A scientific analysis commissioned by the FBI shortly before agents went digging for buried treasure suggests that a huge quantity of gold was below the surface of a rural site in western Pennsylvania.
The technical survey data collected by geophysical consulting firm Enviroscan gave credence to the treasure hunters' own extensive fieldwork at the site — and prompted the FBI to excavate in aJohn Louie, a geophysics professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, unconnected to the dig, reviewed Enviroscan’s report at the request of the AP and said the firm’s "methods were very good," and "their conclusions represent a physically reasonable hypothesis" that gold was buried...
Enviroscan co-founder Tim Bechtel declined to comment about his work at Dent’s Run, saying the FBI has not given him permission to talk. The FBI would not discuss Bechtel this week but said that after the dig, agents "did not take any subsequent steps to reconcile the geophysical-survey findings with the absence of gold or any other metal."A one-paragraph FBI report, dated March 13, 2019 — exactly one year after the dig — asserted agents found nothing at Dent’s Run.
She added that if the government does not produce a fuller, more contemporaneous accounting of its search for the gold, it "will heighten my view that this is not an accurate record and this was created as a cover-up. And I don't say that lightly." The FBI denied any work took place at the site after hours, saying the "only nighttime activity was ATV patrols by FBI Police personnel, who secured the site around the clock for the duration of the excavation."
Many of the FBI photos are seemingly irrelevant, including the hundreds of images of random trees and a woodland road leading to the dig site, while others simply don't add up or raise additional questions, assert Parada and Getler, author of "Rebel Gold," a book exploring the possibility of buried Civil War-era caches of gold and silver.
The FBI said it's standard for photos to "document site conditions before, during, and after FBI operations," Parada claims it all points to a clandestine overnight dig and a second-day excavation that was just for show.
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