Yes,
I know that a new season of The Curse of Oak Island is beginning, but
I’m just not sure I have the patience or the stamina to participate in it.
There are too many unanswered questions that no one on Oak Island wants to
answer.
Oh,
you want an example.
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| Oak Island |
They
mention that stone tablet found at the 90-foot level with a strange code on it,
that has been deciphered as saying that below is more than two million pounds.
No one seems to want to know why those who buried the mythical treasure would
leave such an artifact. It serves no useful purpose for those who buried the
treasure. They know what is down there. They put it there. They would have no
reason to advertise the fact.
However,
if I’m looking for investors in my company with a mission to find the treasure,
then such an artifact would be valuable. It is hard evidence (pun intended)
that the treasure exists. Of course, the stone has disappeared… or rather, it
seems to have been traced to a book bindery operation that used the stone in
part of the binding process. They have found what might be a couple of letters
on that stone, but why, if it is valuable and related to the treasure, was it
allowed to be ruined in that fashion?
And
there is one clue that no one seems to notice. The alleged code refers to two
million pounds… is that the weight of the treasure (unlikely) or a reference to
the monetary system of the English. Doesn’t this rule out pirates and others
who weren’t from England? Doesn’t that suggest something about the treasure
that tells us that it wasn’t the Knights Templar (as opposed to the Night
King)? Doesn’t that rule out the manuscripts of Shakespeare, or the Arc of the
Covenant or some of the other speculations?
No
one seems to question the story of the teenagers who started this whole thing with
their attempted excavations back in 1795. Has anyone ever seen teenagers get
obsessed with something? Can you imagine the teenagers sitting round, spotting
what they think might be an indication that something had been buried and
escalated that into pirate gold and buried treasure? Has no one ever wondered
if they just didn’t make it up about the treasure as a way to spend an
afternoon? Maybe there is treasure down there. Maybe it’s pirate treasure. We
might be about to become rich… and then overwhelmed with their speculations and
imagination they begin to dig.
Has
no one worried that nearly everything they have found is on the surface of the
island? It is no secret that people had been around it for more than 200 years.
But the discoveries in Smith’s Cove seem to suggest something of a port
facility or an
emergency repair facility rather than anything to do with
pirates. Joy Steele’s theory makes more sense each time they make another find
in Smith’s Cove. The island wasn’t used to hide a treasure but as a repair
facility for British ships.
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| Joy Steele |
Has
no one wondered why the “discoveries” of the past haven’t been found again. I
mean, there was talk of a buried vault found decades ago. Though they know the approximate
location, they have not been able to find it with all the modern equipment and
technology that they bring to the search. Could it be that the “evidence” of the
vault was little more than finding the remains of attempts to get at the
treasure some time earlier? I mean, they hit the beams and logs bracing those
tunnels dug early in the search rather than some sort of a treasure vault.
Does
no one remember the exciting finds that would suggest a treasure that have
shown nothing of the sort? Dan Blankenship dug Borehole 10X and put a camera
down it. The poor video seemed to suggest abandoned tools, a box of some sort
and human remains. This was touted as evidence of the treasure in the early
years of The Curse of Oak Island. But when a diver finally reached the
bottom of the hole, he found nothing of the sort. The alleged artifacts were optical
illusions recorded by the video camera rather than actual artifacts.
I
could go on but there really is little point. We have been disappointed time
and again by this hunt. Last week’s “astonishing” find is replaced by this week’s
“astonishing” find. Do any of you remember the Roman sword found so long ago?
Here was evidence that Europeans had arrived at Oak Island centuries before
Columbus… but analysis showed it to be a modern replica.
Yes,
I have been interested in Oak Island for half a century. I have mentioned this
before. I have read the books and the magazine articles. In fact, in a book I
wrote in the mid-1990s, I had a long chapter on Oak Island. I concluded the
long discussion of Oak Island, writing:
It
seems that we’ll have the answers in just a few years. When the story began in
1795 the technology to recover the treasure didn’t exist. The booby traps were
big and clever enough to prevent the boys from finding anything. It could have
been recovered fifty or hundred years ago if the work had been well planned and
sufficient financing had been in place. Those problems are being resolved. Once
they are, it seems that the Triton Alliance, or any of the treasure hunters
that follow them, will finally solve the puzzle. The only downside will be if
the treasure is so small that it doesn’t cover the expense of the search.
The
Laginas have done everything they possible could to find the treasure. Their
efforts have been extraordinary. What they have discovered, instead of a treasure,
large or small, is that nothing of consequence is buried on Oak Island. It had
been an exciting journey, but one that should have ended a couple of seasons
ago.
4 comments:
Totally disagree with the last sentiment. For me, there is no more intriguing mystery than that of Oak Island. Yes I agree with you re: nobody questioning the teenager question when it has been shown elsewhere they were in their 30's, and the 90 foot stone I think was most likely an attempt to bring in outsiders to buy shares.
But there are so many other questions, so many other fascinating things to ponder : the bones hundreds of feet down; the pottery; the mercury; the book binding; the parchment; the drainage system at Smith's cove; the flood tunnels; the oak/charcoal/putty/coconut fibre findings by in the original pit; why no activity was recorded; the supernatural-type activity said to go on at the island that cant just be thrown away just because; the slave suddenly becoming the most wealthy man around the area for apparently no good reason; the chest hinge they found; the Spanish coin; the Spanish scissors; the iron cross; the strange metal pieces Blankenship found that were forged long ago -- can this all be simply thrown out because of perhaps a journalistic error about calling them teens, and a possible scheme with the 90 foot stone? To me the balance lies in there indeed being some intriguing mystery as to there not being one.
Could it have been both a ship repairing station AND a repository for treasure? Could Oak Island have been a place where people dwelled underground (for whatever reason) and they may find evidence of this in this season? I don't know... but hell, I am intrigued more than ever. There is nothing like the Oak Island mystery to me at present, and although the guessing games half drive me mad I find it so fascinatingly perplexing that I truly hope they keep going until they solve the damn mystery, I for one love it anyway.
Me thinks you protest too much. At least the show finally got the viewership to sponsor really tearing this island up.
Its called a DVR Kevin! You act as if you are watching this thing live.
I agree with TheDimov, we've come this far we have to keep watching! Last night it struck me that perhaps the ships coming and going (via the slipway) were people logging the island?
I seem to recall someone once saying the island "used to be" covered in Oak trees, hence "Oak" island. That says to me there are no longer oaks there? Tar pits to repair boats, but also taking logs elsewhere to build ships?
Kevin, you're as hooked as the rest of us. It's kinda fun to see how many more people they drag in on this, with the promise of receiving a portion of "the treasure?"
I'm convinced the show is targeted specifically to heavy equipment addicts. It's their porn. Digging for treasure is just an excuse to play with (and watch other people play with) big, bad-ass machines. It's an endless construction project with the process being its only goal outside of not getting cancelled.
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