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by Lionel Fanthorpe (Author), Patricia Fanthorpe (Author)
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  • Paperback: 221 pages
  • Publisher: Hounslow Press; illustrated edition edition (Feb 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0888821700
  • ISBN-13: 978-0888821706
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 336,259 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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It began innocently enough...in 1795 three boys discovered the top of an acient shaft on uninhabited Oak Island in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The boys began to dig, and what they uncovered started the world's greatest and stangest treasure hunt. Two hundred years of courage, back-breaking effort, ingenuity, and engineering skills have so far failed to retrieve what is concealed there. The Oak Island curse prophesies that the treasure will not be found until seven men are dead and the last oak has fallen. That last oak has already gone - and over the years, six treasure hunters have been killed. What can the treasure be? Theories include Drake's plate and jewels, Captain Kidd's bloodstained pirate gold, an army payroll left there for safety by the French or British military engineers, priceless ancient manuscripts, the body of an Arif or other religious refugee leader, the lost treasure of the Templars, and part of the ancient, semi-legendary Acadian Treasure linked to the mystery of Glozel and Rennes-le-Chateau in France. After years of research the authors have finally solved the sinister riddle of Oak Island, but their answer is challenging, controversial and disturbing. Something beyond price still lies waiting in the labrinth.

About the Author
Lionel Fanthorpe is a world authority on unsolved mysteries and the paranormal. His research into the Oak Island Money Pit goes as far back as 1972. Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe live in Cardiff, Wales. Lionel is the host of the popular UK television program "Fortean TV," while Patricia serves as his agent, PR executive, and co-researcher.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Asks more questions than it answers, 19 April 2006
By Steven Willis "capesorama" (Newcastle, UK) - See all my reviews
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I found out about this book whilst doing a web trawl for information on the mystery of Rennes-Le-Chateau, and, after a little bit of cursory research into what the Oak Island Money Pit was all about, found myself completely intrigued by the whole thing. I was looking for answers, and this book could provide them - or so I thought.

The book is essentially split into two parts, the first details the history of Oak Island and the numerous excavations into the 'Money Pit' over the years, and the second covers the various possibilities as to who created the pit and what could actually be down there. The documenting of the historical events surrounding the Money Pit is fantastic, giving a clear insight into who investigated the shaft, how and when they did so, and what they found. Some of the discoveries made through the years are absolutely breathtaking, but remain tantalisingly enigmatic. Without giving away any of the discoveries, I was amazed that some of them were not more widely known about, or publicised.

The section of the book which deals with who created the Money Pit covers a host of possible candidates, from pirates and Templars, to early 'sea rovers' from the British Isles and even religious refugees from the Middle East. Most of these theories require a leap of faith - or a suspension of rational thinking - to be realistically considered, although it has to be said that every possibility is sensibly discussed.

The claim that the authors have 'solved the mystery' is a little misleading, as they have merely outlined which of the many theories they feel is most likely. I don't mean to imply that they haven't produced an immaculately researched, near definitive study into the subject, because they have - it is just that to claim the whole mystery is solved is to stretch credibility. Having been drawn in by the potential of the book, and its startling opening, I ended up quite unfulfilled by the end. I suppose some mysteries are destined to always be mysteries...

I get the impression that the author's true interest lies in the deeper mystery of Rennes-Le-Chateau, because of the near constant references that made to it. In my view, the link between Oak Island and the French town, even when explained as enthusiastically as it is in this book, is tenuous at best. However, with so many tit-bits of information dropped here and there about Rennes-Le-Chateau, it feeds the imagination and increases the intrigue over both cases. It is because of this I feel that the Mystery of Oak Island serves as a good little tale on its own, but is ultimately a prelude to further reading into Rennes-Le-Chateau and its many shadowy avenues of debate.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Oak Island/Rennes le Chateau etc etc, 27 May 2007
By A. Travis "Nick" (Peniscola, Spain) - See all my reviews
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If you're truely interested in Rennes le Chateuu, don't bothered with this book.And even if you're interested in the "Money Pit" at Oak Island don't buy it !!
It's pure fantasy, bringing in every unexplained "mystery" and tenously linking it to Oak Island, ending with a theory that links The Emerald Tablets with Oak Isalnd!!!
It's been along time since a book so annoyed me.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary - in a bad way, 10 Jan 2009
This book is in two parts.
The first section deals with the mystery of the Oak Island Money Pit in a reasonably ordered and logical fashion, presumably because the authors are looking at indisputable facts that are well established. The second section - the alleged explanation of who built the Pit and what's hidden at the bottom of it - is arrant nonsense. It's a scatter-gun approach gone mad, with ever more bizarre and ludicrous 'explanations' offered on no historical or logical basis whatsoever. If the authors are to be believed, the 'treasure' of the Money Pit is a Viking burial, plus the treasure of the Knights Templar, plus Drake's plundered gold, plus the entirely mythical 'Emerald Tablets', plus the writings of Francis Bacon, plus the Holy Grail, plus pretty much anything else you can think of. There's even a vague suggestion that the Pit might have been dug by aliens.
What's particularly sad is their unquestioning reliance on anything found in the Bible - they treat the parting of the Red Sea and the Exodus as established fact when there's actually nothing in the historical record that even hints such events really occurred - and they even seem to believe in wholly discredited fictions like the so-called Philadelphia Experiment.
And that's a pity because the book is actually quite well-written. It's just well-written rubbish.
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