Curse of Oak Island What's found there. Secret Islands Oak: Monetary Pit and her mysterious story. Endless Floors of Monetary Pit
The coast of New Scotland has a tiny island, which stores the Great Mystery. In the XVIII century, people noticed that at night the island glows with strange light, but those who went to find out what kind of light it was not returned. A little later, two boys discovered a strange pit on the island - the entrance to the shade of the land. This Nakhodka laid the beginning of the fever of the Conductor, in which such famous people like Franklin Roosevelt and John Wayne took part.
Daniel McHinis did not read pirate novels for two reasons. First, in the courtyard stood 1795, and the time of Stevenson, Conrad and Captain Marietta had not yet come, and secondly, why the books, if there is something attentive to: for example, the stories of old-timers about living Corsaars - Captain Kidde, black beard , Edward Davis and many, many others.
Daniel McHinish lived in New Scotland (this is the peninsula on the east coast of Canada), and in Pirates, he and his two friends played on the small island of Oak, which means oak, very close to the coast in the Mahon Bay.
Once, the depiction of the landed Corsaars, the children deepened in Dubravu, from which the island was called, and found themselves on the big glade, where a huge old oak spread his branches in the center. The trunk of the tree was once strongly abandoned with the blows of the ax, one of the lower branches was cut off completely, and with a thick bitch, something hung. Looking around, Daniel realized that it was the tackle of an ancient sailing vessel. Squeaky block at the end of the Tali clearly served as a plumb. He, as it were, pointed to a small hollow under the oak.
The hearts of the boys were furious: really really pirates here and really did they really bury the treasure here?
Children instantly got shovels and began to dig. At a small depth, they stumbled upon a layer of suprashed flat stones. "There is! - They decided. - under the stones for sure the treasure! " They scattered the plates, and they opened a well, going deep into the earth, a real mine, about seven feet wide. In the mud filled with the mine, Daniel saw several molds and shovel. Everything is clear: the pirates were in a hurry and did not even have time to capture with them tools. Obviously, the treasure is somewhere close. With the dwarfish boy, the boy began to clean the hole from the mud. At a depth of 12 feet shovels deeply shuffled about the tree. Chest? Barrel with the guns? Alas, just the overlap of thick oak logs, followed by the mine ...
"It's not cope with your own," McHinnis concluded "Valorous Pirate". - We have to ask for help from the natives. " The nearest "natives" lived in the small Novoshotland village of Lunenberg. However, a strange thing: how hot children neglected about gold bars and coins that allegedly lie right under their feet, none of the adults took them to help them. The Islands of Osuk from local residents used bad fame; Especially small creek, bearing the name of the bay of smuggler. Someone saw blue flame languages \u200b\u200bthere, someone watched ghostly midnight lights, and one older ordered even that on the shore of the island she wanders and grimitically grins the ghost of one of those killed in the long-standing pirates.
Children returned to the island, but they did not roll on the mine: deeply. Instead, they decided to enhance the coast. Searches only got the interest: In one place there was a copper coin with the date "1713", in the other - a stone block with an iron ring screwed to it - it can be seen, a boat moored here; Failed in the sand and green batch whistle. With the thought of the treasure, it was necessary to prolonate: Mak-Ginnis and his friends understood that the riddle was in the literal sense, the mystery and to solve it is difficult to even an adult person.
Failed millionaires
Again on the island of Daniel Mc Ginnis found himself only across nine years. This time he was also not alone. Possessed like-minded storage devices turned out to be a pair of trifles.
Delivery boys began to quickly dig well. Soft soil easily succumbed to shovels, but ... the desired treasure was not shown: too smartly unknown builder equipped this mine. Depth of 30 feet - layer of charcoal. 40 feet - layer of viscous clay. 50 and 60 feet - layers of coconut fibers, the so-called coconut washcloth. 70 feet - again clay, obviously not local origin. All layers at equal intervals are blocked by platforms from oak manneys. Wafff! 80 feet - finally! Find! The treasteners raised a large flat stone to the surface with a size of 2 feet per 1 with an inscription carved on it. Not treasure, unfortunately, but it is clear to everyone! - Note where to look for it! True, the inscription turned out to be encrypted.
Here we will allow yourself a small digression and will be born a little ahead. Very quickly, a certain decrypter was found, who, running the inscription in his eyes, said that the text was clear to him: "10 feet there are two million pounds of sterling." This reading, of course, could not fail to cause sensation. But, first, 10 feet below Mac-Ginnis did not find anything, and secondly, the decrypter refused to explain how he really coped with the task, and thirdly ... in 1904 - many years after Daniel's death - mysterious The stone no less mysteriously disappeared from the repository where it was placed.
(In 1971, Professor of Michigan University of Ross Wilhelm offered a new decoding of the inscription. According to him, the cipher on the stone almost in the slightest details coincided with one of the ciphers described in the Tyunopisi Tyunopisi. The author of his, Giovani Battista Port A method of decryption. Using this method, Professor Wilhelm found that the inscription of Spanish origin and translates approximately as follows: "Starting from 80 piping into the drainage of Mais or millet. F.." Letter F, said Professor, - the initial letter named Philipp. How It is known that there was such a Spanish king of Philip II, and he has ruled from 1556 to 1598, however, how could he have to have to New Scotland, the French colony? A little later it will become clear, but as long as we note that the decoding of Wilhelma can also be attracted by the ears. , in this case, the inscription - if this is not a false trace - still waiting for your interpreter.)
Anyway, and Mac-Ginnis did not disassemble encryption and continued to dig further. The depth of 90 feet: the mine begins to be filled with water. Dogs are not dull. Three more feet - and digging becomes impossible: two buckets of the soil have to lift the water bucket. Oh, how tempting to deepen another little! Suddenly the treasure is here, near, in some yard? But the night descends, and the water arrives threateningly. Someone suggested Poking the bottom of Vagoy. Fair: after five feet, the iron rod rests on something hard. They dumped around: the overlap of the logs does not seem like - the size is small. What is the most cherished chest? Or maybe barrel? After all, pirates, as you know, hid the treasures in barrels and chests. The discovery led treasure seekers delight. Still would! You can take the night to rest, and in the morning to raise the treasure and proceed to the divide. However, the deception did not follow. The next day, McHinnis and his friends almost overtook him from the annoyance: a mine of 60 feet was filled with water. All attempts to pump water suffered a failure.
Technique - not all
The further fate of McHinish is unknown, but the fate of the mines can be traced with the smallest details. Only now it is not just a mine (in English "Pete"). The treasurefooters were so believed that at the bottom she was a treasure, which was dubbed her "Mani Pete", that is, "cash mines".
The new expedition appeared on the island in forty-five years. The first thing in the mine was lowered by the bur. Peeling the water and dirt, he passed all the last 98 feet and buried in the same barrier. To go further, I didn't want to go further: whether it was unfortunately, whether it was not a wooden barrel, but iron is unknown. One founded seekers: it is necessary to grope another way. And "spoiled"! They worked so many vertical shurts and inclined channels, hoping that one of them would deplete the water with himself that the treasure - if it was actually a treasure - could not stand: he hugged down, she asked in a stunned soil, forever sank in mudlessness. Farewell bouffagance once again hinted with unlucky drillers, as far as they were close to the goal and how many people were accepted.
It's time to remember about Professor Wilhelme. Maybe he is right with his interpretation of the inscription: Suddenly, Mais or millet - being replaced at the mine - would have played the role of water loss-seeking funds? At the same question, the next curious item is pushing. In the smuggler bay, the expedition of 1849 discovered a half-filled dam from ... "Coconut washcloth", similar to that formed layers in the mine. Who knows, suddenly this remains of the former drainage system, preventing the flow of ocean water in the depths of the island?
The closer to our time, the more often the treasure detectors have flooded the island. Each expedition opened something new on Oku, but they all acted as true and assertively, that they rather distressed the rays of the mystery than bringing it.
The expeditions of the 60s of the last century opened several moves and water channels under the island. One of the largest tunnels connected the "cash mine" with the bay of smuggler and went straight to the coconut dam! However, inept attempts to get to the treasure violated a thin system of underground messages, and since then, the water from the underground galleries cannot be repeated. Even modern technique is powerless.
The "Campania" of 1896 brought another sensation. The treasurefooters as usual were to be drilled in the "monetary miner", and at a depth of 126 feet borrowed to a metal barrier. Replaced the boring a small drill from a particularly durable alloy. Obtained metal, the drill went surprisingly quickly - obviously, met an empty space, and from the mark 159 the cement layer began. More precisely, it was not cement, but something like concrete, the armature which was served by oak boards, the thickness of this layer did not exceed 20 centimeters, and under it ... they turned out to be some kind of soft metal! But what? Gold? No one knows: no metal grappling sticks to the drill. The boron raised differently: pieces of iron, crumbs of cement, wood fiber - and gold did not appear.
Once the boring brought a thing on the surface is quite mysterious. A small piece of thin parchment was brought to him, and on this parchment, two letters written were clearly written in ink: "W" and "I". What it was: scribe of encryption with an indication where to look for a treasure? Fragment of the field of treasure? Unknown. There was no continuation of the text, and the sensation remained sensation. Self-confident drillers stated that a new chest found at a depth of 160 feet. About the previously sunken "barrel" did not even think, but they hurried to dissemble the message about several trends, buried on the island, and the rumor, naturally, did not slow down to inflate the news. They soon went rumors, as if the island was trying on the treasures, truth, flooded, but if they were not raised to the surface, the poor oak would most likely burst from the driving wealth.
At the same time, another mysterious sign was found on the island: a large triangle laid out of boulders was discovered on the southern shore. The figure was most like a boom, the edge of which exactly pointed to the Oak-Giant, the only noticeable landmark in the grove, which determined the location of the mine.
It is now known a lot of versions on the origin of the alleged treas. Attempts to establish the connection between Oak Island and the legendary treasure of Captain Kidda are most interesting.
Four years Captain Kidd and his pirate squadron were horrified on the seafarers of the Indian Ocean. In 1699, the captain's ship is lonely, without a squadron - unexpectedly appeared off the coast of America with a load of jewelry on board - in the amount of 41 thousand pounds of sterling. Kidda was instantly arrested and sent to his homeland, in England, where he was very quickly sentenced to the death penalty. Two days before the gallows, May 2101, Kidd "Dyed": he wrote a letter to the House of Communities, where he asked to give him life ... In exchange for a wealth hidden by him in the cache. The "repentance" Kidd did not help, the pirate was executed, but literally the next day the hunt for his treasures began in the history of the folding.
Some part of Kiddov wealth was found relatively quickly. She was hidden on the island of Gardiner, near the Atlantic coast of North Carolina and ... turned out to be insignificant. According to the most likely assumptions, the main wealth could be stored in two places: in the area of \u200b\u200bMadagascar Island and the coast of North America.
Harold Wilokins, an American who devoted his life to finding old treasures, published a book in the late 1930s called "Captain Kidd and his Skeleton Island". The facsimile card, allegedly drawn captain, which is given in this book, surprisingly resembles a map of Oak Island. The same bay on the northern shore (smuggling bay?), The same mine, and even the same mysterious triangle. What is this coincidence? Direct indication on the connection of the last kidd's travel to the shores of America with the disappearance of his treasures? While the answer to these questions, as in many others, does not exist.
In the XX century, the expeditions fell on the island as a bag. 1909 Fiasco. 1922th - Fiasco. 1931, 1934, 1938, 1955, 1960th - the result is the same. Which technique was not used on the island: powerful borants and superstal pumps, sensitive minion and whole divisions of bulldozers - and everything is in vain.
If you trace the story of the island, it is easy to notice that he leads a "dishonest game." Any mystery, and especially the mystery associated with any treasure, sooner or later reveals. It is enough to have an exact indication of the place of the treasure, some funds, a specific technique - and please: you can run to the nearest bank and open an account there (or, making sure that the treasures are not, declare yourself with bankrupt). So it was with the island of Gardiner, so it was with the treasure of the Egyptian pharaohs, but what to say: Schlobe was much less reliable information, but still dug up Troy. With Oak Island, the opposite is. "Mine mine", in the financial sense, literally bottomless, willingly absorbs any amounts of money, but kp.d. Its, if you can put it, is zero.
Since 1965, the veil of mystery, the enveloping island, began to gradually dissipate, but it was not without dramatic history. It was in 1965 that the "cash miner" showed his cunning temper - four people died in it.
Family Restalov - Robert Realtal, his wife Mildred and the two of their son - appeared on the island in the late 50s. Six years they drill up the island, trying to find the key to the secret of the water channels. They were covered by the fact that in the first year of staying, on the island, Robert found another flat stone with a mysterious inscription on it.
Gold he, like all the predecessors, did not get, and indeed the stone was the first and last find. In addition, a competitor appeared on Ouka. It was a certain Robert Danfield, a geologist from California. He hired a whole army of bulldozers and began to tear the island methodically, hoping not washing, so Katani succeed. It is not known how competitive struggle would end, if Retainal did not die: he fell into the mine. Three people went down to save him. All three died with Robert. Among them was the eldest son of the treasure detector ...
Patience yes work ...
In the same 1965, a new figure appeared on the island - a 42-year-old businessman from Miami Daniel Blankenship. The newcomer did not share the barbaric methods of "circulation" with the island, but still, in order to somehow join the case, he became a companion of Danfield. However, he was not long for him: Danfield could not avoid the stereotypical fate of all the "conquerors" of the island - he was broken, and Blankenship became hardly a frantic manner of excavations on the island of Pravda, a manager without funds: with the fall of Danfield turned into smoke and share of Blinkenship. He helped him with David Tobias, a financier from Montreal. Tobias became interested in the island, allocated a large amount from his capital and organized a company called Triton Elainee Limited, and Daniel Blynkenship took the post of one of its directors.
Blankenship did not rush to drill, blast or roll up the ground. First of all, he sat down for the archives. Blakenship considered old yellowed cards, leafal of the diaries of expeditions, read books dedicated to pirate and non-soldered treasures. As a result, he managed to systematize all versions about a possible treasure. Apart from the version of the treasure of Captain Kidd, the most interesting three of them.
Version First: Treasure Incas
In the very north of Peru, there is a province of Tumbes. Five hundred years ago, it was the most fortified area of \u200b\u200bthe Empire Inca. When Francisco Pizarro in the twenties of the XVI century betrayed the land of Inca Fire and the sword, he managed to reopen the wealth there in the amount of 5 million pounds sterling. However, it was only a small Tolik Treasure. Most of them disappeared without a trace. Where is she going? Was she secretly transported through Panaman shelters and covered on one of the small Atlantic Islands? And could this shrock of sushi be the island of Oak?
Version Second: Treasure of English Monks
In 1560, the English Parliament dissolved the abbey at the Cathedral of St. Andrew. The monks of this abbey were famous for the fact that for thousands of years gold, diamonds and works of art were accumulated in the basements of the monastery. After the decision of the parliament, the treasure unexpectedly disappeared. Maybe the missing jewel keepers were able to cross across the ocean and get to Oak Island? Curious circumstance: Underground Owka Gallery and underground strokes, strokes under ancient English abbey, surprisingly similar. If you drop small inconsistencies, you can assume that they were made by the hands of the same masters.
Third version
The gospel tells that, before we climb on Calvary, Jesus Christ gathered a secret night - a farewell dinner with students. Future apostles shed tears and drank wine from the massive golden bowl, known as the Bowl of Holy Grail. The case was happening in the house of Joseph Arimate. It is not known whether a secret evening really was or not, but such a bowl was kept for a long time in England, in the Glastonbury abbey, where it was supposed to personally delivered Joseph Arimafi. When the government decided to confiscate the wealth of Glastonbury, it was discovered that the Bowl of Holy Grail as if evaporated. Abbey turned literally upside down, found a large number of gold and silver products, but not a bowl.
Historian R. V. Harris for the first time described Oak Island, believed that the bowl was hidden by masons. The latter allegedly covered the Holy Grail ... All on the same island of Oak.
It would seem that the whole preparatory work by Blinkenship was carried out, what to wait? Rush to the island and drill, drill .. But Daniel is not in a hurry. There were rumors about the existence somewhere on Haiti dungeons, which in ancient times served as the Pirats of the Caribbean Sea by the secret repository of wealth. It is believed that the system of tunnels and water channels is very similar to a network of communications of the Oak Island.
Blankenship sits on the plane and flies to the port-O-Prince. The underground bank he does not find, but it is found with a man who once dismissed one of the pirate treasures, estimated at 50 thousand dollars, and leaving him with Haiti smuggling. The conversation with the treasure detector sent the thoughts of Blinkenship on a new channel. No, he decided, the pirates of the North Atlantic most likely did not build underground structures: they just had something to do so. Someone breakthrough all these tunnels to Kidda and black beard. Maybe the Spaniards? Maybe it is necessary to date the formation of "monetary mines" 1530, when the Spanish fleet began to make relatively regular flights between recently open America and Europe? Maybe the Armad commander only said that part of the ships would die during hurricanes, and in fact they dragged a significant part of the loose wealth, saving them to better times?
Blinkenship still did not know at that time about the studies of Professor Wilhelm, but if he knew, more precisely, if the professor did his discovery a little earlier, they would surely find a common language.
Returning from Haiti, Blankenship finally settled on the island, but it was not immediately let the equipment. At first he proceeded the whole island along and across. He walked slowly, examining every square meter of soil, and it gave some results. He found a lot that remained unnoticed by previous expeditions. So, for example, examining the coast of the smuggler bay, he discovered the ruins of the ancient pier brought by sand - the part pointing to the obvious inattention of all the predecessors of Blinkenship.
As we know, the former treasteners are too actively sought to penetrate the island's depths, and, apparently, it did not allow them to look closely to the surface. Who knows how many secret and explicit signs, evidence, will take the old days lying literally under their feet, was destroyed when the bulldozers were ironing the island!
What does oak island hide? Pirate treasure or treasure of Vikings? Ancient fortress or lost biblical relic? No one knows, and those who tried to find out, suffered fiasco. The one who hid a treasure on the island tried to glory: I am impossible to get to Niza mines, because any pit is immediately filled with sea water from hidden channels, obviously breakdown specially.
The well, called "Shpur 10 X", is located in two hundred feet to the northeast of the "Monetary Mine." For the first time it was drilled in October 1969. Then its diameter did not exceed 15 centimeters. Why Blakenship became interested in it - it is difficult to say, the knowledge of the biographies of the island was most likely helped.
Be that as it may, he expanded the hole to 70 centimeters and strengthened the walls with a wide metal pipe. The pipe was lowered to a depth of 180 feet and rested into rocks. It did not stop the researcher. He began to drill the rocky base of the island. Intuition suggested him that the search should be behaved in this place. The bump passed another 60 feet and came out in ... a water-filled hollow camera, which was located in a thick layer of the breed.
This happened in early August 1971. The first thing Blinkenship lowered a portable to the source of light into the "Shup 10 x". He himself sat in a tent at the television screen, and three of his assistant joined the winch. The camera reached the cherished cavity and began to slowly rotate there, sending the image to the top. At that moment, a scream came from the tent. The assistants rushed there, assuming the worst thing that could happen, the cable break, and saw his boss in a state, to put it mildly, exaltations. On the screen, the image: a huge camera, obviously artificial origin and in the center it is a hefty box, maybe even a treasure chest. However, not a box forced Blankenship to deprive the cry: right in front of the eye of the TV cameras in the water sailed ... Human hand! Yes, yes, the human brush cut off on the wrist.
This could be swam!
When Daniel's assistants broke into a tent, he, despite his state, did not say a word: I waited for what they would say. Suddenly they will not see anything? Suddenly he starts hallucinations? I did not have time to ride a glance at the screen, as I immediately shouted: "What kind of hell, Dan? No human hand! "
Dan Schitril.
Well yes? - Inside, he doubted. - Maybe the glove?
Damn with two glove! - Intervened the second worker, Jerry. - Won, all the bones of this devilly can be counted!
When Daniel came his senses, it was too late. The hand disappeared from the focus of the camera, and no one thought about photographing the image at the first moment. Then Blankenship made pictures from the screen many times. On one of them, the "chest" and a blurred image of the hand are visible, on the other you can distinguish the outlines of the human skull! However, the clarity with which the hand was seen for the first time, subsequently was never achieved.
Blankenship was well aware that the pictures were not yet proof. Although he was confident in existence and a chest, and his hands, and the skull, he could not convince others. Any photo reporter would raise it on laughter, someone who, and they know what phototewings are.
Dan decided to descend himself in "Shpur 10 x" and raise at least some proof on the surface. But since the descent of a person in a 70-centimeter well to the depth of almost 75 meters - the case is risky, it had to be postponed until the next autumn.
And sesame ... does not open
So, the year 1972, September. On the island of Oak, the last of the expeditions known for now is working. Her chief, Daniel Blankenship, is going to penetrate into the depth of the rocky base of the island to give finally the answer to the riddle, causing treasure seekers for almost 200 years.
The first check descent occurred on September 16. Blakenship reached the depth of 170 feet and tried the equipment. Everything is fine. Two days later - re-descent. Now Dan decided to achieve the "Treasury" itself and look a little there. Immersion went like oil. For two minutes, Blankenship got to the lower end of the 180-foot metal pipe, then slipped into the mine in the rock, and now it is already at the bottom of the Treasure Camera. The first impression is disappointment: nothing can be seen. Water is mutted, and the light of the lantern pierces it at no further than the meter. After a minute and a half, Dan pulled for a cable: you can raise.
Almost nothing can be visible, "he tells on the surface. - Three feet can be seen, then - darkness. However, it is clear, this is a big cavity, and there is something in it. What is - hard to say: it is necessary more light. At the bottom of some garbage, debris, everything is listed by Il. Because of the alley, water and muddy. Next time I will think more. The most important thing - I got!
September 21 - the third attempt. This time, Blankenship lowered a powerful light source into the chamber: two car headlights on a small platform. Then went down myself. The result is deplorable: the headlights did not cope with the task, they failed to break the muddy water. Last hope for a camera with a flash. Going down on September 23, Blakenship understood: this is also not a way out. Removing a light-like suit, he depressed his comrades.
Photographing meaningless. I could not even understand where this damn camera is before and where is the ass. In general, click there with a shutter - a waste of time. Yes, and headlights for nothing. It seems that they are not at all. It's a shame. You descend on a big depth, you know that there is something there, and here the clouds of Slah are rummaged from the slightest movement, and not a feature. All is well, until you get into the cavity, there it is going to go scam.
So, the island stares his mystery. Much is already known, but give an answer to the main question - whether there is a treasure there and what it is - no one is capable of. Shed light on the riddle of the Oak Island can either a new serious researcher or Daniel Blinkenship. And Blakenship ... is depressed.
I will not make any statements yet, "he says. "I'm not going to tell anyone to anyone until I find out everything to the end." I do not want the crowds of damn idiots at every corner shouting as if they were the secret to me. I do not want to be gnawing because of wealth. The only thing that I can say about the treasure is the pirates here at nothing. It seems to me that I know that it is downstairs, and this thing is bigger than everything you can imagine ... Theories about the Treasisis of Incs, English monks and others are curious, but inconsistent. It's all around the truth, and not the truth itself. What is under the island leaves behind any theory. All theories or legends are fascinated in the rays of what I guess ... And the pirates have nothing to do with it. For sure! If I thought that the captain of Kidd was put here, I would not have been on the island. CIDD CITANT - a boys compared with those who actually fish here tunnels. These people are not a couple of pirates, they were where how much more than all the pirates of all time, taken together ...
Numerous attempts to get to the treasure of Oak Islands ended in the same way. The workers dug the mines - they poured them with water. Dambs built - the tide destroyed the work. Floored underground tunnels - they wrapped. The boras stuffed in the ground - and did not bring anything substantial on the surface.
The main achievement of the Galifax Company, which burst in 1867, is the opening of the water tunnel in the monetary mine. It was located at a depth of 34 meters. The tunnel went up to the smuggler bay at an angle of 22.5 degrees. During a high tide from it, water whipped with force.
"The Galifax Company" was the first who asked an accurate question: why did the unknown builders have invested so much strength in Oak Island? The answer suggested by itself: the treasure stored underground is so great that he had to put on the guard of the ocean.
Already at the end of the last century, serious researchers began to realize that the treasure on the OUC was hardly pirated origin. This is what I wrote on this occasion a few years ago, the researcher Rupert Furno - a man who offered the most reasoned version (we gradually approach it):
"By 1740, Zenit piracy in the Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea was already behind. Few pirates have accumulated great wealth, and quite a few wanted to hide him. These were amazing moots! Communication between pirates and buried treasures - fictional, books. Secret burials contradicted the practice of pirated business. Teams recruited on the condition: "There is no mining - no fee." The captain elected by free voting, grabbed himself a double share, and if he had risen a big kush, he hardly managed to persuade the team to dig for many months of the tunnel to create a constant pirate bank. After all, only a few survivors could take advantage of the trophies. Dimensions of burial on the island of Oak and the calculation on his long-term alien pirate psychology. "
So, it is clear: work on the island was headed by intelligent people who knew the hydraulic engineering and mining capable of subordinate to their will and organize the work of many performers. Already in our time, the experts were calculated: in order to fulfill the entire scope of work - to dig the mines, break through the tunnels, to build a watered "sponge" - with the help of the XVIII century tools, would have required efforts of at least one hundred people who worked daily into three shifts throughout - the smallest - six months.
True - In this case, a possible solution is the mystery of the Oak Island - as it often happens, probably loses to the conclusion. She can, less romantic, but it has nothing to do with mystic or cheap fiction and at the same time more humane.
So we finally approached the main problem of the island. In the end, for a real researcher, for an inquisitive historian who appealing to Oak, it is not so important that how much buried on the island. The most interesting thing is to find out who worked on Oku and when?
And after that it will become clear and in the name of what?
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http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/vs/article/5056/ - Vitaly Babenko
http://ribalych.ru/2015/04/22/zagadki-ostrova-ouk/
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Oak
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proke islands_Oak
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From a long time, the world is known for the legend treasures Oak Island, which is one of the small land plots belonging to the archipelago in the Mahon Bay near the west coast of New Scotland. Island's area equals 57 hectares, and the maximum height above sea level is eleven meters. The entire territory of the island is covered with groves of oak trees, because of which he received such a name. Oak visually does not differ from hundreds of similar islands, however, in the eighteenth century, a cash miner was found here, the treasures of which for several centuries have been trying to get seekers from around the world. In addition, the territory is a private ownership, therefore entry to it is carried out only after receiving a special permit.
There are several stories telling about how was found monetary pit on Oak IslandHowever, only one of them is like the truth. In 1795, the company of boys - John Smith, Danil Mkizhnes and Anthony Vogan - presented themselves with pirates, playing from the south side of the island. They immediately found a piece of rope and a cable block that hung from one of the trees. Under it, the company discovered a flooded land. Entrance to an unusual mine. They accepted to dig. Literally in a few meters, the overlap was opened, collected from old oak logs. When he was disassembled, the guys discovered a mine shurta, going deep down. On the slope of the rocks, the parents of children found an uncomplicated message, which said, gold was hidden at a depth of 160 - 180 feet.
Such a find provoked an excitement, so local treasures began to dig mines further. Through time, they rang out with their own knobs on something solid, but the fresh barrel of the mine suddenly filled the sea water, which took place in incomprehensible from.
Know a little where is the island islandAs all his charm is imprisoned in one place. Further research has proven that the cash mines represents only a small part of the tunnel complex associated with the island of the smuggler's bay located on the northern side. After what happened, a number of branches managed to be tightly closed. When the water retreated, the treasures found the oak barrel rising from the depths. Since those times, they seemed to disappear. Only a few years later, the inhabitants of London appears magnate named Anthony Vogan, who does not appear in the secular rounds, but buys land and houses in England and Canada. Also once at auction, the name of his son Samyuyl, who bought for his wife decoration for 200 thousand dollars for his wife was lit.
The history of the island after the opening of the cash mines
Further events have unfolded already a hundred years later, when the island visited the guys who learned about the existence of a monetary pit. Brendon Smart and Jack Lindsay will be seen by the support of like-minded people who helped comrades completely pump the territory. In addition, it is worth noting that oek Oak on world map It takes not the easiest location. For this reason, work was conducted for about two decades. At the same time, by 1865, the number of workers numbered about three hundred people. After a day, the head of searches becomes William Sellers, whose company was particularly illiterate. William began the ultra-deep drilling, which led seekers to the chests scored by some metal. However, there was a serious collapse immediately, the find with a crash collapsed inside the abyss. Only Sellers managed to snatch from the bora, hiding from the island.
It is believed that the seeker picked up a huge diamond, but after a time he returned to the site of excavations, trying to buy the right to develop. However, instead of a successful deal of the same night, all workers without exception sailed from the island, and William's corpse was found deep in the mine. This fact has not received any explanation. However, this searches were not completed, because at the beginning of the twentieth century, the island of Sushi Klochok was again a rear. However, new treasures had to try to try to at least find the entrance to the mine. Many know where marked oracle Oak on the map, However, not every interested person knows that there is no time here I was looking for a treasure president of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. However, his team also suffered a defeat and sailed with nothing.
The next team worked with a project under the codenate name Alliance Triton, which Daniel Blackkeneship was ruled. Under his sensitive leadership, seekers could get to the new underwater cave, where they were able to lower the camera. There, the team saw someone's chopped brush, some chests and skull, after which a series of mystical events began. The leader of the group sank inside, but I did not find anything there, after which the first ferry was removed away. Two years later, he died with a store robbery. Excavations were continued in 2013 by two brothers. The work of Marty and Rica Lagin was devoted to the documentary series, telling about their failures and successes.
During the study, the brothers managed to find the Spanish coin. This fact suggests that gold on the island is still available.
Mystical place
A number of events that occurred during this time led to the fact that treasures Oak Island began to be considered damned. Perhaps the main afflicting fact was that the information that every treasure detector knew where his desires should be kept, but it could not find it for decades. There are some more nuances, why hidden gold was considered enchanted:
- For many years, the victims of the monetary pit appeared. In August 1965, Robert Retainal explored one of the mine pillars and fell inside, followed by his son to save his father. However, they died together, damn the marsh gas. The following killed two seekers who hurried them to help.
- When Fred Nolan became the owner of the earth, he went to the search Monetary Pits Oak Island Alternatively, making a geodesic survey. Thus, he tried to find mysterious inscriptions and decipher them. During the excavations, they found a cross laid out of stones. Most likely, he was left by the Spanish Galeon, who asked the highest strength to protect the mystery of the treasure.
- To this day, gold was not found. There was no such thing in history so that the treasters knew where it was hidden, but could not more than two hundred years find the cherished chests.
According to the legend, the treasures of the French crown are hidden in Gerl, however, most researchers consider it untold. Special trust also do not cause stories about gold Vikings or Incs. The most reliable is the version that first became known, where is the island island Pirates, including Edward Tich, Henry Morgan, William Kidd and Francis Drake. For example, Henry Morgan could hide the treasures taken out during the operation called the "Panaman Bag". If the oak island looked for a black beard for himself for himself, a black beard, the island could be hidden from the robbery of twenty ships with gold.
Thus, until today, attempts from finding a secret treasure will not stop. But despite the fact that technical progress stepped significantly forward, the seekers still know only where it is located oracle Oak on the map, but can not unravel his riddle. It should also be noted that recently the place began to attract tourists, but for short-term excursions, and not for a full rest.
This is nothing noticeable island off the coast of Canada, for 220 years no longer gives rest to the treasures, historians and even engineers. In recent years, the island has become even more famous thanks to the documentary series "Curse of Oak Island". So what is the island of such and what is his mystery?
Mystery Oak Island
Oak Island is located near the east coast of the Peninsula Nova Scotia (Canada) in Mahon Bay. Island as an island, the same as all the other 350 islands located in this bay. However, there is a difference. Rather, it was. Unlike the rest of the islands of the bay of Mahon, on Ouke in former times (which you can not say now) red oaks grew in abundance. They were given the name of the island ("Oak" in English "Oak"). But not only with his oaks is famous. For two centuries, it excites the minds of the treasters (and in recent times and historians) hidden in its depths of tremendous treasures. And not so much treasures, how many sophisticated ingenuity, with what they were there were hidden.
Why it all started
It all started with the fact that in October of the distant 1795 years of adolescents from the neighboring Chester, Daniel McHinish, John Smith and Anthony War, depicting desperate pirates, landed on the uninhabited Ou with the intention to turn him into their "pirate base." Exploring the island, the guys stumbled upon a huge old oak grew in the midst of the Polyana. His trunk in one place was distlier by the blows of the ax, the thick branch is cut down, and from the bitch, the exilest ships, who served, apparently, instead of Talya. Directly beneath them was visible in the ground Round Wpadin, clearly indicating that in this place there was a long filled pit. "Once we were tali, and under them the pit, it means that some cargo lowered in the pit," the guys cut down. - And if this cargo fell asleep, then it was hidden. And what can I hide but pirate treasure? "
Having come to such an uncomplicated conclusion, young "pirates", immediately turning into the treasures, went to the village, took shovels and returned to the island. Adults about their find, they naturally did not mention the word. As soon as young treasteners began to dig, as they immediately stumbled upon the overlap of flat, roughly risen stones. "And here is the treasure itself!" - boys were delighted. Sitting on the fingers of the nails, they barely pulled out the plates from the pit. Here they were expected first (but not the last) disappointment. Instead of the expected chests with jewels, they saw the well-go beyond the width of more than two meters wide. The bottom of the well was filled with mud, in which they lay down the shovels and mud left by someone. "Here it is, it certainly lies the treasure!" - Decided the guys and with even greater zeal continued to work. The dirt became less and less, until finally, at a depth of three and a half meters of shovels of the treasures, they did not stand down deeply on the tree, causing young hearts even louder. "Finally treasure!" - boys were delighted. - Surely shovels knock on the barrels or boxes with gold! " However, when all the dirt was cleaned, it turned out that they came across the next overlap, this time from massive oak logs. Further went well ...
The raised mood of the boys immediately disappeared. They realized that on their own, without the help of adults, and besides with one shovels, they could not get to the treasure. Oddly enough, but adults, after hearing the Yunsov, reacted to their story and a request for help with frank disapproval. It turned out that the island has long been using the locals bad glory. Some of the old-timers were told that at night they saw suspicious lights at night, and someone even assured that there was a unclean force there. It was both: somehow on the island went in a boat several local fishermen find out what is happening there, and ... they did not return. It is clear that after such stories of those who wish to go to the island, even if they were not found for gold. With a dream about the soon enrichment, the boys had to part up to the best times.
First attempt to find treasure
Such times came only in ten years. By this time, Mac-Ginnis, Smith and Voof became adults and managed to marry. Having collected the necessary funds, they moved to Oak with families and continued the interrupted ever work.
Despite the fact that they are now pulled out the land with the help of a manual winch, the work moved extremely slowly. And all because after every meter-two they stumbled upon some artificial obstacle. At a depth of 9 meters, a thick layer of charcoal was caught. Behind him - wooden overlap. Next, viscous clay and again oak logs. 15 meters - a layer of coconut fibers. 18 meters - the same. Then again overlap from the logs. 21 meters - viscous clay. At a depth of 24 meters, the path to diggers blocks an unusually solid ship putty. It is possible to smash it with great difficulty. Under the putty turns out to be a large flat stone. At one of his sides, some incomprehensible signs were carved. Not otherwise like encryption. In the future, the stone is unknown where disappears. It's a pity. Perhaps, with the help of the treasures carved on it, it would have been found long ago. Encrypting friends, of course, did not read. Yes, and not before that they were. And without it it is clear that the treasures are in this well and are about to seem. It is only necessary to strain power and dig further.
But then a new obstacle, and not similar to the previous one: water appears at a depth of 30 meters at the bottom of the well. And the deeper, the more it is. The digging becomes more and more difficult - it is necessary to dig so much how much to pull the water. Just in case, treasure detectors decide to prove the bottom. And, as it turned out, not in vain: at the depth of one and a half meters, their sharp rod rests on something solid. It is solid to the next overlap of the logs do not seem. The size of the solid object is much smaller than the diameter of the well. Most likely, this is the very cherished chest or barrel. So, it remains to break through someone and a half meters and ... However, due to the darkness of the dark, the work had to be interrupted until the morning. And in the morning ... In the morning of unlucky treasures, it was waiting for a shock from which I think, they did not recover until the end of their days: almost up to the top of the well was filled with water. They tried to pull the water with buckets and even pump off the pump, but how much they didn't try, the water did not diminish any centimeter.
Multi-month work went to the pump, the companions were ruined. Bosane left, and Mac Ginnis and Smith remained behind the absence of funds on the island and took up agriculture. It was not even close to the ill-fated well and tried to forget about it as soon as possible.
The same stone, or rather, his replica. The original mysteriously disappeared in 1912, but he had managed to take a copy with him in advance. The first decoding option says: "At a depth of 40 feet under this stone burned 2 million pounds of sterling"But many researchers consider this decryption to Fake. Another option: "Gold is lowered at a distance of 160 + 180 feet from here". In 1971, Professor of Michigan University of Ross Wilhelm found that the cipher type coincides with one of the ciphers described in the Tyntopisi Tyunopisi of Joan Battista Port. He offered his interpretation of the inscription: "Starting from 80 piping in Mais's drain or millet. F. ". It is not possible to study the inscription in more detail. She is too short.
Expedition of the Syndicate "Truro"
But I did not forget about the treasury the third of the companions, Anthony is a moor. In 1845, his efforts were organized by the so-called Syndicate "Truro", which included prosperous citizens of the Novoshotland city of Truro. Four years spent a syndicate for the preparation for raising the treasures of Oyuk. Preparing thoroughly. A large, well-organized drone expedition was equipped with the latest technique for those times. In the success of the expedition, no one doubted.
In 1849, the expedition has begun work. Started with intelligence drilling. Above digged once manually and managed by this time, the well was mounted with a drilling rig. Easily passing 30 meters of water and the sludge, the Bur has passed another and a half meters of solid soil and, like a steel probe, rested into something hard. They began to carefully pick on. The boron stumbled several times on thick spruce boards, then on something similar to pieces of metal of various sizes. After several repeated drillingings, the James Pit Blad's drilling Master reported to the leadership of the syndicate that the bump was held two chest filled, apparently gold. At the end of these works there was one very strange case. Once, when the Break was once again raised to the surface, Pit Blad, inspected as usual of the drill bit, looked off at him some small item and quickly hid it in his pocket. One of the members of the Syndicate noted this and demanded that the master showing find. But Pit Bold flatly refused to fulfill its requirement. He said he would show the found thing only by the Board of Directors of the Syndicate. However, the Board of Directors did not appear. Moreover, he did not even wait for him, and the secretly fled from the island and never appeared on it. The rumors crawled around the island that the subject that raised the boring from under the Earth and who assigned a shouter drill driver, was a major diamond.
It seemed to serve before the chests: a long-standing hand - and they are yours. There remained the existing trifles: to pump water and silt, deepen the well for one and a half meters and get the chests. But ... Soon only the fairy tale affects. Although the expedition has had a rather powerful pump, the water from the well to pump could not be able. Water, as before, always stood on the same level. Then the treasters decided to pull out a new one next to the old well. They expected that after both wells were connected at the bottom of the tunnel, the water from the old well at least partially go to the new one, and then the water level in the old way decreases. And although from the hole pierced from the bottom of the new well to the old one, hit the powerful stream of water and filled the new well in a few minutes, the water level in the old well remained the same. Thus, the hopes of the treasures on the second well were not justified. But they made an important discovery. They installed - purely by chance, however, that the water in both well goes straight from the sea, and its level seems to depend on the height of the tide and low tide. Then the treasters engaged in a survey of the island's coast. In the bay of the smuggler, they found a hitrophic arranged drain, through which water appears to be in the wells. The length of the tunnel connected the well and the sea was 150 meters. In order to prevent the entry of sea water into the tunnel, the workers built an impressive dam. But here they were waiting for them. Strong tide in one night destroyed to the base of the dam.
After that, speaking by the tongue of the military, the Syndicate decided to change the tactics. The workers began to hastily boot around the well with treasure vertical and inclined wells and shurs. Buurili where it fell and how it fell - it is important that they are as much as possible. Avenue, the leaders of work were thought, according to one of these wells, the water herself deplends itself from the well, and then access to the set will open. The work was done huge. And all the fact that the treasure (if it was really he) collapsed down, in the mud pit formed under it as a result of raising drilling. Some treasure professionals believe that treasures and so-inone there - at a depth of about 50 meters.
However, it is difficult to categorically argue that this is the case, no one is taken. And that's why. There is an assumption that in 1865 the water level in a treasure well, which by then began to be called a monetary miner, dramatically dropped to 33 meters. And a few days after that, there was more than a strange event on the island. Filling water from the cash mines in the evening, the workers sailed to the mainland spending the night. Some director of Syndicate remained on Ouke - five people. When the next morning, the workers returned to the island, the directors were not there. The equipment also disappeared and the vessel belonging to the syndicate. Otherwise, as director, the equipment has been personally immersed at night and crossed it on the mainland. The question arises: what is such a hurry and secrecy? One of the answers may be like this: not wanting to attract unhealthy attention to the clave, the director themselves opened the chest with jewels, raised it to the surface, dragged to the ship and, immersing the equipment at the same time, left unnecessary more island. Such a fact is also in favor of this assumption. On the eve of this day, the leadership of the Syndicate issued to everyone without exception to the work salary. Therefore, the workers did not have any claims to syndicate. Thus, if you believe this hearing, the treasures of the Oak Islands floated from him back in 1865. However, there is no documented evidence. Consequently, rumors about finding the treasure of Owka can be believed, and you can not believe. Judging by the way, it was still on the island of treasures, these rumors believed a little.
Searches for treasure syndicate "Halifax"
The organizers of the new Syndicate for the extraction of treasures of Oak Island, named by them by Halifax (in honor of the main city of New Scotland), were confident that the treasure on the spot. Otherwise, they would hardly be bought off at the Truro Syndicate the rights to search the treasure.
The new expedition worked on the island of just one summer of 1867. During this time, it was possible to detect the hole of the tunnel, through which the ocean water went to the cash min. The hole was at a depth of 34 meters. How not to remember that in 1865, water in the well fell to a mark of 33 meters. Perhaps the Syndicate "Truro" and really reached the treasure. The tunnel went toward the bay of the smuggler, rising up at an angle of 22.5 degrees. In addition, Halifax came to the opinion that under the island, apparently, there is a whole system of underground messages, thanks to which the treasure is securely protected by the Ocean. And therefore, I realized that she was not able to over with the ocean, the company "Halifax" ceased work.
3D model of money mines and the estimated appearance of its hydraulic complex.
Trefeller Danfield.
In the XX century, the expeditions fell on the island as a bag. 1909 - Fiasco, 1922 - Fiasco. 1931, 1934, 1938, 1955, 1960 - the result is the same. Which technique was not used on the island: powerful borants and superstal pumps, sensitive minion and whole divisions of bulldozers - and everything is in vain. In 1965, an energetic oil engineer Robert Danfield appeared on the island, which, unlike his predecessors, decided to get to the treasure in the shortest way. He connected the Oak with the Maine Dambia, crossed several bulldozers and an excavator on him and began to tear the island. Soon there is a huge funnel with a diameter of 25 and a depth of 40 meters at the place of the monetary mine. Related craters and even whole careers appear in other places of the island. But this time, the Oak defended his treasures (more precisely will say his secret). Danfield and his assistants had to recognize their defeat and leave the island with disgrace.
Descent to the cash miner of Daniel Blinkenship
Daniel Blankepshp had a completely different approach to the work on the search for treasures on Oku. Blankenship began with the fact that several months studied in the archives and libraries of the book, diaries and all sorts of documents, having at least some, let the most remote, attitude towards Okuk and his put. In addition, the treasure detector read the mass of all sorts of materials in which he was discussed on pirate treasures at all. Then he studied the island for a long time, exploring literally every square meter, and found a lot such that escaped the attention of the previous treasures.
And only after all this, Blankenship began to search for the treasure. However, to a considerable surprise of former treasures - experts, he began this search not from the traditional drilling of the cash mines, but with the expansion of someone previously drilled well, which was located 60 meters from the cash mines and known as the name "Shpur 10 x" . It is difficult to say than Blankenship was guided in his work. Probably, thanks to a great preparatory work (studying archives and other), he was able to penetrate the secret of Oak Island.
Expanding and deepening a dilapidated well (the former diameter of it was only 15 centimeters), Blankenship lowered it alone in one metal pipe with a diameter of 70 centimeters. At the depth of 60 meters, the boring drove into the rock. Such a serious obstacle did not stop the hunter for the treasure. Blankenship gives an indication of the junction on. The Bur with difficulty is a good tent of meters of rock island and penetrates the camera filled with water. This happened in early August 1971. Blankenship gives an order to omit a portable camera and illuminator into the cave. Itself is arranged in a darkened tent in a tense waiting before Teleker. After a long descent, the camera finally enters the cavity filled with water, resembling a cave of karst origin, and begins to slowly rotate. The first thing that Blakenship sees is a large box that stands in the middle of the cave. "Here he is a treasure chest!" - flashes in the head of the treastery. Then ... Then he sees something that makes him forget about the chest and involuntarily shrink. Hearing the chief of the head, his assistants run into the chambers of the house. Looking at the television screen, to which Blankenship look, they freeze in a stupor: a slowly swimming human hand is clearly visible on the screen. Branched, of course. There can be no doubt - there is something in the cave! But what? And Blakenship is solved for a desperate step. He intends to fall into the mysterious cave. But since the descent to such a depth is a risky case, and therefore, requiring thorough preparation, and in the yard the end of summer, the descent has to be postponed until the next season.
Summer in 1972. WITH MIGY, expected with such impatience, has come. After several trial descents on a small depth, the Blankenship light diving costume falls into the cave. Recall that the cave is at a depth of 72 meters. One can only guess what Blakenship experienced, dropping to such a depth, and even on the well, the diameter of which is only 70 centimeters, and envy him courage. Unfortunately, the first feeling that is experiencing, hitting the cave, Blinkenship, is disappointment. Water is so muddy, which does not help the electric lamp. And at all the water becomes irreparable when Blankenshype applies to the bottom legs and anxiously disturbing. Il immediately rises up thick black wrap. A few days later a new attempt. Blankenship lowers a special fleet in the cave, on which two car headlights are installed, then lowered himself. The result is former: and this powerful light source is not able to break through the impermeable darkness of the cave. It takes two days, and Blakenship again falls into the cave. This time he takes a camera with an electronic flash with him. She is, a flash, for sure to light the cave and helps see what is in it. Alas! When the film is manifested, everything as one frames are gray. They don't even have a hint of some image.
Mine 10x, modern view.
After that, leaving on the island more than half a million dollars and never coming to the cherished chest, Blankenship found it for the best of leaving the oak alone. Nevertheless, despite explicit failure, he makes a rather unexpected and promising statement: "What is under the island leaves far behind the most courageous assumptions. All guesses and legends arising around the island and its secrets are blocked in comparison with what I guess. I will not specifically spread - it is necessary to figure out everything to the end, but I can say one thing: the pirates are here at nothing. All pirates of all time, taken together, is nothing compared to people who are digging here. What was meant Blinkenship - aliens from other worlds, the treasures of the legendary Atlantis or something else, more ambitious, is difficult to say. It is possible that this was said uniquely to somehow smooth out the awkwardness due to failure.
Based on: I. A. Head. Golden Mirage. - M.: Knowledge, 1993
Who and why
Now there are quite a few versions of the origin of the alleged treasure on the island of Oak. The most common one is pirated. In this regard, the names of such famous pirates, like a black beard, Henry Morgan and Cidan Kidd. However, direct documentary evidence confirming this version is not. The pirated version is also questionable because it is hardly among the pirates there were engineers in the mining, specialists in hydraulic engineering and a whole army of workers. According to modern specialists, in order to build a similar hydraulic complex, having a technological level of the XVIII century, it took round-the-clock labor at least 100 people during the year. Why do pirates such difficulties?
Oak and his treasure - a long chain of questions, which still have no answers. And the main thing among these issues, which is already two centuries, do not give rest to scientists and treasures: who are so smart and reliably stated the treasures in the depths of the island? If you managed to get an answer to this question, it would be quite easy to answer all the others ... In the meantime, the secret of Ouka is still waiting for her attenuation. For 220 years, 6 people died on the island, trying to get to his underground secrets.
Searches continue
Searches for treasure (if it exists) continues to this day. These minutes, while you read this article, the Rick and Martin Lagin from Michigan are working on the island, which, with the help of modern technologies, are trying to find treasures or historical artifacts hidden on Oak Island. Their work is shown in the documentary series "Curse of Oak Island". It is known that they found the first item, which can be indirectly confirming the existence of treasure - Spanish coin.
Our days. Researchers are descended to the already known mine 10x.
As the researchers themselves say, they intend by supplying compressed air and pumping water to reach the unknown subject at a depth of 72 meters, similar to the box, which has seen Blackneckip in Mine 10x. We wish them good luck!
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On the island of Oak almost there was not a disturbed place. Group of prospectors So and then replace each other. What are the desperate guys looking for a completely ordinary in view of the Island of Sushi, located in the bay from the coast of New Scotland?
No wonderful is the Oak Island until 1795. The same forests, hills and lowlands as on other islands of the Gulf of Mahon. Only at the end of the XVIII century three boys, playing on the south side of the island, accidentally discovered a strange mine. Obtaining a few meters deep into, they saw oak beams, followed by endless shurt. On one of the rocks, they found the inscription, later deciphered by their parents.
According to the legend, it was written there that the chests with gold are at a depth of 150-180 pounds.
Record has done a lot of noise. There were also declared treasures. They dug a hole in the depth of meters 30, when they came across a solid surface. The joyful impression was instantly dispelled with water that filled the buried mine.
Over time, it became known that the mine, called subsequently "monetary", not alone. It has a number of branches - tunnels that stretch almost through the whole island. When you managed to "seal" a few holes, a mysterious barrel rose on the surface of the water.
It was the mysterious because no one knows about its contents. The treasures are no longer seen, they were dissolved. Suspicions of the found wealth are associated with Anthony Vogan - London magnate leading the recovery life. He became famous, buying land in England and Canada. His son somehow at the British auction acquired jewels for his spouse for hundreds of thousands of dollars. More about him is not known.
In the middle of the XIX century on the island "worked", several dozen groups who have known about the monetary mine. They drove the whole terrain in search of wealth.
In the same period, a whole syndicate dealt with deep drilling was created. He headed him William Sellers. After his staff, his employees found a chest of metal. However, they were not so open - on the same day they collapsed deep into the abyss. Sellers, having time to grab something at the Bura, left the island in a hurry. Rumor, it could be a big diamond.
It is not yet once a gold hunter came to the island, it is known that the future US President - Roosevelt was also known in one of the expeditions. But the sources claim that they failed to find them.
In the 20th century, several group search groups were organized. It was possible to open one of the underwater caves, but there was no significant jewelry.
The XXI century did not stay away from the disclosure of the secrecy of the monetary mines. Five years ago, the History canal shot a number of programs dedicated to search work on Oak Island. Poppants This time managed to find ancient Spanish coins, which was the confirmation for them - the treasure on the island there.
The fascinating mystic of treasures manits, does not let go and does not give rest ... The desire to find outless wealth has become the cause of terrible tragedies, murders and disappointments. But the most "impenetrable" place is a cash mines located on Oak Island. For two centuries, she plays with treasure hunters, and without giving the desired treasure ...
Games in Pirates
At the junction of the 18th and 19th centuries, the boys played pirates, like now. They did not need books for inspiration, they knew the story perfectly thanks to the stories of Old-timers. Those managed to catch and captain Kidda, and the infamous black beard.
Daniel McHinis grew on the coast, and for games with friends chose a small island, located nearby to New Scotia. He was called oak, in honor of a huge tree grew there. It was this Oak that launched the chain of events that still last.
Three brave pirates found a pointer on one of the branches. He showed to the ground, and the guys immediately began excavating. True, they independently managed to find only a drone well, going deep underground. The children were able to go down a little down, but the shovels rested into some kind of wooden surface.
Adults refused to help - the island had very bad fame. Then Daniel with friends shared all the coast with friends, but their finds were limited to one coin and mooring stone to which the boats had once mounted.
Return to Oak Island
The main filling of the pirate games did not part with the dream to dig the treasure. He returned to the island in 10 years, taking helpers with him. Skipping well, they consistently stumbled into layers of clay, charcoal, coconut washcloth. The manifold pits were confirmed by oak partitions, which occurred at equal intervals.
Ultimately, the treasters discovered a stone with an encrypted inscription. Many later appeared 2 versions of what was written on the stove. The consonant first, it was information about the value of the treasure - 2 million pounds sterling. In the 70s of the 20th century, a second assumption was expressed - the cipher was a hint for the suffering wealth, and recommended pouring maize or wicked grains into the water.
But these interpretations appeared many years after the work of Mac-Ginnis. And the treasure detector themselves continued to dig. It was becoming increasingly harder to work, water began to appear in the pit, but it seemed that the cherished target was already close - pleasures felt some kind of wooden subject. However, night came, and further searches postponed until the morning.
At dawn of the treasures, there was a terrible disappointment - the mine was filled with a liquid by 60 feet. It was not possible to pump it ...
Expeditions on Oak Island
What happened to the man, finding the well the first, unknown. But to the mine began a pilgrimage. In the middle of the 19th century, a full-fledged expedition was equipped to the island. They brought with them the bur, which was 98 feet down and stumbled upon an already familiar barrier.
Participants decided that the inclined and vertical holes for sucking water should be drilled. They were so much that the treasure asked and disappeared into the abyss of dirt and snack. Perhaps the idea with cereal was not so naive? This thought confirms the dilapidated dam. Presumably, she prevented an island from flooding with water from the ocean.
In 1896, new drillers arrived at the oak island. They managed to get to the metal barrier. They found a way to break through it with a particularly durable drill. Below is something like concrete, oak partition and soft metal. Halfed that this is gold, but there was no confirmation. Wood fibers, pieces of iron and even scraps of parchment, but neither crumbs of precious contents adhered to the tool. However, the folders of the treasures confidently reported that at a depth of 160 feet lies the chest, and the crowds were reached, attracted by rumors about the many flooded barrels with treasures.
In the 60s of the last century, underground strokes and channels for removing the water connected to the mine and dam were found. But the drillers a hundred years earlier damaged a carefully verified message system. Since then, it has been flooded with water, and the impotent even the newest modern technique.
1965 marked the death of four people. At the same time, Daniel Blinkenship appeared on Ouke. This person approached the search thought thoughtfully and thoroughly. He did not rush to ruin the already broken well, and slowly bypassed the whole island. They were also found the remains of an old pier, who did not notice the previous seekers. Perhaps there were no time on the island a lot of tips, but the unceremonious appeal to the ground and the mass of technology, most likely destroyed them all.
What is hiding in the mine
It was Daniel Blankenship, after analyzing all archival materials related to pirates, a version of the secret treasury of the captain of the fleece of flibusers. Later, this was confirmed by other researchers. Corsaars were not typical of the desire for complex construction, but they lived their lives and were famous for the motorcycle. All the loot remained in the bottomless pockets of innocents and public girls.
The wise treasure detector nominated 3 versions according to which in the monetary hole lies:
- Treasures of Inca, Francisco Pissaro. He managed to assign gold to millions of pounds, but all this money was not a trace. Maybe they are still securely tested by the subsoil of the oak island;
- Money monks in the UK. After the introduction of Protestantism in England, the monasteries were merciless and destroyed. After the dissolution of the Abbey of St. Andrew disappeared and irreparable riches stored in the basements. In favor of this version, the fact that the system of underground messages on the island and the secret moves of the monasteries was built according to one principle;
- Holy Grail. The existence of the artifact is controversial, one of the versions it was covered by masons on a small island near New Scotland.
Daniel Blankenship managed to pull the camera into a bored side of the well, and then for the first time the curtain of the mystery was a bit ajar. He was able to see a huge box, and the human hand was swimming near and the outlines of the skull were viewed. After that, the researcher did 3 attempts to descend the monetary hole, but they all ended Fiasco. Black Il with the slightest movement hid everything around.
Mystery remains a mystery. Daniel Blankenship makes foggy statements that he has assumptions about the treasures of the Oak Island, but he will not voice them, until it is completely discern. However, it hints that the truth will be much fantastic than all versions.
From 2013, Rick and Martin Lagin are excavated on the island, for so far their only achievement is the find of the Spanish gold coin.
Who and why?
In fact, in the desire to become millionaires embedded by feverish enrichment, few of the diggers thought about what people and, most importantly, why were it Titanically worked in order to reliably hide the mysterious treasure.
For the first time, this question was set "Galifax". According to estimates and conclusions made on the basis of the results of the excavations, the construction was ruled by those who knew the mining and hydraulic engineering. In addition, they had volitional and leadership qualities, because there would be 1,000 people who had to work in 3 shifts of at least six months ...
These facts make suggestion - the value of hidden treasure is so much so that it was necessary to attract the ocean forces for its concealment, and the hardest work was justified. Modern researchers believe that until it becomes known, who, why and when I turned a small island into a fortress for concealing a single chest, find it will not work ...
