THE OAK ISLAND MYSTERY (PT 2) ALL HYPE ASIDE...
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Was Oak Island a Masonic Temple and meeting place? Is a treasure buried beneath? Or is it all a clever hoax? We explore all sides here- enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one heroes legends histories and |
| 0:31.6 | mysteries and part two of the Oak Island mystery. |
| 0:35.6 | In part one we covered the discovery of the Oak Island money pit |
| 0:40.1 | by three local boys and the subsequent efforts by a series of investors to dig and |
| 0:45.4 | pump their way to the bottom of 125 foot engineered sinkhole. To what everyone |
| 0:51.0 | imagined was a strong box holding a treasure in pirate loot. |
| 0:55.0 | The name most commonly associated with that treasure being that of Captain William Kidd, |
| 1:01.0 | who had made a career out of privateering on behalf of England, but later turned |
| 1:05.8 | on England's ships to line his own pockets and those of his bloodthirsty crew. |
| 1:12.0 | On 19th century maps showing the coast of Nova Scotia, Oak Island is seen with |
| 1:16.4 | Captain Kids Cove clearly marked, a tribute to how strong that legend was in |
| 1:21.2 | that region. A legend no doubt strengthened by the story |
| 1:24.9 | that a dying buccaneer admitted that he was one of kids crew who had helped bury a |
| 1:29.7 | treasure on an island off the northeastern Atlantic coast. |
| 1:34.0 | Although a number of artifacts have been discovered on Oak Island, however, |
| 1:38.0 | none seem to lead to Captain Kidd, or anyone else. |
| 1:42.0 | And Kidd did bury a chest loaded with treasure on Gardner's Island, |
| 1:46.4 | off Long Island, New York, a payment which he hoped would protect him from trouble, |
| 1:51.1 | but which did not. He was grabbed, imprisoned in London's infamous |
| 1:54.9 | Newgate, tried, and hung in the gibbets as a warning to future pirates. His remains |
| 2:00.4 | being left in those gibbets for all to see for three years. |
| 2:05.8 | At his trial he did try to buy his freedom by saying that he had cleverly hidden 20 million |
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