If you’ve never heard of it (there’s something like umpteen seasons of a basic cable reality show about it somewhere), just set a timer first to quit before you spend all day reading about it. One of the most kill joy things I have ever read is a somewhat reasonably sounding explanation for the “treasure pit” being a natural sinkhole though.
I was exactly the kind of kid who couldn’t read enough about Stonehenge or the search for the Titanic (which hadn’t been found yet when I was younger) or “Alien Astronauts.” In particular, I have always been fascinated by the Oak Island Mystery where there may (or probably not) be buried pirate treasure on an island off of Nova Scotia. To over simplify it, treasure hunters who have tried to dig up the treasure have continuously stumbled into more problems right after thinking they’ve passed one barrier. Hit a barrier of logs? Rip them up and keep digging, but it turns out there’s another one below it. Dig that one up? The tunnel floods. Send dye down the shaft to try to figure out where and how the water is getting in? There appears to be a tunnel dug to the hole from a cove. Plug that hole up? It appears there’s another tunnel to a different cove! And you get the point.
I have frequently described particularly hard troubleshooting efforts as “Oak Island Problems.” You know, the kind where you pat your back along the way anytime you’ve “moved the exception!” Except in our case, we can generally get to the bottom of it and get things fixed without spending hundreds of years and maybe a dozen lives in accidents trying to find the treasure that may or may not actually exist.
The Shade Tree Developer 