In case last week's episode wasn't enough for you, and I hope it wasn't because it was

only part one of a three-parter, today we've got part two.

It's so big because it's the biggest story in the history of lost treasures, the greatest

horde of the greatest treasure of all, pure gold.

Today we continue pointing the skeptical eye at the treasure of Victoria Peak.

It's all coming up right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The Treasure of Victoria Peak, part two.

Today we're going to continue our skeptical analysis of the treasure of Victoria Peak,

as presented by the 2023 Discovery Channel miniseries, Gold, Lies, and videotape.

If you haven't heard part one, I strongly recommend you go back and listen to that one

instead, as there's a lot of information and it doesn't make sense to try and recap

all of it.

Where we left off, the US Army had formed White Sands Missile Range and incorporated

the land on which Victoria Peak is located.

This prevented Doc Noss and his friends and family from continuing their search for the

fantastic treasure cavern, inside of which Doc claimed to have found 16,000 bars of gold.

It was 1973 when the story exploded back into the public consciousness via a source nobody

would have guessed.

During the televised Watergate hearings, Barry to mid the countless hours of testimony

was a reference to a guy who had approached President Richard Nixon's staff back in 1970,

claiming to have secret knowledge of a large stash of gold.

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