Yes, it has been a while
since I mentioned The Curse of Oak Island.
There is a good reason for that. Nothing new is really going on. We’ve seen
everything before. We’ve seen them drilling down. We’ve seen them use cameras
to search the bottom of their various boreholes. We’ve seen them find
structures and coins and artifacts on the surface. And we’ve seen them consult
with experts only to cherry pick the responses and make huge leaps in logic.
So, they’ve found
structures at Smith’s Cove where they have dug up the beach after erecting a
somewhat impressive coffer dam. It seems as if these structures could have been
built a couple of hundred years ago and they could have been used for ship
repair as Joy Steele suggested. There is nothing there to suggest a complex system
to protect a treasure.
They found a concrete or cement
structure and for some reason mention that the Romans had created a form of
cement. I don’t why they would want to bring the Romans into this when we’ve
spent years hearing about the Knights Templar and that iron cross they found
last year. It would seem that they could test that cement for its composition and
that could provide a clue as to when that particular structure was build. Oh,
it’s all very interesting, but it is not getting us any closer to that
nonexistent treasure.
We were teased with
another coin that was found and for a time I thought that it was something they
had pulled up from one of the many deep holes they have dug on the island. But
no, it was something else found on the surface. All these things they have
found on the surface suggest human habitation but not a treasure. They have
found very little actual, expensive artifacts. Everything they have is the kind
of thing you’d find using a metal detector in an area where humans have lived
for a couple of hundred years.
The attempts to dig down,
deeper into the island, are impressive, but what they are pulling up is not; like
all that wood that had been used by all those others attempting to get to the
treasure. All those tunnels and shafts and other structures that suggest the island
has been occupied but nothing to prove there is a treasure. I sometimes wonder
if the whole island isn’t propped up by those timbers and removing them will cause
Oak Island to sink beneath the waves.
The point here is that each
exciting find is on the surface. The point is that they are doing a wonderful
job of digging down, reaching to the very bedrock of the island, answering
questions from the past, but producing nothing to tell us the treasure is still
there if it ever was. So much breathless excitement over a find that is no more
impressive than me finding a quarter in the parking lot at Target.
Dan Blankenship |
Take bore hole 10X. We
were shown those pictures made in the 1970s by Dan Blankenship that seemed to
indicate a body, a tool, and a possible box at the bottom. But when they got
down there, they found… nothing. Shapes in the soil that seemed to look like a
body and a rock that had a square shape. We hear nothing about this any more
but I have to admit it was a mystery solved.
So, we see the same
things. We jump to same big conclusions. We find more structures that were
built by those who were looking for the treasure. And we have evidence that
ship repair was at one time the reason for human occupation on the island. But
we have no indications that there is any treasure still there which is the big
disappointment. I was really hoping they would find some. I do think they have
solved the mystery, however.
Everything they keep finding points more and more to a boat harbor where boat repair was performed. L-shaped structures, U-shaped structures, concrete walls, ramps, metal-spearing objects Even the latest rubber piping stuck in the concrete wall could have been used to help drain water away from a boat-slip compartment so that a boat could be dried out for repair. As could the still-missing concrete box drains that were discovered years ago.
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