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- Island lore includes tales of hauntings and eerie lights—and a widespread prediction that no treasure will be found until seven treasure seekers have died trying to find it.
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Dec 14, 2021 · Probably the most interesting spooky tale about the island comes from Peggy Adams, who lived on the island in the early to mid 20th century with her parents, who were the caretakers at the...
The paranormal element of the Oak Island legend seems rather low key compared to the many other contemporary buried treasures tales/hoaxes, and it's probably a big factor in its survival until today. A ridiculously complex flood tunnel system somehow seems more plausible than ghosts and evil spirits to the modern mind.
Dec 2, 2023 · The story of the Oak Island money pit (the so-called shaft of treasure said to be dug and abandoned somewhere in the area) has not only captured the imagination of '60s kids like the Lagina...
- The Money Pit
- Jewelled Brooch
- Granite Stone
- Coconut Fibres
- Swages
- Bone Fragments
- Chain
- Ancient Manuscripts
- Leather Book Binding
- Roman Sword
The discovery that started it all. In 1795, 16-year-old Daniel McGuiness went on a fishing expedition to Oak Island. Upon landing, he came across an oak tree with unnatural markings. A depression was also spotted beneath the tree. Along with two friends, he began digging, finding patched logs at regular intervals. They would return years later with...
Now jumping 200 years, at lot 21 on the western side of Oak Island, the Laginas found a jewelled brooch. This was near where Daniel McGuiness had lived. Was it a treasure he had discovered?
Found 90 feet down the Money Pit was a granite stone. One carved with peculiar symbols. No-one has accurately deciphered the code though one attempt gives the translation ‘Forty feet below, two million pounds are buried’.
During the early excavations of The Money Pit, searchers found large amounts of coconut fibre at a depth of 60 feet. But the nearest coconut trees were 1500 miles away. A puzzling find, some believe the fibres could have been used to create rope to lower fortunes.
The Laginas found two iron objects in Lot 21, on the western end of the island. These were later specified as swages, a type of blacksmith tool and dated as far back as the 14th century. The team saw the equipment as evidence of intense mining operations on the island.
The team recovered two fragments at borehole H8 in The Money Pit area. These were initially identified as human, and later testing showed one was of European ancestry and the other Middle Eastern.
At a neighbouring borehole, a piece of chain was found coupled with some bone. The team linked this to a theory that after the treasure was buried, some of the slaves who dug the shaft were chained and buried alive, deep underground – their vengeful spirits would guard the vault and curse any explorers!
Whilst the Oak Island Treasure Company was excavating in the late 1800s, they hit a cement-like level 153ft underground. After drilling through they found a small parchment. One theory suggests, this parchment may originate from a collection of Shakespeare's lost manuscripts, hidden on Oak Island by 'the true author' of Shakespeare's plays, Francis...
Decades later, the Laginas discovered small pieces of parchment with leather binding in the H-8 spoils near the pit. Could these be further pieces of Shakespeare’s lost manuscripts?
In 2015, it was reported a fisherman pulled out a Roman sword from the waters by Oak Island. Though this discovery would have rewritten history, putting Romans in North America, this discovery turned out too good to be true. In fact, the sword was a modern replica of a Roman sword, not a 2,000 year-old original.
The Oak Island mystery is a series of stories and legends concerning buried treasure and unexplained objects found on or near Oak Island in Nova Scotia. Since the 18th century, attempts have been made to find treasure and artifacts.
Inside the Oak Island “Money Pit”. The long parade of searchers began one day 200 years ago, when Daniel McGinnis, a 16-year-old from Chester, Nova Scotia, paddled over to uninhabited Oak Island to hunt for game. On a knoll at one end of the island, he noticed an odd depression.
Apparently, pirates didn't do as much treasure burying as media suggests and a lot of our modern ideas of buried treasure can be traced directly to Treasure Island. But stories persist. The Treasure of Lima is incredibly similar to Oak Island in its mythology and its results.
