Trevor Collins

It gets wild.

So in March 2024, shipwreck explorers Dr. Sean Kingsley and Rex Cohen claim that they have solved the disappearance of Henry Every.

They believe that after his days as a pirate, Every became a spy for the King of England, William III.

What?

Their evidence was an unpublished coded letter written in Cornwall, England by someone going by the name of Avery the Pirate.

So they found this in a Scottish archive after it had been misfiled.

So I believe one of the wives of these shipwreck explorers was helping them look through documents and they found this letter that was like half English, half just random numbers and letters and gibberish.

And they found out, oh, spies used to talk like this back in the day.

And the author of this letter was Avery the Pirate, which seems very one for one Henry Every or a.k.a.

Henry Avery.

This letter, to add to it, was dated December 1700, which was just four years after the Mughal attack.

And the two shipwreck explorers believe that this letter links every to one of the first ever spy rings.

Not only the first ever manhunt, not only the first like proven pirate with treasure.

He's missing all the firsts, dude.

He's breaking records.

One of the first ever spy rings.

Okay, so I'm going to drop a few names on you.

But bear with me, let me know if I lose you.

We are now in the early 18th century, the 1700s.

There's a spy ring that is said to have included Daniel Defoe, who was the author of Robinson Crusoe, and Thomas Tennyson, who was the Archbishop of Canterbury.