Whats the scoop on the mysterious buried treasure at Oak Island?
Dear Cecil: I need the true story on the buried treasure on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. From what I have read it was buried in a deep shaft beneath layers of wood, concrete, and other materials. As if that wasn’t enough, there are also booby-traps, with two different underground streams flooding the shaft whenever someone tries to dig up the treasure. Has anyone finally succeeded in getting the treasure out? Who put it in there so ingeniously? And how the hell did the owner ever expect to retrieve it? — J.P., Washington, D.C. Cecil replies: The short answer to your letter, J.P., is no, beats me, and good question. Despite the loss of at least six lives and the expenditure of millions of dollars, virtually nothing of value has ever been recovered from Oak Island, the setting for one of the most famous and certainly one of the most bungled treasure hunts in history. Although searching continues sporadically, the site has been so thoroughly blasted, tunneled and flooded out that the chances
