Oak Island Mystery Trees is the companion website for the 2022 research volume Oak Island Mystery Trees and Other Forensic Answers, authored by David H. Neisen, Robert W. Cook, and Christopher L. Boze, and the 2024 Compendium volume that follows it. The website presents tables of contents for both volumes alongside supplementary material from the research.
The project's editorial focus is the application of forensic and physical-science methods to specific Oak Island evidence questions. Topics treated include dendrochronology of timber recovered from Smith's Cove and other locations; the surficial and bedrock geology of the island and Mahone Bay; historic landowner records; coconut-fibre samples recovered from various excavations; and additional technical questions where physical evidence intersects with the documentary record.
Material on the site supplements the published volumes. The volumes themselves are the primary publications and are available through standard book retailers; the website functions as a reference companion.
What this source documents
Forensic-science treatment of Oak Island physical evidence: dendrochronology results and methodology applied to Smith's Cove timber and other recovered wood; surficial and bedrock geology of Oak Island; historic landowner records cross-referenced with physical-evidence findings; coconut-fibre analysis; supplementary material extending the published research.
Why it matters
For research questions involving the dating and forensic analysis of physical artifacts recovered from Oak Island, the Neisen, Cook, and Boze project is one of the principal independent treatments. Application of dendrochronology to Smith's Cove timber in particular has bearing on the timeline of the early works at the site, and the project's documentation of this material is a useful complement to the History Channel television treatment of the same evidence.