Dents Run-
Lost Civil War Gold
Lost Civil War Gold
Lost Civil War Gold Found ?
Treasure Hunting over the years has grown to be a high tech hobby for those who go after the
big ones. A group of treasure hunters from Clearfield Pa. called Finders Keepers believe they
have found one of the big ones. Dennis K Parada one of the owners of Finders Keepers believes
they have found the Lost Civil War Gold shipment that went through northern Pa. during the
battle of Gettysburg. It was in early June 1863 that the Union wagon train left Wheeling, West Va.
with 52 bars of gold each weighing 50lb. The wagon train was to travel north east through Pa. to
Ridgeway then head south east to Harrisburg. The wagon train made it to St. Marys, Pa and that
was the last time it was seen. The wagons and dead solders were found later but not the gold.
Over the years many treasure hunters have looked for it .
In 1975 I was given a map that show were the gold was hidden, so we went to the site in Elk Co.
Pa. and found nothing and gave up. For 19 years I kept telling my friends about the lost gold hunt
we were on and one of my friends ask me if I could still find the same site and this time check it
out with the newest metal detectors . So in Nov. 11- 05 we went to the site that was on the map
and we started finding artifacts from the civil war period. We then notified the Department of
Conservation and Natural Resource's about what we found and they ask that we bring everything
to them so they could send everything to the Museum Commission in Harrisburg. The Museum
Commission's response was that there was no truth to the story about a Lost Civil War Gold
shipment and everything we sent them wasn't even close to the age of the civil war period. But
we had everything looked at by local experts before we sent everything to the state and some of
the artifacts were from the 1860's and we found proof of the story to be true. So we were not
going to give up and each time we returned to the site we found more evidence that proved our
claim. We found a bullet shell, knifes, animal traps, zinc mason jar lid, tin cans, bones(human or
animal), whiskey bottle, camp fire pit, and alot more that the state now has and won't return. They
say that they don't have the time or the money to go treasure hunting but if we can show them the
gold then they will look into it. They allso stated that if anyone digs on state land and remove
artifacts they would go to jail and lose any rights to a reward. So we offered to pay all cost to dig
and pay for a digging permit and they said no. Again we went back to the site with 3 high powered
metal detectors and located a large metal object 8' to 10' under the fire pit. Again we notified the
state and were turned down, the state said show us proof of gold. So we returned to the site with
a GPL metal detector and we had 8 hits on iron and 2 on gold. If the gold bars were buried in iron
boxes and they were now rusted open this would explain the readings. Again we took the new
info to a state representative and the answer was show us the gold. We now believe the state
wants us to dig the gold so they can take it away from us. We were told that if any gold was found
it would belong to the Federal Gov. and Finders Keepers may get something but the state would
get nothing.
We have alot of other classified information that also proves the gold is still there but the state still
has not done anything. If this site is not the Lost Gold from the civil war then what did someone
bury there before the 1860's camp fire was there. I spent over $8000 and many months checking
this out and all we ask is that someone from the state comes to check it out. Finders Keepers
is a locate and recovery service for under ground metal artifacts. Email's can be sent to
www.finderskeepersusa.com
Treasure Hunting over the years has grown to be a high tech hobby for those who go after the
big ones. A group of treasure hunters from Clearfield Pa. called Finders Keepers believe they
have found one of the big ones. Dennis K Parada one of the owners of Finders Keepers believes
they have found the Lost Civil War Gold shipment that went through northern Pa. during the
battle of Gettysburg. It was in early June 1863 that the Union wagon train left Wheeling, West Va.
with 52 bars of gold each weighing 50lb. The wagon train was to travel north east through Pa. to
Ridgeway then head south east to Harrisburg. The wagon train made it to St. Marys, Pa and that
was the last time it was seen. The wagons and dead solders were found later but not the gold.
Over the years many treasure hunters have looked for it .
In 1975 I was given a map that show were the gold was hidden, so we went to the site in Elk Co.
Pa. and found nothing and gave up. For 19 years I kept telling my friends about the lost gold hunt
we were on and one of my friends ask me if I could still find the same site and this time check it
out with the newest metal detectors . So in Nov. 11- 05 we went to the site that was on the map
and we started finding artifacts from the civil war period. We then notified the Department of
Conservation and Natural Resource's about what we found and they ask that we bring everything
to them so they could send everything to the Museum Commission in Harrisburg. The Museum
Commission's response was that there was no truth to the story about a Lost Civil War Gold
shipment and everything we sent them wasn't even close to the age of the civil war period. But
we had everything looked at by local experts before we sent everything to the state and some of
the artifacts were from the 1860's and we found proof of the story to be true. So we were not
going to give up and each time we returned to the site we found more evidence that proved our
claim. We found a bullet shell, knifes, animal traps, zinc mason jar lid, tin cans, bones(human or
animal), whiskey bottle, camp fire pit, and alot more that the state now has and won't return. They
say that they don't have the time or the money to go treasure hunting but if we can show them the
gold then they will look into it. They allso stated that if anyone digs on state land and remove
artifacts they would go to jail and lose any rights to a reward. So we offered to pay all cost to dig
and pay for a digging permit and they said no. Again we went back to the site with 3 high powered
metal detectors and located a large metal object 8' to 10' under the fire pit. Again we notified the
state and were turned down, the state said show us proof of gold. So we returned to the site with
a GPL metal detector and we had 8 hits on iron and 2 on gold. If the gold bars were buried in iron
boxes and they were now rusted open this would explain the readings. Again we took the new
info to a state representative and the answer was show us the gold. We now believe the state
wants us to dig the gold so they can take it away from us. We were told that if any gold was found
it would belong to the Federal Gov. and Finders Keepers may get something but the state would
get nothing.
We have alot of other classified information that also proves the gold is still there but the state still
has not done anything. If this site is not the Lost Gold from the civil war then what did someone
bury there before the 1860's camp fire was there. I spent over $8000 and many months checking
this out and all we ask is that someone from the state comes to check it out. Finders Keepers
is a locate and recovery service for under ground metal artifacts. Email's can be sent to
www.finderskeepersusa.com
Below is an article that we sent to newspaper companies trying to get the truth out and
known. We believe that we found the gold at the Dents Run site and that the state is doing
everything that they can to stop us from telling our story.
known. We believe that we found the gold at the Dents Run site and that the state is doing
everything that they can to stop us from telling our story.
Here is a 2 page letter that we received from the DCNR after
we gave them artifacts that we found at the Dents Run Site.
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