Oak Island Treasure - the world's greatest treasure hunt - Oak Island Treasure

What is Oak Island Treasure?

Oak Island Treasure was created in August 2001 to bring the story of the Oak Island Money Pit mystery to an international audience. The website's creator, Jo Atherton first read about the mystery as a child and it had her hooked.

I decided to create Oak Island Treasure to discover the status of treasure excavations on the island. Living in London, England it had been hard to find out any information on Oak Island, but the internet lent itself perfectly to my quest. I had no idea it would grow into such a successful website and online community - we enjoy around half a million hits every month and are now the leading resource for anyone seeking information on this fascinating subject. More

Over the years, Oak Island Treasure has been involved in a variety of exciting projects, such as assisting Buena Vista to promote their film, ‘National Treasure’, working with the producers of Canadian MTV, editors of magazines and been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

Currently, as of Spring 2009, we are involved with assisting two documentary companies with their research and the forthcoming release of an Oak Island computer game. 

When not treasure hunting online, Jo still works full time in a 'proper job'. The site is run out of her own passion to tell the Oak Island story, with much detriment to her own time and money. Donations are very gratefully received to help with the growing running costs of the website and forum via our secure PayPal site.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it directly and she will be happy to answer them. Likewise we love to receive your theories on the Oak Island mystery, so please don't be shy and get in touch!