NOWHERE BUT TEXAS: SEARCHING FOR JEAN LAFITTE'S TREASURE ON GALVESTON ISLAND
NOWHERE BUT TEXAS: SEARCHING FOR JEAN LAFITTE'S TREASURE ON GALVESTON ISLAND
NOWHERE BUT TEXAS: SEARCHING FOR JEAN LAFITTE’S TREASURE ON GALVESTON ISLAND
Jean Lafitte was born in 1780 and died in 1823. He was a French pirate and privateer. Lafitte lived on Galveston island in the state of Texas, USA – from 1817 to 1821.
In late 1815, Lafitte agreed to act as spy for Spain, which was embroiled in the Mexican War of Independence. Jean Lafitte was sent to the Gulf of Mexico and Galveston Island where he took command of the island – with an iron fist. Lafitte utilized Galveston Island as his private smuggling base.
At this time, Galveston island was largely uninhabited, except by Native American Karankawa indians. Lafitte fought many bloody battles with these Karankawas. As background, the Karankawa were an Indigenous people concentrated in southern Texas along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico; they consisted of several independent seasonal nomadic groups who shared the same language and much of the same culture.
Lafitte named his island Campeche, after a Mexican outpost further south along the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
In less than one year, Lafitte’s small settlement grew to nearly 200 men and several women. Many buildings were built during this period. His headquarters was a two-story building which became known as Maison Rouge – so called as it was painted red.
Around 1820, Lafitte reportedly married Madeline Regaud. She had his only known son, Jean Pierre Lafitte.
In 1821, the US government drove Lafitte from the island. It is widely believed that Lafitte buried his treasure on Galveston before he left – and this video is about my search at three likely treasure sites. Please note that some historians believe Lafitte had no significant treasure as he left Galveston or that he took his treasure with him to Louisiana.
just talked to this old fisherman that told me his dad back in the 1940’s was oystering off of magnolia beach at night when he hit something hard and tried to bring it up to see what it was to the surface and it was gold bars and his winch wouldn’t bring it up so he marked the spot and went back to shore to get some help then a big storm blew in and he had to wait till morning and they searched all over and couldn’t find anything
AWESOME VIDEO, THANKS, SO FUN!
i think it’s somewhere in lynn lake
Sabine pass Texas is another spot.
They weren’t cannibals. Kawasaki Indians.
They were over 8ft tall.
That is not the ruins of Lafitte’s house. That’s the ruins of a house built on the same site after Lafitte’s house was destoyed. In other word, it’s the right locstion but not the ruins of his house. The ruins are the remains of the home of sea captain E.E. Hendricks. It was built around 1870 and torn down in the 1950s.
In 1960 a Houston lawyer bought the property b4 est hisc Hired 2 blk men to clean up property Next day didn’t show up Both men bought new cars n homes😁 Maybe they found something 😚😚😚
I swear it’s my destiny to find treasure at south padre island
That’s because it’s not there at all
Matagorda texas is another place . Off the Matagorda is where they found black beards ship under water it us now at the Bullock museum in Austin Texaz
it’s by lynn lake ,settlers there talked about the indians chasing pirates from the guadalupe river
Karankawas – they weren’t cannibals
Sad we still share stories that aren’t accurate
They were over 8ft tall though
i AM TEXAS, SO FUNNY MY STORY OF JEAN LAFITTE, I STOLE SOME BRICKS OF ANTIQUITY OF LE MAISON ROUGE, BUT TOOK THEM BACK. 😉 I DID CONFESS AND RETURNED THEM.
Mr Trum, you’re a treasure !