The Secret Treasure of Oak Island : The Amazing True Story of a Centuries-Old Treasure Hunt

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Summary: Fuelling the Oak Island Mystery
Review: "It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis..." is how it starts and it continues in the same vein: speculation posing as journalism and history. The fact is, nobody today knows exactly the name of the person who 'discovered' the pit. The first sentence continues "...found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast" - the coast ceased being Arcadian decades earlier, but doesn't it have a nice ring to it... Arcadian. And that's what this book is trying to do: make you think that you're reading something substantial, maybe important, when all you are doing is perpetuating another old wive's tale.

There is not one shred of evidence - at least in the public domain - that any treasure was buried on Oak Island. There are so few facts on the origin of the pit that they could be written on a postage stamp, and still leave room for a picture.

O'Connor continues with more nonsense: "The present-day search is an archaeological dig..."
Today, I asked the head of Nova Scotia's archaeological unit about Oak Island and he reply was emphatic: whatever archaeology may have existed has long been utterly destroyed by treasure hunters. Fact is: there has never, ever, been any attempt at archaeology there. It's just a story of silly old men too greedy and ill-educated to know better.

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Summary: well written
Review: One of the best books on Oak Island that I have read. This book is well written, compelling and easy to read. It is full of well known, as well as lesser know facts concerning Oak Island.

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Summary: The definitive book on the Oak Island treasure hunts.....
Review: This book by D'arcy O'Connor covers the the first known search in 1795 all the way up to the present plans of Triton Alliance Ltd. Besides battling the pesky water that fills up every hole dug, the legal battles of three current treasure hunters are exposed here as well. The island itself becomes a metaphor for lost causes and greed. Theories abound here about how the man-made underwater system operates, who placed the treasure there, when and also why. The reading is fast-paced and informative, but the next chapter --- Triton Alliance's '04 $15 million dollar 'Big Dig' is yet to be written. This 210-year ongoing treasure hunt is laid bare in these pages reaffirming why this famous island off of Novia Scotia has become known as 'The Money Pit'.