Oak Island Treasure newsletter - July 2008

Dear friends of Oak Island,

This edition of our newsletter brings you the news of the recent Explore Oak Island Days organised by the Oak Island Tourism Society, additions to the online archive, details of our forthcoming London meeting and news of our new social networking groups.

Explore Oak Island Days 2008 roundup

During June, Oak Island played host to the annual Explore Oak Island Days, organised by the Oak Island Tourism Society. Every year, the event draws excited fans of the mystery from all over the world, and this year was no different. Read all about it:
http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/167/146/

Oak Island Treasure Online Archive

We bring news of some new additions to the online archive. Highlights content recently added include:

Carbon dating reports -
http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/161/142/

Coconut fibre analysis reports -
http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/156/137/

Geology maps - http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/163/143/

Correspondence and newspaper reports from the excavations undertaken by Robert Dunfield - http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/164/144/

London meeting

The annual Oak Island Treasure UK get together is set to take place on Saturday 9th August at noon in The Captain Kidd pub in Wapping, London. For all you need to know about this social get together, visit: http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/35/47/

Social networking

Want to meet fellow Oak Island enthusiasts and discuss the world's greatest treasure hunt? Oak Island Treasure is not just a website - join one of our growing social networks to talk, share photos and watch videos - http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/166/2/

Kind regards,

Jo Atherton

Website Manager
Oak Island Treasure
http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk

Oak Island Treasure social media

Next month, Oak Island Treasure will celebrate it's seventh birthday. Originally created back in the summer of 2001, the website has brought together people fascinated in the Money Pit mystery.

The forum, the largest on the subject, boasts over 1700 members spanning the globe, many of whom have met in person at the annual Explore Oak Island Days arranged by the Oak Island Tourism Society.

To keep with the fast pace of the internet and continue to reach as many Oak Island fans as possible, Oak Island Treasure is seeking new avenues to unite people interested in the world's greatest treasure hunt.

In addition to the forum, there are over 400 members on our facebook group and have recently established a ning community for people to share media and discuss the mystery. Why not take a look?

What is it?

Ning is a social network website, allowing you to create groups for people interested in any subject of your choice. Similar to facebook, and a more dynamic version of the traditional forum, the new Oak Island Treasure group offers an excellent way of sharing media content and meeting fellow Oak Island enthusiasts.


Find more photos like this on Oak Island Treasure


Take a look: http://oakislandtreasure.ning.com/

Explore Oak Island Days 2008

During June, Oak Island played host to the annual Explore Oak Island Days, organised by the Oak Island Tourism Society. Every year, the event draws excited fans of the mystery from all over the world, and this year was no different.

Over the course of a month, the OITS welcomed over 800 people including school tours, locals and tourists, all keen to see the location of the world's greatest treasure hunt. Visitors journeyed from across Canada and as far a field as the USA, Iceland, Scotland and England.

This year, the event took place at the Oak Island Resort & Spa, rather than the Western Shore and Area Improvement Association Building where it has been held for the past four years. This is recognition for how much potential the event has to grow, as bigger facilities were necessary to cope with guest numbers, house displays and accommodate speakers.

It was a great success with opportunity to exchange ideas with fellow Oak Island enthusiasts, catch up with old friends and actually see some of the recent excavations undertaken by Oak Island Tours Inc.

View photos of the weekend and download presentation slides.

Oak Island, coconut fibre and carbon dating

Oak Island Treasure is pleased to announce the addition of some new documents to its growing archive.

The first is a new section on coconut fibre.



Large quantities of coconut fibre have been found beneath the beach at Smith's Cove. Records suggest that this is over a foot deep in some places.

This has intrigued followers of the Oak Island mystery for years, given that coconuts are not found in that part of the world, pointing towards the creators of the Pit originating from more tropical lands.

The selection of documents spanning the past eighty years detail the various investigations which have been conducted into this strange material. Suggestions in the correspondence include eel grass, manila hemp and even human hair.

Carbon dating reports are also available to read for the first time.

To see these documents, please visit: http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/156/137/

Secondly, the next archive section relates to carbon dating. Samples of wood were taken from a shaft discovered on Nolan's property and analysed by radiocarbon dating. The documents span the past forty years show the analysis which has been undertaken and conclusions drawn about the suggested age of the wood, hinting at an approximate creation date for the Money Pit.

To read more about carbon dating on Oak Island, please visit: http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/161/142/

We are thankful to D'Arcy O'Connor for sharing these files with Oak Island Treasure.

These are part of a growing archive which aims to make a large amount of Oak Island historical material available online for the first time.

Other material avaliable to the Oak Island enthusiast includes images taken from deep within Borehole 10X showing man made structures, Petter Amundsen's research into Nolan's Cross and photographs from the day Dan Blankenship was almost trapped in Borehole 10X.

This initiative aims to share information in the wider Oak Island online community to contribute to wider reaching research into the world's greatest treasure hunt.

Passionate about Oak Island?

This is the opportunity you have been waiting for!

The Oak Island Tourism Society are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help out at their annual Explore Oak Island Days on 20-22 June 2008.

The jobs do not demand any heavy physical activity and will include:
security for historical displays
assisting in the collection of admission money
handing out tickets for various tours
running the "movie house"
assistant for the sale table
assistant for "front door"
assistant for speakers
room security for Loyalist Arms and Repair table
general girl/guy runners

If you are interested, please contact Danny or Yvonne Hennigar in the first instance - tel 902-275-3718 or email flhs@eastlink.ca

See you in June!

Oak Island Treasure Newsletter - March 2008

This edition of our newsletter brings you the news you've been waiting
for - the hunt for treasure has finally begun again on Oak Island.

Read about the latest attempt to recover riches on the small island in
Nova Scotia which has had treasure hunters baffled for over 200 years:
http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/145/134/

From the Oak Island in the present, next we step back to 1976 in our
ever-expanding Oak Island archive. We are pleased to bring you a
fascinating scrap of Oak Island history - a transcribed conversation
which took place between Dan Blankenship and his son the moment
Borehole 10X bean to collapse:
http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/146/135/

Browse our online archive for a growing collection of historical
documents and photographs relating to the world's greatest treasure
hunt: http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/73/96/

We also bring you the latest agenda for this years' Oak Island Tourism
Society's Explore Oak Island Days on June 20-22:
http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/content/view/135/128/

We are always interested in hearing from you - whether this may be
your own theory on the mystery or feedback on the site, we welcome any
comments you may have.

As always, we thank you for your interest in the Oak Island mystery
and look forward to bringing you the news when the hoard of treasure
is brought up to the surface on Oak Island!

Kind regards,

Jo Atherton

Website Manager
Oak Island Treasure
http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk

World's greatest treasure hunt has begun!

Oak Island Treasure has been informed that the hunt for treasure has begun again on Oak Island. This is the latest attempt to recover riches on the small island in Nova Scotia which has had treasure hunters baffled for over 200 years.

Our source reports that Oak Island Tours Inc have started their investigation by digging a series of shafts which, according to Oak Island author, D'Arcy O'Connor, are several feet north of the famed Money Pit.

This original site is where, as legend has it, a group of boys on a fishing expedition to the island discovered disturbed earth beneath a block and tackle hanging from an Oak Tree back in 1795.

Often called 'the world's greatest treasure hunt' due to the millions of dollars which have been spent on trying to overcome the ingenious set of traps devised to protect what some believe may be the biggest repository of treasure the world has seen.

Other speculators suggest the lost works of Shakespeare, Templar treasure and even that Oak Island could be the final resting place for the Holy Grail.

Today, interest is high as new investors from Michigan have teamed together with long time Oak Island treasure Dan Blankenship.

It would seem efforts are concentrated further north than the original Money Pit as three holes have been dug - one to 160 feet and two more to a huge depth of 300 feet.

This initial exploration has not resulted in any significant finds, but digging is to continue very soon as more of the island is probed to try and uncover its mysterious past.