When the pirate Thomas Veale was trapped in a cave in Lynn, Massachusetts, back in 1658, along with his treasure, a succession of events ensued that defy explanation. With a strange pantheon of characters, including the famed Hutchinson family, the self-proclaimed messiah Murray Spear, and the dogged work of Hiram Marble, this legend has all the aspects of a great epic. The best thing about it, though, is that it all happens to be true.