"Now I aint sayin she a gold digger, but...."

Henry Mora, 63, began digging two weeks ago after his gold detector picked up a signal near his front patio. 60-feet later the Montclair, CA homeowner was left with a giant hole in his lawn, filled with with illegal immigrants, but no gold.

"It was still beeping, and that just gave me the idea to keep digging" Mora acknowledged his search for buried treasure was getting "totally out of hand." Yet when asked whether he regrets starting the dig, Mora was conflicted.


A neighbor who saw the mound of dirt growing on Mora's lawn became concerned and called authorities Tuesday. Fire officials responding to the home found two men (undoubtedly illegal immigrants) inside the unreinforced hole, using a bucket and rope to remove dirt.

"We told him, 'You're done,'" Montclair fire Capt. Rich Baldwin said. "It's amazing no one got killed."

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