An Index Of Legends Regarding Hidden Treasures in Central Pa
Most treasure hunters don't really like me - because I have a tendency to not only be a skeptic, but to debunk some of the legends. Do I believe there is hidden treasure in Pennsylvania? Yes, absolutely. But I don't believe it's where most of the legends lead us. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy the stories. Here are a few I have come across over the years:
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Stories I have come across, but not researched
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In February of 1938, $1100 in gold was found while excavating a basement in Bloomsburg Pa. When the case went before the Columbia county court in 1939, a total of $3,000 had been found in the basement. In April of 1939, the court decreed that the gold belonged to F. Harold Kline, the surviving son of Frank P. Kline. Frank Kline was the man believed to have buried the gold on the property. Frank Kline had committed suicide in 1890.
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As reported in the Lewisburg Chronicle, December 1897
Exploring for Buried Wealth.
A telegram from Bellfonte says: "Quite a sensation has been created during the past week by a number of Lycoming people. Jack Huff, Robert Jones and Henry Anderson, searching on the Bald Eagle mountain for buried gold.
The men claim to be in possession of a story which runs that during the war a man named Betzel broke through a brush heap, falling into a cave and that on investigation he found two barrels filled with gold coin. The man was frightened by hideous noises in the cave and hastily took his departure, forgetting even to mark the exact spot, although he has bearings within a hall mile or so. The above three men feel confident of finding the treasure."
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In May of 1915, $1250 was stolen from a Trevorton trolley car carrying the silk mill pay. "Manhy are out with picks and shovels, digging up every portion of ground that seems frensly turned." The money still had not been located as of June 1915, but I have not yet searched further.
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In January of 1922, the heirs of Mrs. Landis Bastian of East Sunbury discovered more than $7,000 and a "fortune in supplies" secreted away in her home. The widow was believed to have had only enough money to live on, and no one knew where the silver, gold, and bills had come from.
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MINERS HUNT FOR HIDDEN TREASURE; McAdoo furnishes the following ' story of searches being made for' long buried treasure: "Many youths. I idle by the mining suspension, are searching every stump within a half mile radius of what was formerly the site of Slabtown in the hope of revealing the hidden treasure of one John Potolack, a former old time resident of the now extinct village. Having no faith in banks he placed his savings of years ia an old stump. He did his banking under cover of darkness as daylight might be a source of danger in the concealment of his coin. There were many stumps in the vicinity and as the story goes John, with more than usual under his belt, one pay night got his wires crossed, and changed his hidden treasure to another stump some distance away, though on the following day, he knew not where. Search as he would he was never able to relocate the treasure stump. The concealed treasure hunters are leisurely making an effort to disclose it. In the event of their being successful they will be amply repaid, according to old timers." Mount Carmel Item 01 Oct 1925, Thu • Page 10
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Stolen Gold Recovered 1889
as reported in the Northumberland County Democrat
July 12th, 1889
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