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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? Edgar Cayce gave over 14,000 trance readings, all written down and still on file. He said proof of Atlantis would rise near Bimini in 1968. That year divers found a half mile road of giant stone blocks there. True seer, or lucky guess?
What do you think about this? Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky built a 500 foot tunnel just to move its dead out of sight of the living. It closed in 1961. Visitors still report a boy rolling a ball across empty floors. Restless spirits, or a dark building playing tricks on the mind?
What do you think about this? In 1891, a poor French priest named Bérenger Saunière began tearing up his church floor, then spent the next two decades funding lavish buildings on a stipend that should not have covered it. Real treasure, or a secret about how he ran his church?
What do you think about this? Puma Punku’s H-shaped stone blocks, cut from andesite by a culture dating to roughly 600 CE, are flat to within a couple millimeters, with no known metal tools hard enough to do it. Lost technique, or something we haven’t caught up to yet?
What do you think about this? The Georgia Guidestones were commissioned anonymously in 1979 by a man calling himself R.C. Christian, and no one ever learned his real name before the monument was bombed on July 6, 2022. Message, or a monument that did not deserve to stand?
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