Lafitte's Tomb of Treasure (nonfiction)

From the Advertiser.com (article)

In 1924, Paul Guidry of Arnaudville and his mystic powers from the "spirit world" managed to convince 12 seemingly intelligent citizens of Southwest Louisiana to trek a marshy island south of Gueydan looking for a buried tomb filled with treasure. Guidry persuaded these prominent citizens the tomb was far more valuable than the one of Tutankhamun.

According to published reports, the pirate's gold was buried back in 1812 beneath the tall, waving marsh grasses on tiny Goat Island, located three miles south of Wright. That pirate was none other than the famous Jean Pierre Lafitte from Barataria, who, according to legend, frequently buried treasure along the banks of White Lake, in Vermilion Parish.

In addition to the buried treasure, Guidry said there were three skeletons "guarding" the hidden treasure that were buried above the pirate's fortune, two men and a priest. Two of the bodies were supposed to be buried together with their heads pointing in a certain direction, and the third body according to Guidry would be lying away from the pair and facing a different direction.

Sure as shooting, the three skeletons were found buried forty inches below the surface of the lush emerald green swamp grasses, as Guidry had predicted. Two of the bodies were buried together with heads pointing west and one lying away from the pair and pointing in a different direction, just as the seer from Arnaudville had predicted.

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