Pirates! Commanded by the pirate Sam Bellamy, the Whydah was wrecked off Wellfleet in 1717, taking with her the treasure of fifty plundered ships. According to Cape folklore, Bellamy was returning to his love, Maria Hallett, the "The Witch of Wellfleet", when his ship met disaster in one of the worst storms to strike the eastern seaboard. Only two men of 146 made it to the beach alive, making …
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‘This Explorer Shares Shipwrecked Treasures with the World’
Great Big Story and CNN Films Presents: This Explorer Shares Shipwrecked Treasures with the World https://youtu.be/cVXavwWFuuw Barry Clifford is an explorer, an underwater archaeologists and some would even say, a treasure hunter. In 1984, he discovered the first artifacts of what would be a …
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