The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 2. The believers
World of Secrets
BBC
4.7 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It’s gold fever. Estimates put the Bre-X discovery at four times the size of the biggest known gold deposit — and investors are trying to cash in. A small Canadian town is swept up in the gold rush. But others are asking questions, including a hedge fund manager who goes to extraordinary lengths to get inside the Indonesia gold site.
Since this episode was recorded, John McBeth has sadly passed away. We are very grateful for his contribution to this story.
The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam was first published in May 2024.
The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam is made by BBC Scotland Productions for the BBC World Service and CBC
Presenter: Suzanne Wilton Lead Producer: Kate Bissell Producers: Anna Miles and Mark Rickards Research: Tom Hinckley Story consultant: Jack Kibble-White Music and Sound design: Hannis Brown Additional Sound Design + Audio Mix: Joel Cox Executive Editor: Heather Kane-Darling CBC Senior Producers: Veronica Simmonds and Willow Smith CBC Executive Producers: Chris Oke and Cesil Fernandes BBC Commissioning Senior Producer: Anne Dixey BBC Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel
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| 0:28.2 | From the BBC's Investigations podcast World of Secrets, |
| 0:32.1 | here's the second episode of our guest season, |
| 0:34.8 | the $6 billion gold scam from the BBC World Service and CBC. |
| 0:39.7 | Over to Suzanne Wilton. |
| 0:44.7 | This is the UFO landing pad that we're standing on. It's circular. It's got a map here of Canada, |
| 0:52.2 | Canadian flags above us. What is the significance of the UFO component of this? |
| 0:57.2 | Okay, so there's speculation that at some point St. Paul actually had a visit. Really? Yeah, |
| 1:03.5 | there's no definitive proof, but that's how... Is this part of the town gossip? Yeah, this is the |
| 1:08.8 | lore of St. Paul, is that we've had situations where the unexplained has occurred. |
| 1:14.0 | Like what? |
| 1:14.4 | We actually had a citizen in our town who would go out to farms and investigate cattle mutilations, |
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