Oak Island Conspiracy Theory

The history of the Oak Island mystery begins in 1795 when a man find a strange depression on the small Nova Scotian island and returns the next day with two of his friends to begin digging. As they dig they find layers of stone and layers of oak logs. They discover what they believe to be a man made shaft but stop digging due to exhaustion. The mysterious shaft would go untouched until 1803 when the three men acquire a business partner to help fund the search. They dig down about 90 feet when the shaft begins to flood with ocean water. The shaft, later to be dubbed the “Money Pit”, is left alone until 1849 when a new company takes over and retrieves a core sample with supposedly three pieces of gold chain. They eventually stop work on the

While it may at first seem like an outlandish theory there is evidence to support it. The start of this theory comes from another mystery entirely. What happened to the missing templars? After most of their order was hunted down and executed a number of members were unaccounted for. According to article The Knights Templar, the Templar Knights “ Had both motive and means to deposit treasure in the Money Pit”. The templar treasure is believed to have come from their conquest of the Holy Land including what ever they took from the temple of Solomon. They were also the first bank, kings would deposit money for them to store. After the templars were sentenced to death by the king of France the survivors loaded the templar treasure onto their remaining ships and set sail to an unknown destination in Scotland. They would later again move to Nova Scotia as the theory goes. Evidence to support this comes from carvings of Knights found in Nova Scotia, native tales with descriptions that would fit the Templars, and templar emblems found on graves. All of this evidence lends credence to the theory that the knights templar buried their treasure on Oak