Billion-dollar treasures have not been found on the tiny Pacific island

The small island is rumored to contain a huge $ 1 billion treasure called Cocos, about 550km from the coast of Costa Rica. This island is today Costa Rica's National Park and a special tourist attraction.

Visitors to Cocos Island can enjoy pristine natural surroundings and diverse marine life. Many people come here because of the rumors from hundreds of years ago about huge treasures worth up to 1 billion USD.

Cocos Island today belongs to Costa Rica.

Huge treasure into Lima

The most famous treasure believed to remain on Cocos is the Lima treasure . This is a collection of lots of gold, silver and church items, such as a real-life jewel-encrusted statue of Mary, brought from Lima, Peru.

According to history books, when the revolution broke out in Peru in the early 19th century, the head of Lima wanted to protect his valuable assets, so he loaded all the wealth on board an English captain named William Thompson.

As planned, Thompson carried the treasure around the sea for several months until the situation was stable.

But carrying treasure worth up to hundreds of millions of dollars for a while made Thompson greedy. The British captain and his subordinates had killed the sailors sent by Lima and Peru. The ship sailed to Cocos Island to hide its treasure.

Shortly after leaving Cocos, Thompson's Mary Dear was arrested by a Spanish naval ship. The ship's crew was later executed for piracy, except Thompson and an accomplice who agreed to return to Cocos Island to show where the gold was hidden.

But as soon as they arrived on the island, the two fled and were never found. Hundreds of Spanish explorers flocked to the island to find treasure but to no avail.

Treasure of 350 tons of Captain Grahame gold

The island is said to contain a series of huge treasures.

Before the treasure of Lima, the story of pirates choosing the island as a place to bury their wealth had spread widely. In 1818, a British naval officer named Bennett Grahame on a patrol of the South Pacific Sea decided to desert, becoming a pirate.

During his time as a pirate, Grahame allegedly stole a whopping 350 tons of gold from Spanish merchant ships. One time, Grahame was captured alive and executed and several crew members executed.

Twenty years later, a woman named Mary Welsh, who once served on Grahame's pirate train, said that she witnessed Grahame and the sailors bury their properties on Cocos Island.

In order to prove his words, Welsh came up with a map supposedly drawn by Grahame, showing the location where the treasure was buried.

Welsh led the British boat to the island to search for the treasure, but it seems that after 20 years, the landscape has changed so the treasure search has failed.

$ 300 million treasure of pirate Benito Bonito

Another famous treasure, thought to be somewhere on the island, is Benito Bonito's. This is the pirate pangolin that once sowed fear for all the boats sailing back and forth on the west coast of the Americas.

In the period of 1818, Bonito raged everywhere, plundered and burned Spanish merchant ships, then brought the robbed property to burial on Cocos island.

Cocos Island today is a popular tourist destination.

Bonito's mistake was to reveal a treasure worth about $ 300 million to two British sailors. A few years later, the two were imprisoned. In exchange for freedom, they have revealed where Bonito was hiding, leading to the end of this pirate boss.

500 expeditions by Spanish ships then landed on Cocos, but no one found the treasure. The fact that so many boats flocked to the island made the Spanish government issue a ban.

In 2012, Canadian and British media reported on an English expedition carrying modern radar and camera equipment to the island to find treasures.

Shaun Whitehead, who led the search, said: 'We have arrived at the island. But only to stay here for 6 months. It was too little time. The Costa Rican government did not allow us to return to the island because our arrival caused public opinion to rekindle rumors of treasure. '

According to Forbes, there were rumors that at least one of the three treasures had been found, but it was claimed to see nothing to counteract the direction, as well as provide hope for other search teams. Estimated total value of the treasure on the island amounted to 1 billion USD.

Currently, treasure hunting is banned in Cocos but some scientists are believed to be secretly finding treasure with the cover of 'scientific research'.

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