World War 2 loot and other evidence of the war remains in the Philippine Islands today, as seen in the photograph above which shows a Japanese World War 2 bunker on a Philippine beach.
PARTIAL LIST OF WORLD WAR 2 TREASURE SITES CURRENTLY BEING INVESTIGATED
World War 2 Treasure site research and investigation is not simply a matter of visiting suspected sites and taking pictures. Proper due diligence when investigating potential treasure sites involves interviewing knowledgeable people and obtaining reliable, honest, and accurate information, oftentimes dating back to eyewitness accounts from people who witnessed treasure burials during World War 2. In addition to doing the above, World War 2 Treasure.com utilizes valuable knowledge obtained through years of training by the only person who has a documented track record of successfully recovering major Philippine World War 2 Treasure sites, as well as using geophysical instruments and other technologies.
The following is a partial list of the one hundred plus Philippine World War 2 Treasure sites that have been investigated by World War 2 Treasure.com to date. All of these treasure sites have passed strict criteria adhered to during preliminary investigation stages. These sites, in addition to the ones not listed here, require further investigation to determine which ones are genuine, viable, and worthy of recovery and liquidation efforts.
Preliminary investigation of this cave site above was done in late December 2007. There are skeletal remains of dozens of native tribes people throughout the cave complex, most in coffins. Friends who visited this site in 2005 found Japanese skeletons still in their World War 2 military uniforms hidden behind a backfilled area behind the natives coffins. This cave has a very deep manmade down shaft inside of it, and a steel cable that weighs several tons stretched from this cave across a deep ravine to another one several thousand feet from it. World War 2 Treasure.com currently has Delta Force type rock climbers/cavers preparing to rock themselves inside the first cave to be investigated.
This site pictured above has been worked on by treasure hunters in the past that relied entirely on very expensive geophysical equipment, and missed this tunnel complex. History tells us that this is a site where former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos made a partial recovery decades ago. There are numerous unrecovered Marcos reburial treasure sites in the Philippines today.
The photograph above is an example of a World War 2 treasure recovery made by the Japanese in 1998. This was a one man Japanese cemetery used as a marker to lead the Japanese back to the exact location of the cement treasure vault that was buried in a cement shaft below the burial site. As you can see, the Japanese left the winch and structure in place that they constructed and used to make this recovery. There is a very obvious marker constructed of natural stone cemented together, with man made cement stones on top nearby. This is directly below a World War 2 era bonsai tree, and not far from Kanji markings carved into a stone nearby. The author of this website can translate Kanji, Kana, Hiragana, and Katakana, and knows what the markings say. A Japanese person removed a solid gold bullion bar not far from this location several years ago.
The photograph above was taken near a confirmed partially recovered treasure site. The authors guide was part of a treasure recovery team that was financed by an American and a Filipino businessman, who removed one of several containers of World War 2 loot buried at a depth of 30 feet.The Filipino businessman is now living in a large mansion near Manila.
The photograph above is of a very obvious marker/treasure burial site constructed of natural stones cemented together at the bottom, with man made cement stones on top. This is directly below a World War 2 era bonsai tree, and not far from Kanji markings and a large treasure marker carved into large solid granite boulders. Again, the author knows what the markings say. A Japanese person removed a gold bullion bar not far from this location several years ago.
The photograph above shows another example of Japanese concrete, manufactured to resemble the surrounding natural host material. Besides being experts at constructing underground treasure burial tunnel complexes, the Japanese were also skilled at blending materials to match the surrounding natural geology to conceal entrances to these treasure sites. As you can see above, this was not one of their better jobs. World War 2 Treasure.com uses chemical testing procedures to determine Japanese cement from natural stone on sites that are better disguised than the one above.
If you look closely at the photograph above, you will notice that there is an unusual rock formation just above the grass where there would be a waterfall during the rainy season. A common procedure used by the Japanese during World War 2 was to bury treasure in caves behind waterfalls, and conceal the cave entrances with cement manufactured to match the natural surrounding host material. Chemical testing done by World War 2 Treasure.com reveals that this stone outcropping is Japanese concrete manufactured to look like natural rock. Former Philippine President Marcos fought to gain control of this land for decades.
To the untrained eye this is graffiti in the photograph above. To the author of this website, this is Japanese writing that indicates the volume of gold bullion treasure buried nearby. The author of this website has translated more than ninety authentic Imperial Japanese Golden Lily maps while being trained by Bob Curtis, and can identify the cartographer who made these carvings by the nature of the style used.
Not all World War 2 treasure sites are in remote jungle areas, as evidenced by this Japanese World War 2 era bonsai tree treasure site marker pictured above. The tree branches that were forced to grow in the configuration of two crosses are not natural, and are readily apparent to the trained eye as a treasure site marker planted by the Japanese during their occupation during World War 2, for the purpose of providing an identifiable landmark to direct them back to the treasure site after the war.
The manmade rocks made to look like natural ones in the photo above have Japanese writing on them that discuss the major treasure site buried beneath. The Japanese destroyed these rocks to prevent others from reading the messages on them. The owner of this property owns tens of thousands of acres of land containing several major treasure sites. His family is heir to a 1906 Spanish land grant deed, and he fought President Marcos for decades all the way to the Philippine Supreme Court to keep this property. He sought political asylum and President Marcos had him put in prison for nine years on false charges.
One of our Filipino guides led us to the treasure site pictured above near where he owns land. A local Ieita tribesman escaped from this treasure site when he was a small child just before the Japanese dynamited the site shut to keep it secret. President Marcos sent General Fabian Ver, his Chief of National Security, to this site in 1977, but General Ver could not find the tribesman or the site, and the treasure has never been recovered. There are numerous Japanese marker stones in the area. This particular marker stone with holes drilled into it was moved from above where human skeletal remains were found.
The potential treasure site above is at the end of a very long and expensive mountain road that the Koreans just built. This road leads to nowhere and none of the local populace have vehicles or the need for a road. A friend of ours lives at the end of this road and has been working with the Koreans who are digging in solid rock for treasure. It appears that the Koreans have been digging in the wrong place, and our friend was approached by a gentleman from Taiwan last year who had our friend climb the sheer wall seen in the photo above to a specific location to obtain a rock sample. The Taiwanese gentleman said that he would return early this year. We suspect a false wall is covering a cave treasure site at this location.
The World War 2 Treasure Team was led to the treasure site pictured above by a gentleman who has been approached by Japanese and Korean treasure hunters, in addition to many other interested groups. This area was occupied by 45,000 Japanese troops during World War 2, and 33 Japanese military officers and 1,000's of POW's resided near the caves pictured above. This is a mapped site and the man who led our team to the area has recovered a Japanese Army General's uniform, and his helmet and Samurai sword from the cave that he lived in pictured above.
The Rogers Nickel Silver butter knife pictured above was recovered from a depth of 10 feet in a hole dug by the landowner. The landowner dug this hole because a group of Koreans came to his property with a map indicating that this location is a treasure site triangulated between 3 trees that the Japanese and Koreans planted there as markers during World War 2. The Koreans also indicated that this artifact was pointing to 6 boxes of treasure nearby. The landowner reports that the Koreans took the 6 boxes of treasure from his property without giving him anything. The landowner has since dug down below where the butter knife pictured above was found, and hit a poison booby trap, and has asked the World War 2 Treasure Team to assist him in recovering the remaining treasure.
To the untrained eye the photo above would appear to simply be broken bricks. To the trained eye and somebody who is an expert at researching World War 2 treasure sites, it would be important to know that these artifacts were recovered near a major World War 2 military base, and that they should not be in the area, especially at the depth that they were found.
The very important Golden Lily Japanese treasure burial team maker stone pictured above was discovered by native assets of the World War 2 Treasure hunting team. This treasure site marker indicates the approximate distances and direction to the treasure cache.continue
World War 2 Treasure site research and investigation is not simply a matter of visiting suspected sites and taking pictures. Proper due diligence when investigating potential treasure sites involves interviewing knowledgeable people and obtaining reliable, honest, and accurate information, oftentimes dating back to eyewitness accounts from people who witnessed treasure burials during World War 2. In addition to doing the above, World War 2 Treasure.com utilizes valuable knowledge obtained through years of training by the only person who has a documented track record of successfully recovering major Philippine World War 2 Treasure sites, as well as using geophysical instruments and other technologies.
The following is a partial list of the one hundred plus Philippine World War 2 Treasure sites that have been investigated by World War 2 Treasure.com to date. All of these treasure sites have passed strict criteria adhered to during preliminary investigation stages. These sites, in addition to the ones not listed here, require further investigation to determine which ones are genuine, viable, and worthy of recovery and liquidation efforts.
Preliminary investigation of this cave site above was done in late December 2007. There are skeletal remains of dozens of native tribes people throughout the cave complex, most in coffins. Friends who visited this site in 2005 found Japanese skeletons still in their World War 2 military uniforms hidden behind a backfilled area behind the natives coffins. This cave has a very deep manmade down shaft inside of it, and a steel cable that weighs several tons stretched from this cave across a deep ravine to another one several thousand feet from it. World War 2 Treasure.com currently has Delta Force type rock climbers/cavers preparing to rock themselves inside the first cave to be investigated.
This site pictured above has been worked on by treasure hunters in the past that relied entirely on very expensive geophysical equipment, and missed this tunnel complex. History tells us that this is a site where former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos made a partial recovery decades ago. There are numerous unrecovered Marcos reburial treasure sites in the Philippines today.
The photograph above is an example of a World War 2 treasure recovery made by the Japanese in 1998. This was a one man Japanese cemetery used as a marker to lead the Japanese back to the exact location of the cement treasure vault that was buried in a cement shaft below the burial site. As you can see, the Japanese left the winch and structure in place that they constructed and used to make this recovery. There is a very obvious marker constructed of natural stone cemented together, with man made cement stones on top nearby. This is directly below a World War 2 era bonsai tree, and not far from Kanji markings carved into a stone nearby. The author of this website can translate Kanji, Kana, Hiragana, and Katakana, and knows what the markings say. A Japanese person removed a solid gold bullion bar not far from this location several years ago.
The photograph above was taken near a confirmed partially recovered treasure site. The authors guide was part of a treasure recovery team that was financed by an American and a Filipino businessman, who removed one of several containers of World War 2 loot buried at a depth of 30 feet.The Filipino businessman is now living in a large mansion near Manila.
The photograph above is of a very obvious marker/treasure burial site constructed of natural stones cemented together at the bottom, with man made cement stones on top. This is directly below a World War 2 era bonsai tree, and not far from Kanji markings and a large treasure marker carved into large solid granite boulders. Again, the author knows what the markings say. A Japanese person removed a gold bullion bar not far from this location several years ago.
The photograph above shows another example of Japanese concrete, manufactured to resemble the surrounding natural host material. Besides being experts at constructing underground treasure burial tunnel complexes, the Japanese were also skilled at blending materials to match the surrounding natural geology to conceal entrances to these treasure sites. As you can see above, this was not one of their better jobs. World War 2 Treasure.com uses chemical testing procedures to determine Japanese cement from natural stone on sites that are better disguised than the one above.
If you look closely at the photograph above, you will notice that there is an unusual rock formation just above the grass where there would be a waterfall during the rainy season. A common procedure used by the Japanese during World War 2 was to bury treasure in caves behind waterfalls, and conceal the cave entrances with cement manufactured to match the natural surrounding host material. Chemical testing done by World War 2 Treasure.com reveals that this stone outcropping is Japanese concrete manufactured to look like natural rock. Former Philippine President Marcos fought to gain control of this land for decades.
To the untrained eye this is graffiti in the photograph above. To the author of this website, this is Japanese writing that indicates the volume of gold bullion treasure buried nearby. The author of this website has translated more than ninety authentic Imperial Japanese Golden Lily maps while being trained by Bob Curtis, and can identify the cartographer who made these carvings by the nature of the style used.
Not all World War 2 treasure sites are in remote jungle areas, as evidenced by this Japanese World War 2 era bonsai tree treasure site marker pictured above. The tree branches that were forced to grow in the configuration of two crosses are not natural, and are readily apparent to the trained eye as a treasure site marker planted by the Japanese during their occupation during World War 2, for the purpose of providing an identifiable landmark to direct them back to the treasure site after the war.
The manmade rocks made to look like natural ones in the photo above have Japanese writing on them that discuss the major treasure site buried beneath. The Japanese destroyed these rocks to prevent others from reading the messages on them. The owner of this property owns tens of thousands of acres of land containing several major treasure sites. His family is heir to a 1906 Spanish land grant deed, and he fought President Marcos for decades all the way to the Philippine Supreme Court to keep this property. He sought political asylum and President Marcos had him put in prison for nine years on false charges.
One of our Filipino guides led us to the treasure site pictured above near where he owns land. A local Ieita tribesman escaped from this treasure site when he was a small child just before the Japanese dynamited the site shut to keep it secret. President Marcos sent General Fabian Ver, his Chief of National Security, to this site in 1977, but General Ver could not find the tribesman or the site, and the treasure has never been recovered. There are numerous Japanese marker stones in the area. This particular marker stone with holes drilled into it was moved from above where human skeletal remains were found.
The potential treasure site above is at the end of a very long and expensive mountain road that the Koreans just built. This road leads to nowhere and none of the local populace have vehicles or the need for a road. A friend of ours lives at the end of this road and has been working with the Koreans who are digging in solid rock for treasure. It appears that the Koreans have been digging in the wrong place, and our friend was approached by a gentleman from Taiwan last year who had our friend climb the sheer wall seen in the photo above to a specific location to obtain a rock sample. The Taiwanese gentleman said that he would return early this year. We suspect a false wall is covering a cave treasure site at this location.
The World War 2 Treasure Team was led to the treasure site pictured above by a gentleman who has been approached by Japanese and Korean treasure hunters, in addition to many other interested groups. This area was occupied by 45,000 Japanese troops during World War 2, and 33 Japanese military officers and 1,000's of POW's resided near the caves pictured above. This is a mapped site and the man who led our team to the area has recovered a Japanese Army General's uniform, and his helmet and Samurai sword from the cave that he lived in pictured above.
The Rogers Nickel Silver butter knife pictured above was recovered from a depth of 10 feet in a hole dug by the landowner. The landowner dug this hole because a group of Koreans came to his property with a map indicating that this location is a treasure site triangulated between 3 trees that the Japanese and Koreans planted there as markers during World War 2. The Koreans also indicated that this artifact was pointing to 6 boxes of treasure nearby. The landowner reports that the Koreans took the 6 boxes of treasure from his property without giving him anything. The landowner has since dug down below where the butter knife pictured above was found, and hit a poison booby trap, and has asked the World War 2 Treasure Team to assist him in recovering the remaining treasure.
To the untrained eye the photo above would appear to simply be broken bricks. To the trained eye and somebody who is an expert at researching World War 2 treasure sites, it would be important to know that these artifacts were recovered near a major World War 2 military base, and that they should not be in the area, especially at the depth that they were found.
The very important Golden Lily Japanese treasure burial team maker stone pictured above was discovered by native assets of the World War 2 Treasure hunting team. This treasure site marker indicates the approximate distances and direction to the treasure cache.continue
The Japanese drill borehole in solid granite stone pictured above is a marker placed by the Japanese treasure burial team indicating the presence of a treasure cache placed in the area during World War 2.
The photograph above is of a solid stone turtle carved by a Japanese treasure burial team during World War 2. The head of the turtle pictured above is pointing upwards towards the hill where the treasure cache is buried.
The above photograph is of a Kamikaze bomb shelter complex constructed by the first Kamikaze squadron commissioned by the Japanese Air Force. This Kamikaze squadron was responsible for attacking American ships around the Philippine Islands, and sunk more than 300 US ships. It is important to note that untrained treasure hunters may spend a great deal of time and investors money exploring tunnel complexes such as this, whereas highly trained treasure hunters would not waste time on an air raid bomb shelter tunnel that has never been used to store World War 2 treasure.
The above photograph depicts a narrowly missed Japanese sand trap constructed to kill treasure hunters. World War 2 Treasure's highly trained team knew what to look for before hitting this sand trap and avoided it. This treasure site has yielded many World War 2 Japanese artifacts, and was pointed out to World War 2 Treasure team personnel by a gentleman who has lived in the area since World War 2, and saw Japanese troops carrying many boxes to this exact area. Work on this site has been discontinued due to a super typhoon that has hampered progress.
The photograph above depicts the entry to a secret concealed cave, which contains several rooms inside. This cave site was accidentally discovered by the landowner. Right wing Philippine rebels and former President Ferdinand Marcos loyalists have been looking for this cave and have been seen using dynamite a few meters away from this cave entrance. Preliminary investigation of the site reveals that this cave extends downwards to a depth of 80 feet.
The peculiar looking monument pictured above is located behind a Governors mansion that was taken over by Japanese Army troops during World War 2. Long-time residents report that there were digging activities by the Japanese in this area during the war. There appears to be a secret passageway beneath the large cement slab pictured above. This is one of many sites that World War 2 Treasure's Team has begun preliminary investigation on.
The air vent shaft opening pictured above is near a major military base in the Philippine Islands. The entrance of the air vent shaft was blasted shut with dynamite by Japanese Army troops to conceal it existence. This potential treasure site is in the preliminary stages of investigation.
Inexperienced Filipino treasure hunters stumbled upon the potential treasure site pictured above. As these inexperienced treasure hunters tried to investigate this site, they encountered poisonous toxic substances. No fish or insects can survive in this poisonous substance and this group has evacuated the area and has sought the help of the World War 2 Treasure Team to complete the project.
The photograph of the recovery attempt above was taken behind a house in a major city that borders on a Kamikaze airfield. The property owner has discontinued working on this site due to hitting a Japanese water trap designed to kill anybody other than the Japanese treasure burial team. Electronic detection by World War 2 Treasure's team indicates that there is a tunnel leading from this location to underneath the property owner's house, and that commodities appear to be beneath his house.
The photograph above is of the Kamikaze air raid bomb shelter mentioned elsewhere in the current projects portion of this website. Inexperienced treasure hunters wasted a lot of time and investors money working in the tunnel pictured in left-hand side of this photograph. Highly trained and experienced treasure hunters would have known that this is simply a bomb shelter, and that the portion worked on is only an air vent shaft.
The hand carved treasure site marker pictured above indicates a major World War 2 treasure site located nearby. As with many World War 2 treasure sites, the Japanese went to great effort to carve this marker is solid granite stone. This indicates that there may be a major Japanese Imperial Golden Lily treasure team mapped site in the area.
The artifacts pictured above are from the same treasure site that the bricks are from, which are shown elsewhere on the current projects portion of this website. These and other artifacts found at this treasure site are World War 2 era, as evidenced by the Japanese rice bowl pictured above.
The photograph of the human skeletal remains above was taken behind a house in a major city that borders on a Kamikaze airfield pictured elsewhere in the current projects portion of this website. These human bones and others were recovered from a depth of 25 feet, far too deep to be a cemetery plot.
The photograph above was taken near a major American and Japanese controlled military base in the Philippines. Due to this areas proximity to this major military installation, and the fact that this was a stronghold of the Japanese Army during World War 2, this area has numerous suspected treasure sites, and there are many accounts of American soldiers recovering World War 2 treasure caches in the area.
The peculiar arrangement of adobe stones seen in the photo above is thought to be a hiding place for lost treasure.
An old treasure hunter believes that the photograph above is of a hand-carved treasure sign that leads to treasure located on his property.
The photograph above was also taken near a major American and Japanese controlled military base in the Philippines. Due to this areas proximity to this major military installation, and the fact that this was a stronghold of the Japanese Army during World War 2, this area has numerous suspected treasure sites, and there are many accounts of American soldiers recovering World War 2 treasure caches in the area.
The photos above are of an area that was once a major battleground during World War 2. Numerous tunnels built by the Japanese Army during the war and looting spree could contain treasure, and several treasure exploration companies are now working in the vicinity.
The area of flatland surrounded by hilly areas depicted in the photograph above is believed to contain treasure. There are many accounts of old Japanese returning to this area with maps after World War 2. The old resident landowners, who hate the Japanese due to the atrocities they committed during World War 2, prevented them from setting foot on the property, which prevented them from recovering any treasure.
American and Australian treasure hunters worked on the suspected World War 2 treasure site pictured above, but were not successful due to problems caused by a Japanese water booby trap. Workers interviewed at this site indicate that they felt and tapped a metal box, which then slid deeper into the water, making the recovery attempt technically difficult due to its close proximity to a populated area.
The Kamikaze fighter pilot bomb shelter tunnels pictured above were built by Filipino prisoners of war at gunpoint for the Japanese Kamikaze fighter pilot units stationed at a major military installation in the Philippines during World War 2. Unlike the other Kamikaze bomb shelter tunnels pictured on this website, it is believed that some of the hidden portions of these tunnels may contain treasure.
The bunkers pictured above are constructed of solid poured Japanese bunker grade hardened concrete, and were guarding very important Japanese airfields nearby during World War 2. A witness interviewed by World War 2 Treasure Recovery Team Investigators indicates that when he was a young boy he crawled into a small hole with a friend and recalled sitting on top of boxes upon boxes of heavy materials. This witness realized in his later age that these boxes could contain treasure, because they are coated with a black tar substance.
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The riverbed pictured above is near a major World War 2 military installation where numerous Japanese Army tunnels have been found. This area is frequented by Korean treasure hunters who have information on buried treasure in the area. Due to the emergence of Korean Christian churches and resorts in the area, local towns people feel that it's treasure that they are after. It is very common for Koreans to work with Japanese on World War 2 treasure recovery efforts, as they worked side by side as treasure burial teams during World War 2 when they buried the loot.
An old Filipino treasure hunter retraces his old treasure site in his town, and is pointing to two of his diggings.
The Japanese concrete bunker pictured above is behind a house believed to contain treasure.
The hills pictured above are the ancestral domain of the tribal Negritoes. During World War 2 the Negritoes sided with the American military forces and Filipino guerrillas. When the Japanese Army forced the Americans and Filipinos to retreat, many of them spied on the Japanese troops activities, and witnessed the Japanese burying treasure. Some of the Negritoes ancestors who worked at gunpoint were buried alive with the treasure to keep its location secret.
The houses pictured above were seized by Japanese Army troops during World War 2. Many of these houses taken over by the Japanese during wartime served as officer's quarters, while others were used for the interment of POW's. Most of these houses have survived the war, and some are believed to contain officer's caches of treasure that was to be retrieved by Japanese officers after the war.
The peculiar fifteen by twenty five foot rectangular object pictured above is made of Japanese bunker hardened cement, and is believed to be a treasure vault due to the fact that metal detectors have detected the presence of metal inside this concrete vault. This vault was exposed during the lava flows of the Mount Pinatubo volcano eruption in 1991. Another treasure hunting group attempted to recover the treasure at this site, but they encountered several 500-pound aerial bombs, and have since stopped due to the fear of an explosion.
The picture above shows an old man who was a "Makapili" (A person who sided with the Japanese during World War 2) pointing to an area in a hill that he says contains a 6 foot tall golden Buddha, that was said to have been buried, along with several boxes of gold bars by the then retreating Japanese Army.
The photograph above shows where old time treasure hunters point to a treasure site were they said the Japanese used caribou driven carts hauling heavy boxes during World War 2, and buried them (Including the carts and caribous, which died of exhaustion) The witnesses, who were children at the time, were watching the Japanese troops activities from nearby bamboo groves. Years later they talked to local treasure hunters who found the parts of the aforementioned cart and caribou bones. These treasure hunters were about to recover the cement boxes when authorities stopped them.
The photographs above were taken where the Bataan death march POW's ended their long deadly journey. This area was divided into many Japanese military encampments and was home to about 50.000 Japanese troops. There are many accounts of treasure burials in this area. The dried up waterfall seen above was pointed out by the cook and food taster of a Japanese Army General, who said that this is an officers treasure cache site.
The photographs shown above were taken at an American military base that was taken over by Japanese troops during World War 2. As you can see above, many rocks are marked with one and one-half inch diameter drilled bore holes. Boreholes like these are commonly known to have been used by Japanese treasure burial teams as marker stones, and the landowner believes that this area contains treasure. There are reports of a treasure recovery being done near by, and of a treasure recovery group that made a successful treasure recovery, and left all their equipment at this site, including bulldozers, backhoes, and other equipment.
Local guides showed World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members the marker carved in hard rock pictured above. These hand carved stone markings depict one-centimeter stairs winding down a hill. World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members were told that Japanese a treasure tunnel complex is located nearby. Further investigation by the World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members revealed what looks like an air vent shaft for a major treasure tunnel complex. Old villagers who were in this area during World War 2 believe that this complex is loaded with World War 2 war loot.
World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members were led to the location pictured above, known as "The Secret Airfield", by Taiwanese treasure hunters. The hand-carved boulder-sized solid rock marker seen above with the impression of a palm print is believed to represent a buried Buddha nearby according to the Taiwanese contacts, who pointed to a nearby dried sloping waterfall as the probable site.
World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members were brought to the location pictured above by local guides who pointed to a dried riverbed between the hills, where the 4 x 6 foot hand-carved turtle marker rock seen above was found. It is believed that there is a major treasure site nearby, and that the turtles head and eyes point to the portion of the hill where the treasure site is located.
The treasure site pictured above was pointed out to World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members by an old Japanese soldier who was stationed at this location during World War 2. This Japanese soldier told World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members that several trucks of World War 2 loot were buried in the hillside pictured above after it was blasted with dynamite. Many treasure hunters have tried looking for this site (As evidenced by numerous search drill holes pictured above.) In 1989 a local treasure hunter found the a brass ashtray pictured above with a Buddha impression carved in it. The remaining the loot has not been found to this day.
Right wing rebel treasure hunters were searching for World War 2 loot in the hill pictured above using explosives. The local authorities were alerted and stopped their activities. A local guide contacted World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members years later, and led them below the hill, and showed them hand-carved stone markers made from smooth granite and drilled, and a single entry tunnel which leads about 80 feet underground. The local residents believe that treasure is still located here.
The poisonous pond pictured above is located in the back portion of a former American Army communications outpost. Treasure hunters have punctured a cement vault which then emitted a foul noxious odor which caused some workers to faint and be hospitalized. The workers have abandoned this site due to the fear of being poisoned, and subsequent rain storms have turned this potential treasure site into a pond so toxic that no fish or insects can live in it.
World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members were led to the location pictured above by area residents who recall a cement vault like structure in this hillside where they used to play. Now a very smooth rectangular object has been exposed by erosion due to the heavy rains of the 1970’s. The local residents indicate that this hillside structure was exposed for several months until mud and ash from the volcano Mount Pinatubo covered it up again.
The photograph above was taken near a major Japanese airport runway. This area is suspected to be a major gold treasure repository during World War 2 according to local residents. In 1942 the Japanese paid workers to build tunnel complexes beneath this area, and in the closing months of 1943 they employed forced labor (POW’s), and many of these people were never seen again.
The gravesite pictured above in an old Spanish cemetery is an entrance to a secret treasure tunnel according to local residents. These residents told World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members that this tunnel passes beneath the main road of the old town nearby, and that an old Japanese pointed this treasure site out to an old grave digger, who said he tried to go into the tunnel, but it vibrated when trucks would pass over it, so he abandoned his efforts to recover the treasure because he thought that the tunnel would cave in.
The landowner of the property pictured above told World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members that Americans, Koreans, and Japanese have attempted to buy this land several times over the years. This property is situated near a hill where a Japanese war memorial shrine is located. The landowner says that he will never sell, but he is interested in recovering and sharing treasure suspected to be located at this site with www.worldwar2treasure.com. top
An old Filipino treasure hunter retraces his old treasure site in his town, and is pointing to two of his diggings.
The Japanese concrete bunker pictured above is behind a house believed to contain treasure.
The hills pictured above are the ancestral domain of the tribal Negritoes. During World War 2 the Negritoes sided with the American military forces and Filipino guerrillas. When the Japanese Army forced the Americans and Filipinos to retreat, many of them spied on the Japanese troops activities, and witnessed the Japanese burying treasure. Some of the Negritoes ancestors who worked at gunpoint were buried alive with the treasure to keep its location secret.
The houses pictured above were seized by Japanese Army troops during World War 2. Many of these houses taken over by the Japanese during wartime served as officer's quarters, while others were used for the interment of POW's. Most of these houses have survived the war, and some are believed to contain officer's caches of treasure that was to be retrieved by Japanese officers after the war.
The peculiar fifteen by twenty five foot rectangular object pictured above is made of Japanese bunker hardened cement, and is believed to be a treasure vault due to the fact that metal detectors have detected the presence of metal inside this concrete vault. This vault was exposed during the lava flows of the Mount Pinatubo volcano eruption in 1991. Another treasure hunting group attempted to recover the treasure at this site, but they encountered several 500-pound aerial bombs, and have since stopped due to the fear of an explosion.
The picture above shows an old man who was a "Makapili" (A person who sided with the Japanese during World War 2) pointing to an area in a hill that he says contains a 6 foot tall golden Buddha, that was said to have been buried, along with several boxes of gold bars by the then retreating Japanese Army.
The photograph above shows where old time treasure hunters point to a treasure site were they said the Japanese used caribou driven carts hauling heavy boxes during World War 2, and buried them (Including the carts and caribous, which died of exhaustion) The witnesses, who were children at the time, were watching the Japanese troops activities from nearby bamboo groves. Years later they talked to local treasure hunters who found the parts of the aforementioned cart and caribou bones. These treasure hunters were about to recover the cement boxes when authorities stopped them.
The photographs above were taken where the Bataan death march POW's ended their long deadly journey. This area was divided into many Japanese military encampments and was home to about 50.000 Japanese troops. There are many accounts of treasure burials in this area. The dried up waterfall seen above was pointed out by the cook and food taster of a Japanese Army General, who said that this is an officers treasure cache site.
The photographs shown above were taken at an American military base that was taken over by Japanese troops during World War 2. As you can see above, many rocks are marked with one and one-half inch diameter drilled bore holes. Boreholes like these are commonly known to have been used by Japanese treasure burial teams as marker stones, and the landowner believes that this area contains treasure. There are reports of a treasure recovery being done near by, and of a treasure recovery group that made a successful treasure recovery, and left all their equipment at this site, including bulldozers, backhoes, and other equipment.
Local guides showed World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members the marker carved in hard rock pictured above. These hand carved stone markings depict one-centimeter stairs winding down a hill. World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members were told that Japanese a treasure tunnel complex is located nearby. Further investigation by the World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members revealed what looks like an air vent shaft for a major treasure tunnel complex. Old villagers who were in this area during World War 2 believe that this complex is loaded with World War 2 war loot.
World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members were led to the location pictured above, known as "The Secret Airfield", by Taiwanese treasure hunters. The hand-carved boulder-sized solid rock marker seen above with the impression of a palm print is believed to represent a buried Buddha nearby according to the Taiwanese contacts, who pointed to a nearby dried sloping waterfall as the probable site.
World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members were brought to the location pictured above by local guides who pointed to a dried riverbed between the hills, where the 4 x 6 foot hand-carved turtle marker rock seen above was found. It is believed that there is a major treasure site nearby, and that the turtles head and eyes point to the portion of the hill where the treasure site is located.
The treasure site pictured above was pointed out to World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members by an old Japanese soldier who was stationed at this location during World War 2. This Japanese soldier told World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members that several trucks of World War 2 loot were buried in the hillside pictured above after it was blasted with dynamite. Many treasure hunters have tried looking for this site (As evidenced by numerous search drill holes pictured above.) In 1989 a local treasure hunter found the a brass ashtray pictured above with a Buddha impression carved in it. The remaining the loot has not been found to this day.
Right wing rebel treasure hunters were searching for World War 2 loot in the hill pictured above using explosives. The local authorities were alerted and stopped their activities. A local guide contacted World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members years later, and led them below the hill, and showed them hand-carved stone markers made from smooth granite and drilled, and a single entry tunnel which leads about 80 feet underground. The local residents believe that treasure is still located here.
The poisonous pond pictured above is located in the back portion of a former American Army communications outpost. Treasure hunters have punctured a cement vault which then emitted a foul noxious odor which caused some workers to faint and be hospitalized. The workers have abandoned this site due to the fear of being poisoned, and subsequent rain storms have turned this potential treasure site into a pond so toxic that no fish or insects can live in it.
World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members were led to the location pictured above by area residents who recall a cement vault like structure in this hillside where they used to play. Now a very smooth rectangular object has been exposed by erosion due to the heavy rains of the 1970’s. The local residents indicate that this hillside structure was exposed for several months until mud and ash from the volcano Mount Pinatubo covered it up again.
The photograph above was taken near a major Japanese airport runway. This area is suspected to be a major gold treasure repository during World War 2 according to local residents. In 1942 the Japanese paid workers to build tunnel complexes beneath this area, and in the closing months of 1943 they employed forced labor (POW’s), and many of these people were never seen again.
The gravesite pictured above in an old Spanish cemetery is an entrance to a secret treasure tunnel according to local residents. These residents told World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members that this tunnel passes beneath the main road of the old town nearby, and that an old Japanese pointed this treasure site out to an old grave digger, who said he tried to go into the tunnel, but it vibrated when trucks would pass over it, so he abandoned his efforts to recover the treasure because he thought that the tunnel would cave in.
The landowner of the property pictured above told World War 2 Treasure Recovery Investigative Team Members that Americans, Koreans, and Japanese have attempted to buy this land several times over the years. This property is situated near a hill where a Japanese war memorial shrine is located. The landowner says that he will never sell, but he is interested in recovering and sharing treasure suspected to be located at this site with www.worldwar2treasure.com. top
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