Trevor Collins

In the 17th century, one man declared himself pirate and newfound captain aboard a privateering vessel.

This singular act would end with him at the forefront of the first ever manhunt.

But all those searches would come up empty as he disappeared, taking with him the largest treasure hoard in pirate history.

Today, we're learning about one of the most infamous pirates of all time, Henry Every.

This is Red Web.

Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the unknown.

I'm your resident mystery enthusiast, feeling like I've been hanging on a thousand sneezes, Trevor Collins, and joining me, also with the sinuses to rival mine, Alfredo Diaz.

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Yeah, dude, it's so weird because, you know, we hear all these tales about Blackbeard and whatever, and there's always stories around buried treasure.

But despite all of this, for centuries, there's been no evidence to show that any treasure has ever been buried or ever recovered in a buried fashion.

However, Henry Every is super fascinating because he actually existed.

He actually survived, is one of the few, if not only pirates to survive, attacking a fleet, grabbing a bunch of loot.

I'm talking gold, silver, gems, living to tell the tale and then disappearing.

We don't know exactly what happened to him.

Obviously we have some theories.

One of them is very recent, but this is a mind boggling tale that I'm with you.

Up until like kind of finding research topics and new unsolved mysteries, we were also unaware of this infamous pirate.

Has anybody's treasure been buried and found?

Right.

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