Very interesting news from the rural Elk County of Pennsylvania.. three years ago when the FBI showed up, many knew what they were looking for but no “official” word was released. Now information has been released in emails to say: GOLD!
According to what we have found out: FBI agents were looking for an extremely valuable cache of fabled Civil War-era gold — possibly tons of it — when they excavated a remote woodland site in Pennsylvania three years ago this month, according to government emails and other recently released documents in the case!
On March 13, 2018, treasure hunters led the FBI to Dent’s Run, about 135 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend has it an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
The FBI now says that it came up empty.. Those documents provided to the Associated Press, show that federal law enforcement was indeed after buried treasure and claim they left without it..
“We believe the cache itself is in the neighborhood of 3x5x8 (feet) to 5x5x8,” wrote K.T. Newton, an assistant U.S attorney in Philadelphia, in a 2018 email marked “Confidential.”Further information being reported by the Associated Press:
Since the Elk County site was on state-owned land, the FBI had to secure a federal court order to gain access. The legal maneuvering generated emails between Newton and Audrey Miner, chief lawyer for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
On March 13, as FBI agents clambered up a hill to the target, Miner bluntly asked Newton: “Can you please provide the basis upon which the Office of the United States Attorney asserts that the gold, if found, belongs to the federal government?”
Newton replied that a federal affidavit in the case was sealed. She instead offered to “discuss this generally with you on the phone,” according to email records released by the state under court order.
The federal government followed a well-worn path to the woods of northwestern Pennsylvania, where legendary tales of buried Civil War gold had inspired generations of treasure hunters — including Dennis and Kem Parada.
The FBI said came up short in their quest.. “The FBI unequivocally rejects any claims or speculation to the contrary,” a spokesperson said last week to the AP.x x x
On March 16, 2018, two days after the dig ended, Newton emailed Miner that “we are all disappointed and scratching our heads over the several scientific test results.”
U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia said last week it considers the matter to be closed.
IF THE FBI THOUGHT THIS WAS A SECRET, they may not have been looking at headlines from October 2018 when the digging was happening!!
At that time, an AP news story was running across various publications in Pennsylvania:
Even earlier than that in March 2018, a headline appeared with the FBI stating they did not find what they were looking for the famed site that so many thought would have gold..
Elk County riches…
According to historical collections of both fact and legend, Dents Run is the location of 26 blackpainted gold bars.. they were a part of a 50-pound bar shipment during the Civil War from Wheeling West Virginia to Philadelphia.
The expedition charged with transporting the shipment in June 1863 was headed by John Castleton. It was said that only Castleton knew that the blackpainted bards were gold and buried beneath a false bottom of a wagon..
The party reached Clarion in June and learned that the Confederate army had invaded Pennsylvania.. the party was then delayed and Castleton contracted malaria.. in was said that in his “delirium,” he ranted about the gold and spilled the beans on the transport!
Castleton recovered and the expedition got underway from St. Marys in Elk County .. it was said that townspeople gave him directions through the rugged mountainous terrain. And that was also the last time that Castleton was seen alive!
Two months later, a surviving member of the expedition, Jim Connors, arrived in Lock Haven PA and told the tale about the parry being ambushed in Driftwood where all nine other members died.
For several years after, it was believed that the government actively was searching for gold but didn’t turn up anything of value..
And now chalk up 2018 to their failed ventures!
BUT!SOME ARE CLAIMING THE FBI IS NOT TELLING THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT THE 2018 MISSION…Jason Nark writes this in the INQUIRER:
Father-and-son treasure hunters Dennis and Kem Parada, their attorney, William Cluck, and Warren Getler, a journalist who has worked with them and written about Civil War-era legends of lost gold, held a virtual press conference, calling on the feds to unseal the case.
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Getler said the FBI’s demeanor changed dramatically during the dig, from friendly to adversarial. He said he and the Paradas were led away from the site to look at an empty hole and then kept far away at the base of a hill. Getler, author of Rebel Gold, a book about Civil War-era gold, believes the Dents Run cache was held in SUVs and transferred to armored cars under cover of darkness.
“If you want to listen to the FBI and believe nothing was found, that’s your choice,“ Getler said. “Why would they bring in four armored cars? Why would they bring in such extensive resources?”
When asked why the FBI would lie about finding gold, Getler said he believes there’s more gold buried across the country and the agency doesn’t want treasure hunters to find it. Cluck believes one reason could be the potential legal arguments over claims to the gold ― which could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars ― between the federal government, the commonwealth, and the Paradas.
“I am extremely suspicious of the secrecy,” Cluck said.
Getler said he would like Congress to investigate.
The debate will go on, as will the legend.. until gold is found… somewhere deep beneath Dent’s Run, Pennsylvania.
