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Piotr Koper and Andreas Liechter presented this image as evidence of the Nazi gold train they claimed to have found. (Image by Gazeta Wroclawska newspaper via Twitter)
Scientists rooted out Tuesday a claim by two amateur treasure hunters that they had discovered a legendary gold train hidden by the Nazis in a southern Polish railway embankment.
“There is no train,” Professor Janusz Madej of the Polish mining academy said in a well-attended press conference in the city of Wałbrzych, BBC News reports. “The geo-magnetic model anomalies would be far greater if there was a train,” he added.
Piotr Koper from Poland and Andreas Richter from Germany told authorities earlier this year that they knew where the train was hidden. The location reportedly was revealed during a deathbed confession.
After the Polish army cleared the area, scientists from the mining academy at the Krakow University of Science and Technology scanned the location, using magnetic field detectors, thermal imaging cameras and radars.
Scientists from the mining academy at the Krakow University of Science and Technology scan the area. (Image by Gazeta Wroclawska newspaper via Twitter)
While the researchers concluded there was no evidence of any wagons, they did not rule out the existence of a tunnel.
Speaking at the same press conference, Koper questioned the survey methodology applied by the team of scientists, adding he believed there was a train in the tunnel. He proceeded to present “evidence” to support his case, The Telegraph reported, without mentioning what sort of proof was shown.
Speaking at today’s press conference, Koper questioned the survey methodology applied by the team of scientists, adding he believed there was a train in the tunnel. (Image: Screenshot from live press conference broadcast by Gazeta Wroclawska)
The Polish government did little to dampen speculation ever since the news emerged last August. Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski even said authorities were “99% certain” the German military train, believed to have been buried during World War II by the Nazis, was actually in Polish soil.
A number of trains are believed to have been used by the Nazis in the 1940s to transport goods stolen from people in Eastern Europe back to Berlin. While some might have made it to the German capital, others are said to have been left behind by Soviet troops, as they advanced in 1945.
8 Comments
Thomas Henricksen
Is Geraldo Rivera involved in this boondoggle?
Matt
Drill it…..can’t be that deep, if you come up with ’30’s era steel in your core, then there is a train. If you come up with 35,000 oz/ton then its full of gold. lol
Diffa
Matt, that treasure possibly was packed with explosives. drilling into explosive is bad move
The Real John Smith
“Oops, um, no train. No treasure. Now go away and stop watching us……..”
wheasonjr
If no one is allowed to open the tunnel or to put feet on the ground to investigate I would say there is something to hide. Maybe not gold but something, even if it was a burial ground tunnel it should be exposed for what it is and deal with it appropriately. This investigation needs to include more than just government officials.
Rich Meyer
Move along. Nothing to see here. lol
rayban
You really cannot bury a train very deep very fast without lots of explosives and an ideal location . If it is down there 100 feet , drill it or dig into it . If it is in a mountain , ok , refurbish the tunnel . It sounds very fishy and unsettling currently .
CDF
Of cause there is no gold WOULD YOU tell anyone if there was?? of cause not then it would have to go back to its rightful owners and oh that would be terrible???Kapish