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A Nova Scotia-built brigantine was found drifting between the Azores and Portugal, seaworthy, with its cargo intact and its crew of ten gone. The Gibraltar inquiry found no foul play. A rushed abandonment in fear of the alcohol cargo exploding or the ship sinking is the leading theory.
Since the 1790s, treasure hunters have dug into a small island in Nova Scotia's Mahone Bay, chasing a shaft said to hold pirate gold, Templar relics or Shakespeare's manuscripts. More than two centuries, six deaths and a TV series later, no treasure has been found.
On a Wednesday night in October 1967, people in a Nova Scotia fishing village saw a row of lights descend and hit the water. RCMP officers went out in boats and found yellow foam. The Navy searched. Canada's own files call the object unidentified.
