I stated it wasn't Lidar. The Lost Gold of WWII and the other, with the younger of the Brothers from Oak Island is funding the expedition, is called the Lost Gold of the Civil War. The WWII one is about how the Japanese in the final days buried treasure in the Philippine's mountains. Which does have a verified history to some recovery of it around the time of Markos. The Civil War lost gold is about how during/after the capture of the President of the Confederate (name escapes me but never knew he was captured in women's clothing) something like 9 wagons were taken north to a Michigan town where the individual later bought gold mines in Arizona to "launder" the gold. Also they built train tracks and buried an locomotive engine, supposedly. The show got into the tunnels underneath the towns that led to the banks. As to the Templars and circumstantial evidence, there is more than circumstantial evidence through historical documents and ship logs detailing the voyages to Nova Scotia. Famous French nobleman heavily associated with the Templars as was illustrated when one of the brothers visted a made to house Templars prison. There is too much "circumstantial" evidence about the Templars to come to North America before Columbus did. Templars are just one aspect of the overall picture. Again, before the Colonists landed there is a history in North America that seems to be ignored by a vast majority of American and Canadians. And yes I know what LIDAR is and that is not the technology I was talking about. LIDAR has been used in Illinois to connect the Aztec/Inca and others Architecture together. LIDAR has been used in the search of the missing colonists of Roanoke. LIDAR has been on the forefront of new temples covered by the jungles of South America. It has been used in Egypt to find new pyramids that lie beneath the sand. These are all verified finds,, not circumstantial and not speculative. However, there is a satellite technology that is able to go beneath the depth of LIDAR and is used in mining and other industries to find metals and minerals deep beneath the surface. And that technology is what was recently used on the WWII treasure hunt show to show metals of some type around 300 feet below the surface (LIDAR can't reach that deep). The WWII recovery history involves the use of maps and an ancient Japanese tradition of using symbols. The first find occurred around the 70's. The problem is that the Japanese General who buried the treasure using prisoners of war booby trapped the mountains. The Skinwalker ranch is about strange paranormal and extraterrestrial going ons at the ranch. Like large wolves, cattle mutilations, people having injuries with no apparent cause etc. I knew about this ranch long before the show was on. The area used to be the land of one of the Native American Tribes and encompasses around 512 acres. The US government did investigations there but could not come to a conclusion as to what the cause was. The tribes around there say it is the result of a Skinwalker who can shape shift. The show doesn't go much into the past history of the ranch but it does have a very interesting past that isn't related to treasure. Although I still think it is hard to watch sometimes and does follow the same format (all of these shows do, including American Pickers) of repeating after the commmercial. I am not sure because I haven't watched it in a while to the narrator. I think it is the same but not quite 100% sure at this moment because I am going off the top of my head here recalling all of this info. One more thing about Oak Island, they call the history of looking for the treasure searcher history. This history has related to the American Revolution and included several Presidents who have looked for the treasure. And if you are up for it look for a book (it will be a reprint since it is out of circulation) called The Secret in which a gentleman hid boxes around the country. He had a drawings made up and each was accompanied by a riddle/poem. The box contains a key in which you send to the foundation (the guy who did this is dead now) and they send you back a gem. The first box that was found was by a bunch of teenagers at the time. They received a large green emerald. Their story was documented and they did interviews back in the 70's. So far that I know that is the only box ever found. I think maybe one more was but not sure on that. The pictures are also cryptic. But you would say that was "circumstantial" as well. Continue to be a naysayer and the day the real story comes out, I do expect an apology. Maybe you will be a naysayer about that as well or dead from old age by then, seeing how the searcher history goes back to around 1795 and continues to this day. Too much evidence to be circumstantial and too much undiscovered history to be found.
First - paragraphs are your friend!
President of the Confederate - Jefferson Davis
As far Yamashita’s Gold goes, I'm skeptical.
1. “ ...1992, Marcos’ wife Imelda Macros admitted most of her husband’s wealth could be attributed to gold he found after WWII, with the Yamashita accounting for the bulk of it. ..”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2550725/wwii-treasure-worth-billions-found-philippines-cave/
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2.”. Ricardo Jose, history professor from the University of the Philippines] has questioned the theory that treasure from mainland Southeast Asia was transported to the Philippines: “By 1943 the Japanese were no longer in control of the seas... It doesn't make sense to bring in something that valuable here when you know it's going to be lost to the Americans anyway. The more rational thing would have been to send it to Taiwan or China. :.."”
Philippines National Historical Institute chairman and historian Ambeth Ocampo commented: “Two of the wealth myths I usually encounter are the Yamashita treasure and gossip that the Cojuangco fortune was founded on a bag of money...” Ocampo also said: “For the past 50 years, many people, both Filipinos and foreigners, have spent their time, money and energy in search of Yamashita’s elusive treasure.” Professor Ocampo noted “What makes me wonder is that for the past 50 years, despite all the treasure hunters, their maps, oral testimony and sophisticated metal detectors, nobody has found a thing.”
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Regarding the Templars, you're still citing “TV evidence”, how about some links to some reputable publications.
“Illinois to connect the Aztec/Inca and others Architecture together. “ Links please & not to past TV shows?
Skinwalker i.e., shape shifters - really?
The rest sounds like a Nicholas Cage movie!
I've worked with LIDAR & radar data both airborne & ground penetrating versions professionally. I know its strengths & limitations.
TV regularly tries to convince me that Slick Willy & Zero were great presidents. Hillary is the smartest woman in the world & gays are normal. My rule-of-thumb: if its on TV its there at best to influence me to buy something at worst to change my political or moral outlook. If it informs me its rare & probably an accident.