# 3 Kidd's Treasure : PEI legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
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# 3 Kidd's Treasure : PEI legends and Lore series
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"They have tales ." Oh yes they do ! P.E. Islanders love to share tales and there is no shortage of yarns both short and tall to tell. The history of this tiny island is replete with strange occurrences and each seems to spawn one or more explanations to account for them. Ghosts and goblins and things that go bump in the night are commonplace in this lore. The stranger the actual events the more detailed the often supernatural story around it. Some of these tales go back centuries. Loss and gain, treasure, triumph, disaster, birth, life and death all feature prominently. Not many who live here doubt the existence of spirits and ' haunts' , nor the places they can be found. Forerunners, omens of all kinds, even Satan himself often show up in these accounts.
I have lived here too long to dismiss all these tales as fiction, nor the beliefs that they encompass. I know too many perfectly sober honest people who have had ' strange ' experiences to doubt the veracity of what they say happened.
This series contains a variety of such tales I gleaned from several Island folklore books, old newspaper articles, a few first-person accounts and even an on-line site or two. None are original to me and I certainly wish to thank all those who gathered the stories. I have tried to place the caches in the communities and, if possible, on or close to the exact sites of the described events. For some of these stories you would NOT find me at the exact site late at night. Not a chance. I hope you enjoy both the story and the going to where it happened !
# 3 : Kidd's Treasure : There are numerous accounts all over PEI of buried pirate treasure supposedly reposing along our shores. The real pirate Captain Kidd, who was hanged as a pirate in 1701, is particularly prominent in many of these stories. This one appeared in the Summerside Journal, October 18, 1877. It describes a week of treasure-hunting in the previous week by a large party of ' determined anxious business-like " men.
" There is considerable excitement here today. Horsemen are seen galloping about in all directions. Men with muskets on their shoulders and verily a very serious aspect. On inquiring we learn that people have been gathering form all parts of the country here around for the purpose of unearthing or sanding some of Captain Kidd's long hidden treasures at West Point. This evening their camp has a rather formidable appearance with muskets lying about everywhere as 18 t0 20 able-bodied men... all nerving themselves for a wonderful and hazardous adventure. By the next afternoon ( Wednesday) they were into their adventure extensively digging with shovels and horses dragging away the sand. No talk is to be heard as they dig away. By Thursday a great ' push ' was made but to no avail as the waters rushed into the great holes made.
No work was done on Friday as the pumps had given out. By Saturday the pumps were repaired and a desperate effort was made with mad digging and progress being made until , on a sudden, the whole bottom of the hole dropped out and the waters rushed in destroying the whole arrangement and effectively busting up the search party. This work of digging for treasure at West Point goes on for a time mostly every summer. The success is yet to come. "
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