Summary: <p></p> <p>Nova Scotia's Oak Island hides a famously booby-trapped treasure cache -- or so goes the legend. In this episode of the Futility Closet podcast, we review the many attempts to recover the treasure and wonder who could have engineered such a site, what might be hidden there -- and whether, indeed, it contains anything at all. We also puzzle over what a woman's errands can tell us about how her husband died.</p> <p>Sources for our segment on Oak Island:</p> <p>"The Secrets of Oak Island", Joe Nickell, <em>Skeptical Inquirer</em>, March/April 2000.</p> <p>Richard Joltes, <a href="http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/">"History, Hoax, and Hype: The Oak Island Legend"</a>, <em>Critical Enquiry</em>, accessed Oct. 19, 2014.</p> <p>Edwin Teale, "Mystery Island Baffles Treasure Hunters," <em>Popular Science</em>, May 1939.</p> <p>D'Arcy O'Connor, <em>The Money Pit</em>, 1978.</p> <p>The image above shows the dig as it existed in August 1931. Below is 27-year-old Franklin Roosevelt (third from right) at the 1909 dig:</p> <p> </p> <p>This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Nicholas Madrid.</p> <p>You can listen using the player above, <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/futilitycloset/Futility_Closet_podcast_-_Episode_30.mp3">download this episode directly</a>, or <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast?id=842593579">subscribe on iTunes</a> or via the RSS feed at <a href="http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset">http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset</a>.</p> <p>Many thanks to <a href="http://dougross.net/">Doug Ross</a> for the music in this episode.</p> <p>If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at <a href="mailto:podcast@futilitycloset.com">podcast@futilitycloset.com</a>. Thanks for listening!</p>
