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In the final months of World War II, as the Imperial Japanese Army was being pushed out of the Philippines, a general named Tomoyuki Yamashita allegedly oversaw the burial of a fortune the world had never seen on one map before.
We are talking about a stockpile pulled from every country Japan had occupied. Gold bars, platinum, gemstones, religious relics, looted bank reserves from Singapore to Shanghai to Manila. Some estimates run into the hundreds of billions of dollars at today’s prices.
The story goes that Yamashita’s engineers buried it in over a hundred sites across the island of Luzon, then sealed the tunnels with the prisoners of war who dug them. Yamashita was hanged for war crimes in 1946. The maps, if they ever existed, were divided up among officers, smuggled out, lost, or quietly handed to powers who had reasons of their own to keep things buried.
In 1988, a Filipino treasure hunter named Rogelio Roxas filed a lawsuit claiming he had found a chamber including a one ton solid gold Buddha, and that Ferdinand Marcos had it confiscated. A Hawaii court eventually sided with the Roxas estate, in a judgment that still reads like fiction.
People are still digging Luzon today. Caves, mountainsides, old monasteries, places marked on hand drawn maps that pass between families and never make the news.
Could it be the largest treasure in human history is sitting under our feet, and the people who know where will never tell us?
What do you think about this? On May 20, 1967, a prospector in Manitoba walked up to a landed craft near Falcon Lake. It blasted him with hot gas and left a grid of burns on his chest matching its vents. Three governments investigated. Canada put it on a coin. Hoax, or the real thing?
What do you think about this? Serpent Mound in Ohio is a 1,348 foot snake of earth, its head aimed at the summer solstice sunset, its body built on the rim of an ancient meteor crater. One dating puts it right after Halley’s Comet in 1066. Sacred art, or a message for the sky?
What do you think about this? Since the early 1990s about two percent of people in Taos, New Mexico, hear a low hum like a distant diesel that never shuts off. In 1993 Los Alamos and Sandia scientists came to find it. Their instruments found nothing. Trick of the ear, or a hidden signal?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a retired air traffic controller cast footprints in Louisiana’s Honey Island Swamp: three webbed toes, a foot long. He had reported a seven foot gray haired creature with yellow eyes standing over a dead boar in 1963. Hoax, or the Letiche?
What do you think about this? For nearly three years beginning April 2, 1968, a glowing figure of a woman appeared on the roof of a church in Cairo, seen by crowds of tens of thousands, Christians and Muslims together, and caught in press photographs. Mass illusion, or a visitation?
What do you think about this? A 2,200 year old wooden bird dug up at Saqqara in 1898 has no legs, no feathers, straight wings and a tail that stands upright like the fin of an airplane. Some replicas glide. A child’s toy that looks like a plane, or a memory of something that flew?
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