Was Treasure Island Based On A True Story From History? | The Real Treasure Island | Timeline

The Real Treasure Island follows Alex Capus as he travels to exotic locales to unlock the true story behind a literary masterpiece. From the foggy Scottish Highlands to the sun-kissed islands of the South Pacific, Capus follows a treasure trail of clues -each one triggering dramatic recreations that tell the true story behind Stevenson's tale.
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[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

This was one of the books that filled my imagination during childhood. I just loved it. I read it more than once and in a way I lived the story every time I reread it.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

For me, then, a boy growing up in the small Brazilian town of Eldorado - SP (the name of the city evokes another hidden treasure story) it made no sense to distinguish fiction from reality. Stevenson's book was and still is fantastic, but it doesn't contain magic just a description of a sequence of plausible facts (even if invented).

[@drock5404]

ahhhh yes! me too amigo. I still have this book. One day I'll get to reading it again.

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

@@drock5404 I unfortunately no longer have my copy of the book in Portuguese. It's been almost 50 years since I last read Treasure Island. This is a book I intend to reread, but this time in the original in English.

[@brettcurtis5710]

Stevenson's years in Samoa left a lasting legacy - he was given the Samoan name of Tusitala - the Teller of Tales - and is buried there on the mount above his house Vailima.

[@mjtorres1421]

P

[@dons618]

Admit it.....we allll went through a phase when we aspire to be treasure hunters searching for pirate's gold

[@carloshannon8346]

We never really leave that phase

[@michaelhamilton7111]

I am 72 and still in that phase😊

[@carloshannon8346]

@@michaelhamilton7111 love it bro

[@Zman82]

Phase? Lol very true but most stay with it their whole lives. It's a fantastic fantasy that could just possibly happen.

[@pastorstephentucker4642]

One of the greatest blessing of my life has been to get certified in scuba diving and being able to dive for the 1715 fleet. I actually plan my vacations around where I can metal detect lol. Some things you never grow out of.

[@gordonmacdonald6442]

"A General History of Pyrates" written in the early 1700s by Daniel Defoe under a pseudonym is actually the basis for a VAST majority of "pirate fiction" over the years, not Stevenson's "Treasure Island", as even he was inspired/influenced by the old popular book, as it remained VERY popular in the centuries since it was written. Defoes' book is basically a compilation of recollections and "true" accounts of the various different piratical figures of ranging infamy in the Caribbean during the "Golden Age" of piracy. You see, even back then, 300+ years ago, there was A LOT of fascination with piracy, as they were often viewed as "folk heroes" or what we would call "rock stars", or "rebels without a cause". The Scottish Captain William Kidd is often famously credited with burying his loot as he revealed during his trial before execution, but hiding one's valuables in creative ways was and still is practiced by many people, it just doesn't get talked about that often, thus it's highly likely the idea of a pirates' "buried treasure" isn't exclusive to the realm of fiction. One-legged pirates weren't invented by Stevenson either, as it is written in the old "pyrates' code" that any crew member who loses a limb in battle gets reimbursed, each limb having different value, legs being listed separate from arms, hands, fingers, and eyes; if it wasn't a matter of importance/prevalence, it wouldn't have been included in the centuries old document. Stevenson also didn't invent pets being on pirate ships, as it was common practice for a ships' crew to take on pets like exotic birds, dogs, and monkeys; dogs on board ships mainly served as a form of pest control in killing any rats/mice, and U.S. President Andrew Jackson, while not a "pirate" was well known for his talking pet parrot, who infamously cursed all the time, even at his funeral, and Jackson was long before Stevenson was even born.

[@tikitavi7120]

True stuff.

[@mattm00ey]

These characters were often helped, and well thought of, as they could be quite generous when visiting comparetavely remote/poor regions where theyd need to hire expertise (repairs/supplies). Cornwall (England) could be first port of call and extremely poor back then. A place very friendly to anyone paying well and with plenty of links to the maritime - skills and personel.

[@builtnotboughtmadeinphilip3955]

Good Gordon

[@shelbybarretto314]

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[@shelbybarretto314]

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[@whatgoesaroundcomesaround920]

This was not Stevenson's only book! The others are just as well written, with great characters and gripping narrative. The idea that his pursuit of this treasure inspired the wonderful prose of Treasure Island is silly.

[@LilKeezy]

Agreed, but what if he got the idea to pursue the treasure While writing the book 🤔

[@solentlifeuk]

Typical american BS .... they cannot accept that someone can write without usurping

[@cdfdesantis699]

Fascinating theory. Now everybody will be hustling off to Samoa, digging for treasure.

[@tikitavi7120]

Stevenson came to Monterey to be with Fanny, not San Francisco. Many believe the seeds for Treasure Island were planted during his time there, and while on his honeymoon in Calistoga, staying at an abandoned mine called the Silverado.

[@rvdxpress]

That is definitely an interesting hypothesis. But like most things from history, we will never know with any certainty.

[@The_Space_Born]

I already know everything, so I didn't have to watch a useless youtube video to figure it out.

[@zvikomboreromugwara5265]

Whenever I hear of treasure Island, I think of Black Sails. Fantastic series and is so underrated. The book is awesome too. Read it when I was young and when I got older.

[@McKeeNJackson]

Great show for sure

[@gentryxc]

I have been hoping Starz would do Treasure Island as a sequel to Black Sails. My recollection is that the conclusion of Black Sails was set up to allow for that with Billy Bones marooned on the island with the treasure and Silver still in circulation.

[@andrewphilips2457]

Haha, me too. Stellar show. One of my all time fave series. It has an 80% rating in a few places, so not THAT underrated. Just didn't get widespread viewership because it was on a smaller network. So surprised Netflix hasn't bought it. It would be a MASSIVE hit with their promotional machine.

[@veryhuman7472]

probably my all-time favourite TV series. A level above hits like breaking bad.

[@nautifella]

*I WANT THE SCULPTURE THAT THEY OPEN THE SHOW WITH.* I would build a library around that if it could be acquired. I'll never forgive them for not closing out the show with _Treasure Island._ It was the perfect lead in. Ah well. I'll just continue my annual viewing capped off with the _Charelton Heston_ version.

[@lisadolan689]

Samoa 🇼🇸 is a magnificent country. I’ve seen his house in Apia many times. It’s near the Botanical gardens off Cross Island road. It’s pretty amazing. When you get up to where his grave is, there’s a large bell that tradition says must be rung. Yep. Even to this day

[@nukelaloosh4795]

captain flint is the only one who knows where it is buried

[@cmdrflake]

Pieces of eight…awwk! Pieces of eight…

[@user-ei9sw7fl3i]

​@@cmdrflake😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅

[@joakimblomqvist7229]

Arrh, and the parrot!

[@annamosier1950]

Very good work Hispaniola forever

[@coloringwithd]

Wow, this was great. My brother has this book. I think I will read it. Thanks for the video ☺☺☺

[@HistorySkills]

Great stuff, as always. Thank you.

[@khamen723]

I read this when I was 12, Never stopped reading

[@gregj.gotham4402]

The isle St Marie off of Madagascar there is a small harbor with in the harbor is the pirate island Kidd treasure is hidden there in the water of the bay was found a 40 pound bar of silver marked with symbols of knight Templar and pirates. History channel of the knight Templar ends up there.

[@karenfyhr2363]

I loved the story, which was one of the very first books I read as a young child... A true classic that every child should read

[@enduringhope6859]

You forgot to mention RLS family and the supposed remaining treasure left behind in that bank sized vault.

[@user-ks5cg5cd7m]

This would make great new book. 😂. Should it be in the history or fiction part of the library?

[@ahar7624]

One thing is for sure the history channel will get the lagina brothers to make a 3 million part series about it and find nothing

[@ladyzapzap9514]

I’d call it “historical fiction”

[@rjay7019]

Classics 👍

[@bertjilk3456]

Definitely fiction!

[@karmayt8956]

The Spanish priest thinking the treasure of Lima belonging to them was funny. History is just funny.

[@cherylcallahan5402]

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[@clvrswine]

His middle name is pronounced Lewis, not Loo-ee. He was born Lewis and changed the spelling to Louis.

[@louisduplessis2075]

Isn't Lewis the American pronunciation...Louis...Looee...the French way...written by someone named Louis...have some French Huguenot ancestors...

[@bryan__m]

The weird thing is it's pronounced both ways in the video. The narrator always says Loo-ee, but the voiceover from people speaking in other languages says Lewis.

[@jamalrobinson8321]

Wow this is fascinating

[@mariashelly4812]

Fascinating! Would be fun to know if it is true.

[@ssherrierable]

Of course all you gotta do is watch the history channel for new episodes of oak island, unlimited budget and they will never find a thing! 😂

[@ahar7624]

My thoughts exactly, in fact the lagina brothers will probably make a series on this

[@williamkinkade2538]

They found an old Spanish copper coin!

[@blaznskais2048]

19:28 does he say in” 1979” I listened to it 3 times and swear I heard 1979.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

19:20 👍

[@georgehollingsworth2428]

:If the natives of an island have stories of a fish god that likes Pigs, then it MUST be Stevenson was there and found a huge treasure that he never spent. BULLOCKS!

[@davidanderson4091]

Sounds more like the Legend of Yellowbeard to me!

[@keltyk]

as we say in Scotland- "what a load of pish"

[@sara-lorrainegannon8320]

Hollywood used the fantastic pirated novels. of Rafael Sabatini andEmilio Salgari forswashbuckling movies (-Errol Flynns' theSea Hawk ,Captain Blood etc) not. Treasure Island!!

[@riskyron1416]

Most likely it was Costa Rica's Cocos Island. Three years treasure of the Americas was sent to Mexico City. But the Captain a pirate and buried on Cocos Island. The Captain Thomas Cochrane may hold a role. Naval liberator of Chile, Peru and Brazil rom the Spanish and Portuguese.

[@annamosier1950]

Treasure forever

[@alicet8791]

I do want to learn the history but the dramatization of it sets my nerves on edge. Made it to the sounds of people being whipped for their confession, but can't continue.

[@Aeonshield]

I always thought it was a sort of amalgamation of spoken word pirate tales of the respective era.

[@susanang1732]

Robert Lewis Stevenson visited Point Pleasant NJ On the Manasquan River. In 1888 and renamed Osborne Island Treasure Island. Many of the old timers believed This is where he wrote the book after!

[@GaylJDodds]

Thompson's ship was a rouse to get everyone looking in the wrong direction from the beginning!! That's my four cents, anyway! 😆

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Oh aye mee laddie.

[@Archangel3083]

Guy straight up looks like Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones 😂

[@skeetersaurus6249]

Excellent back-history and follow-through theory of R.L. Stevenson! For those that doubt 'this could happen...there would be written record', keep in mind, you aren't dealing with an almost-thoughtless purchase of a lottery ticket here. Those who are intelligent and 'stumble upon' information that leads them into treasure hunting, RARELY tell ANYONE 'if they found it', if they even admit they were looking. Personally, I think RLS knew that if it ever came out that he had FOUND the treasure once pilfered from the Church, he KNEW that the Church, still in existence, would demand their relics back as 'stolen goods'...his motivation for silence was to protect his family, compounded by an unexpected death (that he didn't see coming, because he wasn't having a fit of consumption at the time)...justifying 'no written record', and generally covered up by the fact that he DID have personal wealth by the time he found the treasure, no one new or considered 'is he over-spending his actual income?'

[@Philip-gn8wx]

Reminds me of the "Oak Island" debacle....

[@ruariniall7463]

Captain Reid if the schooner Equator, which Stevenson sailed to Samoa, was associated with Stevenson for years, as was his schooner, the hulk of which still exists. Stevenson once used them to supply arms for one faction of a civil war on Samoa.

[@mjstow]

Stevenson related how he came up with the story. But that's not exciting enough for these so-called historians. They come up with BS and call Stevenson a liar.

[@cecilecoonrod4146]

Sir Walter Scott The Pirate 1821

[@nutew4809]

There is no way stevensons could have gotten rid of treasure!! Someone would have known !! Unless he meltdown all of it.

[@davehughes53]

Robert Lewis Stevenson loved OPIUM

[@jamesmichaels4979]

19:25 "1979?"

[@davehughes53]

Opium! Amazing how many of our favorite authors, musicians, presidents, ball players , explorers etc. were all great because in part to their opium addiction/ Ludnaum

[@davidlambert855]

Do we have any Documentary with our Commercials?

[@Rebelartist83]

If you recall an old movie called black beard the pirate featuring actor Robert Newton..you recall his leading lady actress Linda Darnell.. she's my grandfather's second cousin and Robert Louis Stevenson is a distant ancestor of ours and not only are we distant kin to European monarchs and aristocrats..our family name was Darnall..but we're also related to privateers..so I think it's safe to say besides being lovely and talented in her day she was well suited to be in that flick..haha since we're related to some privateers and I'm sure a few pirates .knowing my family its not too far fetched..my dads family is pretty colorful filled with native American heroes and irish renegades rebels and rogues..but mom's family is definitely a historical whos who of colorful and good and good grief..lol😊

[@Bravesdarrell8552]

19:26 did he say 1979 ?

[@badbiker666]

The theory that Stevenson found the treasure is absurd. I studied Stevenson's life several decades ago, and he was not a fabulously wealthy man. His writing sold well and he was able to live a comfortable life as a result, but his lifestyle is easily explained by the income from his writing.

[@sallyreno6296]

Is it possible to "torture the truth out of" someone?

[@OliviaMGibbs1024]

I wish you wouldn't say Louie instead of Louis.

[@truecrimelover2022]

same it drove me crazy every time

[@jinka6171]

I think he’s using the French pronunciation….

[@truecrimelover2022]

@@jinka6171 yeah still drives me crazy though lol

[@jinka6171]

@@truecrimelover2022 yes. I understand.

[@johnhamilton4677]

I was gonna say the same thing lol

[@jamesbingham4538]

Add yet we still don'i know any more at the end than at the beginning.

[@brianmcclure4913]

I hear the Pirates became an American baseball team.

[@GinoMalangkay]

Am Gino malangkay and I found one bottle..in my area.the name of the bottle is property of treasure island ind.corp.

[@justinshelley57]

I had to leave when the narrator pronounced Costa Rica incorrectly.

[@grahamfisher5436]

I lived on RLS Road, oppersite his home Skerryvore in Westbourne Bournemouth ☠🏝💰💰👍

[@patrickhankins5954]

Even if the story were true a major flaw in Thompson tale remains, How did he manage to cary All that loot to the island on a one person skiff He would have had to make the Trip a thousand times undetected to hide it in that cave. Intriguing story but I believe that is was fiction and fantasy.

[@janinesemper1119]

No body ever found that treasure .

[@JohnRyan-gr8bs]

Why would the pirstes return to peru ? Why not land in costa rica ?

[@zdnekpicha7956]

OK

[@TheOldTeddy]

Capus could have done more real work to really prove his 'theory'...obviously not up to it. This will be all he will be remembered for, slurring someone dead for profit. Good work.

[@markgarin6355]

Spielberg...b movies? Arg ....

[@Jordan-kk1rh]

The definitive of a potty mouth for real.. you are so funny I have to use my mask

[@johnloftus8643]

😃✌️👍

[@roostershooter76]

The narrator needs a lesson in Classical Literature. He keeps saying Robert “Lew-we” Stevenson, when everyone knows his middle name is “Lewis”.

[@frederickbowdler8169]

Stevenson came from a wealthy family.

[@douglaslane4480]

More ads than content

[@builtnotboughtmadeinphilip3955]

Why dont ya get youtube premium. No ads

[@eviesholette]

How much money is History Hit paying to put commercials in their videos for the commercial-free tier of KZbin? Not mad, but curious.

[@purplesprigs]

Why can no one pronounce "Newfoundland" correctly. It is not that difficult.

[@daviddevlogger]

I saw this picture and I remembered in 1969,I was in school and there was this girl her name was victruchknanvtryactriscutus,since you have jumped the name I won't tell you what really happened between me and her,life is sweet joor😋😁😁

[@marmadukegrimwig]

Mr Danahay is creepy.

[@BALOYBEACHBUM]

Who controlled the Spanish? the RCC! The richest institution in the world!!

[@FrankieGilleyJr-ed5xk]

They're changing history with microwaves

[@croakingfrog3173]

Highly speculative and poorly researched. The use of Thor Heyerdahl's famous raft trip as evidence of the route a fleeing ship would have taken when sailing from the same harbor is ridiculous. Thor's raft was towed 50 miles out to sea to begin with to escape the direction the initial currents would have taken him anyway. Apparently whoever put this together didn't do any homework on that part of it at least.

[@manuelkong10]

sorry...yoko ono did NOT further Lenon's art/music...she got in the way and wrecked it

[@solentlifeuk]

Martin Donahay ?? English Professor ???? Please if you are going to use anyone to quote on such matters - use someone with more credibility and background !

[@stevehobbs9015]

Great story...but do your viewers a favour....stop interrupting the program. Tell us about history hits at the start or end....we get enough interference from KZbin.

[@tintinjailhouse1312]

And its 1 mins ago ;p

[@jame5a]

Fine if historical hyperbole is your thing. I stopped watching when they suggested that Stevenson's wealth came from some sort of treasure hunt. Stevenson was from a family of Engineers that made a lot of money from cunning and ingenuity, although not always through fair play.

[@fargosnow994]

I am I the only one who finds the narrator's pronunciation of proper names, irritating?

[@BubuH-cq6km]

so how can it be a "Desert" Island if it's full of tropical trees and plants 🤷🏼‍♂ that would be "Deserted" Island if it's uninhabited and you call yourselves "World History " Channel 🤣 😂

[@Theater00jock]

The word "desert" meaning "deserted" actually predates the use of the term "desert" meaning " land with little water."

[@oneshothunter9877]

"deserted" also means "uninhabited".

[@robertblake3360]

Desert means deserted really it has different meanings when used in different terms or times

[@CharlesMasone-gz8bm]

Great....now I want brownies and ice cream....🙃

[@lordlynchy]

Another American documentary that goes nowhere.

[@lavernejones1973]

Jesus is Alive he loved us all you heard loud voice that you couldn't see your white and look up the heaven God

[@oneshothunter9877]

A-rab 😁

[@dreamscapesflstudiomobilec3396]

Oak island

[@docrobinson558]

Typical HH sensationalized Myths. George Santos Award worthy. National Enquirer & Qanon quality integrity.

[@FriedPi-mc5yt]

The whole thing sounds like the rambling lies of Biden. But more coherent. 😂