Little is known about the early life of privateersman - turned - literary pirate Edward “ Blackbeard ” Teach , whose massive , knotted beard struck fright in the hearts of seamen throughout the Caribbean and Eastern U.S. for a brief piece in the other eighteenth century . However , his legend has only grown stronger with clock time , keeping the hunt for his supposed hidden treasure alive .
Most historians suspect that Teach ( like most pirates ) did n’t get around to lay down desert - island deposits of atomic number 79 and jewels during his reign , but there are still several place where , given what we ’ve learned about him in the past three one C , the treasurecouldhave terminate up .
1. OFF THE COAST OF NORTH CAROLINA, ON THEQUEEN ANNE’S REVENGE
After the French hard worker shipLa Concordewas slip by Blackbeard and renamed theQueen Anne ’s Revengein 1717 , it served a short but profitable stint as absolute hell - on - a - Kingston-upon Hull until the pirate ran it aground in North Carolina ’s Beaufort Inlet afterwards that same class . Since its discovery in 1996 , theQARhas fork up hundreds of thousands of artefact to probe researchers , include many of the ship ’s 40 cannon , assorted weapons system and tools , and even a small amount of golden dust — but no treasure heaps as yet . diver are n’t done exploring the wreck , though , and only the ship herself jazz what they ’ll find .
2. IN A BLAST PATTERN OFF THE COAST OF OCRACOKE ISLAND
If the treasure was on board theAdventure — the ship that North Carolina governor Charles Eden handed off to Teach ( along with a pardon ) after he ’d ditched theQAR — when Lieutenant Robert Maynard ’s posse of four ships finally took the pirate down , then it came very near to meeting a violent closing of its own . According to an report kept by Captain Charles Johnson ( probably a nom de guerre for either Daniel Defoe , ofRobinson Crusoefame , or Nathaniel Mist ) , before the ship was overproduction , Blackbeard send his faithful handmaiden down below with orders to dress the gunpowder way alight should vote out seem inevitable .
However , the attack had already damaged the ship ’s defenses enough that Teach ’s intended hell of last glory never came to make pass . It ’s also potential that the plan was baffle thanks to two captive who persuade Blackbeard ’s servant not to strike the match .
3. PLUM POINT
When Blackbeard was try out to make it as a normal , non - pirate individual after his pardon , he set up shop near Governor Eden ’s homestead in Bath , North Carolina . His bayside home on Plum ( or “ Teach ’s ” ) Point has since drawn gem - hunters and their digger to the town . Today , only the building ’s supposed foundation remains .
4. TEACH’S KETTLE
concord to occupant and investigator , a field near Plum Point used to domiciliate an oven - like brick construction that Blackbeard may have used to fork out wood sea dog for sealing the hull of his ships . Though the farmer who have the field supposedly became fed up with all the visitors and demolished the “ kettle , ” the locating has been the site of much hopeful dig throughout the eld .
5. ARCHBELL POINT
It ’s long been suppose that Governor Eden ( who excuse Teach after deliberately grounding theQAE , gave the pirate one of his confiscated ships back , and even helped Teach get established in Bath ) was on the take when it number to Teach ’s profitable plagiarization . Legend has is that Blackbeard was able to slip easily in and out of Eden ’s land ( presumably to have the regulator ’s cut of the loot ) by using a limited sway path or , in some versions , an belowground enactment between Bath Creek and Eden ’s Archbell Point home .
6. BASICALLY, ANYWHERE IN THE CARIBBEAN
In his rather brusk prison term as the flagellum of the local seas in 1717 and 1718 , Blackbeard keep very busy out to sea , reportedly ransacking or capturing something like 30 ship in sum . He likely worked his way through much of the Caribbean , attack ships near Antigua , Martinique , the Grenadines , St. Lucia , and St. Vincent , among others . When theQARandAdventuredid put into port , it was likely to gather new supplies and have a few raucous multiplication before heading back out to ocean .
7. IN HELL
A General History of the Pyrates , a 1724 book written by Captain Charles Johnson ( the same one mentioned in the beginning ) , provides much of the fabric for the legends of Blackbeard and other famed scalawag , including one of Teach ’s most renowned utterances .
The Nox before Maynard and his soldiers descend upon theAdventure , Blackbeard ’s crew asked their senior pilot if his married woman would know where the bread was hidden should he come down in battle . Teach replied “ that no - body but himself and the Devil , knew where it was , and the prospicient liver should take all . ”
The next day , November 22 , 1718 , Blackbeard and many of his 14 - valet de chambre work party take a breather their last . However , several surviving crewmembers later narrate " a Story which may seem a small incredible , ” Johnson spell . “ [ Once ] upon a Cruize , [ the pirates ] found out that they had a Man on Board more than their crowd ; such a one was seen several Days amongst them , sometimes below , and sometimes upon Deck , yet no Man in the Ship could give an Account who he was , or from whence he come ; but that he disappeared a little before they were vomit up away in their peachy Ship , but , it seems , they verily believed it was the Devil . "
Just maybe , then , Blackbeard ’s gold is still being safely kept down below — somewhere a spate deeper than even the very bottom ledge of Davy Jones ’ Locker .
