I expended the money to buy both Zena's and Ruh's book as I wanted to learn the entire background of it all. I was puzzled why such an obvious fake had been allowed on the show and afforded the screen time it was.
Some parts of the books are just laugh out loud funny in a comical way when you read them.
What you read about basically is the histrionics of a group of tinfoil hat 'historians' as they go about fooling each other in some game of one upmanship as to who could be the one to make the most history altering discovery.
One would 'find' something. Then it would be, "Oh, yeah, well I found this". Then, "Ok, if you think that is important, then I found this". And, "Huh, well that's not as good as this what I just found right now". It went back and forth getting bigger and more preposterous until Zena turned up on the show with her discovery of a history rewriting map of Oak Island.
If you are wondering how she got it, Ruh and another person visited her and gave her two books.
They sat there and waited until she examined them because as they all knew the previous owner of the books had a habit of concealing things in them. For some reason not explained they hadn't done that yet but went and gave them to Zena to do that.
Zena finds the map hidden in the book as they look on. "Oh look what you have discovered Zena!"
But Zena isn't able to speak French.
No problem, by one of those lucky coincidences you need at the right time the other person Ruh brought to Zena's house just happens to be a French teacher, so he can translate it for you Zena.......
You had to see the really, really dinky attempts at fabricating the 'authentic relics' and 'documents' they kept finding to appreciate how amateurishly done it all was.




The best part was yet to come: Scott Wolter jumped on this stupidity and conducted a search of the mountain on which Ruh had claimed there was the cave containing the relics and that there were other artifacts left in there.
Of course Wolter was not able to find any such cave after following Ruh's directions and tromping all over the damn place: 'Hmm, there must have been a landslide or something as nothing matched up to what Ruh had said, yeah that's right.....'
You can read about it on Wolter's own page as he juggles around how this was all real to the posters who point out to him how obviously faked the whole thing was and the real reason why he couldn't find anything.