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

[@khamen723]

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

[@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?

[@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

[@deltapi6880]

You're not supposed to wear gloves while handling old books; it risks even more damage to the pages than going through them barehand.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@edgarsnake2857]

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

[@valmid5069]

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

[@anjummirza1452]

Excellent information and narration...

[@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

[@arnenelson4495]

Excellent video, Thanks.

[@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.

[@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

[@Myriako]

Thank you for this video ! 😊💐

[@PC-lu3zf]

Great video

[@59tante]

Absolutely interesting

[@ashleelarsen5002]

I concur

[@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

[@jessicathompson3897]

That was fabulous thank you

[@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.

[@trukeesey8715]

I like the way wherein you translated the Swiss man.

[@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 😂😂😂

[@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

[@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.

[@catkatzi3320]

Excellent! 👌

[@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

[@pilotlounge1970]

Great quote.

[@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.

[@nancyM1313]

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

[@madcat187]

Argh! me matey! 🤣

[@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.

[@kenhart8771]

Fascinating story

[@dewaldsteyn1306]

Its history not a story.

[@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 .

[@starkilr101]

Intriguing. Seen

[@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.

[@justinthealpha6710]

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

[@sammy1107]

0:00 what's the song pls

[@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.

[@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.

[@Miguel_and_The_Microbes]

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

[@e.lundbom4578]

A ludicrous idea, entertainingly presented.

[@masseandersson6237]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@robbieburris2333]

I figured Jack Sparrow was based on calico Jack.

[@JohnSmith-nl9sx]

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

[@TheHottrod3000]

Name of the intro song?

[@sammy1107]

Arms of gold- tape machines

[@Rainbowofthefallen]

Just Commenting for the algorithm 💛

[@RubenGMadrigalJr--]

Sir Rodger de coverley Letters by Addison and Steele

[@N_0968]

Pieces of eight! 🦜

[@amarjyotisarmah999]

About time 😆

[@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

[@NotPoliticalCorrect]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@Worklikeyoushouldbe]

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

[@doctornova3015]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@howwwyyy29]

One of these"repeat the story"every 5 minutes

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@ivangreen3995]

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

[@peterxd3610]

at least everyone would just admit that the torture is over

[@semigoth299]

I just love the English and their story telling

[@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.

[@stuartj1234]

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

[@pahvi3]

This type of exhausting background music renders these shows unwatchable

[@espacemaxim]

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

[@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

[@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

[@tommymaw1317]

Louie wrote bollox good teading😎😎😎

[@youknowmyname9915]

More like lost treasure of Ligma.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@mafteim5556]

Nice story and movie. Sort of the "promised land" of the Jewish people where "rivers of honey and milk flows". By the way, what Spanish colonial archives and Peruvian archives in Lima saying about the "Church of Lima treasure" ? Did anybody investigated on this side?

[@griffini19]

Ding Dong. Of course

[@sirbimsaranadirangaalmedaa403]

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

[@Salacious-Crumb]

Robbie louis stevenson did base his story on truth , although itself highly exagerated a book on piracy including blackbeards story was the basis of his story ... Robbie was a smack head with a great imagination as is the way with opium or herion you spend more time in the dreamworld than the real one , as its a far better place youd rather be ... therefore some of the best fantasy books have been written by smackheads , alice in wonderland , lord of the rings , trainspotting are just a few exapmles.. my grandfather on the other hand was a SERIOUS pirate treasure hunter his lifelong quest even cost him his life ... while searching for a whole treasure ship sealed away in caves in Astoria , Oregon , this pirate was being chased by the brittish navy and managed to steer into caves , him and his crew then sealed the caves leaving boobytraps etc in the tunnels leading in and out these coves... my gramps Chester Cobblepot was never seen again while on the search for the ship of the famous pirate One eyed Willy

[@jayste9334]

Ok Goonies grandson

[@jayste9334]

Ok Goonies grandson

[@Salacious-Crumb]

You can say that again 😉👍

[@GR-kt4le]

Absolute History absolute garba ge

[@whatabouttheearth]

So Hydrrdahl surfed the Amphodromic Points?

[@junemarie5965]

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

[@junemarie5965]

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

[@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....

[@junemarie5965]

We most obey God and go to church every Sunday morning

[@griffini19]

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

[@kristopherlewis6074]

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

[@richardrogerson2383]

This story pales in comparison to Drake's exploits.

[@splitman1129]

Seems like everyone has jumped on history hits coat tails.

[@leeri103]

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

[@negotiator96]

That's why they called it booty!😂

[@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.

[@stuartwilson4487]

could nz be the real treasure island from auckland up use to be 3 islands in the far north there is a giant skull there is also a olive tree pre maori under ths tree honi heke ad teria wiakato found a treasure chest they sent it to spain it still held by the spansh bank

[@keyX0]

Ignoring the balant silliness of 'where did all of RLS money come from', pirates hiding treasure was kind of a known and romanticized thing. Captain Kidd tried to escape the noose by claiming hidden treasure, and I wouldnt be surprised if that made it into the DeFoe/Captain Charles Johnson books in the 1700s. RLS just kicked it all up to 11. Didn't get to the 10min mark on this...

[@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

[@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.

[@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?