Arrrrr, hands off me booty, mate!
Posted on 08/09/2007 6:51:33 AM PDT by oaster
It’s a strange thing. I could see an eccentric billionaire buying it one day and digging up half the island.
I recall reading about this when I was a kid, in Popular Science. Since then, I have figured out how to safely reach the bottom of the hole, but it would cost millions, depending on geology and depth to solid bedrok.
Fascinating story.
It’s held my imagination since I was a kid. I can’t say I would be happy if all the questions were someday answered. It’s nice to have some mysteries that just stay that way, mysterious. Something to ponder with a nice brandy and a full pipe. Besides nothing I read about what this guy has to say seems any more logical then the other theories.
Ping.
Note: this topic is from 8/09/2007. Thanks oaster.I don't believe for a second that there's treasure buried on Oak Island; however, there are or were a number of odd, non-English inscriptions (contrary to claims, PreColumbian and found in a good number of places throughout the Americas) and deliberately placed stones with no apparent purpose. Nolan's Cross was discovered (by Nolan) in 1981, and under the "marks-the-spot" stone Nolan dug (figuring, this must be the right place) and instead of treasure found a stone that had been sculpted into a human likeness and buried there.
One of the stones forming Nolan's Cross: Foundation cone -- There is a theory that Nolan's Cross, which lies on a 60° axis, points to Jerusalem. This alone would exclude colonial-era settlers and pirates as its builders. Measuring of longitude wasn't an exact science until the invention of chronometer in the late 1700s. By then, Nolan's Cross was already in existence. To get to the Money Pit, you have to walk along the South Shore Cove (formerly Smith Cove or Old Smith Cove). Unlike the rest of the island's coast, this cove is free of large boulders so typical for Nova Scotia. Its crescent shape suggests it could have been altered by human hand.
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I remember very vividly the excitement I felt when I read the Reader’s Digest article that motivated the guys who are currently seeking the answer to the Oak Island mystery.
I hope they find SOMETHING
I don’t think those two brothers with a reality show on History channel that features all the digging by them and others are billionaires, but it seems that just about everyone who lives there spends time treasure hunting, and has for about the last 200 years-and everyone has a different theory about what the treasure is and who put it there-Knights Templars/Masons, Aztecs escaping from the Spanish, 17th-18th century pirates, etc.
Since there has been no real treasure, in the sense of substantial gold, silver or precious gems found in all that time, maybe if anything was put there for safekeeping, someone came and retrieved it shortly thereafter-or maybe it is just a story made up to explain the historical artifacts there-I think those are “real” treasure, but that is just my opinion...
A simple casement would solve the problem - Bridge building technology known for at least a thousand years... If, as they assume, the water problem is the result of a booby trap... If they are wrong, and the water is coming up from the bottom (actual water table), then they are screwed - but then, if that is true, then the shaft can be no deeper (the original builders would have run into the same issue).
The brother Legina that are funding the current effort on OI have already talking and a cryo excavation. Which of the six or so holes are you thinking of?
In this week’s episode the brothers drilled and then excavated a spot Nolan claimed to have had a drill train go slack in a slate layer decades ago. The find was a piece if wood that had a point cut on the end.
Nah. Case the hole and backfill it with mortar. cheap, effective, and permanent. If it is welling up from the bottom, you're screwed anyway, but otherwise, the casement fixes it... at least to the point that a pump can keep up with it.
Cryo... Freezing? I would think that would be extremely expensive to maintain.
Pointed stick? As long as they don’t find a bunch of loganberries, I’m fine with that.
“The bill is to amend the Oak Island Treasure Act.”
http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/proceedings/hansard/C96/house_14oct22/#HPage1344
I’m thinking the money pit is a very elaborate red herring intended to draw attention away from the real burial site somewhere else on the island.
I find Oak Island to be fascinating.
SOMEONE dug a deep deep hole there and buried stuff layers upon layers deep.
Why the heck would they do that???
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“SOMEONE dug a deep deep hole there and buried stuff layers upon layers deep.”
Maybe an old military training ground?
“Take this shovel and dig a hole”.
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“Great - now fill it up.”
Agreed though - that same Reader’s Digest article caught my fancy as a kid. I used to read it from the stack left up at our old family cabin. I was disappointed to see the stack of smelly and torn magazines was gone the last trip there.
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