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Describe Anne bonny
as a pirate in one word.

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Fierce.

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She would open up her shirt,

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bare her breasts during battle
as kind of a distraction tactic.

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That would work.

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She was one of the
wealthiest pirates in history.

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And what happens to Anne bonny?

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Poof, she vanishes.

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Anne bonny's treasure could
be buried on this plot of land.

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I think I know exactly where it is.

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All right, let's find it.

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Unbelievable!

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It's an old padlock!

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This is, like, pirates through and through.

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Here we go!

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Whoo-hoo!

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- Whoa.
- Whoa!

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It's shiny. Whoo!

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It's a.

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- It's a coin!
- My god!

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Yes.

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Close your eyes and picture
the quintessential pirate.

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Is he bearded? Threatening?

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Eyepatch and pistol, or is
he a swashbuckling rogue?

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Not bad, but what if I told you

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that one of the most
notorious pirates of all time

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wasn't a he at all?

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Her name was Anne bonny.

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And Anne here broke the pirate mold

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as a fearless and female buccaneer...

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Who was just as ruthless
as her male counterparts,

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terrorizing ships and amassing a fortune

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in stolen loot that today
could be worth millions.

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Her story is also steamy.

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Anne was finally captured with her lover,

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calico Jack rackham,

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and fellow female pirate
and possible lover, Mary read.

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What can I say?
Polyamorous wants a cracker.

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But then she was convicted in a trial

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that immortalized her as a
sexually rebellious sensation.

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Despite being found guilty
and sentenced to hang,

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Anne bonny had one
final trick up her sleeve.

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She vanished.

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As for the fate of her ill-gotten fortune,

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well, that, my friends, is a mystery.

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Now, treasure hunters in
south Carolina are uncovering

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new clues that point to
Anne's legendary Booty.

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Back off, you know what I mean.

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And a long-lost map is
pointing toward a property deep

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in the swamps where
Anne and her treasure

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may have hidden away from the world.

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And in the rivers of the low country,

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a long-lost black market
trading post may be

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the true final resting
place of her stolen fortune.

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So loosen your corset,
buckle your swash,

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and raise the jolly Roger
as we set sail in hot pursuit

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of the treasure of the
bewitching pirate Anne bonny.

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The past is all around us.

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My god! It goes on forever!

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A world of mystery.

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Come on!

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Look at that!

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Danger.

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Hang on!

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And adventure.

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It's just straight down!

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I gotta get a new job.

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I travel to the far corners of the earth

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to uncover where legends end.

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We got it!

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Yes!

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And history begins.

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Whoo-hoo! Here we go!

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I'm Josh gates, and this
is "expedition unknown."

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Welcome to Charleston, south Carolina,

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regularly voted one of
the best cities in america,

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and it's easy to see why,

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from the pastel-painted architecture

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to world-class restaurants
and some of the friendliest

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and most hospitable
locals you'll find anywhere

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in the country.

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Sure, it's a little humid in the summer,

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and the spring, and the fall,
and the winter sometimes,

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but come on, how about
all this old-world charm?

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For the British colonists
who first settled here,

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70% annual humidity
was a small price to pay

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for this prime location.

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The deep natural harbor off the Atlantic

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made Charleston a major port city.

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Even today, that connection
to the sea is everywhere,

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including right under your feet.

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These cobblestones that
line the streets of Charleston,

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they're actually not
native to North America.

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They came here as the ballast stones

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of English merchant ships
and were dumped in Charleston

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hundreds of years ago.

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The ballast stones, which
kept those ships upright,

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are still here.

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So too is the legacy of their trade.

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Over 40% of all enslaved africans

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transported to america entered
through the port of Charleston.

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They, along with the
export of goods to Europe,

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produced enormous wealth here,

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but through unimaginable brutality.

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And with so much money
moving in and out of this harbor,

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piracy is quick to follow,

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so much so that by the early 1700s,

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Charleston is america's pirate capital.

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The golden age of piracy is in full swing.

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Factoid... in may of 1718, black beard

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and the so-called gentleman
pirate, stede bonnet

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blockade Charleston harbor,

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holding hostages for an entire week

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and ransoming them,
not for riches or jewels,

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but medication that was
reportedly for syphilis,

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which apparently wasn't
covered by their hmo.

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But soon the pirate
era will draw to a close.

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Before the year is out,
black beard will be killed

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in an ambush, and stede
bonnet will be captured,

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tried, and convicted, ultimately executed

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along with 29 of his
men at this exact spot

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in Charleston's white point garden.

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Longtime viewers will
also remember that this park

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is one of the possible hiding
places of a treasure box

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from the puzzle game "the secret."

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Now, if you'll just look here.

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We're not doing "the secret."

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Fine, but I am this close.

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Charleston, of course,
holds many secrets,

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and I'm here to learn about those

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of the infamous Anne bonny.

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So to get a lesson in her wicked ways,

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I'm heading to the
Charleston library society

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to meet a historian and the author

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of "pirate queens," Dr. Rebecca Simon.

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Josh, nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you, this place is gorgeous.

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Yeah, it is... the building has been here

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since 1914, but the society
itself was established in 1748.

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Like everything else
in Charleston, very old.

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Exactly.

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And speaking of old,
we have a very important

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and very old document about
the female pirate Anne bonny,

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- if you'd like to take a look.
- I would love to, please.

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Let's go.

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I'm being granted special
access to the library's archives,

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where a very rare volume is held.

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So Josh, this is a book
you may be familiar with.

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Yes, "a general history of the pyrates."

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I have run into this book before.

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This is kind of, like, the
Bible of pirate stories.

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It is, and this isn't just any
copy of "a general history,"

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this is the first edition.

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So we're in, what, 17... 1724.

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My word, that is incredible,
and Anne bonny is in here?

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She is... she's basically got top billing,

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because right underneath
the main title, it says,

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"the remarkable
actions of the adventures

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of the two female pirates,
Mary read and Anne bonny."

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So she's getting billing above people

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like black beard in here.

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Yeah, that's correct, she was basically

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one of the huge selling
points of this book.

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So we'll get to Mary
read here in a minute,

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but let's talk Anne bonny.

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You wrote the book
on Anne bonny, literally.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so what do we
know about her historically?

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Historically, believe it or
not, we don't know very much.

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Her story has turned into
myth and legend over time.

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- And there's a lot of legend.
- So much legend.

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Ok, so what do we
think we know about her?

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So what we think we know about her,

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starting with "a general
history of the pyrates"

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for her early life, is that she was born

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around 1697 in county cork, Ireland.

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Gird your loins, people,
because Anne's story

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is scandalous from the start.

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She was purportedly
the illegitimate daughter

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of a wealthy lawyer
named William Cormac,

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who shacked up with,
who else, the maid.

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Such a cliché.

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Then he raised Anne in
Ireland, after the premature death

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of her mother, until
embarking on a new life

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on a plantation in Charleston.

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But as her daddy finds out,

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it's hard to keep a bad girl down.

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As Anne grows older,
she develops a taste

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for the wild side, hanging
out with the roughneck sailors

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down at the docks.

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After reportedly sampling
a large number of them,

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she marries a man named James bonny,

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which goes over as
well as you might expect

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back at home, where
Anne's father disowns her.

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The honeymooners drift
down to The Bahamas,

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which at the time was a
lawless magnet for pirates,

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and Anne takes to it instantly.

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But the governor there is making a name

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as a pirate hunter, and James bonny

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decides to work for him.

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The idea of her husband
prosecuting her friends

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turns out to be, well, a bit of a turnoff

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for the rebellious Anne.

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Damn, girl.

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This is when she falls in love with

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and leaves her husband
for an infamous pirate

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named captain Jack rackham.

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"Calico" Jack.

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This is the 18th century
equivalent of breaking up

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with your high school
boyfriend on the football team

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for a drummer in a rock band.

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Bad boy "calico" Jack rackham
gets his nickname for his love

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of fancy clothes, but
he's not just a pretty boy.

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"A general history of pyrates"
gives him his own chapter,

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chronicling an impressive pirate career

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before he ever meets Anne.

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Harley Quinn to his joker,
they take to the high seas

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where Anne and rackham
become partners in love and crime,

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with Anne acting for
all intents and purposes

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as his wife and co-captain.

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Describe Anne bonny
as a pirate in one word.

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Fierce.

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She was known to be really ruthless.

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At one point, they captured a woman

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named Dorothy
Thomas, and Anne bonny

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wanted to kill her, because they said.

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"Dorothy Thomas could
speak out against us,"

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but Jack rackham let
her go, and spoiler alert,

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Dorothy Thomas would
become a chief witness at the trial.

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Anne bonny was right,
they should have killed her.

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She was right, and, in fact,

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in "a general history of the pyrates,"

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we have an illustration of her.

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Ok, let's see her.

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Yeah.

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So this is flagged as
Anne bonny and Mary read.

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So she's which one?

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She's the one here on the right.

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She's holding an axe... you can
see she's got a cutlass in her hand.

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She's got a sash.

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She's got two pistols
strapped to her body.

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She's wearing men's clothing.

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Later illustrations of this even show

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that she would open up her shirt,

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bare her breasts during battle,
as kind of a distraction tactic.

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That would work.

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Yes, it would, yes.

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Now, I was about to say she's
one of a kind, but she's not,

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because here next to her is Mary read.

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That's correct, the other
female pirate on the ship.

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Mary read was another
woman running against

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the grain of history.

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She stowed away on pirate
ships disguised as a man,

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and a rather vicious one at that.

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Her secret was supposedly
discovered by Anne bonny,

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who took a liking to her.

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And soon the trio of
Anne bonny, Mary read,

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and Jack rackham were inseparable.

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And you can read into
that three-way friendship

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what you will.

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The theory that they
were lovers goes back

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to the 18th century.

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So Anne bonny and Mary
read and Jack rackham,

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they're out there in the
high seas doing their thing,

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- but nothing lasts forever.
- No.

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And unfortunately, what
they don't realize is that

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there are two pirate hunters
on their tail because there is

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a reward for their capture.

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The "general history of
pyrates" tells us that the trio

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kicked off their reign of
terror with an audacious heist,

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hijacking a sloop called "the William."

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Armed with four cannons
and two swivel guns,

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they used their makeshift
warship to plunder

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a great number of
boats in the Caribbean,

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racking up a sizable
collection of treasure.

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This string of successes
prompts the governor

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of The Bahamas to issue a proclamation

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calling for their arrest.

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Soon after, a pirate hunter
surprises bonny's crew

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during a night of heavy drinking.

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Too yo-ho-hoed to fight,
the men hide below deck.

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Read is so livid at her
drunken crew mates,

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she reportedly fires into
her own hold in anger.

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In the end, the entire crew
is captured and remanded

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to Jamaica for trial.

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The trial was done in two parts.

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First, Jack rackham and
all the men were put on trial,

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and they were all found
guilty and sentenced to hang.

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And after they were all executed

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in November of 1720,
about ten days later,

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Anne bonny and Mary
read have their own trial.

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And so according to the trial documents,

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the outcome is that they are found guilty

295
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and they are sentenced,

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"to be severely hanged by the neck,

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'till you are severely dead."

298
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- Yes.
- Not just dead.

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- Severely.
- Severely dead.

300
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Until a big plot twist.

301
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They both reveal that they
are pregnant at the stand.

302
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Shock.

303
00:12:56,330 --> 00:12:58,960
As a rule, the British don't
hang pregnant women.

304
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So Anne and Mary are
given a stay of execution

305
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until the births of their children.

306
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Mary read, though, dies of typhus first,

307
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and Anne... well, nobody knows.

308
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So at the end of her chapter, it says,

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"she was continued in
prison, but what has become

310
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"of her since,

311
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"we cannot tell.

312
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Only this we know, that
she was not executed."

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Poof, she vanishes.

314
00:13:25,930 --> 00:13:27,076
So where the hell did she go?

315
00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:29,860
Well, the most prominent
theory, the one that most people

316
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tend to believe, is that her father

317
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was able to bail her out of jail
and was able to bring her home.

318
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And from there, probably
able to marry her off,

319
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and that she lived in south Carolina

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for the rest of her life.

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Never to be heard from again.

322
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And then we get to the
legend of her treasure.

323
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We don't really know
what she was worth, right?

324
00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,000
No, we don't... we do
know that Jack rackham

325
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was a very successful pirate
before he met Anne bonny,

326
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and together as pirates,
they had their own successes.

327
00:13:58,560 --> 00:13:59,576
And a few years ago,

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Forbes published an
article saying that she was

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one of the wealthiest pirates in history.

330
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And just because we don't
know the exact amount,

331
00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:08,000
that hasn't stopped
people from looking, right?

332
00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,536
No, there are lots of people
who are still looking for treasure.

333
00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:12,600
In fact, there's a historian
here in south Carolina

334
00:14:12,730 --> 00:14:14,800
who claims he has a
new lead on the case.

335
00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:16,100
I like new leads.

336
00:14:16,260 --> 00:14:17,636
If I strike it rich, I'll let you know.

337
00:14:17,660 --> 00:14:19,536
- Excellent.
- Thanks very much. I appreciate it.

338
00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:20,880
- You're welcome.
- All the best.

339
00:14:22,060 --> 00:14:25,100
To link up with a team looking
for Anne bonny's treasure,

340
00:14:25,260 --> 00:14:27,500
I leave Charleston to head up the coast.

341
00:14:27,660 --> 00:14:29,760
But for once, I'm going in style.

342
00:14:31,300 --> 00:14:33,260
I am sitting behind the
wheel of a fully-restored

343
00:14:33,430 --> 00:14:36,860
1964 Land Rover in Ferrari green,

344
00:14:37,030 --> 00:14:41,900
modified with a 430-horsepower
ls3 corvette engine.

345
00:14:42,060 --> 00:14:45,636
In other words, daddy is very, very happy.

346
00:14:45,660 --> 00:14:46,860
Let's do this.

347
00:14:47,030 --> 00:14:48,436
Whoo! She moves!

348
00:14:48,460 --> 00:14:49,560
Ha-ha!

349
00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:52,900
Come on!

350
00:14:55,660 --> 00:14:58,800
Eighty exhilarating miles
later, I arrive on the banks

351
00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,700
of the pee Dee river and find
the man with a red-hot lead

352
00:15:02,860 --> 00:15:05,160
on Anne bonny's loot... Harley Houston,

353
00:15:05,330 --> 00:15:08,236
from the preservation
group old Carolina outdoors.

354
00:15:08,260 --> 00:15:09,780
- I take it you're Harley.
- Yes, sir.

355
00:15:09,830 --> 00:15:11,236
- Nice to meet you, man.
- Nice to meet you.

356
00:15:11,260 --> 00:15:13,100
And Harley isn't here to waste time.

357
00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:17,400
Before I know it, I'm
ushered into a waiting air boat.

358
00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,336
- Ok, here we go.
- All right.

359
00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:21,460
It's about to get loud.

360
00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:28,960
Whoo!

361
00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,260

362
361
00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,760
I'm on the trail of the world's
most infamous female pirate,

363
00:15:47,930 --> 00:15:51,536
Anne bonny, or more
specifically, her buried loot.

364
00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:52,960
To find it, I've boarded

365
00:15:53,130 --> 00:15:55,700
the world's largest vegetable
peeler on south Carolina's

366
00:15:55,860 --> 00:15:57,260
pee Dee river.

367
00:15:57,430 --> 00:16:00,836
Leading the charge is
treasure hunter, Harley Houston.

368
00:16:00,860 --> 00:16:02,100
All right, so Harley,

369
00:16:03,460 --> 00:16:05,136
where are we going...
where are you taking me?

370
00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,500
We're going up about two miles.

371
00:16:07,660 --> 00:16:08,636
- Two more miles?
- Yes.

372
00:16:08,660 --> 00:16:09,836
So why do we think it's up here?

373
00:16:09,860 --> 00:16:12,236
So the biggest mystery
about Anne bonny is

374
00:16:12,260 --> 00:16:13,406
what happened to her.

375
00:16:13,430 --> 00:16:15,236
Right, we know she was
arrested, we know she was

376
00:16:15,260 --> 00:16:18,260
sentenced to hang,
and then she disappears.

377
00:16:18,430 --> 00:16:21,336
Yeah, so the number one theory
is her dad used his influence

378
00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,300
and money to spring her out of jail.

379
00:16:23,460 --> 00:16:26,500
Right, William Cormac, her
dad, Springs her somehow,

380
00:16:26,660 --> 00:16:28,136
and what, brings her
back to Charleston?

381
00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,400
Yeah, brings her back
here in south Carolina,

382
00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,060
and puts her up in a big
house overlooking the river,

383
00:16:34,230 --> 00:16:36,536
which is the spot she's supposed
to have buried her treasure.

384
00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,336
- Ok, it's a great story.
- Yeah.

385
00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:39,660
Is any of it true?

386
00:16:39,830 --> 00:16:42,136
So I have two documents
from the archives that show us

387
00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,436
- right where to look.
- Ok, what'd you find?

388
00:16:44,460 --> 00:16:45,960
Yeah, so right here...

389
00:16:46,860 --> 00:16:50,460
This is the official king's Grant given

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00:16:50,630 --> 00:16:52,136
to William Cormac.

391
00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,160
So this is an actual land Grant...

392
00:16:54,330 --> 00:16:55,800
- Yeah.
- For William Cormac,

393
00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,160
name-checks her father,
and he's being given

394
00:16:58,330 --> 00:17:01,950
50 acres of land in
queensborough township.

395
00:17:01,974 --> 00:17:02,460
Yes.

396
00:17:02,630 --> 00:17:03,950
Are we in queensborough township?

397
00:17:04,030 --> 00:17:05,336
We are here right now.

398
00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:06,976
So this gets us to the right area,

399
00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,536
and how do we narrow
it down from here?

400
00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,560
So the next document
I have here is actually

401
00:17:10,730 --> 00:17:12,000
a plat map.

402
00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:13,860
A plat map, like an old property line.

403
00:17:14,030 --> 00:17:16,460
Yeah, and showing
where the exact property is.

404
00:17:16,630 --> 00:17:20,000
It sits on the edge of the pee Dee river.

405
00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:21,236
- Yes.
- This river.

406
00:17:21,260 --> 00:17:23,000
This river that we're on right now.

407
00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,260
Anne bonny's treasure could
be buried on this plot of land.

408
00:17:26,430 --> 00:17:29,076
I think it's a great chance
it could be buried there.

409
00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:30,560
Ok.

410
00:17:30,730 --> 00:17:32,960
- Couple miles, you say?
- Just a couple miles.

411
00:17:33,130 --> 00:17:34,136
- Should we punch it?
- Let's hit it.

412
00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:35,600
Let's do it, come on.

413
00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,100
Whoo!

414
00:17:37,260 --> 00:17:38,260
This guy's excited!

415
00:17:38,430 --> 00:17:40,060
Just get these on.

416
00:17:40,230 --> 00:17:41,076
All right, you can go ahead now.

417
00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:42,160
Hit it.

418
00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:48,300
Harley's in a hurry to get to the treasure,

419
00:17:48,460 --> 00:17:52,236
so he has the pilot crank this
thing up to 50 miles an hour...

420
00:17:52,260 --> 00:17:54,836
Whoo!

421
00:17:54,860 --> 00:17:58,700
More than twice the top speed
of a ship in Anne bonny's day.

422
00:17:58,860 --> 00:18:00,060
Whoo!

423
00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:03,060
We're going so fast,

424
00:18:03,230 --> 00:18:04,860
even the mosquitoes can't catch up.

425
00:18:06,460 --> 00:18:07,700
Whoo-hoo!

426
00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:13,236
We're here!

427
00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:14,800
Welcome to pirate's cove.

428
00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,200
We've arrived in a remote
area, deep in the swamp,

429
00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:21,636
shutting down our engine
beside another air boat

430
00:18:21,660 --> 00:18:23,300
that's been pulled ashore.

431
00:18:28,660 --> 00:18:31,336
We climb up the embankment
and find Harley's team

432
00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:33,236
already hard at work.

433
00:18:33,260 --> 00:18:34,636
To find the treasure, he's assembled

434
00:18:34,660 --> 00:18:37,200
his own motley crew
of metal detectorists,

435
00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:40,260
relic hunters, historians,
and quite possibly

436
00:18:40,430 --> 00:18:42,136
a real-life pirate.

437
00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,200
- Nice to meet you guys.
- Nice to meet you.

438
00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:46,300
First of all, you're
wearing a pirate bandanna

439
00:18:46,460 --> 00:18:48,136
and a giant shark's
tooth around your neck.

440
00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,960
Yes, I love digging for megalodon teeth

441
00:18:51,130 --> 00:18:52,836
- and pirate treasure.
- You're my hero.

442
00:18:52,860 --> 00:18:54,540
- Thank you, I appreciate that.
- Amazing.

443
00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:56,800
They've been scouting the area

444
00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,536
and are already finding artifacts.

445
00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,900
The first thing we found
was this rose head nail.

446
00:19:02,060 --> 00:19:03,036
Well, look at that.

447
00:19:03,060 --> 00:19:05,800
Which indicates, like, a 1700 site.

448
00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,606
This is what we would refer to
as an old-ass nail, I believe, yeah?

449
00:19:08,630 --> 00:19:10,260
- Yeah.
- Yeah?

450
00:19:10,430 --> 00:19:12,836
The nail is the right
period for Anne bonny,

451
00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:14,976
but they've also found later items,

452
00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,300
like part of a horse's bridle
from the late 18th century,

453
00:19:18,460 --> 00:19:20,500
a sash buckle from the 1830s,

454
00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:23,760
as well as earlier materials
like staffordshire ceramics

455
00:19:23,930 --> 00:19:26,136
from back in the late 1600s.

456
00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:27,976
We've got people out here, no question,

457
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,660
and on that plat map, we
are on that Cormac property.

458
00:19:30,830 --> 00:19:32,136
Yeah, we are right here.

459
00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:33,700
Ok, you guys mind a little help?

460
00:19:33,860 --> 00:19:35,136
Come on, let's do it.

461
00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:36,480
Can we get our stuff in the boat?

462
00:19:36,530 --> 00:19:37,700
- Let's do it.
- Let's do it.

463
00:19:37,860 --> 00:19:39,236
Don't find pirate treasure without us.

464
00:19:39,260 --> 00:19:40,760
We'll be right back.

465
00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:44,760
Harley and I grab our
gear, and in no time,

466
00:19:44,930 --> 00:19:48,000
we're all working together,
swinging and pinging.

467
00:19:50,460 --> 00:19:52,976
And once this group of pros gets to work,

468
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,236
this quiet stretch of backwoods
fills up with enough beeps,

469
00:19:56,260 --> 00:19:59,136
bloops, and hoots for a casino floor.

470
00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,560
And it pays out like a slot machine, too.

471
00:20:01,730 --> 00:20:03,560
Hey, guys, I got something over here.

472
00:20:03,730 --> 00:20:04,860
- Good hit?
- Yeah.

473
00:20:05,030 --> 00:20:06,060
Let's see it.

474
00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,000
- Ok.
- Let's see.

475
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,636
It's right at the bottom.

476
00:20:14,660 --> 00:20:15,636
- Way down there.
- Look at that.

477
00:20:15,660 --> 00:20:16,637
Something round.

478
00:20:16,661 --> 00:20:17,836
- Be careful.
- Could be a coin.

479
00:20:17,860 --> 00:20:19,976
I'm gonna be careful, hold on.

480
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,636
That's a coin, that's a coin!

481
00:20:21,660 --> 00:20:22,860
My god!

482
00:20:23,030 --> 00:20:24,006
Good job.

483
00:20:24,030 --> 00:20:25,160
That's a king George.

484
00:20:25,330 --> 00:20:26,660
Dude, that's in great shape.

485
00:20:26,830 --> 00:20:28,260
Old, old coin.

486
00:20:28,430 --> 00:20:29,736
I've never found one of those before.

487
00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:30,836
Dude, did you see the bust?

488
00:20:30,860 --> 00:20:34,236
This is super worn, but
you can see just the outline

489
00:20:34,260 --> 00:20:36,200
- of a profile there, yeah?
- Yeah.

490
00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,806
And you can see Roman
numerals "ii" on the right, right there.

491
00:20:38,830 --> 00:20:40,536
- That's king George ii.
- King George ii.

492
00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,160
So this is an English
penny or half penny?

493
00:20:43,330 --> 00:20:45,900
Yeah, no doubt.

494
00:20:46,060 --> 00:20:48,536
This is a coin from the
era of king George ii,

495
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:53,100
who sat on the English
throne from 1727 to 1760.

496
00:20:54,460 --> 00:20:56,860
So this may be exactly 300 years old.

497
00:20:57,030 --> 00:20:57,776
Exactly.

498
00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,120
That puts us in this time period.

499
00:20:59,230 --> 00:21:00,336
We are in the money, literally.

500
00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:01,836
- Yes.
- That's it.

501
00:21:01,860 --> 00:21:03,736
- Dude, nice find.
- Thank you, man.

502
00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,136
I've never found one
of those in my life, so...

503
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:06,536
- That's awesome.
- Thank you, man.

504
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:07,976
- Thank you.
- How old are you?

505
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,040
- I'm 20, I mean, yes...
- Well, you got some time,

506
00:21:10,130 --> 00:21:11,300
you got some time.

507
00:21:11,460 --> 00:21:14,060
The question is, could
the coin be one of many,

508
00:21:14,230 --> 00:21:16,000
like in a treasure chest, let's say?

509
00:21:18,100 --> 00:21:19,760
We quickly get back to work,

510
00:21:19,930 --> 00:21:23,100
but most of the treasures
here are of the recent variety.

511
00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:27,160
Nail.

512
00:21:29,430 --> 00:21:30,430
22 casing.

513
00:21:32,460 --> 00:21:33,960
There's something here.

514
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:37,900
Ooh.

515
00:21:38,060 --> 00:21:39,300
That sounds pretty good.

516
00:21:39,460 --> 00:21:40,336
Yeah, something there.

517
00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:41,337
Dig it!

518
00:21:41,361 --> 00:21:42,460
Yeah, for sure.

519
00:21:52,260 --> 00:21:53,500
- It's something big.
- Really?

520
00:21:53,630 --> 00:21:55,660
Yeah, it's something big, ooh.

521
00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:57,976
Wait, what is that?

522
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,160
What the hell is that? A piece of iron?

523
00:22:00,330 --> 00:22:01,700
- Turn around.
- Whoa!

524
00:22:05,660 --> 00:22:07,900
2 what the hell is that? A piece of iron?

525
00:22:08,060 --> 00:22:09,960
- Turn around.
- Whoa!

526
00:22:10,130 --> 00:22:11,300
It's a lock!

527
00:22:11,460 --> 00:22:12,660
It's a lock, dude!

528
00:22:12,830 --> 00:22:13,806
Whoo!

529
00:22:13,830 --> 00:22:15,360
Unbelievable!

530
00:22:15,530 --> 00:22:17,100
In the swamps of south Carolina,

531
00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:19,500
I'm with a team searching
for the lost treasure

532
00:22:19,660 --> 00:22:21,800
of the trailblazing pirate Anne bonny.

533
00:22:22,660 --> 00:22:25,200
We've already found a period coin.

534
00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:27,100
Now, we might have discovered evidence

535
00:22:27,260 --> 00:22:29,236
of what it was stored in.

536
00:22:29,260 --> 00:22:30,976
That's 1700s all day.

537
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,976
- See that triangle piece on top?
- Yes.

538
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,860
That is definitely in the time
period that we're looking for.

539
00:22:36,030 --> 00:22:37,800
That's what they use on chests.

540
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,336
So the million-dollar question.

541
00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:40,636
Multi-million-dollar question.

542
00:22:40,660 --> 00:22:42,260
- Multi-million dollar question.
- Yeah.

543
00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:44,800
What the hell was this padlock locking?

544
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:46,500
I think we know what it was locking.

545
00:22:46,660 --> 00:22:48,800
If you're burying treasure, in a box...

546
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,036
There's your lock.

547
00:22:50,060 --> 00:22:51,336
We gotta search this
whole area right here.

548
00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:53,100
Totally. It's amazing.

549
00:22:53,260 --> 00:22:55,000
- That gets a "whoo".
- A what?

550
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,460
Whoo!

551
00:22:57,630 --> 00:22:59,300
- Let's do it.
- Come on!

552
00:22:59,460 --> 00:23:01,100
Look at that!

553
00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:06,200
We search around the area
where we found the lock,

554
00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,236
but there's no trace of anything
it might have been guarding.

555
00:23:09,260 --> 00:23:12,000
So we move on to a
different corner of the property.

556
00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:15,460
This opens way up in here. Look at this.

557
00:23:15,630 --> 00:23:17,336
And actually, I think we
can home in on where

558
00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:18,400
the original house was.

559
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,400
- That Cormac built out here?
- Yes.

560
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,060
Team member Axel macon
has been looking forward

561
00:23:23,230 --> 00:23:25,076
to exploring here, because it's believed

562
00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:27,600
that the treasure is
buried close to the house

563
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:28,960
of Anne bonny's father,

564
00:23:29,130 --> 00:23:30,900
and he thinks he has a way to find it.

565
00:23:32,060 --> 00:23:33,160
Here, check this out.

566
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,660
So this is a satellite view?

567
00:23:35,830 --> 00:23:36,836
Yeah, you see this dot right here?

568
00:23:36,860 --> 00:23:37,837
- That's us.
- That's us,

569
00:23:37,861 --> 00:23:39,760
and we're in this big, clear cut field.

570
00:23:39,930 --> 00:23:40,906
Correct.

571
00:23:40,930 --> 00:23:42,600
But check it out when I do this.

572
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,300
- Whoa.
- That's lidar.

573
00:23:44,460 --> 00:23:45,636
This was done by the state.

574
00:23:45,660 --> 00:23:47,336
They did a big survey across statewide.

575
00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:50,260
So lidar, this very, very
high-tech mapping technology,

576
00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:52,536
strips away what's here,

577
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,976
and now we can see
the actual topography

578
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,236
- of this site.
- Correct.

579
00:23:56,260 --> 00:23:58,460
- And what do you notice there?
- I notice a hill.

580
00:23:58,630 --> 00:24:00,136
Like, it's kinda hard to
see with the naked eye,

581
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,760
but there's definitely a hill
here that we're on the edge of.

582
00:24:02,930 --> 00:24:05,360
And then what is this
little spot right here

583
00:24:05,530 --> 00:24:06,836
that's kinda directly in front of us?

584
00:24:06,860 --> 00:24:08,260
Look at that. So on the high ground

585
00:24:08,330 --> 00:24:10,700
on that hill, there's some
sort of weird divoting.

586
00:24:10,860 --> 00:24:12,180
- Yep.
- You think that could be,

587
00:24:12,260 --> 00:24:13,806
what, like the foundations
of the old house?

588
00:24:13,830 --> 00:24:14,830
I really do.

589
00:24:14,860 --> 00:24:16,460
Ok, so that would be where from here?

590
00:24:16,630 --> 00:24:18,460
- Up here somewhere?
- Just dead ahead.

591
00:24:18,630 --> 00:24:20,160
- High ground?
- Yep, high ground.

592
00:24:20,330 --> 00:24:21,306
Let's see what's on high ground.

593
00:24:21,330 --> 00:24:22,330
- Come on.
- Let's do it.

594
00:24:26,060 --> 00:24:28,436
We make our way to
the hidden high ground,

595
00:24:28,460 --> 00:24:31,260
hoping to find signs of the
home Anne bonny's father

596
00:24:31,430 --> 00:24:35,000
once owned and the treasure
said to be buried nearby.

597
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:39,800
I got iron.

598
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:40,976
Yeah, I got some iron here, too.

599
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,136
So maybe there was
something right here.

600
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,706
- There's a lot of iron here.
- Hey, there's

601
00:24:43,730 --> 00:24:44,836
a little piece of brick right here.

602
00:24:44,860 --> 00:24:46,220
- Piece of brick?
- You got brick?

603
00:24:46,260 --> 00:24:47,336
Yep, and it's...

604
00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:49,336
Hand-mixed, you can tell
by the two different colors,

605
00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:50,900
so that puts it at our 1700s.

606
00:24:51,060 --> 00:24:53,160
- Dude, yeah, that's period.
- Look at that.

607
00:24:53,330 --> 00:24:55,760
That is old hand-mixed
brick. Look at that.

608
00:24:55,930 --> 00:24:57,336
Definitely what we're looking for.

609
00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:58,600
Something here? Chimney, maybe?

610
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,236
Definitely... usually,
the house rotted away,

611
00:25:01,260 --> 00:25:03,736
and all that's left is
the nails and the bricks

612
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,000
from the old chimney.

613
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,536
Ok, so in here for sure.

614
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,360
The remains of the bricks
and mortar here are evidence

615
00:25:10,530 --> 00:25:12,976
that we're searching what
could be the main residence

616
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,900
of Anne bonny's family home.

617
00:25:22,060 --> 00:25:24,236
- Good hit?
- Yeah, it's ringing.

618
00:25:24,260 --> 00:25:25,360
Dig it!

619
00:25:30,060 --> 00:25:31,160
Got it in my hand.

620
00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:33,560
Wait, nothing...

621
00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:39,700
Nothing... What is that?

622
00:25:39,860 --> 00:25:41,860
- Is that a coin?
- No, it looks like a button.

623
00:25:42,030 --> 00:25:43,336
- Look at that.
- Yeah, that is a button.

624
00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:45,112
You can see where the
shank was on the back.

625
00:25:45,136 --> 00:25:45,406
Yeah.

626
00:25:45,430 --> 00:25:46,736
But what is on the front of this thing?

627
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,660
It's got like a portrait on it.

628
00:25:48,830 --> 00:25:50,160
Looks like a person.

629
00:25:50,330 --> 00:25:51,276
You see the hair?

630
00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:52,636
The hair bow, and the
hair coming this way?

631
00:25:52,660 --> 00:25:54,006
Yes, yes, the person's facing right.

632
00:25:54,030 --> 00:25:55,136
Dude, there's some writing on there.

633
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,436
Let's clean up a little bit. Hold on.

634
00:25:56,460 --> 00:25:58,136
What is that?

635
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:03,800
I see, "w-i... You can read that."

636
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,836
- William?
- William?

637
00:26:05,860 --> 00:26:08,700
Dude, this is super, super rare.

638
00:26:08,860 --> 00:26:11,160
That's a William pitt stamp act button.

639
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,236
Quick history lesson.

640
00:26:13,260 --> 00:26:15,760
The stamp act was passed in 1765

641
00:26:15,930 --> 00:26:17,160
by the British parliament,

642
00:26:17,330 --> 00:26:19,860
who taxed paper goods
in the American colonies

643
00:26:20,030 --> 00:26:21,736
to pay for the soldiers that enforced

644
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,700
the laws of the English crown.

645
00:26:23,860 --> 00:26:27,400
Opposition to the act was swift
and loud, and they had an ally

646
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,736
in parliament, William pitt,
who felt the king had no right

647
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,236
to tax the colonies.

648
00:26:32,260 --> 00:26:34,536
This button and others
like it, supporting him,

649
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,960
were an early act of rebellion,
which scared parliament

650
00:26:38,130 --> 00:26:40,700
into repealing the act in 1766.

651
00:26:40,860 --> 00:26:41,837
Incredible.

652
00:26:41,861 --> 00:26:43,700
I mean, do you find a lot of these?

653
00:26:43,860 --> 00:26:46,160
No, this is super, super rare.

654
00:26:46,330 --> 00:26:49,200
I have only heard of one
ever being sold at auction.

655
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,236
- It is that rare.
- That's amazing.

656
00:26:51,260 --> 00:26:53,760
It's a beautiful piece
of history, and it puts us

657
00:26:53,930 --> 00:26:54,837
in an exact year.

658
00:26:54,861 --> 00:26:56,336
- That's right.
- 1766.

659
00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:57,400
1766.

660
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,136
You can just imagine
an older Anne bonny,

661
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,236
right? On this plantation.

662
00:27:02,260 --> 00:27:04,400
She certainly would
have been an opponent

663
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,160
- of the stamp act, right?
- Yeah.

664
00:27:06,330 --> 00:27:07,536
I've never seen anything like this.

665
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:08,700
That is an awesome find.

666
00:27:09,860 --> 00:27:13,136
The button is a piece
of vital American history.

667
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,536
We may be searching for
pirate loot, but this is treasure

668
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:17,830
of a different kind.

669
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,500
But then again, if all you
care about is gold and silver

670
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,436
just wait about 30 seconds,
because we're getting hits

671
00:27:25,460 --> 00:27:26,736
left and right.

672
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:27,990
Great hit.

673
00:27:29,530 --> 00:27:30,836
Activity all over the place here.

674
00:27:30,860 --> 00:27:34,400
In what might actually be
Anne bonny's swamp hideout.

675
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,060
Good hit here.

676
00:27:43,860 --> 00:27:45,260
How far down that is?

677
00:27:45,430 --> 00:27:46,470
It's deep, whatever it is.

678
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:49,860
What the hell is that?

679
00:27:51,660 --> 00:27:53,400
There you are. Harley!

680
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:54,560
- What?
- Come here!

681
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:56,700
What you got?

682
00:27:56,860 --> 00:27:58,860
I don't know what I got, but it's shiny.

683
00:27:59,030 --> 00:28:00,660
- See it?
- No, where?

684
00:28:00,830 --> 00:28:02,200
Here.

685
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:03,906
- I don't know what it is.
- I don't know.

686
00:28:03,930 --> 00:28:05,200
- Pull it out.
- What is that?

687
00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:07,000
- Is that a piece of...
- Ooh.

688
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,100
- Wait... dude!
- It's broken!

689
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:17,160
2 it's broken!

690
00:28:17,330 --> 00:28:18,460
That's a spoon, man!

691
00:28:18,630 --> 00:28:20,060
That is a spoon. Look at that.

692
00:28:20,230 --> 00:28:21,800
- It's engraved.
- It's engraved.

693
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,000
- It's engraved!
- Get out of here!

694
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,836
I'm in a south Carolina
field that is believed to have

695
00:28:27,860 --> 00:28:31,500
once been the family home
of the infamous female pirate

696
00:28:31,660 --> 00:28:32,776
Anne bonny.

697
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,836
A longstanding rumor says
she buried her treasure here

698
00:28:35,860 --> 00:28:38,500
after narrowly escaping execution.

699
00:28:38,660 --> 00:28:41,660
And now we may have
just unearthed a piece of it.

700
00:28:41,830 --> 00:28:42,836
It's engraved. Look at that.

701
00:28:42,860 --> 00:28:44,460
- Is that initials?
- My god.

702
00:28:44,630 --> 00:28:45,800
- It is engraved.
- Wow.

703
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,260
It's engraved.

704
00:28:48,430 --> 00:28:50,100
J.b., James bonny?

705
00:28:50,260 --> 00:28:52,436
- My gosh.
- "B" for bonny.

706
00:28:52,460 --> 00:28:54,660
"J," I don't know. James
bonny was her husband.

707
00:28:55,860 --> 00:28:57,200
She ran off with James bonny.

708
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,360
Well, she's not gonna throw silver away?

709
00:28:59,530 --> 00:29:00,836
You know, who's gonna do that?

710
00:29:00,860 --> 00:29:02,400
- Maybe, right?
- Incredible.

711
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,436
In my fantasy world,
it's something bonny.

712
00:29:04,460 --> 00:29:06,436
All right, we're looking
for forks and knives now.

713
00:29:06,460 --> 00:29:07,460
Forks and knives.

714
00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:08,836
That way, we can eat dinner tonight.

715
00:29:08,860 --> 00:29:09,900
That's right.

716
00:29:10,060 --> 00:29:11,460
We've got to be able to eat.

717
00:29:11,630 --> 00:29:12,860
Dang!

718
00:29:13,030 --> 00:29:14,976
The spoon could have belonged to Anne,

719
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,560
but it's currently one of a kind.

720
00:29:17,730 --> 00:29:20,236
For the next few hours,
the team continues to scan

721
00:29:20,260 --> 00:29:21,960
every inch of this area.

722
00:29:22,130 --> 00:29:25,560
We continue to find scrap metal
and bricks from a former home,

723
00:29:25,730 --> 00:29:27,400
but no lock box of loot.

724
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:31,076
Lucky for me, Harley and
Axel are full of surprises.

725
00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:33,076
So these guys are gonna
stay here and keep searching.

726
00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:35,636
But I have another spot
that I've been dying to get to,

727
00:29:35,660 --> 00:29:36,700
and I'd love to take you.

728
00:29:36,860 --> 00:29:38,406
That's connected to
Anne bonny's treasure?

729
00:29:38,430 --> 00:29:38,630
Yes.

730
00:29:38,654 --> 00:29:40,406
Hey, but if we're gonna
check that place out,

731
00:29:40,430 --> 00:29:41,560
we better leave right now.

732
00:29:41,730 --> 00:29:42,537
Why now?

733
00:29:42,561 --> 00:29:44,000
- The tide.
- The tide?

734
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,880
- The tide.
- This place is tide dependent?

735
00:29:46,030 --> 00:29:47,336
- Yes.
- Boy.

736
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:48,960
- Back to the air boat?
- Yeah, let's go.

737
00:29:49,130 --> 00:29:49,976
Come on, lead on, let's do it.

738
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,436
- All right.
- Good luck, guys.

739
00:29:51,460 --> 00:29:52,976
Thanks.

740
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,260
Let me know if you find,
you know, treasury things.

741
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:02,360
With the clock ticking,
we floor the air boat

742
00:30:02,530 --> 00:30:03,660
back to our dock...

743
00:30:04,860 --> 00:30:08,360
And make a mad dash to
beaufort, south Carolina,

744
00:30:08,530 --> 00:30:11,200
where Harley and Axel's
research is pointing toward

745
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,760
a new potential site for
Anne bonny's treasure.

746
00:30:14,930 --> 00:30:17,260
Ok, so what is this place?
Another homestead?

747
00:30:17,430 --> 00:30:20,336
No, this is an old native
American trade outpost.

748
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:21,406
A trade outpost?

749
00:30:21,430 --> 00:30:24,060
So this is where natives
are trading with colonists?

750
00:30:24,230 --> 00:30:25,460
No, pirates.

751
00:30:25,630 --> 00:30:27,136
So this is like a black market.

752
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:28,460
Yes, exactly.

753
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,800
Two groups certain to be
excluded from the traditional

754
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,260
economy of the colonies

755
00:30:33,430 --> 00:30:36,060
would be native Americans and pirates.

756
00:30:36,230 --> 00:30:39,076
Trade outposts, like Harley
is describing, would be a place

757
00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:42,336
for Anne bonny and her
crew to fence stolen goods

758
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,960
and stay supplied for the months at sea.

759
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,240
And so, where is this trade outpost?

760
00:30:47,330 --> 00:30:49,200
No one really knows.

761
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,000
Damn, I was hoping it was
gonna be easier than that.

762
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,360
- Why is it never easy?
- It's never easy.

763
00:30:54,530 --> 00:30:57,160
So Axel, where is this
place supposed to be?

764
00:30:57,330 --> 00:30:59,300
So from the research
we've done, we think it's

765
00:30:59,460 --> 00:31:01,976
where the pocotaligo river
meets with the king's highway,

766
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,800
because it's the furthest
inland that you can get by boat

767
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:05,876
from the open ocean.

768
00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:07,836
And the king's highway
was, like, the road

769
00:31:07,860 --> 00:31:08,976
back then, right?

770
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,076
It was the main road and trading route.

771
00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:13,236
And, in fact, you're actually
driving on it right now.

772
00:31:13,260 --> 00:31:14,406
- Wow, amazing.
- Yeah.

773
00:31:14,430 --> 00:31:16,800
- Yeah, this is like the og interstate.
- Yeah.

774
00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:21,076
The old king's highway runs
from Boston, Massachusetts

775
00:31:21,100 --> 00:31:23,260
all the way here to south Carolina,

776
00:31:23,430 --> 00:31:24,736
just south of Charleston.

777
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,500
It crosses the pocotaligo
river, a tributary which runs out

778
00:31:28,660 --> 00:31:30,076
to the Atlantic coast.

779
00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,400
It's at this vital crossroads
that Harley believes the outpost

780
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,300
was located along with
Anne bonny's treasure.

781
00:31:37,260 --> 00:31:39,136
This trading outpost...

782
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,860
Do we know that this place
existed, or it's a legend?

783
00:31:42,030 --> 00:31:44,270
We have a lot of indications
that this was a real place,

784
00:31:44,330 --> 00:31:45,700
but no one's been able to find it.

785
00:31:45,860 --> 00:31:48,600
We know the natives were
routed out of this area in 1716.

786
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,500
So that trade outpost gets abandoned.

787
00:31:50,660 --> 00:31:53,260
Yes, and the story is that
she used that as a hideout.

788
00:31:53,430 --> 00:31:54,376
Got it.

789
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,200
So find the trade
outpost, find the treasure.

790
00:31:56,330 --> 00:31:57,237
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

791
00:31:57,261 --> 00:31:58,661
- Simple as that.
- Simple as that.

792
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,636
It sounds so easy. Ok.

793
00:32:00,660 --> 00:32:03,836
So along with her treasure,
finding this trade outpost

794
00:32:03,860 --> 00:32:05,100
would be a big deal.

795
00:32:05,260 --> 00:32:08,636
A huge deal, even for
the state, because no one

796
00:32:08,660 --> 00:32:09,576
has ever been able to find this.

797
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,336
And you think you
know where this place is?

798
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:12,636
I've done a lot of research.

799
00:32:12,660 --> 00:32:14,660
I think I know exactly where it is.

800
00:32:14,830 --> 00:32:16,436
- Axel?
- I'm with Harley on this one.

801
00:32:16,460 --> 00:32:18,460
- We got it.
- All right, let's find it.

802
00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:24,460
We cruise down this historic road

803
00:32:24,630 --> 00:32:26,300
to Harley and Axel's coordinates

804
00:32:26,460 --> 00:32:29,760
at the intersection
of the pocotaligo river.

805
00:32:29,930 --> 00:32:32,460
Proving the existence of
a trade outpost near here

806
00:32:32,630 --> 00:32:36,560
would be a major discovery,
turning centuries of rumor

807
00:32:36,730 --> 00:32:38,300
into cold, hard fact.

808
00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:42,536
Ok.

809
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,060
- This is it?
- Yeah, we're here.

810
00:32:44,230 --> 00:32:47,100
We're here, all right. Now, I do not see

811
00:32:47,260 --> 00:32:49,660
a native American
pirate trade outpost here.

812
00:32:49,830 --> 00:32:51,436
You're gonna have to
use your imagination.

813
00:32:51,460 --> 00:32:53,236
All right, I'm using my imagination.

814
00:32:53,260 --> 00:32:54,260
Paint me a picture.

815
00:32:54,430 --> 00:32:56,660
Yeah, so right here
is the pocotaligo river.

816
00:32:56,830 --> 00:32:58,300
And it comes up

817
00:32:58,460 --> 00:33:00,700
and winds around this
bank, and then it meets

818
00:33:00,860 --> 00:33:02,436
the king's highway right here.

819
00:33:02,460 --> 00:33:03,800
- Where we came in on.
- Yes.

820
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,936
So the highway's right
there, river ends right here.

821
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:06,960
- Yes.
- Ok.

822
00:33:07,030 --> 00:33:08,136
The ships would have
had to have a place

823
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,460
where they needed to dock.

824
00:33:09,630 --> 00:33:11,076
They dropped stuff over, so we think

825
00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:13,160
that main docking
place was right over here

826
00:33:13,330 --> 00:33:15,700
on what now is an
island from all the erosion.

827
00:33:15,860 --> 00:33:18,000
Ok, so if you think if that
trade outpost were here,

828
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,836
it would be somewhere
right in the water here.

829
00:33:19,860 --> 00:33:22,600
Yeah, I think it hits right
where the river bank is.

830
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,336
And that's where this
ticking clock comes in?

831
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,506
Yes... so right now, because
of the full moon, it's known

832
00:33:26,530 --> 00:33:29,860
as a king tide, which is
also known as negative tide.

833
00:33:30,030 --> 00:33:32,400
A negative, or minus tide, occurs

834
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,336
when the moon's gravitational
pull causes a low tide

835
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,436
that is below zero on the tide scale.

836
00:33:38,460 --> 00:33:40,760
The river here is fed
by the Atlantic ocean,

837
00:33:40,930 --> 00:33:44,060
and in less than two hours,
the water level should drop

838
00:33:44,230 --> 00:33:46,700
to its lowest point all year.

839
00:33:46,860 --> 00:33:49,336
And also, we have these
series of floodgates that are

840
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,536
underneath the king's
highway, and they've been closed

841
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:52,676
for like 200 years.

842
00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:54,860
They've just been recently
opened, and they're causing

843
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,536
a whole lot of erosion
from the fast flow of water

844
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:58,976
coming out of them, and we're hoping

845
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,806
that it's going to reveal
a lot more artifacts.

846
00:34:00,830 --> 00:34:02,760
Ok, so the tide's gonna start dropping.

847
00:34:02,930 --> 00:34:04,436
Should we get out there
and see what we can find?

848
00:34:04,460 --> 00:34:05,536
- Let's do it.
- Yeah, let's do it.

849
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:06,760
Let's do it, come on, guys.

850
00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:11,700
Right on schedule, the
water starts to go down,

851
00:34:11,860 --> 00:34:14,336
dropping steadily minute by minute.

852
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,460
We grab our metal detectors
and make our way to where Axel

853
00:34:17,630 --> 00:34:20,160
believes pirate ships
once docked to trade.

854
00:34:20,330 --> 00:34:22,960
All right, looks like we got a land bridge

855
00:34:23,130 --> 00:34:24,970
to this island now.
Let's see if we can cross.

856
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:27,360
Really muddy.

857
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:36,400
Ok, let's see what's up here.

858
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:38,976
Ok, tide's still dropping.

859
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,336
Let's see what we can find up here.

860
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:41,360
Ok.

861
00:34:48,700 --> 00:34:49,860
We are down in that mud now.

862
00:34:50,030 --> 00:34:51,030
Yeah.

863
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,100
Something here in the mud.

864
00:34:55,260 --> 00:34:57,136
Sounds like a big iron object, probably.

865
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:58,960
Like a lock box full of treasure?

866
00:34:59,130 --> 00:35:00,236
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

867
00:35:00,260 --> 00:35:01,940
- Yes, yes, yes.
- It's a big iron object.

868
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:05,360
Come on now.

869
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:08,300
It's down there.

870
00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:14,260
Get out of here.

871
00:35:14,430 --> 00:35:17,200
All of that for a can of mello yello.

872
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,600
Well, that's just...
that's just unfortunate.

873
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,400
That's treasure hunting.

874
00:35:26,460 --> 00:35:28,400
Ok, it's not the most promising start,

875
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,100
but we continue
undaunted and determined.

876
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,400
- That's good.
- There you go.

877
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,136
- Yeah, I dig that.
- It's diggable, but we're in

878
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,836
- mello yello territory.
- Whoa, jeeze.

879
00:35:38,860 --> 00:35:40,160
Whoa!

880
00:35:40,330 --> 00:35:42,660
My god, we almost lost him.

881
00:35:42,830 --> 00:35:44,160
Y'all didn't fill in your holes.

882
00:35:44,330 --> 00:35:45,237
Not yet.

883
00:35:45,261 --> 00:35:47,260
That's the number one relic hunting rule.

884
00:35:47,430 --> 00:35:48,600
Always fill in your holes.

885
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:49,760
What a way to go.

886
00:35:51,030 --> 00:35:52,700
Man! Harley?

887
00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:54,700
- Yeah, he was a hell of a guy.
- Agh.

888
00:35:54,860 --> 00:35:56,236
Fell in a mello yello hole.

889
00:35:56,260 --> 00:35:57,237
Yeah.

890
00:35:57,261 --> 00:35:58,581
It's tragic what happened to him.

891
00:35:59,930 --> 00:36:01,336
- Man.
- I never saw him again.

892
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,900
Where were we?

893
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:05,360
That sounds really good.

894
00:36:07,860 --> 00:36:09,360
It's deep, too.

895
00:36:09,530 --> 00:36:11,060
Ooh, here we go. Ooh.

896
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:13,360
Ooh, you got it in your hand.

897
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,336
Is that a nail? What is that?

898
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,136
- That's too good to be a nail.
- Wait...

899
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:19,836
- Ooh!
- There's a hole in it.

900
00:36:19,860 --> 00:36:21,500
What is that? It's like a sawtooth.

901
00:36:21,660 --> 00:36:24,260
My gosh, dude, that's a
trade piece to a musket.

902
00:36:24,430 --> 00:36:26,536
- It's from a musket?
- A side piece.

903
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,100
This is from the side of a musket?

904
00:36:28,260 --> 00:36:30,460
- Yes.
- That is a side plate!

905
00:36:30,630 --> 00:36:33,800
Trade muskets were ornately
decorated weapons made

906
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,500
for trade with native American tribes.

907
00:36:36,660 --> 00:36:40,000
This brass side plate may
be all that remains of a relic

908
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,400
that is as much a work
of art as a weapon of war.

909
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:47,400
My word. Look at this.

910
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:48,936
- That looks like...
- Looks like a Cannon.

911
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,736
It looks like a piece to a Cannon.

912
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,500
It does, it's a Cannon design, yeah.

913
00:36:52,660 --> 00:36:54,436
- It is a Cannon.
- Is that a sword right there?

914
00:36:54,460 --> 00:36:55,900
- Yes, yes.
- Whoa.

915
00:36:56,060 --> 00:36:58,536
- That's so beautiful.
- I've never seen one like that.

916
00:36:58,560 --> 00:36:59,906
We're trying to find a pirate's treasure.

917
00:36:59,930 --> 00:37:00,936
Look what we're holding.

918
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,336
First of all, it's part of a musket, right?

919
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,700
And look what's on it. Cannons, swords.

920
00:37:04,860 --> 00:37:05,097
Yeah.

921
00:37:05,121 --> 00:37:06,836
This is, like, pirates,
through and through.

922
00:37:06,860 --> 00:37:09,060
- Yes.
- That's incredible.

923
00:37:09,230 --> 00:37:11,500
And I love the fact that this is probably

924
00:37:11,660 --> 00:37:12,836
from a trade musket.

925
00:37:12,860 --> 00:37:15,000
100% - and what are
we looking for here?

926
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,976
- A trade outpost.
- I mean, that's an amazing clue.

927
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,360
- That's killer.
- That's awesome.

928
00:37:19,430 --> 00:37:21,590
All right, well, I think
we're living here now, right?

929
00:37:21,660 --> 00:37:23,006
Let's keep looking around this bank,

930
00:37:23,030 --> 00:37:24,350
see what else is eroded out here.

931
00:37:24,460 --> 00:37:26,160
- Let's do it.
- Look at that!

932
00:37:26,330 --> 00:37:27,660
Incredible.

933
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,836
The tide keeps dropping,
exposing more of the land

934
00:37:31,860 --> 00:37:34,760
that was, until an hour ago, a riverbed.

935
00:37:34,930 --> 00:37:37,860
I'm amazed by our access
to the normally submerged

936
00:37:38,030 --> 00:37:41,860
shoreline, until I'm struck
by a potential downside.

937
00:37:42,030 --> 00:37:43,436
You got gators in this part of the river?

938
00:37:43,460 --> 00:37:44,836
Definitely, big ones.

939
00:37:44,860 --> 00:37:47,136
Big enough to withstand
that current, too.

940
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,800
- No.
- Yeah.

941
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,636
- No.
- Just keep an eye out

942
00:37:50,660 --> 00:37:52,460
and try to listen for splashing behind you.

943
00:37:52,630 --> 00:37:53,700
It's all splashing!

944
00:37:53,860 --> 00:37:55,060
The tide's going out.

945
00:37:55,230 --> 00:37:56,276
You'll be all right.

946
00:37:56,300 --> 00:37:58,006
- Just keep your eyes open.
- "You'll be all right."

947
00:37:58,030 --> 00:37:59,076
- You'll be all right.
- "You'll be all right."

948
00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:00,736
"You'll be all right." You don't know.

949
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,030
You don't know that!

950
00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:06,300
Will you let me know if you
see a giant alligator behind me?

951
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,136
We're close to bottom tide.

952
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,400
This will only be a safe
place to be for another hour,

953
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,336
so we step up the urgency
to find more artifacts

954
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,560
while we still have land beneath our feet

955
00:38:18,730 --> 00:38:21,000
and no gators at our backs.

956
00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:27,300
Whoo! Guys, come look at this!

957
00:38:27,460 --> 00:38:29,060
- What do you got?
- Whoa!

958
00:38:29,230 --> 00:38:30,230
Look!

959
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,736
2 rule number one of
searching for pirate treasure,

960
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,500
never skimp on self-care.

961
00:38:39,660 --> 00:38:40,760
Spa day!

962
00:38:41,860 --> 00:38:43,736
Hey, the gold's not going anywhere.

963
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,360
- Are we exfoliating right now?
- We're exfoliating.

964
00:38:47,530 --> 00:38:49,460
Dead skin cells tell no tales.

965
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,100
That's a pirate exfoliating joke.

966
00:38:53,260 --> 00:38:54,820
In case you're following along at home,

967
00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:00,700
what kind of mask is this?

968
00:39:00,860 --> 00:39:02,736
This is a seaweed mask.

969
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,000
Of course.

970
00:39:05,860 --> 00:39:08,400
I told her, I said, "girl, you
need to get rid of that man,

971
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,736
looking for buried treasure...
He needs to get a real job."

972
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,300
Am I right?

973
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,260
We're officially doing this every week.

974
00:39:18,460 --> 00:39:23,030
Argh.

975
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:27,760

976
975
00:39:27,930 --> 00:39:29,860
Whoo! Guys, come look at this!

977
00:39:30,030 --> 00:39:31,236
- What do you got?
- Woah!

978
00:39:31,260 --> 00:39:32,860
Look!

979
00:39:33,030 --> 00:39:34,660
This rock! This rock!

980
00:39:34,830 --> 00:39:36,060
- This rock?
- Right here!

981
00:39:36,230 --> 00:39:37,550
- What is it?
- Look at them all!

982
00:39:37,630 --> 00:39:38,700
- This stuff?
- Yes!

983
00:39:38,860 --> 00:39:41,500
- Those, yes.
- Ooh, this isn't rock.

984
00:39:41,660 --> 00:39:43,660
- No, it's coral.
- This is coral.

985
00:39:43,830 --> 00:39:47,360
Wait, why are there
huge blocks of coral here?

986
00:39:47,530 --> 00:39:50,400
In a temporarily drained
south Carolina riverbed,

987
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:54,236
treasure hunters Harley Houston
and Axel macon are looking

988
00:39:54,260 --> 00:39:57,660
for evidence of an 18th
century black market trading post

989
00:39:57,830 --> 00:40:00,076
for pirates sailing in from the Atlantic.

990
00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:03,600
The search appears to have
taken a major step forward.

991
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:05,636
Guys, look at this, look at this piece.

992
00:40:05,660 --> 00:40:06,800
- Ooh.
- Dude, that's coral!

993
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,260
That is the best example, - this is, like,

994
00:40:09,430 --> 00:40:11,000
- from the Caribbean.
- Yeah, no doubt.

995
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,760
What is this doing
10, 12 miles up a river?

996
00:40:14,930 --> 00:40:17,236
- This is a ballast stone.
- This is ballast stone.

997
00:40:17,260 --> 00:40:18,960
- Yeah.
- This is ballast stone.

998
00:40:19,130 --> 00:40:20,107
It must be from a ship!

999
00:40:20,131 --> 00:40:22,136
And these other big
rocks, these proper rocks,

1000
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:23,236
are these local?

1001
00:40:23,260 --> 00:40:25,000
No, there's no native stone around here.

1002
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,560
- So these are stones.
- Yes.

1003
00:40:26,730 --> 00:40:27,860
But these are non-native.

1004
00:40:28,030 --> 00:40:29,636
So this is like a stone from England,

1005
00:40:29,660 --> 00:40:30,976
- from an English ship.
- Yes.

1006
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,836
- Thousands of miles away.
- Wow.

1007
00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:36,076
That means that this is, like, a done deal.

1008
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:37,100
Yes.

1009
00:40:37,230 --> 00:40:39,060
This must have been a trading outpost.

1010
00:40:39,230 --> 00:40:42,236
- That proves it.
- I mean, ballast is being dropped off.

1011
00:40:42,260 --> 00:40:45,300
It's being used here, I think,
to shore up this embankment.

1012
00:40:45,460 --> 00:40:46,536
- Yeah.
- And goods must have

1013
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:47,536
been going out in its place.

1014
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:48,536
Yes, exactly.

1015
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:49,636
To counterweight the ship, right?

1016
00:40:49,660 --> 00:40:50,976
Yeah.

1017
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,960
This legend about this native
pirate trading post right here...

1018
00:40:55,130 --> 00:40:55,406
Yes.

1019
00:40:55,430 --> 00:40:58,076
Where pirates were coming
up, goods were going back

1020
00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:00,536
- and forth, that's true.
- It's true.

1021
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,100
- That proves it right there.
- Unbelievable.

1022
00:41:03,260 --> 00:41:06,136
Let me tell you something.
Treasure comes in many forms.

1023
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,160
This is treasure.

1024
00:41:07,260 --> 00:41:09,260
Honestly, this is history changing.

1025
00:41:09,430 --> 00:41:12,300
This is putting this place
on the map, a place that had

1026
00:41:12,460 --> 00:41:14,560
only been legend, now
exists in the real world.

1027
00:41:14,730 --> 00:41:16,160
- You found it.
- We found it.

1028
00:41:16,330 --> 00:41:19,160
And by the way, if the story
of this trading post is true,

1029
00:41:19,330 --> 00:41:20,736
maybe this story about
Anne bonny's treasure

1030
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,560
is true, right?

1031
00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:24,976
- Awesome.
- Dude, this is awesome.

1032
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,336
- Dude, amazing.
- Yes.

1033
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,460
All right, now we just
need Anne bonny's loot.

1034
00:41:28,630 --> 00:41:30,800
- Does that get a "whoo"?
- Definitely.

1035
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,160
- Whoo-hoo!
- Come on.

1036
00:41:33,330 --> 00:41:34,660
- Here we go.
- Let's go.

1037
00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:39,236
For the first time since
we arrived, the water begins

1038
00:41:39,260 --> 00:41:41,000
to rise a bit at our feet.

1039
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,860
Sensing the surging tide, we
climb above the embankment.

1040
00:41:45,030 --> 00:41:47,400
Proving the existence of
the trading post gives us

1041
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:51,160
cause to believe Anne bonny's
treasure may be here as well.

1042
00:41:52,860 --> 00:41:54,700
We scan with new urgency.

1043
00:41:54,860 --> 00:41:58,130
The tide is coming back up,
and the sun is going down.

1044
00:42:00,660 --> 00:42:02,000
- A lot of iron in here.
- Yeah.

1045
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,700
I feel like we might be up
on the main site here now.

1046
00:42:04,860 --> 00:42:05,860
Yeah.

1047
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,360
Got a pretty good signal here.

1048
00:42:10,460 --> 00:42:11,600
- You got a signal?
- Yeah.

1049
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:14,760
Ok, can I get a light? Thanks.

1050
00:42:20,260 --> 00:42:21,820
Man, there's a lot of roots right here.

1051
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:24,200
There we go.

1052
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:25,360
Pull that back.

1053
00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:28,700
Let's dig that out.

1054
00:42:28,860 --> 00:42:30,200
All right.

1055
00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:32,980
That tide's starting to come back in.

1056
00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:35,200
Let's see what it is.

1057
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:37,600
- So small.
- Yeah.

1058
00:42:39,460 --> 00:42:42,236
Hold on, whoa.

1059
00:42:42,260 --> 00:42:44,560
- Wait, what the hell is that?
- Dude, hold on.

1060
00:42:44,730 --> 00:42:45,637
Is that lead?

1061
00:42:45,661 --> 00:42:47,260
No, it's kind of a silver color.

1062
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,360
- Y'all!
- What is that?

1063
00:42:50,530 --> 00:42:52,236
- This is a ring.
- No!

1064
00:42:52,260 --> 00:42:54,300
Yes! Look at that.

1065
00:42:54,460 --> 00:42:56,400
- It is silver.
- That is a ring.

1066
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:57,906
- There's something on it.
- What is it?

1067
00:42:57,930 --> 00:43:00,036
- It's a ring!
- It's a coin!

1068
00:43:00,060 --> 00:43:01,536
- My god.
- Dude.

1069
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,500
- You gotta be kidding me.
- Whoo!

1070
00:43:03,660 --> 00:43:06,260
- Yes!
- That is a ring made out of a coin?

1071
00:43:06,430 --> 00:43:07,760
That is a Spanish coin.

1072
00:43:07,930 --> 00:43:09,410
That's, like, what, like a half-real?

1073
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,500
The real was the official currency

1074
00:43:12,660 --> 00:43:14,136
of the kingdom of Spain.

1075
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,460
The silver was mined in
South America to mint the coins,

1076
00:43:17,630 --> 00:43:19,360
which then became
the frequent target of,

1077
00:43:19,530 --> 00:43:22,500
you guessed it, pirates.

1078
00:43:22,660 --> 00:43:26,300
Somebody took a half-real
Spanish coin and turned it

1079
00:43:26,460 --> 00:43:27,960
- into jewelry.
- Yes.

1080
00:43:28,130 --> 00:43:29,476
Have you ever found one of these?

1081
00:43:29,500 --> 00:43:31,636
- No, never, that is awesome.
- This is absolutely incredible.

1082
00:43:31,660 --> 00:43:33,800
- Is there a date on this ring?
- Under the globe.

1083
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,500
See the one-seven? It's 17-something.

1084
00:43:36,660 --> 00:43:39,260
- I can't really tell.
- So 17-something.

1085
00:43:39,430 --> 00:43:40,760
- Early 1700s.
- Yeah.

1086
00:43:40,930 --> 00:43:45,500
That is a 300 year-old piece of jewelry

1087
00:43:45,660 --> 00:43:48,336
made out of a Spanish coin.

1088
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,236
Who would make a half-real
and put it on the ring?

1089
00:43:50,260 --> 00:43:53,200
I can think of one person
who would... Anne bonny.

1090
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:54,460
Yeah, very well.

1091
00:43:54,630 --> 00:43:56,900
That is jewelry for a pirate right there.

1092
00:43:57,060 --> 00:43:58,176
That is awesome.

1093
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,836
I wish we could prove that
was hers, but I have to say,

1094
00:44:00,860 --> 00:44:03,760
it is insane to find something like this.

1095
00:44:03,930 --> 00:44:06,460
It just reinforces how
special this site is.

1096
00:44:06,630 --> 00:44:08,900
- Yeah.
- We have a trading outpost here.

1097
00:44:09,060 --> 00:44:10,336
I think that's for sure.

1098
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,136
And we have treasures
coming out of the ground.

1099
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:14,500
100% - confirmed.

1100
00:44:14,660 --> 00:44:15,700
Confirmed.

1101
00:44:15,860 --> 00:44:16,676
Whoo!

1102
00:44:16,700 --> 00:44:19,400
- Did it again!
- That's how you do it.

1103
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:20,600
All right.

1104
00:44:22,100 --> 00:44:24,736
With our pockets full
of historic artifacts,

1105
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,976
the tide swallows Anne
bonny's trade outpost once more.

1106
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,800
Unbelievable.

1107
00:44:33,260 --> 00:44:35,700
Pirates say, "dead men tell no tales,"

1108
00:44:35,860 --> 00:44:38,460
but they never said
anything about women.

1109
00:44:38,630 --> 00:44:40,976
Well, Anne bonny's lips may be sealed,

1110
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,260
but her story lives on
even three centuries later.

1111
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,360
As for the mystery of what
happened to Anne after

1112
00:44:48,530 --> 00:44:51,536
she slipped the noose,
there may be some news.

1113
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,736
New evidence has come to
light of a long-lost death record

1114
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,660
from 1733 in Jamaica
for one Anne bonny.

1115
00:44:59,860 --> 00:45:02,536
That's 13 years after her trial.

1116
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,400
It could be a coincidence,
or it could be a breakthrough.

1117
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,860
Perhaps Anne fled the
gallows, left the high seas behind,

1118
00:45:10,030 --> 00:45:12,860
living out her last days
peacefully in Jamaica.

1119
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,460
But something tells me that Anne bonny

1120
00:45:16,630 --> 00:45:18,900
would not be so contained.

1121
00:45:19,060 --> 00:45:21,360
I like to believe, and
there's compelling evidence

1122
00:45:21,530 --> 00:45:25,236
that shows, that she could have
escaped back to south Carolina.

1123
00:45:25,260 --> 00:45:27,636
We uncovered stunning period artifacts

1124
00:45:27,660 --> 00:45:31,100
at a long-lost homestead
deeded to her father,

1125
00:45:31,260 --> 00:45:34,136
and rediscovered a historic trade outpost

1126
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,900
where she may have
hidden her ill-gotten Booty.

1127
00:45:38,100 --> 00:45:41,000
One thing I know for sure is
that the most dedicated group

1128
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,460
of history buffs south
of the Mason-Dixon line

1129
00:45:43,630 --> 00:45:45,736
will continue to scour the swamps

1130
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,000
for more definitive proof.

1131
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,600
In the end, I hope that Anne
eventually went back to sea

1132
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,560
and set sail to freedom,
forever moving toward

1133
00:45:54,730 --> 00:45:58,076
the one place that
calls to all adventurers.

1134
00:45:58,100 --> 00:45:59,200
The horizon.

1136
00:46:00,305 --> 00:47:00,507
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