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Suspected location of mystery Nazi gold train set ablaze but authorities insist it wasn't arson
The Telegraph ^ | 31 Aug 2015 | Matthew Day and Gregory Walton

Posted on 09/01/2015 6:53:19 AM PDT by McGruff

The mystery surrounding a legendary Nazi gold train buried in Poland took a new twist after the suspected location of the armoured train and its cargo went up in flames.

The embankment by the Wroclaw-Walbrzych main line considered to be the favourite for the train’s location in the town of Walbrzych, southern Poland, was burnt along with 219 square yards of forest and bush on it.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: germany; godsgravesglyphs; gold; ksiazcastle; poland; russia; treasure; walbrzych
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This story won't die and keeps getting stranger. Like an Indiana Jones movie.
1 posted on 09/01/2015 6:53:19 AM PDT by McGruff
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It also emerged that treasure hunters on the trail of the legend claim to have been intimidated by mysterious armed men who warned them to stop looking.

Tadeusz Slowikowski, a local historian who has dedicated himself to finding the train, told the MailOnline that in 2003 three armed men told him to stop searching, and that his dog had been poisoned. He also claimed his phone was still monitored.

“A lot of dangerous people are interested in finding this train, this could have been a warning from one of them,” another hunter told the website. “This man who called me knows that I know something.”

2 posted on 09/01/2015 6:55:16 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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Just seeing the headline my first thought was “that train had the Ark of the Covenant, and some moron went and opened the thing.”


3 posted on 09/01/2015 6:55:42 AM PDT by tanknetter
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Well, I suppose the “The train and all its gold were lost in a tragic boating accident” excuse was not going to work too well.


4 posted on 09/01/2015 6:56:47 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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Bump


5 posted on 09/01/2015 6:59:08 AM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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Probably a treasure seeker threw his cigarette down and started a blaze.................


6 posted on 09/01/2015 6:59:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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You know, if you go traipsing off into the Ozarks looking for that legendary lost Confederate payroll, chances are pretty good you’ll be run off by heavily armed men.

Doesn’t mean your close to finding the payroll. Does mean that you’re about to stumble across someone’s still.


7 posted on 09/01/2015 7:02:59 AM PDT by tanknetter
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...or pot farm, or meth lab!


8 posted on 09/01/2015 7:04:52 AM PDT by null and void (Send them all back!)
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To: McGruff

I have a hard time believing that a train full of gold can sit there for 70 years and not be touched.


9 posted on 09/01/2015 7:12:21 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Occams Razor at work:

You’re off in the woods searching for legendary lost treasure. Are the heavily armed men you encounter some sort of ancient order like the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Cross dedicated to safeguarding it, or local hicks trying to protect their highly illegal source of revenue?


10 posted on 09/01/2015 7:17:53 AM PDT by tanknetter
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Hmmm. What could go wrong?

11 posted on 09/01/2015 7:18:30 AM PDT by McGruff (Trump/Cruz 2016 - My Dream Team)
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More like a Clive Cussler novel.
So there was something terrible on the train, the fire was set to destroy it, and the hero made a daring escape!

Darn, if there isn’t a novel there!


12 posted on 09/01/2015 7:19:44 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: McGruff

EPA employees from the USA were not seen leaving the area of this disaster.


13 posted on 09/01/2015 7:29:10 AM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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219 sq-yards of forest is not much... less than the footprint of my house.


14 posted on 09/01/2015 7:33:56 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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Hmmmm. Start a fire miles and miles away from where you know the treasure to be. Report it as at/near the location of all that hidden gold.

Ahhhhhhhhh... Blessed relief!


15 posted on 09/01/2015 7:39:29 AM PDT by null and void (Send them all back!)
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I’m thinking that the site was deliberately burned to make it easier to dig for the train. Freshly burned terrain makes it a lot easier to use metal detectors, ground penetrating radar etc. The train could be buried in the embankment still.


16 posted on 09/01/2015 8:01:37 AM PDT by Paisan
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I have only one question...”Is it safe?”


17 posted on 09/01/2015 8:03:28 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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No map? O.K.
I’m outta here!


18 posted on 09/01/2015 8:33:59 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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A five alarm fire burned an area somewhat larger than a football field. Must have been a slow day in Poland.


19 posted on 09/01/2015 10:00:33 AM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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I know where it is...:^)


20 posted on 09/01/2015 10:05:54 AM PDT by az_gila
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