For Sale -- One Curious Island
Oak Island is for sale -- asking price is $7 Mil. From
CBC News:
For sale: 1 Canadian 'treasure island'
Oak Island, rumoured for two centuries as the home of hidden treasure, is being offered for sale to the Nova Scotia provincial government for $7 million.
After being locked in a legal struggle for seven years, the two estranged business partners who own most of the island, located off Nova Scotia's South Shore, are giving up their hunt for the buried treasure.
Dan Blankenship, 82, and David Tobias, 81, have agreed to shut down their business, Oak Island Tours Inc.
Everything from the Holy Grail to Captain Kidd's pirate treasure has been rumoured to be hidden on Oak Island, but 200 years of searching has failed to yield any treasure. Blankenship and Tobias have spent almost 40 years in their search.
Oak Island definitely has something that was built a fair length of time ago and was designed to deter intruders.
So far, people have dug down the 13' diameter pit to a level of 170 feet encountering layers of oak planks caulked with coconut fiber, tunnels dug from the ocean into the pit causing sudden flooding, inscribed stones, parchment, spruce and metal pieces. There is no end in sight.
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Posted by DaveH at July 8, 2005 12:19 AM
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