since the discovery of the famous pit
what Oak Island treasure has actually
been found a popular reality television
show seems to showcase one failure after
another in excavations on the Nova
Scotia Isle one might be led to believe
no treasure has yet been found and this
would be true when it comes to the
mother lode but what has the island
already yielded which continues to
entice investors to throw bundles of
cash down into the money pit
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in that year preceding the American
Revolution an old man passed away in the
British colony of New England who on his
deathbed confessed to have been part of
the crew of the infamous pirate Captain
Kidd they buried two million pound
sterling he said deep in the soil of a
secluded island north of Boston Daniel
McInnis a property holder on Oak Island
in 1799 found a spot on the western
shore where the forest had been cut back
leaving a field of tree stumps a single
oak had been left standing in the middle
of this clearing and from a branch of
this tree a tackle block was suspended
from a rusty nail the block was so old
that when it was dislodged and fell to
the ground its disintegrated upon impact
that's when McGinnis saw the place where
the block landed was a depression in the
earth he suspected the ground there had
been excavated at some point in the past
he cleared away the young saplings in
the hollow then he started to dig
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Captain William Kidd was a Scot who in
1689 was hired by the British government
to harass the ships of France at sea
with whom England was at war
he received no compensation from the
crown instead he was instructed to
extract his payment from the French and
thus began his career as a pirate an
example of his plunder would include
satins and valuable silks jewels coin
and ingots of silver and gold
Captain Kidd was fond of burying his
loot on isolated islands in the vicinity
of the coasts of New York Connecticut
and Nova Scotia in the pit on Oak Island
when Daniel McInnis had scraped away the
earth to a depth of but two feet he
struck a layer of flagstone which bore
no resemblance to the stones of the
aisle ten feet below
he found a layer of tree logs and at 20
feet another tier of logs
it seemed that every ten feet would turn
up another layer the next was a layer of
charcoal and the next was a layer of
clay then came the first sign that
treasure might be found there at the
next 10-foot interval was uncovered a
single large flagstone
the stone was engraved with letters and
figures which could not be deciphered in
1931 at a depth of 127 feet excavator
William Chappell recovered two more
artifacts from the pit an iron anchor
and a Cornish miners pick it was not
until 1971 that a glimpse of the
treasure chamber was captured on video a
syndicate formed by Daniel Blankenship
excavated a parallel shaft 235 feet deep
at which point they reached bedrock the
syndicate lowered cameras into an
adjacent cave which captured images of
treasure chests and human remains
however in spite of the fact that the
walls of the dig were supported by steel
the exploratory shaft collapsed before
marie-antoinette lost her head during
the French Revolution the Queen of
France had the foresight to ship many of
her precious jewels out of country given
the vulnerability of commercial ships to
privateers it is not surprising that the
missing jewels of Marie Antoinette could
have ended up in the hands of a pirate
in 2017 this theory was given a boost by
the discovery on Oak Island of an ornate
500 year old brooch embedded with
precious gems
the grandfather of FDR Warren Delano jr.
was one of the past finance seers of
speculative treasure excavations on Oak
Island another investor was Rear Admiral
Richard Byrd who led the first
expedition to reach the North Pole
two other investors were swashbuckling
actor Errol Flynn who played a pirate or
two in his own time and western movie
icon John Wayne who paid for drilling
equipment which was actively used in the
treasure hunt
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good evening mr. chairman my name is
Damon baby I'm a super smart student at
school
I want save the life of a baby duck
Buffalo many five dollars to friends in
need
I often volunteer at our local cowboy
shelter and not I fight injustice under
the guise of a costume crime fighter by
the name of stop crying man and I was
raised by two women we make hamburger
necklaces every Sunday we play strip
Mario Kart but we have our hard times
too heck we're all addicted to crank but
we don't expect anyone to solve our
problems for us we just want equal on
fair treatment
my family's borrowers your children pee
their pants
I don't so we don't need your lols we
don't need you to tell us that I'm a
danger to myself and everyone else
around me thank you
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