Mystery (partly) solved? FBI sought to seize fabled civil war gold stash HotAir

So as it turned out, nobody planned on giving any of the gold to the treasure hunters if it was located. The state would have kept it for themselves and the FBI wanted to reclaim gold stolen from the federal government. We do know that both the Bureau and the treasure hunters used sophisticated metal detectors and magnetometers, determining that there was a very sizable deposit of some sort of heavy metal buried there. But was it the lost civil war gold?

via hotair.com

The treasure hunters should have gotten a savvy lawyer before they did anything else. Perhaps they could have unearthed the gold while committing only the tort of trespass or something. They had to realize if they told the state or federal government about it, either would just take it for themselves. In any event, it’s a sad, sad story.