Polish 'gold train' city basks in Loch Ness Monster tourism effect

Walbrzych, Poland

POLISH tour guide and ex-treasure hunter Andrzej Gaik cannot contain his excitement as he points to the train track slope that has left the world spellbound: hidden in its depths may very well be a Nazi gold train.

"There it is, that's where the tunnel's entryway was located, that's where the train is hidden," he says while indicating a slightly sunken-in part of the railway embankment in the south-western city of Walbrzych.

The Internet has for days been abuzz with old lore of trains full of gold and jewels stolen by the Nazis after two men - a German and a Pole - claimed to have found an armoured train car.

Initially taken with a grain of salt, the story has gained credibility after a culture ministry official said he saw a ground-penetrating radar image o…