https://vo.rs/tags/nova-scotia/Latest from the Nova-Scotia desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/unravelled/the-oak-island-money-pit-is-anything-down-there/<p>Mahone Bay, on Nova Scotia&rsquo;s south shore, holds more than three hundred small islands, and for most of the last two centuries almost nobody outside the local fishing families could have named one of them. Oak Island is the exception, and the reason is a shallow, waterlogged depression in its eastern drumlin that has consumed more money, more equipment, and by most counts six lives, without ever producing so much as a coin anyone can agree is genuine. People keep going back. To understand why, it helps to first take the case for something being down there as seriously as its most careful believers do, and then follow the evidence to where it actually leads.</p>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000