# 'Patrick' (pseudonym) 1861: Reply to 'The Oak Island Folly'

> 'Patrick' (pseudonym), 1861. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. A participant's contemporaneous description of what the 1861 diggers believed and…

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# Reply to 'The Oak Island Folly'

'Patrick' (pseudonym), 1861. _Nova Scotian, 16 September 1861_.

A defence of the 1861 dig by a participant, describing excavation beneath the "platforms" and the collapse of the pit that year.

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## What it's used for here

A participant's contemporaneous description of what the 1861 diggers believed and found.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

['Patrick' in 1861 reports digging under the platforms and finding it dry, contradicting the flooded-vault…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/evidence/EVD0D52X7GR4GT5/patrick-in-1861-reports-digging-under-the-platforms-and)

Evidence

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[The Oak Island Association digs; a boiler explosion kills a workman; the pit collapses](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island/events/EVT0D52WZPR4QYX/the-oak-island-association-digs-a-boiler-explosion-kills-a)

EVT

[The Oak Island money pit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oak-island)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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'Patrick' (pseudonym) (1861). Reply to 'The Oak Island Folly'. Nova Scotian, 16 September 1861. https://criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/OI_chapter3.shtml
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