Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, holds Oak Island on its southern shore. The Mi'kmaq called the bay Sebetre and Mush-a-Mush. The French administered it for sixty-five years as Mirligueche, surveying it for naval oak under Louis XIV in 1684 and granting it as a seigneury to Captain Pierre Denys de Bonnaventure in 1702. The name Mahone Bay first appears on a 1736 British chart by Captain Thomas Durell.

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Oak Island is a small island off Nova Scotia, Canada, where people have dug for more than two hundred years in search of something buried beneath it. Discovered in 1795 as a strange depression with man-made oak platforms below, the Money Pit has never given up its secret. The search continues today.

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Season 13 of The Curse of Oak Island did something the show had not quite managed before. Independent scientific methods (carbon-14 on swamp leather, archaeoastronomy on Lot 5, binder analysis on the Lot 8 cradle, and a Portuguese coin authenticated to no later than 1371) converged on the medieval window.

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