Zstarch

I think the money pit is a ruse. The original Readers Digest article said the three boys found " a depression in the ground under a large oak tree that had a ships pulley hanging from a limb over it! If you had gone to all this trouble to hide something, would you have left that? The planks at 10ft levels were to entice a digger to keep going, which they did. The 90ft stone was more of an enticement to trip the flood system which they hoped would drowned the searchers. While the crew of laborers were digging that shaft, a few of, the original depositors leaders went off secretly and buried whatever far from the pit. Then when the shaft was done, they killed the workers and buried them in a box in the ruse money pit where the treasure was supposed to go, hence the bones found. They may have left a small amount of treasure to make any diggers think they had found it all. That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it, at least till next Tuesday! I would not search more for treasure till I had found and stopped the flooding first. Question: After they drained Smith's Cove, did the water level in 10X stop going up and down with the tides? Could they pump 10X dry? Or is there a second flood tunnel they need to find? The whole system had to be dry when they excavated it originally. Get it dry again first!