Ok, call me a dummy, but after reading a little background on Dents Run I fail to understand why the fbi and the doj is involved ? I thought the govt treated treasure stories the same as ufo stories ?
I believe the fbi has to account for everything they do.
because of cost, While on the Governments
(Tax payers) Nickel .
so When Stories are Fake or they can't be proven they Do laugh them off,
or at least Pretend they are Too Busy to respond in force.

at most Maybe send out a rookie or someone being Punished.
My guess the FBI has all the Pinkerton's original Records also.
and records of any Earlier Investigators, if they Existed.
FBI agents set up a base on Dents Run Road in Elk County while conducting a search Tuesday,Mar 15, 2018.
BENEZETTE — A historian who has spent decades researching the Civil War era gold rumored to have been lost near Benezette, Elk County, says he is wary of what will be found in the Federal Bureau of Investigation search currently under way in Dents Run.
“I was a little bit shocked when I heard (of the search),” said Jim Burke, a resident and member of the Mt. Zion Historical Society. That is partially because of the hurdles it takes to have such a search granted, and partially because he has his own theories about the gold.
Agents from the FBI and representatives of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) set up a search area off of Route 555, on Dents Run Road in Benezette Township Tuesday.
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