Dent's Run News: Geophysical Survey Released After Lawsuit

[MiddenMonster]

Finders Keepers won their lawsuit and the judge ordered the FBI to release a "trove" of documents, which include almost 1,000 photographs, with more documents supposedly to come. Not a lot of earth shaking news, but it certainly doesn't put anything to rest or answer questions:

Civil War-era gold: FBI's records on Pennsylvania search raise questions

Lawyers, lawyers, lawyers. Always get plenty of lawyers working for you if there is a possibility of striking something valuable. Sure, they cost a lot of money. But they can and do save your bacon when the federales come sniffin'.

 

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[Doubter in MD]

Did anyone see "FBI: Most Wanted" last night? It featured a storyline just like the Dent's Run "gold" story. It featured a search for 9 tons of Civil War gold in Pennsylvania that a father/son team had proven was there with high tech scanning techniques. It made the father/son team seem like a couple of complete morons with racist tendencies.

They threw in a few murders for the FBI to solve and the Treasury Department swooped in and did the actual dig, but they supposedly didn't find anything. The nearby residents were hollering at the Treasury agents, saying that they saw the armored trucks leaving the site in the middle of the night, and that they KNEW gold was removed.

Any of this sound familiar?

 

[MiddenMonster]

It made the father/son team seem like a couple of complete morons with racist tendencies.

Didn't see it, but it seems to be the coin of the realm in Hollywood these days to build their plots around "white supremacists" regardless of broader subject matter. But let me guess, they included the disclaimer, “Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.” Law & Order does this all the time, ironically after airing a week of previews that boast, "Ripped from the headlines".

 

[Darren in NC]

Newer witnesses since the ruling...

New witnesses share what they saw in the woods during a secretive FBI hunt for Civil War gold

New eyewitness accounts are raising questions about the FBI’s secretive 2018 dig for a legendary cache of Civil War-era gold buried in the Pennsylvania woods.

apnews.com

 

[pepperj]

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Newer witnesses since the ruling...

New witnesses share what they saw in the woods during a secretive FBI hunt for Civil War gold

New eyewitness accounts are raising questions about the FBI’s secretive 2018 dig for a legendary cache of Civil War-era gold buried in the Pennsylvania woods.

apnews.com

Still an older news story from Oct. 2023

 

[Old Bookaroo]

No matter what the "news" the essential question remains: If this story has a basis in fact, where did the gold come from? And why was it deep in the Pennsylvania woods?

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo

 

[MiddenMonster]

No matter what the "news" the essential question remains: If this story has a basis in fact, where did the gold come from? And why was it deep in the Pennsylvania woods?

Great questions. I'm usually very skeptical of large horde legends. This one would be no different except that the searchers got permission from the government, and then there was the big dust up with the FBI. Serious drama around all aspects of this. But that makes finding out what really happened all the more interesting.

 

[3cylbill]

No matter what the "news" the essential question remains: If this story has a basis in fact, where did the gold come from? And why was it deep in the Pennsylvania woods?

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo

Maybe they were on there way to Canada to purchase arms ..and got sick and hid the gold in dents run cave...the government knows but won't tell..and the. FBI. Came in and swooped it up