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There’s really nothing that takes you back to childhood like the romance of searching for pirate treasure. Well, maybe that depends on your childhood, but for me that’s what happens when I read about buried treasure, which admittedly isn’t often. And that’s largely because most treasure is underwater, difficult to find and expensive to retrieve. Like the treasure that may or may not be on Oak Island:

In 1795, a teenager named Daniel McGinnis discovered an unusual, saucer-shaped depression on Oak Island, a tiny island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Next to the hole was an ancient oak tree with sawed off limbs. And, according to legend, a ship’s tackle hung from the tree directly over the depression — as if it had been used to lower something very heavy into the hole.

McGinnis was certain he had found buried pirate treasure, and with the help of two friends he began digging for it. Within minutes they hit rock — which turned out to be a flagstone buried two feet below surface. They hit another barrier made of oak logs at 10 feet deep; another at 20 feet, and a third at 30 feet. McGinnis and his friends kept digging — but they never found any treasure and eventually gave up. Still, word of their discovery spread.

In 1803, a wealthy man named Simeon Lynds took up the search. The diggers he hired found another platform at 40 feet, and found several more deeper down. Finally, at 90 feet, the workers found a large stone with strange symbols carved into it. No one could decipher what the stone said, but the workers were convinced they were close to treasure and kept digging. (The stone was later stolen.) At 98 feet deep, their shovels struck what felt like a wooden chest. But the sun was going down, so they stopped for the night.

The long and short of it is that no one has found anything yet, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything down there.

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