Nivar Cyclone Gifts Indians Gold

Mysterious news about small round gold beads found by local fisherfolk on Uppada coast in East Godavari district, India, after Nivar Cyclon.

The pieces of gold carried various shapes and one of them took the shape of a necklace.

A number of fishermen and village residents visited the beach aiming to collect the gold beads.

It is expected that those pieces of gold were sent to the shore by the latest Nivar cyclone as it happened before on the Uppada coast on several occasions during the previous cyclones.

3 days ago, a few locals went to the place expecting to find gold pieces, as gold was found in the Mangala Dibba area on the Uppada coast.

The search continued for three days and a few lucky ones could lay their hands on gold pieces.

Surada Nageswara Rao, fisherfolk told The Hindu: “We heard that a temple existed here several years ago and whenever there is a cyclone, the locals rush to the place in the hope of finding gold and some of them have been finding it also.”

Another fisherman called Ummidi Govind said to The Hindu, “We believe that the gold ornaments found in the beach sand might have belonged to the devotees who probably lost them while taking a holy dip in the sea in the past when the Matsya Linga temple existed.”

"Sources said thousands of devotees from across the Uppada coastal belt used to take a holy dip at the Matsya Linga temple till it ceased to exist due to sea erosion.

There is however, no scientific theory available to establish the real cause of the gold pieces being traced here for last many years," Appala Naidu, The Hindu reporter indicated.