The late 1600s and early 1700s, when pirates really did roam the American coast.
In 1699 Captain Kidd anchored off Lewes for ten days, locals rowed out to trade, and a pirate's chest went ashore. Legend says Kidd buried gold on a Delaware Bay island. Here's what really happened.
A hurricane sank eleven Spanish treasure ships off Florida in 1715. Pirates, salvors and beachcombers have chased the silver ever since, and the queen's jewels are still missing.
Blackbeard really did raid ships off the Chesapeake and hide out on the Eastern Shore. So did his crew bury loot in the sand? What the records say, and what three centuries of shovels have found.
An iron chest, three curses and a headless guardian. The legend of Captain Kidd's gold on Charles Island off Milford, Connecticut, sorted into fact and folklore, plus how to walk out at low tide.
Ten Toe Express
