- A Hungarian explorer claims to have discovered a "Gold Library" inside a cave. Lacking evidence, he tries to get the recognition he believes he deserves but struggles to get support from the local governments and religious leaders.
- Janos Moricz became famous in 1969, when he went to a lawyer to do a public deed about his discovery of a Gold Library inside a cave in the Amazon jungle. This made the Ecuadorian government finance an expedition to recover this treasure. After almost two months in the jungle, the expedition was canceled. There was no evidence of this Gold Library.
It wasn't Moricz first try to finance an expedition like this. A year prior, he had convinced the Mormon Church that a Gold Library was in this cave. That the library consisted of the plates carried by Angel Moroni as described in the Book of Mormon. He took church leaders into an expedition that also came empty handed.
Seven years later, a huge British-Ecuadorian expedition was organized. Once again, the story of this treasure had caught the attention of another explorer, Stanley Hall. He tried to organize an expedition with Moricz, but Moricz didn't want to be a part of it unless he had full control over the expedition. Without Moricz, once again, no evidence of the library was found.
After Moric's dead, Hall discovered that Moricz have stolen the discovery from a military by the name of Petronio Jaramillo. According to Jaramillo, Moricz never knew the location of the real cave and was lying the whole time in order to get the discovery under his name. But before Jaramillo could take Hall to the exact location of the cave, he was killed taking this secret to his grave.
Twenty years later, Hall's daughter continues searching for the Gold Library.
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