The Nazi gold train saga took a new twist today when scientists digging the tunnel where it is said to be buried revealed it doesn't exist.

The gold train has been at the centre of feverish speculation since two treasure hunters said they had found it buried nine metres down in a railway tunnel in Walbrzych, south west Poland.

Legend had it, the train was packed with £250million worth of gold and gems was hidden by the retreating German army in the dying days of WWII.

Treasure hunters Piotr Koper and Andreas Richter sparked gold fever when they told the world they had used a ground penetrating radar to locate the train.

But today Professor Janusz Madej from AGH University of Science and Technology, searching at the site, poured cold water on the speculation - and said his team had found no proof of the train's existence.

'The tunnel may be there, but the train is not,' Professor Madej told a press conference.

'The results of our research can be considered reliable,' he added. It brings to an end a saga that has piqued interest of treasure hunters the world over since Mr Koper and Mr Richter announced their discovery in August.

To read the complete article, see:
Was the Nazi gold train hunt just an elaborate hoax? Scientists dig for buried treasure and find... NOTHING (www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3360931/Was-Nazi-gold-train-hunt-just-elaborate-hoax-Scientists-dig-buried-treasure-NOTHING.html)

The latest report of discovery came in August of this year, when two treasure hunters said they'd determined the location of the train by using a map drawn by a man on his deathbed. But their claim doesn't seem to have panned out. On Tuesday, experts from Krakow's AGH University of Science and Technology said that a month of magnetic and gravitational surveys has revealed no trace of an underground rail system or the treasure train that supposedly rode along it. Project leader Janusz Madej said the scientists found some anomalies, but they were just eight feet below the surface - not deep enough to be anything matching descriptions of the train's hiding spot. "There may be a tunnel," Madej said at a news conference, "but there is no train."

To read the complete article, see:
Ballyhooed 'Nazi gold train' hidden in mountain doesn't exist, experts say (www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/16/experts-say-there-is-no-nazi-gold-train-hidden-in-the-polish-mountains-treasure-hunters-arent-yet-convinced/)

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
HAS LEGENDARY NAZI GHOST TRAIN BEEN FOUND? (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n34a26.html)
RADAR USED IN NAZI GHOST TRAIN HUNT (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n35a35.html)