Six People Have Lost Their Lives Trying To Find The ‘Money Pit’ Of Oak Island
For more than two centuries, a section of Nova Scotia’s Oak Island has been the site of a relentless and deadly treasure hunt. The focus is a deep, man-made shaft known as the “Money Pit,” first discovered in 1795 and allegedly protected by a series of sophisticated booby traps, most notably engineered flood tunnels that fill the pit with seawater as excavators approach its presumed bottom. Despite numerous costly and technologically advanced expeditions that have reported discovering artifacts like non-native coconut fiber and a stone tablet with cryptic symbols, no verifiable treasure has ever been unearthed. The origin and purpose of the elaborate structure remain completely unknown, and the obsessive quest to solve its puzzle has resulted in the deaths of six people.
Polynesians Suddenly Stopped Voyaging For 2,000 Years In An Event Known As ‘The Long Pause’
After an astonishingly rapid maritime expansion that saw expert Polynesian seafarers colonize the remote islands of West Polynesia, their eastward exploration came to an inexplicable halt around 900 BCE. For nearly two thousand years, a period now known as “The Long Pause,” these master navigators made no new long-distance voyages into the unpopulated regions of the central and eastern Pacific. Then, as suddenly as it began, the moratorium on exploration ended around 1000 CE with a new burst of activity that led to the settlement of Hawaii, Rapa Nui, and New Zealand. What prompted history’s greatest mariners to cease their defining cultural practice for so long is still not known today.
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