Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

Off the southern shore of Nova Scotia, in a bay scattered with small wooded islands, there is one particular island that has consumed fortunes, swallowed lives, and defied every attempt to give up its secret for more than two hundred years. It is called Oak Island, and on it lies a shaft in the ground known the world over as the Money Pit. Since the closing years of the eighteenth century, treasure hunters have poured wealth and labor and, in six cases, their own lives into the earth of that island, chasing something they have never once laid hands upon. The deeper they dig, the further the prize retreats. It is one of the longest and strangest treasure hunts in human history, and after all this time no one can say with certainty whether there is any treasure there at all. The Boy and the Depression in the Ground The story, as it has come down through generations of retelling, begins around 1795. A teenage boy named Daniel McGinnis, exploring the then-uninhabited island, is said to ...