What started with a leisurely dog walk ended with a stunning gold discovery worth over $10 million. 1909 - The Alexander III Commemorative egg. Where do we find this stuff? As alluring as that hidden cache is, however, the fortune may never turn up; it probably doesn't exist. To many scholars, the idea of buried treasure is ludicrous, despite Blackbeards clear intent of increasing his share by reducing his crew and his statement that only the devil knew where his loot was hidden. It was from there that they traded with the British forts in Michigan, and heard Tecumsehs calls for unity among the tribes and more. Eventually, the accomplices, including Thorrington, were tracked down and hanged, except for Mullen, who vanished. 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. The scepter of Dagobert is considered the oldest constituent part of the French crown jewels. There are people who spend their whole lives and considerable sums of money searching for sunken treasure ships, lost mines, and hidden loot. Other hunters for Swifts mine have discovered boulders in the area with the initials JS carved into them, with other cryptic signs, apparently hundreds of years old. In the description of the fortune, it is established to consist of 2,921 pounds of gold and 5,100 pounds of silver, along with jewels which are not described in detail. The Governor of Virginia, which was a Crown Colony, was unimpressed with the pardon from North Carolina, a proprietary colony, and ordered the fitting out of an expedition which tracked down and killed the pirate in Ocracoke Inlet in November 1718. The mine proved profitable until a group of Apaches slaughtered those working it. 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. As he went through Stoughtons belongings he found a bag containing gold, silver, artifacts, and jewelry which had been looted by the Union troops from homes in the area. Jason Crummey, the author of 'Pirates of . One of the most renowned tales of buried treasure concerns a trove reportedly buried in Coal Hollow near Parkersburg, West Virginia. Heather has reported live from the White House and the Oscars, as well as produced cutting edge series from sub Saharan Africa. But Ivory Coast too has been robbed of some of its trappings of state. Whoever knows where it is, if anyone does know that most of the criminals involved are dead, isnt talking. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there is a 12-square-kilometer (4.6 mi 2) atoll called Palmyra with a population of 4-20 American scientists and staff. Eventually he and his wife operated the Fenn Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Also, millions of dollars have been uncovered in artifacts and gold coins from the 1715 Spanish ships lost in a hurricane. To this day, people still search for the mine. It may have been destroyed in the fire, but it also may have been stolen. Sometimes, pirates got lucky: In 1694, Henry Avery and his crew sacked the Ganj-i-Sawai, the treasure ship of the Grand Moghul of India. Swift returned to England where he soon found himself incarcerated for airing his views in support of the rebellious natives of Boston and Williamsburg, according to one version of the story. You recall the treasure of Lima (#37)? A Portuguese carrack sank while carrying treasure from the conquest of Malacca, Malaysia. 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. Blackbeards treasure, which he claimed to have hidden, has been rumored to be in the mudbanks near Sullivans Island near Charleston, buried in or near Bath in North Carolina, on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, off Delaware Bay, on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake, and in numerous other locations along the east coast of the United States and the Caribbean. But most of the loot has already been found. "I was convinced the ship was there," said Clifford. Because of the new wireless technology, the crew were able to radio for help, saving most of the passengers lives. Dont miss the strangest unsolved mysteries of all time. This is a carousel. Many efforts had been made to find the treasure. This ship, to this day, is still the only one in existence to have its pirate history documented and confirmed. This fabulous necklace was crafted by Cartier for the Maharaja ofPatiala in India. He never revealed where the money was hidden, and the jewels, which could have in many cases been identified by their rightful owners, have never surfaced. View attachment 2018100 A ring which was part of the contents of a treasure chest found on a North Norfolk beach by Jennie Fitzgerald. Each was a treasure, and the eggs contained smaller treasures withinsuch as a golden crown inside a golden hen inside a golden yolkaccording to history buff Corey Chappelle. During the Civil War, Confederate Colonel John Mosby was famous for conducting raids behind enemy lines. This Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons image is from the user Chris 73 and is freely available at //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florentine_Diamond_copy.jpg under the creative commons cc-by-sa 3.0 license. Tu Duc built a grand mausoleum for himself, which tourists still visit to this day. Over the centuries, the Catholic Church collected untold wealth from Spanish colonies in South America. While doing some spring cleaning a few weeks ago, Maria Lopez made an unusual discovery in her grandfather's attic. It was exactly what it sounds like: a whole room made of amber (fossilized tree sap, for those who havent seen Jurassic Park). A handful of Arabian silver coins found in New England may be the last surviving relics of history's most notorious act of piracy and perhaps one of the most famous pirates who ever lived. Amaro Pargo was a Spanish pirate of the 1700s. The bandits quickly headed north to the Oklahoma border with Texas. Schultz reportedly hid about $7 million worth of treasure in the Catskills Mountains of southeastern New York state, keeping the location a secret. Wherever he left the money he obtained in the Caribbean on his way back to New York it is likely that it remains there still. If you like learning about hidden treasures, youll also want to check out these strange urban legends actually turned out to be true. Fenns treasure awaits in the Rocky Mountains for whomever can correctly interpret the clues. Nassau quickly became the roughest and most famous pirate haven. Over the centuries, an untold number of shipwrecks occurred off the coast of Vero Beach in Florida, shares Mary Jane Kolassa, a public relations executive in Florida with Readers Digest. He simply couldnt find the cash, which is still presumably out there somewhere. Its possible they sank in the muddy waters of the Wash (although there is debate about whether the king actually had the jewels with him). So the source of their silver in Ohio has yet to be found. Back in 2012, a scrap metal trader in the U.S. found one of the tsarsFaberg eggs on a random shelf in his house. There are supposedly two main burial sites, both near New Orleans: one inLake Borgne, the other near the Old Spanish Trail. According to legend, theres a goldmine of uncommon wealth in the Superstition Mountains to the east of Phoenix, Arizona. (Like many items on this list!) Sometimes, the effort it takes to find sunken treasure is worth it, as was the case of the Whydah ship. The Russian government recreated the amber room in the Catherine Palace, and you can visit the restored version today. It yielded some artifacts including cannon, but no treasure. Library of Congress. 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. Somewhere probably around New York or New Jersey is a pile of stolen, but entirely untraceable cash exceeding $4 million dollars, since some of it was a tribute, and some undoubtedly spent by Jimmy Burke. Here are some moremysteries science still hasnt been able to figure out. Good hunting. Pirate Olivier Levasseur, also known as "The Buzzard" (La Buse), was rumoured to have hidden treasure before his death in 1730. Much of the Treasure Fleet has been discovered and salvaged, near Sebastian Inlet where the hurricane sent the ships to the bottom three centuries ago. 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. His remains were discovered and displayed in China in the 1920s, but went missing during WWII. Through his magazine, gallery, and publishing house, Marnie has connected the artists of Houston. When Pargo died, he had written in his will of a chest containing many of his most valued treasures: gold, silver, fabrics, pearls, porcelain. Well, the Russian tsars used to have a tradition of giftingFaberg eggs to their wives (or mistresses). I hope everyone enjoys today's video on the top five sunken treasure finds!Several segments are licen. All of the ships of the treasure fleet have been identified, their whereabouts known, but one. However, 7 of them remain unaccounted for, and are among the worlds most sought-after hidden treasures. Sadly, to this day, no one has ever been able to find Pargos treasure. 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. Peg Leg was short on time when he found this vein, however, so he took no more than a sample and went on his way. Theres still hope theyll be found: in 2012, one was discovered by an American scrap metal dealer sitting on a shelf in his house. Back in 2014, the ship 'Whydah' from 1717 was found at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Cape Cod. Later that spring the citizens of the area grew suspicious of the activities of Snow, Mullen, and a third man hiding out with them, Bill Edwards. This was eventually found, and used as evidence against him in his trial. 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? 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. Kidd began pirating around 1698 attacking ships and gaining enormous amounts of riches. Mysterious box containing a map, coins and a mummified hand found in Tampa Bay attic. In 1988, when Vietnam veteran and treasure hunter Forrest Fenn believed he was going to die from cancer, he filled a small chest with his treasures and buried it somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Buried treasure that may have belonged to the notorious Scottish pirate Captain Kidd has been discovered by archaeologists in Madagascar. If there is some big Confederate gold stash out there, it certainly hasnt been uncovered yet. . Since then the ciphered documents have been analyzed by cryptographers using supercomputers and other deciphering techniques, but to no avail. The ship of his pirate was found in 1996. Instead, 300 years later, portions of the lost fortune still wash ashore on Floridas treasure coast. There have been at least four reported deaths of individuals searching for the treasure, despite it being reported to be in a not dangerous location, not particularly arduous to reach, and likely only about 45 minutes away from a road (where Fenn left his car when he hid the treasure). 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. When that temple burned down, the Menorah was nowhere to be found. Within a few months, all of them turned up dead under mysterious circumstances, and the location of the gold died with them. They launched the hunt on Dec. 16 and set Dec. 31 as. Henry Gordier was a Frenchman who joined the rush of prospectors to the California gold fields in the 1850s. Leon Trabuco was a Mexican millionaire in the 1930s. Because of the records kept by the Spanish at Havana the size and composition of the treasure fleet is known today. After studying maps and court documents from the trials he eventually honed in on a patch of sand just 115 feet from the shore. Captain Kidd is the pirate we can thank for hidden treasure maps. British born, Heather studied at England's University of Sheffield and University of Central Lancashire and on graduating was named the UK's Broadcast Journalism Training Council Young Journalist of the Year. The most extensive citation about treasure there was recorded by Jim Comstock, editor of the West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. When he actually beat the disease, he published a poem containing all the clues he believed were necessary to discover the chests location. Stock footage available from http://videosource.com/search.html Trans. Actually, he was more a privateer a sort of state-sponsored pirate who made a name for himself harassing Spains enemies in the Atlantic. Some claimed to have found them, but their locations since became lost. The large wooden box contained 73 precious relics that had once belonged to members of the Polish monarchy, and it included gold watches, chains, silver rosaries, ivory boxes, and silver cutlery. The Adventure Prize was found in relatively shallow waters near the Dominican Republic in 2007. Gordier was one of the lucky ones who staked a claim and managed to extract a sizable fortune in gold. The Whydah was a real pirate ship and since its discovery in 2014, it's still the only ship - and pirate treasure - to be validated. By then the Shawnee were long gone, with yet another Chillicothe appearing near Fort Wayne, Indiana. Youve probably heard ofFaberg eggs expensive enameled and jeweled novelties originally crafted by the designer of the same name. Cave-in-Rock on the lower Ohio was once a notorious pirate stronghold. In a 2015 trial, one of the surviving participants in the robbery was heard on tape complaining that nobody involved ever saw any of the money. In 2014, an anonymous couple reported stumbling upon decaying metal cans during a walk with their dog on their northern . The Reynolds gang robbed stagecoaches and the like in Colorado in the 1860s, and apparently made a reasonably handsome living doing so. The Republic didnt strike an iceberg, but another ship, and sunk in a heavy fog off Nantucket Island. Jimmy Burke never disclosed its location, or locations, during his lifetime, or if he did the person or persons never repeated it to anyone in law enforcement. During the rest of 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia was engaged in Virginia and Pennsylvania, and Mosby was unable to return to the area around Fairfax Courthouse, which after the failure of the Gettysburg campaign remained firmly under Union control. For starters there's plunder aplenty, courtesy of 16th century pirate Captain Thomas Cavendish. Swifts profession as a sailor made the movement of the silver and subsequent coins easier. In true aristocratic fashion Albuquerque managed to save himself, but the site of the shipwreck has never been found. In "Uncharted 4," the Drakes and Sully are actually on the hunt for the treasure of Henry Avery, a pirate. Kidds legend as a pirate may be far larger than his actual accomplishments, but try telling that to the sleuths and treasure hunters who continue to search for a piece of his legacy a gold piece, if possible. The invading Nazis took a shine to the amber room in the former tsars palace, so they looted it and returned it to Germany. So there you have it. Clatsop Indian legend says that the pirates buried a treasure chest on the slopes at the . The Copper Scroll is the most peculiar of all the Dead Sea Scrolls, archaic as they are. When Beale never returned Morriss, as instructed, opened the box and discovered the ciphers. Dutch Schultz is another infamous American gangster who supposedly buried his ill-gotten gains for safekeeping, but then died before he could retrieve them. 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). 6 The Treasure Of The Esperanza. Nothing else has turned up since, though Gordier was known to have about $40,000 worth of gold with him on the property (a little over $1.1 million today). During this time he disposed of some of his treasure, where and when remaining unknown. The most valuable haul of pirate treasure ever found is heading to Galveston for an exhibit showcasing dozens of cannons, coins and muskets. Mosby and his men captured Union General Edwin Stoughton during this raid, as well as two other officers and about 30 enlisted men. A master of public image before it was a profession, Blackbeard whose real name was Edward Teach or Thatch grew his beard long and decorated it with burning slow fuses, giving himself a sulfuric aroma and image when confronting a victim. Everyone knows the story of George Armstrong Custer, the American general who was roundly defeated by the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Before he did (if he did, some believe that he was never a pirate at all) William Kidd was a well-connected gentleman in the colony of New York. What is the greatest treasure never found? According to legend, pirate treasure reportedly worth 100 million is buried on an Indian Ocean island. The fleet was carrying gold, silver, emeralds, pearls, and other precious gems looted from the Aztecs by the Spaniards, intended to reinforce the coffers of the Spanish Empire. The Portuguese noblemanAlfonso de Albuquerque was returning from Southeast Asia on his ship the Flor de la Mar. He then threatened to kill the prisoners from these ships, unless the city provided him with needed medical and other supplies. The treasure was secured in iron pots with iron covers and buried in a vault six feet below the surface. The most likely location based on the reports of the prisoners would be the village on the St. Mary's River. Its whereabouts after that are unknown. It seems that Shakespeare wrote a play which has not passed down to us, called Loves Labours Won. Perhaps its real, or perhaps, like the mountains that supposedly hide it, its pure superstition. According to a survivor, the Esperanza sailed from Peru into the Pacific Ocean carrying 3 million pesos in silver and gold, as well as other valuable objects. Its chief planner, Jimmy Burke, began a campaign to kill most of the other persons involved in the robbery, in order to keep as much of the loot as possible, after paying the necessary tribute to the mob bosses who okayed the theft. In recent years there has been an ongoing expedition to recover the treasure and other artifacts from the wreck of the Adventure Galley near Madagascar. Tales of lost mines abound in the folklore and history of the old west. And, reportedly, about $375,000 worth of gold bars. 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. While in prison he was convicted for an earlier murder. Bored with life ashore, he soon returned to piracy, operating in the Caribbean and near the mouth of Delaware Bay. The great yellow diamond of the Medici family originally came from India and was said to be 137.27 carats. In 2014 a former mob member and then informant claimed that some of the money was placed by Burke in a safety deposit box, with the keys put in the hands of Burkes two daughters. Eventually, dive teams digging 30 feet deep in the seabed found a coin from 1684 that was frozen into a cannon ball. The office of . He even wrote a book and a poem, both of which supposedly contain clues as to the whereabouts of the buried treasure, which is estimated to be worth $2 million. @Nick. One-hundred eighty pirates died when it sank. published December 08, 2015. In 1993, French writer Max Valentin buried a golden owl somewhere in France. The Whydah sank in 1717 carrying hundreds of thousands of gold coins and other artifacts. The San Jos. We all know the sad story of Montezuma. Reports from prisoners of the Shawnee in the early 1790s indicate that the Little Miami location was not the region of the mines, since it was destroyed by George Rogers Clark in 1780. pieces of gold in multiple chambers of the mound. Part of it was found in a UK thrift shop in 1998, but the majority of the necklace has never been recovered. The only portion of the money known to have been distributed was the tribute. The difficulty in finding the site has been complicated by the fact that there was more than one village named Chillicothe, and the villages moved from time to time. Big whoop, I hear you say. Get the best travel content right to your inbox, 40 Real Forgotten Treasures That Still Havent Been Found. Interestingly, Jonathan Swift was convicted in Alexandria in the late 1700s for counterfeiting English currency, producing coins which contained more and purer silver than genuine. According to a journal left by one John Swift, a British sailor in Alexandria, Virginia, a party of men including himself and a former captive of the Shawnee in Kentucky named George Mundy crossed Big Sandy Creek near its headwaters, and continuing west for a considerable distance we located three of the mines. It was the treasure Le Clezio's grandfather looked for in the early 19th century. Library of Congress. None of those claims have been confirmed so far. National Gallery of Art. According to the story, several Virginia adventurers journeyed to the Spanish provinces of the west and discovered gold and other valuables in a mine in what is now the state of Colorado. A California gold nugget weighing just under ten pounds. Everything You Need To Know About Canada Opening Up For American Travelers, Resorts That Will Have You Feeling Like A Kid In A Candy Store, The Best Riviera Nayarit Resorts With Pools. When his demands were met he released the prisoners and blithely sailed off. According to legend, this cache of treasure could have been hidden by Spanish missionaries centuries ago and forgotten. It is one of many buried caches of considerable wealth in the west, waiting patiently to create a fortune for some lucky explorer. Peking Man, or homo erectus pekinensis was a specimen of an early human subspecies that lived 500,000-750,000 years ago. The Rangers roamed northern and central Virginia conducting hit and run raids. So he and some partners quietly bought up a bunch of gold and smuggled it into the U.S. in the hopes of increasing their already vast fortunes. The remainder of the document, which was deciphered using the text of the Declaration of Independence as the key, tells of the contents of the other two documents, including, the exact locality of the vault, so that no difficulty will be had in finding it.. He was one of the gentlemen of New York who worked to raise the funds to build Trinity Church. During the Battle of Diu, the ship was instrumental in helping to capture Malacca. The innkeeper opened the box years later, but no one was ever able to decode the letter. At each level, you have a specific list of goals that need to be completed. In 1949, a chest of treasure was located on the beach in that area. Captain Kidd welcomes guests aboard while in New York harbor. So its still out there somewhere, cash and jewels totaling almost $6 million dollars and possibly more now, given the price of gold and silver today in comparison to 1978. Im talking, of course, about RMS Republic. When the police foolishly shot three (innocent) men out front, the master crook realized he was surrounded. Instead of simply using his finds to enrich himself, he decided to bury them somewhere in the Rocky Mountains and leave clues for would-be adventurers such as himself. There are many other legends and tales of lost pirate treasures hidden away on some coast or the other, like the "Treasures of Lima" believed to be worth $200 million, but has never been found. Off the shores of Nova Scotia is Oak Island, a place where unimaginable riches (or absolutely nothing) can supposedly be found at the bottom of a money pit that has eluded treasure seekers for centuries.Originally, the money pit was found in 1795 by a teenager named Daniel McGinnis who claimed he saw mysterious lights coming from the island, and upon investigating, found a small circular hole . One theory states that Montezuma's body was exhumed and the treasure traveled to southern Utah. It wasnt long after the events of 1858 that those neighbors were exploring the late Frenchmans property looking for the gold. Fairfax Court House in a photograph taken in June 1863. Mosby never returned to Fairfax Court House to retrieve the treasure he had buried there though he lived much of his life following the Civil War in Washington DC, only a few miles away. Although the region is thought to . Be sure to check out 50 of the spookiest urban legends from each state. National Archives. Its fate is unknown, and it remains one of the most highly-sought missing religious artifacts in the world. The survey described the furnaces as ancient though there was little other description. Here Is The List Of The Wealth Portfolio Of A Few Notable Pirates: 1.William Thompson-$200 million- treasure of Lima - 1820 The famous treasure of Lima assumed to be buried in Costa Rica at the Cocos Island is estimated at $200 million using today's market economy rates. Stolen Bank Loot Buried Near Red River Red River - By Henley Quadling - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link The First National Bank in Bowie, Texas was robbed in 1894. Additional hints and clues are in his two books but the poem is all that is necessary to discover the treasure. 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. One of these days, someone is going to get super famous for finding his sarcophagus. While historians can account for many of the eggs, seven remain missing. The Brewster Boys decided on the hiding spot, and Lynn wrote a poem laden with clues. The men were caught by another Union patrol and as irregulars, they were hanged. with a weight of seventeentalents. 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. Who cares about a bunch of dimes? Well, the dimes lost are among the rarest and most valuable in U.S. history, and could be worth millions today. Some theorize that the diamond was broken down into smaller stones and will therefore never be seen again. Fort Randall, located near Myrtle Beach, and just north, is part of a legend that says that there are Civil War treasures buried nearby. According to Sky History, perhaps the most popular theory is that there's pirate treasure on Oak Island specifically, treasure hidden there by 17th century pirate Captain Kidd and his crew. Thence to the mines. Until 1769 Swift and his partners mined silver, encountering enough difficulties with the Shawnee that several loads of it had to be buried nearby. the steps, with the entrance at the East, Although the tale, and others, have generated derision among skeptics, coins dated prior to 1769 keep turning up in the region, and Swifts mines have been searched for in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and even in Pennsylvania. 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