Introduction

The description by David Mac Donald (1964) tells about mystery of a money pit in a small Island in the shape of a question mark in Southern shore of Nova Scotia. Every Attempt in search of the money pit had failed with a near accomplishment which forced some treasure hunters to give up the searches (Donald 1964). The story had begun from a sixteen years old boy; Daniel McInnes happened to notice an old ship’s tackle block and thereafter treasure hunters had started their searches. This interesting description might be useful for young readers looking for adventures.

Summary

A huge amount of money was spent and six lives were lost during searches (OGLothar, 2015). Every search attempt had resulted in torrents of water surging into the shaft. The founder of the Oak Island’s mysterious money pit, Daniel McInnes and Jack Smith were joined by a wealthy man, Simeon Lynds forming a treasure company.

Lynds did several attempts but none prevailed. The search in 1849 showed abundant evidence of human work in the shaft. In 1850 a discovery was made that water in the shaft was salt and rose and fell like tides. People believed it was protected by indegous system of tunnels using sea as a watch dog for money pit (BRAIN, 2010). The search in 1893 discovered location of tunnels for the first time in history and dynamites were to block …show more content…
Then emerged a millionaire, Gilbert on the race who helped to clear the 170 feet shaft with a conclusion that treasure was shifted 100 feet away as a result of past digging attempts. A recent hunter, Bob Restall had lived there ever since, beside the pit trying to intercept the tunnels. Finally a petroleum engineer, George Greene in 1955 who drilled in search of oil on Oak Island, added that someone did hard work to burry something in the Oak Island. Sadly no evidence of loots of a thousand worlds was found by any treasure