Posted on 10/08/2023 6:05:10 AM PDT by george76
PENFIELD, Pa. — In the heart of Pennsylvania elk country, Eric McCarthy and his client, Don Reichel, got up before sunrise to scour the forest floor for so-called “brown gold” — a rack of freshly shed antlers to add to Reichel’s collection back home.
One hill over, a team of FBI agents was also hunting for gold. The metallic yellow kind.
The FBI’s highly unusual search for buried Civil War-era treasure more than five years ago set in motion a dispute over what, if anything, the agency unearthed and an ongoing legal battle over key records. There’s so much intrigue that even a federal judge felt compelled to note in a ruling last week: “The FBI may have found the gold — or maybe not.”
Now, two witnesses have come forward to share .. what they heard and saw in the woods that late-winter morning, raising questions about the FBI’s timeline and adding plot twists to a saga that blends elements of legend, fact and science – and a heavy dose of government secrecy.
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McCarthy, a 45-year-old elk guide, had never met treasure hunter Dennis Parada. But he watched from afar as Parada took the FBI to court and told his story in the media. McCarthy recently decided to share his own story because he thought Parada, who spent years looking for the gold before approaching the FBI with his findings, has been treated unfairly.
“I just felt like I needed to say what I saw, you know?” McCarthy explained. “I have no ties to anybody here. It’s just I felt like they were wronged.”
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“It’s a part of our history that’s hidden away,” Parada said, “and I think it’s time that should be told.”
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
OK, OK, I can’t take it anymore.
I know what happened to the gold. Don’t tell anyone. It’s a secret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WowT4Cumgc8
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Just following the rule I’ve seen here on FR before. Dig all night and don’t tell anyone. Only problem is more than one person knew/knows what was going on.
Another lesson here is that you can never be completely certain that you’re unobserved when you’re out in the hills. Hunters or hikers can be anywhere at all at any time.
Yup! Trail cams too.
The rest of the keyword, sorted:
Yeah, forgot about those.
The FBI dug up the gold, then got in their time machine and reburied it on Oak Island.
The weird part is, why didn't they just use the time machine to dig it up right after the Civil War ended?
This particular hoax is useful for understanding how treasure hunting and looting differs from archaeology.
And BTW, there not only isn't any gold buried there, there wasn't any gold buried there, and this ever-growing-in-value mythical lost hoard of gold is probably going to have its own TV series, if people even have TVs a hundred years from now.
See an earlier post for the list of topipcs about this.
The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, alpha sort:
This was posted before. There’s a physic involved. Don’t waste your time. It’s a phony story of a concocted find. IMHO
Drones?
Maybe, but drones are pretty audible.
“ 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.
Yeah had one cruising around the house a couple weeks ago. Don’t know who or why.
In the small town where I lived a few years ago, there was a guy who used to like to fly a drone around the neighborhood. After a few weeks, no more drone flights. I don’t know who said what to him but apparently it worked. Or maybe the drone had an accident.
Could have got its camera eye shot out, I suppose, though if so I never heard the shot.
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!
Sounds like the map is legit. That’s practically unheard of. Ah well.
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