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Dan Muckles was one sturdy but very lost pioneer that day in May 1875.

Muckles was no minor, but like so many others, he dreamed of making his fortune in gold.

Not in California, but in the Dakotas.

It had been rumored for decades that the Black Hills were rich in gold.

But that hot day, weary and thirsty, Muckles was just grateful to stumble across a stream.

He knelt beside it, scooping water into his mouth, and that's when he saw it.

Could it be? Or was it just a trick of the light?

Muckles scrambled to get to his pack, pulled out his pan, and waded into the stream. He and waded into the stream he scooped and swirled scooped and swirled washing away sand and rocks and water he repeated the motion again and again and there it was gleaming in the bright spring daylight. Gold! There was gold in them bar hills,

enough gold to sustain 125 years of mining, more than $70 billion worth of gold as it turned

out. It was gold that put the town of Lead, South Dakota,

on the map. Today, something else is happening in the ground beneath lead. It's called the Doom Project.

And if it's successful, we might just find the answer to everything.

And by everything, I mean like the whole universe, as in how stars and planets and you came to exist.

Because there's something peculiar about our universe.

You might say the math ain't mathing.

So, could it really be that the answer to life, the universe, and everything

is just waiting to be discovered far below the surface,

deep underground in the Black Hills of South Dakota?

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

They're going.

Real, wow.

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