Did These Brothers Just Solve An Unsolvable 200-Year-Old Mystery?

Published on September 5, 2018
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Little Success

The island saw more explorers come and go with small discoveries that didn’t really lead to anything. Robert Dunfield was the first to come to the island after the Restall disaster, but he was quick to leave with all the bulldozers he brought with him. After him came Daniel Blankenship in 1965, who only left with a washer and a heart-shaped stone.

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Nearing the end of the 1960’s, the Triton Alliance brought huge machinery in hopes of digging more and further than anyone else had until then. Besides finding a 300-year-old pair of scissors, the group left without much. Only in 1976 did a group come to the island with a camera that would be lowered into the pit, rather than putting a person in danger.

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