It sounds like something out of a movie: Treasure hunters and history buffs start digging up a patch of land they say holds long-lost gold.
But in Pennsylvania, it’s actually happening. Treasure-hunting group Finders Keepers is excavating a site in Elk County that’s home to a Civil War legend about lost Union gold.
Legend has it a Union shipment of 26 gold bars was lost in 1863. Some stories claim the convoy was ambushed and the loot buried. Nowadays, that gold would be worth upwards of $27 million.
The treasure hunters are accompanied by both the FBI and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. An FBI public affairs specialist said agents there “were conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity.”
someone ought to get over there and bury some gold painted easter eggs hahahahahaha
SO how much of our money is the government going to spend trying to find the gold?
They have both the DNR and FBI following people around afraid some poor slob may find a dollar.
“It sounds like something out of a movie: Treasure hunters and history buffs start digging up a patch of land they say holds long-lost gold.”
YUP!!!
https://youtu.be/_pWx7N8gSoY?t=2
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Is everyone with a shovel invited? Those shovels could serve a dual purpose, considering the watchers near by.
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“….An FBI public affairs specialist said agents there “were conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity.”…..”
That means “we’re here to steal the gold”.