# Pirate treasure question. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 9, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013 "2003-12-09T21:09:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/1 "2003-12-09T21:09:38Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![TheJungOnes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TheJungOnes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheJungOnes)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/2 "2003-12-09T21:23:31Z")
[http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Nova\_Scotia/oakisland.htm](http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Nova_Scotia/oakisland.htm) Would it be The Money Pit? ---
**Author:** ![TheJungOnes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TheJungOnes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheJungOnes)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/3 "2003-12-09T21:31:05Z")
[http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/OakIsland/](http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/OakIsland/) This site has more of the history. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/4 "2003-12-09T21:33:21Z")
Holy crap! There it is. Hehe. I knew you people would find it. ---
**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/5 "2003-12-09T21:35:45Z")
[http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-03/i-files.html](http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-03/i-files.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/6 "2003-12-09T21:47:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/7 "2003-12-09T21:51:40Z")
Cecil did a column on it. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Serpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/8 "2003-12-09T21:56:23Z")
Really? I never saw it when going through the archives. What’s the addy? ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/9 "2003-12-09T22:10:21Z")
[Here you go](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_441.html) ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/10 "2003-12-09T22:15:22Z")
Don’t know if it’s online, but the column appears in the SD compilation book, _More of the Straight Dope,_ pp. 441-446. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-treasure-question/218013/11 "2003-12-10T03:51:20Z")
[Here](http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/) is the skeptics side of the mystery. Either way, it’s a fascinating story.