Oak Island

The Mystery of Oak Island The World’s Longest Unsolved Mystery The Mystery of Oak Island Close your eyes and imagine the excitement and adventure of finding a mystery that involves many deaths, unknown treasures and much speculation. Mysteries are intriguing and finding a real life mystery that has been unsolved in history for several hundred years is unusual. Throughout time millions of people have been interested in treasures, legends and unsolved mysteries. Books, movies and legends

to Oak Island. Although there is much disagreement about who left the treasure behind on Oak Island, the most logical explanation is that the British created the money pit in the mid 16th century for safe keeping of their newly acclaimed treasure. Oak Island is an uninhabited 140 acre island located just off the shores of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is part of a chain of approximately 360 islands in Mahone Bay (Scott). Despite such a small area, this island is home to the historically famous Oak Island

is the Money Pit located on Oak Island. People have thrown millions of life savings hoping to get their hands on the treasure in the Oak Island Money Pit, and all have met with failure. This pit has withstood two centuries of people trying to discover the treasure within. I am certain there is treasure located in the Money Pit on Oak Island. Oak Island is located off the shores of Nova Scotia, along Canada’s Atlantic Coast. It is one of three-hundred and sixty islands around Mahone Bay. Rocks and

The Discovery The Oak Island Money Pit was discovered the summer of 1795 by Daniel McGinnis. He was drawn into the island by strange lights visible from his house. Upon his investigation, he comes across a block and tackle hung directly over a circular indentation on the island’s floor. Daniel, along with two of his friends John Smith and Anthony Vaughan started to dig out the bizarre pit. Their curiosity is due to that time period being the pinnacle of the “Golden Age of Piracy (Maritime Museum

reminisce of Noah’s lost ark? If your answer is yes, then Oak Island is the place for you. The mystery behind Oak Island pit has been eluding chasers for 300 years and counting. Caper Jones article “Oak Island Pit Mystery” conjectured about the mysterious treasure believed to be buried beneath the Oak Islands pit. After reading the article I could conclude that the main purpose of this article was to convince readers to believe Oak’s Island pit was indeed a mystery. To convey the main point of the

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