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The Mystery of Yamashita's Map (2007), a novel by James McKenzie, tells the story of a group of treasure hunters who go in search of Yamashita's gold; A TV show, Yamashita's Treasure, was broadcast by Singapore's Media, Mediacorp in 2010; Yamashita's gold is a major plot element of Dead Mine, a 2013 horror film set on a remote Indonesian island
Rogelio "Roger" Domingo Roxas (died May 25, 1993) was a former Filipino soldier who had worked as a locksmith before allegedly discovering in a cave north of Manila a hidden chamber full of gold bars and a giant golden Buddha statue – which Roxas estimated to weigh one metric ton – on a plot of state-owned land near Baguio General Hospital, in Baguio on January 24, 1971. [1]
The bust was destroyed using dynamite before dawn on December 29, 2002, by suspected treasure hunters who thought that the bust contained parts of the rumored Yamashita treasure. Benguet Governor Raul Mencio Molintas said that the police learned that a white Toyota FX van was around the area prior to the incident.
Published in 1952, the map highlighted 63 spots. Among its points of interest was a lost mine in Texas where Jesuits had hidden silver bullion, an island off Central America that was home to the ...
National weather map National weather radar. Contributing: Jeanine Santucci and Doyle Rice. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Snow forecast this weekend: See where winter weather ...
Those facts include that the testimony that was accepted by the court in sustaining the judgement included: Roxas claimed he was following a map from the son of a Japanese soldier to Yamashita's treasure; Roxas also claimed to be following information from Yamashita's interpreter; and Roxas even claimed that he found a skeleton in a Japanese ...
Dozens of volunteers have entered an abandoned gold mine in South Africa to help what could be thousands of illegal miners who have been underground for a month. Because the miners entered the ...
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