Anyone read up on the Oak Island treasure mystery? Have any theories?

[theballerFKA Ace]

It's a fascinating story. With all the the wooden platforms, chambers, and retrieved contents, some group obviously went to a herculean effort to hide something so deep, considering the site was discovered in the late 1700s when sophisticated excavation equipment didn't exist.

In the last 200+ years some incredibly intelligent and educated men that had done a ton of research have put a lot of money and effort into discovering what's down there, so I find hard to believe this is just a dream built on legend, innuendo, and greed.

Have any thoughts on why or who put something so far beneath the surface and what they put there?

http://www.oakislandmoneypit.com/

[BoogieWoogieMan]

Where are those Goonies kids when you need them?

[shaq2000]

Hmm, hadn't heard about that.

Personally, these are my favorite unsolved mysteries:

The Voynich manuscript (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript)
Baigong Pipes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baigong_Pipes)
The Antikythera Mechanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism)
Stone spheres of Costa Rica (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_spheres_of_Costa_Rica)
also the Zodiac ciphers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer), although not really a mystery.

Pretty funny cracked article on them: http://www.cracked.com/article_16871_6-insane-discoveries-that-science-cant-explain.html

[theballerFKA Ace]

It would be really cool if it was some weird treasure, though it could be nothing more than a hoax. I might have to read that link in its entirety soon.

This is one of the treasure mysteries I think, is least like to be a hoax or a fluke occurrence. Even the cynics who speculate that the recovered item may have been pushed into the hole by underground flood channels from the sea floor cannot explain why anyone take the effort, especially in pre 1700s, to dig a 140+ foot hole, spaced out with wooden platforms etched with writing, then cover it back up.

[Patrick Chewing]

Used to watch episodes on the History Channel about the Templars and how the demise of the Templars gave birth to the Friday the 13th superstition. That, and how only a few Knights were able to escape before their demise and were able to salvage the holy relics and relocated them all over the globe, with Oak Island being one of those places.

The Ark of the Covenant or remnants of the True Cross are rumored of being there.

[B-hoop]

A guy in the comment section has a pretty compelling argument on the Money Pit being a Freemason construction. I guess he is correct.