in 1984, a salvage or and diver name barry clifford and his team, at the time included john f. kennedy jr., who i went to college with, found the whydah and began recovering its treasure. the item that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that all these artifacts came from the whydah is this. this is the whydah's bell. the reason it's green, if you go to the pirate museum, the pirate museum in west yarmouth on the cape, which is well worth a visit, fascinating pirate museum. it when you walk, and this is the first thing you see. it's the bell suspended in a greenish preservative solution. they knew they found the widow. is the first authenticated pirate treasure ever found. how much the recovered treasure is worth is not exactly clear. there have been estimates that range from unreasonably low $200,000 to a ridiculously high 400 million. whatever it's worth, it's worth a lot. the thing that's amazing, barry clifford, his investors, to the state have not sold a single piece of eight, dubloon, cannon, nothing. which i think is amazing. one other nasty pirate who want to pray off the

in 1984, a salvage or and diver name barry clifford and his team, at the time included john f. kennedy jr., who i went to college with, found the widow and began recovering its treasure. the item that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that all these artifacts came from the widow is this. this is the widows bell. the reason it's green, if you go to the pirate museum, the pirate museum in west yarmouth on the cape, which is well worth a visit, fascinating pirate museum. it when you walk, and this is the first thing you see. it's the bell suspended in a greenish providers of this solution. they knew they found the widow. is the first authenticated pirate treasure ever found. how much the recovered treasure is worth is not exactly clear. there have been estimates that range from unreasonably low $200,000 to a ridiculously high 400 million. whatever it's worth, it's worth a lot. i think that's amazing, barry clifford, his investors, to the state have not sold a single piece of it. the balloon, the cannon, nothing. which i think is amazing. one other nasty pirate who want to pray off

it's worth a lot and the thing it's amazing is barry clifford and his investors to this day have not sold a single piece of eight the balloon cannon anything which i think is amazing. now one other particularly nasty pirate who wanted for pray off the american coast during this period was the despicable and arguably mentally deranged edward low or ned lowe that i talked about before the guy who had the flag with the harpoon and the skeleton. he seemed to relish torturing and killing his victims one of his signature moves was cutting off people's ears or lips roasting them and then forcing the victim to eat their own flesh. by the way, he was much nastier than blackbeard. there's almost no evidence of blackbeard doing anything violent towards anybody. anyway when the captain of one of the ships low caught had the temerity to cut the rope holding a bag of gold that was hovering over the surface of the water when he cut that rope and let the gold plunge into the depths when low found out about that. he shot the captain and all 32 members of his crew. another time when low sees casts of