A 2018 photo released by the FBI shows the agency’s dig for Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania. ASSOCIATED PRESS
A 2018 photo released by the FBI shows the agency’s dig for Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania. ASSOCIATED PRESS
PinGGG!.....................
First mistake - calling the FBI
Maybe these got it first.
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I’d believe a man who says he was led to a gold cache by a psychic before I’d believe the Federal government. If he said Bigfoot told him where the gold was I’d STILL believe him over the Federal government
The first rule of treasure hunting club is never talk about the treasure.
Wrestling with the fed gov over treasure rarely works out for the private citizen that discovered it.
They are THE LAST people that need to know about it.
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Treasure hunter stuck in jail for refusing to disclose location of gold coins faces judge; ingot from shipwreck sells for $2.16 million
So this dude has been chasing this particular gold for 40 years...and all of a sudden, he makes the news...but there’s no proof of anything.
Of course the government has the treasure! I would never trust the government with anything.
I once lost the diamond out of my engagement ring while moving items from the washer to the dryer. I had no idea one of the prongs was messed up. Out came my diamond, and I heard it ping around the barrel. I was running late for a camping weekend, and I was busy getting everyone’s clothes ready for the weekend.
I told my husband what happened and his solution was to hire a plumber to look for the diamond. I said no way. Do you think you’d report finding a lost diamond?
So no more laundry was done until we checked out a book from the library about how to take apart a washing machine, and put it back together, which we successfully did. Alas, no diamond was found anywhere.
Several months later I realized I had never looked around the dryer. Found a yard stick and probed under the dryer, back and forth a few times. Out popped my diamond covered in dust bunnies!
not to hijack thread- but here is a companion article of a similar deal where a family is cheated out of a gold stash discovery ‘suppsoedly’ (the man who claimed to have foudn it was a known hustler- he was later killed though by another man he took in as partner to get the gold out)
it’s a fascinating story- don’t know though who is tellign hte truth and hwo is lying
“Victorio Peak, New Mexico Mystery Treasure”
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/victorio-peak-treasure/
Anyone who finds bury treasure, and mentions it to anyone, even close, personal friends, or family, is an idiot.
We have a story of gold in one of our water ways, too...
Just should have kept their mouth shut and hide it again.
Has he written a book yet?
Betcha most of it ended up in someone’s pockets.
No way all those guys honestly turned in every coin.
Reminds me of the old prospector (in westerns) that hobbles into town with his mule and brags to everyone of his rich gold strike. And later has the mine stolen or he got dead.
If Xiden is re-elected or his replacement is, expect that the government will make owning gold again illegal and force us to turn in everything except $100 worth of jewelry for fiat folding money.
Assuming that the claims are entirely true and that the gov’t had no legal right to it neither this guy,nor his heirs,have a prayer here. And if they’re not true perhaps they don’t have the right to make the claim.
