![]() The walls were of hard blue clay, and the original pick and shovel marks were still in evidence. Upon breaking ground, it was soon discovered that they were working in a well-defined shaft, roughly eight feet in diameter. When making a landing on this second visit to the island, they observed a heavy ringbolt set into a ledge 01 rock well above high-water mark. Hurrying home, they secured equipment and soon returned, bent on solving the mystery. ![]() The trio, suspecting something was buried below this natural derrick arm, determined to dig. On this sunken plot the vegetation differed from that occurring in the virgin soil of the clearing.Īll the circumstances led the young men to believe that digging had been done there that the circular depression of the turf represented a fill, while the scarred limb above indicated the chafing of a strap to which, long ago, a block and fall had been attached. A heavy lower limb bore a deep, furrowed scar, directly beneath which was a depression in the ground ten feet in diameter. While Nature had done her best to heal the wounds, these practised woodsmen recognized gashes in the great oak to be the earlier markings of an axe. The occurrence of a clearing sparsely covered with second growth in this then remote and isolated section, and the presence of the sentinel oak in its midst, struck the hunters as more than a coincidence which merged into mystery upon examination. While on the trail of a stricken deer which led the Nimrods through a heavily timbered area, they suddenly burst into a small clearing near the centre of ON AN autumn day in the year 1795, three young men named Smith, MacGinnis and Vaughan, in pursuit of game, visited Oak Island which is situated at the head of Mahone Bay on the southern coast of Nova Scotia. One of the organizers who worked with a previous party on the project says there is no speculation that he knows the containers are there, and it is only a matter of getting at them with modern machinery.” “A new expedition to search for pirate treasure raid to be secreted on Oak Island, near Chester, Nova Scotia, is being organized locally, it was reported today. One such story, indeed, has commanded the time and money of hard-headed business men for more than a century and a quarter and now, according to the following dispatch from Sydney, N.S., dated March 12, 1930, the quest is to be renewed with more capital and greater vigor than ever before. There strange tales are told around various bays and coves legends have been handed down from generation to generation. In Canada, the stern and forbidding coasts of the Maritime Provinces are traditionally the repositories of buried treasure. PIRATES’ gold! Who is so unromantic that he never has experienced a desire to trail the long-lost doubloons of some sinister sea robber to their mysterious lair, to unearth a chest full of pieces of eight and live prodigally ever after? ![]() The strange story of Oak Island and its “Money Pit” which is now being attached again by treasure for the fifth time in 135 years
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