Dent's Run News: Geophysical Survey Released After Lawsuit

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If the caravan was ambushed, the gold is long gone. I can't recall ever hearing about a large quantity of gold getting jacked while being transported, and the people doing the jacking were somehow unaware of how heavy the wagons were and just gave up looking for it, false bottoms or not. Whether or not the legend is true, or even whether the FBI booked off with the gold, at the crux of the problem is the key players didn't pay for good legal representation when negotiating with the feds to get permission to conduct their search. Had they done so, the agreement would have specifically allowed for them to be present for all activities conducted by the government. The agreement would also have allowed for video recording all activity by either party. And if they were smart, they would have sold the commercial video rights to the History Channel and had some walking around money regardless of whether gold was found or not.

Scale it back to a bushel of gold bars.
That is a lot to sneak out of the area.

Runs are like dry creekbeds. Or have water in them. But expect flow during heavy rains or snowmelt. They eroded over time.
But like creeks/riverine areas silt and sediment means life supporting fertilizer of a sort.
Wildlife finds that and now we have corridors.
And people been hunting a long time. Including Dents Run.
If it was so remote no witnesses existed then gold may well have came and gone.
Hunters and residents (latest news articles aside) didn't report everyone and everything they saw leaving.
But rest assured strangers get backtracked if not followed first. They do here anyways.
And yes plenty were tattled on. Strangers are seldom great news in quiet areas. And in hunting areas are immediate competition during season.

Legend of the Lost Gold of Dents Run | Visit PA Great Outdoors

Federal Agents searching for “something” within a large secured area brought the Legend of the Lost Gold of Dents Run back into the media spotlight in 2019. The year was 1863. Legends states that a Union wagon train left Wheeling, West Virginia with 52 bars of gold, each weighing 50 pounds...

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