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The Secret Treasure of Oak Island: The Amazing True Story of a Centuries-Old Treasure Hunt

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I corresponded with D'Arcy in Oak Island forums before I found out that he was an author. When I asked people in the forum for literature they all reccommended D'Arcy's books and I purchased two of them.

I found them to be very informative. D'Arcy has done his research well and presents information in a manner that is easily understood.

If you want to learn about Oak Island this is probably the book to buy. I reccommend it highly.

I have read several books concerning the treasure hunt on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, but this is the best so far. D'Arcy O'Connor has obviously very carefully researched all aspects of the hunt and has presented everything in an exceptionally readable, enjoyable and informative format. He has a way of telling the story that makes the same old story new again. I now understand concepts and ideas that were unclear from previous books. This book is as close as you will get to the actual treasure hunt today. Good job, D'Arcy - thanks for an excellent read!

One of the best books on Oak Island that I have read. This book is well written, compelling and easy to read. It is full of well known, as well as lesser know facts concerning Oak Island.

This book by D'arcy O'Connor covers the the first known search in 1795 all the way up to the present plans of Triton Alliance Ltd. Besides battling the pesky water that fills up every hole dug, the legal battles of three current treasure hunters are exposed here as well. The island itself becomes a metaphor for lost causes and greed. Theories abound here about how the man-made underwater system operates, who placed the treasure there, when and also why. The reading is fast-paced and informative, but the next chapter --- Triton Alliance's '04 $15 million dollar 'Big Dig' is yet to be written. This 210-year ongoing treasure hunt is laid bare in these pages reaffirming why this famous island off of Novia Scotia has become known as 'The Money Pit'.

This is a very complete history of the Oak Island mystery. It seems to be very well researched and gives a complete chronological history of the search for treasure on Oak Island. Without being there it is very hard for me to understand how there could have been this much time and this much money spent on something with such meager results. It sounds like there were some very experienced and intelligent people involved over the many years but the way the story unfolds it almost sounds like they were a bunch of clowns. Surely with the scientific ground survey equipment that is available today it would be possible to see what is underground without having to dig a thousand "dry" holes? This book is a great way to get some understanding of this great mystery but it cannot give answers to this age old mystery.

I have just completed reading this book. Having met D'Arcy Oconnor on one occasion and speaking to him on several other occasions it is no surprise that this book is a great read for all things Oak Island. For those wanting to get a leg up on the Oak Island Mystery this book will not only save you much time in research but make you a pseudo expert, to a point. Its all there. And then some. Pats on the back for Mr. Oconnors compulation of many important known and unknown facts regarding all things Oak Island. To the skeptics..this ones for you.

I have followed with great interest, the story of Oak Island since I was a young man. O'Connor's careful research has made this book one of the primers for those who want to learn more about one of the world's greatest mysteries. I happen to know where he got his material to write his book (s) and I can assure the reader, they are getting the very best information possible. Is there a treasure buried under Oak Island? I don't know. But this is one book that will stir your adventurous spirit. Members of the Oak Island Tourism Society routinely use this book as a source for quality information.

I haven't read anything about the treasure hunt since I was a kid, and this book gives a full account of the story up until the present day. My personal opinion is that there is nothing down there, and has never been.

This text is fairly good. I think that O'Connor is overly dismissive about Oak Island's "Baconian connection," though. Such a theory seems as if it is as "implausible" and "fantastic" as he suggests on its surface. Yet, he should consider seriously the island's Rosicrucian symbols and its proprietors' recent confirmation that the Baconian reasearcher who visited it during '04 exhumed "something significant." Apparently, he dug calculatingly only two shallow holes. O'Connor's dismissive attitude about the "fantastic" Baconian connection is ironic because he wastes a lot of effort on "psychics'" predictions and unsubstantial nonsense.

"It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis..." is how it starts and it continues in the same vein: speculation posing as journalism and history. The fact is, nobody today knows exactly the name of the person who 'discovered' the pit. The first sentence continues "...found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast" - the coast ceased being Arcadian decades earlier, but doesn't it have a nice ring to it... Arcadian. And that's what this book is trying to do: make you think that you're reading something substantial, maybe important, when all you are doing is perpetuating another old wive's tale.

There is not one shred of evidence - at least in the public domain - that any treasure was buried on Oak Island. There are so few facts on the origin of the pit that they could be written on a postage stamp, and still leave room for a picture.

O'Connor continues with more nonsense: "The present-day search is an archaeological dig..."
Today, I asked the head of Nova Scotia's archaeological unit about Oak Island and he reply was emphatic: whatever archaeology may have existed has long been utterly destroyed by treasure hunters. Fact is: there has never, ever, been any attempt at archaeology there. It's just a story of silly old men too greedy and ill-educated to know better.