Old Robbery

Okay, so I decided that I should look into this more.  Any story told or heard about is worth looking into and researching.  The details about the story are below.  I have only heard this story from my aunt and grandmother.  We are not sure if it is true or not, but it is possible. 

Supposedly, back in the mid 1850s.  A train robbery happened down in my small river front town, where a Train Depot sat and tracks ran up and down the river.  It still stands today.  But, a gang was told to have robbed the train of gold coins and taken them behind to the Walkinda River.  This river is right behind my house.  It is said that the cache was stored in a hollow tree with three metal rings in it.  I have went down there before, but I was only using a pinpointer at the time.  The only tree that I found with metal had large metal spikes drove into them.  It was an old deerstand site though.

This story has been told around me a couple of times, and I haven't really bothered to think nor try to research the area a bit.  My aunt at one time said she had found an thermos inside of a tree one time, but it was empty and was rusted out.  That sure had her excited.  Anyways, any advice or info would be appreciated.  I just thought that I should have any other input just to see if I should approach this a certain way.

Thanks---

~Metal_Inspector~



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I was thinking the same thing.  The area around the "flats" as they called it, have drastically changed in the last few years due to an excess of rain.  It has washed out a lot of the bank.  Hm, hopefully the hollow tree might have left it behind some how.  There is a lot of hollow trees down there, but it has probably long rotted out.  I plan to look into it down in the flats.  I think that it might be worth the time to find out if it is in there somewhere.  Yup, it excited her there for a few moments until it was empty. 

No, I doubt that the story got in any published book.  Its just been a family thing that has been passed down. 

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It will take a lot of physical energy, since the area has deep ravines all around it.  The hillsides are very steep too and are hard to trek up and down.  I would do just that to search for any Cache left behind by a robbery.  Thanks for any info and for the luck at finding the Cache.  I plan to buy a different detector since mine has malfunctioned at the moment, and then I will graph out the area and search grid by grid!!

I will be sure to let anyone know on my progress on this project.  It is my first one and will give me inspiration.  It will take some time with careful planning and preparing, before I begin.  Thanks all for any info and luck given to me.

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 hey metal inspector  have u ever thuoght about map dowsing  the area could help, and save u a lot of time running in circles, just athought   d.p.  swing

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metal_inspector;
If the local newspaper was operating then, you might find something in the "morgue," also, first off, rule out the ravine and the hill side, leave them til last.

I know a similar treasure story, local to this area, involving gold miners returning from the Klondike. It is quite involved but I could type it up and stick it on here, if there is interest. This one involves robbery, murder and one person returning many years later, to look for the stash (unsuccessfully.)

Draw yourself a "map," to scale, showing where the robbery took place and the area where the cache might be. Then plot out a likely route around habitations, at that time, and see if anything obvious, likely, or potential, appears. Last but not necessarily least, after assembling this plan, dowse it because you may unconsciously see something and dowsing might be influenced by it.

Dowsing is not a fable, sometimes you sub- or unconsciously KNOW, because of the data your brain is processing and it can present as a dowsing indication, even if you have no skill or faith in dowsing;  its a psychiatric thing, not necessarily psychic.

Brian AKA goldigger (not a dowser)

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