The Oak Island Mystery: The Secret of the World's Greatest Treasure Hunt

Jane M. Wilson is a Toronto-based chartered financial analyst in the
investment business.

Did Templars’ feet in ancient time walk among Canada’s forests
green? And was the Holy Grail on Nova Scotia’s Oak Island seen? Who
made the arcane underground labyrinth, hieroglyphics, and artifacts
found on this east coast island? The structures indicate an elaborate
cache, but after 200 years of exploration, fortune seekers are neither
richer nor wiser. The book describes the findings to date, then tackles
the mystery with historical investigation and conjecture as to who could
have had the means and motive to be the mastermind. The authors adduce a
possible connection to a discovery in France—the subject of their
Secrets of Rennes-le-Chвteau (1992)—and no theory is too tenuous for
consideration. Coptic Christians fleeing eastern Vandals compete with
ancient beings of unknown origin and the alleged keepers of Francis
Bacon’s Shakespearean manuscripts. Readers need not be misled by the
authors’ interest in the paranormal. While William Crooker’s Oak
Island Gold (1993) may be better suited to the fact-seeking traveler,
the Fanthorpes’ extensive teleological research of the past will
engage and challenge historians. They will have to decide if this
maritime mystery is implicated in a strange recurring theme in ancient
myth and fact.