Lost Treasure
King John's Lost Treasure
John, King of England from 1199–1216, is remembered today for many reasons, most of them unfavourable. To children he is best known as the arch-villain in the Robin Hood story, and in history he is remembered as ‘bad king John’, who lost most of...
The Legend of El Dorado
The legendary lost city of gold, El Dorado legend originated in the Muisca territory from Spaniards who were told of a ritual at Lake Guatavita where treasures were thrown into the lake as offerings for the new king. Attempts to drain the lake for...
The Lost Treasure of Cocos Island
The most adventurous treasure in the world must lie on Cocos Island. There are many versions of this treasure cache, and about as many suppositions as to where it is buried on the island. All of the details gleaned from a number of documents...
Montezuma's Lost Aztec Treasure
In February 1519 a fleet of eleven Spanish ships landed on the coast of Mexico near the modern day port of Vera Cruz. Onboard was a force of nearly six hundred Conquistadors; led by the infamous Hernán Cortés, they had come to Mexico...
The Dutchman's Lost Gold Mine
Lee Paul
One of the strangest, most enigmatic, of all stories to come out of the Arizona desert is that of the Dutchman’s Lost Mine. Some claim it is a myth, compounded and exaggerated by the successive imaginations of many people until it defies belief....
Oak Island Treasure Mystery with Videos
The Discovery of the Oak Island Treasure
One summer day in 1795 Daniel McGinnis, then a teenager, was wandering about Oak Island, Nova Scotia (see Geography) when he came across a curious circular depression in the ground. Standing over this depression was a tree whose...
The Oak Island Money Pit
The most bizarre chapter in the story of Rennes-le-Chateau may have to do with the Money Pit mystery on Oak Island just off Nova Scotia. According to Michael Bradley, some of the keepers of the Grail may have come to the New World long...
The Mystery of The Lost Treasure of Pisco
Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia
The year was 1859. Four unsavory characters were serving as mercenaries for the Peruvian Army. A Spaniard (Diego Alvarez), an Irishman (Killorain), an Englishman (Luke Barrett) and an American (Brown). They figured there had to be a way to make better...