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The Hermit Of
Grand Terre Island, a retired member of Jean Lafitte's crew,
stored up every share of his booty he ever earned back in those
swashbuckling pirate days, and hid all of it somewhere in the interior of
the island. When he retired, the pirate disappeared into the island's
thicket and was seen thereafter, only on rare occasions when he would
emerge to purchase gunpowder, shot and whiskey. Some years after the man was
last seen, a party of four men, searching Grand Terre for an escaped slave,
came upon a deserted palmetto shack with gold dubloons scattered all around.
There were human bones inside the shack, and it was assumed that they where
all that remained of the hermit. With the discovery of the dubloons, the
escaped slave was forgotten, and soon men came from all along the bay to
search for more of the hermit's gold. They found some, but his big treasure
was never reported found, and some say it's still hidden on the island. May
also be in Plaquemines Parish.
Special thanks to Ron Arnold and
the Red
Stick Raiders Metal Detecting Club in Louisiana for their contribution
of this Treasure Story.
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