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.”
Just seeing the headline my first thought was “that train had the Ark of the Covenant, and some moron went and opened the thing.”
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.
Bump
Probably a treasure seeker threw his cigarette down and started a blaze.................
I have a hard time believing that a train full of gold can sit there for 70 years and not be touched.
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!
EPA employees from the USA were not seen leaving the area of this disaster.
219 sq-yards of forest is not much... less than the footprint of my house.
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.
No map? O.K.
I’m outta here!
A five alarm fire burned an area somewhat larger than a football field. Must have been a slow day in Poland.