Judge orders FBI to produce records on Civil War gold hunt in Pennsylvania
The FBI has long insisted its March 2018 dig in Elk County came up empty.
The FBI has long insisted its March 2018 dig in Elk County came up empty.
An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a cache of gold that he said had been “stolen during the Civil War” and was hidden in northwestern Pennsylvania, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.
A father and son who believe they found a legendary cache of buried Civil War-era gold have been fighting for access to government documents about a 2018 FBI dig at the remote Pennsylvania site.