Thanks Red Badger and fool in paradise.
Posted on 03/10/2021 11:34:29 AM PST by Red Badger
Shovel ready jobs... 😏
If the government received it, it’s not stealing.
If a few FBI agents suddenly went to South America on permanent vay-cay, it is....................
Thanks Red Badger and fool in paradise.
The ‘morons’ in the UK actually get paid market value if the Crown decides to keep their find, otherwise they get to keep it. These guys at Finders Keepers didn’t get a cent.
Also, how would you dispose of a fortune in illicit gold? That is always an issue.
I know a guy
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Probably as successful as “Hunting for Hitler.”
Thanks all, I just finished reading the thread, that was good and nuts.
Job one is to trace the paper trail, to see if there even is a paper trail, IOW, to see if there ever was any such missing gold shipment, and if so, why the theft and the thieves weren't run to ground by the millions of men then under arms. This one has less credibility than the ludicrous Beale Cipher.
If something was indeed dug up, it is more likely to have been one of those cold war era Soviet caches of sabotage equipment, explosives, that kind of thing. All such finds are kept in the gray netherworld of conspiracy theory just so people sleep better, or possibly because of spies and traitors within the US gov't. You wanna sleep better, try a pill.
Turns out there are a bunch of topics about this, I’d forgotten about them all.
https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dentsrun/index
26 bars x 50 pounds x 16oz x spot price of gold = $37,704,576
Thoughts of Yogi Bear and a picnic basket come to mind.
Heh... back in the 1950s and 60s there was a loon in a South American nuthouse who apparently openly claimed to be Adolf Hitler, and his existence was investigated by US intel services of that time. He, uh, turned out not to be Hitler. There's an amusing but intentionally vague vignette about this in one of Long John Nebel's books, which are immensely entertaining if nothing else. :^)
Isn’t there some kind of finders fee or reward for aiding the recovery of missing wealth? As soon as they realized they were being cheated, they should have called the media, before the digging was finished. If there is some kind of reward they should file a law suit. I did a rough calculation on the value of gold now. Using seven tons at $1700 an ounce, came up with $380,800,000 Has anyone gone back there with the metal detecting equipment to see if the reading is still there or is now gone?
This was the 1860s, so either during or immediately after the Civil War. Was this Confederate gold, either taken from people or more likely banks as southern towns were captured. For example, what happened to money in Vicksburg where 29,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered to Grant? Other nearby towns fell soon after. Gold carried by boat to Ohio, then overaland to PA. Sherman took part in this battle. How much gold did he collect marching through Georgia and Atlanta? Did he get ideas at Vicksburg? How was gold moved from West to East? Where would it stop and be kept if southern owned during the war or immediately after? Wow, what a great detective story.
You ‘mart
See my comments #74 and #75.
Whatever gold was in the CSA in 1861 was gone, mostly overseas, well before 1865.
Good question................
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