Ever since its reported Discovery at the

end of the 18th century successive

generations of treasure Hunters have

been obsessed with The Money Pit best

described as a giant hole in the ground

at Oak Island located a ston throw

southeast of Canada's Nova scotian

Coastline accounts differ as to how the

pit came into being some say it was

first dug by teenagers others that a

settler broke ground after looking for

the ideal place to start a farm but

either way it's generally agreed that

the discoverer noticed a disturbed patch

of Earth and a marker hinting that

something important had been buried

there over the following more than two

centuries successive individuals as well

as organized groups and companies have

tried to dig up the assumed treasure all

while the mythology of what that

treasure might be has inflated out of

all comprehension could it be the

plundered Riches of a famous pirate like

Captain kid one storyline claims that a

dying Soldier formerly of kids crew

gasped that2 Million worth of of booty a

third of a billion in today's money was

buried there or maybe it's a sacred

Relic such as the Holy Grail or the Ark

of the Covenant perhaps hidden by the

knight's Templar for safekeeping during

their downfall in the 14th century they

were accomplished seafarers who were at

times active in the region according to

other theories it could have been Mar

Antoinette's lost jewelry British Naval

loot Masonic Secrets or even proofs that

the Elizabeth and polymath Francis Bacon

not William Shakespeare wrote all those

famous plays and poems over the years

such tantalizing possibilities have Peak

the interest of famous names including

Franklin D Roosevelt William Aster John

Wayne and King George II with many

personally investing large sums into

Salvage

projects the

pit pivotal to The Money Pit Legend is

the notion that the hole was dug by

people and is not a naturally occurring

geological anomaly early accounts

attributed to Daniel mcginness the man

accredited with finding the pit describe

the surface Earth as loose and as he and

his friends dug down the discovery of

pck marks on the pit wall walls and Oak

platforms laid every 3 m encouraged by

what they found the men managed to poke

and scrape to about 9 M below ground

level but eventually abandoned their

efforts either owing to superstitious

dread or because they couldn't

physically go any further depending on

who you believe soon after with rumors

spreading the Dig is said to have been

restarted by a group called The enlo

Company who managed to excavate the pit

to around 27 M discovering out ofpl

material including coconut fibers as

well as more log layers the team hit a

major setback when the shaft

mysteriously flooded although perhaps

not that mysteriously given that Oak

Island is small and the pit is located

near the sea they abandoned the Dig when

a second hole dug adjacent to the first

in an attempt to reclaim the treasure

from below also flooded investors formed

a new company which excavated Oak Island

between 1849 and 1851 discovering a

flood tunnel system at Smith's Cove near

the dig site they tried and failed to

plug the system and dug two new holes 33

M and 36 M respectively with Branch

tunnels aimed at intersecting the

treasure this eventually caused the

original tunnel to collapse into the new

tunnels causing whatever was buried

there to fall further into the void and

that was that 10 years later in 1861 the

newly created Oak Island Association

re-excavated The Money Pit and created a

series of new holes which all promptly

filled with water attempts to pump the

water failed as did efforts to plug the

flood system at Smith's Cove successive

further attempts began in 1866 1897 190

9 1928 1959 and 1967 all failed to find

much more than the litter debris from

previous Expeditions the last of these

groups called the Triton Alliance

managed to mine all the way down to

bedrock a full 72 M or 235 ft below the

surface into this hole the team lowered

cameras revealing grainy footage what

they claimed to be chests human remains

and various tools the shaft collapsed

before any of this could be retrieved

while a later inspection of the film by

experts was inconclusive and the the

discovery Remains

unverified The

Stone today the only evidence that the

original Money Pit was man-made is

witness testimony from hundreds of years

ago and the booby trap flood system

which could be the result of natural

water-filled cavities caused when

limestone Rock dissolves almost all of

the major discoveries that hint at human

design including the oak beams and

coconut fibers happened before

excavations started being properly

documented in the mid 19th century these

early Endeavors are replete with rumor

and hearsay typified by the original

claim of Buried Treasure by the dying

pirate the same can be said for the most

mysterious object to have been retrieved

from The Money Pit a newspaper report

circulated in the summer of 1862

described a stone tablet with mysterious

markings found buried 90 ft below the

surface the report was by someone called

JB McCully who was not present when the

stone was found but claimed to be

retelling testimony from someone

attending one of the early 1800s

excavations mcui described the stone as

a foot thick and 2 ft long with

characters etched into it as with every

bit of information related to the

mystery people turn this single crumb

into an entire Bakery the main Theory

Arc cobbled from several different

writers is that the tablet was built

into the chimney of an old house near

the pit where it could have been viewed

but the inscription was never decoded it

was later removed and taken to the

nearby city of Halifax where someone

translated the symbols to mean 40 ft

below are 2 million pound buried in 1911

the stone reportedly turned up in

kraton's book binder in Halifax but the

chiseled inscription had disappeared a

decade later it was spotted in a book

shop before Vanishing forever the

symbols were lost too only to reappear

in 1949 conveniently spelling out the

big money promise in an easy to crack

sequence the cipher so The Story Goes

had fallen into the hands of a historian

via a colleague who claimed to have

received it from a school teacher long

since

dead the treasure none of this obvious

tripe has prevented successive group

spending millions of dollars turning Oak

Island into swiss cheese to the extent

that the location of the original Money

Pit can no longer be pinpointed not to

mention the great personal risk that is

taken on by excavators and surface

workers in their bid to find the lost

treasure so far the pits claimed six

lives in 1861 a man died when a pump

engine boiler exploded in 1897 another

fell to his death and most tragically of

all during the 1961 project four men

were overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes

including a father and his son all of

which begs the question is it worth it

which begs the answer no in the entire

history of The Money Pit no notable

treasure has ever been found despite the

near permanent presence of treasure

hunters for the last 200 years most

recently the search has intensified with

the 2014 launch of a TV show called The

Curse of Oak Island so far this has run

for 10 seasons and 187 episodes yet the

finds have been small including a coin a

piece of material and a hinge and while

other more impressive finds have

included a sword a brooch and a

manuscript some observers argue that all

that can be verified may have been

planted the obvious problem for the show

is that Oak Island has been turned

upside down and inside out yet treasure

is most often found by accident on or

near ground level and that the Oak

Island discoveries pale compared to real

life treasure finds England's Stafford

Shear horde for example consisted of

more than 5 kilos of gold and 3,500

pieces of anglo-saxon jewelry worth 5

Mill million pound yet it was found in a

plowed field by a gizer with a metal

detector or The hawen Horde the largest

Roman gold and silver Discovery in

Britain found by two men looking in the

mud for a lost hammer or The kurale

Horde containing more than 8,600 pieces

including Viking coins jewelry and

silver ingots from the 10th Century

found by workmen repairing the

embankment of a river even religious

relics aren't often that well hidden the

churin Shroud has been passed around

various Guardians for centuries while

the Dead Sea scrub SS were found in a

cave and the nagham library was

Unearthed in a desert graveyard why

would the Oak Island Treasure be so much

harder to fine than these why would

riches be so well protected that the

most sophisticated and well- financed

excavation attempts can't get at it let

alone a knackered returning pirate with

only a wooden leg and a parrot to dig

with the reality is that almost

certainly nothing lies under Oak Island

but mud and rock people won't

countenance that probability though

because there's money in mythology where

there's a legend there a tourist and

where there's a mystery there's a

10-part TV franchise in Oakland's case

the real treasure is handed over to the

area's Hospitality businesses by paying

customers or to the History Channel by

advertisers wanting access to millions

of TV viewers but buried riches I can't

see it can

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