Was Geraldo there to uncover the treasure?
Posted on 03/10/2021 11:53:32 AM PST by Red Badger
Go for the gold? The U.S. government went for it.
FBI agents were looking for an extremely valuable cache of fabled Civil War-era gold — possibly tons of it — when they excavated a remote woodland site in Pennsylvania three years ago this month, according to government emails and other recently released documents in the case.
On March 13, 2018, treasure hunters led the FBI to Dent’s Run, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend has it an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
The FBI has long refused to confirm why exactly it went digging, saying only in written statements over the years that agents were there for a court-authorized excavation of “what evidence suggested may have been a cultural heritage site.”
In any event, the FBI says, the dig came up empty.
But the father-son duo who brought a small army of federal agents to the site remain convinced the FBI uncovered something there — and their lawyer, Bill Cluck, is still pressing the case, successfully suing for access to government emails about the dig.
Those documents, which Cluck provided to The Associated Press, show that federal law enforcement was indeed after buried treasure.
“We believe the cache itself is in the neighborhood of 3x5x8 (feet) to 5x5x8,” wrote K.T. Newton, an assistant U.S attorney in Philadelphia, in a 2018 email marked “Confidential.”
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Eureka!
That’s in California.......................They do have gold...................
If they didn’t find anything then it’d make for a great series on History Channel.
My suggestion. If you find it....melt it down into homemade ingots.
Narrated by Todd Hoffman.....................
Very small ingots.....................
Wait until the Oak Island guys hear about this; my wife will have a 3rd series to record and never watch. I’m holding out for the episode when they all get abducted by space aliens....
It’s a fool’s errand.
Unless it’s a shipwreck, I don’t believe in “pirates’ gold”, the lost Dutchman mine or any other ‘lost gold’
Ingots like these are not forgotten by those who buried it. They retrieved it looong ago.
I use cheap supermarket muffin tins for lead I dig out of the range
And smelt.
“3x5x8 (feet) to 5x5x8” That’s about the size of a civil war era wagon box.
...because THAT’S what we pay the FBI to do!
The dregs we have allowed to infest our government is appalling.
Was Geraldo there to uncover the treasure?
Lead...the new gold!
If they didn’t find anything then it’d make for a great series on History Channel.
Paging Geraldo. Paging Geraldo. Please pick up the courtesy phone.
So your ingots do not say LYMAN, then.
My grandfather had some great stories.
He hated few things in his life. Woodrow Wilson and FDR were two I remember.
He would tell me stories about how FDR seized gold in the 30’s, and to never count on the government to protect your rights.
Narrated by Todd Hoffman.....................
Hoffman might be the only person in America who could have a claim in Kentucky and surprise nobody when he hit a gas main in Pennsylvania.
Just saying......
Years ago I bought an old house that was unoccupied for many years. My dad went and cleaned it out because I was busy travelling for work. In an old, partly buried shed he found a huge safe, locked but rusted, and he spent a good part of the next few days trying to break it open. The man who had lived there decades before was just the kind of guy who wouldn’t trust paper money, so I was sure there must have been gold in there.
He finally go it open and ... it was totally empty.
I was so disappointed, especially since I had already told all my colleagues and then had to tell them that my treasure chest came up empty.
To which one of them replied “Yeah, well, that’s what your dad says.”
Fortunately I haven’t noticed any changes in his spending habits ... yet.
“So your ingots do not say LYMAN, then.”
That would work.
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