FBI records on search for fabled gold raise more questions

yahoo ^ | 28 may 2022 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM

[DUMBGRUNT]

The government has long claimed its dig was a bust. But a father-son pair of treasure hunters who spent years hunting for the fabled Civil War-era gold — and who led agents to the woodland site, hoping for a finder's fee — suspect the FBI double-crossed them and made off with a cache that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The newly revealed geophysical survey was part of a court-ordered release of government records on the FBI's treasure hunt at Dent's Run, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend says an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.

The technical survey data collected by geophysical consulting firm Enviroscan gave credence to the treasure hunters' own extensive fieldwork at the site — and prompted the FBI to excavate in a massive, secretive operation that lasted for several frigid days in late winter of 2018.

John Louie, a geophysics professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, unconnected to the dig, reviewed Enviroscan’s report at the request of the AP and said the firm’s “methods were very good,” and “their conclusions represent a physically reasonable hypothesis” that gold was buried at the site.

[RedMonqey]

Bingo. The real gold is mining the rubes.

[SunkenCiv]

My ass.

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[SunkenCiv]

Yup. Rubes, that reminds me, the Chinese buried 80 tons of rubies in a site on the east coast of North America in 1621...

[RedMonqey]

And you know somebody who knows somebody who is second cousins to a guy who has a map with an “X” that marks th spot to dig.
All for a small consideration...

[SunkenCiv]

Well, it's an interesting story -- I was hiking the Superstition Mountains after dark, and I fell into the Lost Dutchman Mine shaft, but the lost Ark of the Covenant broke my fall. That's when I found the Templars had stashed the scrolls from the Library of Alexandria, and right on top of that pile was the Chinese treasure map, for some reason.

[RedMonqey]

(snicker, snicker)