“ if people even have TVs a hundred years from now.”
They might be telling stories of an hoard of gold guarded by a mythical dragon called FeeBeeEye around a campfire a hundred years from now after a long day of serfdom.
It’s a lot like Bigfoot - the search and lore makes up for it even if it isn’t real.
I have received calls over the years helping to find buried treasure and other things. Never went on any of them.
One was for an old locomotive rumored to be in a tunnel under NYC and the tunnel had been blasted shut. For a train collector.
One call: “Hey - can you find a 55-gallon drum?”
“Well sure, but it depends on how deep it is.”
“Oh - it probably isn’t very deep.”
“Okay - where is the property and how large is it?”
“The Florida Everglades.”
“Oh. So how large is the property?”
“I don’t know - however large the Everglades are.”
I told them I couldn’t help them. This was in NJ at the time, and I imagine they were searching for Hoffa.
Another call was for Zapata’s(?) cache of weapons and gold that is rumored to be buried, and then he was captured before he could mount the attack.
The most interesting and possible one was a guy was restoring an old shotgun that his gg grand father had brought over from France iirc. His relative had been a Duke or something and had a castle. He escaped the NAZI’s(?) by walking on foot with his family. They left three boxes full of gold and silver and precious stuff in a hidden escape tunnel that led out of the castle.
It was all in a map and note that was rolled up inside of a hollow part of the gun’s buttstock that he had with him as they escaped.
The castle is now part of some French historical park. The guy was working with lawyers to try to get access. He wanted me to go over and do some scans over the area. “So - we don’t have approval yet, but it would be great if we could have some data for my lawyers as more evidence so we can get approval. It is a park, but it is really run down and nobody goes there, so we wouldn’t get caught.”
Um - no thanks!
Regardless of whether the story is true or not, if any gold hoard is actually found, doesn’t it belong to the government anyway?
The stolen gold is still stolen after a 150 years and still belongs to whoever it was stolen from, or their estate.
And in the 1930’s, Roosevelt’s ‘decree’ that US citizens were no longer allowed to own gold and all such bulk raw gold was to be turned in to the government.................
