‘Double-Crossed And Lied To’: Treasure Hunters Accuse FBI Of Coverup In Hunt For Civil War-Era Gold

The victim was accused by a treasure hunter FBI A coverup is a dispute about the search for a Civil WarThe court continues to hear about the -era gold stash. 

Dennis and Kem Parda, father-son treasure hunting duo. “Finders Keepers,” Believe that Newly released documents Video and audio relating to the FBI’s search for Dents Run PennsylvaniaThese documents show that the federal government has not been entirely straightforward in its search for gold. 

“We feel we were double-crossed and lied to,” Dennis Parada Telled In an interview with the Associated Press, he stated that he believes that “the truth will come out.” 

Paradas believes that gold from an 1863 Union gold shipment was stolen by a train and ended up in a pit about 135 miles northeastern of Pittsburgh. If found, the gold has a current. Value estimated $55 million

After many years of research, the FBI was led by the Paradas to Dents Run, where the FBI searched in 2018. Although the FBI claimed that the dig was unsuccessful, the Parada remains skeptical. 

“I will stick at this until the end, until I know everything that happened to that gold,” He said. “How much, where it went to, who has it now. I gotta know.”

Parada obtained new videos and images through a Freedom of Information Act request. These have shed light on the 2018 search, and raised more questions for Parada. 

“We’ve identified through our investigation a site that we believe has U.S. property, which includes a significant sum of base metal which is valuable … particularly gold, maybe silver,” The video was recorded by a Philadelphia-based FBI agent. 

Parada claims that Parada thinks that the agency might have dug during the overnight search, even though the FBI says it never did so at night. Locals were able to find the gold in 2018 Telled The Associated Press reported that they had heard digging equipment being used throughout the night, and that the hill believed to contain the gold was lit up. 

Parada, along with consultant Warren Getler, also asked why a photo taken of a large boulder after a storm started but without snow was not shown. “We have compelling evidence a night dig took place, and that the FBI went to some large effort to cover up that night dig,” Getler, who was a Civil War gold researcher, said.

Parada’s recent legal filing also claims that there were other issues with the FBI’s response to his request for information on Dents Run. According to the filing, Finder’s Keepers was denied video footage of the second day’s dig and did not give details about the trench measuring 30 feet long that is mapped at that site. It also claims that a report they received on the dig appeared to be missing pages. 

Anne Weismann, an attorney for Finders Keepers claims that the records given to them were accurate. “cast doubt on the FBI’s claim to have found nothing and raise serious and troubling questions about the FBI’s conduct during the dig and in this litigation, where it has gone to great lengths to distort critical evidence.”

The agency’s response to the latest treasure hunter request will be decided by a judge.