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In 1820, as revolution swept toward the city of Lima in Peru, the Spanish authorities panicked. To keep their vast church treasure out of rebel hands, gold, silver, jewels, and a life sized golden statue of the Virgin Mary, they loaded it aboard a British trading ship called the Mary Dear and entrusted it to her captain, William Thompson.
It was a fatal mistake. Out at sea, Thompson and his crew reportedly cut the throats of the Spanish guards, threw them overboard, and turned pirate. They are said to have sailed to Cocos Island, a jungle covered rock in the Pacific off the coast of Costa Rica, and buried the entire fortune there. Thompson was later captured, but he never revealed the location, and he died with the secret.
Ever since, Cocos Island has drawn treasure hunters like almost no other place on Earth. Hundreds of expeditions have combed it, including one backed by a future president of the United States. Not one has ever produced the Treasure of Lima. The island is now a protected national park, and digging for it is forbidden.
Is it possible that a king’s ransom in Spanish gold has sat undisturbed in that jungle for two hundred years, guarded by nothing but bad maps and thick roots?
Long since quietly dug up, or still buried somewhere on that island? What do you think happened to the Treasure of Lima?
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What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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