The Oak Island Money Pit

In the 1500’s St. Andrews was named by Spanish settlers as they explored the coast. Pirates also found that deep pockets were good spots to lie and wait for European ships on a route to Mexico or Spain. According to researchers an old Spanish galleon and a 700-pound cannon were found during the construction of a motel in the early 60’s, proving the presence of such pirates. This was the ‘opening the door to the possibility of pirate treasure!’ Sinking of modern day ships for artificial reefs, the Gulf of Mexico waters off the coast of the city of Panama City Beach are a diving spot for divers searching for this ‘treasure’ and some have even come up with different types of treasure.

Buried treasure, eye patches, and walking the plank are all words and phrases that often appear in stories involving pirates. Tales about the voyages of pirates are often adventurous and riveting ones. It is very awe-inspiring to think about the daring lives those pirates once led. However, it might not be safe to assume that these stories are close to the truth or even based on genuine facts. In 1881 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a book entitled Treasure Island, which in return would forever change the way people looked at the term "pirate." Due to this book there are several different movies that have been created to interpret the term pirate in different ways. Black Pirate, The Dancing Pirate, Sea Hawk, and Captain Blood include some

In the article “Money: The Real Truth about Money” by Gregg Easterbrook published In Time Magazine (2005), the author compares two different generation’s attitudes towards money, and how it affects their happiness. The author’s standing qualifies him to write and appeal this issue, he’s a contributing editor of The Atlantic and The Washington Monthly, and he also writes the Tuesday Morning Quarterback column for ESPN.com. Easterbrook’s primary audience appears to be middle class Americans however he draws a wider secondary audience’s attention. The author succeeded in convincing his readers through his rhetorical appeals, credible sources and his clever use of language.

Treasure Island is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story is about a boy named Jim Hawkins who finds a treasure map that leads to Captain Flint’s treasure. Jim takes the map to Dr. Livesey, who puts together a crew, who set sail on the Hispaniola to Treasure Island. One theme that is shown throughout Treasure Island is greed. Greed is an intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. (greed,1) The theme exhibited in this book, greed, causes dishonesty and betrayal. Three characters that vividly portray characteristics of greed are Long John Silver, Benn Gunn and Israel Hands.

The last article talks about the 59th Unnamed Cave, in Florida. This cave is located in the eastern part of the Florida Panhandle. From the dates of the artifacts and the dates of the glyph, the site was occupied in the Late Woodland period. The cave was discover in 2007 when a group of cave explorer saw fine engravings on the wall. This site was the first cave art site that was found in Florida and it is the second rock art site that was found in the states. Rock art is very rare in Florida, but now with the site found there is a wider perspective on the importance of rock art. The site did not only include the petroglyph drawing of the past, but it included some artifacts that was use to help date the time that the cave was occupied.

Another item the narrator stores in his briefcase is a coin bank. Right before he is about to leave Mary (the kind lady who gives him refuge in New York) to join the Brotherhood, the narrator notices a “cast-iron figure

The author Joy McCorriston, was a student at the Institute of Archaeology in London and found out about the chance to visit the Lascaux cave from a radio show contest. Although she didn’t “win” she was lucky enough to join the tour. She listens to stories from Monsieur Jaceues Marshal, a discoverer of the cave and the cave’s guard as she gets to tour the cave. Lascaux Cave’s discovery had come about because four local boys found a hiding place to tease and abandon an outsider, a Jewish boy sent south to flee Occupation in the north. (An alternative story of a lost dog negated the real and non-politically correct truth of the cave’s discovery).

Some of these speculations include the lost city of Atlantis and extraterrestrials. The Lost city of Atlantis is a ancient city underwater that that people believe used to be above water people used to live there. People believe this because of rock formations underwater know as Bimini Road (Bermuda Triangle, 2016). “Bimini Road is an underwater rock formation that is considered to be a possible Atlantic location” (Black, 2016, p.1). Bimini Road was discover in 1968 off the coast of the Bahamas by a diver 18 feet below the surface. The diver said “the stones appear to be man made, and were evenly spaced out in a road-like line stretching a half mile” (Black, 2016). “Another theory is that Aliens, or extraterrestrials, are abducting ships and planes, or that their activities are indirectly causing the disappearances” (Bermuda Triangle, 2016,

The Folsom Bone Pit was used in the late 1400’s by the first Americans, however it was not discovered until the 1920’s. The bone pit is located in Folsom, Mexico and it contained the bones of bison, hence the name Folsom Bone Pit. The discovery of the bone pit advanced the knowledge of the first Americans in several ways. Scholars used the discovery to uncover things such as the information on the geological conditions, the origins of the first Americans, migration into America, and why the world became so diverse when Europeans began exploring.

In “Monkey Hill,” Stan Rice writes about the speaker of the poem who sits at a zoo with his friend observing the spider monkey exhibit. The two stay the whole day to observe these monkeys. The speaker becomes envious of these monkeys and their ability to be confident with exactly where they are and with who they are. Rice argues that our minds imprison us when we are worried about judgment from others. The monkeys in the exhibit felt free and at ease while the two observers were trapped in worrisome about the outside world in fear of how others would perceive them.

The discovery of Oak Island’s Money Pit begins in the summer of 1795 when a teenager named Daniel McGinnis saw strange lights on an island offshore from his parent’s house. He noticed an odd circular depression roughly 13 ft. in diameter on the island’s forest floor (The Last Great N. page). He also saw that a good amount of oak trees around the recession had been cut down.

Between Darbyton, The Tower, and Egilrun is a cavern hidden beneath fluffy snow and frigid ice. If you happen upon it’s entrance, unknowingly or otherwise, don’t be too eager to wander in. If you must, at least make sure you’re prepared first, for unknown dangers await and not all of it can be fought with weapons. Until the adventurer, Nixie, stumbled into it, the caves existence was little more then a rumor. Before it’s abandonment it was the hide out of a long dead pirate. In his life he was known for his cruelty and enjoying the pain of others. The relics he left behind are a reflection of that. Starting inland and, by it’s end, opening up into the sea, it’s armed with the pirates own traps. Finding the frozen carcasses of animals

As the years have gone by there have been some successes in finding articles in the pits, including a small piece of parchment that said vi

As soon as they get to Treasure Island, Jim and his comrades escape from the wrath of Silver and hide out in a bunker in the forest. Silver soon realizes this and declares war on Jim and his men. While exploring the forest, Jim comes across a man by the name of Ben Gunn. Ben is the only inhabitant of Treasure Island, and was marooned there three long years earlier. Ben decides to stay hidden in the woods while Jim goes back to the bunker. While at the bunker, Jim and his men are repeatedly attacked by Silver. The next day, Jim boards the Hispanola and beaches it miles down shore

Forty-six years later, May 8, 1991, a computer-controlled submarine scanned the ocean floor for sunken galleons. On this day, the crew of the Deep Sea would be unsuccessful in their search for galleons. Instead, 750 feet below the surface of the ocean, they would discover the outline of an