If you are an adventurer, it’s time to grab your pickaxe, shovel, and diving gear, and get to work on unearthing, adventurer always thinks of bumping into unimaginable treasure.
Of course, by now, all the really good treasure must all have been recovered, right? Wrong — billions of dollars of bountiful booty are still out there, just waiting for the right adventurer to track them down and turn them into a retirement plan for the next ten generations of their family.
In this article I will share with you twelve (12) untaped hidden treasure that are to be discovered
1. CAPTAIN KIDD’S TREASURE.
Anyone who says they don’t want to be a pirate is lying at least a little bit, but since it isn’t a great career choice, finding a pirate’s treasure is a completely legitimate alternative. Captain William Kidd was one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, and when he was executed in London in 1701, he took his secrets to the grave.
That includes the location of his flagship and the treasure that he amassed during his career. If you care to go looking for the Adventure, the ship is somewhere around Madagascar and the island affectionately named the Island of the Pirates, Sainte Marie. According to the accepted story, Kidd set Adventure on fire and buried her in a watery grave, transferring what booty he could carry onto a new ship. But then it gets murky; legend relayed by the Washington Post says it’s buried either off the coast of Madagascar, in New York, or in the Caribbean.
In 2015, Barry Clifford declared he’d found the wreck of Adventure, and he had a 110-pound silver ingot as proof. But no worries, dear treasure hunters. UNESCO declared it wasn’t treasure at all, just a piece of lead ballast. It — and other historians — condemned Clifford’s shoddy excavation and lack of documentation, and confirmed that Captain Kidd’s treasure is still up for grabs.
2. TREASURE OF THE NUESTRA SENORA DE ATOCHA (CAPTAIN’S CABIN).
Yes, the good ship Atocha was found and salvaged in 1985, from what the press called “The shipwreck of the century.” However, the most valuable part — the stern castle that housed the captain’s cabin and the ship’s most valuable cargo — has yet to be found.
The Nuestra Senora de Atocha was part of a Spanish flotilla of 20 ships bound from Havana to Spain in September of 1622.
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The ships were carrying an incredibly large amount of precious metals and valuable goods. The day after they set sail, a hurricane sank eight of the 20 ships, including the Atocha, which acted as the rear guard for the flotilla.
The vessel was a heavily armed galleon, and held one of the largest caches of treasure in the whole fleet. Since the ship sank in only 55 feet of water, attempts were quickly made to recover the horde, but the Spanish salvage teams couldn’t open the hatches. A month later, another hurricane swept the wreck away, leaving it lost for more than 400 years.
The treasure that has been recovered consists of nearly $500 million worth of precious metals and artifacts, but the elusive captain’s cabin remains to be found. Any salvage expert or true adventurer who finds and recovers it will truly be set for life.
3. THE IRISH CROWN JEWELS.
Many things were different in 1907, and ideas about security were very different. When the Irish Crown Jewels went missing, they were under the not-so-watchful eye of Sir Arthur Vicars, who kept them in the library of the Bedford Tower of Dublin Castle.
They were only kept there because no one had measured the door when they were building the dedicated safe room. The jewels’ actual safe couldn’t fit, so they decided to just leave them in the library and, presumably, go for a drink.
It was a member of the cleaning staff who told Vicars the keys to the library door weren’t where they were supposed to be on the morning of July 6. It wasn’t until the afternoon that he bothered to check the jewels and found they were gone.
Locks were unlocked, doors had been opened, and no alarms had been sounded, leading to the belief that it was an inside job. The top suspect isn’t Vicars but his second-in-command, Francis (brother of Ernest) Shackleton. He ultimately vanished without a trace after completing a prison sentence for bank fraud. Other suspects have been named, but the jewels are still missing. The Irish would probably still like them back.
4. TREASURE OF SANTISSIMA CONCEPCION.
The Santissima Concepcion — known at the time as El Grande — was a massive Spanish galleon commanded by Admiral Manual Ortiz Aosemena when it sank in 1683.
The El Grande was carrying a treasure bound for Spain, when it ran into the hurricane that sank it and killed 496 on board. Only four men made it to the shores of Saint Augustine, Florida, but the ship and its treasure was never found.
The El Grande was said to be carrying silver bullion, spices, 1,500 pounds of gold, 77 chests of pearls, 217 chests of other goods, and 49 chests of emeralds.
Legend has it that only a single chest filled with clothes and 1,500 pesos washed ashore in Florida — it was believed to belong to the wreck, but nothing has ever been found since. Recovery efforts went on until around 1701, but the wreck’s location is currently unknown. It may be somewhere in the waters of Key Biscayne or anywhere between the Florida coast and the Bahamas.
5. TREASURE OF SAN MIGUEL.
A lot of the treasure lost at sea during the early years of the eighteenth century cam about due to two things: the War of Succession in Spain, and a whole slew of hurricanes. In 1715, a small flotilla of ships came together to form a fleet of treasure ships, bound from the New World to Spain. Spain was in dire need of funds following the war, so it was common for treasure ships to sail back to Europe during times of peace, so they could help build up the empire’s coffers.
The flotilla arranged in 1715 was another of these missions, and they decided to hold off on their trip until right before hurricane season began, the idea being that the prevalence of hurricanes might keep pirates away during their trip. The wager paid off, in that they didn’t have to deal with pirates, but then the hurricane went after them, sinking every ship in the fleet.
Since the fleet sank, many efforts have been made to recover the treasure. Only a small fraction of the treasure was ever found, but six of the seven vessels were located. The San Miguel was a small Carrack-class vessel, lighter than a galleon and therefore faster. Because of this, the San Miguel was loaded with treasure, one of the richest treasures to be found on the bottom of the sea, in fact. So naturally, it’s the one ship in the fleet nobody’s found. There’s always a catch.
6. TREASURE OF GENGHIS KHAN.
It may surprise you to learn that the final resting place of history’s most successful emperor, who commanded the largest contiguous empire in history, is unknown.
The grave of Genghis Khan has been a secret lost for nearly a millennia — wherever it is, it’s likely the untold riches of the Mongolian Empire might just be settled there, too.
That’s the basic legend of Khan’s tomb.
The story goes that he wished his burial place be kept secret, so 40 of his men took his body and buried it somewhere. They were then killed by Khan’s guards, who in turn committed suicide, leaving nobody alive to tell where the tomb was.
It is also said that “40 girls — adorned in precious garments, gold and fine jewels — were killed and buried with him, to join his spirit in the afterlife.” Whether or not this story is true doesn’t matter. The location of Khan’s final resting place has been a mystery since his death, and people have been looking for it ever since.
Many believe that Khan rests somewhere around Laky Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan, but that’s as far as anyone has ever gotten. The Soviets took this legend so seriously, they funded a costly expedition in the 1970s to search for the tomb, but found nothing.
There are also those who believe he may have been buried atop Mount Burkhan Khaldun in Mongolia, as this would have been one of the highest points in the empire, and thus quite the symbolic place to bury its leader.
When it comes to buried treasure, finding the tomb of Genghis Khan — even without a speck of gold, though many specks would be preferable — would still amount to the discovery of the century. That’s something every treasure hunter would love to put on their business card.
7. TREASURE OF LIMA
It’s one of life’s most fundamental truths: most people just can’t be trusted to not steal a treasure hoard when they’re hired to transport it for someone else.
That’s exactly what happened in 1820, when Captain William Thompson was given the care of a cargo hold full of reclaimed pirate treasure, including things like 1,000 diamonds, 200 jewel-filled chests, and 113 gold statues.
Thompson was a British trader hired to take the treasure from Peru to Mexico. Instead, predictably, he took it for himself. It’s believed he headed to Cocos Island in the Pacific, stashed the treasure, then set sail again.
Unfortunately for Thompson, he ran into the Spanish, who executed the entire crew except for Thompson and his first mate. They bargained with their captors, promising to lead them to the treasure. We already know Thompson’s word wasn’t really worth much, so it’s not surprising that he escaped into the Cocos jungles when they returned.
No one’s really sure what happened to them after that, but it’s thought they were rescued sans treasure. Thompson isn’t the only one said to have buried treasure there.
A British sailor supposedly left 350 tons of gold there, along with the ill-gotten gains of the pirate Benito Bonito. No one’s really been able to do much large-scale searching, as treasure hunting has been outlawed by Costa Rica on behalf of UNESCO, the party-poopers.
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