The Story of Oak Island. The Discovery. One summer day in 1. Daniel Mc. Ginnis, then a teenager, was wandering. Oak Island, Nova Scotia (see. Geography) when he came across a curious circular depression. Standing over this depression was a tree whose branches. Naval Station Treasure Island began under a 1941 war lease as a United States Navy 'reception center' and in 1942, the Navy offered to exchange its Mills Field on the San Francisco Peninsula for the island. Navy seized Treasure Island on April 17, 1942. The Presidio is center to some of the most interesting events in San Francisco, including music, talks, guided nature hikes, family events. Let’s Get to Know Each Other Sign up to receive the latest events, news, and features from the Presidio, and then come. Serial Films are some of the earliest forms of film during the silent era through to the 1950s, often episodic in form (usually with 12-15 parts) and simplistic in plot, that were shown over a period of weeks or years. The multi-part films consisted of. Having. heard tales of pirates in the area he decided to return home to get friends. Over the next several days Mc. Ginnis, along with friends John Smith and. Anthony Vaughan, worked the hole. What they found astonished them. Two. feet below the surface they came across of layer of flagstones covering. At 1. 0 feet down they ran into a layer of oak logs spanning the. Again at 2. 0 feet and 3. Not being able to continue alone from here, they went home, but with. It took the three discoverers 8 years, but they did return. Along with. The Onslow Company, formed for the purpose of the search, they began digging. They quickly got back to 3. They continued down to 9. Besides the boards, at 4. At 9. 0 feet one of the most puzzling clues was found - a stone inscribed. Note: For more information about the stone inscription. After pulling up the layer of oak at 9. By the next day the pit was filled with water. Pumping didn't work, so the next year a new pit. From there a tunnel. The Money Pit. Again the water flooded in and the search. The Booby Trap. As it turns out, an ingenious booby trap had been sprung. The Onslow. Company had inadvertently unplugged a 5. Smith's Cove by the pit's designers. As quickly. as the water could be pumped out it was refilled by the sea. This discovery however is only a small part of the intricate plan by. In 1. 84. 9 the next company to attempt to extract the treasure, The Truro. Company, was founded and the search began again. They quickly dug down. Deciding to try to figure out what was buried. Truro switched to drilling core samples. Then it encountered. The conclusion was that they. Upon pulling out. One account of the drilling also mentions that three small gold links. Unfortunately no one knows where they. Interestingly, the earth encountered beneath the bottom spruce platform. A later group. of searchers would find out how much deeper. The Truro Company returned in 1. Money Pit. Just like before, as they tunneled. They brought in pumps to try to get rid of. During the pumping. Smith's Cove during low tide there was water coming. OUT of the beach. This find lead to an amazing discovery - the beach was artificial. Artificial Beach. It turns out that the pit designers had created a drain system, spread. The channels were then filled with beach rocks, covered with several. The effect of this filtering system was that the channels remained. Later. investigations showed this underground channel to have been 4 feet wide. Money Pit between the. To the Truro Company, the answer was now simple - just block off the. Their first attempt. Smith's Cove, drain the water. Unfortunately a storm blew up and. An interesting note: the remains of an older dam were found when building. The next plan was to dig a pit 1. This scheme too failed. And this was the last attempt by the. Truro company to uncover the secrets of Oak Island. The Pit's Collapse. The next attempt at securing the treasure was made in 1. Oak. Island Association. First they cleared out the Money Pit down to 8. The new shaft was dug out to. A second shaft was run, this one to west, down to 1. They then. attempted to tunnel over to the Money Pit. Again the water started to enter. Money Pit. Bailing was attempted and appeared to. And then CRASH! The bottom fell out. Water rushed into the shafts and the bottom of. Money Pit dropped over 1. Everything in the Money Pit had fallen. The big questions were why and how far? Over the next several years different companies tried to crack the mystery. They dug more shafts, tried to fill in the drain on the. They met with little success. The Cave- in Pit. In 1. 89. 3 a man named Fred Blair along with a group called The Oak Island. Treasure Company began their search. Their first task was to investigate. Discovered in 1. 87. Money Pit, the cave- in pit appears to have been a shaft dug out by. Money Pit perhaps as a ventilation shaft for the digging. It apparently intersected or closely passed the flood. While it was being cleared by the Treasure Company it started to. Over the next several years The Oak Island Treasure Company would dig. In 1. 89. 7 they did manage. Money Pit down to 1. However. the water worked its way through again and filled the pit. The treasure company then decided that they would attempt to seal off. Smith's Cove by dynamiting the flood tunnel. Five. charges were set off in holes drilled near the flood tunnel. The water flowed into the Money Pit as rapidly as ever. At the same time a new set of core samples were drilled at the pit itself. This material is probably. Pit. On other drillings. Between 1. 30 and 1. This clay can be used. The major find was in the gap between the putty layers. A cement vault. was discovered. The vault itself was 7 feet high with 7 inch thick walls. Next a layer of soft metal was reached. When the drill was brought back up another twist was added to the whole. Attached to the auger was a small piece of sheepskin parchment. They all met with failure due to flooding. Flood Tunnel. In May of 1. There was. a second flood tunnel! This one was located in the South Shore Cove. The. designers had been more ingenious and had done more work than previously. Though this find certainly strengthened the case that something. Blair and The Oak Island Treasure Company continued to sink new shafts. Between 1. 90. 0 and 1. Hadden cleared some of the earlier shafts. Pit and made plans for exploratory drilling the next summer. However. he made two discoveries away from the Pit. The. first was a fragment of a stone bearing inscriptions similar to those found. Money Pit. These. As will be seen later. Mystery Deepens. The next treasure hunter was Erwin Hamilton. He began his search in. The first was the. According to Hamilton they were. The second finding came. At this point a layer. The drilling brought. Apparently there was wood BELOW the natural limestone. Tragedy Strikes. In 1. Bob Restall and his family began their attack on the island. His one discovery was made on the Smith's Cove beach while attempting. He found a rock with . Though others believed it was prank left by a previous search team. Restall believed it was from the time of the original construction. In 1. 96. 5 tragedy struck. While excavating a shaft Bob passed out and. His son, Bobbie, attempted to rescue. All four apparently were overcome by some. Heavy Machines. Bob Dunfield was the next to take on the island. In 1. 96. 5 he attempted. He attempted. to block the inflow of water at Smith's Cove, and may have succeeded. Then. on the south side of the island an trench was dug in the hope of intercepting. The flood tunnel wasn't found. Pit. The shaft apparently went down to 4. Dunfield's other findings were based on drilling. It was determined. At the bottom of the void was bedrock. This information. There seemed to a large, natural. Recent Discoveries. Daniel Blankenship, the current searcher, began his quest in 1. In. 1. 96. 6 he dug out more of the original shaft found by Bob Dunfield in 1. Blankenship found a. At 9. 0 feet he met a layer of. He assumed this was part of the south water tunnel. A pair of wrought- iron scissors were discovered in 1. Smith's Cove. It was determined that the scissors were Spanish- American. Mexico, and they were up to 3. Also found. was a heart shaped stone. Smith's Cove revealed some more secrets in 1. Triton Alliance. a group formed by Blankenship to continue the search. While Triton was. The findings included several logs. They were marked every four feet with. Roman numerals carved in them and some contained wooden pins or nails. Two wooden. structures, along with wrought- iron nails and metal straps were found at. Nine feet below the beach a pair of leather shoes were. Borehole 1. 0- XThe next major discoveries came in 1. Triton dug what is known as Borehole 1. X, a 2. 37 foot tube of. Money Pit. During the digging several. A camera lowered down. At first a severed. Later three chests (of the treasure. I would presume) and various tools could be made out. Finally a human. body was detected. After seeing the images, the decision was made to send divers down for. Several attempts were made but strong current and poor visibility made it impossible to see anything. Soon after the hole itself collapsed and has not been reopened. Today. Blankenship and Triton still continue the quest.
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