Posted on 05/17/2020 11:50:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The bedrock under the east side of Oak Island, where the money pit is located, is made up of Windsor Group limestone and gypsum.
"Given the right conditions, such as temperature, pressure, poor fluid composition, quite often these minerals, especially gypsum, they're prone to dissolution," Aitken said.
What you're left with is essentially a cavity in the bedrock, or a kind of cave. At the money pit, Aitken said the geological evidence suggests the roof of the cave collapsed.
He said there are also other sinkholes nearby, which further shows the so-called tunnels and pits are not engineered, as the show suggests.
"These are not man made. They are naturally formed features, they take sometimes thousands to even millions of years to form," he said.
But Aitken said while mystery hunters have been looking for buried treasure, they've missed the real riches.
"To me personally, the treasure on Oak Island has already been found in the form of archeological artifacts that have been discovered," Aitken said
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Agree!!
The History Channel any more is to history what the WWE is to the sport of wrestling.
South Park had a episode that was a good spoof of the History Channel!
It’s a shame, I love history.
I think some of the stuff would be pretty difficult to fake - the old timbers at depth, etc.
But yeah, planting a coin to be found on the last show of the season makes for a good story.
If you just view it as a fun story it helps. Heck, just the history of the hunt for what it is about is interesting going back to colonial times.
What was Mark Twain’s comment about gold mining?
A gold mine is nothing but a hole in a ground with a liar at the bottom and a sucker at the top? Or vice-versa??
And no doubt the brothers are making whatever money they have spent exploring back on the TV revenues.
And then of course, on the last episode of the season they find a piece of gold chain or an old coin 100 feet down!
In one of the early season episode, they drilled a hole and it did not yield anything. Before they closed the whole, the brother with the glasses, threw a modern Canadian 2 dollar coin down the hole. In Canada they call them Loonie or Toonies. The brother also said something along the lines of if he ever found it again. The show went on until the last season when the metal detecting guy, hit on something in the spoils from the grab. It was revealed to be the samme one (so they say) as the one he threw down there years ago. There is supposedly enough current down at dpeth to move the coin ten feet before it rested on what they think is the bottom. This led to them thinking the treasure vault, when an earlier searched hear the loud rumble which was surmised to be a collapse, it lef themm to believe the treasure vault is mmuch deeper and had moved which is why they were coming up empty in their search since they had found Hole #2. This led to the War room in which took most of the final show with the artifacts found laid out on the table by century in a timeline fashion. The earliest century was the 1500’s and the timeline went up to the Loonie the younger brother threw down a hole which was sealed up later.
Yes there are carvings of corn in that Cathedral. The Cathedral of Exeter dates back to the time of King Ethelwolf in 855. However, corn was a staple crop in England back then as it was given as a form of tithe to the Church. If corn originated in the New World, how was the Old World growing it before the above so-called experts in ancient trade routes claim there was none as we only have “circumstantial” evidence. 855 is before the Vikings grew in stature and power.
“If corn originated in the New World, how was the Old World growing it before the above so-called experts in ancient trade routes claim there was none as we only have “circumstantial” evidence. 855 is before the Vikings grew in stature and power.”
Thanks for that better information than my recollection.
So are you saying that corn did not originate in the New World? Or are you supporting the idea that it was brought over by say, the Knight’s Templar. I think another idea was that a storm could have brought a raft of debris to England, including a bunch of corn.
Like I said - I loved reading about Oak Island in Reader’s Digest as a little kid. So it is fun to see somebody still doing some exploring of it.
Stuff like this I think you have to really enjoy the search as much as you would enjoy the treasure. Hmm - like hunting or fishing some days!?
Yup. I think you nailed it.
I'll never forget it. The show featured two ‘’prominent'' professors of African-American history,(ever notice every racial grievance mongering history professor is ''prominent''?). Anyway they were in a part of Africa that was called "The Gold Ghost''. So named because that was the main port for shipping slaves from to the New World. All through this video these two women are barely containing their ''blame Whitey'' sthick until their African guide begins to name the African tribes who engaged in the sale of their own people and their attitudes began to change. When one of the ''prominent'' African American history professors asks the guide "Why did they do it?'' He replied simply "Money''. On the boat ride back from the old fort that happen been where the slaves were sent from the ''prominent'' history teachers were total stunned and didn't say a think. At the very end of the program one of these women mutters "Our own people did it. The History Channel now is little more than "Dora The Explorer'' for adults.
Sorry. Meant to say “The Gold Coast’’.
Agree totally!
Thanks man. :-) Sorry for the spelling mistakes. Danged old middle-aged eyesight.
Same problem here!
I so wish you could edit previous posts.
I try.
So are you saying that corn did not originate in the New World? Or are you supporting the idea that it was brought over by say, the Knight’s Templar. I think another idea was that a storm could have brought a raft of debris to England, including a bunch of corn.
A complicated answer to an easily asked question. First, the Templars “recorded” voyage of their Lost Templar Fleet to the Canada is in 1298 AD, put out by David Hatcher Childress in his book “Pirates and the Lost Templar Fleet” from documented history. This was just shy of 100 years before good ole Cris sailed the ocean blue in 1492. The Lost Templar Fleet is what gives rise to the theory of the Templars on Oak Island in the first place. As well as does the ships logs found in the archives visited on the show. By the way what was happening in Europe (France, England, Spain etc.) 10 years before and 10 years after 1298?
With that said we look next at the time of construction of the Cathedral in question, in Exeter. We find that the Cathedral was completed in 855 A.D. A Cathedral was not a six-month project and at most between 15 to 20 years for the smaller ones to be completed and constructed. This is due to carving things by hand back then. Very rarely were molds in use or used especially for ornaments on buildings like Cathedrals. Molds came much later giving rise to modern day building ornamentals.
So clearly corn was known about before 855 A.D. Historical claim is that corn originated in the New World. However, if we look towards the south we find that corn or maize was grown vast quantities by the South Americans and in the peninsula areas like Southern Mexico. And if the “New World” encompasses both the North and South Americas, then yes corn would have seen to have originated in the “New World” by Europeans.
As to the origination of corn, there is no definitive “origination” from one specific area that anyone has concluded because of the claim from early Europeans that it originated in the “New World”. People have taken to the claim as “setted history”.
Lol you claim you were insulted. I never called you a name and yet you call me one and then tell me to the hike? Nah, sorry man. Your projecteth doth too much.
Are you a pube-snowflake where only your opinion mmatters and no one elses does? Because you are 100% in the camp the show is a con but have never seen the show. RINOs and demmonrats are notorious for that.
Now granted the history show has had some fake shows on like Pawn Stars and a few others but a vast majority of the shows have been legit. Yawn Stars as I call them have come out and have said they are not legit. History Channel was bought out and that is when it went down hill and converged into mainly one channel and shows American Pickers anytime it has an open spot. BTW American Pickers has also had the claim it was fake too.
What you have discounted in your narrow tiny little mind why being a smart arse is better than being a dumb one, is that there is a searcher hsitory including Presidents and many rich families and men going back to 1795 when the money pit was first discovered.
You also claim it was the work of some pirates that dug the money pit. How many ships were in the Templars Lost fleet? No googling that. For brevity’s sake I will tell you - 13. If you take annd account for the number of men on a ship to be around 250 you have well over 1,000 men on that Island to do the work of “some pirate ship”.
I bet you had no clue that Pirates were called Privateers back then not Pirates. These Privateers or Pirates as they are no known by, created fleets to work together and were rarely in a Port boozing it up and whoring the women. Not to say they were never into port, they rarely were. Black Sails actually comes close to history but too much dramatic license is taken into account. Black Sails does come close to the origination of the story of Robert Stevenson’s Blackbeard book called Treasure Island in the last season. You need to get your history from the real facts not some Disney version of the facts.
And that is why being a smart one will always be better than a dumb one!
Again smart ass, no I not a ‘’pube-snowflake’’ and I know what ‘’privateers’’ were. Anyone who would think this show is legit is an idiot.I watched two seasons of this show and came to the conclusion it was bs.
Whatever happened to 30 paces west of the palm tree then another 60 paces north in front of the waterfall?
It’s under the “W” at Balboa Park
Well that shows how much better it is to be a smart arse (me) than a dumb one (you).
Smart? Self righteous is more like it . And self righteousness is just a phony form of respectability, you jerk.
Your wittle fweelings hurt? You ARE a triggered pube-snowflake.
No, my feeling aren’t hurt. Thanks for all the free parking in your head stupid. Only an idiot like you would sit in front of a tv watching two other idiots wasting their money digging holes in a swamp expecting a big pay day. Think about that.
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