After poking around the tunnels, Roxas discovered a hidden vault containing a solid-gold Buddha statue with an unscrewable head packed full of diamonds. At one point, he decided to intimidate the communists by , which involved draining the blood from captured rebels, poking holes in their necks, and leaving their corpses on the road.
It's actually no surprise the Japanese lost the war, given that they were apparently burying all their money like goddam mole pirates.
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Still, some disgraceful, hard-hearted cynics suggest that a more likely source for Ferdinand Marcos's gold stockpile was the Philippine national bank. Olof Jonsson descended from the astral plane to testify that he had seen gold bars stacked to the ceiling in Marcos's basement and a golden Buddha statue in the guest house.
On his release in 1974, he noticed the army undertaking major excavation works around Baguio General Hospital.
As the treasure's fame grew, it was increasingly exploited by scammers, sometimes with insane results. Tomoyuki Yamashita (山下 奉文, Yamashita Tomoyuki; Otoyo, 8 november 1885 - Manilla, 23 februari 1946) was een generaal van het Japanse Keizerlijke Leger tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.Hij werd het meest bekend door de verovering van de Britse kolonies Malaya en Singapore, die hem de bijnaam "Tijger van Malaya" opleverde.Eerder was hij betrokken geweest bij het Marco Polobrugincident. This can be a dangerous business, with an ever-increasing number of hunters killed from their own malfunctioning equipment. The Marcos' billions were hidden in overseas bank accounts and tied up in competing lawsuits from the Philippine government anyway. It's buried treasure, who could resist?But no country loves a good treasure story more than the Philippines. 2h | TV Movie June 2002 Add a Plot » Director: Louis Heaton. Copyright ©2005-2020. The treasure-mania reportedly began shortly after World War II ended, the "jungle was alive with swinging pickaxes and ... maps were exchanged furtively on the streets of Manila." However, Roxas sensibly kept a low profile until Marcos was forced from power in 1986.
In exile, the story became even more useful, since the Philippine government would have an obvious claim on gold stolen from the government treasury, but a much trickier one on imported South-East Asian gold Ferdinand happened to trip over in a tunnel in 1946.
These quasi-human goat-monsters argue that the Yamashita gold became a handy story for the Marcos family to explain why they wanted large amounts of gold melted down and taken out of the country. There he discovered a skeleton in a Japanese army uniform, conforming to the well-known law that all buried treasure must be accompanied by a creepy skeleton.
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Notorious dictator Ferdinand Marcos was incredibly enthusiastic, hiring a Chicago-based psychic to help detect suitable dig sites.
An additional chamber had boxes of gold bars, which were stacked six feet high. Possibly more convincing was the testimony of several metal dealers, who reported that Marcos was indeed interested in laundering large quantities of gold. Roxas apparently took this all in stride, removing the Buddha and a box of gold before dynamiting the tunnels closed again. You're almost done. Everyone loves a lost treasure, hidden away, just waiting to be found.
Honestly, we won't even be that mad when it happens. As early as the 16th century, folktales claimed that the Chinese pirate Limahong had focused on troves from the Philippine-American War or the rebellion of Francisco Dagohoy. At that point, he emerged and sold his claim to the treasure to an Atlanta businessman named Felix Dacanay, who incorporated the Golden Budha Corporation as the official owner of the claim ("Budha" was intentionally misspelled to match some old legal documents Roxas had). The utterly says that Lansdale stole the gold to finance shady CIA operations around the world, surely the only way America could afford slam-dunks like the Bay of Pigs.. According to Curtis, he had helped the dictator dig up $14 billion in gold bars, with over $85 billion remaining to be found. A very thorough fire, given that several of the awards were supposedly from the US, located an entire ocean away. They also argue that even if Japan did reach the end of the war with an unspent pile of South-East Asian loot, they would never have transported it all to the Philippines, a country very clearly about to be overrun by the Americans. They hit him up repeatedly for more cash, claiming to have been stymied by an elaborate network of booby traps, including poison gas and bombs wired directly to the gold.
Back in the early 2000s, Filipino crooks tricked a Northern Irish dentist into investing $500,000 in a search for the gold. Whose side are Fortunately, the Gollum-like screeching of sensible people hasn't stopped generations of treasure hunters from fanning out across the country, often armed with little more than a shovel and a map a puzzled Japanese tourist drew on a bar napkin in exchange for a bucket of San Miguels.
Connect to your existing Cracked account if you have one or create a new Cracked username.Shortly afterward, President Marcos's goons allegedly smashed their way into the house, beat up Roxas's brother, and stole his Buddha, his gold bars, his children's piggy bank, and his wife's coin collection. See high school TV and movie icons then and now, from "Looking for something to watch?