It was a hoard removed from Spain around 1714. Various versions of the story now exist but all say the same thing: a dying sailor left the map to the island. You would be familiar with the late 19th century retelling of the incident: Treasure Island by Stevenson but by then the legend had been in circulation for over a century already.
By the 19th century copies of the map had spread worldwide. Oak Island is just one of the many islands searched by those who had copies of the treasure map hoping they had identified the correct island. There are even forms of inventories of the hoard's contents that can be found as they have been published since since it all began.
You were told 'nothing exists to say what what occurred on Oak Island?
This is a direct lie.
It was known from the start and it was recorded as such from the begining in the contemporaneous records. This known detail even appears in books publsihed up to the 1970s.
You were just told no such records exist so believed it, you can answer yourself whether you just accepted this as true so never then looked further .
A copy of the actual map was even published in 1934.
Similarly you haven't been told of the numerous others parties that also had copies of the 'treasure map' and turned up to Oak Island to search using it.
Here you can now read in black and white some of the contemporaneous reports you have been told don't exist.
And interesting note though:
If you go to Oak Island and the surrounding area to look through their historical files you won't find any reports or mention of a treasure map. The files have been cleansed of any mention about the whole thing being due to a treasure map to stop this being discovered.
Three things will make a lot more sense now you know this:
1. Dan Blankenship was telling everyone it was a Spanish origin treasure. He had a copy. Anyone follow that or just go back to the latest ice cream 'theory' the show presented that week?
2.All the 'theorists' that turn up are there are screened and selected to appear not what they know but what they don't know: the production doesn't want the 'answer' accidentally blurted out as it will end the show.
3. For all the 'research' that allegedly is done there identifying other locations you probably are wondering why these are only given cursory attention for a few hours before the team abandons them and just heads back to dig the Money Pit site yet again?
It's because that's the position their copy of the treasure map which started it all marks, therefore it is the only place the treasure could possibly be.
But that is if you have the correct island the map is even for.
What you do want to look for next time there is a War Room meeting is the show's own researcher 'forgetting' again to mention what he does know......
