The Treasure Myth Of Dumlan

Maybe this myth is true but I don’t think so.

This Myth begins when somebody found a square nail nailed at the base of the biggest durian tree along the baranggay road of Dumlan.

The story goes like this.

When the war between the Japanese and the American about to ends during the World War II, a group of Japanese soldier tried to withdraw with some Filipino prisoners. Every four prisoners carried one box made of wood with gold bars inside it.

When they arrived at the heart of Baranggay Dumlan and when they knew that the American soldiers following them, they stop and force the Filipino prisoners to dig a hole somewhere to hide all the boxes with gold bars.

As accounted by the living witness they don’t know of the exact location of the burial of those treasures because it was midnight and they are not familiar of the place.

The Filipino prisoners are not familiar but the Japanese were so much familiar in this baranggay. In fact, the Japanese Officials leading them were the owners of some Abaca Plantations in this baranggay.

This was confirmed by my Grandpa when he is still alive, in fact one of this officer he encountered once, and at the times of the war the Three Officers leading its men to mount five machine guns surrounding my Grandpas house and looking for him but they did not capture him because before the time of the raid they are already informed by their friends that the Japanese Officials will arrest him.

This Japanese Officials are the owners of the 28 hectares of land owned by my Grandpa after the World War II.

Below is a mapping I made of the potential location of the lost treasure at Baranggay Dumlan.

This was base of the unique positioning of the Big durian trees planted at the heart of the Baranggay and most of these trees were located at our lot.

And  It’s up to you to decide whether this Myth is true or Just a Myth.