Trevor Collins

And so given these facts, Kingsley and Cohen both believe that this letter is authentic

and that it does point to at least the tip of an iceberg.

It's only a small clue as to Avery's situation after pirate life, and many believe in the possibility of Avery becoming a spy in his later years, but for now, the theory, as compelling as it may be, rests on the author of this letter being none other than Henry Avery himself.

It could be someone else,

But it also, he's gone by Avery before and he was a pirate.

And if this is true, the next steps in discovering what happened to Avery might lie in decoding these almost ancient English spy codes at this point.

You make me think of an interesting question, which is what if Avery the pirate was itself a code name?

used by the English to otherwise denote something, right?

A man on the run, a ghost on the wind, a folk tale, or just a fake name.

It could be an authentic letter, it could be from Henry Every, or it could be, in my...

guesstimation here somebody that just used that infamous pirate of recent years like four years prior to that as another level of code i don't know you know there's all sorts of project names and code names like project blue book that says nothing about ufos but it is

just a project name, right?

It's just really fascinating, though, because I wouldn't have expected a classic pirate tale to be the first manhunt at a global scale, especially with proven hordes of treasure that has now gone missing.

We don't know where it is.

He's missing and he survived all of this, supposedly.

But then it all culminates in just like two years ago.

a spy story and so now the possible truth is hidden behind a potentially undecipherable numeric code that's crazy yeah and the only reason this letter was found was because it was misfiled it was an accident that they found it it's nuts yeah that's pretty wild that is that is pretty over the top

We stumbled into this.

Because if we did this episode at the beginning of the show, five and a half years ago, we would have ended with, maybe he went to Ireland, maybe he went to England.

Yeah, and that's it.