Posted on 11/09/2005 7:14:42 AM PST by ZGuy
I remember reading about this as a kid. I was wondering what happened to it. I'll bet a real excavation effort by professionals (read Americans) could pull the "treasure" out of that hole.
Never trust anyone who is so not-greedy about something that they want YOU to benefit from investing in it.
It's like, cosmic or something.
That's exactly what I thought when I read this. My hunch is that the current owners DID reach the bottom...and found nothing.
oh.the title led me to believe this was in Washington ,DC-
where all good money goes to die.
Actually I recall the last effort was pretty high tech by yanks with deep pockets. All to no avail. It's a money pit and my feeling is more money has been lost than the treasure is likely worth.
> I'll bet a real excavation effort by professionals (read
> Americans) could pull the "treasure" out of that hole.
Unfortunately, over the years the various amateur and
semi-pro efforts, some fatal, may have sufficiently
screwed up the geology and hydrology as to make that
impractical.
There's also the possibility that the structures were
built in anticipation of later treasure, and are void
of significant treasure. "You lot stay behind and
dig the chamber. We'll be back with the loot soon."
..New World (pirate) Money Pit. :/
I would laugh, but its not funny...anymore.
A concrete vault, huh? Kinda like Al Capone's secret concrete vault?
This sounds like a job for (da, da-da DAAAAAA!!!) GERALDO RIVERAman!!!!
maybe whorealdo could get to the bottom of this and make another comeback
wow. This has to be the most elaborate treasure hiding "safe" that I've ever seen. I sincerely hope that when the sale happens they get a full crew in there...I want to know what's in those treasure chests!
Gee I'd love to bid on this except I already have several money pits.
Aka kids....and an old house.
Read about this for years. The pictures of the hand and chests are very spooky. There are a few sort of similar 'pirate banks' scattered around the world but nothing really comes close to the 'Money Pit'. What ever it was built for had to have been done by a very organized work crew following a detailed plan who were either sworn to secrecy or murdered afterwards. Since there are no known records contemporary to its construction some have postulated that the ship or ships carrying the associated maps and drawings were sunk on their return voyage to Europe. Just about everything has been tried to get to the bottom of the pit. Cassions, pumps etc. but nothing has worked.
Do you have a link to the "severed hand" pics? I've been Googling and can't find them.
I've only seen them in print. I believe they are copywrited and available only in print version. Sorry. I'll do a search too and if I find them I'll post a link.
Exactly. How do you know he hasn't already found the "treasure" and secretly taken it out?
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