Carl,
I tend to except your word without doubt except for one little tidbit of information. To most, tall tales, there is a hidden secret. Either a secret that someone kept when they started by writing the story or there are hidden facts of a treasure although it may be in another location and of an entirely different origin.
To this I do believe a treasure of enormous value was buried on Oak Island by Sir Henry Sinclair or even earlier by the Knight's Templar in 1314. Some how, some way the treasure was recovered. This could have been by parties of Sir Walter Raleigh or even the Pilgrims.
Did you know that Christoper Columbus married the great great grand-daughter of Sir Henry Sinclair. They were married in 1475 and they had an only son that most likely was raised by his grandmother, Donna. Now Donna's husband, Bartholomew Perestrello was a Grand-master of the Knight's of Christ in Portugal and was a Captain of ships. His daughter, which Christopher Columbus married was only five years when her father died. All of his maps and charts went to Christopher Columbus. Right after Christoper Columbus' wife passed away--in or around 1476, he set sail for the Islands in the North Atlantic in 1477, while searching the northern routes to America. So Columbus was no stranger to the going on expeditions of the Knight's Templar for almost two hundred years before his voyage in 1492.
I always wondered about those red crosses on Christopher Columbus' three ships. My teachers did not know so they could not teach it to me. In the past couple of years, history has opened up to me just like a viewer to the World.
You take the pilgrims when they came over on the Mayflower, we were only taught about the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims were only one party on the Mayflower, nothing was ever mentioned of the other two parties or groups of people. Experienced navigators, yet there were over three hundred miles further north than their planned port of call. They were to go to the northern edge of Virginia, yet they landed in Plymouth, Mass. There was no damage to their ship, no sickness and fair weather. Then why were they 300 miles or over 4 Degrees off course? Yet they did not want to even consider going to Jamestown, Va. a settlement that was already there and only a few days travel on a calm sea.
As for the KGC, their hidden history has shed some light on the world through Bickley's writings and Albert Pike. At their peak they had over 800,000 members in the United States and around the world. Notice most of the investors in Oak Islands early history. Most were members of Freemasons or the new order of OAK.
Just to much to ignore. How the "Holy Artifacts" got to America is beyond the point. Whether they came through and by Oak Island, or by a descendant of the Blount Family, Nathaniel Bacon, the Pilgrims, Jamestown settlement or by Christopher Columbus, we do know that it is here. It can be located and has been located. But anyway Carl, thank you.