Oak Island

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Oak Island is a small island located in Nova Scotia, Canada. This island holds many mysteries and has been called by many names over the last two hundred or so years. A deathtrap, a pirates trove and a Moneypit are but just a few of the names by which this island has been named as.

In the year 1795, a sixteen year old boy by the name of Daniel McGinnis was doing as sixteen year old boys tend to do and was exploring the island . He was startled when he found a deep depression under an oak tree , so thinking that it looked like a place where someone had just dug a hole and filled it back up again, Daniel McGinnis called for the help from two friends of his and they began to dig, most probably of the thought that they were about to fall onto some hidden treasures of somekind.

When these boys reached a depth of four feet, they came across a layer of what we know today as the rock, flagstone. Further on they dug and at a depth of ten feet, the boys came across a platform contructed of oak logs that were embedded in the shaft walls.

These oak logs continued to be found every ten feet and when these boys reached a depth of about thirty feet they abandoned their project .

1 Specifics
2 Another attempt
3 What they found
4 Strange facts
5 Opinions
6 External links
7 Related discussion threads

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Specifics

There was a man by the name of Simon Lynds, a rather noted investor and business man and was known at the time to be fairly wealthy. Simon Lynds enticed investers to fund a proper excavation of this pit and the boys returned in the year of 1803.

Digging deeper they encountered more of the oak platforms but as they digged further and further into the earth, they came across something that was rather interesting. A large, flat stone with letters etched across it in a rather cryptic fashion was found and later translated, the cryptic message became this "Forty feet below, two million pounds are buried".

At this find you can understand that the workmen were a bit excited at the fact that there was a possible two million pounds buried deep under the earth where they were digging. Due to this excitement they dug past this encrypted stone and it is then that they came across the very problem that has plagued Oak Island to this day.

As the workmen kept on digging they found that water was seeping through the soil in the walls of the shaft. It is said that this problem became so bad that the workmen were removing two buckets of water for every one bucket of earth.

At a further depth of ninety eight feet they hit another oak platform, and since it was almost dark they decided to call the day to an end and come back the day after, and returning to there work the following morning they were startled at the realisation that the shaft had become filled with water overnight.

These men were so determined to find this money that they dug another shaft fourteen feet to the side of the previous one. The group dug to a depth of one hundred and ten feet, after which they attempted to connect to the original shaft using a side tunnel. At about two feet from the original shaft, once again water started pouring in and the new shaft that they had dug became just as water-filled as the first one. Feeling discouraged Lynds' crew gave up work shortly after.

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Another attempt

In the year of 1849, another crew attempted to recover the apparent secret treasure, this time they had a horse powered drill made specifically for mining.

They dug deeper then the original crew employed by Lynds and came across what looked to be fragments of loose metal along with more oak platforms and what looked to them to be a old golden watch chain.

At this they were sure there was treasure to be found and so they kept on with their task only for it to be foiled once again by water pouring into the shaft. Curious at this the crew made an attempt to see where all this water was coming from and so they started excavating a nearby beach to find something which both fascinated them and startled them.

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What they found

The crew that were excavating the beach came across a series of five accurately constructed draining systems that fed water into a sump and then down a tunnel approximately five hundred feet that led under the original area of the depression. It was discovered that digging bellow ninety feet broke a hydraulic seal in the pits causing water to run through at a rate of about six hundred gallons a minute and since the water was coming directly from the ocean, the crew saw no hope of stopping the flow and so they too decided to abandon the project.

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Strange facts

Over the years, more and more groups were sent to the site to try to uncover the truth, some of these groups consisted of people such as Franklin Roosevelt, Errol Flynn and the well known John Wayne. More strange things were found over the years including more pieces of encrypted stone, cement vaults and underground caverns that were found north of the original pit.

It is recorded that to this day, six people have lost their lives trying to unlock the mysteries of the island.

In the year of 1971 a crew sent a camera down a shaft that held the name "Borehole-10x", this was the shaft that was dug north of the original pit where the hidden caverns were located. As the camera went down it captured, floating in a newly found cavern, a human hand that was severed at the wrist amongst the salt water.

In the year of 1970, a group known as The Triton Alliance was commissioned to take part in a geological study of Oak Island, to this day their reports were never made public.

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