Japanese General Yamashita Tomoyuki is said to have buried a fortune in war loot in the Philippines at the end of World War II. But historians think it probably doesn't exist. (Image credit: Public domain)
Filipino version of Oak Island....................
To: Red Badger
I’ve seen some “B” movies that use hidden WW 2 Filipino gold as the basis for a plot line.
The films may have paid some bills for a number of people, but I doubt in any amount akin to “treasure”.
To: Red Badger
Filipino version of Oak Island .......
My first thought too. Why would anyone watch the Oak Island show knowing nothing has ever been found there?
Makes no sense to me.
4 posted on
02/03/2020 8:06:13 AM PST by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Red Badger
The “Curse of Oak Island” brothers need to buy this island for a sequel series...
5 posted on
02/03/2020 8:07:18 AM PST by
Boogieman
To: Red Badger
Those Oak Island boys had me going for a year, finally gave up, they have struck gold that is a fact.
6 posted on
02/03/2020 8:07:36 AM PST by
Jolla
To: Red Badger
Centuries old fable? An anthropologist? They are looking for a stash said to have been hidden by the Japanese during WWII. Last I checked WWII didn’t happen centuries ago.
11 posted on
02/03/2020 8:12:02 AM PST by
ocrp1982
(ll)
To: Red Badger
Sort of like looking for Hillary’s lost conservatism.
16 posted on
02/03/2020 8:18:30 AM PST by
alternatives?
(Why have an army if there are no borders?)
To: Red Badger
18 posted on
02/03/2020 8:26:17 AM PST by
ameribbean expat
(Socialism is like a nude beach - - sounds great til you actually get there. -- David Burge.)
To: Red Badger
There already has been enormous Yamashita gold finds in the Philippines.
I don’t care if they find any treasure on Oak Island. The show is a really good historic dig open to the public to watch, unlike if a university or government does it.
To: Red Badger
Real or not, it’s good for business!
To: Red Badger
Josh Gates has already looked for it..
nope, not there ..
25 posted on
02/03/2020 9:28:27 AM PST by
ßuddaßudd
((>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
To: Red Badger
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. I still get claustrophobia recalling those guys swimming out of the cave.
To: Red Badger
Or it may.
Most treasures are considered fables until they are found. Then the finders are reviled as evil plunderers of national treasures. Which was so valued that no one was looking for it.
30 posted on
02/03/2020 10:25:17 AM PST by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
To: Red Badger
Why would Yamishita bury anything valuable on Panay? It was a backwater thinly garrisoned that we took fairly easily late in the campaign.
Yamishita himself took personal command of the largest Japanese force and fell back into the mountains of Northern Luzon, where he fought a sharp and bloody defensive campaign. If he wanted to bury something, that remote mountainous terrain would be the place.
To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv
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treasure hunters searching for a hoard of gold in the Philippines***
Looks like all the gold is on the general's chest.
40 posted on
02/04/2020 1:11:15 PM PST by
Bob Ireland
(The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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