Rennes-le-Chateau

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Treasure Hunters Flock to Sleepy French Town
But Rennes-le-Chateau locals think they're 'pitiable'

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 5, 2010 12:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – No treasure has ever been found in Rennes-le-Chateau. But Remy Martinez is convinced it’s there. He believes, he tells the LA Times, that Visigoths hid vast wealth under the tiny French town, in an underground labyrinth that also contains an ancient Jewish temple and the body of Jesus Christ (hidden there by the Knights Templar, naturally). And he’s not alone. Treasure hunters routinely flock to the village, whose 100 residents receive some 150,000 visitors a year—it even has a sign out front reading “Digging is forbidden.”

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The locals may think the treasure-hunting tourists are pitiable, but I bet they're making plenty of money off them. And that's the closest thing to "vast wealth" that's going to come of this.