#38Abels Cape Treasure.PEI Legends and Lore series Traditional Cache
#38Abels Cape 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 ! # 38 : Cape Abel Treasure: This story concerns one Charles Kent and the adventure he had in Cape Abel one day in 1901. It is told in the first person. " I had come to Prince Edward Island to restore my health and feasts of sea trout, the beautiful scenery and roaming in the water with rod and creel ... my health and strength were returning in speedy and ponderous proportions. This Prince Edward Made famous as the ( supposed) receptacle of Captain Kidd's stolon hoards. This Cape Abel runs into the sea from themainland and rears itself 50 to 60 feet into the air/ Only during low tides is it possible to walk around the shore of this Cape. Many who have made this walk do so trying to devine the location of aforesaid treasure which many believe is buried there. I now know it is in fact there! One afternoon, some four weeks into my stay, I stayed too long on the beach around the cape and discovered the coming tide forced me to climb the cliff. I found a likely spot and climbed above the wet slick rocks until i reached a small flat ledge , below the cliff tops but well above the water. While digging out niches to climb above this my blade struck against a metal substance and brought to light an old-fashioned iron handle strongly welded to a metal plate..... yes the handle was attached to a wooden chest! The rotten wood gave way disclosing the interior.... leathern bags which broke to pieces upon touch and revealed a heap of gold coins .. at least two hundred of a large size. There were at least 40 such bags in the chests rotted remains. In addition there were large gold plates, diamond encrusted sword hilts, golden crucifes and goblets, boxes of jewelry with necklaces, rings and bracelets of precious stones... here was wealth a king might envy! I began to load the treasure into my creeel until its weight was almost more than I could lift. Then I became aware that the rising tide had reachd the bottom of the ledge on which I stood.. It began to eat away at my footholds until I was hanging on for dear life itself.. The waves came higher and higher until one larger than others washed me away down into the sea below.... clinging to the treasure chest and creel as I fell.... I was forced to release my hold to avoid drowning... I barely made it to a flat rock above the water... When I returned to that beach there was no faint vestige of the treasure .. it had been buried or washed away or both..
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