274: Lafitte’s Lost Loot. Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve.

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The Birthplace of Jazz, NOLA, The Big Easy - no matter how you know it, New Orleans is world renowned. While we visit today to toss beads and eat beignets, these streets - and swamps - were once home to one of the most mysterious pirates in history, Jean Lafitte. His smuggling operations throughout the South earned him quite the reputation in life, but the legends of his buried treasure solidified his story for generations after his death.

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0:00.0	If I told you to take out a piece of paper and a pencil right now and instructed you to draw treasure,
0:08.7	what would that drawing depict? For the vast majority of you, I'm venturing to guess it would look a lot
0:14.3	like a wooden chest, lit a jar to reveal heaps of glimmering gold coins and sparkling jewels.
0:20.9	You can't help but think of that image.
0:23.2	It's been drilled into our minds since childhood.
0:26.2	And even now, into adulthood, the biggest treasures ever discovered are splattered across
0:31.0	photos of people beaming, holding up diamonds, silver bars, gold coins, and jewels,
0:36.5	brought up from the depths of the sea, unearthed
0:39.0	from under feet of soil, or extracted from deep caverns. But don't be fooled. Just as in beauty,
0:46.0	treasure is in the eye of the beholder. And it can be just about anything that you find valuable.
0:52.4	Finding a long forgotten letter, which holds the missing puzzle
0:55.7	piece to a centuries-old riddle, or discovering a piece of history overlooked for years may not
1:01.5	necessarily make you a millionaire, but rather your wealth would come from knowledge in finally
1:07.6	understanding the answers to questions that have plagued the world for centuries.
1:13.6	Welcome to National Park After Dark. Hey, everybody.
1:39.3	We just wanted to make a quick note before the episode begins.
1:45.0	We originally recorded this episode on New Year's Day in the morning, and it was just a couple hours before we heard of the tragedy that occurred on New Year's Day and early morning hours in New Orleans.
1:58.6	And seeing as how this episode is heavily centered around New Orleans,
2:02.0	we really wanted to make mention of the tragedy and just kind of highlight that our thoughts are
2:08.7	with everybody right now as we're recording this. It's January 2nd. News is still unfolding of
2:15.4	the extent of injuries and deaths. And it's just our hearts are breaking.
2:21.3	And we're just really wanted to make sure that we, we said something before the episode place.
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