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The Oak Island Mystery: The Secret of the World's Greatest Treasure Hunt [Paperback]

Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe (Author)
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0888821700 978-0888821706 July 25, 1996

It began innocently enough ... in 1795 three boys discovered the top of an acient shaft on uninhabited Oak Island in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The boys began to dig, and what they uncovered started the world's greatest and stangest treasure hunt. Two hundred years of courage, back-breaking effort, ingenuity, and engineering skills have so far failed to retrieve what is concealed there.

The Oak Island curse prophesies that the treasure will not be found until seven men are dead and the last oak has fallen. That last oak has already gone - and over the years, six treasure hunters have been killed. What can the treasure be?

Theories include Drake's plate and jewels, Captain Kidd's bloodstained pirate gold, an army payroll left there for safety by the French or British military engineers, priceless ancient manuscripts, the body of an Arif or other religious refugee leader, the lost treasure of the Templars, and part of the ancient, semi-legendary Acadian Treasure linked to the mystery of Glozel and Rennes-le-Chateau in France.

After years of research the authors have finally solved the sinister riddle of Oak Island, but their answer is challenging, controversial and disturbing. Something beyond price still lies waiting in the labrinth.


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Oak Island is still seen as one of the great unsolved treasure hunts of the world.

Many theories about Oak Island are explored including, what is possibly the extreme age of the Money Pit and and its hypothetical with Atlantis, Lemuria.

There is now proof that that a man-made tunnel with a booby trap was constructed hundreds of years ago. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Oak Island in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, has a secret treasure that has now been revealed.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Dundurn (July 25, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0888821700
  • ISBN-13: 978-0888821706
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,481,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money, May 3, 1999
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I purchased this book because I had heard various stories about the excavations on Oak Island (near Nova Scotia) which have taken place over the past two centuries. Supposedly, there is a complex, man-made construction in the form of a pit or tunnel. Supposedly, there is buried treasure in the pit. I bought the book hoping to learn the facts associated with the attempts to unearth the secrets of Oak Island. I also thought I would hear possible explanations or hypotheses about what might be down there and who might have constructed the pit. Instead, I wasted my money on what is probably the most poorly written book I've ever read. The editor(s) should be fired for allowing the manuscript to become published. The authors cannot complete a thought without introducing some tangential idea that truly has nothing to do with the paragraph's contents. This makes the book difficult to read but that might be their intention. If anyone is looking for an overview of the goings on at Oak Island, this IS NOT the book you should buy. Don't waste your money.
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33 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Complete and utter rubbish, February 14, 2002
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I have researched the Oak Island "mystery" for many years from the viewpoint of skeptic and folklorist and still cannot believe what I found in this book. Fanthorpe, a former pulp science fiction writer from the UK, spends the first part of the book reviewing the story of the infamous 'Money Pit'--a procedure that all Oak Island authors feel compelled to emulate despite the fact that the tale is well documented in numerous earlier works. He then launches into a poorly constructed, patched together list of coincidences and assumptions in order to link the island to the Templars--one of his favourite conspiracy groups. In a word, he fails.

The book is rife with "wallpaper" phrases (e.g. "of course it follows that," "clearly," and "from this it is obvious...") that show the author has no actual evidence. In order to conceal this shortcoming he resorts to grand, unfounded assertions, but overall the book is rather like a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta: full of words and music but signifying...nothing.

The credulous will undoubtedly enjoy it, but anyone who thinks the book will offer an even marginally rational viewpoint will be sadly disappointed. Fanthorpe offers no reference material other than the usual, tired old books that are in themselves massively flawed, so I suppose this should be expected. Don't waste your time or money.

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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars The real mystery is how this book got published!, April 30, 2004
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I am not a follower of the Oak Island mystery, just someone who read an interesting article in Rolling Stone about the mystery and then went in search of more detail. This book is badly written, confusing and overly presumptive. Do not buy!
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The mystery of the Oak Island Money Pit is equalled only by the riddle of whatever it was that Father Berenger Sauniere and Marie Denarnaud found at Rennesle-Chateau a century ago, and by Monsieur Fradin's amazing discoveries at Glozel near Vichy in 1924. Read the first page
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pod auger, flood tunnel, beach drains, stone triangle, artificial beach, coconut fibre, coffer dam, loose metal, new shaft, oak logs, exploratory drillings
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Oak Island, Money Pit, Nova Scotia, Smith's Cove, New York, Emerald Tablets, Prester John, George Young, Mahone Bay, Unknown Genius, Cave-in Pit, John Smith, Gold River, Shugborough Hall, Holy Grail, Dan Blankenship, Hermes Trismegistus, Triton Alliance, Mary Magdalene, Anthony Vaughan, Fred Blair, Simeon Lynds, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Nicholas, South Shore
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