Treasure hunters who believe they led FBI to huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania sue the agency for failing to reveal what they found in secret excavation four years ago

AP & Daily Mail ^ | 5 January 2022 | ASSOCIATED PRESS and ALEX HAMMER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

[SunkenCiv]

This is just delusional frivolity like the Curse of Oak Island.

[Texan5]

I think Oak Island has more value as an archaeological dig and maybe a future site for study than a treasure hunt-the Pennsylvania treasure hunt is probably too new to be of much interest that way-you are probably right-but I never say never when it comes to the fed-the greed there is bottomless...

[SunkenCiv]

It remains property of the US gov’t, if indeed it exists.

It doesn’t.

It’s just some treasure hunter nuttery.

Also, the FBI made a search (with the assistance and cooperation of some treasure hunters) and found exactly nothing. Bupkis.

The entire story is nuttery.

[RckyRaCoCo]

There are two kinds of people my friend...

[Red Badger]

Thou shall not steal.

The Government hates competition..............

[Texan5]

If it belongs to the US gov’t, the treasure seeker is for sure on a fool’s errand-if I had enough money to to go digging for treasure that may or may not exist and belonged to someone else, my money would be better spent getting a permit to mine my own property I purchased for gold/whatever else I could find-I think that is what any sensible person would do...