The Doan Gang’s Secret Cave | Expedition Unknown | Discovery

There are initials on the walls. There’s all kinds of carvings in here.

Historian Clint Flack has been searching for a cave mentioned in an 1859 letter that’s supposed to contain an inscription from the notorious D gang.

“This really matches the description of the cave. It matches it perfectly. I mean, this chamber is supposed to have a roof where two rocks meet and make a peak, and then it tapers into a smaller point where it just dies off.”

“That’s insane! Look at these initials. So, J A W… yep, and then over here J A, and over up here… yeah, look at this—J R.”

“And then it looks like a diamond with a little diamond. What does that mean?”

“And more here, oh my God, it’s a W! I mean, it’s everywhere! And then there’s more down there…”

“So somewhere in this chamber, supposedly, is the inscription ‘Mone.’ Yeah, so the article by Joseph Fell right says that the inscription that says ‘Mone’ should be where in this direction?”

“Right in this chamber, he says it’s on the Southeast wall. And how far in?”
“It’s as far as a man can reach and 9 feet up from the bottom. I mean, that should be somewhere around here.”

We search the back of the chamber for Don’s initials, hoping that the elements haven’t worn them away.

“Oh, I got an M! I got an M right here, yeah!”

“Oh my God, that is an M for sure, and then some sort of faded initial next to it, but I can’t tell if that used to be a D or if this is something else… part of a G? I don’t know, but it looks like there might have been something under it at one point as well.”

“Oh my gosh! I mean, could that have said 1775 right there?”
“That would be amazing.”

“What do you think—M for Moses?”
“It is the only M we’ve seen in this cave.”
“Maybe that’s all that’s left is the M.”
“Maybe. Maybe.”

“I’ll tell you what, I’ll take it.”

It can no longer be denied—this is the right place. The writing is literally on the wall.

“I can’t believe this is here.”
“Clint, I don’t want to say that I doubted you… I totally doubted you. I’m sorry. I have to say it. I mean, I knew that you had found a cave, I knew that it was historic—obviously we were finding artifacts. But the idea that it was this cave from the article, and that it hadn’t been destroyed… I mean, it seems impossible.”
“It seems completely impossible for us to be here in this place, in this moment, looking at all of these initials.”

“I’ve spent my whole life trying to be right here.”
“You made it.”
“I did it!”
“This is one of the best days of my life.”
“Oh man, I’m so happy I could be here to see it.”
“I’m glad you’re here too. This is incredible.”

After decades of searching, Clint has found the cave he’s been looking for since he was 8 years old. But this is only the beginning. The chamber has just started to reveal the secrets of the D gang, and Clint has his work cut out for him to fully excavate the site.

As for the Dons themselves, the ending of their story does not lie in this cave…