Pirate Chest: When to give up

Salvor6 said:
In 1978 Bob Marlis found a wooden chest buried 3' deep on Sanibel Island. The chest had 290 silver eight reale coins and 150 gold eight escudo coins. Bob sold the coins and used the money to open a restaurant in downtown St. Petersburg. I met Bob and he showed me a couple coins he kept for himself. Bob was a WWII veteran and he served as a cook aboard the battleship Missouri.

Robert Vaughn was a diver for Mel Fisher when he found the Atocha. Years later Robert, who lived in Ft. Myers, found a buried pirate chest on Cayo Pelau that was supposedly buried by one of Jose Gaspar's pirate captains. So pirates DID bury chests of treasure. It's a known fact but the state archaeologists say that's not true because they don't want treasure hunters digging holes on the beach looking for buried chests.
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Seems to be some confusion as to if this Gaspar existed.:icon_scratch:

And did I sleep through them finding a chest at Fowler's???

V
 

vor said:
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And did I sleep through them finding a chest at Fowler's???

V
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No , just the one that Emmett Baird claimed that he found.
Note: No one ever saw this chest or the gold it allegedly contained, but Baird returned to Gainesville and started a hardware store, invested in a bank, and bought a mansion.
Was the pirate chest tale a cover story for his sudden wealth?
Many digs have happened since Baird, but nothing has ever been recovered.
 

OK so now do we all agree that pirates buried treasure chests? I have a chance to possibly do a dig for one on a piece of property near where I live. A chest was recovered well over 100 years ago in the same general location. I know the name of the guy that dug it up and the date. The current property owner has given me the opportunity to prove to him that there is a good enough reason for him to allow me to dig. We will be testing a new device this Friday. It can supposedly locate gold from a substantial distance away. I have a lot of faith and belief in the inventor.

I need to get my hands on a detector that can locate a buried chest and show some sort of image. I have been told that the Jeohunter is my best bet. One of my good friends is planning on buying one sometime soon. If anybody reading this has access to one of these or any other deep-seeking 3-Dimensional device please PM me. I have a couple of other possible chest locations. One is near a small creek that flows into a large river not far from an alleged pirate camp.

Whether everyone reading all this believes it or not there are probably more pirate chests buried near the central west coast of Florida than anywhere else. I am really good at getting permission to go after them. I just haven't been very good at digging them up.

As part of my laying my cards on the table I will share a video my wife took of me that was sent to a production company that requested it. It is unscripted and un-edited.

 

Great video BDD!

I want the head!!!
 

Which dog Chls?

BDD
Good to see you in action. Enjoyed it!
 

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https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AIBAJ&sjid=KyMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3474,5984890&hl=en

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,792401,00.html


Research and a little luck..... no doubt there is plenty more to be dug up around the world! :thumbsup:



QUOTED - The reason this story is worth investigating is that $1900 of the reported $500,000 has already been found. The first mention of treasure and Calf Island was in 1882.

In 1846, a man took a job as keeper of Bug Light in Boston Harbor. Although he lived quietly, the story leaked out that he was an ex-pirate in hiding. After several years, the lighthouse keeper retired and moved to one of the outer harbor islands. He lived here, and was called the King of Calf Island, until his death in 1882.

Just after the turn of the last century, a Canadian conducted a search for treasure on Greater Brewster Island, just off Boston. One Pegleg Nuskey passed this information on in 1937, to Edward Snow, a reporter in the Boston area. Before Snow could act on the information, he was suddenly actively involved in World War II.

Snow completed his hitch in 1944, and began to think again about the King of Calf Island. Here is one version of what transpired thereafter:
“Somehow Snow got the idea that the King must have left a chart showing the exact location of his treasure, which was supposed to be worth about $500,000. He didn’t find the chart, but he did get hold of an old book in Italian which local tradition said had belonged to the King. Snow took the book to the Boston Public Library for appraisal.
“Now comes the part of the story that reads like fiction, but the facts were reported by the Boston papers and retold in Time Magazine, on October 15, 1945. According to Time’s account, the old Italian book was turned over to Harriet Swift of the Boston Public Library. She turned the leaves and noticed a pattern of pin-holes on page 101. The holes pierced letters, forming a simple coded message. Its exciting message: The King of Calf Island had buried a treasure on Strong Island, off the shore of Cape Cod.

“When this coded message was explained to him, Edward Snow and his brother Donald set out for Strong Island at once. The pin pricks evidently did not tell exactly where the stuff was buried, but Snow took along an electronic gadget similar to a mine detector, which is used in locating metals. The Snow brothers dug five holes in the sand, and each time they found metal; but it proved to be only iron from some old wreck. But in the sixth excavation they hit the jackpot, according to Time, when the mean unearthed a small, encrusted copper box. It was full of tarnished old coins, minted in Peru, Mexico, Portugal, France, and Spain. Time carried a picture of Edward Snow sitting in the sand, with the box open in front of him, and both hands full of coins. The treasure amounted to only about $1900.

While this was quite a treasure in 1945, the big question to a modern-day treasure hunter is, where is the remaining supposed $498,000 that the King of Calf Island is believed to have hidden? As far as can be learned, nothing else has been found. - END QUOTE
 

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Big dog...
I have to ask...
What did you do for a living before THing ?
 

ARRC said:
Big dog...
I have to ask...
What did you do for a living before THing ?
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US Army-paratrooper-jungle warfare expert-combat engineer. Construction industry-34 years-house remodeling-barn building-aluminum business. Present-buy, fix and sell large commercial zero turn mowers. I have been treasure hunting off and on since 1987. It is hardly a business and if it were I would be broke, hungry and homeless. I am an expert on how NOT to treasure hunt.
 

chlsbrns said:
BDD... Where do you think we should dig...
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I am the wrong one to ask. Maybe the dowsers can give you someplace to start. If you want an expert opinion you will need to seek ECS's advice. My best guess is to dig where the treasure is.
 

Why are you so set on "dowsers"... no offense. >?
 

ARRC said:
Why are you so set on "dowsers"... no offense. >?
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I am not really "set" on dowsers. I have seen dowsing work. chlsbrns started a thread with a picture on the dowsing thread. I did not tell her to go there. I responded to her question.
 

ARRC said:
Why are you so set on "dowsers"... no offense. >?
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On this thread and others, with photos of his digs and commentary, BDD has provided compelling evidence on the effectiveness of dowsing, remote viewing, gut feeling, and LRL's for discovering treasure sites.
 

ECS said:
On this thread and others, with photos of his digs and commentary, BDD has provided compelling evidence on the effectiveness of dowsing, remote viewing, gut feeling, and LRL's for discovering treasure sites.
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Some people might read ECS's post and think it is a compliment but what he is saying is that since I have dug so many empty holes, dowsing, LRL's, remote viewing and gut feelings do not work. I can understand that point of view. As I have said many times before, if you are on-site with me and experience things first-hand you might tend to start believing in some of these methods. I can explain my lack of success but not at this time.
 

Maybe you just need a better dowser.
V :sunny:
 

ARRC-I got involved in treasure in 1987. My wife and I also have been breeding and showing English Mastiffs for over 30 years. The dogs are at the top of our list as far as where we have spent the most time and effort. We were never in it for the money and it cost us a lot. We retired from dog showing this last December. Our dog finished number one in the country in his category. I will provide a link to our website. It has not been updated in awhile and does not list everything we have done. Because of all the time spent on the dogs it really cut into my treasure time. Dogs have always been our top priority and treasure has been at the bottom.
Oaklane Mastiffs and Polaris Mastiffs
 

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