --> 00:09:23,388 -Two conflicting motives. -Two conflicting. 196 00:09:23,432 --> 00:09:26,261 Or did he, did he thread himself kind of between both? 197 00:09:26,304 --> 00:09:28,611 I've been on this story for 20 years, 198 00:09:28,655 --> 00:09:31,658 and there's a guy I would love for you to meet. 199 00:09:31,701 --> 00:09:33,573 He's a real Booth assassination expert. 200 00:09:33,616 --> 00:09:35,531 Nate Orlowek. 201 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:37,838 And I think it would be great for you guys to talk to him. 202 00:09:37,881 --> 00:09:39,753 Yeah, I'll get in touch with him. I'll set something up. 203 00:09:39,796 --> 00:09:42,582 -The more we can learn, the better, really. -Absolutely. 204 00:09:42,625 --> 00:09:44,671 We knew this conspiracy was large. 205 00:09:44,714 --> 00:09:47,195 I felt we were at the tip of the iceberg. 206 00:09:47,238 --> 00:09:50,154 I think we're at the tip of Antarctica, 207 00:09:50,198 --> 00:09:51,678 -loaded with icebergs. -[laughter] 208 00:09:51,721 --> 00:09:54,028 As a history teacher, it's mind-blowing. 209 00:09:54,071 --> 00:09:55,812 Yeah, well, it's not the history we learn 210 00:09:55,856 --> 00:09:57,814 in high school or in college. 211 00:09:57,858 --> 00:09:59,642 AL: We appreciate your time. 212 00:09:59,686 --> 00:10:00,904 WARREN: Yeah, great. Good seeing you guys. 213 00:10:00,948 --> 00:10:01,775 Take care. 214 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,477 NARRATOR: After scheduling to meet 215 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,741 with John Wilkes Booth expert Nate Orlowek the next day, 216 00:10:11,785 --> 00:10:14,048 Alex Lagina has arranged for everyone 217 00:10:14,091 --> 00:10:16,659 to find out more about Freemasonry 218 00:10:16,703 --> 00:10:19,619 by suggesting a visit with a former Grand Master 219 00:10:19,662 --> 00:10:22,839 of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia. 220 00:10:22,883 --> 00:10:26,364 Al and I managed to get in touch with a guy by the name of Akram, 221 00:10:26,408 --> 00:10:29,150 who is a former Grand Master of the Scottish Rite here in D.C. 222 00:10:29,193 --> 00:10:30,847 -33 degree. -Yep. Yep. 223 00:10:30,891 --> 00:10:32,544 -BRAD: Really? -KEVIN: Oh, wow. 224 00:10:32,588 --> 00:10:35,025 NARRATOR: For Kevin Dykstra and his team, 225 00:10:35,069 --> 00:10:36,723 what started as a quest 226 00:10:36,766 --> 00:10:38,376 to retrieve millions of dollars' worth 227 00:10:38,420 --> 00:10:41,031 of gold bars at the bottom of Lake Michigan 228 00:10:41,075 --> 00:10:45,862 has expanded to a treasure hunt of a very different kind. 229 00:10:45,906 --> 00:10:47,168 Have any of you guys been in a, like, 230 00:10:47,211 --> 00:10:48,865 -a Masonic temple before? -Never. 231 00:10:48,909 --> 00:10:50,911 NARRATOR: They are now increasingly convinced 232 00:10:50,954 --> 00:10:54,523 that a plot to steal a portion of the Confederate treasury 233 00:10:54,566 --> 00:10:57,657 -was actually part of a vast conspiracy. -[gunshot] 234 00:10:57,700 --> 00:10:59,528 KEVIN: It's really interesting 235 00:10:59,571 --> 00:11:01,965 that research that started in Muskegon, Michigan 236 00:11:02,009 --> 00:11:04,707 now looks like it could very likely involve 237 00:11:04,751 --> 00:11:06,491 John Wilkes Booth. 238 00:11:06,535 --> 00:11:09,581 We're uncovering a bigger conspiracy here. 239 00:11:09,625 --> 00:11:11,671 We very likely could be rewriting history. 240 00:11:13,934 --> 00:11:15,718 ALEX: Well, this is it. 241 00:11:15,762 --> 00:11:17,111 The oldest Masonic temple in D.C. 242 00:11:17,154 --> 00:11:18,721 -BRAD: This thing is huge. -ALEX: Yep. 243 00:11:18,765 --> 00:11:20,114 AL: Man, that's impressive. 244 00:11:20,157 --> 00:11:21,376 -KEVIN: Right here. -Hello, gentlemen. 245 00:11:21,419 --> 00:11:22,638 -ALEX: Hey. How are you? -BRAD: Hey, Akram. 246 00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:24,031 -AL: Hey, Akram. -Fine. How you doing? 247 00:11:24,074 --> 00:11:25,119 -I'm Alex. We talked on the phone. -Hi, Alex. 248 00:11:25,162 --> 00:11:26,294 -How are you? I'm Akram. -I'm Al. 249 00:11:26,337 --> 00:11:27,730 NARRATOR: As the president 250 00:11:27,774 --> 00:11:30,472 of Capital Communications Group, Inc., 251 00:11:30,515 --> 00:11:32,866 a consulting firm that specializes 252 00:11:32,909 --> 00:11:34,694 in international business 253 00:11:34,737 --> 00:11:36,913 and cultural/political networking, 254 00:11:36,957 --> 00:11:39,176 Akram Elias is considered 255 00:11:39,220 --> 00:11:42,832 one of Washington, D.C.'s most respected residents. 256 00:11:42,876 --> 00:11:46,923 He is also one of the nation's most high-ranking Freemasons, 257 00:11:46,967 --> 00:11:49,839 having achieved the 33rd degree, 258 00:11:49,883 --> 00:11:53,756 the fraternity's highest level, in 2001. 259 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,193 Since then he has served as the head 260 00:11:56,237 --> 00:11:57,891 of several Masonic lodges 261 00:11:57,934 --> 00:12:00,545 and even as Grand Master of Masons 262 00:12:00,589 --> 00:12:02,417 for the District of Columbia, 263 00:12:02,460 --> 00:12:06,726 overseeing all Masonic lodges in the jurisdiction. 264 00:12:06,769 --> 00:12:08,771 Please, come on in. 265 00:12:08,815 --> 00:12:10,468 -Just follow me. -All right. -Okay. 266 00:12:10,512 --> 00:12:11,905 KEVIN: You know, I'm really surprised 267 00:12:11,948 --> 00:12:13,689 that a Grand Master Mason 268 00:12:13,733 --> 00:12:16,953 is willing to take us inside of the temple 269 00:12:16,997 --> 00:12:19,564 and answer questions, because my belief 270 00:12:19,608 --> 00:12:22,785 was that the Masons really didn't share a lot. 271 00:12:22,829 --> 00:12:25,657 -Welcome to the House of the Temple. -Wow. 272 00:12:25,701 --> 00:12:27,224 AKRAM: Salve frater,you know? 273 00:12:27,268 --> 00:12:28,791 Welcome, my brother. 274 00:12:28,835 --> 00:12:30,575 -AL: It's huge. -BRAD [chuckles]: Whoa! 275 00:12:30,619 --> 00:12:32,708 AKRAM: This is the atrium. 276 00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:35,232 This is where people are welcomed into the building 277 00:12:35,276 --> 00:12:37,060 before they go to, um, 278 00:12:37,104 --> 00:12:38,322 the Temple Room. 279 00:12:38,366 --> 00:12:39,889 Is that where the ceremonies are at? 280 00:12:39,933 --> 00:12:42,413 In the Temple Room, yes. 281 00:12:42,457 --> 00:12:45,939 NARRATOR: According to the principles of Freemasonry, 282 00:12:45,982 --> 00:12:49,029 the bond between members is considered more sacred 283 00:12:49,072 --> 00:12:52,554 than any allegiance to creed or even country. 284 00:12:52,597 --> 00:12:56,166 This system of beliefs is taught to members 285 00:12:56,210 --> 00:12:59,822 inside Masonic lodges and temples through secret rituals, 286 00:12:59,866 --> 00:13:02,303 and in the outside world, they employ 287 00:13:02,346 --> 00:13:04,609 secret handshakes, passwords 288 00:13:04,653 --> 00:13:08,222 and signals used to identify each other. 289 00:13:08,265 --> 00:13:11,138 So, this is the tomb of Albert Pike? 290 00:13:11,181 --> 00:13:14,837 AKRAM: This is where he is, uh, entombed, as we say, yeah. 291 00:13:14,881 --> 00:13:16,665 In other words, the sarcophagus. 292 00:13:16,708 --> 00:13:18,058 This is where 293 00:13:18,101 --> 00:13:19,973 the remains of Albert Pike 294 00:13:20,016 --> 00:13:22,845 were preserved. 295 00:13:22,889 --> 00:13:26,675 NARRATOR: Although he was from Massachusetts, a Union state, 296 00:13:26,718 --> 00:13:30,722 Albert Pike not only helped organize the South's secession 297 00:13:30,766 --> 00:13:33,551 but also served as a brigadier general 298 00:13:33,595 --> 00:13:36,032 for the Confederacy during the Civil War. 299 00:13:36,076 --> 00:13:39,470 Upon his death in 1891, 300 00:13:39,514 --> 00:13:41,995 he was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery 301 00:13:42,038 --> 00:13:43,866 in Washington, D.C., 302 00:13:43,910 --> 00:13:45,999 the same cemetery 303 00:13:46,042 --> 00:13:48,871 where fellow Scottish Rite Freemason Edwin Stanton 304 00:13:48,915 --> 00:13:52,353 was laid to rest in 1869. 305 00:13:52,396 --> 00:13:56,400 But in 1944, Pike's remains were moved here 306 00:13:56,444 --> 00:13:58,707 to the House of the Temple, 307 00:13:58,750 --> 00:14:03,755 although the circumstances as to why are still a mystery. 308 00:14:03,799 --> 00:14:05,496 -Do you want to follow me this way? -Sure. 309 00:14:05,540 --> 00:14:06,889 -Sure. -Yeah. 310 00:14:06,933 --> 00:14:08,848 AKRAM: Uh, as-as we go up here... 311 00:14:08,891 --> 00:14:10,588 Well, take a look at this. 312 00:14:10,632 --> 00:14:12,895 -Wow. This is amazing. -Man. 313 00:14:12,939 --> 00:14:14,505 AKRAM: Isn't that magnificent? 314 00:14:14,549 --> 00:14:17,421 -AL: That's crazy. -BRAD [chuckles]: Whoa! 315 00:14:17,465 --> 00:14:21,425 AKRAM: Now, here you're really in the temple itself, you know? 316 00:14:21,469 --> 00:14:24,820 KEVIN: This temple is massive. 317 00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:27,910 Everything was figured right down to the nth degree. 318 00:14:27,954 --> 00:14:31,044 And all of those features have a reason. 319 00:14:31,087 --> 00:14:34,090 It really puts in perspective 320 00:14:34,134 --> 00:14:36,788 what we're dealing with here and the size of this effort. 321 00:14:36,832 --> 00:14:38,355 There was a lot of power 322 00:14:38,399 --> 00:14:40,488 with the Masons back in the day. 323 00:14:40,531 --> 00:14:42,577 [chuckles]: What do you guys talk about in here? 324 00:14:42,620 --> 00:14:43,926 -What do we talk about. -AL: Yeah. 325 00:14:43,970 --> 00:14:45,406 Well, all kinds of things. 326 00:14:45,449 --> 00:14:48,539 At the heart, the center of this room, 327 00:14:48,583 --> 00:14:50,802 of this temple, is the altar 328 00:14:50,846 --> 00:14:55,155 upon which every Mason would take his oath, 329 00:14:55,198 --> 00:14:58,810 an oath that has to do with duty and obligation. 330 00:14:58,854 --> 00:15:01,596 Duties are things that others expect of you. 331 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:03,685 An obligation is self-taken. 332 00:15:03,728 --> 00:15:05,121 It's free will. 333 00:15:05,165 --> 00:15:07,384 Masonry can never tell a person 334 00:15:07,428 --> 00:15:10,344 to take an oath against his religious belief, 335 00:15:10,387 --> 00:15:13,738 his political affiliation 336 00:15:13,782 --> 00:15:17,177 or the allegiance that he or she owes to their country. 337 00:15:17,220 --> 00:15:18,656 So it must have been a real struggle 338 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:20,006 for Masons during the Civil War. 339 00:15:20,049 --> 00:15:21,529 Absolutely. 340 00:15:21,572 --> 00:15:24,227 Masons were on both sides. 341 00:15:24,271 --> 00:15:25,750 Families were split. 342 00:15:25,794 --> 00:15:29,319 You had generals on both sides who were Masons. 343 00:15:29,363 --> 00:15:30,973 But Freemasonry would never tell you 344 00:15:31,017 --> 00:15:33,671 you need to be with one side or another. 345 00:15:35,456 --> 00:15:37,937 [indistinct shouting] 346 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:40,200 NARRATOR: During the four years of the Civil War, 347 00:15:40,243 --> 00:15:42,724 the United States was more bitterly divided 348 00:15:42,767 --> 00:15:45,292 than at any other time in its history. 349 00:15:45,335 --> 00:15:48,773 Because battle lines were often drawn state by state, 350 00:15:48,817 --> 00:15:51,124 as well as by ideology, 351 00:15:51,167 --> 00:15:53,213 members of the same family 352 00:15:53,256 --> 00:15:56,216 often found themselves fighting each other. 353 00:15:56,259 --> 00:15:58,914 However, despite the fact 354 00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:00,568 that many Freemasons found themselves 355 00:16:00,611 --> 00:16:02,787 on different sides of the conflict, 356 00:16:02,831 --> 00:16:05,094 their strong bonds of fraternal brotherhood 357 00:16:05,138 --> 00:16:08,619 often trumped their loyalties to country. 358 00:16:08,663 --> 00:16:11,274 So, we're doing as much research as we can 359 00:16:11,318 --> 00:16:12,972 with what happened to the gold at the end of the Civil War. 360 00:16:13,015 --> 00:16:14,930 Gold? What gold? 361 00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:18,412 -Well, the Confederate gold. -[laughs] 362 00:16:18,455 --> 00:16:21,719 So, when we ask you about gold and Confederate gold, 363 00:16:21,763 --> 00:16:24,157 I've always felt that the Masons were involved. 364 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,986 -Am I close? -AKRAM: I mean, as I mentioned, 365 00:16:27,029 --> 00:16:30,163 many were Masons on both sides of the conflict, 366 00:16:30,206 --> 00:16:32,078 and if they were engaged in trying to do something 367 00:16:32,121 --> 00:16:33,253 with that gold, that's quite possible. 368 00:16:34,515 --> 00:16:35,777 AL: Were the Masons connected at all 369 00:16:35,820 --> 00:16:38,040 with the Knights of the Golden Circle? 370 00:16:38,084 --> 00:16:41,783 I wouldn't say the Masons were connd with that as Masons, 371 00:16:41,826 --> 00:16:43,350 but there are individual Masons 372 00:16:43,393 --> 00:16:45,613 who have joined 373 00:16:45,656 --> 00:16:47,441 different organizations, esoteric groups. 374 00:16:47,484 --> 00:16:49,573 That's where the conspiracy theorists 375 00:16:49,617 --> 00:16:51,445 never get it. 376 00:16:51,488 --> 00:16:53,055 They think, "Oh, my God, these Masons 377 00:16:53,099 --> 00:16:55,101 -might have been conspiring!" -Hmm. 378 00:16:55,144 --> 00:16:58,017 It's not about conspiracy. 379 00:16:58,060 --> 00:16:59,279 It's about making free men. 380 00:16:59,322 --> 00:17:01,237 Think on your own. Act on your own. 381 00:17:01,281 --> 00:17:04,501 -So it's not about conspiracy. -Hmm. 382 00:17:04,545 --> 00:17:07,678 AKRAM: When you're looking at the history of Freemasonry, 383 00:17:07,722 --> 00:17:09,854 this is where conspiracy theorists 384 00:17:09,898 --> 00:17:12,509 confuse what's going on. 385 00:17:12,553 --> 00:17:15,773 The idea in Freemasonry is that the individual is sovereign 386 00:17:15,817 --> 00:17:18,820 and can become members of other organizations. 387 00:17:18,863 --> 00:17:22,693 Can you discuss any of these secret societies 388 00:17:22,737 --> 00:17:24,260 from that time period? 389 00:17:24,304 --> 00:17:27,002 At that time, when we're talking about that period of time, 390 00:17:27,046 --> 00:17:29,396 Freemasonry was no longer a secret society. 391 00:17:29,439 --> 00:17:32,268 In fact, Freemasonry was never 392 00:17:32,312 --> 00:17:34,096 a secret society in the United States. 393 00:17:34,140 --> 00:17:36,098 But don't you take an oath to keep secrets? 394 00:17:36,142 --> 00:17:37,404 Yes. 395 00:17:37,447 --> 00:17:39,145 -[laughs] -I take an oath 396 00:17:39,188 --> 00:17:40,929 to keep secrets. 397 00:17:40,972 --> 00:17:42,713 But these secrets 398 00:17:42,757 --> 00:17:45,803 don't have to do with anything 399 00:17:45,847 --> 00:17:50,895 except my own obligation as a Mason. 400 00:17:50,939 --> 00:17:52,810 KEVIN: Well, I can tell you one thing, Akram, 401 00:17:52,854 --> 00:17:54,856 on the theory that we have 402 00:17:54,899 --> 00:17:56,640 with the missing Confederate gold. 403 00:17:56,684 --> 00:17:58,903 I feel a lot more confident that it was 404 00:17:58,947 --> 00:18:02,081 a group of Masons who decided to do this. 405 00:18:02,124 --> 00:18:04,605 It's very-- quite possible, the same way, as I mentioned, 406 00:18:04,648 --> 00:18:06,520 there were Masons on both sides who fought 407 00:18:06,563 --> 00:18:08,783 the conflict, but itas nothing to do with Masonry. 408 00:18:08,826 --> 00:18:11,264 It is up to the individual 409 00:18:11,307 --> 00:18:13,135 to make that individual choice. 410 00:18:14,919 --> 00:18:16,312 I know you're a busy man, 411 00:18:16,356 --> 00:18:17,835 but thank you so much for your time. 412 00:18:17,879 --> 00:18:20,011 Oh, it-it is my... it is my pleasure. 413 00:18:20,055 --> 00:18:22,710 I'm glad I was able to shed some light. 414 00:18:22,753 --> 00:18:25,147 I appreciate, uh, the questions that you've asked. 415 00:18:25,191 --> 00:18:26,540 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 416 00:18:26,583 --> 00:18:28,150 -Appreciate it. My pleasure. -AL: See you, Akram. 417 00:18:28,194 --> 00:18:29,412 Thank you. 418 00:18:30,631 --> 00:18:31,849 ALEX: You know, 419 00:18:31,893 --> 00:18:32,981 we've been encountering Masons 420 00:18:33,024 --> 00:18:34,243 in the shadows on Oak Island for years. 421 00:18:34,287 --> 00:18:35,940 -Oh, yeah. -For years. 422 00:18:35,984 --> 00:18:37,333 KEVIN: If we can connect 423 00:18:37,377 --> 00:18:40,075 John Wilkes Booth to Edwin Stanton 424 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,295 and then Stanton to Charles Hackley, 425 00:18:42,338 --> 00:18:43,774 we might be uncovering 426 00:18:43,818 --> 00:18:46,037 a way bigger conspiracy than we thought. 427 00:18:46,081 --> 00:18:48,475 -ALEX: Yeah, I agree. -AL: Me, too. 428 00:18:56,744 --> 00:18:58,006 ALEX: It's my first time in Baltimore. 429 00:18:58,049 --> 00:18:59,834 AL: I know. Me, too. 430 00:18:59,877 --> 00:19:02,097 -It's cool out here. -NARRATOR: One day after hearing 431 00:19:02,141 --> 00:19:04,186 Warren Getler's incredible theory 432 00:19:04,230 --> 00:19:07,929 that the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln 433 00:19:07,972 --> 00:19:10,236 may be connected to Kevin Dykstra's search 434 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:14,457 for $140 million in stolen Confederate gold 435 00:19:14,501 --> 00:19:16,938 hidden at the bottom of Lake Michigan, 436 00:19:16,981 --> 00:19:19,680 Kevin, along with his brother Al, 437 00:19:19,723 --> 00:19:22,987 history teacher Brad Richards and Alex Lagina 438 00:19:23,031 --> 00:19:26,165 arrive at the Maryland Historical Society 439 00:19:26,208 --> 00:19:28,602 in Baltimore for what promises to be 440 00:19:28,645 --> 00:19:29,994 an important meeting. 441 00:19:30,038 --> 00:19:32,258 -Hi, Nate. -Hi, Alex. How are you? 442 00:19:32,301 --> 00:19:35,652 NARRATOR: Nate Orlowek is an educator and historian 443 00:19:35,696 --> 00:19:37,872 who has been featured in numerous news articles 444 00:19:37,915 --> 00:19:40,091 and documentary programs 445 00:19:40,135 --> 00:19:42,790 both for his expertise on Abraham Lincoln 446 00:19:42,833 --> 00:19:44,966 and on the man who assassinated him, 447 00:19:45,009 --> 00:19:47,316 John Wilkes Booth. 448 00:19:47,360 --> 00:19:50,014 -Well, thanks for meeting with us. -My pleasure. 449 00:19:51,277 --> 00:19:52,626 Seems like a lot of material there. 450 00:19:52,669 --> 00:19:54,497 -Oh, yeah. -Oh, this is a drop in the bucket. 451 00:19:54,541 --> 00:19:57,021 Just, um, some of the major parts. 452 00:19:57,065 --> 00:19:58,284 So, Nate, I don't... I don't know 453 00:19:58,327 --> 00:20:00,286 if you've heard of our research, 454 00:20:00,329 --> 00:20:02,070 but we're basically following Confederate gold 455 00:20:02,113 --> 00:20:05,073 that went missing down in Irwinville, Georgia. 456 00:20:05,116 --> 00:20:07,858 While researching Edwin Stanton, we got real close 457 00:20:07,902 --> 00:20:10,121 to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 458 00:20:10,165 --> 00:20:12,167 and John Wilkes Booth. 459 00:20:12,211 --> 00:20:14,082 NATE: Well, it is very plausible 460 00:20:14,125 --> 00:20:17,259 that Stanton could have very easily have been involved 461 00:20:17,303 --> 00:20:20,741 in the plot to assassinate President Lincoln. 462 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:26,007 When Lincoln went to the theater April 14, 463 00:20:26,050 --> 00:20:29,532 there was only one security person assigned 464 00:20:29,576 --> 00:20:31,578 to protect the president. 465 00:20:31,621 --> 00:20:33,449 In the afternoon of April 14, 466 00:20:33,493 --> 00:20:35,799 even Lincoln himself sensed 467 00:20:35,843 --> 00:20:38,324 that there was possibly gonna be an attempt on his life. 468 00:20:38,367 --> 00:20:42,110 And he actually went to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton 469 00:20:42,153 --> 00:20:45,548 and asked him for a strong guard. 470 00:20:45,592 --> 00:20:47,115 And, Stanton said, "No, you don't really need... 471 00:20:47,158 --> 00:20:48,159 It'll be fine." 472 00:20:49,857 --> 00:20:53,295 In fact, no security was there 473 00:20:53,339 --> 00:20:55,602 except one policeman, John F. Parker, 474 00:20:55,645 --> 00:20:58,779 and he had the worst record on the Metropolitan Police. 475 00:21:01,477 --> 00:21:04,263 NARRATOR: Although Officer John F. Parker-- 476 00:21:04,306 --> 00:21:07,309 who had been assigned to guard President Lincoln's private box 477 00:21:07,353 --> 00:21:09,572 at Ford's Theatre by Edwin Stanton-- 478 00:21:09,616 --> 00:21:12,532 stood by his post for the first half of the play, 479 00:21:12,575 --> 00:21:15,186 Our American Cousin, at the intermission, 480 00:21:15,230 --> 00:21:17,754 he inexplicably left the premises, 481 00:21:17,798 --> 00:21:20,627 leaving the president completely vulnerable. 482 00:21:20,670 --> 00:21:22,585 It was just minutes later 483 00:21:22,629 --> 00:21:26,110 that John Wilkes Booth entered the room and shot him. 484 00:21:26,154 --> 00:21:28,330 Could it be true 485 00:21:28,374 --> 00:21:30,985 that John F. Parker was not only ordered 486 00:21:31,028 --> 00:21:34,684 to be the sole security officer protecting Lincoln that night, 487 00:21:34,728 --> 00:21:37,426 but was also ordered to leave his post 488 00:21:37,470 --> 00:21:40,516 at a precise moment by Edwin Stanton? 489 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,779 Definitely after the assassination, 490 00:21:42,823 --> 00:21:46,174 Stanton helped to cover it up, and it's very plausible that 491 00:21:46,217 --> 00:21:49,177 he was covering it up because he himself was involved in it. 492 00:21:49,220 --> 00:21:51,005 John Wilkes Booth was a passionate 493 00:21:51,048 --> 00:21:52,354 supporter of the Confederacy. 494 00:21:52,398 --> 00:21:53,834 He was actively helping 495 00:21:53,877 --> 00:21:55,488 the Knights of the Golden Circle, 496 00:21:55,531 --> 00:21:57,490 and probably many of the members of it were involved, 497 00:21:57,533 --> 00:22:00,362 certainly, in helping Booth escape. 498 00:22:00,406 --> 00:22:03,626 NARRATOR: Shortly after fleeing Ford's Theatre, 499 00:22:03,670 --> 00:22:05,976 John Wilkes Booth was somehow able 500 00:22:06,020 --> 00:22:08,414 to cross the heavily guarded Navy Yard Bridge 501 00:22:08,457 --> 00:22:12,679 leading into Maryland, despite a strictly enforced curfew. 502 00:22:12,722 --> 00:22:15,986 After meeting up with fellow conspirator David Herold, 503 00:22:16,030 --> 00:22:19,381 the pair took refuge at the farm of Dr. Samuel Mudd, 504 00:22:19,425 --> 00:22:23,516 where Booth received treatment for his badly wounded leg. 505 00:22:23,559 --> 00:22:25,387 [horse neighing] 506 00:22:25,431 --> 00:22:27,433 Over the next few days, 507 00:22:27,476 --> 00:22:29,391 the pair made their way to the farm 508 00:22:29,435 --> 00:22:32,089 of Richard Garrett in Port Royal, Virginia. 509 00:22:32,133 --> 00:22:36,224 It was here on April 26, 510 00:22:36,267 --> 00:22:40,271 11 days after the death of President Abraham Lincoln, 511 00:22:40,315 --> 00:22:44,275 that Union soldiers from the 16th New York Cavalry 512 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:48,062 stormed the farm and reportedly cornered John Wilkes Booth 513 00:22:48,105 --> 00:22:51,587 -inside the barn. -Get out of the barn now! 514 00:22:51,631 --> 00:22:53,154 NARRATOR: According to the official record, 515 00:22:53,197 --> 00:22:56,200 Booth refused to surrender, 516 00:22:56,244 --> 00:22:59,247 and was shot in the back of the head 517 00:22:59,290 --> 00:23:02,163 by Sergeant Boston Corbett. 518 00:23:02,206 --> 00:23:07,037 John Wilkes Booth then succumbed to his wound 519 00:23:07,081 --> 00:23:10,737 and died two hours later. 520 00:23:10,780 --> 00:23:13,522 Well, for over 45 years, I've been 521 00:23:13,566 --> 00:23:15,698 researching the question 522 00:23:15,742 --> 00:23:20,094 of whether John Wilkes Booth was killed in Garrett's barn, 523 00:23:20,137 --> 00:23:22,052 as the government would have us believe. 524 00:23:22,096 --> 00:23:23,924 There's the person who the government claims 525 00:23:23,967 --> 00:23:26,056 was John Wilkes Booth, 526 00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:28,102 but I have to bring in the other John Wilkes Booth. 527 00:23:28,145 --> 00:23:30,321 BRAD: So, Nate, you say 528 00:23:30,365 --> 00:23:31,888 "the other" John Wilkes Booth. 529 00:23:31,932 --> 00:23:33,368 What are you getting at exactly with that? 530 00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,457 Our conclusion is that the man killed 531 00:23:35,501 --> 00:23:37,285 in Garrett's barn was not John Wilkes Booth. 532 00:23:39,853 --> 00:23:42,333 And there's a tremendous amount of evidence. 533 00:23:42,377 --> 00:23:45,467 One general category is physical evidence 534 00:23:45,511 --> 00:23:46,990 that the man killed in the barn 535 00:23:47,034 --> 00:23:48,383 could not have been John Wilkes Booth. 536 00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:49,950 There were three different 537 00:23:49,993 --> 00:23:51,778 individuals who had made statements 538 00:23:51,821 --> 00:23:55,259 that the man killed in the barn 539 00:23:55,303 --> 00:23:58,349 had reddish hair, and a freckled complexion. 540 00:23:58,393 --> 00:24:00,700 By all accounts, John Wilkes Booth had 541 00:24:00,743 --> 00:24:02,615 raven black hair and a smooth complexion. 542 00:24:02,658 --> 00:24:05,356 The government called a doctor 543 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,533 and asked him to look at the body. 544 00:24:07,576 --> 00:24:11,014 Doctor said the right leg of this body was broken. 545 00:24:11,058 --> 00:24:13,016 By all historical accounts-- 546 00:24:13,060 --> 00:24:16,367 there were 2,000 people who saw it-- Booth broke his left leg. 547 00:24:16,411 --> 00:24:18,587 Not only did he say that, 548 00:24:18,631 --> 00:24:21,242 but the very first sentence of his statement-- 549 00:24:21,285 --> 00:24:22,765 it's crossed out, but you can read under it. 550 00:24:22,809 --> 00:24:24,593 What it says is, "There is no resemblance 551 00:24:24,637 --> 00:24:26,377 "to that body of John Wilkes Booth, 552 00:24:26,421 --> 00:24:28,467 and I do not believe it to be he." 553 00:24:28,510 --> 00:24:30,512 Who crossed it out? 554 00:24:30,556 --> 00:24:32,688 Well, it must have been someone from the War Department. 555 00:24:32,732 --> 00:24:35,474 Of course, Stanton was the head of the War Department. 556 00:24:42,568 --> 00:24:44,134 Stanton did many things 557 00:24:44,178 --> 00:24:46,267 that are extremely suspicious, that certainly 558 00:24:46,310 --> 00:24:48,312 point, circumstantially at least, 559 00:24:48,356 --> 00:24:51,794 to him being involved in the assassination. 560 00:24:51,838 --> 00:24:54,144 Stanton absolutely was the person 561 00:24:54,188 --> 00:24:56,582 who conducted the cover-up 562 00:24:56,625 --> 00:24:58,801 of the assassination investigation. 563 00:24:58,845 --> 00:25:00,673 The railroading of the eight defendants. 564 00:25:03,110 --> 00:25:05,852 NARRATOR: As Edwin Stanton oversaw the investigation 565 00:25:05,895 --> 00:25:08,681 and prosecution of those accused of conspiring 566 00:25:08,724 --> 00:25:10,900 to kill President Lincoln, 567 00:25:10,944 --> 00:25:12,902 and the attempt on the lives 568 00:25:12,946 --> 00:25:15,122 of both Secretary of State William Seward 569 00:25:15,165 --> 00:25:17,690 and Vice President Andrew Johnson, 570 00:25:17,733 --> 00:25:21,520 eight suspects were prosecuted by a military tribunal, 571 00:25:21,563 --> 00:25:26,742 and four were eventually executed by hanging, 572 00:25:26,786 --> 00:25:29,397 including a woman named Mary Surratt. 573 00:25:30,790 --> 00:25:32,400 All were portrayed 574 00:25:32,443 --> 00:25:34,576 as undercover Confederate sympathizers 575 00:25:34,620 --> 00:25:37,274 acting together as one group. 576 00:25:37,318 --> 00:25:41,583 But could their executions have been an attempt by Stanton 577 00:25:41,627 --> 00:25:44,804 to cover up his own involvement in the conspiracy? 578 00:25:44,847 --> 00:25:46,675 One that involved the theft 579 00:25:46,719 --> 00:25:50,505 of millions of dollars in stolen Confederate gold? 580 00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:53,552 -The man in the barn was not John Wilkes Booth. -Mm-hmm. 581 00:25:53,595 --> 00:25:55,379 There have been many people who've attempted over the years, 582 00:25:55,423 --> 00:25:56,946 and are still attempting, 583 00:25:56,990 --> 00:26:00,297 to try to prevent that fact from coming out. 584 00:26:00,341 --> 00:26:02,691 And for the last ten years, we have been 585 00:26:02,735 --> 00:26:05,607 attempting to do now a DNA test. 586 00:26:05,651 --> 00:26:07,478 The man killed in the barn had three vertebrae 587 00:26:07,522 --> 00:26:10,220 taken out of him, and they were sent 588 00:26:10,264 --> 00:26:12,396 to Washington, and they've been in Washington ever since. 589 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,965 We were gonna match DNA taken from 590 00:26:16,009 --> 00:26:19,142 one of two brothers of John Wilkes Booth. 591 00:26:19,186 --> 00:26:21,275 The Booth family was supportive of this. 592 00:26:21,318 --> 00:26:23,756 Unfortunately, the National Museum of Health and Medicine 593 00:26:23,799 --> 00:26:26,889 said, "We're not going to allow a DNA test to be done." 594 00:26:29,196 --> 00:26:31,285 KEVIN: One has to wonder why the government 595 00:26:31,328 --> 00:26:33,592 won't allow DNA testing. 596 00:26:33,635 --> 00:26:36,682 You almost wonder if that conspiracy is continuing today. 597 00:26:36,725 --> 00:26:38,858 Hey, Nate, I think you've made a compelling case 598 00:26:38,901 --> 00:26:42,426 that every history textbook in America has this wrong. 599 00:26:42,470 --> 00:26:43,993 KEVIN: There's just too much. 600 00:26:44,037 --> 00:26:45,865 You know, it's not a smoking gun, 601 00:26:45,908 --> 00:26:47,997 -but it's a hot gun. -There's way too much. 602 00:26:48,041 --> 00:26:49,999 There's-there's way too much. This was a plot. 603 00:26:50,043 --> 00:26:53,612 Edwin Stanton had his hands in a lot of things. 604 00:26:53,655 --> 00:26:56,397 If we can find evidence to support Nate's theory 605 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,835 about how John Wilkes Booth actually escaped, 606 00:26:59,879 --> 00:27:02,621 it would answer a lot more questions. 607 00:27:02,664 --> 00:27:05,232 -Is that barn still here today? -NATE: Well, no. 608 00:27:05,275 --> 00:27:08,104 It's long gone. So, right now, there is just 609 00:27:08,148 --> 00:27:11,107 a marker on the spot where the farm was. 610 00:27:11,151 --> 00:27:13,153 It's in the northern neck of Virginia, and I... 611 00:27:13,196 --> 00:27:14,676 Is that close to here? 612 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,722 It's about a two-hour drive from Baltimore. 613 00:27:16,765 --> 00:27:18,071 I'd be glad to take you there, and we can... 614 00:27:18,114 --> 00:27:19,638 -you can see it. -KEVIN: Oh, we'd love to go. 615 00:27:19,681 --> 00:27:21,509 If you have time tomorrow, it would be a great trip. 616 00:27:21,552 --> 00:27:23,642 -We got time. -Pretty sure we got time. -Great. Okay. 617 00:27:23,685 --> 00:27:25,687 -Thanks again, Nate. -We'll meet you there. -Thank you. 618 00:27:25,731 --> 00:27:27,428 NARRATOR: As Kevin Dykstra and members of his team 619 00:27:27,471 --> 00:27:30,039 conclude their business in Baltimore, 620 00:27:30,083 --> 00:27:34,174 700 miles west in Muskegon, Michigan... 621 00:27:34,217 --> 00:27:36,263 -New adventures. Nothing like it. -That's right. 622 00:27:36,306 --> 00:27:39,179 NARRATOR: ...team researchers Frederick J. Monroe 623 00:27:39,222 --> 00:27:41,529 and Jeff Zehr are following up on a promising new lead 624 00:27:41,572 --> 00:27:44,314 concerning Charles Hackley that Jeff received 625 00:27:44,358 --> 00:27:48,014 from one of his chiropractic patients. 626 00:27:48,057 --> 00:27:50,407 How did you hear about where we're going? 627 00:27:50,451 --> 00:27:52,932 A patient of mine actually lives 628 00:27:52,975 --> 00:27:55,412 right next door to the Hume home. 629 00:27:55,456 --> 00:27:57,458 -Really? -Right next door, 630 00:27:57,501 --> 00:28:00,156 and he said, "There's some weird doors in our basement," 631 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,681 and he cannot figure out why they're there. 632 00:28:02,724 --> 00:28:04,639 And they're giving us permission to go to the basement? 633 00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:05,988 -Is that what you said? -They are gonna... they're gonna 634 00:28:06,032 --> 00:28:07,947 take us right through their home 635 00:28:07,990 --> 00:28:10,079 in their basement, so we can see these for ourselves. 636 00:28:10,123 --> 00:28:11,646 I love it. 637 00:28:11,690 --> 00:28:14,301 -JOE GLIDDEN: Foot three. -FRED: Three. 638 00:28:14,344 --> 00:28:16,433 NARRATOR: One month ago, 639 00:28:16,477 --> 00:28:18,784 as Kevin Dykstra and the team conducted 640 00:28:18,827 --> 00:28:20,307 ground-penetrating radar scans 641 00:28:20,350 --> 00:28:23,049 beneath the 19th century home 642 00:28:23,092 --> 00:28:25,225 of Charles Hackley's business partner, Thomas Hume, 643 00:28:25,268 --> 00:28:28,271 they found strong evidence of a secret tunnel 644 00:28:28,315 --> 00:28:29,795 directly connecting the property 645 00:28:29,838 --> 00:28:31,797 to the Hackley Mansion. 646 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,755 -Yeah. -We're walking right on top of the tunnel. 647 00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:35,931 -Yeah, we are. Yeah. -Yeah. 648 00:28:35,975 --> 00:28:38,020 NARRATOR: The discovery foreshadowed a similar one 649 00:28:38,064 --> 00:28:39,587 made just one week ago... 650 00:28:39,630 --> 00:28:40,980 This is the kind of architecture 651 00:28:41,023 --> 00:28:43,025 you'd expect to see in the 1800s. 652 00:28:43,069 --> 00:28:45,419 NARRATOR: ...where Brad Richards and Jeff Zehr 653 00:28:45,462 --> 00:28:47,464 discovered a network of tunnels 654 00:28:47,508 --> 00:28:49,510 that connected the Hackley Mansion 655 00:28:49,553 --> 00:28:52,208 to a number of other Hackley-built properties-- 656 00:28:52,252 --> 00:28:54,776 properties that Kevin and his team are convinced 657 00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:57,213 were involved in the secret transport 658 00:28:57,257 --> 00:29:00,260 and laundering of millions of dollars' worth 659 00:29:00,303 --> 00:29:02,784 of stolen Confederate gold. 660 00:29:02,828 --> 00:29:04,830 I believe that Charles Hackley, 661 00:29:04,873 --> 00:29:06,701 if he was gonna move any kind of gold, 662 00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:08,921 a tunnel would be very, very necessary. 663 00:29:08,964 --> 00:29:11,010 And this is just following the gold trail 664 00:29:11,053 --> 00:29:13,447 right to the big 140 million out on the lake. 665 00:29:13,490 --> 00:29:15,754 This is just another avenue. 666 00:29:19,627 --> 00:29:22,586 Old Charles Hackley has quite a compound here, doesn't he? 667 00:29:22,630 --> 00:29:25,198 I know. It's something to see it all just lined up right here. 668 00:29:25,241 --> 00:29:26,808 FRED: Right in a row. Charles Hackley's house, 669 00:29:26,852 --> 00:29:28,331 -Thomas Hume's home. -Yup. 670 00:29:28,375 --> 00:29:30,072 FRED: And we got this. Straight line. 671 00:29:30,116 --> 00:29:31,639 JEFF: Just right here. Yup. They could talk through 672 00:29:31,682 --> 00:29:34,076 -the windows if they wanted to. -Oh, yeah. 673 00:29:35,425 --> 00:29:37,297 [knocking] 674 00:29:39,168 --> 00:29:40,822 -Hey, Doug. -Hey, Jeff. 675 00:29:40,866 --> 00:29:42,998 -Good to see you again. -How you doing? Good to see you. 676 00:29:43,042 --> 00:29:44,652 NARRATOR: Meeting Jeff and Fred is homeowner Doug Pollock. 677 00:29:44,695 --> 00:29:45,914 -Thank you. -Come on in, guys. 678 00:29:45,958 --> 00:29:48,830 Oh, thanks. 679 00:29:48,874 --> 00:29:52,181 Well, we are excited, uh, to see what you have to show us, man. 680 00:29:52,225 --> 00:29:53,748 Well, I'm excited to have you here. 681 00:29:53,792 --> 00:29:56,316 -I love talking about my house. -So, thanks to what 682 00:29:56,359 --> 00:29:58,840 you had already shared with me, I went and did some of my own 683 00:29:58,884 --> 00:30:00,015 -research on Chauncey Chaddock... -Mm-hmm. Yup. 684 00:30:00,059 --> 00:30:01,930 ...the guy who built this home. 685 00:30:01,974 --> 00:30:04,411 Chaddock worked with and for Charles Hackley, 686 00:30:04,454 --> 00:30:07,501 -who is, like, right next door here. -Mm-hmm. Yup. 687 00:30:07,544 --> 00:30:10,634 NARRATOR: Chauncey Chaddock was an attorney and businessman 688 00:30:10,678 --> 00:30:12,375 who worked closely 689 00:30:12,419 --> 00:30:14,638 with Charles Hackley in the lumber industry 690 00:30:14,682 --> 00:30:16,989 during the 1850s and '60s 691 00:30:17,032 --> 00:30:20,340 while Hackley built himself up to be a powerful lumber baron 692 00:30:20,383 --> 00:30:23,560 in his hometown of Muskegon, Michigan. 693 00:30:23,604 --> 00:30:26,781 Chaddock then went on to serve as legal counsel 694 00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:29,131 for the Hackley National Bank. 695 00:30:29,175 --> 00:30:32,091 Because the bank was first chartered in 1870-- 696 00:30:32,134 --> 00:30:34,223 the year Kevin believes 697 00:30:34,267 --> 00:30:37,574 Hackley had millions in stolen Confederate gold smuggled 698 00:30:37,618 --> 00:30:41,013 to Muskegon from its hiding place in Irwinville, Georgia-- 699 00:30:41,056 --> 00:30:43,102 Kevin and the team are curious to see 700 00:30:43,145 --> 00:30:46,279 if there could be yet another tunnel under the property. 701 00:30:48,324 --> 00:30:51,719 When exactly was this house built? 702 00:30:51,762 --> 00:30:54,026 The lot was purchased in the early 1870s. 703 00:30:54,069 --> 00:30:58,247 Now, is it true that this was the first house built here? 704 00:30:58,291 --> 00:31:00,380 -It was the first one in this row, yeah. -In this row, yeah. 705 00:31:00,423 --> 00:31:02,948 -It was before the Hackley-Hume mansions were built. -Yup. 706 00:31:02,991 --> 00:31:04,906 -I'm anxious to see what you really have to show me. -Absolutely. 707 00:31:04,950 --> 00:31:06,299 Let's go see it. 708 00:31:07,735 --> 00:31:09,432 Be careful of the stairs. 709 00:31:09,476 --> 00:31:11,521 -They're old and rickety. -All right. 710 00:31:11,565 --> 00:31:13,915 JEFF: Really excited to be checking this house out. 711 00:31:13,959 --> 00:31:16,570 We have the potential of being able to come up with stuff 712 00:31:16,613 --> 00:31:19,660 that can add up and show this whole theory to be true. 713 00:31:21,967 --> 00:31:24,491 -JEFF: Oh, my goodness. -Oh, my God! 714 00:31:24,534 --> 00:31:27,233 -Vaults! -JEFF: What in the world 715 00:31:27,276 --> 00:31:30,453 are these doing down here? 716 00:31:34,893 --> 00:31:38,331 NARRATOR: Two reinforced metal vaults... 717 00:31:38,374 --> 00:31:41,073 located right next door to the compound 718 00:31:41,116 --> 00:31:43,162 once owned by Charles Hackley 719 00:31:43,205 --> 00:31:46,382 and his business partner Thomas Hume? 720 00:31:46,426 --> 00:31:49,211 Why would anybody need a vault in their basement? 721 00:31:49,255 --> 00:31:51,866 The only reason you would need a vault in your basement 722 00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:54,564 would be to store something, of which you don't want anybody 723 00:31:54,608 --> 00:31:57,045 to get their hands on. 724 00:31:57,089 --> 00:31:59,482 -This is the larger of the two doors. -Mm-hmm. 725 00:31:59,526 --> 00:32:01,049 -Try lifting that up. -This here? 726 00:32:01,093 --> 00:32:02,790 I don't know if I... Yeah. 727 00:32:02,833 --> 00:32:04,270 I mean, I can't lift it up. 728 00:32:04,313 --> 00:32:06,750 Doug, look at the steel casing! 729 00:32:06,794 --> 00:32:09,231 Not to mention the door. 730 00:32:09,275 --> 00:32:11,799 DOUG: And it all leads back to that question, 731 00:32:11,842 --> 00:32:13,714 why is that thing here? 732 00:32:13,757 --> 00:32:16,282 Is it okay if we get inside there and look? 733 00:32:16,325 --> 00:32:18,197 -Please. Check out anything you want to look at. -JEFF: Oh, my. 734 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,068 I mean, just don't shut the door on me. 735 00:32:20,112 --> 00:32:21,243 [Fred laughs] 736 00:32:24,812 --> 00:32:26,857 JEFF: Look here. 737 00:32:26,901 --> 00:32:28,424 Concrete ceiling? 738 00:32:28,468 --> 00:32:30,122 DOUG: So, it looks to be poured in place. 739 00:32:30,165 --> 00:32:31,775 JEFF: But you don't pour cement 740 00:32:31,819 --> 00:32:34,778 like this after a house has already been built. 741 00:32:34,822 --> 00:32:39,000 I believe they built this wall around... that door. 742 00:32:39,044 --> 00:32:41,394 JEFF: You're right. You can't build this after the fact. 743 00:32:41,437 --> 00:32:43,874 This had to be done when the house was built 744 00:32:43,918 --> 00:32:46,312 back in the early 1870s, right? 745 00:32:46,355 --> 00:32:48,531 -Mm-hmm. -It was not retrofitted. 746 00:32:48,575 --> 00:32:50,577 FRED: That's what I'm thinking. 747 00:32:50,620 --> 00:32:54,059 -All right, Doug, can we see that other vault now? -Absolutely. Come on. 748 00:32:54,102 --> 00:32:56,713 You'll see over here I've done... 749 00:32:56,757 --> 00:32:59,455 -I started turning it into a wine cellar on the side. -JEFF: Wow. 750 00:32:59,499 --> 00:33:01,153 DOUG: But this part is pretty original to where it was 751 00:33:01,196 --> 00:33:03,242 -when I found it. -Wow. 752 00:33:03,285 --> 00:33:05,026 The paint is the way I found it. I sealed it, 753 00:33:05,070 --> 00:33:06,810 just to keep the dust out of it. 754 00:33:09,117 --> 00:33:12,033 This is the wall facing the Hume home. 755 00:33:12,077 --> 00:33:13,165 That's exactly right. 756 00:33:13,208 --> 00:33:15,167 -Right here. Huh. -Yep. 757 00:33:15,210 --> 00:33:18,518 We have evidence that there's tunnels that connected 758 00:33:18,561 --> 00:33:20,563 a lot of these buildings and a lot of these houses. 759 00:33:20,607 --> 00:33:23,262 What if there was a tunnel here? 760 00:33:26,787 --> 00:33:29,659 NARRATOR: Given the fact that the team already found evidence 761 00:33:29,703 --> 00:33:32,445 of a tunnel between the 19th century houses 762 00:33:32,488 --> 00:33:35,796 of Charles Hackley and his business partner Thomas Hume, 763 00:33:35,839 --> 00:33:39,495 could Jeff be correct that another tunnel might have also 764 00:33:39,539 --> 00:33:42,629 been constructed between the Hackley-Hume compound 765 00:33:42,672 --> 00:33:45,153 and the vaults in the basement of Hackley's former 766 00:33:45,197 --> 00:33:47,895 business associate and attorney, Chauncey Chaddock? 767 00:33:50,115 --> 00:33:53,074 And if so, could this be one of the places 768 00:33:53,118 --> 00:33:56,599 where Hackley stored a fortune in stolen Confederate gold? 769 00:33:59,124 --> 00:34:03,302 Knowing that that faces the Hume... Hackley-Hume compound 770 00:34:03,345 --> 00:34:04,738 is awful interesting to me. 771 00:34:04,781 --> 00:34:06,305 I'm really curious to see if there's a tunnel 772 00:34:06,348 --> 00:34:09,786 going right to the Hume home. 773 00:34:09,830 --> 00:34:14,313 Vaults and gold go hand in hand together in my book. [laughs] 774 00:34:14,356 --> 00:34:15,836 There's no question that the location of this house 775 00:34:15,879 --> 00:34:17,316 is significant. 776 00:34:17,359 --> 00:34:19,709 It is right next door to the Hackley-Hume compound, 777 00:34:19,753 --> 00:34:22,712 which would make moving gold back and forth 778 00:34:22,756 --> 00:34:24,323 much, much easier. 779 00:34:24,366 --> 00:34:27,282 We know that the gold had to be stored somewhere 780 00:34:27,326 --> 00:34:29,154 before the bank was opened. 781 00:34:29,197 --> 00:34:30,938 We-we know it got up to Muskegon. 782 00:34:30,981 --> 00:34:34,594 We know the bank wasn't ready yet, but the gold was here. 783 00:34:34,637 --> 00:34:38,511 I believe your house very likely could have been that place. 784 00:34:38,554 --> 00:34:42,428 This is what happens when we follow the gold trail. 785 00:34:42,471 --> 00:34:44,647 -We gotta come back, don't you think? -I'd say so. 786 00:34:44,691 --> 00:34:48,521 JEFF: We can get Gary Drayton in here. He's a metal detection expert. 787 00:34:48,564 --> 00:34:50,523 Uh, we've had GPR already we've used 788 00:34:50,566 --> 00:34:52,002 that's been very beneficial. 789 00:34:52,046 --> 00:34:53,569 We'll get the team in here. 790 00:34:53,613 --> 00:34:56,181 So, I mean, there's a lot we, I think, could come back with 791 00:34:56,224 --> 00:34:57,530 after we talk to Kevin. 792 00:34:57,573 --> 00:34:59,097 You're welcome back all you want. 793 00:34:59,140 --> 00:35:00,750 JEFF: Well, thank you so much. 794 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,975 NARRATOR: One day after their informative meeting 795 00:35:08,018 --> 00:35:10,630 with Lincoln assassination expert Nate Orlowek... 796 00:35:10,673 --> 00:35:13,633 -It's just a small point right off the highway, he said. -AL: Huh. 797 00:35:13,676 --> 00:35:15,156 NARRATOR: ...treasure hunters Kevin Dykstra, 798 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,115 his brother Al, 799 00:35:17,158 --> 00:35:20,770 Brad Richards and Alex Lagina head to the site 800 00:35:20,814 --> 00:35:24,165 of the Garrett Farm in Port Royal, Virginia, 801 00:35:24,209 --> 00:35:27,777 the place where John Wilkes Booth was reportedly killed 802 00:35:27,821 --> 00:35:32,956 during a standoff with Union soldiers on April 24, 1865. 803 00:35:34,915 --> 00:35:36,525 KEVIN: We started this whole search 804 00:35:36,569 --> 00:35:40,268 with Confederate gold at the bottom of Lake Michigan. 805 00:35:40,312 --> 00:35:43,619 Now, I definitely feel that what we're uncovering 806 00:35:43,663 --> 00:35:45,534 is leading us to places we never anticipated. 807 00:35:45,578 --> 00:35:47,449 Mm-hmm. 808 00:35:47,493 --> 00:35:50,409 I was able to find a ground-penetrating radar company 809 00:35:50,452 --> 00:35:53,890 -that's actually gonna meet us up there. -Nice. 810 00:35:53,934 --> 00:35:56,893 And we'll be able to use the GPR and see if, possibly, 811 00:35:56,937 --> 00:35:59,157 there's remnants of some type of a tunnel or of a cellar, 812 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,899 or some place that he could have used to escape. 813 00:36:02,943 --> 00:36:05,250 Leave no stone unturned. 814 00:36:05,293 --> 00:36:08,688 NARRATOR: If Kevin and the team can find evidence to support 815 00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:11,430 Nate Orlowek's theory that John Wilkes Booth 816 00:36:11,473 --> 00:36:13,432 may have faked his own death, 817 00:36:13,475 --> 00:36:16,957 it could offer further evidence of an elaborate conspiracy-- 818 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,872 one much larger than any of them 819 00:36:18,915 --> 00:36:22,136 had previously thought possible. 820 00:36:25,139 --> 00:36:27,272 -There's that sign. -Cool. 821 00:36:30,884 --> 00:36:31,841 KEVIN: Oh, hey, there's Nate right there. 822 00:36:35,845 --> 00:36:39,849 NATE: Well, we are here. This is the sign. 823 00:36:42,548 --> 00:36:45,812 BRAD: "The Assassin's End. This is the site of Locust Hill, 824 00:36:45,855 --> 00:36:47,857 "Richard Henry Garrett's farm. 825 00:36:47,901 --> 00:36:51,557 "Early on the morning of 26 April, 1865, 826 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,602 "a 16th New York Cavalry detachment cornered 827 00:36:53,646 --> 00:36:55,256 "John Wilkes Booth, 828 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:57,432 "the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, 829 00:36:57,476 --> 00:37:01,349 and his co-conspirator, David E. Herold." 830 00:37:01,393 --> 00:37:04,439 They put the sign here because this is where the highway is, 831 00:37:04,483 --> 00:37:06,485 but the actual site is into the woods. 832 00:37:06,528 --> 00:37:10,271 -You don't believe it? -Nope. Not at all. [laughs] 833 00:37:10,315 --> 00:37:11,707 The man we believe was John Wilkes Booth said 834 00:37:11,751 --> 00:37:13,579 he was there briefly. 835 00:37:13,622 --> 00:37:16,234 He continued on south, and the man who was killed in his place 836 00:37:16,277 --> 00:37:19,541 died on this road, and the real John Wilkes Booth died, 837 00:37:19,585 --> 00:37:24,111 most likely, in 1903, in Enid, Oklahoma Territory. 838 00:37:24,154 --> 00:37:26,896 NARRATOR: According to Nate Orlowek's research, 839 00:37:26,940 --> 00:37:30,291 in the years following Abraham Lincoln's assassination, 840 00:37:30,335 --> 00:37:34,600 John Wilkes Booth assumed a number of different aliases. 841 00:37:34,643 --> 00:37:37,777 After living in both Texas and Oklahoma, 842 00:37:37,820 --> 00:37:41,476 he eventually committed suicide by ingesting arsenic, 843 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,350 shortly after confessing his true identity. 844 00:37:45,393 --> 00:37:48,091 Nate, if you're right, this sign is wrong. 845 00:37:48,135 --> 00:37:50,746 Let's get out to that farm site and see what we can find. 846 00:37:53,140 --> 00:37:56,317 This is the area, in general, 847 00:37:56,361 --> 00:37:59,277 where the farmhouse and the barn was located. 848 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,930 Right here? 849 00:38:00,974 --> 00:38:02,628 This general area. We don't know precisely, 850 00:38:02,671 --> 00:38:05,152 but this is the general area. 851 00:38:05,195 --> 00:38:08,286 NARRATOR: Because many at the time believed farmer Richard Garrett 852 00:38:08,329 --> 00:38:10,766 to be complicit in Lincoln's assassination, 853 00:38:10,810 --> 00:38:13,203 the Garrett family became shunned, 854 00:38:13,247 --> 00:38:16,511 and the farm soon fell into decline. 855 00:38:16,555 --> 00:38:19,949 For many years, the abandoned property became a destination 856 00:38:19,993 --> 00:38:22,648 for curiosity seekers and vandals, 857 00:38:22,691 --> 00:38:25,172 until the federal government acquired the land 858 00:38:25,215 --> 00:38:27,305 and tore down the remaining structures 859 00:38:27,348 --> 00:38:29,568 sometime in the 1950s. 860 00:38:31,700 --> 00:38:36,444 If that farm was here, and Booth did escape from this site, 861 00:38:36,488 --> 00:38:38,011 it's possible that there was a tunnel 862 00:38:38,054 --> 00:38:40,100 that went down and out the side of that hill somewhere. 863 00:38:40,143 --> 00:38:41,797 -AL: Yep. -Totally possible. 864 00:38:41,841 --> 00:38:45,192 It could be that John Wilkes Booth could have escaped 865 00:38:45,235 --> 00:38:47,368 just as those soldiers were showing up. 866 00:38:47,412 --> 00:38:49,675 If there was a tunnel, he could have slipped into the tunnel, 867 00:38:49,718 --> 00:38:52,547 exited through the woods and been gone. 868 00:38:52,591 --> 00:38:54,767 So, if that's a possibility, ground-penetrating radar 869 00:38:54,810 --> 00:38:56,899 should find evidence of a tunnel. 870 00:38:59,032 --> 00:39:00,686 Say, Lucas, I think we're gonna split up. 871 00:39:00,729 --> 00:39:04,211 I'm gonna have Brad and Alex work with you, and, Al, 872 00:39:04,254 --> 00:39:06,866 why don't you come with me, and we'll do some scouting 873 00:39:06,909 --> 00:39:08,215 up along this ridge here. 874 00:39:08,258 --> 00:39:10,696 If you guys see anything on that GPR, 875 00:39:10,739 --> 00:39:12,393 -holler out to us, all right? -We will. 876 00:39:12,437 --> 00:39:13,351 -We'll shout for ya. -All right. Thanks. 877 00:39:13,394 --> 00:39:15,353 Yeah, let's go. 878 00:39:15,396 --> 00:39:17,572 NARRATOR: For Kevin Dykstra and his team, 879 00:39:17,616 --> 00:39:20,532 a mystery that began with a deathbed confession 880 00:39:20,575 --> 00:39:22,708 about a fortune in Confederate gold 881 00:39:22,751 --> 00:39:25,972 at the bottom of Lake Michigan 882 00:39:26,015 --> 00:39:29,715 has now exploded into what appears to be 883 00:39:29,758 --> 00:39:32,326 a vast conspiracy connected to the death 884 00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:36,025 of an American president. 885 00:39:36,069 --> 00:39:39,638 But as Kevin continues to follow the trail of clues, 886 00:39:39,681 --> 00:39:43,032 will peeling back the layers of secrets that have been 887 00:39:43,076 --> 00:39:45,513 so well-guarded for more than a century 888 00:39:45,557 --> 00:39:51,650 finally reveal the proof that will rewrite American history? 889 00:39:51,693 --> 00:39:53,782 [indistinct shouting] 890 00:39:57,003 --> 00:40:00,049 Next time on The Curse of Civil War Gold... 891 00:40:00,093 --> 00:40:01,224 LUCAS: This is a void. 892 00:40:01,268 --> 00:40:03,313 -Like an actual open space? -Mm-hmm. 893 00:40:03,357 --> 00:40:04,750 We've got a couple of interesting targets. 894 00:40:04,793 --> 00:40:07,405 They're casting some weird shadows. 895 00:40:07,448 --> 00:40:09,015 That's about half of a boxcar. 896 00:40:09,058 --> 00:40:10,799 KURT HAZARD: This is what was passed on to me. 897 00:40:10,843 --> 00:40:12,366 ALEX: Wow. 898 00:40:12,410 --> 00:40:14,847 KEVIN: This gold was captured by Jefferson Davis? 899 00:40:14,890 --> 00:40:17,197 That seems like the piece of the puzzle fitting together. 900 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,939 -I'm getting a bad feeling about these waves today. -AL: Yep. 901 00:40:19,982 --> 00:40:22,463 MARTY: This cries out disguise. 902 00:40:22,507 --> 00:40:24,683 This was all supposed to be a secret. 903 00:40:24,726 --> 00:40:26,641 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS