A 2018 photo released by the FBI shows the agency’s dig for Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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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A 2018 photo released by the FBI shows the agency’s dig for Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania. ASSOCIATED PRESS
PinGGG!.....................
First mistake - calling the FBI
Keep your mouth shut.
Maybe these got it first.
https://thefilmstage.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/the_hidden_fortress1-620x259.jpg
I’d believe a man who says he was led to a gold cache by a psychic before I’d believe the Federal government. If he said Bigfoot told him where the gold was I’d STILL believe him over the Federal government
If there was gold, the FBI would have confiscated it had the men actually found it, anyways. The gold would have been covered by the FDR era gold confiscation law.
The FBI just saved them a ton of work and expense for nothing.
Whether or not the law was Constitutional is another matter................
One article said "the finder said he was there during the dig."
First rule of finding gold.
Don’t talk about finding gold.
The first rule of treasure hunting club is never talk about the treasure.
Wrestling with the fed gov over treasure rarely works out for the private citizen that discovered it.
They are THE LAST people that need to know about it.
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Treasure hunter stuck in jail for refusing to disclose location of gold coins faces judge; ingot from shipwreck sells for $2.16 million
So this dude has been chasing this particular gold for 40 years...and all of a sudden, he makes the news...but there’s no proof of anything.
Of course the government has the treasure! I would never trust the government with anything.
I once lost the diamond out of my engagement ring while moving items from the washer to the dryer. I had no idea one of the prongs was messed up. Out came my diamond, and I heard it ping around the barrel. I was running late for a camping weekend, and I was busy getting everyone’s clothes ready for the weekend.
I told my husband what happened and his solution was to hire a plumber to look for the diamond. I said no way. Do you think you’d report finding a lost diamond?
So no more laundry was done until we checked out a book from the library about how to take apart a washing machine, and put it back together, which we successfully did. Alas, no diamond was found anywhere.
Several months later I realized I had never looked around the dryer. Found a yard stick and probed under the dryer, back and forth a few times. Out popped my diamond covered in dust bunnies!
not to hijack thread- but here is a companion article of a similar deal where a family is cheated out of a gold stash discovery ‘suppsoedly’ (the man who claimed to have foudn it was a known hustler- he was later killed though by another man he took in as partner to get the gold out)
it’s a fascinating story- don’t know though who is tellign hte truth and hwo is lying
“Victorio Peak, New Mexico Mystery Treasure”
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/victorio-peak-treasure/
They did a dig to show the hole was empty, after first removing the loot during the middle of a previous night. There were stories of locals interviewed, who heard heavy machinery all night long.
All I ever find in the dryer is loose change..................
Anyone who finds bury treasure, and mentions it to anyone, even close, personal friends, or family, is an idiot.
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