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Home » Gold rush

And that's where the gold diggers show up again!

By Lung Jan
Posted in Background, Culture, History, Legend and saga
Tags: Burma Railway, Gold rush, Gold diggers, Japanese, Spoils of war, S, WWII

March 24 2024

I have previously written on Thailandblog about the Thai version of the Loch Ness Monster; a persistent myth that pops up with the regularity of a clock. Although in this specific case it is not about a prehistoric aquatic creature, but about an even more imaginative enormous treasure that the retreating Japanese troops are said to have buried near the infamous Burma-Thai Railway at the end of the Second World War.

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And that's where the gold diggers show up again!