Posted on 02/03/2020 7:57:35 AM PST by Red Badger
The treasure hunt threatens to cause landslides.
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.
The search for fabled buried treasure is inspired by centuries-old Filipino folktales, according to an anthropologist. The treasure seems to be just that — a fable — as historians say it probably doesn't even exist.
"People [are] spending a lot of money and a lot of time and effort looking for stuff that is probably not there," said Piers Kelly, a linguistic anthropologist at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia.
In the latest development, people in the Igbaras district on the island of Panay have asked officials to put a stop to excavations that they say could cause landslides, according to the official Philippine News Agency.
The villagers say the excavations by 10 men have gone on for more than a year near their village, in a fenced-off area that's about 10,800 square feet (1,000 square meters).
But according to local officials, the treasure hunters say that national authorities in Manila gave them permission to dig, and that they will continue their excavations, Panay News reported. The treasure hunters also turned away local police from the excavation site.
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Obviously, you didn’t read the article!
>>>There already has been enormous Yamashita gold finds in the Philippines.<<<
True that. Googlize Rogelio Rojas and the Golden Buddha.
Real or not, it’s good for business!
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition:
1. War is good for business.
2. Peace is good for business.........................
Josh Gates has already looked for it..
nope, not there ..
Oak Island is great. It starts at 9 and puts me to sleep faster than any show out there.
Todd Hoffman could!.................
My version of WWII treasure would be to find a buried crate of M1 Garand rifles or Thompsons in wrapped in watertight packaging and cosmoline...
That’s probably MORE likely a find than some gold horde.
Interesting to ponder how many of those inventory items went missing during the course of the campaigns in the Pacific (or Europe too).
Imagine what a crate of M1918A3 Browning Automatic Rifles in good or decent condition would bring...
A stretch, yes, but... nice to thing about :^).
Most treasures are considered fables until they are found. Then the finders are reviled as evil plunderers of national treasures. Which was so valued that no one was looking for it.
great book...I was thinking of it before I read your post
Yamishita himself took personal command of the largest Japanese force and fell back into the mountains of Northern Luzon, where he fought a sharp and bloody defensive campaign. If he wanted to bury something, that remote mountainous terrain would be the place.
If he did, he did it for personal convenience after the war.................
Well, Yamashita didn’t have a very good “after the war” . . .
True, but he didn’t expect to lose.............
seriesly,, that guy was painful to watch, imho ..
Thanks Red Badger. If someone had buried treasure, no one would know about it, orrrrrr, they wouldn't tell a soul about it, would just go dig it up.
Looks like all the gold is on the general's chest.
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