Talk:Jack Begley/@comment-72.105.63.79-20161228024753/@comment-2601:646:8D80:6DA0:F5CB:20D1:5736:116E-20191115065915

If you were doing actual research and not just listening to the fantasies of peopl who know nothing about history you would know that there has been only 1 confirmed case of "buried" pirate treasure and even that was a very unusual set of circumstances. Pirates burned through their "loot" in ports and were almost always more or less broke. There is NO SUCH THING as buried pirate treasure it's entirely an invention of 3 works of fiction. Wolfert Webber (by Irving), Gold Bug (by Poe) and Treasure Island (RL Stevenson). Also for the record Captain Kidd was *not* the 1 confirmed case of buried treasure that's just a claim he made to keep from getting himself hanged. It didn't work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_treasure

There, it's only Wikipedia but at least it's more or less rooted in fact.