They believe the site may also have been used to hide the bodies of thousands of forced labourers.
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Their announcement made global headlines and brought an influx of treasure hunters to the area.
Late past year, geological experts from a university in Krakow, using magnetic equipment, found no train on the spot.
But the explorers refused to give up.
“Despite some discrepancies resulting from that fact that every firm is using its own equipment, all the data confirms the existence of an underground tunnel at a place, which we have designated”, another explorer said.
They also say they’d like to remind everyone that while researchers concluded previous year there was no signs of any wagons, they did not rule out the existence of a tunnel.
According to historians, it has never been proven the train has ever existed. Polish authorities nonetheless have seemed eager to pursue any chance of recovering treasures that have sparked the imaginations of local people for decades.
A minig auto seen in a chamber in the area where the Nazi train laden with treasure is believed to be.
Last year Poland’s Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski said he was “99 per cent convinced” the train was buried beneath the ground in Walbrzych after seeing ground-penetrating radar images.
The area was part of Germany during World War II but is now a part of Poland. According to the Associated Press, the local legend appears to stem from a retired miner who heard a rumour from a German guy in the 1970s.
Legend had it the train was packed with £250million worth of gold and gems which were hidden from the approaching Red Army by the retreating Germans in the dying days of WWII. An estimated 500 feet long, it supposedly went missing in 1945 in the tunnel network the Nazis never finished.
“We believe that a train has been found”, Marika Tokarska, the district governor of a southwestern Polish district of Walbrzych, told the AP past year.
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The team should know by Thursday whether there is a train at the site, which is located near old railway tracks between the cities of Wroclaw and Walbrzych, Koper told Polish television.
