Treasure troves of Japanese gold were hidden in the Philippines, but where? Pic credit: Science Channel. This Sunday kicks off a new season of Forbidden History on Science Channel.

Excavations by treasure hunters searching for a hoard of gold in the Philippines, said to have been hidden by a Japanese World War II general, are threatening to cause landslides in a remote village.

Japanese soldiers celebrate after capturing an American gun emplacement in the Bataan province of the Philippines Getty Images "Tales of buried gold, sliver and generic treasure are recounted ...

General Yamashita’s supreme command of the Philippines was established very late in the war, at a time when the Japanese were mostly cut off from land and sea, making the transport of treasure ...