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The Economic Times
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In 1795, three teenagers found a strange depression on Oak Island. More than 200 years later, the treasure mystery remains unsolved

There are few mysteries in the world that have never been solved. One of such mysteries is about two hundred years old from a Canadian island.

The incident happened way back in 1795, when a strange depression beneath an old oak tree on Oak Island off the coast of Nova Scotia set off one of the longest-running treasure hunts in North America. More than two centuries later, the so-called Money Pit remains at the center of a mystery that has produced countless theories, costly excavations and no authenticated discovery of buried treasure.

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