He had a fleet of something like 14 or 17 ships.

They called him the Pirate Admiral.

He often stuck close to Newfoundland and prayed on the trade routes from there.

Once a year, Spanish galleons would come from South America back to Spain.

He would prey on them.

You mass Quite a fortune.

I've heard it said that Peter East and amassed £2 million.

That is really interesting when you consider what the solution to the cipher that was on the 90 foot stone said, which was 40 feet below £2 million are bearing Edward Teach, known it's black.

Beard had said before he was hung, that he had buried his treasure somewhere were none but myself and the devil confined it.

He claimed to have him the treasure somewhere in the New World.

So people made the connection between teach Oak Island, the pirate Admiral, Captain Kit and Black Beard.

Do these infamous buccaneers really bury their stolen treasures on Oak Island?

And even if they did, where did they get the incredible engineering skills that would have enabled them to bury a treasure so ingeniously complete with booby traps.

You know, I was first asked whether it was possible pirates could have constructed the money pit.

I scoffed, you know, because pirates would What would they do with their booty to dig a hole 10 feet deep, bury it and come back for it when they were ready?

But I didn't know then about the works that pirates had created a port rail in Jamaica and on Tortuga, which are incredibly elaborate systems of tunnels and vaults that more than a match in scope what's been done on Oak Island?

So they're clearly were pirate engineers, and I couldn't be a CZ dismissive of the pirate theory after that.

But even if pirates did I an incredible treasure on Oak Island.

Is it really possible that it would bear a deadly curse?

There?

Some Oak Island historians who are convinced that the answer is a disturbed, yes, pirate folklore.

It's a common thing that they would bury somebody that was alive.

To guard.

The treasure is a spirit, so we'll be cursed and haunted some no veal to get access to the treasure that seems to play into a lot of the myths regarding the curse on the island.

One of the stories is that pirates may have buried their treasure on the island in treasure tunnels and slaves digging for them.

And in the process, they left them there to die as they knew they were dying.

Those slaves curse those pirates and curse that treasure and by extension, the whole island.

Sometimes those near the tunnels Late at night, I could hear the rattling of chains.

Perhaps that's the energy we're dealing with today.

It is like a time bomb, something that goes down through the ages.