Campaign ManagerSince 220 years, this Oak Island Mystery has been a center of attraction for a plethora of explorers. This wild hunt of island’s hidden treasure has resulted in many tragic incidents, causing the loss of lives, fortunes, and families. This island had many intriguing stories and theories. One of them even says that the island will expose up the treasure for sure but for that to happen seven deaths are required. However, this saying didn’t hamper the determination of Lagina Brothers of deciphering the island’s secret.
Life Changing “Reader’s Digest”
In 1965, Rick Lagina, who was 11 years old then was reading a copy of “Reader’s Digest” and one of the articles changed his life forever. He was flipping the magazine pages when he came across an article which was pertaining to a 220-year-old mysterious Oak Island, which was located in Nova Scotia, Canada. The article said that there was a treasure hidden in the island. A lot of people had tried to find it out but their efforts went in vain. Rick started to explore the information about the treasure and dreamt of finding it one day.
A Natural Explorer
However, Rick Lagina had gone for his first ever treasure hunt just a year before. He was an innate explorer. He began his journey as an explorer from his hometown of Kingsford, Michigan. His first discovery was of a huge granite rock, which he was determined to move and find out what was hidden beneath that. He with the help of 9 other people, that included his brother Marty, moved the heavy rock. They didn’t find something historic or important but it paved the way for him, for his future endeavors as an explorer. With the course of time, the Oak Island Treasure hunt became their only aim.
Cursed Treasure
The professor decoded the stone to read: “Forty feet below, two million pounds lie buried.” The translated message did not expose much about the treasure though. Moreover, the whole mystery centered around a strange curse which says that the island demands the death of seven people before it could give up the treasure. Until now there have been six deaths. One more death and the mysterious island will push up its treasure to the surface?? This case is outlandish than fiction.
The Hidden clues and rumors
There are said to be myriad Masonic markings on Oak Island which gives the impression that the mysterious treasure relates to particular initiation rites which involves a hidden vault and sacred treasure. Some researchers like Daniel Ronnstam and Petter Amundsen revealed that there are many hidden clues in Shakespeare’s plays as well.
First hit at the hidden treasure
After much of drillings, the explorers discovered two chests filled with coins. After getting to these chests of coins, the explorers observed that the surface deep inside the pit was loose so they came back in 1850 to dig another parallel tunnel over to the Money Pit, but that effort went in vain as well. As water began to flow in and pumping was of no help as well. However, an incredulous discovery was made at this moment.
The money pit…
Maynard Kaiser, a worker who was returning to the surface from the pit, fell into the shaft and lost his life. Actually, the rope he was tied to came loose and got displaced from the pulley, which resulted the shaft falling into the infamous money pit. Despite such tragedies, a plethora of people tried to get to the mysterious treasure.