Getler wasn’t interested in just any treasure. Getler was convinced that they needed to talk. That day something caught Getler’s eye: a post by Parada, who identified himself as the head of a small Pennsylvania-based treasure-hunting group called Finders Keepers. One day in November 2017, Warren Getler, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, was browsing, where people interested in buried treasure gather to share theories and discoveries, and to subject themselves to one another’s enthusiasm and scorn. In other words, the FBI believed it knew where an enormous hoard of gold was, and as soon as they could get their hands on a warrant, federal agents were coming to get it.ĭennis and Kem Parada had been connected with the FBI several weeks earlier by a middleman. FBI agents had visited the site twice and ordered geophysical surveys that had detected something underground-something “with a density of 19.5g/cm³ (the density of gold) and consistent with a mass having a weight of approximately 8½ to 9 tons.” Now he and a team including his son, Kem, believed they had finally located it, in the inaccessible recesses of a “turtle-shaped cave” near the community of Dents Run. A treasure hunter named Dennis Parada had heard folklore alluding to the lost gold “since he was a child,” and had spent “over forty years” searching for it. The affidavit also laid out how this story had come to the FBI’s attention. In 1865, two and a half buried ingots were found, and, later, the bones of three to five human skeletons. Teams from the Pinkerton detective agency scoured the hills. Three men were sent to get help and eventually one returned with a rescue party, which located the group’s abandoned wagons but no men, no gold. The tale, in its barest bones, was this: In June 1863, a caravan of Union soldiers transporting a shipment of gold through the mountains became lost. The affidavit related a story from a document titled “The Lost Gold Ingot Treasure,” which had been found in the archives at the Military History Institute, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. (Riffle) McGraw, please visit our floral store.Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Joseph Cemetery, Derry Online condolences may be made to To send flowers Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Derry with Rev. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held for Jean 10:00AM Saturday Jat the St. Family will receive friends for Jean’s Life Celebration on Friday Jfrom 2-4 and 6-8 PM in the Matthew X. Jean is survived by her two children Donald McGraw and wife Sandy of Derry and Margaret Lowman of Derry one sister Evelyn Kestner and husband Gilbert of FL three grandchildren Jessica and husband Brian, Brittany and Ashley great granddaughter Cora her dog Sammie and also several nieces, nephews, and friends. McGraw in 2013, one son Ray McGraw, four sisters Mildred Stiffler, Ruth Oakman, Adella Leasure, and Mary Lou Burd, and one brother Robert Riffle. Besides her parents Jean was preceded in death by her husband Donald R. She enjoyed sewing, cross-stitching, and ceramics. Jean Volunteered for the Girls Scouts, Brownies, Boy Scouts, and the Derry Patriots Drum and Bugle Corps. Joseph Altar Rosary Society, member of the Catholic Daughters of America, and the Ladies Auxiliary Derry Volunteer Fire Department. Prior to retirement Jean worked at Torrance State Hospital. She was born March 3, 1937, in Derry, a daughter of the late Daniel and Margaret (Vogle) Riffle. (Riffle) McGraw, 81, of Derry, PA died Monday July 16, 2018, at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital surrounded by her family.
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