The Money Pit is a shaft on Oak Island, Nova Scotia, first dug in 1795, with log platforms reported at roughly ten-foot intervals. It flooded with seawater near 93 feet in 1803 or 1804. Searchers have since drilled to 233 feet in the area. Wood, parchment, coconut fiber and human bone have come up, fueling the legend of a treasure at the bottom.

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Since 1795, over a dozen major expeditions have attempted to reach the bottom of Oak Island's Money Pit. An estimated $50 to $100 million has been spent and six people have died. Searchers range from teenage boys with shovels to a future U.S. president to the Lagina brothers, whose ongoing operation draws tens of millions of viewers worldwide.

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Captain James Anderson (c.1748-1796) was a Maryland sea captain who took the American patriot's oath in 1776, defected to the British in 1778, was charged with high treason by Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson, escaped to Nova Scotia, and lived on Oak Island from 1785 to 1788 as the owner of Lot 26 before selling to Samuel Ball.

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