Conference hydra::dejavu

    There is an article in National Geographic (several years ago) that
    outlines the entire history including current attempts to get to
    the bottom.  There is a legend that says seven people will die before
    the treasure is found.  Six have bit the dust so far.  I don't recall
    the exact issue, maybe someone else can help out, but it was very
    interesting.

    Terry

    
    Also, Edgar Rowe Snow (who collected stories about New England)
    wrote about it in one of his collections.

    I didn't see the National Geographic article, but there was on in
    Smithsonian Magazine, i think in the same time frame.  (Will cross post
    some more stuff on Oak I as i get the chance...).
    
    thanks
    dwp

re: .3 (and my previous reply)

    Oops, that was it, Smithsonian not National Geographic.  If any of you 
    are scrambling through your NG's to find the article, it isn't there.

    Terry

    Another discussion of Oak Island takes place in FREEBE::metal_detecting
    (KP7 to select...).
    
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CIMNET::PIERSON "Milwaukee Road Track Inspector"     21 lines  18-NOV-1988 19:57
    
    Another recent article was in Smithsonian Magazine, try a library.
    Sometime midsummer or fall 88.  I thought I had extracted & posted
    here, but obviously not.  At a guess, the Smithsonian article is
    the one RD digested.  I think I have passed that issue on already.
    
    One (spoiler) theory starts from the time of the orignal report
    (1790ish) and argues thusly:
    	Who would have had something to hide, engineering skill,
    	manpower, and who might have dug it up (leaving the depression)
    	shortly before 1790??
    
    	Answer: (proposed...)
    	The Royal Navy.  They had payroll funds, official records, etc.
    	The rebels were raiding into Canada, and had lots of privateers
    	on the high seas.  A safe hidey hole was needed.  Oak Island
    	would fit...
    
    I hope theres something there.  It would be more fun...
    
    thanks
    dave pierson
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    (crossposted with permission of author...	8)>>)
    thanks
    dwp

    IS THIS THE OAK ISLAND IN REVERE MASSACHUSETTS?
    
    
    
    

    .6  no
    

    I have to Smithsonian at home and will post a detailed report soon.
    Although the Smithonian covers the topic fairly well, the best account
    of Oak Island that i have read is contained in a book called "This 
    Baffling World." I do not remember the author but it contains many 
    mysterious happenings from around the world. I know the book is out
    of print and I lost my copy a few years ago.
    
    

    There is quite a good "chapter" on this in an excellent book entitled:
    "Open Files", it was published in Britain by Orbis Publishing of London
    and was edited by Peter Brookesmith.  Sorry forgot to copy down the
    copyright but it was mid-80's I think.  The book is a collection of
    articles from a magazine called The Unexplained, which I've never seen
    a copy of -- I presume it's British also.  The chapter in question
    is entitled "Oak Island Money Pit" and appears to have originally been
    three articles by Edward Horton.  I thought that the book was overall
    quite excellent (I can't say the same for the volume Strange Talents,
    which though drawn from the same source, seemed full of inaccuracies
    and a total lack of critical thought -- give me mysteries with some
    meat on them and I will feast delighted, but please don't give me
    only a fairy feast of vapor).
    
    					Topher

I've been by Oak Island.  It is just off the coast of Nova Scotia, about half
way between Yarmouth and Halifax (a beautiful drive, by the way, like Maine
was before the tourists arrived).  I first read about it in the 1960s in a
Reader's Digest article.  Fairly ingenious method of protecting "treasure" if I
recall. Flood the place if the seal is breached.
						-Kevin

    a great book about Oak Island came out in paperback last year
    called "The Big Dig" my husband has it at home and I can't off
    hand recall the authors name.
    

    .12>
    thanks for that tidbit I'm going to see if I can find it.
             Bill-

    
    
    I have the book "this baffling (sp) world" with a story about 
    
    oak island and will loan if promised to return.
    
    jim mckinnon @seo
    orcas::mckinnon_ja