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Unsealed Warrant Reveals New Details on Suspicious FBI Dig for Civil War Gold

New details have emerged regarding a suspicious FBI search for a legendary lost cache of Civil War-era gold believed to have been buried in a Pennsylvania state forest. The curious dig unfolded in March of 2018 when federal agents descended upon the site under a shroud of secrecy. Based on the location, it was apparent that they were looking for a horde of Union gold bars said to have vanished from a train during the Civil War and subsequently hidden in Pennsylvania. After a few days, the agency left the location seemingly empty-handed, although the treasure hunters who led them to the spot do not believe that was really the case and a contentious legal battle has been unfolding ever since with some fascinating new insights into the case being revealed this week.

An unsealed 2018 application for a seizure warrant reportedly filed by the FBI prior to the dig sheds new light on the agency's justification for the endeavor as well as their concerns regarding a veritable turf war with the state of Pennsylvania over the gold. In the document, an agent with the bureau's art crime division confidently declared that "I have probable cause to believe that a significant cache of gold is secreted away in the underground cave located at Dents Run," which is the area in the Pennsylvania state forest suspected of being the hiding spot for the treasure. The warrant request goes on to state that treasure hunters Dennis and Kem Parada had consulted on the investigation.

Additionally, the agent states that the FBI had enlisted the help of a private contractor who conducted a scan of the spot where the treasure is thought to be hidden and detected a sizeable and rather dense mass that seemed to correlate with nine tons of gold. Perhaps the most telling portion of the seizure request is that the FBI was concerned that, without the intervention of a federal judge, the state of Pennsylvania might swoop in and take the treasure by claiming that it was actually considered abandoned property. Since the dig went ahead as planned, one presumes that the bureau made a compelling enough case to be allowed to proceed.

However, a lawyer for the father-and-son treasure hunting duo that led the FBI to the spot where the gold was thought to be hidden notes that there is no paperwork filed by the bureau that definitively states that they never recovered any treasure. As such, the pair believe that not only did the long-lost horde wind up being unearthed but that they were subsequently squeezed out of receiving any compensation nor any credit for their, what they contend was, successful work in tracking the treasure down. And so while it would seem that the basis for their claim remains viable, the ultimate question of whether or not the FBI really did recover the gold continues to elude the treasure hunters and will likely also keep winding its way through court.


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The Feds ripped off both PA and the treasure hunters. So far, no one is bringing them to task. :mad8:
It also sends a loud message to treasure hunters not to disclose their discoveries right away, if at all.
 
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pigfarmer

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This time of year it's about pools, hence the NDEs. People can be soooooooooo stupid. Their desire to wallow in their children's pee outweighs common sense

Ever think that certain rules are good? George Carlin - Mom says don't run with the scissors. Damn good rule Mom, those big f*****s can go right through me ! Good rule, Mom.
 

pigfarmer

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I can think of a couple of plausible reasons for this that don't involve miracles. Land line. I'd bet a dollar @Standingstones can too. Even at that, this gives me the creeps.
I hope they are alive but the idea of being buried alive isn't all that attractive.

Grandson getting calls from couple missing in Florida building collapse

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Jake Samuelson has received at least 16 staticky calls from the landline of his grandparents Arnie and Myriam Notkin, who are among the missing residents of Champlain Towers South.

A man whose grandparents are unaccounted for following the Florida building collapse says he has been getting bombarded with eerie and mysterious calls from the landline inside their sunken condo, according to a report.

Jake Samuelson told local outlet WBLG that he has received at least 16 calls from the number of his missing grandparents, Arnie and Myriam Notkin.

When he answered the phone, he heard nothing but static each time, the report said.

“We are trying to rationalize what is happening here, we are trying to get answers,” Samuelson told the TV station.

He said the first call came on Thursday night, hours after the early-morning disaster that has left at least five people dead and dozens unaccounted for.

“We were all sitting there in the living room, my whole family, Diane, my mother, and we were just shocked,” Samuelson told the outlet. “We kind of thought nothing of it because we answered, and it was static.”

His grandparents, both in their 80s, live in apartment 302 in the Champlain Towers South, and their landline phone usually sits right next to their bed, according to the report.


Over 150 people are reportedly missing following the collapse at Champlain Towers South in Florida.
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On Friday, Samuelson said his family received 15 more unexplained calls from the number, the station reported.

The family is now waiting to hear from detectives about the bizarre and gut-wrenching calls, Samuelson added.

His grandfather Arnie, 87, is known as a beloved physical education teacher and Myriam, 81, is a banker and real estate agent, the outlet said.

North Miami Beach Commissioner Fortuna Smukler, who grew up with the Notkins’ three daughters, told the Miami Herald that she began losing hope when she learned that the couple lived in apartment No. 302.

“At this point it would be a miracle … we’re hoping for a miracle,” she said.
 

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Bear attacks a group of men who were waiting to watch fireworks on the 4th of July on Mount Wilson.

 

michael59

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Dramatically opposite bear reaction compared to the previous video.

The bear looks very young. Too young to be on it's own. The fact that no mama came flying out to kill said people, tells me that the poor youngster probably lost it's mother and is desperately hungry. :(
 

nivek

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Get meow-t of this billboard! Giant 3D cat comes to life in brilliant Tokyo display

A giant 3D cat is amazing shoppers on a billboard in Tokyo, Japan. Footage shows a massive calico cat taking a kip on a white ledge above a light switch. With its paws tucked neatly under its chin, the giant cat looks perfectly content until one of its feet slides off the ledge, waking it. The cat then scrambles into a crouch as it looks down in apparent fright at the drop to the floor below. The cat settles, then wages its tail, and appears to purr while looking down on the pedestrians below. The stunning graphic repeats the movement several times an hour on the 154.7 square metre, 4K quality screen.

 

nivek

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Here's another longer video of that cat...

 

nivek

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Polish farmer who refused to sell his land to developers and now harvests his field surrounded by apartment blocks

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Footage shows Michal Myslowski taking his combine harvester out in a field near neighbouring properties in Lublin, Poland. The farmer said residents are 'fine' with the bizarre situation and 'understand he has work to do', with one local even complimenting the view. Social media users have also reacted to the clip, which recently went viral online, praising Mr Myslowski and saying: 'He went against the grain.' The farmer told Polish newspaper Dziennik Wschodni that people 'watch and make videos', saying: 'There have never been any problems with it.' Mr Myslowski added that he carries out the agricultural work several times a year.

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wwkirk

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Polish farmer who refused to sell his land to developers and now harvests his field surrounded by apartment blocks

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Footage shows Michal Myslowski taking his combine harvester out in a field near neighbouring properties in Lublin, Poland. The farmer said residents are 'fine' with the bizarre situation and 'understand he has work to do', with one local even complimenting the view. Social media users have also reacted to the clip, which recently went viral online, praising Mr Myslowski and saying: 'He went against the grain.' The farmer told Polish newspaper Dziennik Wschodni that people 'watch and make videos', saying: 'There have never been any problems with it.' Mr Myslowski added that he carries out the agricultural work several times a year.

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I guess he's lucky he's not in America. They would have eminent domained him.
 

pigfarmer

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Dropped in for a cup of tea perhaps?

Parachuter plunges through roof and into California house

Parachuter plunges through roof and into California house

By Mark Lungariello July 12, 2021

A parachutist from Camp Roberts torpedoed through the roof of a Southern California home and into the interior of the house, authorities said.

The man, who was reportedly a British soldier in the midst of a training exercise, dealt with a chute that didn’t fully open before he plunged through the house in Atascadero on July 6 at just before 5 p.m., police said in a news release.

“The parachutist was conscious but stunned with complaints of pain but no visible serious injuries,” the Atascadero Police Department said in a recent news release.

“The occupants of the residence were not home at the time and therefore were uninjured.”

The homeowner’s mother told KSBY that there wasn’t much damage in the house after he came through the roof when he landed inside – apparently into the kitchen.


A British soldier cheated death after smashing through a roof and landing in a kitchen.

“It’s amazing,” Linda Sallady said. “It’s mostly the ceiling, the sheetrock. He missed the counters, appliances, everything.”

Neighbor Rose Martin called his survival a miracle.

“I mean, who lands like that without a parachute and lives?” Martin told the station.

Everyone else in the jump landed at a designated spot, Atascadero police said.

The soldier was part of a British military unit, The Tribune News Service reported.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Will you be having the chicken or the fish?

This isn't really all that unusual, I have seen a water tanker with big cannon looking thing stocking a local pond. I wonder what the little fishies make of all the commotion.

Thousands of fish dropped from plane into Utah lakes in video

July 11, 2021
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They’re doing it on a large scale!

Wild video footage shows an airplane dumping thousands of fish from the air into remote Utah lakes to try to restock the bodies of water with marine life.

The footage, shared by the state’s Division of Wildlife Resources on Friday, shows crews filling a small aircraft with scores of “fingerlings,” or fish under the age of 1, before they’re dumped out of a chute into more than 200 high-elevation lakes in Utah.

“The fish are between 1-3 inches long, so they flutter down slowly to the water,” the agency said on Facebook



The fish being dropped from the plane into the lake in Utah. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
The Division of Wildlife Resources says that it stocks lakes with “fingerling” fish that will survive the high altitude drops. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
The plane holds hundreds of pounds of water and can drop 35,000 fish in a single trip, the agency said.

Wildlife experts said the aerial dumps are a more effective method of stocking fish than transporting them by ground since it’s difficult to maintain the animals’ oxygen levels in packed tanks for long distances.

“Post-stocking netting surveys show that survival of aerial-stocked fish is incredibly high,” the agency said.
 
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