After 15th Episode of Season 12.... Still any believers...?

[GravelTeeth]

But either way, Marty is going to be the one who gives up the ghost on this adventure because he's never been that into it like his brother.

If the cast have invested their History Channel salaries wisely, they can fund their own effort even if Marty checks out, albeit never at the same scale.

I was about to say that next week will be the last episode, but epguides has updated again and now it shows there'll be 25 like recent seasons.

--GT

 

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[SSR]

Restall's wife as she said in her old interview that her husband told her he was getting close to it. He believed and she believed in her husband. Right or wrong they believed in it...

If the 3 buys/men didn't start their dig, how did this story go on for over 200 years now. Why would the Onslow company come in to continue a dig if there was no dig to begin with.. There has to be a beginning dig or this thing never gets going..

He wasn't even looking for a treasure when he died. He was desperate to produce anything that would have worked to convince his investors to continue giving him money (the family needed it to live). He himself had sold off the majority of his cut in anything he might find by the time he died. He was chasing his losses. And he was, in fact, excavating around a hole suspected by everyone before him of being the MP in an effort to discover flood tunnels to it when he was overcome by gasses. Flood tunnels from Smith's cove is the one thing Restall successfully eliminated from the realm of possibility. Because of Restall, we have physical evidence of there being no relationship between the vertical shaft, the drainage feature in the cove, sink holes, and the various holes called MP locations. Not that we needed it, but he did show there are no such tunnels. We know today that all flooding of shafts is from dissolution fissures at depth. It was a problem that had routinely fouled the wells that existed on that island since ca. 1800. Holes were "flooding" with sea water before there were OI stories.

Pretty much all the women of OI searchers were victims of their husbands delusions. At the end of the Restall's time his wife has serious reservations about the upbringing of the children and of their future well being.

Ever since there have been searchers, there have been reports of imminent success that have reached the public. When I last visited OI, ca. 1985, Dan still claimed that each and every year even if there was nothing being done anymore in the way of searches. After Triton group there was his 10-X chase which was also later shown to be a shaft to a dissolution cavern (in recent times). Dan was not a believer in the MP that Restall accepted. The Chappell's weren't chasing anything but a vault of documents. It's a story that is all over the map, and it is retold in a way that tries to give it some consistency.

 

[SSR]

See it's statements like in bold above that people make then repeat without a thought given then or now as to why or how...?

How would any individual know if he was "getting close to it"? Based on what?
And what was he digging for and based on what?
Who said a treasure was buried 100+ on O.I.?

The "beginning dig" was based on hope I believe. From there stories and mankind's imagination took over and the cycle of hope, stories and digging is just repeated over and over and over to this day.

What we actually know from the letters we have is that RR was always at his last cent and was growing increasingly desperate to coax out more funds by coming up with novel suggestions. IMHO, he was even lying to his wife and she probably knew it. When all you have is the front you show the world, that has to be well managed.

 

[mtdoramike]

If the cast have invested their History Channel salaries wisely, they can fund their own effort even if Marty checks out, albeit never at the same scale.

I was about to say that next week will be the last episode, but epguides has updated again and now it shows there'll be 25 like recent seasons.

--GT

They were the only ones who found treasure, called a steady pay check.

 

[n2mini]

Suddenly some of ya'll know what R Restall was thinking and doing. Along with you know what his wife was thinking 60 years ago. Guess ya'll read palms and tarrot cards as well.

 

[Limitool]

Suddenly some of ya'll know what R Restall was thinking and doing. Along with you know what his wife was thinking 60 years ago. Guess ya'll read palms and tarrot cards as well.

Yes some of do but it's kind of a Tnet secret so kindly keep it low key please. Thanks...!