These Brothers Bought an Island to Look for Treasure Only to Find that It Is Cursed

Breaking the code

The coded carving on the mysterious Oak Island slab remained to be a mystery for code breakers and historians for over a century. Then, Professor Edward Rowe Snow was able to crack the code. According to him, the inscription said “Forty feet below, million pounds are buried.” This was the final piece of proof treasure hunters needed to conduct treasure hunts at Oak Island.

The famous researcher, William Chappell, led the Oak Island Project after the code was broken. It was in 1931 when William and his team made the attempt to dig past the bottom hole that the Onslow Company started. His team was able to recover a 250-year-old French hunting ax.