Everyone’s a sucker for a treasure hunt story (please see box office results for National Treasure and National Treasure 2 if you disagree. 2 horrible movies that made like a billion dollars). I heard this story about the Money Pit over the weekend and couldn’t help but be intrigued. Long story short there is an island, Oak Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia that supposedly has buried treasure. However in this case it’s not the treasure that’s the big mystery. Explorers and historians are fairly certain the treasure is real. But the elaborate construction of secret shaft ways and boobie (ha boobie) traps are puzzling even today. Oak Island is surrounded by water (yes, it’s an island, hence Oak Island) and the original designers of the Money Pit made it so that anyone who tried to discover the buried treasure would be flooded by the surrounding sea water. But holy shit how did they do this??? Researchers agree it was probably built about 250 years ago and if built today it would still be difficult to construct. So what the hell, how did “they” do this? I want to know who the “they” are as well. Damn it, so many unanswered questions!
Oh also, Lost fans will appreciate this, the picture I attached is an inscription that was found on a stone slab about 150 feet below ground. It reads “Forty feet below two million pounds are buried.” I’m watching the Goonies as we speak and gearing up for a weekend expedition. Who’s coming with me (also if someone could tell me where Nova Scotia is that’d be great) ?!?!?
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