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. It was exactly what it sounds like: a whole room made of amber (fossilized tree sap, for those who havent seen Jurassic Park). The most valuable haul of pirate treasure ever found is heading to Galveston for an exhibit showcasing dozens of cannons, coins and muskets. 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. The potential value of the diamonds and gold thought to be onboard makes this one of the world's most valuable undiscovered wrecks. These tales could very well be just a part of any pirate myths that exist today, given the few actual accounts of pirates who hid away their treasures. He was unable to relocate the mines, though he left behind his journal and a map drawn from memory. One problem with relying on the journal of John Swift is that there is more than one, and they are all different. Some speculate it is one of the richest treasure ships ever to have been lost. Many ships perished in the hurricane, all of which were carrying an enormous cargo of gold, silver, and gems that has been valued to fetch around $700 million today. Perhaps the greatest such cache of riches was stored at the city of Lima, in modern day Peru. By then the Shawnee were long gone, with yet another Chillicothe appearing near Fort Wayne, Indiana. In the days immediately after the crime wiretaps led investigators to suspect that the money, or at least part of it, was buried on properties frequented by Burkes crew, but they were unable to get enough evidence to obtain a search warrant. Heather went on to appear on primetime TV in the UK, the US and across the Globe interviewing the likes of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, writer Maya Angelou and actor George Clooney. The Menorah from the Second Temple of Jerusalem was taken by the Romans in 70 AD and put on display in a temple in Rome. Wikimedia. That's exactly what happened in 1820, when Captain William Thompson was given the care of a cargo hold full of reclaimed pirate treasure, including things like 1,000 diamonds, 200 jewel-filled chests, and 113 gold statues. The Whydah was the 50th ship the pirate captain took. [9] In true aristocratic fashion Albuquerque managed to save himself, but the site of the shipwreck has never been found. Henry Gordier was a Frenchman who joined the rush of prospectors to the California gold fields in the 1850s. Within a few months, all of them turned up dead under mysterious circumstances, and the location of the gold died with them. 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. Since then the ciphered documents have been analyzed by cryptographers using supercomputers and other deciphering techniques, but to no avail. The Adventure Prize was found in relatively shallow waters near the Dominican Republic in 2007. 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. Actually, he was more a privateer a sort of state-sponsored pirate who made a name for himself harassing Spains enemies in the Atlantic. Sometimes, the effort it takes to find sunken treasure is worth it, as was the case of the Whydah ship. According to legend, pirate treasure reportedly worth 100 million is buried on an Indian Ocean island. So if youre in Los Angeles and have a metal detector go see if you can dig up a piece of history for yourself. The bandits quickly headed north to the Oklahoma border with Texas. Heather has reported live from the White House and the Oscars, as well as produced cutting edge series from sub Saharan Africa. At the outbreak of the Second World War, the casket was transported to the town of Sieniawa in southeast Poland, where it was hidden in a bricked-up repository. 15 / 15 Courtesy Indian River County, FL Tourism The Vero Beach treasures Over the centuries, an untold number of shipwrecks occurred off the coast of. But what became of all their riches? It hasnt been seen since, though according to one version of events a local German mill owner betrayed its location to the invading Nazis. During the 1666 Great Fire of London, wealthy residents of the city buried luxury goods such as gold and wine in the ground to protect it from the raging flames above. Where was their cash? The fate of Peking Man is unknown, but fortunately he is not the only specimen of his kind. Another appeared in the name of Jonathan Swift. 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). Clues and hints to the location of the treasure are in his two books and contained in a poem, which according to Fenn is all that is required to locate the treasure, once properly deciphered. Be sure to check out 50 of the spookiest urban legends from each state. Lower left panel of the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, which was displayed at the Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, was stolen during the night of 10 April 1934. We know they brought it to Rome, Colgate University classics professor Professor Robert Garland tells Readers Digest, because its depicted on the frieze on the Arch of Titus in the Forum. Some claim the menorah was housed at Romes Temple of Peace, which burned down in the year 191 after which the fate of the Menorah is uncertain. Several chests have been found filled with Spanish gold in Pinellas Point in St.Petersburg with many others still suspected to be lost. None of the rest of the treasure was found, having failed once, Kidd kept his mouth shut regarding the rest of his treasure. It is the only pirate treasure ever found. Captain Kidd is the pirate we can thank for hidden treasure maps. Their journey was cut short by a hurricane, which plunged the ruined ships and their cargo into the Gulf of Mexico. The Merchant Royal - 1641 An English vessel sunk off of Land's End in Cornwall, England. It yielded some artifacts including cannon, but no treasure. The office of . The Nazis used the area as a testing sight and hid a large amount of counterfeit money in the lake. No such treasure has been found. According to legend, this cache of treasure could have been hidden by Spanish missionaries centuries ago and forgotten. 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. But by 1820 the Spanish empire was in decline, and Lima was on the brink of a revolt. 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. Well, except for FBI agents and treasure hunters, all of them looking for any hint of the loot the bank robbers may have left behind. The general was an important enough prisoner that Mosby decided to escort him to Culpeper Virginia. He then placed the letter in a box and gave the box to a Virginia innkeeper for safekeeping. The amount of money was small compared to what Kidd had obtained in the Caribbean. A carrack was a lighter vessel, easier to handle in varying winds and rough seas, and also faster under sail than the galleons. But someone managed to steal the diamond from him. Im talking, of course, about RMS Republic. Instead, predictably, he took it for himself. In 2014, an anonymous couple reported stumbling upon decaying metal cans during a walk with their dog on their northern . It passed from dynasty to dynasty until the 10th century AD; after that, there is no record of its existence. In the closing months of WWII, the Nazis sunk a whole bunch of stuff into Lake Toplitz in Austria. Some pirates buried treasuremost notably Captain . Nassau quickly became the roughest and most famous pirate haven. Back in the 1840s, prospectors established a gold mine in the Superstition Mountains of central Arizona. But to date none has been recovered. Mysterious box containing a map, coins and a mummified hand found in Tampa Bay attic. After studying maps and court documents from the trials he eventually honed in on a patch of sand just 115 feet from the shore. Fairfax Court House in a photograph taken in June 1863. This was eventually found, and used as evidence against him in his trial. The ship is the only authenticated pirate ship ever to be found. Its not the man whos lost, but the mine. Some claimed to have found them, but their locations since became lost. This piece of jewelry contained a whopping 2,930 diamonds and many precious Burmese rubies. They have never been found. While its ultimate fate is unknown, it was most likely smuggled to South America, recut and resold. 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. 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. 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. 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. As a boy growing up in Texas, Fenn once found an arrowhead. At the time Fenn placed the chest he was approximately 80 years old, and he claimed that hiding the treasure required two trips to and from his car, which he completed in an afternoon. The robbery was a central part of the film Goodfellas, which more or less depicted its aftermath accurately. There are some who believe that the prisoners created the stories of the silver as a means of entertaining their listeners after being ransomed, but the Shawnee acquired their silver, which they worked into armbands, amulets, and other items from somewhere. The lack of plunder that the Union armies found in the South has led generations of gold hunters and amateur historians to speculate that the Confederates must have somehow buried or otherwise hidden their treasures. 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. Not long ago, a group of history buffs from Michigandeveloped the theory that some of the hidden treasuresabout $140 million dollars worthare sitting at the bottom of Lake Michigan. According to legend, theres a goldmine of uncommon wealth in the Superstition Mountains to the east of Phoenix, Arizona. If so, well played. Since what they were doing was illegal, Trabuco and friends decided to bury the gold somewhere in the deserts of New Mexico. 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 . If you like learning about hidden treasures, youll also want to check out these strange urban legends actually turned out to be true. He stopped at Gardiners Island to bury some of the money he received for the goods he had sold. Ships came to Havana from Vera Cruz, Cartagena, and Porto Bello, loaded with the wealth pillaged from Mexico. Oil painting showing the explosion of San Jos during Wager's Action. -- St. Martin/St. The coastal areas of Virginia and the Carolinas are said by some to contain treasure left behind by Blackbeard, Stede Bonnett and other pirates who once roamed the seas off the Americas preying on merchantmen and Spanish treasure ships. What started with a leisurely dog walk ended with a stunning gold discovery worth over $10 million. He was convicted and an attempt to negotiate by revealing the cache of money hidden on Gardiners Island backfired when it was instead used as evidence against him. Disturbingly, several people have died in the quest. Unfortunately for Dillinger, he was shot just a few months later, so he never got to retrieve his 200 large. Black Caesar, the story goes, used the island and other hiding places along the . A French merchantman, Le Griffon, joined to avail itself of the protection of the Spanish galleons against the pirates who roamed the Caribbean, hoping to steal the treasures that the Spanish had stolen from what they called New Spain. Quite possibly the richest ship of the entire treasure fleet of 1715 is resting on the bottom off the coast of Florida, waiting to be discovered and relieved of its gold and silver plate, and the emeralds, diamonds, and pearls it carried when it departed Havana three centuries ago. Maybe the old corsair was just trolling all posterity. A man named Nathan Smith thinks he's found the remnants of a sunken ship from an 1822 hurricane north of Corpus Christi - thanks to Google Earth. A Menorah is a 7-pronged candle holder sacred in Jewish religious observances. National Gallery of Art. Curry County - Where the Rogue River meets the Pacific Ocean at Gold Beach, . Taking Spanish treasure by force and hiding it in the sand for later use. 1935. . There, as one of the survivors noted in his letters, the pirates buried the bulk of the treasure before repairing their ship and sailing away, never to be heard from again. Called the "holy grail of shipwrecks," the Spanish galleon San Jos was carrying a treasure of silver, gold, and emeralds worth billions of dollars today. Amaro Pargo was a Spanish pirate of the 1700s. Perhaps its real, or perhaps, like the mountains that supposedly hide it, its pure superstition. 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. He was one of the gentlemen of New York who worked to raise the funds to build Trinity Church. It is also most unusual in that it lists the locations and estimated values of 63 lost treasures, but in rather cryptic language: In the ruin that is in the valley ofAcor, under 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 whole collection included about 6 tons of amber. YARMOUTH, Mass. 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. 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. He was instead quietly buried, with a bunch of his treasure, in an unknown location. Houston's second-year center is growing into a serious offensive force. He was hanged in London, the rope broke, and he was forced to re-ascend the gallows to be hanged a second time. 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. Underwater explorers in Madagascar say they have discovered treasure belonging to the notorious 17th-Century Scottish pirate William Kidd. native and notable treasure hunter Douglas Carmichael reported he had found jewels and coins on his second expedition to Isle Haute, but there was never any evidence to support his claim. After the defeat of Austria in WWI, the last emperor took the Florentine diamond with him to Switzerland, where he planned to live out his days in exile. Hoping to keep it safe for their families, the men hid the treasure, and Beale painstakingly wrote a letterin codedescribing exactly where it could be found. Almost 1,950 years ago, in the year 70 AD, the Romans sacked the Temple of Jerusalem and absconded with the temples prized Menorah. The prisoners who described carrying the silver mentioned that it came from a place not far from a stream. 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. On one occasion, he captured a well-heeled Union general who was carrying about $350,000 worth of gold and loot. Those crown jewels that arent stolen can be lost or destroyed by the rulers themselves. 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. Clifford said the State of Massachusetts tried to force him to sell claiming they owned a third of it. The team was excavating an ancient burial mound in northern Afghanistan. Shawnee Silver Mines It's known that the Shawnee Indians used silver to make stuff like amulets. Although the region is thought to . He is now hoping to build a museum on Cape Cod to permanently house the collection. 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. When his demands were met he released the prisoners and blithely sailed off. Both the states of Indiana and Ohio drained most of the swamp during the 1800s. A carving of a cornstalk appeared on the cave wall. Its discoverer, a German (not a Dutchman) named Jacob Waltz reportedly found the treasure trove but chose to keep its location secret. The wonder of that experience turned him into a lifelong seeker of antiquities and archaeological curiosities. The same seemed to be true of other rebel leaders. Theyre waiting for an enterprising adventurer to come along and find them, and some of them are very valuable indeed. One of the most fascinating pirate stories is the legend of Samuel Bellamy and his ship the 'Whydah'. No treasure has been reported to be found yet. The reason Blackbeard's fortune remains such a mystery is due to the fact that other pirate treasure has been found before. 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. On his deathbed, the Dutchman is said to have described the mines location to Julia Thomas, a Phoenix-area neighbor who took care of him, but she couldnt locate it. There are people who spend their whole lives and considerable sums of money searching for sunken treasure ships, lost mines, and hidden loot. 3. Pirate Olivier Levasseur, also known as "The Buzzard" (La Buse), was rumoured to have hidden treasure before his death in 1730. 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. He wanted to create a treasure hunt for the ages, so he laid down 11 clues for where to find the owl, and promised a million francs to whomever found it. Dutch Schultz 's treasure. By these acts, he greatly reduced the number of men with whom he would have to share the plunder they had attained. Gordier was highly regarded by most of his neighbors with the exception of three living in a nearby cabin situated on Lassen creek. By 1717 he sailed as part of a fleet of pirate ships seizing vessels from all nations at will, and eluding the vessels dispatched to capture him. They captured chests of gold, silver . The same can be said for each of the towns named Chillicothe, which also existed further north in Ohio, on both the Maumee and the St. Marys River. They did not describe whether they walked upstream or down, and there are numerous creeks and branches of the Little Miami which could have been followed on their walk. He left the documents in a locked box with the key with a Lynchburg innkeeper named Robert Moriss. Eventually, dive teams digging 30 feet deep in the seabed found a coin from 1684 that was frozen into a cannon ball. After Pierponts death, the farm was abandoned. The Copper Scroll is the most peculiar of all the Dead Sea Scrolls, archaic as they are. One of the most sacred of all has been missing since 191 AD. 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. 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. Burkes son-in-law, Anthony Indelicato. 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. Home > Culture > 40 Real Forgotten Treasures That Still Havent Been Found. 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. 1934. This was the case with the crown jewels of King John of England, the unpopular king who was forced to sign Magna Carta in 1215 so he would stop pillaging his own lords estates. In 1718 he blockaded the harbor at Charles Towne in South Carolina, taking any vessels attempting to enter or leave the harbor, ransacking them all. In LAs Elysian Park, folks in the 1800s used to come to bury their treasures for safekeeping or so the story goes. It may have been a sequel to a play of which we do have a copy called Loves Labours Lost. Legend has it that Elliott Key was once home to a notorious pirate who preyed on passing ships. Although there have been claims made by various former mafia members who turned into government informants about what happened to the money and jewels, none have been verified and the money has never been found. This has led treasure hunters from all over the world to seek their fortune in the area to this day. Photo credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters. Beale never came back for it. When Pargo died, he had written in his will of a chest containing many of his most valued treasures: gold, silver, fabrics, pearls, porcelain. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock, We are no longer supporting IE (Internet Explorer), forbidden places no one is allowed to visit, urban legends actually turned out to be true, 50 of the spookiest urban legends from each state, mysteries science still hasnt been able to figure out, conspiracy theories that turned out to be true, ancient mysteries that researchers still cant explain, Do Not Sell My Personal Information CA Residents. It was there that the bulk of the Chalagawtha division of the Shawnee settled after the destruction of their lower towns. The Russian government recreated the amber room in the Catherine Palace, and you can visit the restored version today. How much money is there is subject to debate, as is the fact or fiction of William Kidds legendary career as a pirate. What exactly they hid down there remains unknown because the cache is largely unrecovered, but most people believe theres a fortune to be found. 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