Civil War Payroll gold may have been found in Elk County PA

[wainzoid]

To see if it was there you would have to look. since the fbi is watching, there must be a chance

 

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[evad30]

One more thing, how does the newscast know that anyone is digging? You think the FBI told them they were digging? I think folks are doing "math" on this one. I see no shovels, no dirty hands, gloves, shoes or pants. Unless someone has seen a shovel or equipment capable of digging, I'd rule out digging. In the video, I see a clip board with papers, yep, that's a sure sign of an investigation. I can't make out what the tripod thing is though....thoughts?

I was at the scene yesterday,..and yes i seen digging equipment (shovels) and ppl with boots on... there is no other reason for them to be there... trust me... its in the middle of nowhere... there was no heavy equipment that i seen, butt its a site surely they dont want to destroy anything as they dig down... and as for not seeing anything.... the dig is located up on the hill side where you cant see from the road..

 

[Tedyoh]

I also heard it was hidden in a cave or crevis in the rocks....
Which would make sense because these mountains are very rocky and digging a deep hole by hand would be next to impossible

 

[etex]

Serial killer

 

[Tom_in_CA]

....Legend has it that Abraham Lincoln ordered the gold shipment to help pay...

Did anyone catch the part, that I put in bold italics above ? "Legend has it that ........". Whenever you read a story that start with "It has been said that..." or "Legend has it that ....", ask yourself : "Says who" ? Wouldn't it be more worthwhile to go after factual historical facts, and not "legend" (telephone game) says ?

So too were all the stories in the treasure magazines of the 1970s. They would start with how so & so was walking down the road one day, and talked to a rancher back in the 1950s, who spun the story about how his great great grandfather saw men walking down the hill with "gold nuggets at big as boulders", blah blah (now it's simply a matter of finding the mine). Or "Legend has it that...." And concoct the doozie from there, peppering it with faded newspaper clippings, a drawing of a miner posed next to his burro, etc.... Then ... presto ..... you can never put the rumor to death.

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Not all the stories.

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

The news story says they contacted the Feds in 2012, stating that they had found the lost payroll.
It’s now 2018 and the FBI is saying that they are carrying out a court ordered investigation.
There should be some public records which shed some light to this mystery.

Anybody good at finding those online?

 

[Honest Samuel]

Kick the FBI agents off the lands, and let us treasure hunters find the treasure and pay our income taxes.

 

[1320]

Another part of the video I noticed, there are two people that kinda look like they are being escorted into the building and neither look very happy.

 

[1320]

The news story says they contacted the Feds in 2012, stating that they had found the lost payroll.
It’s now 2018 and the FBI is saying that they are carrying out a court ordered investigation.
There should be some public records which shed some light to this mystery.

Anybody good at finding those online?

The “court ordered” part does lend itself to something unique, the FBI normally wouldn’t need a court order to investigate....hmmmmm

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

This is part of a news story....I may have slightly mis-spoke.

“Public Affairs Specialist for the FBI Carrie Adamowski could only confirm that FBI agents were conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity.

Court authorized not court ordered...

 

[1320]

Stumbled across this, If I were so sure, I think I could have secured the bond!

But there's a problem and a big one at that -- the site is in a state forest and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has prohibited Mr. Parada from doing any type of exploration there unless he puts up a bond, which he considers financially prohibitive.

 

[WaterScoop]

I have never noticed an FBI patch to say POLICE before

 

[1320]

And this...

(Name omitted) who admits to being obsessed with the lost gold -- "I think about it every day" -- said he won't ever give up his search, come roadblocking bureaucrats or naysaying historians who discount the veracity of the legend.

"I told DCNR I'm not going to quit until it's dug up. And if I die, my kid's going to be around and make sure it's dug up.

"There's something in there and I'm not giving up."

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I can not think of any treasure-hunting that ANY govt. official (LEO's anyhow) engages in. I mean, think about it folks: That's tax-payer money being spent. If the legislators, and bean-counters and general public thought the government was spending $$ on risky treasure hunts (in times of budget cuts and tax increases), there would be an outcry of protest.

This was the exact mindset during the Mel Fisher legal hassles: Some govt. archies cried that this should have been left for the archies to have investigated and dug up (with tweezers and brushes, yeah right). But the Fisher legal defense team rightfully pointed out, that never in a million years is the govt. going to engage on risky treasure hunts at tax-payer expense. Oh sure, the private sector will knock themselves out and risk the loss of finding zilch. But not the govt.

About the only "tax-payer money" personnel would be archies. NOT the "FBI" for pete's sake .

Hence someone might say "yeah, well ... this is true for mere speculations, but NOT when a treasure is already found. Ok, I'll bite. But if it's .... "already found" (thus requiring FBI men in trenchoats who shoot down drones), then .... why the tent and salacious details ? If it's "already found" (and up such that someone could simply look at it), then why more digging ? To which someone could say "To get the rest" (more in the hole?), then trust me: The archies (on the exact same govt. payrolls) would be having a hissy fit if it wasn't dug out with tweezers and studied. To which someone's going to say: "yup, there are archies in that tent with them".

See how this is beginning to sound ? No matter how many logical objections someone could raise, someone else can find some remote and far-fetched way that ...... given enough pounds of gold, and given enough conspiratorial scenarios, that it all makes sense. Just like Oak Island: Given enough canaries carrying enough coconut fibers from India in their beaks, and given enough slave labor for 50 yrs, then anything, now matter how remote and unlikely, can be made to sound bullet-proof iron-clad.

 

[relic nut]

Maybe there are 30,000 emails buried on that mountain.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[1320]

Government cover up?

(Name omitted) from the company, claims that ground penetrating radar and other sensors indicate something is buried there. Furthermore, he claims to have recovered Civil War era relics. DCNR disputes that, saying the relics were from the World War I time period.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

... unless he puts up a bond, which he considers financially prohibitive.

Why ? Why financially prohibitive ? After all, he's "found" (past tense) a treasure. All he'd have to do is sell a single pound out of the 50 gold bars he's found. To simply pay off whatever the bond cost. Certainly some investor is going to leap to the financial aid of Mr. Parada. Knowing that the certainty of this treasure is beyond question ??

See how this is falling apart at every step ?

 

[Tom_in_CA]

-- said he won't ever give up his search, come roadblocking bureaucrats or naysaying historians who discount the veracity of the legend....

Does anyone see the self-suicide contradiction of this ? "Veracity" = truth and certainty (via a quick check of the dictionary). Yet .... "legend" = unauthenticated story. Ok, which is it ?? You've either found it, or you haven't. You can't have it both ways. It's either fact, or it's legend. You can't have it both ways.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Government cover up?

(Name omitted) from the company, claims that ground penetrating radar and other sensors indicate something is buried there. Furthermore, he claims to have recovered Civil War era relics. DCNR disputes that, saying the relics were from the World War I time period.

haha, I love it. Well I got news for you: You can run GPR over a LOT of places and ... guess what ? Something will be there. You can turn on a 2-box detector or metal detector in a lot of places and guess what ? You'll get a "beep". And as for having "found CW relics there", well ... I got news for you: A quick look down the pages of T'net's Today's finds show & tell forum will show that CW relics are routinely found all over the deep south.

And then the crowning glory: He was told his trinkets were only WW1 period. But I know the comeback lines forthcoming : This is probably a hush-job, by G-man, who don't want anyone else to know about the treasure. Just like "weather balloon" was the decoy explanation for the aliens at Area 51. Eh ?