La Tragique Histoire Du Capitaine Kidd, Dont Le Fantôme Protège Encore Le Trésor

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Le capitaine Kidd était un célèbre pirate qui naviguait sur les mers à la fin des années 1600, à la recherche de trésors et d'aventures. Il fut finalement capturé et exécuté pour piraterie, mais la légende raconte qu'il avait enterré un trésor immense quelque part avant d'être capturé. Des gens ont cherché son butin caché pendant des siècles, mais personne ne l'a encore trouvé. Certains disent que son fantôme garde le trésor, effrayant quiconque s'approche trop près. C'est une histoire effrayante qui fait rêver et creuser les chasseurs de trésors !  Animation créée par Sympa. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Musique par Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com   Pour ne rien perdre de Sympa, abonnez-vous!: https://goo.gl/6E4Xna​ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nos réseaux sociaux : Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sympasympacom/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sympa.officiel/  Stock de fichiers (photos, vidéos et autres): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Si tu en veux encore plus, fais un tour ici:  http://sympa-sympa.com

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00:00Just like Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean saga,

00:06Captain Kidd was a famous pirate who sailed in search of treasure.

00:10However, he was much less charming and much more formidable.

00:14According to legend, he kept his loot so jealously that his specter still haunts him today.

00:24William Kidd, better known as Captain Kidd, was born around 1650.

00:29He claimed to be from Dundee, Scotland, although many people today think it was just a lie.

00:35In his youth, Kidd settled in New York, where he made friends with influential figures,

00:41including three governors.

00:43Some stories tell that he began his maritime adventures as a moose on a pirate ship

00:48before becoming himself a renowned sailor.

00:51In 1689, Kidd was already part of a pirate crew.

00:56While he was sailing in the Caribbean, he and a few other sailors mutinied.

01:01They took control of the ship, renamed Blessed William for the occasion,

01:05and made Kidd their captain.

01:08Kidd gained experience and even ended up offering his services to the British crown,

01:13then in conflict with France.

01:15The governor refusing to pay his crew, he joined the fleet that attacked and plundered the French island of Marie Galante,

01:22amassing a huge sum of money.

01:25In 1691, Captain Kidd ended up marrying Sarah Bradley, one of New York's richest women,

01:32widow of two previous marriages and herself heir to an immense fortune.

01:40A few years later, the governor of New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire

01:45asked Captain Kidd to chase away the pirates lurking in the region.

01:50It was not just a simple request, but a mission of the greatest importance emanating from the king himself.

01:56Refusing would have been perceived as a sign of disloyalty and would have definitely tainted his reputation.

02:03This is how the journey that was to bring Captain Kidd into the legend began.

02:09This expedition was funded by influential lords, among the most powerful in England at the time.

02:16The king himself had signed a letter of marque that authorized Kidd to sail as a corsair,

02:22namely a pirate acting on behalf of his country.

02:26This letter also stipulated that 10% of the booty recovered would go back to the crown.

02:31To finance his trip, Kidd had no choice but to sell one of his ships, the Antigua,

02:37and to acquire a new one, the Adventure Galley, ideal for hunting pirates.

02:42This ship was equipped with 34 guns, oars and a crew of 150 men.

02:47These oars, very practical, allowed the ship to move even in the absence of wind.

02:53Kidd meticulously chose his crew, selecting only the most competent and loyal officers.

03:03As he sailed aboard the Adventure Galley, a strange incident occurred.

03:07Kidd was supposed to salute a ship of the Navy, but he did not give up.

03:12In response, the building shot a shot of semolina to remind him of his place in the hierarchy.

03:18Instead of executing himself, Kidd and his crew reacted by turning around

03:22and showing their naked back as a sign of contempt.

03:25Furious, the British captain then requisitioned several members of Kidd's crew on board,

03:31although the corsair crews had generally been exempted from this corvée.

03:35In Cour-D'Homme, Kidd sailed to New York, where he seized a French ship.

03:40To replace his lost crew, he hired many criminals, some of whom were probably former pirates.

03:47Then, in September 1696, Captain Kidd sailed to Cape Bonne-Espérance, south of Africa.

03:54His journey was full of ambushes from the start.

03:57Cholera struck, weakening and killing many sailors.

04:02In addition, their brand new ship began to leak.

04:07Kidd, supposed to catch pirates in the Indian Ocean, never managed to find them.

04:15Desperate to make money to cover his expenses, Kidd saw his plan collapse.

04:20The worst happened a few months later, when he smashed the skull of one of his own companions

04:25to have wanted to board a Dutch ship, which would have been considered an act of piracy.

04:30The man died shortly after.

04:32Kidd's situation only worsened until a Royal Navy officer denounced these acts of piracy.

04:38He then changed the bow of his ship so that it looked more like the French one

04:43and seized a large Indian ship, the Quedagh Merchant, loaded with silk, gold and silver.

04:49The captain then decided to keep this ship and sailed to Madagascar.

04:54There, his path had to cross that of Robert Culliford, who had robbed him of the Antigua a few years earlier.

05:01There are two versions of this story.

05:03One claims that Kidd would have been kind to him,

05:06the other claims that out of fear, he preferred to wait for reinforcements before trying anything.

05:11Either way, most of Kidd's crew then deserted him to join Culliford.

05:17Faced with these difficulties, Kidd preferred to give up and go home.

05:21He left behind him the Adventure Galley, which was full of water.

05:26And after having recovered all the valuables and set it on fire, he boarded the Adventure Prize.

05:32The British authorities had promulgated a law granting amnesty to pirates of the Indian Ocean,

05:37but they made sure that Kidd could not benefit from it,

05:40in retaliation for the powerful political allies he had made in England.

05:44Upon arrival in Anguilla, Kidd learned that he was wanted and that he would not enjoy any royal pardon.

05:50The governments had succeeded,

05:52and the new magistrates in place intended to use him to discredit their rivals.

05:57They hoped that Kidd would reveal compromising information about his allies,

06:00but Kidd refused to give the slightest name, hoping until the end that his friends would come to his rescue.

06:05This did not prevent them from dropping him.

06:07Some think that he could have escaped his punishment if he had settled down, but it was hard to know.

06:12Kidd was therefore sent to London to be tried in front of the High Court of the Emirate,

06:17accused of piracy in the high seas and of the murder of one of his sailors.

06:20He was finally imprisoned in the sadly famous prison of Newgate, awaiting his trial.

06:26He was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to be executed publicly,

06:31although many found the evidence insufficient for such a verdict.

06:36Captain Kidd was executed on May 23, 1701.

06:40His body remained exposed above the sieve for three years,

06:44as a warning to anyone who would be tempted by piracy.

06:48The same fate awaited some members of Kidd's crew, but they managed to negotiate their release.

06:54The loot that Captain Kidd had accumulated over the years led people to believe that he had hidden it somewhere.

07:01This led to numerous treasure hunts in various parts of the world.

07:05Some say that Kidd could have hidden his treasure along the Rauway River in New Jersey,

07:11just opposite Staten Island.

07:13Other evidence suggests that he would have hidden a small part of his loot on Gardiner Island, near New York.

07:18The latter would have been discovered and shipped to England to serve as evidence against Kidd during his trial.

07:25Around Fundy Bay, people have been looking for Kidd's treasure since 1875 at least,

07:31because they think he would have hidden it there from the time he was corsair.

07:35A point on the island is even nicknamed Money Cove because of this legend.

07:41Given Kidd's tragic and unfair fate, it is not surprising that people thought they saw his ghost.

07:49Some reported seeing him at Trinity Church Cemetery, as if he was looking for his own grave.

07:56There is also the story of these two men who, in 1825, tried to dig up Kidd's jewels.

08:04They did find a chest, but before they could open it, Kidd's ghost would have appeared just above them.

08:13This terrifying vision made the two men faint.

08:17They both claimed to have seen a terrifying figure emerge from the grave,

08:22exhaling sulfur vapors and seeming to slide on the ground.

08:26Fortunately, no tangible evidence confirms these terrifying stories.

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