The Hunt For The Billion Dollar Pirate Treasure Buried On Cocos Island

[@ellensoeclectic]

The real badass in this entire video is Mary! She stayed on that island, by HERSELF, for 6 long months!

[@libs-Suk-Balz]

I’ve been to cocos. I did an 8 day scuba diving trip to cocos. It’s beautiful and in the middle of no where. Largest school of hammer head sharks in the world. I didn’t see any gold.

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

Nice comment. Live Well.

[@adventureinventors]

Park Rangers found it!

[@Mrz-sb1hw]

I'm surprised you weren't eaten by a hammer head.

[@arizonaunplugged8885]

That's exactly what someone would say if they did find the treasure🤔

[@Jeffreymart]

Try off Bowman beach from Sanibel Island FL for Hammerheads, right where the warm hits the cold.

[@deaneng8540]

Credit to his wife who stayed with him All those years

[@MC14may]

They were saving it for Ron

[@MrVinniboy]

Loving your channels, Great videos and always keep me gripped to find out did they or didn't they find the treasure/s.... Please keep them coming, Thanks again for ALL the time and effort you guys put into making them

[@SkyBlue-qn8me]

Man, how many buried treasure episodes does this channel have? The Curse of Oak Island TV show is going to have a run for its money if this keeps up. Although they're currently in season 65 anyway 😂

[@NappyRB]

They might find a gold coin at season 100

[@DeborahThird-og1uo]

I gave up watching that farkin show. 😂

[@SkyBlue-qn8me]

@@NappyRB 😂

[@mjnelligan7288]

I live near oak island n trust me its just a tv show its not real lol

[@elisabethsteel3382]

They have been digging for the past 10 years! Stopped watching! 😖

[@franiecharlenebishop]

well presented ❤❤❤ brilliant 💥

[@Xander.Non.Beta.Male_23]

Hey Siri, when does the next flight leave for Cocos Island, Costa Rica? .... Also, Siri tell my wife I'm pulling a "be back in 4-6 weeks" but really come back in 6 months.

[@robertschumann7737]

Heck, Siri tell my wife better luck next time and I'll see her in hell!!

[@skypieper]

These videos are the shit. Makes me want to go gold panning or treasure hunting. Instead I'ma just work hard then buy gold lol.

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

North Nevada or Alaska better.

[@alainclvpentax8798]

Hihihi me too

[@markmeenaghan934]

I'm digging in my closet now....aye

[@markmeenaghan934]

I have a friend that dove on the otocha - I have few 1808 coins from it

[@anjummirza1452]

Excellent information and narration. What a man and his determination...

[@Snolferd]

5:29 wilhelm scream 😂 Edit: lmaooo there are so many wilhelm screams

[@RicardoAvila-ki9wb]

gotta love it!

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

It's a good luck charm amongst directors and sound guys, if you use the Wilhelm scream chances are your movie will make money, looks like TV are trying to get in on the action as well

[@Michael-x9j7b]

What an awesome doc 😃

[@timothyspiedel8306]

What a great show. Thank you

[@Bornhunting777]

Great story of a brave hunter and awesome wife!!!

[@onelove154]

I know where buried treasure is, I've known about it since 1991. It's not in my country. I'm not in a position to retrieve it. I don't have the health the money or the means. It's in a river. I know on which side of the river this treasure is too. It's within a few hundred yards left or right of a famous building. We are talking several heavy sacks full up with gold and precious jewels. It's been there in that river for over 80 years. Some of it will have gone with the tides, of course, but the rest will have sunk deep in the mud because of the extreme weight of those sacks. It has to be very close to the river bank because you could only physically throw very heavy sacks a few yards into a river. I mentioned this on another video last year. No one took any notice. 🙂 I guess they thought I was joking, making it up. I'm not. It's the truth. The guy who stole all that gold and jewels died way back in 1992. He was very old. In his late 70's. I guess he needed to tell someone and that someone was me. It's still there. Waiting to be found. Sooner or later someone will believe me. I'm getting old myself now. When I die the secret of all that treasure will be gone forever. But as of now, it's still there in that river. Waiting to be found. PS. This is the second time I have mentioned this unfound treasure here at KZbin. I'll only say it again one more time at some random point probably in the next 12 months on another lost treasure video just like this one with this particular narrator. After that, I'll not speak about it again. Happy new year. All the best for 2025. I hope it's a great one for all of you. 🙏

[@tomobedlam297]

He was looking in the wrong place. He should have walked around the island listening for where the music is loudest. The treasure will be there!

[@allenrusselljr]

My trick is I follow the camera man

[@3613jeremy]

Your both wrong it's where the X is. Everyone knows that X marks the spot all pirates used ☠️ for their ship flags and X for their treasure locations

[@JP-pt9iz]

I love Myth Hunters but I have yet to see an episode where they actually find the damn treasure! 😡 😅

[@timnor4803]

It's not called Treasure Hunters... they seem to be successfully finding Myths though 😉

[@skatee99]

Yea, this is the Absolute History Channel. If you want to watch one where someone actually DOES find the treasure, watch this channel's episode about finding the lost city of Troy and, it's gold treasure.

[@mmarmrcz6770]

The more views they get, the more $$$ to buy gold.

[@tonyfuller2234]

Watch the first ones made there good and they find treasures

[@proveritate9312]

It's like the Oak Island series.

[@deborahduthie4519]

Pirates were known for digging extra deep pits, understanding that most seekers would dig to a depth where they could get out of the pit.

[@peacebrain4471]

@@deborahduthie4519 i thought has only ever been 1 documented account of a pirate actually burying treasure. ONE

[@peacebrain4471]

@@deborahduthie4519 thats only ever been documented 1 time in recorded history.

[@BionicRusty]

Apart from Captain Kidd, there are actually no verified accounts of pirates burying treasure. 😂

[@decker528]

Several of them have claimed to have buried some anyway. Blackbeard and La Bouche(misspelled I'm sure) both said they did, along with black Caesar. Since most of their treasure was goods they could resell, I can see potentially winding up with lots of what we would call treasure and not being able to do much with it and putting it somewhere safe. More than anything though, I like believing it exists. It makes the world more interesting

[@mariosxrusostomou5503]

Nobel for a treasure drama nobel!!😮❤

[@PopGoesTheology]

Cocos Islands? We’re going, right?

[@kevinbyrne2535]

Got a boat?

[@slcparis2]

So I got a couple of canoes and a metal detector out here in the Utah desert

[@gav7671]

I will join, I'm a great navigator and can dig for days 😅

[@DaddychiLL6]

We ride at dawn

[@solartherm]

@@DaddychiLL6 People are not allowed on this island, guards did find some treasure recently

[@frank25_]

Been to this island many times. When you read about this treasure, you’d think it’d be easy to find. In reality- damn near impossible island to traverse.

[@libs-Suk-Balz]

You’ve been to cocos many times? Why?

[@adventureinventors]

Park Rangers found it, look it up it's a cool story!

[@Ickie71]

Turns out it was sticking out the sand one day after a storm it was near the waters edge all along as The German once said. It was only a couple years ago it was found.

[@decker528]

I don't think it's found. That's a hoax I fell for also. If the island is hard to transverse, seems like you should start looking where people can actually get to

[@Ickie71]

@@decker528 you fell for the park rangers thing? why would puerto rico say that if it wasnt True,i saw the photos couple years ago of the Giant Gold cross was that Fake too or am i lieing@Decker? Literally metres from the Beach,hehehe and to think of al the people who have been there looking it was under your feet all along you all stepped right over it!shit! When you think about it now it makes sense that Golden cross looks like it weighs half a Ton ofc they couldnt carry it far! The German found a bunch of Gold coins a couple of times and both times they were on the Beach too funny that eh?

[@faerieSAALE]

Arrrr matey - foiled again!

[@joeanderson8839]

Someone needs to go out there with a metal detector.

[@dapper_gent]

they have it became a boat anchor ⚓

[@Bret-989]

No longer can you look for treasure on the island, it is now a sanctuary.

[@adventureinventors]

Park Rangers found it!

[@decker528]

​@@adventureinventorsI think that article was a hoax. I fell for it too

[@decker528]

Why did no one ever think to bring a metal detector? 😂

[@mariosxrusostomou5503]

This is the real treasure hunt but the lucky is not smiling.😮❤

[@David-xy2ly]

Old Jack, where’s my passport lol

[@TalmageL-pn2pv]

He should have already had the coffee ☕ growing,, no coffee,, no people.. lol 😊

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

I found that treasure. It was a good find. I simply walked past the holy grail and Santa's hat 13 paces and it was lying there right beside Cleopatras tomb. Silly pirates.

[@henrikpersson4371]

I dont believe in pirates......... but gz : ))

[@decker528]

​@@henrikpersson4371I was gonna write something but I can't top this comment 😂

[@RichRogerson-o4w]

Its on my bucket list.

[@2ndFcRecon2006]

Ok bro

[@petersutherland2075]

I know what the story says but IF I was said pirate....................In modern day England a thief steals your stuff and sells it asap to get money.........makes sense the treasure was sold to a government or some other Fence of the time. Bury treasure? nope sell it!! GREAT GREAT CONTENT AS USUAL!! CAPTIVATED FROM THE START!!

[@rayrecrok]

I think the first TV cook of the 50's black and white telly, probably only BBC, was "Philip Harben" a rolly poly bloke, he sounded very gentle.

[@WilliamDohertyIII]

So, what happened the 1st guy who just LET this guy steal this info from his grandfathers diary? He never continued his search? THATS why he was on the boat in the 1st place!! THEN, this guy just happens to GIVE him a map with location of island!? I call b.s.

[@BigSteve_Gaming187]

10:45. Unless you were in charge of charts back then. Odds are you weren't privy to that sort of information. Otherwise, the risk of mutiny would be more tempting.

[@WalterHayward-l6v]

I leave for the island tonight.

[@igor79cz]

I would be ok to find roman tresury😉

[@joeanderson8839]

How was it profitable to steal treasure if you were going to bury it in the ground?

[@ernieb820]

Becuse you have so much you have to put it somewhere for safe keeping.

[@herbe778]

It's not about the treasure, but rather the friends we made along the way.

[@4thamendment237]

Pirates lived in the moment. They would not bury a treasure.They would just take it and spend it until they ran out.

[@johnvest2710]

Why put money in a bank ?

[@Boss-zo4lw]

Contrary to belief Pirates etc did not bury treasure, it was split up amongst the crew, it was their payment and alot of the times got more than the captain, if the captain wanted to go hide it the crew would not have had that happen the Cpt could even be voted off and another voted in his place, the treasure was everyones not the Cpts.

[@rogergriffin9893]

Lots of someone's have gone to Cocos Island with metal detectors. There are stories that claim someone discovered and removed whatever treasure was there.

[@libs-Suk-Balz]

Not true.

[@bensabelhaus7288]

I always love these stories lol Oh, you have a map? You're far from the first person to have it lol The map exists to recover the treasure. At that point, the map is now a commodity to sell as a treasure itself lol The cache is long gone. But like Oak Island, the story and adventure is the fun part.

[@theenlightenment765]

I bet he got a right bollocking when he got back, after leaving her on her own on an island for 6 months. Jeeees. I get an ear full just going down the pub for a few hrs. 😂

[@PhoneBoothLivin]

Sad he never found it but the park rangers did in 2015 . It’s funny how Costa Rica declared the island a national park in 78 to keep treasure hunters off of it. Smart move

[@decker528]

I think that story is a hoax. Nothing has been found as best as I can tell

[@thesecretaryofcommonsense3851]

I wonder by which month into that 6month separation did she, if ever, thought he was never returning and he thought, he'd FIND HER DEAD!😒🥴🤷‍♀️🤔☠️☠️☠️

[@HDM-u7x]

17 years that's for sure it is an obsession. Covetness.😮😮

[@michaelcheli5842]

Any less time devoted would be giveupness.

[@antoninprq]

Edward Kenway for sure went there

[@MrVinniboy]

yeah from Assassin's creed 😉

[@rogergriffin9893]

Pirates divided their treasure booty among themselves but the captain got a larger share, sometimes much larger. He might have to bury a large part of it for safekeeping because he couldn't carry it around with him.

[@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul]

Captain spent the loot on wenches ... and rum.

[@peacebrain4471]

@@rogergriffin9893 the leader got a double share only.

[@MaryMary-tf8gc]

For those of you who are planning to adventure on a treasure hunt at the Coco’s island… I hate to disappoint but the island is now a national park, is protected by the government and it has strict limitations on how people can interact with the island… so of course… NO digging for treasure is allowed 😂 So sorry.

[@TheEquineFencer]

Here's a thought. If the original maps are still available....it sounds like started looking for the treasure 80+ years after it was buried. My guess, they used the stars to navigate/plot by back then. Would the natural shift of the stars and planets over time made his map inaccurate?

[@thesecretaryofcommonsense3851]

Great story i never heard of before... Why wouldn't he have thought someone(s) had gotten it(any treasure) way before he got there after year3🤔... Annnnd how did he find a woman like his wife to "stay down" for that long🤨... She should've kept a diary, too... Their story is definitely a BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE! 🎥🍿🎥🍿 🪙🪙🪙🪙

[@Ryan-eu3kp]

This would make an amazing drama movie

[@everettbass8659]

I know many treasure stories myself,I still research and hunt.

[@Chamonix.frequently]

Hunting firctreasure so often takes all that you have and all you can give, including your life. They miss the whole point of living life as an explorer and surviving on your own. Treasure is the goal but the riches come from a life lived passionately

[@grendel7716]

"It was a genuine treasure map! Mr. Bimbo told me so"

[@Everett-eh4nn]

The truth of the matter is is that pirates rarely buried anything. It did happen but it was a very very rare thing. Reason being is because they knew they could be lost at sea or couldn't get back. The guy who says that Cocos Island is loaded with treasure is full of it and does not have a clue.

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

Its a good story thou. Better than all the climate change stories telling us life is hopeless.

[@Everett-eh4nn]

@@Patrick-yh5yd I fully agree. I've always dreamed of being a pirate since being a little kid. I'm 56 as of yesterday and I still want to be a pirate LOL.

[@adventureinventors]

You stand corrected, Park Rangers found it!

[@Everett-eh4nn]

@@adventureinventors news by me

[@London97]

Is all gone .. I’ve taken the lot … went Monte Carlo blew the lot 😮😊

[@gav7671]

Id probably stay, looks like heven

[@cricket8438]

How many fish and coconuts could you eat before you longed for a steak? 😮

[@winterwolf2012]

That's what the rats be telling you, don't believe...

[@rodhart9163]

Awesum

[@CoryStewart-ee9ug]

Do they ever find Any treasure on these shows ..cause I've yet to see anyone find anything

[@eddieharris6004]

I find it curious that Gisler 'found' on separate occaissions gold coins.....could it be that Gisler planted these modest pieces in an attempt to encourage others who were having doubts about the supposed hidden treasure?

[@cadderley100]

This is what "Treasure Island" is based on, isn't it? The original source material.

[@decker528]

It's said to have inspired treasure Island. I don't think it was this treasure but another that's rumored to be hidden there. He used this island's physical appearance and features to tell how the island in the book looked

[@peterquaw2971]

It's fun looking for their buryed treasure if you can find it❤😅

[@tomtroy3792]

I watched a movie last night with Coco performing in it

[@yubz1496]

lovelock

[@DonaldDeweese]

That treasure is not on cocos island. Follow the story there was no Capitan by that name. The Vicroy of Spain over Peru had the churches load it on the boat n took it for himself. Then retired in the middle of the fight, which nobody would’ve done.

[@OnlyShorts69420]

I feel like 20 strong pirates could move one of those big rocks and bury the treasure under.. I mean no one would ever think to look under them rocks.. Which might be the obvious location because nobody believes those rocks could be moved..

[@winterwolf2012]

You may got something there, jackhammer here I come.

[@OnlyShorts69420]

@@winterwolf2012 if you find it a small piece of gold will be appreciated 😂

[@anthonyjohnson100]

The treasure is actually buried near Napo’opo’o on the big island of Hawaii.

[@benchapple1583]

How do goats, pigs and deer get to a volcanic island in the middle of the Pacific? I can only imagine that people brought them but who and why?

[@paulhammersley4562]

so the German obviously could read Portuguese. lmfao.

[@richardwernars5327]

One minute in, already know that they found nothing.

[@aticknekong5296]

.. I'm yet to watch a vid of them hunters finding the treasures and celebrating it...

[@warrenvollaro2529]

There is another island named cacos/Turks in the Caribbean on the Atlantic side, I wonder if there was an error in what island they actually buried the treasure on, curious

[@nikmpup]

Cool

[@jonnycarroll6676]

Gold fever has taken more lives than malaria. Be content and thankful of health the greatest treasure is integrity harmony and spiritual peace.

[@stefang3709]

So this is now assuming Gissler was fluent in portugise? Otherwise I have a hard time believing he understood anything of the diary.

[@mikeparkhurst8804]

It's a great story, like many many more however!!!!!!. I've done quite a bit of treasure hunting over the years, some successful 😁,and just like the pirates,not trusting anyone on my team,..and we were life time friends.. pirates... I have found in most real life raids, escaped a s quick and as far as necessary and being broke from the last raid.. wanted their money ASAP 🤨😡.so the captain would take the boat,share,his share,and collect any loan amount owed,.. with the terrible loss of any of the men during the raid cap got their full amounts. Now as per some pre agreement,s that would go the crew🤕👍.I don't disagree some of the spoils were hidden.. but very little amount. Hopefully I don't ruin you dreams keep looking... I will 😁☘️☘️☘️🤞🤞🤞😄

[@michaeljoyce-q6s]

If we're to find a very old treasure. I am certainly not telling anyone.

[@Shweetthooth]

The treasure was the island he got to live on.

[@Kiyoone]

They love the Hollywood creation of "Buried treasure"... I mean It is just stupid to think that pirates would travel FAR to bury their loot for NO REASON

[@decker528]

It's more fun to believe treasures are hidden out there, no matter who put them in the ground

[@justinmulick987]

What if the pirates came back for the treasure and it was never there. Isn’t that the point in hiding it after all

[@Mrz-sb1hw]

Pirates a' hoy. Shiver me timbers. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Ah' ll make yar walk the plank yah swab. Landlubbers a'hoy captain.

[@HenryDavis-qu4rf]

At least he was in a nice environment to live out his fantasy.

[@xxdoodles85xxdoodles33]

I know of another island shrouded in myth and mystery…… except the people digging on there have much bigger tools and machines 😬

[@rajasingammuthusamy959]

Now, a gold detector hand device is available.

[@duanewhite3184]

Didn't it say it was 2miles in on the. Island and they planted a tree on top of the treasure

[@zizosheriff8466]

Poor Mary bruh

[@garycody1929]

is the hideous music necessary ?

[@yellowboy1866]

There's talk that Donald Cambell, financed his water speed record attempts with treasure from that island.

[@markissboi3583]

Aussie legend of Lasseters gold reef 1800's some say a mile long the grandson 25yrs L8tr went looking & found his grandfathers skeleton in a boab tree with a notes book map & gold they never understood if the map was upside down or in code idk its not near anything volcanic or meteorite hit

[@danranquist502]

I think he may have found the gold and never reported or recorded it..

[@davidwmuise]

The treasure is hidden in various locations on the island. One location is near a river the empties out on the south western side of the island. Several chest and the pure gold, life size statue of the virgins Mary holding baby Jesus. This treasure belongs to Lima!!!!

[@BigSteve_Gaming187]

If the energy spent looking went towards working or inventing. Puhaps he would fair out far better than what he was doing. However, you don't think of that when the thirst of treasure comes upon u. Especially after that little find.

[@daidavies6210]

WRONG WRONG WRONG..😂. OMG So Wrong… He said its on Cucase Island .. Now known as Tristan de Cunha.. Where there is a Town called Edinburgh of the seven seas, When he wrote to his wife in Edinburgh he told her in a letter that he hoarded Silver & Gold and Jewels in a Cavern in the side of a Volcano, He marked a Boulder with Cross and a Hand pointing to where its hidden, 14 strides and Climb 30 yards , Everything you said here is totally incorrect, The island is in the south Atlantic. If it was on the island that you mentioned every time he would travel there he would have to Go around the extremely Dangerous Cape of south America. No Sailor Back then took that trip unless it was absolutely necessary.

[@michaeljoyce-q6s]

A person can make more money working at McDonald's than looking for treasure.

[@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul]

In California you can get $20 an hour working at Mac Donalds now.

[@fishinwidow35]

This was supposedly the treasure of William Thompson and his first mate James Alexander Forbes hid. Thompson went to Newfoundland and Forbes went to California. Thompson told tales of the treasure and Forbes became very rich. Plenty of tales about that as well. My great-grandfather, also named William Thompson, told my grandfather and father about the tale but both believed it was just an old sailor's tale about hidden treasure.

[@jayare2620]

The treasue on Cocos Island was the basis of a Charlie Chan Movie

[@michaelcheli5842]

A friend and I went on a gold treasure hunt years ago, map and all. We got stopped in our tracks at the boundry of a semi secret military base, wherase the government sign described im detail how we were going to die, if we preceeded. Needless to say, no gold, but we made it out of there.

[@brettcurtis5710]

Nah, another doco says Robert Louis Stevenson found it - based his novel Treasure Island on it, and financed his last days in Samoa off the loot!!

[@yellowboy1866]

Why do people think that if some thief thieved cash from someone, honest people could claim their loot and walk off with it Scott free.

[@arthur1658]

In the middle of the Pacific ocean... 350 miles off the coast. Don't they know how big the Pacific is 😅😅😅😅

[@SunCityOffroadRecovery]

What's a pirates favorite letter?

[@asagillan8223]

R

[@ZeEvulFirefox]

To be honest Cocos island don't match the map referenced in the video. It got 9-12 different peaks not 2 prominent ones and 3 separate mountain ranges so yeah should have tried more then the first island he found and he could have had a chance XD

[@randydiver3076]

Wonder if anyone has taken a metal detector to the island?

[@yubz1496]

iimagine all the gold coins u would find

[@jjdeepsea]

Anyone that actually finds treasure keeps theirr mouth shut

[@jamesmiller4184]

Ar.aye - thel nevr fin me tresur HA! Let ims tri 'er, thel di reel gud tri'in. Ar.aye! (it be treu wut thes sai bout us but. onli whn no wuns lookn! An yungist dek swabis first!! Ar aye. he ye he!!)

[@jefflaliberte4587]

Pirates didn't bury treasure.......They spent it!