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Famed pirate Edward “Blackbeard” Teach may have died in 1718, but his treasure was never found. Did it sink to the bottom of the ocean with his ship? Is it buried in a chest on an island off the coast of North Carolina? Or was there ever any hidden treasure at all?

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