Trevor Collins

The search for him is considered one of the first manhunts in history, and the fact that he was never discovered has inspired many theories as to what may have happened all those centuries ago, especially when the record is so thin of hard, factual evidence.

You had a good chunk of the world looking after you at that point.

Absolutely.

And like two of the most powerful navies in the world, the Royal Navy at the time and the East India Company.

I'm treating them like they're their own empire.

Kind of they were.

They were just so wealthy.

Yeah, they're very well off.

Yeah, without knowing too much depth about that corner of history, it's all lost to like my old education.

But

But yeah, dude, this was truly the crime of a millennia.

So this is where the theories come in, and they're kind of thin up until recent years.

There was a new, very strong theory that starts to talk about espionage and spy code and...

It gets wild.

Oh yeah, this treasure hunt turns into espionage very quickly.

Yeah, this man died with a golden headrest and a feather pillow underneath him.

You know what I mean?

Seriously, man.

Yeah.

Wherever he was, you know, he might have been on a small little island somewhere in the Caribbean.