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By the way I am kind of confused on whether this comment field here that I am typing into right now might be the entry for posting messages just like those lines up this field here at your site or would i be doing it through email? Well anyway I would now divulge about my TH experience.

My site is in the province of Bohol (sorry but for now the "municipality" would still be secret). The primary signs that we had seen on that site was a life sized statue mounted halfway at the right side of a waterfall.

The statue was oriented parallel with the waterfall which is facing north and it was holding an arrow in its right hand and pointed it downwards towards the basin at the bottom of the waterfall, its left hand is held up high with its palm facing a big protruding rock along the vertical center of the waterfall at 3/4 of its height from the bottom or basin.

The big circular rock has a diameter of approximately 6 feet and had an embossed sign of the "sun" with its rays but unfortunately we were unable to count the rays because as we were trying to clear it from an outgrowth of balite roots, it was peeled off together with the roots. The statue was soon pulverized into pieces and no gold was ever found. We then hired someone with a metal detector and was very excited when it detected the presence of metal along the wall of the waterfall right there at the basin which is only a knee deep and started digging and found out that the bottom is actually a bed of asphalt.

We soon realized that the wall of the falls is actually cement. We dug down the asphalt bed along the concrete wall reaching 15 feet but was not at its bottom yet at that depth because we were slowly digging it fearing we would hit a bomb and also because we were very busy prying out nuggets of gold-like metal embedded in the asphalt until the rains come and our waterpump was then useless.

As it was already impossible to dig further due to heavy water flow we then busied ourselves looking for some signs until we found a sign at the wall of the waterfall which according to our interpreter it meant "door" so that dig we did and soon found out that this part was also made of concrete but in its pure form or unmixed with gravel and very hard.

We tunneled through this 8 foot thick concrete wall for more than two months using 12 pound hammer and chisel until we hit another concrete wall separated by an inch thick of asphalt and found a sign engraved on a protruding concrete molded like a human head with its face flattened and inscribed by the character "7KD" which was according to our interpreter of the sign as meaning "A thick wall approximately 50 yards".

Now that meaning was very unbelievable for us during that time as who could have thought of covering something with that so costly a project as having that thickness of concrete cover so we just go along and dig hoping positively that somewhere behind the second wall was the treasure that we're looking. Excitement turned to dissapointment as we were again facing another wall after an arduous 2 months of labor against another 6 feet thick cement wall.

At this time there was already only six of us left from the original 13 but we still pushed through it until after more than 2 years and a series of walls at a distance of 34 meters thick of straight tunnel through the cement walls we cleared another wall with a crack with a jet of water gushing out from the crack at high velocity indicating high fluid pressure and thereby made all of us very excited as we had already expected earlier that the tunnel should be filled with water and thats what we did encounter at that level.

We broke the wall and suddenly was groping in the dark hurriedly crawling going outside as all the lights were blown out by the sudden gush of pressurized water. We were frightened aside from being excited because the color of the out-gushing water was red just like rust which we were also expecting as it should be due to the rotten iron casings or boxes containing some of the buried loot.

It took us almost 4 hours before going back inside the tunnel after the gush of water subsided enough for us to crawl back inside while some of us checked the color of the river and it almost reached half a kilometer until the water was clear enough to arouse suspicions from people washing clothes or bathing their carabao as it was already summertime and rain had not fallen yet during that month.

Big disappointment followed as another wall was again on our front and no cavern was yet found so that at this point we were forced to accept the meaning of the sign that it was 50 yards thick cover and therefore continued our digging operation for another 8 months until one day while the six of us were having a day off celebrating my brother's b-day, we decided to have some sideline as we were informed about an easy TH site within a spring from a cave and doing it at night to avoid being seen we proceeded with our plan.

Unfortunately my cousin drowned during that expedition and it disbanded our group as pressures from our relatives criticism was already unbearable and that ended our digging operation.

My final word is this question that I have in my mind "Would this site be a positive one or we were just had wasted our time digging this site?".