Go for the gold? The U.S. government went for it.
FBI agents were looking for an extremely valuable cache of fabled Civil War-era gold possibly tons of it when they excavated a remote woodland site in Pennsylvania three years ago this month, according to government emails and other recently released documents in the case.
On March 13, 2018, treasure hunters led the FBI to Dent s Run, in Benezette Township, Elk County, where legend has it an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
The FBI has long refused to confirm why exactly it went digging, saying only in written statements over the years that agents were there for a court-authorized excavation of what evidence suggested may have been a cultural heritage site.
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Harrisburg attorney William Cluck said Thursday he d learned the name of the federal judge who ordered all records of the March 2018 excavation to be sealed
He said he can now apply to judge in question to unseal the records in the case
Cluck s client is Finders Keepers LLC, treasure-hunters who say they were banned from excavating the area by state officials
The FBI later carried out work at the site but said they didn t find anything