‘The yellow brick road’, running along Cape Cod’s shifting seafloor, can lead to hidden pirate treasure. Undersea explorer Barry Clifford believes it leads to undiscovered treasure because it is sprinkled with gold dust along its coast. It seems that Clifford is more convinced about this after his return trip from the wreck site two weeks ago. “We think we're very, very close,” he reportedly said. According to history, the galley ship, Whydah, which was a slave ship during the Atlantic slave trade, had sunk in a storm in 1717. It contained treasure from 50 ships. Clifford discovered the wreck site in 1984 and has been pulling up ever since about 200,000 artifacts, like gold ornaments, sword handles, even a boy’s leg.
Discovery of the ship in 1984 was the first ever pirate shipwreck to be found. According to The Huffington Post, “Clifford learned that far more treasure may be resting with the Whydah. Colonial-era documents discovered in April indicated that the Whydah raided two vessels in the weeks before it sank. Its haul on those raids included 400,000 coins.” About two weeks ago, Clifford and his diving team took a trip back to the wreck site, and Clifford returned more convinced than ever that the road he was exploring was a path to riches.
Barry feels he is very close to reaching this 300-year-old treasure — which may consist of much more than what he expects.