The Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been missing for nearly four years and investigators have been trawling the high seas looking for any sign of the missing plane. While there has been fragments of the plane found washed ashore in the Indian Ocean, they're still yet to find a decent chunk of it.

But they have found something else that's quite peculiar.

They've found four separate ship wrecks in the same area as the MH370 zone. The first identifiable wreck consists of a mysterious chest, located a whopping four kilometres below the surface of the ocean.

Credit: Fugro Equator/Australian Transport Safety Bureau

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Some people on social media reckon it's classic pirate treasure, but there's been no news on what the chest actually contains.

The second site is the final resting place of the SV Inca, according to the Daily Mail, which was a more than a century old Peruvian ship that ran into trouble on it's route from the South American country to Sydney.

You can imagine the emotions that brewed on board the investigator ship, the Fugro Equator, when they came across the ancient debris - initially thinking it was the missing MH370.

Credit: Fugro Equator/Australian Transport Safety Bureau

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Fugro CEO Paul Kennedy said: "We got really excited.

"So we put the AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) down and we got even more excited because all of a sudden we could see things that don't look like natural sea floor features, they've got angles and hard edges on them all and we really got quite excited and thought 'we've got something here'."

He says that this is still a pretty interesting find considering the West Australian Maritime Museum has no records of the boat.

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An anchor was spotted nearby this wreck and it was found to have been made in 1820.

Further north, experts found two shipping vessels; one which was very well intact with fishing nets still attached, while the other had clearly taken a battering to its bow.

This happened in 2015 and as investigators were still trying to work out what they were looking at, they turned off satellites because it was 'per protocol' says news.com.au.



Credit: Australian Transport Safety Bureau

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Interestingly, the Seabed Constructor's Automatic Identification System was disabled for 80 hours at the end of last month, leading conspiracy theorists to pipe up about potential reasons why the ship 'went dark'.

People on social media were a mixture of upset and concerned they couldn't track the ship, which mimicked the Boeing 777 when it disappeared from radar before it was officially declared missing.