The pirate Jose Gaspar buried a large chest of jewels, which was attached by a heavy chain to a nearby palm, in the middle of a mud pond lake. To reach this location, start at the southern tip of Placida Island, then go due north through Cape Haze. At this point you turn right and go east one mile until you come to the lake. The reason why this chest remains unrecovered is that the lake is full of water moccasins.
Pirate Billy Bowlegs Rogers buried $3 million in a secret cavern below Pensacola's Fort San Carlos, an old Spanish bastion built in the 1600s. It is said that the old fort had two carefully concealed tunnels leading to a large hidden chamber. One originated from the fort itself, while the other led from a well-hidden spot somewhere outside the fort's thick stone walls. The treasure, secreted in the early 1800s after Rogers discovered the tunnels, has never been recovered.
Legends say that a $6 million hoard of Spanish gold bars was buried in clay crocks in a 8-foot deep pit at the eastern tip of St. George Island and never recovered.
Seven pony loads of English gold coins worth $100,000 were buried by the Seminole Indians in 1818. The money was from the British for their support against the American colonies. The Indians were being pursued by Andrew Jackson and lightened their load while trying to escape. The site selected was at a swamp known as Old Yarbor Pond, also called Money Pit, just north of Hwy 2 and northeast of the Jct. of Hwy 2 and the Chattahoochee River on Carter's Mill Creek. The hoard has never been found.
Hidden up a small river from Choctawatchee Bay is the 2-year accumulation of pirate treasure of gold and silver bars, plate, coins, and church vessels contained in 4 large brass-bound chests. The cache is attributed to Billy Bowlegs Rogers and is valued at upwards of $50 million.
Indians witnessed an old pirate craft fleeing from a Spanish patrol ship on Pensacola Bay, sailing up the flooded Escambia River in the vicinity of present-day Century. The pirates beached the ship and covered it with sand and rocks in the swamps about 1/2 mile W of the river. Following an old dry channel today, there is a mound nearly 30 feet high and 120 feet long, presumably the covered vessel. In a mound about 1/2 mile N of the ship mound is another mound where treasure is supposed to be buried.
There are numerous legends of Indian mounds, chests of gold and signs of pirate markings on trees on Pine Island. The pirate Baker is alleged to have buried a cache of treasure on Pine Island around 1800.
The pirate Billy Bowlegs Rogers buried 3 chests of treasure under an old palm tree somewhere in the vicinity of Bald Point ( Escamcia County ). Additional pirate treasure is known to be hidden near Bald Point.
Following raids in the Caribbean and Gulf regions, the pirates Gasparilla, LaFitte and Bowlegs all buried large quantities of treasure on the islands facing Choctawatchee Bay.
Early pirates used St. Vincent's Island in Apalachicola Bay as a campsite in the 1700s. There are several reports of buried pirate loot on this island.
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