Did the FBI steal tons of Civil War gold?

The tale starts in the 1860s when legend has it that a large wagon full of gold bullion was either stolen or went missing in a remote area of western Pennsylvania. The shipment had supposedly been on its way to the mint in Philadelphia but it never arrived. This has led any number of would-be treasure hunters to scour the forests in that region looking for a massive payday. The amount of gold was rumored to be between seven and nine tons, making it worth hundreds of millions of dollars today. But all efforts to locate it had come up empty.

That might have changed in 2018. A father and son team named Parada who co-own the treasure-hunting outfit Finders Keepers were investigating a remote part of Elks County called Dent s Run. Using a sophisticated metal detector they located what seemed to be a huge hit of something metallic. But the site sits on state land and permission had to be obtained to do any excavating. For some reason or other, they wound up contacting the FBI about their discovery in January of 2018. Soon the FBI had hired an environmental survey outfit with a gravimeter to search the area. They confirmed that there was a large metallic mass under the ground.

In March of that year, the FBI climbed that hill with shovels and other excavating equipment to begin digging themselves. The Pradas and Warren Getler, an author who researches lost Civil War-era treasures, had made arrangements with the FBI to observe the dig. But that day and the next, they were told to remain in their cars while the FBI was on the site. At the end of the second day, the FBI agents took the three men up to the site and showed them a large, empty hole, telling them they had found nothing.

via hotair.com

The FBI would never do something like that.