Pirate William Kidd's Treasure hidden at Oak Island? Oak Island, Nova Scotia is the site of one of the world's greatest archeological enigmas. For the past 200 years, its deadly secret has lured adventurers and explorers, among them Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Wayne, and even Errol Flynn. Long ago, someone came to this island and buried something. Exactly who they were and what they buried remain unknown to this day. Yet over two million dollars have been spent and six lives lost in the search for an answer. To those who have risked their lives exploring the underground tunnels and shafts beneath Oak Island, abundant evidence points to a vast treasure, crown jewels, even an Incan horde. Others say it must be a hoax, and have cynically named the diggings the Money Pit.
The mystery began one day in 1795 when a 16-year-old Nova Scotian lad named Daniel McGinnis rowed his boat out to the island to explore. As he entered a clearing in the forest, he noticed a large depression in the ground just below an old oak tree. It looked as if someone had dug a hole and filled it in again. Lacking tools, McGinnis returned home and enlisted the aid of two friends: John Smith, age 19 and Anthony Vaughan, age 16. The three boys hurried back to the island carrying picks and shovels and visions of pirate treasure. They began digging, and four feet down they found a layer of flagstones not native to the island. Then ten feet down they found a platform of oak logs which were closely set together and embedded in the walls of the shaft. The boys were excited, certain that they had stumbled upon a long-lost buccaneer's trove. But below the oak platform they found only more earth, although it had obviously been dug before, as it was loose compared to the hard clay walls of the pit. At a depth of 20 feet they encountered another oak platform, and yet another at 30 feet. By this time the pit was so deep that the boys could not easily remove the logs. Discouraged by weeks of fruitless digging, the young treasure hunters abandoned the project. But they did not forget.
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