Buried Gold: How the FBI Got Involved In a Treasure Hunt
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The sun is going down in Pennsylvania. It's time for little kids to get some sleep. Dennis Parada tucks in his young son, Kem, and settles in to tell him a bedtime story. It's one he's been telling for years. A legend about the lost gold of Dent's Run, a community northeast of Pittsburgh. According to local folklore, the story begins in the summer of 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, when a small group of Union soldiers made their way through the wilderness with a shipment of gold. They were headed for the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, but they never made it. Over the years, theories proliferated about what happened to the gold, but most versions of the tale seem to agree. To this day, it's buried somewhere in Elk County, just waiting for someone to find it. Dennis had even searched for the treasure himself once upon a time, but eventually he gave up. Kem pleads with his dad to go look for it again, together. But Dennis tells him they can't. They don't have the resources, and it's dangerous.
They likely have no idea that years later, the father and son will locate the exact spot where they believe the gold is hidden, or that they'll go head to head with the FBI in their attempt to uncover the fabled treasure. Welcome to Conspiracy Theories, a Spotify podcast. I'm Carter Roy. You can find us here every Wednesday. Be sure to check us out on Instagram at The Conspiracy Pod, and we would love to hear from you. So if you're listening on the Spotify app, swipe up and give us your thoughts. Stay with us.
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In 1974, Dennis Parada is working in the furniture department of a large store when something strange happens. Today, his employers are bringing in a man who claims to be a psychic. It's not uncommon for the store to lure in customers with flashy sales tactics. But at just 22 years old, Dennis isn't too interested in what the psychic has to say. He's still skeptical when, during the demonstration, the psychic addresses him by name and implores him to go in search of the dense-run gold. The psychic even points out a spot on a map and gives Dennis a task. Go to Elk County. Climb up the wooded mountain and bring back dirt samples. Dennis thinks it's a bunch of BS, so he decides to test the psychic.
He does bring back some dirt, a few samples from Dent's run and a few from somewhere else entirely. But the psychic somehow knows what he's done. Not falling for the trick, the man immediately weeds out the random samples from the lot, proclaiming they are not related to the treasure. Then, according to Dennis, he zeroes in on dirt sample number five. He takes a pen and paper and draws a crude map. And he says the gold is there, inside a cave, underwater. And it's within 500 feet of where this dirt sample came from. Now, Dennis is curious. He and some buddies throw themselves into a treasure hunt all summer. But they never do find a cave like the one the psychic described. And so they move on with their lives. Thirty years pass.
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