The article Oak Island's Mysterious Money Pit appeared in the January 1965 Readers Digest pages 136 through 140 condensed from The Rotarian. This interesting article about the mysterious treasure hunt carried out in the island of Oak since 1795 was written by David MacDonald. Oak Island is a 57-hectare island in Lunenburg County on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Oak Island is noted as the location of the so-called Money Pit and the site of over 200 years of treasure hunting. The article reveals that for more than 200 years, treasure hunters have come to the Oak island, fortunes have been spent mounting recovery operations and men have dead, all for the belief that deep within this mysterious island is locked a treasure so vast and enormous that cannot be estimated. The article narrates the start of exploration in 1795, when a 16-year-old Daniel McGinnis went hunting on Oak Island, south of Halifax, Nova Scotia till the drilling of George Green in 1955 in an interesting
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It seems that whoever buried the treasure or any other thing had used ingenious engineering techniques to build flood tunnels above the treasure, to safeguard it against discovery. This incredible engineering feat, designed hundreds of years ago remains unsurpassed and undefeated. This is what draws an endless procession of treasure hunters to Oak island despite the lack of treasure found so far. For more than 200 years, wealth-seekers have spent their fortunes and exhausted their lives seeking the treasure at Oak Island. Human-made structures under Oak Island do in fact exist but these structures were constructed by people hiding a treasure, or are the remains of prior excavation attempts, is unknown. That is why the title of the article seems perfect as Oak Island's Mysterious Money Pit as everything seems as a
It seems that whoever buried the treasure or any other thing had used ingenious engineering techniques to build flood tunnels above the treasure, to safeguard it against discovery. This incredible engineering feat, designed hundreds of years ago remains unsurpassed and undefeated. This is what draws an endless procession of treasure hunters to Oak island despite the lack of treasure found so far. For more than 200 years, wealth-seekers have spent their fortunes and exhausted their lives seeking the treasure at Oak Island. Human-made structures under Oak Island do in fact exist but these structures were constructed by people hiding a treasure, or are the remains of prior excavation attempts, is unknown. That is why the title of the article seems perfect as Oak Island's Mysterious Money Pit as everything seems as a