The Mysterious Fate of Tommy Thompson

In 1857, this ship the SS Central America sank in a hurricane. <break time='1s' /> It was carrying

21 TONS of gold from the California Gold Rush. The loss was so catastrophic it

triggered a global financial panic. But the *bizarre* part is what happened to the man who *found*

it. In 1988, a deep-sea engineer Tommy Thompson located the wreck.

He recovered 500 million dollars in gold. But the investors who funded him sued

him. So in 2012 Tommy Thompson took the gold and vanished. He was a fugitive

for 3 years and to this day he *still* refuses to tell anyone where the gold is.

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