"Bright red sunset, pitch-black skull flag,
Blood-stained knives and piles of gold that blinded people's eyes. "The story of the pirate has always been so fascinating, providing an endless source of creation for artists over the centuries. In the fairy tale Peter Pan fights the murderous Captain Hook to protect Wendy, and above Stevenson there are mountains of treasure waiting for the explorers to arrive. These well-known legends have captivated generations of young people like magnets. In the West, almost every little boy once dreamed of being a pirate who galloped over the sea in search of lost treasures and robbed the rich and the poor.
If anyone wants to explore the unaccounted for pirate treasures, in the rich Indian archives of Spanish Seville,
Piles of yellowed dossiers and archives are good materials. The archive also contains ancient nautical diaries, bills of lading, research records, lost shipping, ship damage, accounts of sailors who survived, and sketches of the location of ships shipwrecked. The Spanish Immigration Archives also provides reliable information on when and where the sailboat was, whether it sank in a battle with pirates or in a storm, etc. Information such as this can sometimes be a major discovery for treasure hunters.
Treasure Island's buried secrets
The largest "sale" in the history of piracy, the so-called "Lima Treasure Theft", occurred in 1821. At that time, the army led by Simon Bolivar, a famous leader of South America who opposed Spanish colonial rule, approached Lima, the capital of Peru.
Lima is considered the richest city in South America, with countless gold ingots, gold coins, gold ornaments of the Incas, valuable utensils of religious temples, necklaces, rings, jewel-encrusted weapons, golden statues and so on. A shipment of treasures was loaded by the fleeing Governor of Lima on a British two-masted sailing ship, the Mary Kiel, commanded by the Dutch captain Viljam Thomson, who was known for his loyalty and reliability. One night after the Mary Kiel set sail, Thomson led sailors into the cabin, killed the Governor and Archbishop of Lima, and raised the pirate flag on board.
For safety, the captain put the treasure into a mysterious cave. In the days that followed, he did not find the right opportunity to return to the cave to retrieve the treasure, until 1844, when the captain died, leaving behind a treasure map that was difficult to distinguish between authenticity and falsity.
This map was mixed with various treasure maps that later circulated, tempting many people to go and try to find the captain's treasure. Perhaps too mysterious, perhaps too hidden, the whereabouts of this huge fortune cast a shadow of the unknown. According to local legend, the treasure was buried on a small island in the Pacific Ocean, Cocos Island. Not far southwest of costa Rica, this island is interestingly depicted in Stevenson's famous book.
In 1978, an unexpected event stunned all the treasure hunters, and the Costa Rican government closed the island of Cocos to no one on the grounds of protecting the ecological environment. But what kind of new secret is hidden in this? Will the treasure of Treasure Island be buried forever?
William Kidd's Mughal Treasures
The pirate leader, Captain Kidd, was the most famous pirate in the Americas, and almost every sailor knew the story of his desperate robbery of the priceless treasures of the Mughal Empire.
On January 30, 1698, Kidd attacked a three-masted galleon. When Kidd and all his sailors killed the 500-ton ship, equipped with 10 guns and filled with rich booty brought from Bangladesh, they learned that it was carrying the treasures of the Mughal Empire.
For the next two years, Kidd became a "sea demon." He plundered a large number of merchant ships and, in a very short period of time, accumulated a huge fortune. According to historical sources, he accumulated treasures worth billions.
His temperament also grew more and more violent, and during a heated quarrel he even seriously wounded his own gunner, and soon the crew mutinied. Kidd had to return to New York with a few of his men. Before arriving in New York, Kidd was rumored to have buried his treasure on The Island of Gadinas at the western end of Long Island.
Soon he was arrested and imprisoned. Before dying,
He handed his wife a note with 4 sets of numbers written on it, 44-10-66-18. In 1933, an Englishman named Palmer found 3 treasure maps in 3 chests used by Kidd, with the same small island and corresponding latitude and longitude, but Palmer died suddenly and mysteriously. The treasure map fell into the hands of his housekeeper. In 1937, a man named Wiggins claimed to have seen the fourth treasure map.
In 1951, explorer Braunley was given a treasure map and organized a treasure hunt, but was forced to return empty-handed by a hurricane. In this way, the story of Kidd's treasure, along with the legend of the curse of 7 people who will die because of it, has been passed down to this day, and the treasure is still missing.
To this day, archaeologists and those who believed in their luck are still looking for the booty of this Scottish pirate.
The mystery of the golden anchor chain
Klaus Stoltbecker went down in the annals of Northern Europe because he later became one of the boldest pirates of the Food Brothers Alliance. Born in Wismar, Germany, he commanded more than fifty ships to plunder the North Sea to the Baltic Sea all year round.
The year 1392 was a huge turning point for Klaus Stoltbecker. That year, he captured the Baltic island of Gotland. Although the island was not large, it did not belong to any country at the time, so they were very safe to operate here. And because this island is located in the northern Baltic Sea at the crossroads of the maritime trade route,
It has an important strategic position. Thus Gotland became the stronghold of Klaus Stoltbeck's pirate gang.
By April 1393, they ventured to attack Bergen, a wealthy trading city in southern Norway.
Looted and burned the city. Later, after consulting the legends and chronicles of pirates in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, people learned that in order to take away as much of the gold and silver treasure as possible, the pirates hollowed out the masts of their ships.
A large amount of gold is cast into a gold anchor chain and hidden in it.
In October 1401, after his arrest, Klaus Stoltbecker was escorted to Grassbruck with his 73 pirate brothers. When the noose was about to be put around their necks, the leader of the pirates offered the Hamburg mp for a beautiful gold anchor chain as beautiful as a garland and countless gold coins, plus a gold church bell tower roof donated to Hamburg to redeem the pirates' freedom. The request was flatly rejected, and their heads fell to the ground. Subsequently, their bloody heads were nailed to wooden stakes in rows.
The Hamburg mps were convinced that whatever means they took, they would always find stoltbeck's treasure. But to this day, all the property of the German pirate captain remains unaccounted for.
It is said that pirates threw gold anchor chains into the swamp, while countless other gold and silver jewels were hidden in different places between Lübeck and Rostock. Since the beginning of the 20th century, explorers and treasure hunters attracted to the treasure have found these locations, but have not found the treasure. Where did this pirate bury his golden chain and treasure? Perhaps only accidental discovery can reveal its truth.