Officials successful Poland accidental they person received a missive identifying the determination of a legendary Nazi golden bid which went missing successful the closing years of WWII.
According to the missive dated 23 April, the sender who said helium wants to stay anonymous recovered 'camouflaged bid carriages' hidden successful a passageway adjacent the southwestern metropolis of Wałbrzych.
In the last months of the war, according to legend, a Nazi armoured bid near Wroclaw but did not scope Wałbrzych, with claims that it was concealed successful an underground passageway web betwixt the 2 stations.
Priceless gold, jewellery, and artworks connected committee were supposedly mislaid to the world, and efforts person been made by treasure hunters to uncover it ever since.
Now a missive has been sent to authorities in Wałbrzych making caller claims that a loot-filled train, the beingness of which galore historians dispute, is successful a hidden passageway successful the area.
The anonymous sender reportedly wrote: 'Three railway wagons from the play of World War II, are hidden successful a camouflaged tunnel.
'Each wagon is astir 12 metres long, 4 metres wide and 4 metres high.
'The wagons are hidden down a closed, sliding alloy gross astatine the entranceway to the tunnel.'
Claims person agelong been made that the bid entered an abandoned ember excavation oregon passageway strategy adjacent Wałbrzych. Pictured: Experts analyse portion of an underground analyzable built by the Nazis adjacent Wałbrzych successful Poland
The bid - if it exists - is believed to beryllium an armoured locomotive akin to the 1 pictured, utilized by the Nazis during WWII
It added: 'The wagons incorporate invaluable precious metals, including gold.
'Precise geodetic information volition beryllium made disposable to the politician of Wałbrzych oregon his lawman successful the signifier of attachments,' the missive ended.
City spokeswoman Kamila Świerczyńska said: 'A definite man, whose details I cannot disclose, made a procedural study of the discovery, referred to by the property arsenic the golden train.
'The missive looks factual and specific. The missive indicates 4 attachments, specified arsenic a passageway with a bid inside.'
She added that the missive included a 'table with geodetic data, terrain profile, including the passageway layout, a representation with way simulation and passageway course, and relationship of a witnesser who lived successful Wałbrzych during the war.'
Anna Nowakowska, caput of the Wałbrzych subdivision of the Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments, said: 'After analyzing assorted sources and documents, the antheral came to the decision that helium had located a passageway with the alleged aureate bid inside.'
In the closing months of WWII, Nazi officials successful the metropolis of Wroclaw successful southwest Poland - past called Breslau and portion of Greater Germany - loaded bid wagons with looted treasures to flight the advancing Red Army.
The treasures were rumoured to person included treasures from the fabled Amber Room of the Czars mightiness beryllium aboard the train.
The country composed of panels of amber was looted by Nazi troops successful 1941 from a palace extracurricular Leningrad and has ne'er been seen since.
Missing treasure: Since the extremity of WWII, hunters person risked their lives to uncover the £20billion-worth of Nazi treasure near behind. The Amber Room of the Czars (pictured successful 1917) is the astir sought-after of them all
In 2015, 2 men sparked golden fever aft claiming to person recovered the bid buried wrong a tunnel.
The men, Piotr Koper and Andreas Richter, said they utilized ground-penetrating radar to find the train.
Fortune-hunters arsenic acold distant arsenic Japan descended connected the area, but contempt extended searches the bid was ne'er found.
Officials successful Wałbrzych accidental that the antheral who made the astir caller claims has not applied for a licence to hunt for the train.
According to section media, the authorities are present considering whether to analyse the claims further.