The Oak Island Mystery Has Been Solved 1 Hour Ago!

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God imagine a mystery that’s been around
for centuries filled with Tales of
buried treasure secret manuscripts and
legendary artifacts there she be yep
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my this is the story of Oak Island a
small piece of land in Nova Scotia that
has captured the imagination of treasure
Hunters since the 1700s people have long
believed that Oak Island holds
incredible Treasures everything from
Pirate Loot and Shakespeare’s lost Works
to the holy grail and the Ark of the
Covenant possibly hidden by the knight’s
Templar but now after centuries of
speculation and countless Expeditions
the mystery of Oak Island has finally
been solved early excavation very little
confirmed information is available about
early treasure hunting on Oak Island so
most stories are based on Word of Mouth
from the late 18th century it was only
many years later that Publishers began
investigating these stories the first
printed story about treasure found by a
settler named Daniel mcginness appeared
in 1857 5 years later one of the
original diggers gave a statement about
the original story and the activities of
the Onslow and Truro companies the
earliest Story by settlers first
recorded in 186 63 involves a dying
sailor from Captain kid’s crew he
claimed that a treasure worth 2 million
was buried on the island the most
popular Discovery story says that around
1799 Daniel mcginness found a depression
in the ground while searching for a Farm
location believing this depression
matched the captain kid story he got
help from John Smith and Anthony Vaughn
they dug and found flagstones 2 feet
down later accounts mention Oak
platforms every 10 ft but the earliest
stories only talk about marks at these
intervals the stories also mentioned
tool marks on the pit walls and the soil
was loose unlike the surrounding ground
the three men reportedly stopped digging
at 30 ft due to superstitious dread
another version of the story says all
four people involved were teenagers and
mcginness first found the depression in
1795 during a fishing trip this version
ends with them giving up after digging
as much as they could around 1802 a
group called The Onslow company
reportedly sailed from Central Nova
Scotia to Oak Island to find hidden
treasure they dug down to about 90 ft
finding layers of logs or marks every 10
ft as well as layers of charcoal putty
and coconut fiber and a large Stone
inscribed with symbols the pit then
flooded with 60 ft of water for unknown
reasons and the excavation was abandoned
after workers tried to recover the
Treasure by digging a tunnel from a
second shaft that also flooded the last
major company of this early period was
the Truro Company formed in 1849 by
investors they redid the pit to 86 ft
but it flooded again they then drilled
five bore holes into the original Shaft
the drill went through a spruce platform
at 98 ft then hit layers of Oak some
metal in pieces another Spruce layer and
clay for 7 ft the platform was hit twice
each time bringing up metal wood and
coconut fiber another shaft was dug 109
ft deep Northwest of the original Shaft
with a tunnel branching off to intersect
the treasure however seawater flooded
this new shaft and workers thought the
water was connected to the Sea because
the flooded pit Rose and fell with the
tides the Truro company then focused on
Excavating a nearby Cove where they
found a flood tunnel system when they
failed to stop the flooding they dug one
final shaft 118 ft deep with a tunnel
under the original Shaft during this
excavation the bottom of the original
Shaft collapsed it was later speculated
that the treasure had fallen through the
new shaft into a deep void causing the
new shaft to flood the Truro company ran
out of funds and dissolved around 1851
the first published account was in 1857
when the Liverpool transcript mentioned
a group digging for Captain kids
treasure on Oak Island this was followed
by a more detailed account by a Justice
of the Peace in Chester Nova Scotia in
1861 also published in the transcript
under the title The Oak Island Folly
expressing skepticism about the treasure
the First full account of events on the
island appeared on October 16 1862 when
Anthony Vaughn’s memories were recorded
by the transcript RT this account
included the activities of the Onslow
and Truro companies the mysterious Stone
and the Truro company’s augur hitting
wooden platforms and metal in pieces
these accounts based on Liverpool
transcript articles also appeared in the
Nova scotian and the British colonist
and are mentioned in an 1895 book called
a history of Lunenburg County the Oak
Island Association in 1861 a group
called The Oak Island Association tried
to dig up the original pit on o Island
they dug it down to 88 ft and also dug
two new shafts one shaft missed its
Target a supposed flood tunnel while the
other connected with the original Shaft
at about 105 ft deep however both shafts
filled with water when they hit the
flood tunnel again one of the wooden
platforms at 98 ft collapsed and fell to
a lower level causing other platforms to
fall too any treasure along with about
10,000 board feet of wood ended up
around 119 ft deep in the fall of 1861
the first accidental death happened when
a pump engine exploded killing a worker
this was first mentioned in a book from
1863 and then more details about the
death came out 5 years later in the
spring of 1862 the group dug another
shaft 107 ft deep parallel to the
original one they tried to pump water
out of the original Shaft reaching 103
ft deep but the pumps couldn’t handle
the flood water they did find some old
tools left by earlier diggers in 1864
before they made one last effort to
reach The Money Pit but hit the flood
tunnels Again by then the original Shaft
was weakened by saltwater and workers
refused to enter it mining Engineers
inspected the shaft and declared it
unsafe the group ran out of money and
stopped their efforts in 1866 another
group called The Oak Island El Dorado
company or the Halifax Company formed to
search for the Treasure by then Oak
Island was full of shafts holes and
tunnels from previous treasure Hunters
when they couldn’t stop the flood
tunnels at Smith’s Cove they focused on
the main shaft they drilled exploratory
holes and found bits of wood soft clay
and blue mud but nothing valuable the
group gave up in 1867 in 1896 an unknown
group came to the island with steam
pumps and boring equipment although the
pumps couldn’t keep water out of the
side shaft they took some boring samples
one sample had a tiny piece of sheep
skin parchment with two letters VI or Y
written in Indian Inc in 1897 a worker
named Maynard Kaiser died in an accident
when he fell to his death in 1898 the
group poured red paint into the flooded
pit reportedly showing three exit holes
around the island Smith’s Cove in August
1909 Captain Henry L bodan arrived on
Oak Island as part of the old gold
Salvage Group which included Franklin D
Roosevelt they focused on The Money Pit
divers were sent down but nothing
interesting was found Bodwin also looked
at Smith’s Cove where people had
reported seeing drain tunnels and a ring
bolt in a rock they discovered the
remains of an old Dam from 1850 but
nothing else Bodwin also checked a stone
Cipher in Halifax but it was just a hard
bassal rock with no symbols the team
left the island in November 199 in 1928
a New York newspaper ran a story about
Oak Island sparking interest William
Chappelle dug a new shaft in 1931 hoping
to find the original pit at 7 ft deep
they found an axe an anchor and a
pickaxe but the area was cluttered with
debris from past digs making it hard to
identify their Origins Gilbert heden a
steel company owner read the 1928
article and became intrigued by the
engineering challenges he made six trips
to the island collected books and
articles and even consulted an author in
England after buying part of the island
in 1935 he began his own digs but found
nothing significant in 1959 Robert
restall his son and partner Carly graer
started working on Oak Island in 1965
they attempted to seal a storm drain in
Smith’s Cove and dug a 27 ft shaft
tragically on August 17 Ral was overcome
by toxic gas his son graser and two
others also died trying to save him that
same year Robert dunfield leased part of
the island he used a large crane to dig
a 134 ft deep and 100 ft wide pit
building a Causeway to transport the
equipment his lease ended in August 1966
in January 1967 Daniel C blanken ship
David Tobias Robert dunfield and Fred
Nolan formed a Syndicate to explore Oak
Island in 1969 blankin ship and Tobias
created the Triton Alliance and bought
most of the island they dug a new 235 ft
shaft called borole 10x where they