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The Discovery

One summer day in 1795 Daniel McGinnis, then a teenager, was wandering about Oak Island, Nova Scotia (see Geography) when he came across a curious circular depression in the ground. Standing over this depression was a tree whose branches had been cut in a way which looked like it had been used as a pulley. Having heard tales of pirates in the area he decided to return home to get friends and return later to investigate the hole.

Over the next several days McGinnis, along with friends John Smith and Anthony Vaughan, worked the hole. What they found astonished them. Two feet below the surface they came across of layer of flagstones covering the pit. At 10 feet down they ran into a layer of oak logs spanning the pit. Again at 20 feet and 30 feet they found the same thing, a layer of logs. Not being able to continue alone from here, they went home, but with plans of returning to search more.

It took the three discoverers 8 years, but they did return. Along with The Onslow Company, formed for the purpose of the search, they began digging again. They quickly got back to 30 foot point that had been reached 8 years ago. They continued down to 90 feet, finding a layer of oak logs at every 10 foot interval. Besides the boards, at 40 feet a layer of charcoal was found, at 50 feet a layer of putty, and at 60 feet a layer of coconut fiber.

At 90 feet one of the most puzzling clues was found - a stone inscribed with mysterious writing.

Note: For more information about the stone inscription and to try your hand at translating the stone's inscription go here.

After pulling up the layer of oak at 90 feet and continuing on, water began to seep into the pit. By the next day the pit was filled with water up to the 33 foot level. Pumping didn't work, so the next year a new pit was dug parallel to the original down to 100 feet. From there a tunnel was run over to The Money Pit. Again the water flooded in and the search was abandoned for 45 years.

The Booby Trap

As it turns out, an ingenious booby trap had been sprung. The Onslow Company had inadvertently unplugged a 500 foot waterway that had been dug from the pit to nearby Smith's Cove by the pit's designers. As quickly as the water could be pumped out it was refilled by the sea.

This discovery however is only a small part of the intricate plan by the unknown designers to keep people away from the cache.

In 1849 the next company to attempt to extract the treasure, The Truro Company, was founded and the search began again. They quickly dug down to 86 feet only to be flooded. Deciding to try to figure out what was buried before attempting to extract it, Truro switched to drilling core samples. The drilling produced some encouraging results.

First Hints of Treasure

At 98 feet the drill went through a spruce platform. Then it encountered 4 inches of oak and then 22 inches of what was characterized as "metal in pieces""; Next 8 inches of oak, another 22 inches of metal, 4 inches of oak and another layer of spruce. The conclusion was that they had drilled through 2 casks or chests filled will coins. Upon pulling out the drill they found splinters of oak and strands of what looked like coconut husk.

One account of the drilling also mentions that three small gold links, as from a chain, were brought up. Unfortunately no one knows where they have gone.

Interestingly, the earth encountered beneath the bottom spruce platform was loose indicating that the pit may have gone even deeper. A later group of searchers would find out how much deeper.

The Truro Company returned in 1850 with plans to dig another parallel hole and then tunnel over to the Money Pit. Just like before, as they tunneled over, water began to rush in. They brought in pumps to try to get rid of the water but it was impossible to keep the water out. During the pumping someone noticed that at Smith's Cove during low tide there was water coming OUT of the beach.

This find lead to an amazing discovery - the beach was artificial.

Artificial Beach

It turns out that the pit designers had created a drain system, spread over a 145 foot length of beach, which resembled the fingers of a hand. Each finger was a channel dug into the clay under the beach and lined by rocks. The channels were then filled with beach rocks, covered with several inches of eel grass, and then covered by several more inches of coconut fiber. The effect of this filtering system was that the channels remained clear of silt and sand while water was still allowed to flow along them. The fingers met at a point inland where they fed sea water into a sloping channel which eventually joined the Money Pit some 500 feet away. Later investigations showed this underground channel to have been 4 feet wide, 2 1/2 feet high, lined with stone, and meeting the Money Pit between the depths of 95 to 110 feet.

To the Truro Company, the answer was now simple - just block off the water flow from the beach and dig out the treasure. Their first attempt was to build a dam just off the beach at Smith's Cove, drain the water, and then dismantle the drain channels. Unfortunately a storm blew up and destroyed the dam before they could finish.

An interesting note: the remains of an older dam were found when building the new one.

The next plan was to dig a pit 100 feet or so inland in the hopes of meeting with the water channel underground at which point they could plug the channel. This scheme too failed. And this was the last attempt by the Truro company to uncover the secrets of Oak Island.

The Pit's Collapse

The next attempt at securing the treasure was made in 1861 by the Oak Island Association. First they cleared out the Money Pit down to 88 feet. Then they ran a new hole to the east of the pit hoping to intercept the channel from the sea. The new shaft was dug out to120 feet without hitting the channel and then abandoned.

A second shaft was run, this one to west, down to 118 feet. They then attempted to tunnel over to the Money Pit. Again the water started to enter this pit as well as the Money Pit. Bailing was attempted and appeared to work. And then

CRASH!

The bottom fell out. Water rushed into the shafts and the bottom of the Money Pit dropped over 15 feet. Everything in the Money Pit had fallen farther down the hole. The big questions were why and how far?

Over the next several years different companies tried to crack the mystery unsuccessfully. They dug more shafts, tried to fill in the drain on the beach, built a new dam (which was destroyed by a storm), and drilled for more core samples. They met with little success.

The Cave-in Pit

In 1893 a man named Fred Blair along with a group called The Oak Island Treasure Company began their search. Their first task was to investigate the "Cave-in Pit". Discovered in 1878 about 350 feet east of the Money Pit, the cave-in pit appears to have been a shaft dug out by the designers of the Money Pit perhaps as a ventilation shaft for the digging of the flood tunnel. It apparently intersected or closely passed the flood tunnel. While it was being cleared by the Treasure Company it started to flood at a depth of 55 feet and was abandoned.

Over the next several years The Oak Island Treasure Company would dig more shafts, pump more water, and still get nowhere. In 1897 they did manage to clear out the Money Pit down to 111 feet where they actually saw the entrance of the flood tunnel temporarily stopped up with rocks. However, the water worked its way through again and filled the pit.

The treasure company then decided that they would attempt to seal off the flow of water from Smith's Cove by dynamiting the flood tunnel. Five charges were set off in holes drilled near the flood tunnel. They didn't work. The water flowed into the Money Pit as rapidly as ever.

At the same time a new set of core samples were drilled at the pit itself. The results were surprising.

Cement Vault

At 126 feet, wood was struck and then iron. This material is probably part of the material that fell during the crash of the Pit. On other drillings the wood was encountered at 122 feet and the iron was missed completely indicating that the material may be laying in a haphazard way due to the fall.

Between 130 and 151 feet and also between 160 and 171 feet a blue clay was found which consisted of clay, sand, and water. This clay can be used to form a watertight seal and is probably the same "putty"; that was found at the 50 foot level of the Pit.

The major find was in the gap between the putty layers. A cement vault was discovered. The vault itself was 7 feet high with 7 inch thick walls. Inside the vault the drill first struck wood, then a void several inches high and an unknown substance. Next a layer of soft metal was reached, then almost 3 feet of metal pieces, and then more soft metal.

When the drill was brought back up another twist was added to the whole mystery. Attached to the auger was a small piece of sheepskin parchment with the letters "vi"; "ui"; or "wi"; What the parchment is a part of is still in question.

More convinced than ever that a great treasure was beneath the island, The Treasure Company began sinking more shafts in the attempts to get to the cement vault. They all met with failure due to flooding.

2nd Flood Tunnel

In May of 1899, yet another startling discovery was made. There was a second flood tunnel! This one was located in the South Shore Cove. The designers had been more ingenious and had done more work than previously thought. Though this find certainly strengthened the case that something valuable was buried below it didn't bring anyone closer to actually finding the treasure.

Blair and The Oak Island Treasure Company continued to sink new shafts and drill more core samples, but no progress was made and no new information obtained.

Between 1900 and 1936 several attempts were made to obtain the treasure. All met with no success.

Stone Fragment

In 1936 Gilbert Hadden, in conjunction with Fred Blair, began a new investigation of the island. Hadden cleared some of the earlier shafts near the Pit and made plans for exploratory drilling the next summer. However, he made two discoveries away from the Pit.

The first was a fragment of a stone bearing inscriptions similar to those found on the inscribed stone discovered at the 90 foot level of the Money Pit. The second discovery was of several old timbers in Smith's Cove. These timbers seem to have been from the original designers due to the fact that they were joined using wooden pins rather than metal. As will be seen later these timbers were only a small part of a much larger construction.

Mystery Deepens

The next treasure hunter was Erwin Hamilton. He began his search in 1938 by clearing out previous shafts and doing some exploratory drilling. In 1939 during drilling two more discoveries were made. The first was the finding of rocks and gravel at 190 feet. According to Hamilton they were foreign and therefore placed there by someone. The second finding came after clearing out an earlier shaft down to 176 feet. At this point a layer of limestone was encountered and drilled through. The drilling brought up oak splinters. Apparently there was wood BELOW the natural limestone.

Tragedy Strikes

In 1959 Bob Restall and his family began their attack on the island which ultimately proved tragic.

His one discovery was made on the Smith's Cove beach while attempting to stop the drain system. He found a rock with "1704" inscribed on it. Though others believed it was prank left by a previous search team, Restall believed it was from the time of the original construction.

In 1965 tragedy struck. While excavating a shaft Bob passed out and fell into the water at the bottom. His son, Bobbie, attempted to rescue him as did two of the workers. All four apparently were overcome by some sort of gas, perhaps carbon monoxide from a generator, passed out and drowned.

Heavy Machines

Bob Dunfield was the next to take on the island. In 1965 he attempted to solve the problem with heavy machinery - bulldozers and cranes. He attempted to block the inflow of water at Smith's Cove, and may have succeeded. Then on the south side of the island an trench was dug in the hope of intercepting the other water tunnel and blocking it off. The flood tunnel wasn't found, but an unknown refilled shaft was found, possible one dug by the designers of the Pit. The shaft apparently went down to 45 and stopped, its purpose is unknown.

Dunfield's other findings were based on drilling. It was determined that at 140 feet there was a 2 foot thick layer of limestone and then a forty foot void. At the bottom of the void was bedrock. This information matched with a drilling done back in 1955. There seemed to a large, natural underground cavern, something apparently common with limestone around the world.

Recent Discoveries

Daniel Blankenship, the current searcher, began his quest in 1965. In 1966 he dug out more of the original shaft found by Bob Dunfield in 1965. It turned out that the shaft did go beyond 45 feet. Blankenship found a hand-wrought nail and a washer at 60 feet. At 90 feet he met a layer of rocks in stagnant water. He assumed this was part of the south water tunnel but couldn't explore further because the shaft could not be stopped from caving in.

A pair of wrought-iron scissors were discovered in 1967 buried below the drains at Smith's Cove. It was determined that the scissors were Spanish-American, probably made in Mexico, and they were up to 300 years old. Also found was a heart shaped stone.

Smith's Cove revealed some more secrets in 1970 to Triton Alliance, a group formed by Blankenship to continue the search. While Triton was building a new cofferdam they discovered the remains of what appeared to be the original builders' cofferdam. The findings included several logs 2 feet thick and up to 65 feet long. They were marked every four feet with Roman numerals carved in them and some contained wooden pins or nails. The wood has been carbon dated to 250 years ago.

The western end of the island has also revealed several items. Two wooden structures, along with wrought-iron nails and metal straps were found at the western beach. Nine feet below the beach a pair of leather shoes were unearthed.

Borehole 10-X

The next major discoveries came in 1976 when Triton dug what is known as Borehole 10-X, a 237 foot tube of steel sunk 180 feet northeast of the Money Pit. During the digging several apparently artificial cavities were found down to 230 feet (see: drilling results).

A camera lowered down to a bedrock cavity at 230 feet returned some amazing images. At first a severed hand could be seen floating in the water. Later three chests (of the treasure type I would presume) and various tools could be made out. Finally a human body was detected.

After seeing the images, the decision was made to send divers down for a look. Several attempts were made but strong current and poor visibility made it impossible to see anything.

Soon after the hole itself collapsed and has not been reopened.

Today

Blankenship and Triton still continue the quest.

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Drilling Results

Below you'll find information about some of the major drillings that have occurred on the island.

Triton - 1967-1969

Determined that bedrock layer was at 162 +/- 10 feet

Between 172 and 224 feet found china, oak buds, cement, wood, and metal

Found tunnels that were cut through bedrock - under 40 feet of bedrock

Found 40 feet rock, inches of wood, layer of blue clay, inches of wood and 6-7 foot void

Carbon date of wood - 1575 +/- 80 years

Depression from 172 to 222 feet (beneath Hadden shaft) - 30 foot in diameter filled with layers of blue clay with small stone spaced at 18 inches!!!

186 feet metal and brought up piece of brass (high impurities)

212 feet brick-like material found - it had been fired

Cement found - worked by man

210 feet hard metal hit

Borehole X-10

140 feet found a 4 foot cavity

160 feet found a 4 foot cavity

Bedrock at 180 feet

210 feet hit a 2 foot cavity

230-237 feet a cavity

Handfuls of metal found at 165 feet - low-carbon steel - prior to 1800

Spruce found at 155 feet

155 feet eight pieces of steel chain - Swedish steel made prior to 1790

Wood at 180 feet

Metal in several places above and below bedrock

660 feet north-northeast of the Money Pit - 1973 - p220

110 feet a 2 inch piece of wire - dated to 1500s to 1800s

A solid metal plate

There are future plans to excavate

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Artifacts Found

Below you'll find a listing of the artifacts found, or allegedly found, on the island. Many of the artifacts have been lost and are known only through writings left by early searchers or writers.

Copper coin, bosun's whistle, and iron ring bolt imbedded in a rock at Smith's Cover - 1795-1802

Inscribed stone

Gold links - 1849

Remains of the old cofferdam

Wood and end of a keg pulled out when the Pit collapsed

Blue clay

Parchment

Anchor fluke of ancient design - 1931 - since disappeared

Dump with thousands of broken pottery flasks

Rock with "1704" inscribed on it.

Nail, washer

Scissors, heart stone

Original cofferdam - logs 2 feet thick up to 65 feet long with Roman numerals marked on them.

Nails and metal-straps

Leather shoes

3 drilled rocks and ask piles analyzed to be burned bones!!!!!

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Oak Island is a 140 acre island just off the eastern coast of Nova Scotia, Canada located in Mahone Bay.

Theories - Who constructed the puzzle on Oak Island?

Captain William Kidd - the notorious privateer. Legends abound about secret caches of treasure buried by Kidd and his crew. Periodically maps have popped up alleged to be Kidd's showing the location of his treasures. There are many tales of old men on their death beds claiming to have been part of Kidd's crews and having knowledge of hidden wealth. Some of these stories point toward Oak Island.

Francis Bacon - there is a raging debate regarding the possibility that Shakespeare's play were not written by him. Some claim that Shakespeare was not educated enough to write his plays and they must have been written by someone else. Some people believe this someone else is Francis Bacon. Since no original manuscripts of Shakespeare have ever been found, the theory goes that Bacon has buried them somewhere to be found some time at some time in the future. This is a fascinating subject by itself that we'll explore under its own topic in the future.

The French - some theorize that the French may have buried money on the island as a safeguard against loss during the many battles with the English over the colonization of the Americas.

The Vikings - there is some record of Viking visitation to the Americas. Though no one knows what would have been so important to hide that such a complicated hiding place was needed, they have been offered as possible builders.

Bands of pirates - Oak Island acted as a communal bank for pirates. Each group would dig tunnels off the Money Pit shaft and bury their treasure. To retrieve it they could dig down through untouched dirt to get their cache.

Stranded Spanish Galleon - it's possible that a Spanish Galleon returning with gold and jewels from Central or South America could have been forced off course. Badly damaged, then stopped at Oak Island, hid the treasure while repairing the ship, and limped home with plans to return later with a more sea-worthy ship to retrieve their cargo.

British during American revolution - similar to the French theory. The idea is that the British hid money on the island to prevent it from falling into the hands of the revolutionaries.

Inca or Maya treasure - during the conquering of the Americas by the Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries, much of the wealth of the Incas and Mayas disappeared. Usually rumored to have been buried or sunken at the bottom of lakes, some researchers believe that it's possible that a group of Incas or Mayas, possible with the help of sympathetic Europeans, stole away with the wealth and buried on Oak Island out of the reach of the conquerors.

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i would like to hear your comments/theories and ideas about the puzzle of oak island and maybe some ideas on how to crack the money pit.. thumbsup.gif

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The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar: Solving the Oak Island Mystery by Steven Sora is a good book that theorises that the treasure of solomon's temple that was stolen by the knights templar is buried there.

Here's some more info.

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What lies at the bottom of the Money Pit

Jimmy Hoffa?

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That's a lot of engineering for a bunch of pirates and the idea of a community bank for them is funny. I thought they would have a "live for the moment" mentality.

My guess would be some kind of organized labor force, which at around that time (sometime before 1788) would be somebody's army working on behalf of their goverment. It would be interesting to see if there are any records involving large sums of money (it would almost have to be valuable to go through that much effort) being moved or disappearing from British or French military records from that time

On the other hand, it could have been Leonardo DaVinci's escape pod chute.

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Whowever buried something there, went into a lot of trouble protecting it. I wonder if the pit was made with the idea of never unearth its treasure because it would seem that its almost impossible to retrieve. Even more odd is that fact that with the tech we have at present we are unable to crack this, yet they manage to build this (probably encountering the problems they have today trying to gain access to it) more than 200 years ago. A bit too coordinated for a mere pirate. Unless of course the pirate was acting on behalf of someone with the knowledge and resources to pull this off. Perhaps this is nothing more than a decoy and the actual treasure is buried somowhere near??? (I am certain others would have thought of that too tongue.gif).

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well there must be some amount of money there, the stone tablet says that there are 2 million pounds(english money) below, now if that was its value then then it would be worth how much now?

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That was a wicked post. I wonder if the people digging looked up time periods and the technologys each culture had at the time to narrow the search for the builders. Cause that sounded pretty complexed so its not your average weekend project.

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i think the Knight Templar's Treasure lies at the bottom... if not their treasure something worth a lot is at the bottom of it, noone would go through so much trouble to build such a amazing thing, if nothing was there.. it could be a hoax built to throw people off, which if it was its been doin a good job, but people are stilll digign and trying to get to the bottom, i just dont understand with today's technology why we cant rip it up, and easily get to the bottom now!?

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could the money pit been created to divert ppl from treasure nearby, or sumwhere else?? huh.gifw00t.gifunsure.gif

seems many wasted digs to me. disgust.gifsad.gif

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You'd think with all the technology available these days, someone would've had the supposed treasure dug up by now. I mean, if we can get to the Titanic, surely they can get to this.

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You'd think with all the technology available these days, someone would've had the supposed treasure dug up by now. I mean, if we can get to the Titanic, surely they can get to this.

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yeah and i'm sure that if anything had ever actually been buried in it we would have

i heard somewhere that all the money so far put in to finding it would be about ten times the value of anything you could possibly find in it

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imagine if they wasted their money and found nothing.....

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I only skimmed the above article but the problem is that there are several trenches built to funnel water into the pit. They're rock lined and connect directly to the sea. If you knew where all these trenches are it would be a simple feat to block them and keep the pit from filling up long enough to dig to the bottom.

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The way the article sounded, they've tried everything, I even think they sent someone down in scuba gear at one point-to no avail-.....guess it'll remain a mystery....

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The treasure at Oak Island has always fascinated me. I would imagine that something is down there, although it's beyond me how somebody would have been able to bury something in this manor 200 or 300 years ago.

From what I have read recently we now have the technology to dig it up, but the guys who own the island can't afford to have the excavation done...and apparently they are having an argument and haven't spoken in some time. So essentially if they could get there acts together and find a financial backer this mystery could be solved relatively quickly.

Anyway this is a good web site on the topic.

oak Island Treasure

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What lies at the bottom of the Money Pit

Jimmy Hoffa?

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That would have been my guess, too!

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hmm, i see new my topic is getting some new life... considered it dead awhile back due to lack of posting, but hopefully now it will get some attention. What i would like to hear though is your thoughts on whom made the oak island money pit and what is down there and when do you think we will reach it, it seems everytime we get closer we discover a new boundary...

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It was probably a pirate. He buried booty from some Spanish Galleon he and his cohorts raided. The way technology grows and blossoms all the time and a really clever person here and there, I'd say within the next 5 years, they'll reach it. But, because of the drilling that was done, there might be holes big enough to wash the treasure away. We'll just have to wait and see.

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my guess is also pirates, for one pirates kick ass and also pirates love to bury treasure and never use it.....not that i like to stereotype or anything

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Theories - Who constructed the puzzle on Oak Island?

Captain William Kidd - the notorious privateer. Legends abound about secret caches of treasure buried by Kidd and his crew. Periodically maps have popped up alleged to be Kidd's showing the location of his treasures. There are many tales of old men on their death beds claiming to have been part of Kidd's crews and having knowledge of hidden wealth. Some of these stories point toward Oak Island.

Francis Bacon - there is a raging debate regarding the possibility that Shakespeare's play were not written by him. Some claim that Shakespeare was not educated enough to write his plays and they must have been written by someone else. Some people believe this someone else is Francis Bacon. Since no original manuscripts of Shakespeare have ever been found, the theory goes that Bacon has buried them somewhere to be found some time at some time in the future. This is a fascinating subject by itself that we'll explore under its own topic in the future.

The French - some theorize that the French may have buried money on the island as a safeguard against loss during the many battles with the English over the colonization of the Americas.

The Vikings - there is some record of Viking visitation to the Americas. Though no one knows what would have been so important to hide that such a complicated hiding place was needed, they have been offered as possible builders.

Bands of pirates - Oak Island acted as a communal bank for pirates. Each group would dig tunnels off the Money Pit shaft and bury their treasure. To retrieve it they could dig down through untouched dirt to get their cache.

Stranded Spanish Galleon - it's possible that a Spanish Galleon returning with gold and jewels from Central or South America could have been forced off course. Badly damaged, then stopped at Oak Island, hid the treasure while repairing the ship, and limped home with plans to return later with a more sea-worthy ship to retrieve their cargo.

British during American revolution - similar to the French theory. The idea is that the British hid money on the island to prevent it from falling into the hands of the revolutionaries.

Inca or Maya treasure - during the conquering of the Americas by the Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries, much of the wealth of the Incas and Mayas disappeared. Usually rumored to have been buried or sunken at the bottom of lakes, some researchers believe that it's possible that a group of Incas or Mayas, possible with the help of sympathetic Europeans, stole away with the wealth and buried on Oak Island out of the reach of the conquerors.

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i would like to hear your comments/theories and ideas about the puzzle of oak island and maybe some ideas on how to crack the money pit.. thumbsup.gif

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You have failed to mention that there is evidence of some of the Knights Templars escaping to Nova Scotia and some historians have theorized that the Oak Island money pit holds Templar treasure.

It's a fascinating mystery.

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I saw a special on Discovery Channel on the subject and it was quite interesting. You would think with the modern equipment we have, someone would pony up the dough to excavate the pit. I for one, would love to know what lies beneath Oak Island.

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Many have tried and failed. I'd love to know what is really down there, but apparantly the pit was constructed as a boobytrap, and it's going to be very, very difficult now to recover anything. I'm sure where's there a will there's a way, but the engineering costs are prohibitive.

It's going to take a very wealthy eccentric.

Someboby should e-mail Bill Gates on this one...

If he's willing to fund it, I'm willing to volunteere my time on the dig.

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Many have tried and failed. I'd love to know what is really down there, but apparantly the pit was constructed as a boobytrap, and it's going to be very, very difficult now to recover anything. I'm sure where's there a will there's a way, but the engineering costs are prohibitive.

It's going to take a very wealthy eccentric.

Someboby should e-mail Bill Gates on this one...

If he's willing to fund it, I'm willing to volunteere my time on the dig.

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hasn't anyone considered misdirection yet ?

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