The FBI Files: Dents Run Civil War Gold

[TheFrood]

You can BET that F.K. will indeed be claiming that ^ ^ Despite any legal decisions to-the-contrary. He will simply keep saying that it's "all a cover up" and so forth.

And he'll start a new scandal about how the <insert agency here> stole the Knights Templar lost treasure from him by using
the secrets the found with the treasure from Dent's Run.

 

[Lambert]

Perhaps it’s buried in the thread somewhere, but why did the FBI lack the judgment to just blow this off in the first place? They must reject requests this sketchy on a daily basis. The tale is ridiculous on so many levels that a little investigation would have made it blindingly obvious that there was no merit in wasting their time and resources on it (and possibly being sucked into what eventually transpired).

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Perhaps it’s buried in the thread somewhere, but why did the FBI lack the judgment to just blow this off in the first place? ......

Great Question ^ ^ And yes it's been discussed before in-the-thread.

1) Because FK spent years, leading up to this, "pounding on govt. and media doors" begging for attention. So for example : If you kept telling enough Govt. LEO agencies and media, that you knew where 10 murder victim bodies were buried in the desert, then *eventually* you might get someone to go take a look.

2) That govt. LEO people are just human too. And let's be honest : People tend to put common sense and critical thinking aside, when it comes to treasure lore stories. Because of the subconscious human psychology that : No one wants to be "left out". Or "what if". It's the same psychology in Oak Island , for example.

3) Selective memory bias : When FK spins the story, he MIGHT INDEED have a few historical names & dates. So people will tend to look at THOSE and think "well shucks, the story must be true".


^ ^ That #3 was what made the treasure magazine stories of the 1970s *so fun* to read : Someone would take a faded newspaper clipping, some real names and dates and events. And then : Throw in a fabulous treasure. Then whenever someone goes to try to fact check, they're fact checking all the true/right parts. And they think : "It's just a matter of sorting fact from fiction". But they fail to realize : WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE if 99% of the story is true, if the other 1% (whether or not there's treasure) isn't true, THEN IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE if the other 99% *was* true.

 

[Carl-NC]

I think someone in FBI saw this as a potential Warhol moment. I don't remember if this is the correct timeline, but I believe after FK presented their case, FBI then hired Enviroscan to do the gravimeter survey which "showed tons of gold." After that, they decided to conduct the dig. The gravimeter survey has always been an undisclosed curiosity; Enviroscan won't say anything about it (NDA or something) and FBI won't reveal the results. Did it really show what they claimed? If it did, how could it have been so wrong? Etc.

 

[SS_Wonder]

Perhaps it’s buried in the thread somewhere, but why did the FBI lack the judgment to just blow this off in the first place? They must reject requests this sketchy on a daily basis. The tale is ridiculous on so many levels that a little investigation would have made it blindingly obvious that there was no merit in wasting their time and resources on it (and possibly being sucked into what eventually transpired).

parada had stated many times that he found “human remains” in the “cave”. Perhaps the FBI were looking into that aspect.

 

[Lambert]

The FBI has unparalleled access to government documents. Did they first check 1863 inventories of gold at the Denver mint and search for any evidence of transfer? Did they check military records for any correspondence with the yarn? (There were no records of such people) Surely they knew Union soldiers were being paid in greenbacks and not gold during the war, so that part falls apart. Did they check the route as it was in those days to see if it was realistic or corresponded with the place names used back then? No, and rather than sending the supposed gold in a troop train, e.g., the story has it escorted by a sketchy squad going across the most lawless part of Pennsylvania through a roadless area to raft down a low water stream when there were perfectly good roads and railbeds available in the area, this supposedly to avoid harm or capture? Seriously? Why would agents trained to assess plausibility in a rational manner believe such things, especially considering the long and dubious history of “lost gold” yarns? And what did it get them but trouble? If this was a standard FBI investigation, would anyone doing an after-action review find it justified to begin with, let alone that the site where their time and resources were expended was identified by a clairvoyant? They’ve been firing the wrong people.

 

[Pete e]

The FBI has unparalleled access to government documents. Did they first check 1863 inventories of gold at the Denver mint and search for any evidence of transfer? Did they check military records for any correspondence with the yarn? (There were no records of such people) Surely they knew Union soldiers were being paid in greenbacks and not gold during the war, so that part falls apart. Did they check the route as it was in those days to see if it was realistic or corresponded with the place names used back then? No, and rather than sending the supposed gold in a troop train, e.g., the story has it escorted by a sketchy squad going across the most lawless part of Pennsylvania through a roadless area to raft down a low water stream when there were perfectly good roads and railbeds available in the area, this supposedly to avoid harm or capture? Seriously? Why would agents trained to assess plausibility in a rational manner believe such things, especially considering the long and dubious history of “lost gold” yarns? And what did it get them but trouble? If this was a standard FBI investigation, would anyone doing an after-action review find it justified to begin with, let alone that the site where their time and resources were expended was identified by a clairvoyant? They’ve been firing the wrong people.

If I recall correctly, I believe Dennis was originally told where the gold was by a Medium/Clairvoyant...Surely that alone should have caused copious alarm bells to ring. But it seems the results from Enviroscan survey, and Dennis's drum beating on the back of those results forced the FBIs hand...

 

[Tom_in_CA]

The FBI has unparalleled access to government documents. Did they first check 1863 inventories of gold at the Denver mint and search for any evidence of transfer? Did they check military records for any correspondence with the yarn? (There were no records of such people) Surely they knew Union soldiers were being paid in greenbacks and not gold during the war, so that part falls apart........

But don't forget : That Parada was saying that all that ^ ^ "lack of corresponding data/records" was all PART OF THE COVERUP.

So you see that this ^ ^ push-back by Parada, is essentially amounting to: "The lack of evidence, is simply ALL THE MORE evidence", since, shucks, it just goes to further prove "the cover up".

You might ask : Then why didn't the FBI see how silly this "coverup pushback" was ? Answer was in my post # 2903 above. And the human psyche is SO easily swoon by conspiracy coverups. We all (yes, even G-men) can be swoon by conspiracy theories. And yes I'm sure those same G-men have since "woken up" and are very p*ssed at themselves.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

If I recall correctly, I believe Dennis was originally told where the gold was by a Medium/Clairvoyant....

I think he left out that ^ ^ point of the evolution, when telling the story to certain agencies and media. But yes, to others, he did include that. But yes, if the G-men who initiated the scans and digs had known of that, then that should have set off immediate alarm bells.

HOWEVER, let's be honest : There are a lot of VERY INTELLIGENT people who are swoon by the notion of psychics and stuff. VERY INTELLIGENT people can be swoon by dowsing.

For example : There has been Medium/clairvoyants who have offered their services to Law enforcement, to solve missing persons, and abducted children cases. And the agencies have sometimes actually gone out and spent lots of department $$ resources chasing-those-leads . Which, of course, always hit deads . So you could ask the same question about those agencies : Why didn't they just say "no thank you" from the very beginning ?

 

[Connecticut Samuel]

I think he left out that ^ ^ point of the evolution, when telling the story to certain agencies and media. But yes, to others, he did include that. But yes, if the G-men who initiated the scans and digs had known of that, then that should have set off immediate alarm bells.

HOWEVER, let's be honest : There are a lot of VERY INTELLIGENT people who are swoon by the notion of psychics and stuff. VERY INTELLIGENT people can be swoon by dowsing.

For example : There has been Medium/clairvoyants who have offered their services to Law enforcement, to solve missing persons, and abducted children cases. And the agencies have sometimes actually gone out and spent lots of department $$ resources chasing-those-leads . Which, of course, always hit deads . So you could ask the same question about those agencies : Why didn't they just say "no thank you" from the very beginning ?

 

[Connecticut Samuel]

I am back after being away for a while. Same or Same. Enjoy yourself.

 

[Connecticut Samuel]

I think he left out that ^ ^ point of the evolution, when telling the story to certain agencies and media. But yes, to others, he did include that. But yes, if the G-men who initiated the scans and digs had known of that, then that should have set off immediate alarm bells.

HOWEVER, let's be honest : There are a lot of VERY INTELLIGENT people who are swoon by the notion of psychics and stuff. VERY INTELLIGENT people can be swoon by dowsing.

For example : There has been Medium/clairvoyants who have offered their services to Law enforcement, to solve missing persons, and abducted children cases. And the agencies have sometimes actually gone out and spent lots of department $$ resources chasing-those-leads . Which, of course, always hit deads . So you could ask the same question about those agencies : Why didn't they just say "no thank you" from the very beginning ?

 

[Connecticut Samuel]

Get back to me in May, some are great.

 

[Cameron]

I have heard the Dents Run gold story ever since moving to the area, many years ago. The location where Parada says he located the gold, has never made any sense to me, but I'm still very interested in the story! For example the cave he often speaks of, it appears to be just another one of the boulders which dot the entire area.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I have heard the Dents Run gold story ever since moving to the area, many years ago. The location where Parada says he located the gold, has never made any sense to me, but I'm still very interested in the story! For example the cave he often speaks of, it appears to be just another one of the boulders which dot the entire area.

Welcome to FMDF .

And as far as this particular tale : If you go back through this particular thread, you can get a very good critique. Yeah I know it's 145+ pages, but : GoDeep did a GREAT job of opening it up to intellectual critique (ie.: "more plausible explanations" . And downright falsehoods. And then posts Re.: the various psychology that surrounds tales like this of why they're so-easy to fall for.

 

[Cameron]

I agree. When he first contacted me saying he had found the "lost gold," I began questioning him about some of the details, and telling him my reasoning why his story didn't make sense. He would then change the narrative of his story, to try to make it believable to me, which made me doubt the story even more. GoDeep did a very good job finding details to explain what actually happened.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

........ When he first contacted me saying he had found the "lost gold,".........

See there ^ ^ ? Here's what part & parcel for these folks and their legends : They will always say they "found" (past tense) a fabulous treasure. Won't they ? Yet when you look deeper into what they mean, you find out that what they mean by "found" (past tense) is that : Their dowsing rod pointed some direction. Or they saw a funny squiggle on a tree or rock. Or their detector or some instrument beeped.

It doesn't matter that they never saw a red cent. Because it's now only a matter of overcoming government bureaucracy hurdles. Or getting heavy equipment to dig insanely deep. Or draining a swamp. Or recouping it from "those that stole it".

But rest assured, they found (past tense) a fabulous treasure. Right ?

Yes, you're starting to get the gist of this .

 

[Connecticut Samuel]

See there ^ ^ ? Here's what part & parcel for these folks and their legends : They will always say they "found" (past tense) a fabulous treasure. Won't they ? Yet when you look deeper into what they mean, you find out that what they mean by "found" (past tense) is that : Their dowsing rod pointed some direction. Or they saw a funny squiggle on a tree or rock. Or their detector or some instrument beeped.

It doesn't matter that they never saw a red cent. Because it's now only a matter of overcoming government bureaucracy hurdles. Or getting heavy equipment to dig insanely deep. Or draining a swamp. Or recouping it from "those that stole it".

But rest assured, they found (past tense) a fabulous treasure. Right ?

Yes, you're starting to get the gist of this .

No, not yet, maybe in a few years, I may get the gist of this, whatever Gist is. Keep writing.

 

[GoDeep]

Latest court document filed April 3, 2026. Plaintiff also stated over on his facebook page that the DOJ allegedly agreed to pay his attorneys fees for the past 3 years, though we'll have to wait for the actual order to see if that checks out completely as stated.

Anyone who's been over to his page will also notice how he's now claiming, due to the recent document releases by the DOJ, to have "proven" they found gold. Anyone who reads the latest documents knows this isn't true, but his followers obviously don't read in depth. All the latest releases prove is that the FBI had a plan to transport gold to the Philadelphia mint, should they find it, which is what one would expect they would have a plan for given their whole premise of doing a dig was the hope to find gold. Absolutely no evidence was uncovered that they found any gold, despite Plaintiffs claims.

 

[lumbercamp]

I noticed that too when I read it yesterday that no mention of gold being found was ever mentioned. He is still misleading all of his believers. But where did the "fabled gold" actually go to. He mentions Philadelphia, Canada, Russia, France, Germany. And he's still going to do a TV show. How many times have we heard that. His TV show should be on the tunnel that was dug from Erie to Dents Run.