Pirate Pierre Mallett's Millions
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 416 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore Coates Island and the surrounding bay on Lake Champlain in Colchester, Vermont, searching for the lost treasure of the alleged pirate Pierre Mallett. In the 1760s, a strange man arrived at this bay and lived as a recluse the rest of his days. Many years after his death, a letter arrived from France opening a mystery of potentially millions in lost treasure still out there.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we're going to make a right coming up here on Coates Island Road. |
| 0:07.0 | Okay, got it? |
| 0:09.0 | Man, it's a gorgeous day to visit Lake Champlain, Jeff. |
| 0:12.0 | The colors are peaking right now, the way they reflect off the lake, it just looks incredible. |
| 0:17.0 | It is, it is absolutely stunning out here. |
| 0:19.0 | So Coates Island is barely an island in the large bay in Colchester section of Lake Champlain. It's mostly connected to the mainland by that short bridge we just crossed. It just covers up the marshy waters below. So technically an island, but barely. |
| 0:33.0 | And there's a lot of woods on the island and some pretty nice lakehouses, too. I'm guessing there's some pretty pricey real estate out here. |
| 0:39.4 | No question to take some bucks to live on Coates Island. |
| 0:41.9 | So what's a couple of Joe 12 packs like us doing out here? |
| 0:45.4 | Well, if we're to believe the legends, we may just strike it rich on this 80-acre island. |
| 0:50.1 | How would we do that? |
| 0:51.8 | Because they say Coates Island on Lake Champlain is home to millions in buried pirate treasure. |
| 1:01.9 | Greetings, legendarians. I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 1:04.2 | Welcome to episode 416 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm Ray Osier. Thank you for joining us on our mission to chronicle every Legend in New England one story at a time. You're welcome. We love tales of |
| 1:15.0 | ghosts, monsters, UFOs, pirates, eccentrics, and anything else that goes bump in the night. |
| 1:20.6 | So many of our story leads come from you. So please reach out to us anytime through our website |
| 1:24.8 | with your story leads. We love hearing from you. Our website is also a place |
| 1:29.4 | to see dates for Jeff's fall story tour, dates to see my band The Pub Kings, and links to buy the new |
| 1:34.9 | 2006 haunted New England calendar and Jeff's latest book, Wicked Strange New England. So we'll go |
| 1:41.5 | digging for lost treasure right after word from our sponsor. |
| 1:51.8 | Okay, Jeff. So here's the thing about Vermont. Okay. It's landlocked. And I don't think of Lake Champlain when I think of pirates. No, I get that. So it turns out it is possible to sail |
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