Amateur Treasure Hunters Discover Infamous Stolen Room Worth Over $500 Million

Danger Ahead

The anomalous objects were booby traps, likely set by German soldiers as they hid the hatch. Upon further inspection of the site, some trees around the hole had scars near their tops from steel ropes being dragged against them far in the past, indicating that some heavy objects were transported through the hatch long ago. Presumably, those objects were the pieces of the lost Amber Room...

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