Was she ugly? playa double- intersection or just a dead-End? Many questions surround the mystery of a 2018 Tanqeeb in remote Western Pennsylvania as a science analysis commissioned by the FBI shortly before agents dug for Buried treasure suggests a huge amount of was gold below Surface, according to newly released government Documents and photosand deepen the emerging questions.
The report was written by a geophysicist who Conduct microgravity test on site, hint at an underground object with Mass of up to 9 tons and at a consistent density with He went. Use the FBI Counsellor work To obtain an order to confiscate gold – if anything found.
The government It has long been claimed that his dig was a bust. But the father-son Husband of treasure hunters who Spent years fishing for Legendary gold in the era of civil war – and who Customers drove to the jungle site, hoping for Finder fee – suspect the FBI double cross them and made off with cache can be worth hundreds of millions of dollar.
The newly revealed geophysical survey was part of Court-ordered release of government records on The FBI’s treasure hunt is in Dentz Run, about 220 kilometers (135 miles) northeast of Pittsburgh, where the legend says year 1863 shipment of Union gone either lost or stolen on that it way to the American mint in Philadelphia.
Dennis and Kim Parada, who Co-own the treasure hunt outfit Whoever finds something to keep, successfully File a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice for records after the FBI blocked them. Finders Keepers submitted FBI records to the Associated Press (AP). The FBI later posted they on that it website.
Technical survey data collected by geophysical consultancy Enviroscan gave credence to the extensive fieldwork of treasure hunters at the site — and prompted the FBI to excavate. in A large-scale covert operation continued for Several cold days in late winter of 2018.
John Lowe, geophysics professor in the University of Nevada, Reno, Unconnected to Drilling Reviewed Enviroscan Report On Demand of “The company’s methods were extremely important,” the Associated Press said good,” and “their conclusions represent a materially reasonable hypothesis” that gold was buried at the site.
However, he cautioned that the subsurface gravitational anomalies identified by the Enviroscan have not been conclusively proven to exist of He went. There are other technical reasons behind the transformation of Enviroscan’s data out The way Lowe said.
“So, he is. also It is quite plausible that the FBI did not find anything at the site because there was no gold.” via E-mail.
Enviroscan co-founder Tim Bechtel declined to me comment about him work In Dentz Run, saying the FBI had not given him permission to speak. The FBI did not discuss Bechtel’s case this week, but said that after digging in, “the agents didn’t take anything later steps To reconcile the results of the geophysical survey with absence of Gold or any other metal.
Other documents in The just-FBI file released case file still raises more Questions.
a one- Paragraph from the FBI report dated March 13, 2019 – Exactly one year After drilling – agents confirmed found Nothing in the dent race. No ‘metals, items and/or other related matters materials They were found ‘Given another priority’, the report said work … the FBI will close the case described.”
Ann Wiseman, attorney for Discoverers’ guards, cast doubt on The credibility of the FBI report. I cited its brevity, as well as its timing – it was written after Finders Keepers started pressing government for records.
“She doesn’t read like one Wiseman said, former Attorney at the Ministry of Justice. “If this is it official record in file of What did they do and why did they do it, he says Almost nothing, that’s crazy” added.
She said that if the government does not produce fuller, more contemporary accounting of her search for Gold, “It will increase me view That this is not accurate record It was created as a cover-up. And I don’t say it lightly.”
In response, the FBI said the one-page document was “representative.” of The standard Summaries provided when the FBI investigation is formally closed.”
The agency constantly denies this found anything.
Agents act on information That Dent Run “may have been a cultural heritage site containing Gold belongs to the US government, the FBI said in statement, but “this possibility was not taken into account out by drilling. The FBI continues to categorically reject any allegations or speculation to the contrary.”
buried of Documents turned over to preserve the discoverers also Included nearly 1000 photos and in Black and white grainy, that show Some – but certainly not all – of What the FBI was doing at the dig site, treasure hunters said.
Residents said earlier of Hear Backhoe and Jackhammer Overnight Overnight first And the second days of drilling – when work He was supposed to pause – and see a convoy of FBI vehiclesincluding large armored trucks.
The FBI denied anything work took place On site after hours”The only nighttime activity was ATV patrols of FBI police personnel and who Secure the site around the clock for Duration of excavations.”
Parada suspected that the FBI recovered the gold in the middle of Then the night showed the treasure hunters an empty hole on afternoon of The second day.
“It’s so strange why the FBI would go so far to mislead and be so disruptive on Warren Gettler said, who worked closely with Treasure hunters. “They worked that night under cover of dark to evade, escape our knowledge of Something we’re supposed to be partners inclaimed.
many of FBI photos Seemingly irrelevant, including hundreds of Pictures of random Trees and forest path leading to the excavation site, while others do not add up Or ask additional questions, emphasized Parada and Gettler, author of “Gold Rebel” book explores the possibility of Burying Civil War Era caches of Gold and silver.
FBI agents are shown standing around the hatch in photos that appear earlier in The seriesbut they are absent from almost everyone of Subsequent photos at the excavation site.
Getler and Parada say lead The FBI agent told them the hole was full with morning watering of The second Today, but low-quality images released by a file government show just small Pool or maybe a little of the snow. They said the same agent spent most of the of The second Today in base camp – where Gittler and the treasure hunters say they were largely confined to car – Not at the excavation site.
The FBI said that standard for photos “To document site conditions before, during and after FBI operations,” Parada claims it all points To secretly dig overnight and second day digs that was just for show.
“I think we were expecting a few hundred photos of Night digs, I think we were expecting pictures of Parada said: Coins or bars. I think there were pictures, but they’re gone.
FBI records also show That several weeks before the prospecting, agent with Agency art crime team Approach Wells Fargo to ask if he ships gold by money order for American mint in 1863.
Wells Fargo historians turned around up no proof of But she said the records of the era are incomplete. An archivist at Wells Fargo wrote that he shipped the gold by lorry in Email to the FBI, but in bulk of The precious metal, as well as gold that had to be transported over long distances, was “best transported by ship or train.”
Gettler said the gold may have been transported by cart, not a cart.
Additional releases are expected from the FBI over the coming months.
