Treasure hunters search for fabled gold on Philippines island. Hoard may not even exist.

www.livescience.com ^ | 02/03/2020 | By Tom Metcalfe

[TexasGator]

Obviously, you didn’t read the article!

[reagandemocrat]

>>>There already has been enormous Yamashita gold finds in the Philippines.<<<

True that. Googlize Rogelio Rojas and the Golden Buddha.

[Buttons12]

Real or not, it’s good for business!

[Red Badger]

Ferengi Rules of Acquisition:

1. War is good for business.

2. Peace is good for business.........................

[ßuddaßudd]

Josh Gates has already looked for it..
nope, not there ..

[TBall]

Oak Island is great. It starts at 9 and puts me to sleep faster than any show out there.

[Red Badger]

Todd Hoffman could!.................

[NFHale]

My version of WWII treasure would be to find a buried crate of M1 Garand rifles or Thompsons in wrapped in watertight packaging and cosmoline...

That’s probably MORE likely a find than some gold horde.

Interesting to ponder how many of those inventory items went missing during the course of the campaigns in the Pacific (or Europe too).

Imagine what a crate of M1918A3 Browning Automatic Rifles in good or decent condition would bring...

A stretch, yes, but... nice to thing about :^).

[Billthedrill]

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. I still get claustrophobia recalling those guys swimming out of the cave.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Or it may.

Most treasures are considered fables until they are found. Then the finders are reviled as evil plunderers of national treasures. Which was so valued that no one was looking for it.

[major_gaff]

great book...I was thinking of it before I read your post

[minnesota_bound]

Kelly's Heroes

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kings_(1999_film)

[colorado tanker]

Why would Yamishita bury anything valuable on Panay? It was a backwater thinly garrisoned that we took fairly easily late in the campaign.

Yamishita himself took personal command of the largest Japanese force and fell back into the mountains of Northern Luzon, where he fought a sharp and bloody defensive campaign. If he wanted to bury something, that remote mountainous terrain would be the place.

[Red Badger]

If he did, he did it for personal convenience after the war.................

[colorado tanker]

Well, Yamashita didn’t have a very good “after the war” . . .

[Red Badger]

True, but he didn’t expect to lose.............

[ßuddaßudd]

seriesly,, that guy was painful to watch, imho ..

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. If someone had buried treasure, no one would know about it, orrrrrr, they wouldn't tell a soul about it, would just go dig it up.

[Bob Ireland]

***treasure hunters searching for a hoard of gold in the Philippines***

Looks like all the gold is on the general's chest.