Oak Island Money Pit

Two centuries of digging, booby traps, and bankruptcies. The pit keeps its secret.

Since 1795: shafts, booby-trapped flood tunnels (real engineering, whoever built them), a cipher stone (lost), coconut fibre carbon-dated centuries pre-settlement (confirmed), six deaths, and two centuries of syndicates — FDR held shares and followed digs from the White House. Theories rotate through Templar treasure, Kidd's hoard, Bacon's manuscripts. The documented core is modest but genuinely strange: someone performed major seventeenth-century-or-earlier earthworks on a small Nova Scotia island for no recorded reason. Connects the Templar fleet legend and the archive's purest case of a mystery sustained by its own excavation damage.