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Oak Island gold

A history of the mysterious tunnels with buried treasure under Oak Island, an island on Nova Scotia's south shore. Crooker begins with the original find of the tunnels in the 18th century, he includes legends and superstitions (pirates would bury someone with the treasure so their ghost would guard it, for instance). He takes us to the present where we find the island bogged down with lawsuits and ownership battles for the tunnels.

Book  - 2001
971.623 Cro
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  • ISBN: 155109049X
  • ISBN: 9781551090498
  • Physical Description ix, 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
  • Publisher Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus Publishing, [2001]

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General Note:
"Startling discoveries in the world's most famous treasure hunt"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 17.95

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Oak Island Gold
Oak Island Gold
by Crooker, William S.
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Oak Island Gold


For over two centuries, the mysterious labyrinth of shafts and tunnels under Oak Island, a tiny island on Nova Scotia's South Shore, has been the scene of a frantic search by scores of treasure hunters from two continents. They believe that the shafts and intricate man-made flooding system hold the secret to a treasure of untold wealth. Although millions have been spent, bitter feuds have erupted, and men have died, the treasure has remained as elusive as the answers to who built the labyrinth, why and how it was constructed, and the nature of the treasure itself. Until now. In his second book on the Oak Island mystery, William Crooker meticulously sifts through the evidence unearthed by treasure hunters on the island, past and present. Then, armed with some starling new discoveries, he neatly fits the pieces together to offer a plausible solution to the baffling puzzle of Oak Island.