# Oak Island is for sale

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oak-island-is-for-sale/330211>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 9, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oak-island-is-for-sale/330211 "2005-11-09T15:10:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oak-island-is-for-sale/330211/1 "2005-11-09T15:10:03Z")

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> Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, is famous for its Money Pit, a mystery that has endured two centuries, claimed six lives and swallowed up millions in life savings.

[Linky](http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20051108/sc_space/forsaleislandwithmysteriousmoneypit)

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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oak-island-is-for-sale/330211/2 "2005-11-09T17:18:01Z")

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Oooo…Oak Island news! I do so love the story of this place.

Hopefully whoever winds up buying it will own the world’s largest backhoe, and will just scoop up the entire island in one bucketload, drive it back to land, dump it, and sort through the entire mess until they find whateverthehell is supposed to be buried there.

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oak-island-is-for-sale/330211/3 "2005-11-09T17:52:49Z")

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Good CSICOP story by Joe Nickell about Oak Island here:  
[http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-03/i-files.html](http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-03/i-files.html)  
And Cecil says this:  
[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2\_441.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_441.html)

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oak-island-is-for-sale/330211/4 "2005-11-09T21:43:26Z")

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[Link to previous thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=343808)