BLACKOAK: Gold Beneath the Tempest — The Night the Spanish Empire Lost 11 Ships and a Thousand Men to One Hurricane
Blackoak the Adventures di Myia Hanson and Jeremy Hanson
E12
28 apr 2026
43:28
Note sull'episodio
BLACKOAK: Gold Beneath the Tempest — The Night the Spanish Empire Lost 11 Ships and a Thousand Men to One Hurricane
On the night of July 30, 1715, eleven Spanish ships carrying the wealth of an empire were swallowed by a hurricane off the coast of Florida. Over a thousand sailors drowned. Gold coins, silver bars, emeralds, and pearls settled into the sand of what would one day be called the Treasure Coast — where they are still being found today.But this is not a story about a storm.It is a story about what happened the morning after.In this episode of BLACKOAK: The Adventures, the ancient sentient tankard carries an account it received in Havana in the summer of 1716 — one year after the disaster — from Marco Alejandro Reyes, the purser's clerk who survived both the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de la Regla and the English raid that stripped the survivors of everything they had salvaged from the shallows. Reyes tells Blackoak what the official manifests recorded. And then he tells it what the official manifests never contained — the undocumented cargo of a senior colonial official who paid to stay off the books, now resting somewhere on the ocean floor that no organized search will ever be directed toward.Three hundred years of storms have been moving that treasure ever since. Some of it surfaces after hurricanes. Locals still walk the beach at dawn with metal detectors. Modern salvage operations have recovered millions. Estimates of what remains run into millions more.And somewhere in the scatter, there may be chests that no manifest will ever lead anyone to find.BLACKOAK: The Adventures is a historical mystery podcast narrated by an ancient sentient tankard forged from the wreckage of a warship off the Carolina coast. It has spent centuries in the rooms where history's most dangerous secrets were spoken — by people who believed objects couldn't listen. They were wrong.Produced by Fuzzy Life Studios. Premium cinematic audio storytelling.
What happened to the Spanish treasure fleet in 1715? The Spanish Treasure Fleet of 1715 — eleven ships carrying gold coins, silver bars, jewelry, and colonial wealth bound for Spain — was destroyed by a hurricane on the night of July 30, 1715, off the eastern coast of Florida. The storm drove the ships onto shoals and reefs along a stretch of coast between present-day Sebastian Inlet a
On the night of July 30, 1715, eleven Spanish ships carrying the wealth of an empire were swallowed by a hurricane off the coast of Florida. Over a thousand sailors drowned. Gold coins, silver bars, emeralds, and pearls settled into the sand of what would one day be called the Treasure Coast — where they are still being found today.But this is not a story about a storm.It is a story about what happened the morning after.In this episode of BLACKOAK: The Adventures, the ancient sentient tankard carries an account it received in Havana in the summer of 1716 — one year after the disaster — from Marco Alejandro Reyes, the purser's clerk who survived both the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de la Regla and the English raid that stripped the survivors of everything they had salvaged from the shallows. Reyes tells Blackoak what the official manifests recorded. And then he tells it what the official manifests never contained — the undocumented cargo of a senior colonial official who paid to stay off the books, now resting somewhere on the ocean floor that no organized search will ever be directed toward.Three hundred years of storms have been moving that treasure ever since. Some of it surfaces after hurricanes. Locals still walk the beach at dawn with metal detectors. Modern salvage operations have recovered millions. Estimates of what remains run into millions more.And somewhere in the scatter, there may be chests that no manifest will ever lead anyone to find.BLACKOAK: The Adventures is a historical mystery podcast narrated by an ancient sentient tankard forged from the wreckage of a warship off the Carolina coast. It has spent centuries in the rooms where history's most dangerous secrets were spoken — by people who believed objects couldn't listen. They were wrong.Produced by Fuzzy Life Studios. Premium cinematic audio storytelling.
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What happened to the Spanish treasure fleet in 1715? The Spanish Treasure Fleet of 1715 — eleven ships carrying gold coins, silver bars, jewelry, and colonial wealth bound for Spain — was destroyed by a hurricane on the night of July 30, 1715, off the eastern coast of Florida. The storm drove the ships onto shoals and reefs along a stretch of coast between present-day Sebastian Inlet a