When gold fever goes bad

[Jeff95531]

Chance gold find behind gruesome French family murder

 

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[russau]

Gold does strange things to weak minds!

 

[63bkpkr]

Sooner or later a bad thing brings about a bad thing. Fear or anger or both related to an offense or a supposed offense must be let go of or like a cancer it will eat a person to death even if they are still alive.

There have always been horrible events related to someone wanting what someone else has and not willing to work for it. Earning what a person works for is the only way to fly in my book!...................63bkpkr

 

[Goodyguy]

 

[Hoser John]

I've lost quite a few long time associates to the fever and it truly saddens me as Gollum is a good representation as all else is forsaken, even sanity. John

 

[Goodyguy]

I've lost quite a few long time associates to the fever and it truly saddens me as Gollum is a good representation as all else is forsaken, even sanity. John

I know exactly what you mean.
Had the same thing happen to me over a nugget that I found while nugget hunting with a friend, something came over him (reminded me of Gollum) and I never saw the nugget or the friend again.

GG~

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I know exactly what you mean.
Had the same thing happen to me over a nugget that I found while nugget hunting with a friend, something came over him (reminded me of Gollum) and I never saw the nugget or the friend again.

GG~

Back in the early 90's Dad's company was putting in a pretty big aggregate batch plant in Colorado Springs when something similiar happened. One of his crew supervisor's went up in the mountains one weekend with a local guy who was a crane operator to do some prospecting.

Crane operator was back to work on Monday, Dad's crew supervisor wasn't.

They supposedly found a few small nuggets and the fever hit the guy. Crane operator told Dad that he'll never see the guy again, he'll probably end up frozen to death on the mountain or shot for a trespasser.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre isn't far off. Some it corrupts immediately, some it eats them slow. Stick around prospecting and it won't be long until you hear of someone getting the fever, selling everything they own, and disappearing off the face of the Earth.

 

[Lanny in AB]

What's interesting about the story as well is that '[FONT=&quot]Meanwhile, Caouissin's mother told Le Parisien that the claims about a gold treasure were "nonsense".'

What's that all about?

All the best,

Lanny

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