True story (my part anyway):
In the 60’s I was growing up in Texas. A friend told me that his great grandfather had told a deathbed story to family members about the Civil War. He was on a small boat running the blockade near the end of the war, trying to run up the Sabine River with gold, silver, jewelry and such to buy supplies for the Rebel forces.
The boat was spotted by a Union blockade boat. The Rebels ran up into the mouth of the Sabine River and passed two of three islands, stopping at the third to bury the barrel that held the booty.
They got away at the time but supposedly all but the man on his deathbed were killed not long after. He had never gone back to look for the treasure, but my friend’s father did. He found the third island but it was thickly overgrown with something that sounded similar to bamboo and he gave up after floundering around through the stuff a few times.
I always liked that story.
You should tell the Oak Island guys. They need a change of luck.
They got away at the time but supposedly all but the man on his deathbed were killed not long after. He had never gone back to look for the treasure, but my friend’s father did. He found the third island but it was thickly overgrown with something that sounded similar to bamboo and he gave up after floundering around through the stuff a few times.
I always liked that story.>>> great story probably did every thing but bury the barrel of jewels.