Pirate treasure question.

Factual Questions
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I figured if anyone would know the answer to this, it’d be the Dopers.

A few years ago, I was watching, er I think it was a Travel Channel show on the top 10 Hidden Teasure.

One of the top 3 was about what was supposedly a hidden pirate treasure either in very northeastern US, or southeastern Canada.

I forget how they found out about it, but people started digging. It was a damp area, I think. About every 10 feet down, they’d find a layer of wood with something else blocking their way under it (wads of fabric, stones, etc). Then when they got, like, 50 feet down, the whole thing got flooded with ocean water, since that wooden bloackage was holding a tunnel of water dug from the ocan closed.

My question: Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Did they ever find out what was hidden? Any sites to it?

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http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Nova_Scotia/oakisland.htm
Would it be The Money Pit?

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http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/OakIsland/
This site has more of the history.

4

Holy crap! There it is. Hehe.

I knew you people would find it.

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http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-03/i-files.html

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I remember reading about this years and years ago. I believe it was dubbed The Money Pit because the money that was spent trying to excavate it was estimated to be several times the worth of whatever was down there.

Very interesting story. I would also like to know if they ever got to the bottom of it.

7

Cecil did a column on it.

8

Really? I never saw it when going through the archives. What’s the addy?

9

Here you go

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Don’t know if it’s online, but the column appears in the SD compilation book, More of the Straight Dope, pp. 441-446.

11

Here is the skeptics side of the mystery.

Either way, it’s a fascinating story.