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Joseph Bradish's Block Island Pirate Loot: Legend vs Record
A mutinous London ship, four sealed bags and a governor with a long memory. Here's what the record says about Bradish's loot, and where Block Island fits.
Isles of Shoals Pirate Treasure: Quelch, Haley's Silver and Legend
A hanged pirate's gold, a sea captain's silver bars and a Blackbeard honeymoon that doesn't add up. Here's what's real on New Hampshire's Isles of Shoals.
Black Sam Bellamy's Gold: The Whydah Wreck and Its Lost Treasure
Two men crawled out of the surf. The rest of Black Sam Bellamy's crew, and tons of pirate gold, went down off Cape Cod in 1717. Some of it has been found. Most of it hasn't.
Captain Kidd's Delaware Bay Treasure: Lewes and the Lost Chest
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.
Blackbeard's Crew Treasure: Maryland's Eastern Shore Legend
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.
Captain Kidd's Treasure on Charles Island, Connecticut
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.
Jean Lafitte's Barataria Treasure: Pirate Gold in the Bayous
Warships closing in, a fortune in the warehouses and a swamp at his back. Did the pirate Jean Lafitte bury his loot in the Louisiana bayous, or is the Barataria treasure pure legend?
Jean Lafitte's Secret Stash: The Fort Morgan Treasure Legend
Pirate Jean Lafitte supposedly buried a fortune near Fort Morgan, Alabama. The catch: no record puts him digging there, and nobody is quite sure how, or when, he died.
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