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Last summer, explorers in Poland claimed to have discovered tunnels built for trains carrying plundered Nazi gold, only to be debunked a few months later. But for the true believers who\u2019ve been hunting for this treasure for decades, this merely proved what they\u2019ve thought all along: Inside these mountains are secrets and stories that some would rather stay buried.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n On a drizzly<\/b> afternoon in February outside the town of Wa\u0142brzych in Lower Silesia, Piotr Koper strode purposefully across the thawing ground and came to a triumphant halt. \u201cWe were scanning this hill, first, in this direction,\u201d the portly, ginger-haired construction company owner told me, pointing to a tree across from us marked \u201c69\u201d with orange spray paint. \u201cThen another scan, this way to the bridge,\u201d he waved diagonally to an overpass about 100 yards from us, \u201cand then we checked here, exactly here, and that\u2019s where it was.\u201d Roughly 30 feet below our muddy boots was one of Europe\u2019s greatest mysteries.<\/p>\n We were standing on a median strip, a kind of island between parallel railroad tracks. The tracks were sunk deep into the earth, creating steep cliffs of conglomerate rock on either side, except for at one spot, where there was a half-moon of dirt \u2014 Koper said this was the entrance to secret tunnels that were dug into the island we were standing on. According to Koper\u2019s ground-penetrating radar (GPR) readings, under us were two long tunnels where Nazis hid a train at the end of World War II. The train would have curved off into the tunnels before the Nazis closed them, camouflaging their work with dirt and debris. Across from where we stood was a small black-and-white sign that read \u201c65 kilometers,\u201d the distance between the town of Wa\u0142brzych and the larger city of Wroc\u0142aw to the northeast.<\/p>\n