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Astonishing Legends

Oak Island Money Pit Part 2

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Legend:

Pirate treasure? English, French or Spanish military plunder? The secret Rosicrucian works of Sir Francis Bacon and therefore also the possible original missing folios of Shakespeare? Or perhaps the greatest sacred antiquities lost to history, such as the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, the Spear of Longinus or the menorah from King Solomon's temple? Or maybe it's all just natural geological processes forming a sinkhole, plain and simple? These are just some of the theories of what could be down in the infamous and mysterious "Money Pit" on Oak Island, Nova Scotia -- thought by many to be one of the greatest archeological mysteries of North America, and possibly the world.

Background:

Part 2 of our series on the elusive Money Pit on Oak Island continues from where we left off in Part 1, which covered the initial discovery of the pit in 1795 up to 1867. Part 2 covers the dissolution of The Oak Island Eldorado Company (later known as the Halifax Company) in 1867 up until a fateful day in 1965, when the island would claim its next four victims in just a matter of minutes. Tragic as this was, this did not deter the line of treasure seekers from that moment until the present day, even though local legend claims the island will take one more life before it will give up its secrets.

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Nova Scotia Ashley Morgan's website that covers the main points of the Oak Island story Google Maps Location of Oak Island The Reader's Digest Article that Inspired the Current Treasure Hunters Ken Polsson's Chronology of the Oak Island Treasure Hunt In Search Of on Oak Island Is Oak Island A Hoax?

Credits:

Episode 018 - 'Oak Island Money Pit Part 2' Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, Ryan McCullough Sound Design Copyright Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess 2015, All Rights Reserved.



Transcript

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This is going to be a very short cold open because we're here to continue the saga of the

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Oak Island money pit.

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But before we get to that, I just wanted to quickly say thank you to everybody who has

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filled out the survey that we mentioned that you can get to on our homepage at astonishingledgents.com.

0:14.5

Please keep those answers coming because it helps us identify sponsors who want to work

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with us and improve that real people are listening and we're not just saying that real people

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are listening.

0:25.6

It really is only six easy questions.

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Yeah.

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They don't make you dig out your tax forms or anything like that.

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It's very simple.

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You should know the answer is already.

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Yes.

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I would think.

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Yes.

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It takes less than 15 seconds for me.

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Very painless.

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Yes.

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So anyway, thanks to everybody who's already done it and if you haven't, please stop on

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by the website and check that out.

0:46.4

Tonight we're not really going to do a long cold open because we've got a lot of material

0:49.2

to cover so let's get to it.

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