3/19/18 Report - Treasure Hunters Cookout One Month Away. FBI Hunts Civil War Gold Cache.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Everybody always has a good time at the cookout.  Make you plans now.

I saw this little fellow yesterday.  The gopher tortoise digs some pretty big holes and spreads the sand out.  This little fellow has already dug a hole.

Gopher Tortoise Hatching.
Not much bigger than a silver dollar.

According to newspaper resports, it seems like the FBI has taking up treasure hunting and is looking for Civil War gold in Pennsylvania.  Here is a bit of one article.

As a 155-year-old legend goes, a Union Army wagon train left Wheeling, W.Va., before the Battle of Gettysburg, carrying two tons of gold, but never completed its 400-mile mission...

The wagon train traveled northeast and was last spotted in St. Marys, Pa. Searchers found the wagons and the bodies of dead soldiers — and the gold was gone.

On Friday, dozens of FBI agents, Pennsylvania state officials and members of a treasure-hunting group were buzzing around the state forest at Dents Run, about 27 miles by road southeast of St. Marys and 135 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. It’s the site where the treasure-hunting group, Finders Keepers, says as much as $55 million in lost Union gold could be buried...

See: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/legend-says-a-load-of-union-gold-went-missing-during-the-civil-war-did-the-fbi-just-find-it/ar-BBKlMfT?ocid=se

And here is an excerpt from another article on the same story.

Dozens of FBI agents, along with Pennsylvania state officials and members of a treasure-hunting group, trekked this week to a remote site where local lore has it that a Civil War gold shipment was lost or hidden during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.

The treasure-hunting group Finders Keepers has long insisted it found the gold buried in a state forest at Dents Run, about 135 miles (217 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, but said the state wouldn't allow it to dig...

See: https://www.wptv.com/news/national/fbi-at-site-where-civil-war-gold-rumored-to-be-buried

Thanks to Jorge Y. and Gaylen C. for those links.

---

Tomorrow will be hot day.  The surf will be flat though.  We are having a decent tide change.

Sounds like a OK time to do some water hunting.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net