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Polish Experts: Hidden Nazi Train Is a Myth

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:25 am | < 1 Minute Read

FILE - In this Nov.10 , 2015 file photo experts with an earth-penetrating radar check the area where, according to two explorers, a secret tunnel is allegedly hiding a World War II Nazi train with armaments and precious minerals, in Walbrzych, southwestern Poland. Local lore says the train is laden with gold and valuables. (AP Photo/Natalia Dobryszycka, file) POLAND OUT — In this Nov. 10 file photo, experts using earth-penetrating radar search for a hidden World War II Nazi train, in Walbrzych, southwestern Poland. (AP Photo/Natalia Dobryszycka, File)

Polish geology experts say they have found no sign of a train at a site that supposedly contained a World War II Nazi train filled with armaments and precious minerals inside a hidden tunnel.

Experts from a mining academy in Krakow examined the site in southwestern Poland last month using magnetic and gravitation methods. The head of the team, Janusz Madej, announced on Tuesday that “according to our examination, there might be a tunnel there, but there is no train there.”

Earlier this year two explorers told authorities in the city of Walbrzych that they had located an armored Nazi train hidden in a secret tunnel in the city.

According to local lore, the Nazis hid a train packed with gold in a secret tunnel during the war.

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