Treasures are uncertain, elusive, and mysterious.
Many legends of buried or lost treasure are handed down from one's lip to another's ears. They gain or lose credibility according to the teller, but many have no foundation . Even so, imaginations fired with visions of gold, silver and jewels have driven men to spend their lives in pursuit of fortunes based upon tales, old maps, enigmatic markings on rocks or trees, and the random word of a stranger. Stories of Jean Lafitte, that dreaded devil of the deep, and his treasure chests that lie buried along the Gulf Coast are as fresh in the minds of today's treasure seekers as the times in which the old sea dog lived, more than one hundred years ago. Lafitte and his marauders ravaged Spanish galleons and other sea-worthy vessels heavy with gold, silver and jewels from Mexico.