so--theories?

Okay, so I am interested in entertaining theories, from the realistic to the far-fetched, for the origins of the gold on the shores of the Venezuelan fishing village in the last entry. Other details you should know are that

the jagged coastline around Guaca, on Venezuela’s Paria peninsula, is punctuated with bays and islands that have long given refuge to adventurers.

It was on this peninsula, in 1498, that Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the South American continent,...