The True Story That Inspired Pirates Of The Caribbean | The Real Treasure Island | Absolute History

[@geigertec5921]

I own a 1745 Lima shilling, made from the silver plundered by the British Navy during the war of the Austrian Succession. The Brits made sure to put the word "LIMA" in big letters right beneath George II's portrait to flaunt the fact that the silver was plundered from the Spanish

[@jimr9499]

Wow that's fascinating. And, also, possibly the most petty historical burn I have ever heard of lol.

[@uppercutgrandma4425]

@@jimr9499 that's old world historical burns. If you want to see an upcoming historical burn event... When Onlyfans model's/or Jack Murphy's kids grow up... oof

[@johndorilag4129]

The biggest plunder and loot can be found all over the British Museums that the British plundered around the world from India to Ceylon to China. The British refused to return the plunder. However, the Chinese are not taking this lightly. Wealthy Chinese businessmen have hired professional thieves to break into these museums and steal back Chinese artifacts and priceless valuables. Not only British museums were broken into and reported stolen Chinese artifacts but German and French museums have reported break-ins also by thieves.

[@michael-4k4000]

You must have stole it from my uncle Ned who originally found the treasure.

[@danielwhoop4992]

Swap you a freddo for it?

[@JasonBrownafewmomentsl8er]

The whole opening premise of this is ridiculous . If you know anything about the Stevenson family you know how they got their wealth and they ( especially Thomas) definitely worked. while it's probably the most popular and in my opinion the best, treasure island is far from the first pirate novel .

[@geigertec5921]

Yeah, pirate stories go back thosands of years, Julius Ceasar was famously captured by Cilician pirates. He captured them all later and killed them. And there's even burried treasure stories so old that they appear in the bible - the Parable of the Hidden Treasure - Matthew 13:44.

[@thedude8046]

Most definitely yes!

[@erichraudebaugh]

Also, it's the wrong ocean, for what's that worth.

[@eddiesroom1868]

Fun!

[@JasonBrownafewmomentsl8er]

@@erichraudebaugh for Treasure Island it's the wrong ocean but RLS did spend a lot of time in the Pacific. there's even the decaying remains of one of the ships he used to sail on displayed in Everett Washington where I grew up

[@saraross8396]

Title: Pirates of the Caribbean movie inspiration. Real topic: How "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson likely got its inspiration. While both have pirates and are fiction, these aren't exactly the same thing. The movies are about rescuing someone you love while Treasure Island is best described as a coming of age story.

[@joejones9520]

clickbait

[@cruisepaige]

Clickbait

[@SYMBIOTEDINOSAUR]

Also Treasure island is more realistic and a story that could plausibly take place in real life while POTC relies heavily on supernatural elements.

[@Bearg8s22]

More like one piece than potc

[@Ickie71]

this whole doc is bulshit

[@khamen723]

I read Treasure Island as a wee lad back around 1978. Been plunderin ever since

[@fishinwidow35]

Will Thompson was a respected captain. His first mate's name was "Forbes", he went to California after he and Thompson were "rescued". I've heard the story all my life. Captain Will Thompson was a relative. My great-grandfather went to sea at age 11 in 1880 from not so far from Newfoundland.

[@ashleelarsen5002]

Fascinating

[@danushaforknneer2749]

That is so amazing!! Thanks for sharing.

[@gaylereid8264]

Mr Thompson, Please carry this revelation by Campas further on!!!! Please, PLEASE write a book!!! Tell the impressions of your Great Great Grandfather, as told by your Father, in detail!!!! Does this not intrigue you ???? I’ll be looking now for a book by Mr Gerry Thompson ❣️❣️

[@fishinwidow35]

@@gaylereid8264 Ms Thompson, but that is ok ;) We don't have a lot of information about Will Thompson. Just a couple pages my grandfather wrote about it and my father telling tales he heard from his great-grandfather. No big revelations. I continue to research my Thompsons every day but records from the Maritimes pre-1850 are hard to come by.

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Pirate treasure

[@ianhawkes2901]

I am a mes'tiso of Peru, direct bloodline of a conquistador (I will not name who, it isn't Pizzaro). What I have heard is that the Holy Treasure of the Church of Lima was 'stolen' by the priests themselves; fleeing rebellion as the excuse. If you are on this trail you want to research the Priests of the Church of Lima at that time and find out if their descendants miraculously became very wealthy. Cpt. Will Thompson was/is an innocent man

[@fishinwidow35]

Can you imagine just how heavy the entire treasury of Lima plus the Church's gold would be? Thompson only had one ship.

[@bethbartlett5692]

Great share.

[@mikedickson6362]

They could have just hidden it somewhere in South America

[@rrialb9371]

3:42 This guy is gloveless, powering thru historically significant pages that are well over 100 years old. Wow!

[@johndoe-cb5ck]

And wiping sweat off his face with his hands then picking up the book

[@joejones9520]

I have books from the 1500's; I dont wear gloves or do anything special when looking thru them. Books were tough before modern times. Newspapers were too.

[@bobblehat6603]

Though clean gloves prevent the transfer of natural skin oils to paper, they reduce tactile sensitivity and increase clumsiness. Studies have shown that skin oils can affect how paper ages, but some preservation experts prioritize reducing the physical risk from reduced tactility.

[@jayste9334]

Those were just reenactments

[@catherinespencer-mills1928]

The Scots Stevensons? Who built a number of engineering marvels including the lighthouses? Look up Bell Rock Lighthouse. Would have been royally compensated for their work.

[@felicitybywater8012]

Yeah, just what I was thinking. Also a writer of a book world famous in that writer's lifetime is going to bring in great gobs of income.

[@edgarsnake2857]

That was one whopper of a tale piled on another whopper of a tale...and entertaining to boot.

[@mantronixtube]

he's in san francisco and they fail to mention the island across the bay called....treasure island??? but they mention a newspaper article? smh

[@jasonconrad4314]

Treasure Island did not exist in the 1890s. Treasure Island is a man made island that was built in the 1930s for the world's fair. Yerba Buena Island is the only part that existed at the time

[@mantronixtube]

@@jasonconrad4314 i’m talking about the newspaper story . not the 1890s

[@grimnirnacht]

The count of Monte Cristo was written 40 years prior to treasure island. A cave of wonders and treasure that changes a guys life passed on from a dying man. That doesn't sound familiar at all. Also, no mention of Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? That was a much better story imo

[@tolulolaonanuga2142]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_General_History_of_the_Pyrates

[@Max_Le_Groom]

Reading it at 13 I thought 'This is full of tropes.' and little did I know this was where all those tropes came from 😂😂😂

[@MrMarckeedee]

Humid climates are actually good for TB. And actually high altitude dry air which they thought was good for Pulminary conditions is actually the worst. So it does in fact add up that he would have felt better in Tropical climates.

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Yea as a kid I had chest problems.Dr said bowl of steaming water olbis oil, towel over my head and breath in, that's fairly humid. That was the 1980's before they gave every child alive an inhaler, I ended up never needing one, makes you wonder.

[@valmid5069]

Captured Pirate: if you kill me; you will never know the treasure of Lima! Executioner: Lima? Where's that? Captured Pirate: *LIMA BALLS*

[@magicpyroninja]

Imagine being so worried about your money getting stolen that you give it away to a pirate for safekeeping 😂🤣

[@-BigIi-]

And send a priest with them as if this somehow bolsters security. They've also got a priest, and he's got a cross, everything should be alright.

[@chrisbarriere101]

Ya this is hype. Stephenson was openly inspired by the works of Edgar Allen Poe. This instance demonstrates Stephenson’s love for “The Gold Bug”, the most popular work during Poe’s own lifetime.

[@juneyshu6197]

Gold Bug, first story I thought of.

[@kenbarney3843]

Hardly the first pirate tale, published or otherwise. This absurd claim alone invalidates anything else you have to say.

[@tolulolaonanuga2142]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_General_History_of_the_Pyrates

[@davyp2993]

I think you are being economical with the facts of what were narrated. It intimated that, "he introduced the world to tales of pirates and buried treasure". One million copies in forty different languages. Well, to be honest he did, as his books were so widely published, and used as educational reading in schools around the world. Books being written with simple words and a gripping story helps keeps the students concentration. Maybe not in today's world but pre 1970's it was books of "derring-do" that were used in schools, and introduced extended vocabulary.

[@michaeljohnson9969]

Don’t forget, EA Poe wrote the Gold Bug about a buried treasure and a map with cryptic instructions on how to find it.

[@ArrBee6]

Also EA Poe - FOUR BEASTS IN ONE-THE HOMO-CAMELEOPARD Chacun a ses vertus. (Trans) Each has its virtues.

[@StarTexaspets]

Sorry but the pirates showing up in rowboats then getting arrested is funny. I can just see Jack sparrow in a row boat, like, "yeah, this is all we got" with a pocket full of stuff lol

[@anjummirza1452]

Excellent information and narration...

[@jamesmudd2227]

The hardest part to believe is the second guy dug up the treasure and only took a small amount and left the rest of the treasure buried...... REALLY!?!? 😂😂😂

[@justinmiles3094]

Not when you consider he has to haul that wealth out of there

[@fetus2280]

Why do you all even Bother to Region Lock a Video on a Global Platform ? Seriously ... One click and im watching it . Just stop wasting your time and ours with it . its 2022 not the 90s... we have an app for that .

[@arnenelson4495]

Excellent video, Thanks.

[@59tante]

Absolutely interesting

[@ashleelarsen5002]

I concur

[@Myriako]

Thank you for this video ! 😊💐

[@jessicathompson3897]

That was fabulous thank you

[@PC-lu3zf]

Great video

[@sam8404]

I've only seen the first couple minutes but I've got a feeling this will have almost nothing to do with Pirates of the Caribbean.

[@robbieburris2333]

I figured Jack Sparrow was based on calico Jack.

[@masseandersson6237]

"May your anchor be tight, your cork be loose, your rum be spiced and your compass be true."

[@liquidfox2796]

Indiana Jones was a B movie???

[@dano8902]

Yeah its more like "in the tradition" of B movies. And those serials that played before the main attractions.

[@trukeesey8715]

I like the way wherein you translated the Swiss man.

[@nancyM1313]

Hello me Buccaneers! My name is Scully😄 Lol! Thanks for uploading video.

[@madcat187]

Argh! me matey! 🤣

[@catkatzi3320]

Excellent! 👌

[@pilotlounge1970]

Great quote.

[@fflarexx9061]

On the thumbnail, i read the lost treasure of Lima as the lost treasure of Ligma ....for a sec I considered the possibility of this being one big Ligma balls joke.

[@dewaldsteyn1306]

Yup the power of the internets jokes.

[@e.lundbom4578]

A ludicrous idea, entertainingly presented.

[@peterxd3610]

at least everyone would just admit that the torture is over

[@jamhunter9168]

The Treasure was found on Cocos Island about 10 years ago, by Costa Rican government, employees, working on Cocos Island .

[@worldtraveler930]

Please post us some references?!? 🤠👍

[@fishinwidow35]

@@worldtraveler930 Workers on the island supposedly found the treasure under an uprooted tree after a storm. Now said to be a hoax.

[@kenhart8771]

Fascinating story

[@dewaldsteyn1306]

Its history not a story.

[@N_0968]

Pieces of eight! 🦜

[@howwwyyy29]

One of these"repeat the story"every 5 minutes

[@doctornova3015]

Louis was his middle name not a surname. It was changed later in " spelling but not pronunciation" from Lewis.

[@michaelfercik3691]

The only thing missing in this story is how pirates used dowsing for locating treasure once it has been buried. The fabled X marks the spot the treasure is buried came from only those who were close to the treasure could dowse from ninety-degree offset passes for marking the X exactly on top of the buried treasure. Read the book The Art of Dowsing - Separating Science from Superstition for learning the physics in dowsing and how to accurately decipher what is being dowsed.

[@joejones9520]

dowsing has been proven to not work at all ever.

[@gwoody4003]

I love how media always portrays people carrying a big sack of gold, or 2 guys lifting a chest full of coins like its not the most dense material on earth and wouldn't weigh 100s of pounds. 😂 A bronze ingot is like 15 pounds and that has some real heft to it. I have never lifted a gold bar. I know for sure you arent carrying a knapsack full of gold coins on your back unless you are one of those HIghland Games guys who throws whole trees 😂. The Knapsack would likely blow out.

[@Rainbowofthefallen]

Just Commenting for the algorithm 💛

[@pahvi3]

This type of exhausting background music renders these shows unwatchable

[@youknowmyname9915]

More like lost treasure of Ligma.

[@semigoth299]

I just love the English and their story telling

[@ikkedansk]

thanks for wasting our time with stories gonig nowhere

[@joeschmo7145]

Thanks for saving me time lol

[@stargazer4625]

I'm 35 minutes in and I get more info from my neighbors dog barking at passing cars..

[@Zav19844]

Who complains about free content… oh I know a whinger

[@mtbalpinecounty]

Obviously your a Child of the Video age...Knowledge is history..your not ready for opening up your mind. Look back at yours..go.

[@YrmomsBF]

It’s yr time. Spend it as you wish

[@freemarketjoe9869]

Absolute history is Absolutely full of conjecture. Very interesting but very little facts. One important detail missing is how long the ship that stole the treasure was gone before the men returned, claiming the vessel sank. Compare that timeline to how long it would have taken to get to Samoa and back. That's very telling. Like most theories, we may never know. The trouble with all new ideas is the desperate need to be taken seriously and the money potential clouds the waters, often distorting and inflating ideas out of proportion to fit a new interpretation of history. Still fun to think about though.

[@Worklikeyoushouldbe]

Well... The Spanish would have gone back to Cocos Island and searched for it until it was found...

[@NotPoliticalCorrect]

DID he write hes book "Treasure Island" before or after hes trip ?

[@starkilr101]

Intriguing. Seen

[@espacemaxim]

There's a theory that Heyerdahl's mission was a front and he actually brought the treasure to Oslo

[@jamescook6564]

This sounds almost like the treasure on Oak Island.

[@jamescook5487]

I'm trying to figure out if I left this comment or you're a fellow James Cook...this looks like something I would say lol. I more hope this is a different James Cook and I have a new best friend.

[@jamescook6564]

@@jamescook5487 I left that comment

[@jamescook5487]

@@jamescook6564 thats awesome!

[@jamescook6564]

@@jamescook5487 where are you from. I'm from East texas

[@jamescook5487]

@@jamescook6564 i am from Maryland about an hour from Baltimore.

[@stuartj1234]

Not one ounce of pirates buried treasure has ever been found anywhere.

[@Miguel_and_The_Microbes]

great story w/ good info (painful to listen to some of the narrator's pronunciations, but hey... :)

[@Freyja_M4106]

i Hate how they always say "a Desert Island" then show a jungle island... Where's The Desert...

[@raindy9850]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_island i hope this helps you understand.

[@ivangreen3995]

Every Sea Story starts with [BOYS THIS IS NO CRAP]

[@sirbimsaranadirangaalmedaa403]

I also detected a treasure in my compound last week but it is worthless

[@fetus2280]

I think you would be better of using the term "Uninhabited" island not "Deserted" . Deserted implies there was at one time a Population there who Deserted it .. Which i highly doubt is the case here. Words Matter .

[@pogo9876]

Cocos island WAS inhabited at one point in time. They've found evidence of human habitation dating from as recently as 1000 years ago.....So, it was a deserted island.

[@felicitybywater8012]

This is the comment I was looking for. Also, the video leaps between it being "deserted" and "desert" while also repeated showing images of an island that 1. is heavily vegetated and 2. is & was inhabited. I hate nonsensical narration.

[@tonynannenga1954]

Stephenson; Did not have all his treasure at his Estate. Story goes; When Stephenson moved his new aquired treasure, He kept to the concept of only keeping money in his safe. Most of his treasure was good and silver. He had to smelt that. So when he was transporting goods to where he was, He would pay in bullion, which was the way of the day. They would have been contacted beforehand by ships traveling the sea, or mail as we call it today but, That took time. A year later your ship shows up buys the merchandise and sails home. Anyways. There is still a lot of his treasure still there. Still HIDDEN? You just need to find it. At least that's how I heard it told?

[@twocyclediesel1280]

Fascinating, boy would I love to find that!

[@Beanfiend00]

Well I just found out I’m related to a literal pirate what in the world

[@crypt1c06]

Just because you share a last name doesn’t mean you are related

[@Beanfiend00]

@@crypt1c06 no like I’m from Newfoundland. I have a literal family tree going back to him lol. Don’t worry I did my research first 😆

[@crypt1c06]

@@Beanfiend00 oh haha! That’s awesome

[@junemarie5965]

We most obey God not yourselves be selfless and pure bepure through prayer and you most

[@RubenGMadrigalJr--]

Sir Rodger de coverley Letters by Addison and Steele

[@alankohn6709]

Here is my problem lets assume he's completely right Stevenson finds the treasure how does he covert Spanish gold coins, statuary, gems and jewels into money Samoa is not that big a place yet no-one mention being paid in Spanish coins or even if he melts it down in to small bars how does he convert it into coin of the realm

[@jacobgasson5927]

Cash for gold.. have you not seen the TV adverts

[@twocyclediesel1280]

I think it would’ve been fairly easy to melt it down and travel to nearby ports / cities and convert it to cash, alternating as he did it so as not to attract too much attention.

[@alankohn6709]

@@twocyclediesel1280 I thought about that Melting the gold not a problem recasting it do able but Samoa is literally in the middle of nowhere the nearest city is Auckland and it is 20425 nautical miles away a 6 month round trip by sail not a short journey by sea and his health wasn't great the trip to Samoa nearly killed him plus the logistics of arranging passage etc and there are no records of him disappearing for half a year and who could he trust to go in his stead with a fortune in gold

[@twocyclediesel1280]

@@alankohn6709 Wow, good point. I confess to not knowing just how remote Samoa is. Yes, good point indeed.

[@kingdaviYT049]

It's a cute story -- almost as cute as Treasure Island. But there are a few questions: (1) Why did Thompson bury the treasure instead of going somewhere that he could spend it on wine, women, etc.? Which is what almost any self-respecting pirate would do. There are plenty of places he could convert the treasure to cash and live like a king -- not least of them China or Indonesia; (2) Why did he sink his ship? (3) Why in the everlovin' blue-eyed world did he return -- of all places -- to the scene of the crime??!! And (4) Why did he never go back and try to recover the treasure? ["Try" is the operant word. I've buried cash myself.] I don't need to ask why nobody (except a rather foolish fictional man) has yet found the treasure trove. That's pretty obvious to anybody with even half a brain.

[@tonimartin8547]

Everloving blue-eyed world? 😆 I have never heard that saying before

[@crypt1c06]

Probably because he wasn’t a pirate and he was most likely afraid.

[@matthewrosenthal753]

It’s because the story of Captain Thompson makes no sense, and the so called confessions are not worth the paper or parchment they are written. Torture was outlawed for a reason. Any confession garnered by tourture should be regarded as a lie. In otherwords no one has found the lost treasure of Lima because Thompson was a scapegoat and never had it in the first place

[@googoo1035]

I would almost pay the subscription price for that goddamn streaming service if I didn't have to hear that shill at the beginning of every video they put out

[@ajaxslamgoody9736]

There is also Kentucky Connection to Treasure Island....Look up the Book: The Strange Case of Jonathan Swift and the Real Long John Silver

[@michaelmichael4132]

My main problem with the video is sluicing the hogwash from the balderdash, reality-wise, but it is generally a cheerful tale and it should keep you amused over a morning bowl of Fruit Loops. I like mine with sliced bananas, please.

[@richardrogerson2383]

This story pales in comparison to Drake's exploits.

[@JohnSmith-nl9sx]

Where do I find the footage of the 1980s treasure hunter plz

[@dashrendar8739]

Why would anybody hide treasure in a cave that anybody could find?! I never understood that. Bury it somewhere and nobody will find it.

[@thorshammer8033]

Do they have to recap every few minutes ffs

[@jasonconrad4314]

that's what happens when they cut the commercials out of the original airing. Those recaps took place when the show resumed from commercials.

[@amarjyotisarmah999]

About time 😆

[@TheHottrod3000]

Name of the intro song?

[@sammy1107]

Arms of gold- tape machines

[@junemarie5965]

If you have a ailments ask God AND PRAY YOU GET better yourselves through prayer every day

[@richardrogerson2383]

It may all be true.. Its my favorite book. It doesn't matter if it's a true story. It's weather you believe the story is true. Personally I choose to believe the story is true or not. Look up accounts of finding buried treasure on an island. It's true.

[@junemarie5965]

We most obey God and go to church every Sunday morning

[@griffini19]

WTF? Why? Cuz you read in a fictional book?

[@GR-kt4le]

Absolute History absolute garba ge

[@1023cincy]

Why would Thompson sail all the way to Samoa and then sail back to Lima only to be arrested? He stashed the loot somewhere close to Lima.

[@whatabouttheearth]

So Hydrrdahl surfed the Amphodromic Points?

[@kristopherlewis6074]

I thought it was about the wreck of the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet lol

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

He found a cave near the seashore on an island, not been funny but you would probably have as much chance of finding a grain of sand on the beach.

[@robnewman6101]

The Story ment to be set in the 18th Century. Georgian era. 1700s.

[@splitman1129]

Seems like everyone has jumped on history hits coat tails.

[@ajaxslamgoody9736]

Cthulhu....What's next, H.P. Lovecraft sailed there too? LOLOLOL

[@julesverne2509]

Well of course if Keeting or w/e his name is went back and got the treasure it naturally wouldn't be there for anyone who goes looking after that....

[@FernandoAvelarify]

This channel really think we are stupid.

[@kennethwatt6404]

Doubt it , not watched it yet but I doubt very much there’s a true version of the undead walking under water searching for missing coins to make them horrible humans again

[@brucepeek3923]

So if Stevenson knew about a real treasure why didn't he go there and get it? Huh? best Bruce Peek

[@jmccoomber1659]

If you watch the video, they say he did go there and find the treasure...Duh!

[@twocyclediesel1280]

Did you watch the video?

[@stevent6614]

If you ever become lucky enough to make a great discovery, just remember to not mention anything online, not unless you want to be defrauded, and there wouldnt be anything you could do about it. Once you have gained special knowledge, you learn very quickly just how easy it is for your private information to be exploited, and for your hardwork and research to be stolen. Unfortunately, there are no laws that protect you in this.

[@tommymaw1317]

Louie wrote bollox good teading😎😎😎

[@justinthealpha6710]

Does anyone know the name of the song at 29:50 ??

[@sammy1107]

0:00 what's the song pls

[@zdnekpicha7956]

OK

[@whiterabbit1632]

What nonsense! All pirate stories are based on the book by Captain Charles Johnson

[@tolulolaonanuga2142]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_General_History_of_the_Pyrates

[@leeri103]

We all.know what inspired pirates it was the one piece 😂😂

[@negotiator96]

That's why they called it booty!😂

[@PC-lu3zf]

So it was in a cave probably been collected by now hence it’s lost or it’s still in cave maybe cave is not easy to find now. Or as I think it’s somewhere else