I hadn't looked into this before now except for where it connected with
my Captain Kidd's treasure study, but i have just done initial starter
research by looking up the wikipedia article, and it is abit more
interesting than i thought, though from the article and the below
compiled timeline it looks like they have pretty much exhausted the
island in searches and isn't likely any treasure there unless somewhere
they haven't looked.
Cambro-Ordovician Halifax formation slate
Mississippian Windsor group limestone
75000 yrs ago glacial advance
8000 yrs bp lagoon
Several thousand yrs ago Mikmaq Indians
Coptic
Grail
Knights Templars
pre-15th cent lead cross *
1430-1453 Capt Kidd
Shakespeare
16th-17th cent art & docs clues
1654-1701 Capt Kidd
1701 Capt Kidd executed *
wood structures at Oak Island Nova Scotia dated 1700-1720 *
1716-1718 pirate Edward Teach/Tatch "Blackbeard"
1750s French fishermen earliest confirmed European residents
7 yrs War: French fort Louisbourg fell to British
1759 Shorham grant for settlers. (Monroe, Lynch, Seacombe, Young*.)
1759 Chester founded
1760s Smith early resident *
1761 1st settlers, from Massachusetts
1770s Vaughan early resident
1778 DesBarres renames Smith's island "Gloucester isle"
shortly after 1778 island called Oak Island *
1784 additional govt land grants to former soldiers
1789 Louis & Marie Antionette flee Paris with jewells
late 1700s early settlers treasure stories begin appearing *
1795/1799 McGinnis (& Smith & Vaughin) discovered depression in ground *
early 1800s Onslow company activities;
early 1800s excavation, stone* discovered
1801 Chase attempts, wounded by Whynot
1802 Onslow company attempts
1818 original lot owners names mapped
1823-1830 Joseph Smith shows Book of Mormon tablets to witnesses
1824 stone built into Smith's chimney
1849-51 Truro company attempts
1850 Cooke shown stone by Smith *
1850 cofferdam found in 1909
1851 claimed that coconut fibres found
1856 Liverpool transcript
1856 stories began to be published; earliest story of McGinnis
1857 first published account
1860s excavation info of Onslow Comp
1861 Oak Island Assn excavation attempt; 1st accidental death
1862 account
1862 Onslow company excavated; 1862 another shaft dug
1863 explosion 1st mentioned in novel
1864 Cooke made inquiries about stone
1864 final attempt
1865-1866 stone removed to Halifax
later 1860s DeMille resident of Chester Basin
1861-1865 Oak Island Association
1862 McCully letter told story of the stone
1862 stone first reported in Halifax Sun & Advisor article
1863 newspaper article
1864 article
1864 Historical Soc contacts Cooke;
1864 Cooke's letter to Hunter-Duvar
1866 expediton
1866-1867 Oak Isl Eldorado company / Halifax company
1866/1868 death mentioned
1866 NY Times / Daily British Colonist & Victoria Chronicle article
1867 Wellington Independent Herald / NY Herald article
1872 DeMille's novel Treasure of the Seas
1879 Marshall born
1881-1986 Harris
1893 Oak Island 1st mentioned to Blair by McDonald
1893 Oak Isl Treasure Company prospectus (10 feet below*)
undated post-1894 letter by Blair
1895 History of Lunenburg county
1896 unkown group attempt
1897 shaft; 2nd accidental death.
1898 Moonfleet by Falkner (Mohune "Blackbeard").
1898 red paint poured into pit reveals 3 exit holes
early 20th cent sample sent to Smithsonian Institue
1909 Bowdoin & Old Gold Salvage group incld FDR.
1909/1910-1945 Roosevelt followed mystery, advised by Byrd; USAS
1911, suggestions that pit as natural phenomenon date to.
1911 Bowdoin account pubished in Collier's Magazine
1919 business closed, stone left behind
1924 island first mapped
1928 NY newspaper article
1929 Driscoll's book Oak Isl Treasure
1931 Chappell interested, excavated
1935 Marshall wrote
1935-1939 Hedden (who made 6 trips to the island) began digging
1936 further excavations
1939 Roosevelt's planned secret visit prevented by fog
1939 Popular Science article
1949 another "money pit" found
1949 True Tales of Buried Treasure ("40 ft below"*)
1953 Leary's book Oak Isl Engima
1958 Harris' book Oak Isl Mystery
1959-1965 Restall & his 18 yo son attempt
1960s
1965 account of excavation in Reader's Digest
1965-1966 Dunfield attempt, causeway built
1967 exploration syndicate formed
1969-1990s Triton Alliance
1970s Fell attempted translation of stone symbols
1971 Triton excavted a shaft
1971 videos
1979 In Search of ... episode
1983-1985 Triton sued Nolan over ownership of 7 lots
1989 Triton lost appeal
1990 Leary's 2nd book published
1990s exploration stalled by legal battles & lack of funds
1995 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution survey
1996-present Young purchase lot 5 from Nolan
2000 Nickell reviews original accounts in 'Secrets of Oak Isl'
2002 'Oak Isl Treasure', MMM* Group
2005 portion of island for sale
2005-present Michigan Group; 2005 Michigan Group purchase lot 25
2006 anounced that Lagina purchased half of Oak Isl Tours
2006 Joltes' Oak Island legend
2008 Dunning, Skeptoid article
2010 OIT announce grated license
2010/2011 Oak Island Treasure Act
2014 History Channel documentary (goes for 6 seasons, 75 episodes)
2014-2019 allempires forum thread/topic
2014-present Curse of Oak Isl tv show
2015
2016 divers sent to bottom of borehole 10-x
2017 500 yr old brooch found *
2019 2 people living on island
2019 Blankenship's death aged 95 yo
2019 Oak Isl Tours dissolved.
My first impressions are these:
There
may be a connection with the Mormons because of several coincidental
similarities including: name Smith; name Young; name Monroe similar to
Moroni (or Moore in Kidd ballad); date 1824 similar to Mormon date 1823;
both link with NY; Cooke shown stone by Smith in 1850 similar to Joseph
Smith showed witnesses tablets in 1823-1830.
The only matches i
can see with Captain Kidd are: dates close; name Monroe similar to
Moore; Oak island is 50 percent sand and Kidd buried "bible" in the
sand; both link with NY; Money Pit similar to Money Cove. 10/40 feet
below similar to 30/40 leagues from shore (oak platforms / layers of
logs every 10 feet a measure?)? Coconut & Cocos? Robin Squires &
"Robert Kidd"?
Haven't researched Blackbeard yet so can't say if might be connected.
Not sure if "triangle shaped swamp" of Oak Island may link with Kidd or Blackbeard? Sounds vaguely familiarish? Or if "skeleton island" of Kidd's, or the skeleton in Blackbeard flag linked with Oak Island? Oak platforms like skeleton? ("Storeup your treasure in heaven, ..., for where your treasure is your *heart* is"?)
"the
flag which is commonly attributed to Blackbeard (pictured), depicting a
skeleton spearing a
heart, while toasting the
devil"!
Heart is
triangle shaped. Blackbeard hid his treasure "where none but
Satan and myself can find it".
The
history of the stone might be masonic connected. (Mormonism also mason
connection.) The stone is also similar to one in Wonders of Britain.
Stone of Scone? Grail Stone? Philosopher's stone? Peter/Cephas?
Why is it called Oak Island?
Edited by Arthur-Robin - 19-Apr-2019 at 07:16