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In the summer of 1795, Daniel McGinnis went out exploring and discovered Oak island.
Daniel McGinnis found a clearing that was covered in trees that belonged to the forest that he was in and so
he did not notice the thirteen-foot wide depression in the ground before him at first, but when he laid his eyes on the hole visions of treasure that might be buried underneath filled his head so he later returned to the island with two friends, one named John Smith aged 19 and Anthony Vaughan aged 16 to help dig up the treasure. This was the beginning of most famous treasure hunt of modern times.
As they dug the three of them must have thought that they were on their way to discovering the treasure of Captain William Kidd as stories that a captain named William Kidd had buried a treasure hoard on an island east of Boston. This rumor had been circulating since the 1600s and legend has it that a dying sailor in the New England colonies confessed to being a part of Kidd's notorious crew but he never named an exact location for the hidden treasure.
The three of them cut away the smaller trees and kept digging into the depression and after 2 feet they got to a floor of very carefully laid flagstones. Under the stones, they saw that they were digging down a shaft that had been filled with pickaxes as marks were found in the shape. This was a sign that the hole was a work of humans.
When they got ten feet down the men hit wood and thought that they had reached the treasure chest but soon realized that this was a platform of oaken logs sunk into the sides of the shaft. As they pulled the logs up they discovered a 2-foot depression plus some more of the shaft. The men continued to dig until they got to the depth of 25 feet and that's when they realized that they could not continue on without more help and better planning. They got out of the pit, covered it up and left figuring that nobody would dig more than what they've done unless they knew how valuable the treasure at the bottom would be...
