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    Le gold rush: why a tiny French village is a magnet for treasure hunters

    Conspiracy theorists have been seeking their fortune in Rennes-le-Château since the 1950s. Last week, vandals dug another hole under the church to look for lost loot. But is there any truth to the tall tale?
    by Kim Willsher Jan 08, 2018 2 minutes
    Rennes-le-Chateau: rumoured to conceal pots of gold and religious relics. Photograph: Alamy

    For more than 50 years, tales of buried gold have sent the curious, conspiracy theorists and treasure hunters to the tiny hilltop village of near Carcassonne in south France. Many have dug or dynamited holes around and under the church of Saint Mary Magdalene, where the mysterious former

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