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up its secrets. And what might be the value of the treasure? According to Mr. Tobias, it is worth billions.
There is a treasure lying under the surface of Oak Island. There is evidence that this treasure has a thousand-year provenance and is so valuable that to someone (we know not who), there is no price too great to pay to protect it from being discovered. Concealed in the Money Pit along with a cache of immense monetary value may be secrets that hold crucial importance for the world, even centuries after being hidden. To some, these secrets should stay hidden. To others, no price is too steep to uncover the hoard.
The premise of this book is that a secret society that has existed under several names and for more than a thousand years was responsible for gathering together what is concealed underneath Oak Island. This group, once wealthy and powerful, fell out of power and was forced to go underground. In their darkest hour they had to give up possession of their wealth, although the organization has survived. The treasure and secrets protected by the group passed to an elite Scottish family, which inherited the guardianship of the secret society. This family was instrumental in designing and building the massive underground complex and in using this remote island in the New World as their private bank.
Just what is being protected? To be certain, it is massive wealth—in the form of gold and silver, sacred artifacts, and the crown jewels pledged to the first banking organization in Europe as collateral for loans. In addition, there are documents—some from ancient texts that hold secrets protected for more than a thousand years (genealogies of the family of Jesus—from David to Jesus to “heirs” of Jesus). These secrets were perceived both then, when they were concealed, and now as possibly threatening to the Catholic Church. What are these secrets and what implications do they have for us all? To find out we must head into uncharted territory.
The sea charts of ancient mariners often included small notes in the borders to indicate where the territory was unknown. Here the known truths had not been uncovered. No clues were offered to aid the explorer as to the possibility of lands lying ahead or a sheer drop off the edge of the Earth. Instead, there were depictions of sea serpents and mermaids and the dire warning There Be Monsters Here.
Chapter 1
T HE M YSTERY OF O AK I SLAND
N ova Scotia in the late eighteenth century offered few diversions. One of them was hunting for buried treasure, since the island was a known haunt of buccaneers and privateers. On a summer afternoon in 1795, three young men decided to go digging for pirate treasure. 1 One of them, Daniel McGinnis, had been wandering through the woods of Oak Island and noticed a spot that gave the appearance of having recently been cleared. Red clover and other plants foreign to the island were growing in the cleared area. There was also a ship’s tackle hanging from a sawed-off tree branch, fifteen feet above the ground. The tree itself had strange markings on it.
The real tip-off was a depression McGinnis saw in the ground. It appeared that someone might have buried something there. Sixteen-year-old Daniel had no trouble persuading two of his friends to return to the uninhabited island with him. This may not have been the first time the boys had hoped and labored to find a chest full of gold, but this particular day would end differently from the others. With shovels and pickaxes, Daniel McGinnis, teenager Anthony Vaughn, and John Smith, aged twenty, went to work. The excavation was started in the center of the depression, and they found the ground softer than they had expected.
Two feet down they reached a layer of carefully laid flagstones that were not indigenous to the island. (Later it was decided that they came from Golden River on the mainland of Nova Scotia, two miles away.) When they removed the stones they realized they were
There is a treasure lying under the surface of Oak Island. There is evidence that this treasure has a thousand-year provenance and is so valuable that to someone (we know not who), there is no price too great to pay to protect it from being discovered. Concealed in the Money Pit along with a cache of immense monetary value may be secrets that hold crucial importance for the world, even centuries after being hidden. To some, these secrets should stay hidden. To others, no price is too steep to uncover the hoard.
The premise of this book is that a secret society that has existed under several names and for more than a thousand years was responsible for gathering together what is concealed underneath Oak Island. This group, once wealthy and powerful, fell out of power and was forced to go underground. In their darkest hour they had to give up possession of their wealth, although the organization has survived. The treasure and secrets protected by the group passed to an elite Scottish family, which inherited the guardianship of the secret society. This family was instrumental in designing and building the massive underground complex and in using this remote island in the New World as their private bank.
Just what is being protected? To be certain, it is massive wealth—in the form of gold and silver, sacred artifacts, and the crown jewels pledged to the first banking organization in Europe as collateral for loans. In addition, there are documents—some from ancient texts that hold secrets protected for more than a thousand years (genealogies of the family of Jesus—from David to Jesus to “heirs” of Jesus). These secrets were perceived both then, when they were concealed, and now as possibly threatening to the Catholic Church. What are these secrets and what implications do they have for us all? To find out we must head into uncharted territory.
The sea charts of ancient mariners often included small notes in the borders to indicate where the territory was unknown. Here the known truths had not been uncovered. No clues were offered to aid the explorer as to the possibility of lands lying ahead or a sheer drop off the edge of the Earth. Instead, there were depictions of sea serpents and mermaids and the dire warning There Be Monsters Here.
Chapter 1
T HE M YSTERY OF O AK I SLAND
N ova Scotia in the late eighteenth century offered few diversions. One of them was hunting for buried treasure, since the island was a known haunt of buccaneers and privateers. On a summer afternoon in 1795, three young men decided to go digging for pirate treasure. 1 One of them, Daniel McGinnis, had been wandering through the woods of Oak Island and noticed a spot that gave the appearance of having recently been cleared. Red clover and other plants foreign to the island were growing in the cleared area. There was also a ship’s tackle hanging from a sawed-off tree branch, fifteen feet above the ground. The tree itself had strange markings on it.
The real tip-off was a depression McGinnis saw in the ground. It appeared that someone might have buried something there. Sixteen-year-old Daniel had no trouble persuading two of his friends to return to the uninhabited island with him. This may not have been the first time the boys had hoped and labored to find a chest full of gold, but this particular day would end differently from the others. With shovels and pickaxes, Daniel McGinnis, teenager Anthony Vaughn, and John Smith, aged twenty, went to work. The excavation was started in the center of the depression, and they found the ground softer than they had expected.
Two feet down they reached a layer of carefully laid flagstones that were not indigenous to the island. (Later it was decided that they came from Golden River on the mainland of Nova Scotia, two miles away.) When they removed the stones they realized they were
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