....Don't understand why he went to the paper for either,...
I've read the short article in post # 2 . And I understand that "no more articles will be forthcoming". But I see that the proof brought in to the newspaper man, was an envelope/folder, containing those pix of a treasure chest. Right ? Ok, has anyone seen the treasure ? Aside from a picture ?
I am reminded of pictures of treasure chests, in the old 1970s treasure magazine ads, where someone posing next to his TH'ing device, is showing all the treasure, or jars of coins, that he found. Ok, and it's hard to argue with that, eh ?
I'm not saying it's necessarily "not true". But just saying: If someone walks into a newspaper office with picture of goodies, .... there could be other explanations.
Example: I knew a guy who wrote an article for one of the treasure magazines, of how he'd found 50 (or whatever) gold rings from the bottom of a drained swim lake. And the pictures were, yes, quite amazing ! And the way the article sounded, was that they were all dug in a single few day's period of time.
It just so happened that I got to meet the guy personally. I quizzed him , at depth, about the cigar box full of gold rings. Turns out, they'd come from an entire year of hunting this lake. Ie.: one here, one there, type of thing. But the way it could *sound*, (ie.: artistic literary liberties of good story writing), it sounded different.
Anyhow, this isn't to say it didn't happen (hard to argue with a photo). But just sayin' that .... there's been photo's posted before, that ... in the end .... had other explanations.
