The unearthed bird
Thirty-one years since thousands of enthusiasts searched for it all over France! There doThe golden owl has been discovered, a site dedicated to this search announced on October 3. The bronze bird was buried in April 1993 by Régis Hauser, who called himself Max Valentin. Solving eleven puzzles made it possible to find it. The winner was promised a gold, silver and diamond eagle owl valued at one million francs (about 150,000 euros). Régis Hauser, who constantly provided clues in what had become a lucrative business, died in 2009. Fortunately, the solution was preserved by the owl’s sculptor, Michel Becker. This hunt has become so gruesome that some refuse to let it end.
The rumor of the Nazi train
No one knows how the rumor was born: in January 1945, the Nazis hid a train full of gold and precious objects stolen from Jews in a Silesian metro station, near the now Polish city of Wałbrzych. Little by little the rumor became certainty. Since then, Poles in particular have tried to locate it and some have dedicated part of their lives to this research. In 2015, two enthusiasts, German Andreas Richter and Polish Piotr Koper, claimed to have finally located the site. His statements irritate the Polish press and soon the international one. Authorities surround the designated area to keep looters away. Official excavations begin. They turn out to be in vain. The gold train remains, to this day, untraceable.
The sunken loot
On June 8, 1708, the Spanish galleon Saint Joseph It was sunk by an English squadron off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, with its six hundred men and, in its holds, 200 tons of gold and a quantity of diamonds and other precious stones, with a current estimated value between 10 and 20 billion of euros. . Multiple explorations attempted to find the wreck before it was finally discovered, in December 2015, at a depth of 600 meters. Exploratory dives began in 2024. But the ownership of the potential treasure is today in dispute by the Colombian State, which leads the excavation campaigns, by the Spanish State, which considers itself the owner, and by an American company, which claims to have discovered the site. . , and by an indigenous Bolivian people, who claim that this treasure was stolen from them.
the city of gold
The myth of the lost civilization pushed, in 1925, the British explorer Percy Fawcett to immerse himself in the Brazilian jungle, in search of a city described in a Portuguese manuscript dating from 1753, and which he called “Z”. The man, his son and one of his friends mysteriously disappeared, adding an enigma to the enigma. It is suspected that the Indian populations killed them. In the 1930s, other expeditions suffered the same fate. The fictional adventure of Percy Fawcett has irrigated literature for decades and inspired, in 2009, the American writer David Grann, whose book, The Lost City of Z (Robert Laffont), is adapted to film by James Gray. Archaeologists do not despair of finding the civilization described in the manuscript.
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