FBI removes 7 to 9 tons of Civil War Gold from Dents Run

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FK: Please identify the source for the information in your statement concerning a Russian plane hauling tons of gold and silver cargo losing part of it over Siberia the day after the FBI allegedly took the treasure from Dents Run.

I'm not sure what source FK used when describing the Russian plane dropping gold and silver during takeoff, but during March of this year just about every news station was covering the incident.

Just google Russian plane gold bars.
 

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I'm not sure what source FK used when describing the Russian plane dropping gold and silver during takeoff, but during March of this year just about every news station was covering the incident.

Just google Russian plane gold bars.

Thanks! Found it.....as suspected nothing to do with Dents Run.

From the news report: “The bars came from the Kupol gold mine in the Chukotka region, investigators said, which is operated by Canada-based mining company Kinross Gold.”
 

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I was hoping to inject some substance into this discussion. My apologies.

That may have come across wrong.
I would be interested in a thread dedicated to this discussion.
I started to respond, then deleted my comment so as to not hijack this thread talking nuclear experienents.
 

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So piecing together claims or ideas from this and other related threads, could this cache have been a repository of some sort? It's crazy enough to think that the one shipment of gold bars is there and has been undiscovered since the Civil War. It's even crazier to think that other parties have deposited other amounts of gold and or silver there. In the same cave! Fun to suspend disbelief for a second but this story is reaching Oak Island status.
 

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OK , WE asked DCNR for info under the freedom of info act and they said their is a on going investigation so their files are sealed. And the FBI said their files are sealed because of the investigation to. Ha what THE HELL is GOING ON , I AM THE ONE THAT ASKED FOR THE INVESTIGATION AND I GAVE THEM EVERYTHING THEY NEEDED TO GET IT DONE. They may hope this will go away by stalling things by saying on going investigation, well that line has about run its course. I am NOT UNDER ANY GAG ORDER and IF THINGS DON"T START MOVING SOON. WE WILL TELL IT ALL and the public will see how things are covered up when the Gov. thinks its above the law. :BangHead:
 

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So piecing together claims or ideas from this and other related threads, could this cache have been a repository of some sort? It's crazy enough to think that the one shipment of gold bars is there and has been undiscovered since the Civil War. It's even crazier to think that other parties have deposited other amounts of gold and or silver there. In the same cave! Fun to suspend disbelief for a second but this story is reaching Oak Island status.


There was a Indian Village in Dents Run so I am sure the cave was used by them. Then there is a Indian Village at the 1812 Blackbeard / Parker site were 7 1/2 tons of silver was buried. Is it possible the Indians used this cave for hidden treasure and by the 1860's this well known cave was used again by the army. Or was it the KGC :dontknow:. Did the Indians move the 7 1/2 tons of silver to the Dents Run site :dontknow:. The silver was back farther in the cave than the gold was. The gold was just in the back right side of the arch room .

Hay it was the FBI that said 9 tons of gold , not us . WE would like to know were all of this came from to . Then no one is talking about all the silver they found and removed . O Ya , there is a lot more to come out in the next few weeks.
 

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Maybe this will add some clarity to what really happened at Dents Run. For reference, I am a government insider (I work for a branch of government that works with the FBI on occasion). Here is what I was told by people involved in the dig at Dents Run. "Finders Keepers refused to post the bond required to dig on State land. Since he refused, it was then anyone's treasure if it was there and he wasn't entitled to anything. He forfeited his interest when he refused to post the bond. Another person came forward and posted the bond and the FBI supervised the dig since it is FBI standard operating procedure to be on site whenever the remains of Civil War soldiers may be exhumed. The person who posted the bond was on the site the entire week and he is the one who forbid Finders Keepers from entering the excavation site except on limited access to watch; so the FBI closed the road to everyone except local property owners and for the most part made Finders Keepers stay in his truck miles away from the dig. The FBI was on site 24 hours a day in order to secure the site from anyone who might have ideas about sneaking in and stealing something but there was no night time digging according to the guy who posted the bond. I know who this person is (don't know him personally and don't know if anyone would recognize the name anyway) but have been asked not to disclose that information since it was related to me in private and that he is not under any obligation to disclose what, if anything was found. My suggestion is to live and learn. If you find something then follow the law and post the bond. Maybe some day we will hear what was or was not found by this gentleman. Hopefully sooner rather than later. That's the inside scoop and Finders Keepers has no one to blame but himself for allowing this to be scooped from under him! If there ever was anything there.
 

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Maybe this will add some clarity to what really happened at Dents Run. For reference, I am a government insider (I work for a branch of government that works with the FBI on occasion). Here is what I was told by people involved in the dig at Dents Run. "Finders Keepers refused to post the bond required to dig on State land. Since he refused, it was then anyone's treasure if it was there and he wasn't entitled to anything. He forfeited his interest when he refused to post the bond. Another person came forward and posted the bond and the FBI supervised the dig since it is FBI standard operating procedure to be on site whenever the remains of Civil War soldiers may be exhumed. The person who posted the bond was on the site the entire week and he is the one who forbid Finders Keepers from entering the excavation site except on limited access to watch; so the FBI closed the road to everyone except local property owners and for the most part made Finders Keepers stay in his truck miles away from the dig. The FBI was on site 24 hours a day in order to secure the site from anyone who might have ideas about sneaking in and stealing something but there was no night time digging according to the guy who posted the bond. I know who this person is (don't know him personally and don't know if anyone would recognize the name anyway) but have been asked not to disclose that information since it was related to me in private and that he is not under any obligation to disclose what, if anything was found. My suggestion is to live and learn. If you find something then follow the law and post the bond. Maybe some day we will hear what was or was not found by this gentleman. Hopefully sooner rather than later. That's the inside scoop and Finders Keepers has no one to blame but himself for allowing this to be scooped from under him! If there ever was anything there.

I guess the FBI confidentially policy does not extend to partner branches of government.
Interesting spin on the current narrative.

If your spilling the beans, why elude to the fact that there was a lesson to be learned?
What has been missed out on?...closure?
 

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By the way, in my opinion, the gentleman that bonded to dig for buried treasure on public land certainly does NOT have the right of staying anonymous. Nor would any finds be treated with secrecy.

The government owes the public transparency.
 

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Our lawyer is working with the Dep. of Justice getting ready to file paperwork in Federal Court for the info the FBI is holding back on. Hay 100 agents, 3 armored truck escorts , choppers tracking the shipment, military close by, 25 FBI black SUV's on site. All of this after the all night dig. Then they say NOTHING WAS FOUND and we have people seeing 7 quads loading up 6 black SUV's when the road was shut down into Dents Run. 6 black SUV's at each time , over and over until we showed up. Hay this gets better each day. The longer the FBI holds off the more we will post.

@FinderKeeper, from what I've read, both here from you and in news accounts it sounds like you went into this trusting the government. If so, I'd say that was a mistake. The government never relinquishes a claim to property, especially gold. While the government may not go out of their way to screw someone over, their agents represent the interests of...the government. No one else. At best, all you can expect is a finder's fee or an amount agreed to in a contract. So why wasn't your attorney or their agents at the site the entire time the dig was in progress, including the time the Federales made you sit in the car away from the site? Those are the people who represent your interests. As officers of the court attorneys are entitled to access to anything that affects those interests. Even if they weren't allowed to have an eyeball in the hole while you were around, they could have been stationed closer than you were, ready to file an injunction or contact a federal judge if anything looked fishy. They could have documented the activity from afar with video, 24 hours a day. The hordes of government people others say they saw had to travel to and from the site, so someone representing your interests could have documented the license plates, number and type of vehicles, etc. That information could then be used to get subpoenas, which leads to testimony--under oath. I hope this works out for you, but where were the people representing your interests when all this was going on?
 

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ITS AMAZING HOW SOME MEMBERS HERE WILL TWIST A STORY AROUND AND MAKE IT LOOK LIKE THEY KNOW MORE ABOUT THE STORY THAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND OTHER NEWS COMPANYS THAT WERE ON SITE DOING RESEARCH ON THE DIG. They do it for attention I guess :dontknow:, even after many local people told what they saw, a member thinks his story is real and he has the inside info :laughing7:, hay keep up the great work .

Hay we just did a TV Show for the Travel Channel in Toronto Canada on Wed and plan to do one for HBO soon and more to come . Do you really think we got screwed and we didn't have things planed out before the dig :BangHead:. Get real, we had years to set things up before we brought the FBI in. Why are we filling the Federal paper work to get the FBI in court. Its because we have all the proof we need to show how much they took from the site. Hay we have 14 people on video telling what they saw, we have videos and pictures of the dig , we know the route they took and when each armored truck went in and out of the area. We know the area or staging ground site were they hid all the black SUV's, 6 wheeler quads , armored trucks, hummers, chopper landing site. Ya they had a site were everything was hidden from the public but the FBI misjudged the local hicks as they called them. How can people live in this area with out cell phone 's and be so far back in the woods, they must all be hicks. Well these hicks will end up kicking the FBI ass soon then we will see who is so stupid :occasion14:
 

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Hi , Does anyone care to stand up in a court with no evidence at all and call the widow of the man who found the largest piece of gold with a metal detector being Bep Hillier a Liar . Bep came out of retirement and made public statement on her husbands claim on the 19th of Oct. Seems strange . TP
 

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Hi .Seems that Richard Oates and John Deason are not alive to defend their claim. Please put the evidence up if your claiming to have found some thing so much greater than the Welcome Stranger. TP
 

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Hi, Strange connection of 2 dead mens treasure claims . In the 1930s claims German SS ObersturmFuhrer Otto Rahn knowing the location of the Holy Grail and the claim made by Harold Bell Lasseter of his reef of lost gold. Strange that letters found in the office of Joachim Van Ribberentrop can from German Diplomat Dr Rudolf Asmis Clearly the letters of information states Asmis was in Western Australia and the North Australia . Subject of his letters was not Lasseters claim but rather a nasty events from Australia history.But all the same Asmis would have ben guest of the Government . The person who a Politician Albert Ernest Green would have an association with Asmis . Odd that Lasseter went to Green with this claim first. Lasseter and Rahn never meet or knew each other.Green knew Lasseter years before . Lasseter connected Green , he in turn knew Asmis Asmis report to Ribberentrop .He passed imformation to the Nazi Ahnenerbe which Rahn was a officer of. Strange that of many years later we have claims about Holy Grail and a huge pile of Gold with Government Departments involved made by guess who. What are the chances of such a slightly different event to be made again. Never Rahn or Lasseters claim was ever proven. Both men died a horrible death half world a part.. This is not a story as the facts are true. There are many opinion on these 2 claims but a least the events of their journey is well recorded.I would really like to hear more than just a story with no hard evidence. True Rahn and Lsseter are remembered in history and many treasure hunters have chased these lost treasures.Still some 80 years after these events theres still no proof.Funny history is repeats its self yet again. TP
 

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By the way, in my opinion, the gentleman that bonded to dig for buried treasure on public land certainly does NOT have the right of staying anonymous. Nor would any finds be treated with secrecy.

The government owes the public transparency.

Actually he does have the right to stay anonymous IMAUDIGGER. That's the law.
 

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Throw aliens in there and it could go for seven seasons or more. The History Channel has become the Reality Channel, there is nothing History in the shows they have on today. History Channel has turned into something worst than a tabloid magazine.

Amen to that.
 

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Do you really think we got screwed and we didn't have things planed out before the dig.

You are having to go to court and fight the federal government because after all your work, they are claiming nothing was found at the site. So yes, I think you got screwed. Otherwise you would be cashing a check about now. My point is that if things were planned out as you say, the government wouldn't have been able to pull a bait and switch that put you in the position in which you currently find yourself. I hope it all works out in your favor. But unless you have many witnesses literally testifying that they saw gold bars being pulled up out of the ground and loaded into vehicles it's going to come down to your word against the government's.
 

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