The Oak Island treasure is so obviously a runaway legend...
Two kids bored out of their minds, 200 years ago.
They see some marks on the limb of an oak tree, looks like block and tackle was once there.
A small apparent depression in the ground under the limb looks like what remains of a large hole that was filled in.
Okay, in the 1960s one of the treasure hunters used earthmoving equipment to gouge out a huge open-pit hole in the island down to great depth, found shredded timbers — not unlike the ice-age strata in colder climates — and not one other danged thing suggestive of treasure, tunnels, etc.
So, the ‘technology’ used by the alleged people hiding the alleged two million British pounds of treasure must have been really advanced, some really advanced engineering must have been involved. Coconut fiber, tunnels, a self-flooding booby trap that still works, the skeleton of a slave still in chains in an underground room...
That’s why they originally used the limb of an oak tree that couldn’t have been much more than a couple of hundred years old when the kids dreamed up this fantasy — because they were so advanced.
Someone wanted to sell the island, which is basically worth squat. “It’s such-and-such number of acres, has water, trees, grazing, oh, and there’s a two million British pound treasure over that way somewhere, also we get a good yield off the grain field, and we have good proximity to-” “Wait, back up. Did you say treasure?” ****ing realtors, they’re the same everywhere.
LOL! Very nice. Thanks for the belly laugh.