Before publishing my journal on this site, I decided to share with you, some of the enigmas of this chart.

I have enclosed two signatures with this post:

1) A copy of the signature taken from the Enigma chart.

2) A copy of Captain Kidds' real signature, taken from one of his original letters to the Law Lords of England.

As you can plainly see, the signatures bear no resemblance to one another, whatsoever!!.

The self appointed Kidd experts' claim that the Enigma chart, is a Figment of the Authors imagination, that he the author, concocted the chart from Kidd related material.!!

If that is the case, then the Author must have been a complete idiot!!, as the enigma chart, with its' supposed signature of Kidd, and a copy of two of Kidds' original letters, with his normal signature, are present, in the book the author sent to print.

If you and I, can plainly see the difference, in the signatures', then the Author must have also!!.
The book that these signatures appear in, was very well researched by the author, so it cannot be an oversight.

However, most of the charts and material printed within this book was supplied by the authors acquaintance, who was a collector and Kidd fanatic.

The introduction to this book, contains a list of photographs and charts, which are stated as the joint copyright of the Author and his acquaintance, .............except that is, for the Enigma chart!
This is the sole copyright of the Author!.
Therefore, the author must have acquired this chart from another source,!
Does this chart have anything to do with Kidd? I don't think so, perhaps it could be linked to another,..... perhaps the signature is more than just a signature!...... perhaps it has a hidden code or meaning within it!!

I am one of the few people to study this chart at length, you will be surprised at the secrets it holds.!!
The first secret I shall reveal is within the signature. it will be revealed in the following post!!.

Crowsnest. ( still enjoying the view from here).



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This chart has a colourful, complicated and mysterious story to tell.
It has been linked to:...... Cocos island,.........Oak island and Captain William Kidd.

It first appeared in a book titled: Captain Kidd and his Skeleton Island, this book was published in 1935.
Since that time it has caused many a self acclaimed Kidd expert, to denounce it as;
A Forgery, a Concoction of all things to do with Kidd, A figment of the Authors Imagination!!!

My, My , My, how they hate it.

Of course, I have an entirely different view from the experts, perhaps thats because, unlike most of the aforesaid experts,................... I took the time to really study the chart.

Guess what?. My conclusions, prompted a British National newspaper with a daily readership of over 12million people, to Sponsor me on an expedition, to an Island group, off the coast of West Africa.

My exploits prompted me to write a 200 page journal, which still has the last chapter to be completed.
I have not the time to start it this week, however, I promise to post it on this page in the forthcoming weeks.
What an Adventure it turned out to be!!

Crowsnest(enjoying the view from here).

The map of Cocos that I have posted today, is in fact a copy of a British Admiralty chart.
I have chosen this chart for its' accuracy, as I wish to show you, the approximate position of another possible Treasure location on Cocos.!!

A few years ago I received an e.mail request from a guy in Australia, I had my own web site at that time which challenged the conventional methods of Decoding possible Treasure Charts.

To be quite candid with you, for every treasure chart, there are at least a thousand ways of interpreting the meaning within that chart.

Most people will read something different into a sign or mark drawn upon it, most people will swear, that they are the only ones, to understand the true meaning, of this or that chart, unfortunately we cannot all be correct.!

Yes!, I am one of those people, however I do believe I could be wrong!, Yes!, I have made mistakes, but I am honest enough to admit them.

I happen to have a different view of many charts, whether or not you agree or disagree with that view, is entirely your prerogative!.

Anyway back to this story, the guy from Australia wanted to know, how or what method I used, to break into the Chart or charts' code!!.

He said that he had uncovered a set of directions, which would lead to the Treasure of Lima.
This treasure was rumoured to be one of the Three treasures buried on Cocos!!.
However this Australian guy reckoned that the set of directions he had, were for the Tuamatos island group.??

Also, would it be possible for me to make any sense of them.? he then sent me the following directions.


AFTER BURYING THE TREASURE WE TOOK OUR POSITION BY COMPASS AND FOUND OUR LOCATION TO BE EAST HALF EAST EAST MOUNTAIN TEN NORTH EAST WEST MOUNTAIN!!.

I promised him that I would study the directions and get back to him with any observations!!.

After duly studying these directions, it became apparent to me, that who-ever wrote them down, was either stood, facing North or South, which is the only way he could get a reading from East to west as described within the directions!, although I still had no idea what they meant!.

I then studied the Tuamatos island group and found that they did not have any mountains, as the islands are very low lying, not much over 10metres' above sea level;?
Discrepancies and anomalies like this intrigue me,yet I kept my word and contacted the Australian with my initial findings, for which he thanked me and that was that, or was it??

I don't know about you, but when something bugs me, it Bugs the life out of me until I do something about it!!
I just have to put a solution to a problem, a point to a theory, some logic to disorder, so yes, I went back to the directions, what do they mean??


I will conclude this post tomorrow.
happy hunting, crowsnest.

Sunday, 24-9-06.
The key, to X marks the Spot.
What do the directions mean? well here is my theory!!.
I believe the directions should be read as follows:

AFTER BURYING THE TREASURE, WE TOOK OUR POSITION BY COMPASS AND FOUND OUR LOCATION TO BE:
EAST BY HALF EAST, TO EAST MOUNTAIN.
AND TEN DEGREES NORTHEAST OF WEST MOUNTAIN!!

My interpretation of the directions is based upon a number of premise'.

1) That the Treasure of Lima is buried on Cocos??
2) That the directions are Genuine.
3) The treasure is rumoured to be buried near Wafer Bay.
4) This premise, relates to the size of the Treasure, according to a recent newspaper article, covering an abortive attempt in 1986 by a world renowned female singer.
The Treasure is described as:
The life size, solid gold Madonna and apostles,17 tons of gold bullion, many tons of silver,hundreds of thousands of gold doubloons and 29,000 diamonds,rubies, emeralds and amethysts-30 tons of Treasure estimated value? £500,000,000.

This treasure would have to be dragged and hauled to its' final destination by manpower alone!

Therefore my fifth premise, is that the Treasure, will not be too far from the Coast!
With these thoughts flashing through my brain, I went to work on the directions.

It is very easy to write this now, although at the time of my research I was riddled with self doubt!
Coming up with theory after theory, only to question and discard them after finding each fatal flaw.

Until that is, I found that the magnetic compass, changes from year to year.
So in 1821, when the Treasure was buried, the magnetic compass for the Cocos region, was different to what it is today!!.

I plotted the island from North to South and East to west, finally coming up with Two possible positions.

Neither of these positions, is anywhere near Wafer Bay, some may find this difficult to understand?/
Althought logic should substantiate this theory, which pirate in his right mind would enter into a bay to unload a Treasure, as large as this one.

A bay that was frequently used by most sea-faring nations at any time of the day or year!

If I were that pirate, a small little used bay, far from inquisitive eyes, would suit me and my purpose, especially as I would want to keep its' location a secret.
To this end I think that the Treasure of Lima, has been a very well kept secret, after all who has found it ??

The chart included with this post, has the position of the mountains marked in Yellow.
The true North compass is in Blue.
The magnetic compass for 1821 is in Green.
The approximate location of the Treasure is the Red circle.

As I said there are two possible locations, can You find the other??

Happy Hunting Crowsnest.

Ps. Somehow, I don't think we've heard the last of Cocos!! DoYou??.

My sincere apologies, please view this chart in conjunction with my first post.

Crowsnest.

Cocos Island needs no introduction as it is world renowned as the "Original Treasure Island".

It is rumoured, that this island conceals Three large treasures, buried at various times by different pirates.

The Island first came to Cartographers notice in the Mid 16th century and has featured on many maps and charts since that time.
The Spanish and Portuguese, knew of its' existence at least 100 years, before the rest of the European maritime nations.

Cocos is a small mountainous island, lying approx. three hundred miles west of the Americas, in the Pacific ocean, it has a couple of safe anchorages and a plentiful supply of fresh water.

The spanish Manilla galleons...............( those returning from the East indies laden with rich cargoes which were destined for the Americas to be transported overland to the Atlantic port of Vera Cruz, there to join the Tri- Annual treasure fleet on its' homeward voyage to Spain) ..............were sometimes forced through....( stress of weather ), to use Cocos as a safe Anchorage!!

This was the main reason that Cocos became a Pirate base, enabling the pirates and privateers to attack the rich Spanish Galleons on their homeward and sometimes outward voyages.

The purpose of this site, is to investigate, the Three treasures which were mentioned earlier:

I have enclosed with this post, a chart or map of Cocos, this chart was used by a British expedition which sailed to Cocos aboard the merchant vessel SS. Vigilant in 1932.
Their search for the Elusive treasures' was unsuccessful, yet the clue to the treasure they were searching for must have been contained within this chart, so where did they look? and why?.

When you first view this chart you will be aware of a dotted line to the North of the island, this line runs from just South of Chatham bay, in the north east of the island, it cuts across this northern tip and terminates at the west side of Wafer bay.
These two bays are the only safe anchorages on Cocos, therefore they have been the ones' most used throughout Cocos' maritime history.

It is quite probable that this expedition in 1932 followed this dotted route! but with Hindsight and the knowledge of the island which we have at our fingertips today, that this expedition was doomed from the start.

If this chart is genuine, then the persons who buried this treasure and drew its' location on this chart, actually took a very torturous route.
They would have to first scale the large cliffs which are located south of Chatham bay, they would then have to drag and haul their treasure through dense jungle for nearly 2 miles and then deposit it at the termination point of the dotted line, which is the west side of Wafer bay??

Why take this route, when they could have sailed into Wafer bay, anchored off and transported their treasure by small boat to its' final point of deposit on the west side of the bay.
Therefore I feel that the 1932 expedition followed the wrong clue!!

If that was the case, then which clue should they have followed??

I have studied this chart extremely closely for many, many months and by chance, I came across something that intrigued me!!

It may be my imagination or a trick of the eye, yet I saw what appeared to be a figure, carrying a lit firebrand torch, this figure seems to be entering a hole or cave.
I would not have given this such serious attention but for the fact that the geological position surrounding the supposed location of one of the treasures' whereabouts is very close by??

To complete this first post, I will leave you to try and find this hidden figure for yourself, but remember, if you do find it ,you would not have thought to look, if I hadn't told you!!

Happy Hunting!!.

Crowsnest,( enjoying the view from here)