Posted on 01/06/2022 5:21:54 AM PST by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
A father-son duo of Pennsylvania treasure hunters have sued the FBI for failing to produce records chronicling a top-secret excavation the agency administered in the state nearly four years ago that may have yielded a $400million cache of Civil War-era gold.
Court documents unsealed earlier this year revealed that the bureau had in fact engaged in the previously undisclosed dig in Elk County in search of the fabled treasure, lost by the US government in 1863.
The filing attested that agents engaged in the dig came up empty-handed.
Fortune seekers Dennis and Kem Parada, however - who together comprise the lost treasure locate and recovery service Finders Keepers - are not buying the agency's claims, after leading agents to the excavation site in 2018.
They are now suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) in hopes of obtaining the bureau's official records detailing the hush-hush dig.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This is just delusional frivolity like the Curse of Oak Island.
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...
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.
There are two kinds of people my friend...
Thou shall not steal.
The Government hates competition..............
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...
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