73, 1886, The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd, by Richard Zacks, 2003, Blackbeard: Americas Most Notorious Pirate, by Angus Konstam, 2007, Lufthansa heist: We never got our right money accused mobster says on tape, by Yon Pomrenze, The Guardian, October 23, 2015, Many claim theyve solved Forrest Fenn riddle, but treasure hunt continues, by Bruce Krasnow, Santa Fe New American, May 16, 2015, The Beale Treasure Ciphers, by The Guardian, 1999, The rough and tough exploits of Confederate raider John Mosby, by Linda Wheeler, The Washington Post, September 9, 2012, Theres A Shipwreck Ruin From 1715 With 3,000,000 Silver Coins Near The Treasure Coast Of Florida, by Marisa Roman, Only In Your State, December 28, 2021, He buried a treasure in the mountains, and someone found it. Believing he would have to fight, Mosby sent Stoughton ahead under guard and told his men to bury the bag between two large pines which he marked with his knife. Unfortunately, Rosenkrantz died without sharing the information, and no one has ever been able to figure out where the treasure is. Since then the ciphered documents have been analyzed by cryptographers using supercomputers and other deciphering techniques, but to no avail. Alas, Thompson and company were captured. Instead, and somewhat predictably, Thompson and his men proved unable to resist the temptation of so much treasure. W5 senior field producer Robert Osbourne dons scuba gear and joins an underwater search for the wreck of a pirate ship -- in Conception Bay, Newfoundland. Carracks were favored for carrying cargo, including the treasures of the Aztecs, with the galleons deemed more suitable for the defense of the fleet (though they too carried treasure). Actually, he was more a privateer a sort of state-sponsored pirate who made a name for himself harassing Spains enemies in the Atlantic. Legend has it that Kirk buried $60,000 worth of gold and silver coins somewhere on his massive farm. Hidden in the Rocky Mountains for 10 years, the only clues to find the chest filled with gold coins and nuggets were a map and a poem. . . A known gambler and card sharp, Thorrington did not approach Gordier about buying his cattle, instead, the two men who had originally occupied the cabin, Asa Snow and John Mullen, approached him about a possible purchase. In "Uncharted 4," the Drakes and Sully are actually on the hunt for the treasure of Henry Avery, a pirate. In 1816, Thomas Bealeand a few companions came into a large sum of gold and silver while mining somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. The Sceptre of Dagobert was part of Frances crown jewels. Unable to solve them he gave the box to a friend who more than twenty years later was able to decode the second of the three documents, describing the treasure and from whence it came, but not the location where Beale had hidden the wealth. Whether Kidd himself acted as a pirate on the subsequent voyage or was forced to allow his crew under threat to his life to practice piracy remains a subject of debate. Ever since areas of Connecticut, Oak Island, Gardiners Island and the rest of Long Islands Suffolk County, and other locales in and around Long Island and Block Island Sound have been searched for the rest of Kidds treasure. Gordier was highly regarded by most of his neighbors with the exception of three living in a nearby cabin situated on Lassen creek. Law enforcement personnel familiar with the case and the alleged participants considered the story to be completely false. Taking Spanish treasure by force and hiding it in the sand for later use. According to the journal, the silver was struck into coins, both English and Spanish, and returned to the Appalachian hills in kegs, where they were buried or hidden in caves. Many of the most famous private names like Benjamin Hornigold, Henry Jenning, "Black Sam" Bellamy, Anne Bonny, and probably the most famous pirate, Edward Thatch "Blackbeard" all made Nassau their . Mosby took the bag with him. When Pargo died, he had written in his will of a chest containing many of his most valued treasures: gold, silver, fabrics, pearls, porcelain. Heather has reported live from the White House and the Oscars, as well as produced cutting edge series from sub Saharan Africa. Neither the list of owners nor the cipher describing the location has been cracked. Victor Ticas, left, Dan Perina and Isaac Bachicha assemble replicas of the captain's quarters and ship's hold as they existed on the pirate vessel Whydah. Im talking, of course, about RMS Republic. The carrack San Miguel de Archangel is believed to have run before the storm, reaching latitudes further north than the rest of the fleet, before it too was lost to the sea. None of those claims have been confirmed so far. The team, known as the "Temple. WARWICK, R.I. A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New . Burkes son-in-law, Anthony Indelicato. The crime remains unsolved, the treasure still tragically unaccounted for. Additional hints and clues are in his two books but the poem is all that is necessary to discover the treasure. About $500 million dollars worth of treasure has already been recovered, but experts estimate theres still about $200 million on the ocean floor, ready for the salvaging. Some speculate it is one of the richest treasure ships ever to have been lost. She joined the Chronicle team in December 2013 after moving to Houston to be near her oil industry-based family and lives happily in the Heights. The amber room was originally housed in a palace in Berlin, but it was later given to the visiting Russian Tsar Peter the Great as a gift. So if you find any mysterious golden scepters in your attic dont throw them away. Alas, the pirate ship too was struck by a storm, and marooned on the atoll of Palmyra in the middle of the Pacific. The invading Nazis took a shine to the amber room in the former tsars palace, so they looted it and returned it to Germany. They have never been found. Those crown jewels that arent stolen can be lost or destroyed by the rulers themselves. The reason Blackbeard's fortune remains such a mystery is due to the fact that other pirate treasure has been found before. Instead, 300 years later, portions of the lost fortune still wash ashore on Floridas treasure coast. Whoever knows where it is, if anyone does know that most of the criminals involved are dead, isnt talking. I hope everyone enjoys today's video on the top five sunken treasure finds!Several segments are licen. Another of the most famous is a gold mine supposedly discovered accidentally by the mountain man Thomas Peg Leg Smith in the hills of California. That might not be as big a pay out as some of the treasures on the list, but how cool would it be to find a piece of Butch Cassidys legacy? As the Confederates were preparing to march towards Culpeper reports reached Mosby of a Union cavalry patrol searching for him in the area. Forbes estimates the ship's 200,000 artifacts, which include African jewelry, muskets, gold belt buckles and 60 cannons, to be worth more than $100 million. A herd of cattle was soon purchased to graze on his land and he built a ranch house, barns, and the necessities of a working ranch. Gordier declined to sell any of his stock, and in March, Asa Snow moved into Gordiers home, informing the other neighbors in the area that Henry had returned to France. Its time to talk about a famous ocean liner of the White Star shipping line that sank before WWI, taking endless mysteries with it into the depths. The exhibition Real Pirates Exhibition opens at Moody Gardens on March 8. Although it was a rare event in practice, Stevenson's buried treasure idea may have been inspired by a real pirate, one Captain Kidd (c. 1645-1701). The prisoners who described carrying the silver mentioned that it came from a place not far from a stream. He lived in a well-appointed home on Pearl Street. There is a spot in the upper Florida Keys, just south of Elliott Key, now called Caesar Pass and Caesar Rock. Every man was hanged save Thompson and his first mate, who saved themselves from the noose by promising to lead the Spanish authorities to the stolen treasure. The room was this moved to the Catherine Palace near St. Petersburg. Barry Clifford, left, reviews an X-ray image of a rocky mass containing a cannon ball and coins that diver and conservator Chris Macort, right, had recorded in Brewster, Mass. Mrs Fitzgerald, 38, said: "I've never found anything like this on a beach before. So he buried it before he left the area. There were numerous Spanish treasure ships christened San Miguel, and more than one of them sunk between the New World and Spain, but one, in particular, is enticing. The last emperor of the Aztecs was held captive in his own capital by the Spanish conquistadors under Hernn Corts and killed either by the Spanish or his own people, depending on whose account you believe. What was lost was the cargo, which was rumored to include vast sums in gold bound for Russia. The team hopes the skeletons will lead to pirate. Some of the loot taken from the pirates most recent actions was recovered, mostly cotton, sugar, and indigo. Jimmy Burke never distributed the nearly 6 million dollars take from the Lufthansa robbery in 1978. @Nick. pieces of gold in multiple chambers of the mound. It is usually estimated to be in the range of $350,000 in value in todays currency, though its value as heirlooms may exceed that, depending upon which families they were originally taken from. There are people who spend their whole lives and considerable sums of money searching for sunken treasure ships, lost mines, and hidden loot. This ship, to this day, is still the only one in existence to have its pirate history documented and confirmed. Remaining hidden since the 1820s, the riches are described in a ciphered document which was decoded in the late 1870s. By Stephanie Pappas. When the smoke cleared after the end of the Civil War in 1865, millions of dollars worth of gold turned out to be lost or unaccounted for and has since been the subject of speculation by historians and treasure-hunters. Buried treasure that may have belonged to the notorious Scottish pirate Captain Kidd has been discovered by archaeologists in Madagascar. For starters there's plunder aplenty, courtesy of 16th century pirate Captain Thomas Cavendish. As a boy growing up in Texas, Fenn once found an arrowhead. None of the rest of the treasure was found, having failed once, Kidd kept his mouth shut regarding the rest of his treasure. Library of Congress. In 1929, Vancouver, B.C. John Singleton Mosby was a Virginia-born lawyer who studied the law while he was imprisoned for shooting a man in the neck, albeit in an act of self-defense. There were villages of that name actually Chalagawtha on the Scioto River, the Little Miami River, the Great Miami River, and others. The galleon sunk . The prefect of the city therefore entrusted this great treasure to a sailor from Newfoundland named Captain John Thompson. -- St. Martin/St. Eventually, the accomplices, including Thorrington, were tracked down and hanged, except for Mullen, who vanished. And there it remained until WWII. After the war, Mosby became a Republican and eventually a loyal supporter of President Grant. The team was excavating an ancient burial mound in northern Afghanistan. According to legend, this cache of treasure could have been hidden by Spanish missionaries centuries ago and forgotten. According to legend, pirate treasure reportedly worth 100 million is buried on an Indian Ocean island. Eight survived and were tried in Massachusetts. During the Battle of Diu, the ship was instrumental in helping to capture Malacca. published December 08, 2015. Actually, he was more a privateer a sort of state-sponsored pirate who made a name for himself harassing Spain's enemies in the Atlantic. The San Miguel was a Spanish ship carrying large amounts of precious metals and stones that the Spanish king hoped to sell to fund his ongoing War of Succession. "I was convinced the ship was there," said Clifford. It was there that the bulk of the Chalagawtha division of the Shawnee settled after the destruction of their lower towns. The Portuguese noblemanAlfonso de Albuquerque was returning from Southeast Asia on his ship the Flor de la Mar. It wasn't until they found the ship's bell, which read "The Whydah 1716," that people started to believe them. There have been those who describe the entire story as an elaborate hoax perpetrated in the 1880s, but others insist that the treasure exists and deciphering the first of the three documents will lead to its discovery. They launched the hunt on Dec. 16 and set Dec. 31 as. The ship, the Whydah, sank off Cape Cod in 1717. The treasure still has not been found to this day. The most extensive citation about treasure there was recorded by Jim Comstock, editor of the West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. And he was in fact a real guy. The only portion of the money known to have been distributed was the tribute. . Theres not much need be said about Butch Cassidy. It was said that Trabuco and several business partners were hiding gold and waiting for prices to rise before selling it. This has led treasure hunters from all over the world to seek their fortune in the area to this day. Ten Spectacular Golden Treasures of the Ancient World Revealing the Secrets of Sumerian Riches: Treasures from the Royal Cemetery of Ur The fate of Peking Man is unknown, but fortunately he is not the only specimen of his kind. Starting in 1885, the Tsars of Russia gifted the ladies in their life with eggs made of precious stones and metal by the jeweler Faberg. 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