The Money Pit: A Complete History of the Oak Island Enigma

The island doesn't give up its secrets; it just allows us to bury our own inside of it.

Most people know Oak Island from television—a place of dramatic music, cliffhangers, and a revolving door of theories involving everyone from the Knights Templar to Francis Bacon. But the reality of this tiny island in Mahone Bay is far more violent, expensive, and deeply unsettling than a sixty-minute episode can capture.

The Money Pit is a synthesis of over two centuries of records, folklore, and geologi...