Sorry, but NTSA.
Posted on 08/07/2023 7:54:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
DENTS RUN, Pa.—Dennis Parada points to a weedy spot where he believes the Federal Bureau of Investigation dug up nine tons of Civil War-era gold, worth more than $500 million, and made off with it in the middle of the night.
The patch of ground halfway up a mountain in western Pennsylvania lies at the heart of the treasure hunter’s quest to recover the trove and prove it was snatched from under his nose. The matter is now playing out in federal court.
At 70, he has been chasing the Dents Run gold for more than 40 years. “It’s definitely a major coverup,” says Parada, who has the mustache of a 19th-century gambler and smokes his cigarettes down to a stub.
Tales of lost Civil War-era gold have stirred imaginations for generations though few fortunes have been made. One exception was a pile of more than 700 gold coins minted in the mid-1800s that a farmer unearthed in a Kentucky cornfield earlier this year.
In April 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond, Va., with gold that would be worth millions today. Union troops later seized a large portion in Georgia, but that was then stolen at gunpoint. Other stories of lost Confederate gold abound in the South.
People across the U.S. have hunted for lost rebel treasure in Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas, Missouri—and the bottom of Lake Michigan. The searches have inspired novels and films, including “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly,” starring Clint Eastwood.
Far less attention has been paid to tales of Union gold. But one caught Parada’s attention in 1974 when he was working in a furniture store in Philipsburg, Pa., and metal detecting on weekends.
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Sounds like a Twilight Zone story.....................
We have a story of gold in one of our water ways, too...
It would not be unusual in Florida to find old Spanish gold on a beach............
i found a missing blue sock.
It was underneath the dryer, not in it, but I get what you mean. ;)
Just should have kept their mouth shut and hide it again.
Has he written a book yet?
Now that’s a miracle!
“Of course the government has the treasure!” I’ve heard that the first thing Uncle Sam does when invading a country is head to its central bank vaults and remove (i.e., steal) the gold. I wonder if it’s true . . .
here is a conspiracy theory. Most of the missing civil war gold was laundered through fake gold mines during the gold rush that happened in the years after the gold rush.
I don't understand why that concept is so difficult for some people to comprehend.
Sorry, but NTSA.
In the monumental 10th season of The Curse of Oak Island, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their team, return to make the most strategic effort ever attempted to solve the 227-year-old Oak Island mystery.
I would think that something needs to be admitted/announced in order to give reason as to why you suddenly have this gold/money.
The NTSA took it?...................🤷♂️
Which gold rush?
California, Alaska, Australia, South Africa?..................
Did you tell the FBI?
If he shows up on Hannity......................
If you find my sock let me know.
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