I remember reading about this as a kid. I was wondering what happened to it. I'll bet a real excavation effort by professionals (read Americans) could pull the "treasure" out of that hole.
Never trust anyone who is so not-greedy about something that they want YOU to benefit from investing in it.
It's like, cosmic or something.
oh.the title led me to believe this was in Washington ,DC-
where all good money goes to die.
Gee I'd love to bid on this except I already have several money pits.
Aka kids....and an old house.
Read about this for years. The pictures of the hand and chests are very spooky. There are a few sort of similar 'pirate banks' scattered around the world but nothing really comes close to the 'Money Pit'. What ever it was built for had to have been done by a very organized work crew following a detailed plan who were either sworn to secrecy or murdered afterwards. Since there are no known records contemporary to its construction some have postulated that the ship or ships carrying the associated maps and drawings were sunk on their return voyage to Europe. Just about everything has been tried to get to the bottom of the pit. Cassions, pumps etc. but nothing has worked.
A classic Dungeons and Dragons ploy. :-)
Not a syllable about the island, the main subject of the article: exact location, size, maximum elevation, water supply, configuration of its shoreline; anything and everything that a prospective rational buyer might want to know.
I have one of those in my bathroom.
I can't remember who wrote a fictional work on this. Turned out the pit was loaded with radioative material that killed anyone who got close to it. Great book.
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In 400 years, wonder what'll be thought of our trash dump landfills?
A fool and his money are easily parted.
A few observations:
Digging a 212 shaft in the 17th century was a serious undertaking and would involve many manhours of work.
The addition of the underground flooding system would probably quadruple the work.
I suspect that when we clean it out we will find that it was for a more valuable purpose than burying treasure although I can't think of what that purpose would be. Perhaps the key may lie in the flood tunnels which would raise and lower the water level with the tides.
Any ideas, anyone? This could be a machine that did something using the tides as a power source.
The Real Story of the hole was probably something totally lame, like - Year around 1614, two snot-nosed boys hiking around the island stumble on a natural vertical hole in the ground. (which happens in nature), and after about a half hour of hawking loogies down the hole they look for objects to toss down it like any boy would, just to see how deep it is and what kind of sound the object makes when it hits bottom. First Grandpas old wooded chest and a rusty pickax the boys used to widen the opening. Then some rocks, dirt, more loogies, then a wooden pickle barrel, then more rocks, some dirt, then a box of nails, some wood, more dirt, more loogies. You get the idea.
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