Arrr! Did Captain Kidd Hide His Gold In An Ox-Swallowing Underground Vault? [Vintage PopSci]
Did Captain Kidd hide his loot in the tide-guarded money pit of Oak Island? Gather 'round, ye flea-bitten cockroaches, fer a pirate's tale o' treasure an' science. (In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, today's Vintage PopSci, from April 1939, has been carefully translated from land lubberish.) As spring sails in t' 1939, a treacherous crew o' Yankee engineers is preparin' fer a kraken-sized adventure. Th' greasy-haired curs have their spyglasses set on a mysterious, sea-guarded vault said t' hold th' lost treasure o' Cap'n Kidd. Aye, but they're not th' first rascals t' seek th' half-drowned booty. Ye olde PopSci will tell th' tale... Th' year were 1795. Three meddlin' lads were huntin' on Oak Island, off Nova Scotia, when they happened upon a beastie o' a tree with a limb hacked right off: The top of this stub was deeply scarred, as though by running ropes or cables, and...