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Oak Island the Strange, the Bizarre, and Maybe the "Truth!
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You can not say there was never a hole in the money pit. People have seen it. That is what all started this. Not just some tall tell. The original 3 saw it, dug it and showed people it. The remains of the hole was there for years, pretty much till Dunfied ruined it all but he did what he had to do to try to figure it out...
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What do the remains of a hole look like?
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Like this ...
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At this point, I'm not sure that it's a question anymore.
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The only hole(s) ever seen were the ones hoaxer’s dug to perpetuate the myth. No factual evidence has ever been presented that a hole existed with oak platforms every ten feet with a cryptic stone at the 90 foot level. All these tales were made up to milk investors out of cash. When the investor’s enthusiasm would start to wane, the companies would close up shop and leave. Then A few years later after the reality of nothing being on the island died down, another company would revive the hoax and repeat the same process just as the lagina’s did...
SO your saying the original 3 guys lied about it all and quit digging just for s%^& and giggles. They did not milk investors out of anything. Granted one of them came back some years later as part of a group to continue the search... Think about it, what group of people ever came to island to search and actually made a living off doing it
from the investors. Sure they may have lied some to get more investor money but it wasn't used to live the high life. The Restalls lived a hard life on the island for the years they were there. No road to the island, had to boat over to main land for everything... No electricity on the island. Yeah your right fun life to have just to milk investor out of money. NOT!!!!
from the investors. Sure they may have lied some to get more investor money but it wasn't used to live the high life. The Restalls lived a hard life on the island for the years they were there. No road to the island, had to boat over to main land for everything... No electricity on the island. Yeah your right fun life to have just to milk investor out of money. NOT!!!!Singlestack Wonder
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SO your saying the original 3 guys lied about it all and quit digging just for s%^& and giggles. They did not milk investors out of anything. Granted one of them came back some years later as part of a group to continue the search... Think about it, what group of people ever came to island to search and actually made a living off doing it
Yes they did to gain some local fame vs. living a life of irrelevancy....
Please provide actual, factual proof for any claims of treasure or anything else if significance that has ever existed on the island.
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Click...If You Agree!
Singlestack...I think you are confusing this "Thread" with "Yours"!
Just the Facts...Ma'am!...Just The Facts!...Click If You Agree!
Here we like posters to post!...And Readers will Have The Opportunity...To Separate Facts From Fiction!
Singlestack...I think you are confusing this "Thread" with "Yours"!
Just the Facts...Ma'am!...Just The Facts!...Click If You Agree!
Here we like posters to post!...And Readers will Have The Opportunity...To Separate Facts From Fiction!
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Ask Zahadi Hawas, on one of his programs about the pyramids, he and a polish archeological team excavated off a corner of the great pyramid. His actual quote was " we were digging and we found a hole" I nearly died laughing
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SO your saying the original 3 guys lied about it all and quit digging just for s%^& and giggles. They did not milk investors out of anything. Granted one of them came back some years later as part of a group to continue the search... Think about it, what group of people ever came to island to search and actually made a living off doing it
Didnt the " boys" return a few years later and continue digging the hole while working for another company. They dug the hole from 30' to a 90' depth, finding oak platforms, puddled clay, charcoal and coconut fibers on the way down? Some one else recorded those finds not the 3 original diggers.
Singlestack Wonder, your comments are all over the place. NO ONE an prove much about the island. Either way. I can't prove the 3 original guys found timbers every 10' just as you can't prove they didn't. One of their decendents claims they did find 3 small chests. You can't prove they didn't...If you don't believe all this then why pay attention to the show and this forum?? Could it be because your not sure of your theory and maybe someone is going to show up with proof of some sort about a treasure on the island!!
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Again, no factual data has ever been presented that a hole was dug to 90 feet that contained oak platforms at every 10 feet and a stone found at the 90 foot platform. All fictional accounts...
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To be clear, I have no theory about oak island. It’s been proven over the last 200 years to be a work of fiction then driven as a hoax to generate revenue. The show with the lagina brothers was the best example of the hoax while proving nothing had ever been there. Now that the laginas have milked it to the point where it’s obvious the average person has figured out oak island is a fictional fairy tale and interest is starting to wane, the laginas are now switching hoaxes to work on a different one...
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You Have Not Your...Facts!
It has been stated that the Lagina Brothers signed a "100 Episode Contract" for the History Channel.
This would mean they have some...4 Years and 40 More...Episodes left with "The Curse of Oak Island"!
Enjoy!
It has been stated that the Lagina Brothers signed a "100 Episode Contract" for the History Channel.
This would mean they have some...4 Years and 40 More...Episodes left with "The Curse of Oak Island"!
Enjoy!
Singlestack Wonder, I have no way to prove it but, I do believe there are people who have seen the money pit. ( original hole ) I don't really care whether there were wood planks every 10', or about the stone. Do you think that Dunfield, Fred Nolan, Dan Blankenship, the Restalls amongst others all lied about there being a money pit hole?? May or may not have ever been a treasure in it, that is beside the point to my question... ( it's a yes or no answer I'm looking for from you here. No more no less. Just a yes, or no... ) and what did they gain from it. None of them are rich from milking the investors. None went on to give high dollar speaking engagements. The Restalls did write a book. but with the hard life they lived whole on the island and the price they paid they deserved it...
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How Deep...Is This?
It has always been puzzling why there were "Roman Numerals" carved on the "Wooden Beams" found in Smith's Cove.
It was always puzzling why the "Builders" would choose the Horseshoe design for the "So Called Coffer Dam" shown to be located there.
Unlike the North End of the Island, Smith's Cove is a very shallow rocky inlet.
The "U Shape Dam" and the location within a shallow bay would not have been the "Logical Choice" if intended for some sort of "Docking Location".
It would have been more practical to have built a "A Straight Dam" and at the farthest outreach on the Island.
But!...This was not the intent of the "Builders"!
What they were working on was a protection for erosion from the High Tides associated with this end of the Island.
The Coffer Dam was not a Dam...But...A Breaker!
In the Mid-18th Century the ocean level was very much lower than it is today.
Marine Survey Canada shows that the sea shore would have been out past what we show as the Coffer Dam.
The Wooden Beams with the Roman Numerals carved on them jut out past this Coffer Dam to show what the Sea Level marked in Roman Numerals was at this time.
The Coffer Dam was constructed to be a "Tide Breaker" preventing the erosion of the beach soil drifting back out and plunging up the "Tunnels Blow Holes!
Within the Sea Shore and this Protector Breaker was placed Rocks, Eel Grass, and Coir Fiber to stop any erosion.
My Theory has the Cornish Miners (who built the tunnels to flood the Oak Island Money Pit) running their Main Tunnel below the 90 foot level straight out past the Coffer Dam to where one sees the Blow Holes located.
At this point (roughly 200 feet from the present shore line today) they branched several tunnels up to nearly 10 feet under the ocean.
Explosive Powder Charges were placed at the end of each of the branched tunnels with a fuse running back towards the Money Pit.
"To ignite the end of each tunnel, they fed an ignition "sausage" out of each tunnel. This sausage was a tube made of linen and filled with granulated black powder that led back to the point of ignition. The ignition sausage, a predecessor of the modern time fuse, was normally laid in a 6-centimeter-wide wooden duct and covered with a board to protect it from moisture or other damage. At the appointed time, the miner ignited the powder in the ignition sausage with an ignition sponge and then retreated quickly before the sponge burned to the powder."
Once the fuse was lit and about to discharge the Miners began to seal the 10 foot distance from the Water Tunnel to the 90 Foot level with Logs, Clay, Dirt, Coir Fiber, and Tar.
The Explosions opened each tunnel to the Ocean's water, but the air lock in the main tunnel prevented the water from coming and flooding the Money Pit Shaft, until this air lock was broken in 1795 by the Original Discoverers.
Similar to how today's toilets function.
The 18th Century British used Roman Numerals to mark the ocean depth on the Bows of their Ships!
These are the same Markers on the Wood of these Beams!
We should be able to determine (with the help of Canada's Marine Ocean Records) what the Ocean Level was at each marking to verify when the Oak Island Money Pit Was Constructed!
It has always been puzzling why there were "Roman Numerals" carved on the "Wooden Beams" found in Smith's Cove.
It was always puzzling why the "Builders" would choose the Horseshoe design for the "So Called Coffer Dam" shown to be located there.
Unlike the North End of the Island, Smith's Cove is a very shallow rocky inlet.
The "U Shape Dam" and the location within a shallow bay would not have been the "Logical Choice" if intended for some sort of "Docking Location".
It would have been more practical to have built a "A Straight Dam" and at the farthest outreach on the Island.
But!...This was not the intent of the "Builders"!
What they were working on was a protection for erosion from the High Tides associated with this end of the Island.
The Coffer Dam was not a Dam...But...A Breaker!
In the Mid-18th Century the ocean level was very much lower than it is today.
Marine Survey Canada shows that the sea shore would have been out past what we show as the Coffer Dam.
The Wooden Beams with the Roman Numerals carved on them jut out past this Coffer Dam to show what the Sea Level marked in Roman Numerals was at this time.
The Coffer Dam was constructed to be a "Tide Breaker" preventing the erosion of the beach soil drifting back out and plunging up the "Tunnels Blow Holes!
Within the Sea Shore and this Protector Breaker was placed Rocks, Eel Grass, and Coir Fiber to stop any erosion.
My Theory has the Cornish Miners (who built the tunnels to flood the Oak Island Money Pit) running their Main Tunnel below the 90 foot level straight out past the Coffer Dam to where one sees the Blow Holes located.
At this point (roughly 200 feet from the present shore line today) they branched several tunnels up to nearly 10 feet under the ocean.
Explosive Powder Charges were placed at the end of each of the branched tunnels with a fuse running back towards the Money Pit.
"To ignite the end of each tunnel, they fed an ignition "sausage" out of each tunnel. This sausage was a tube made of linen and filled with granulated black powder that led back to the point of ignition. The ignition sausage, a predecessor of the modern time fuse, was normally laid in a 6-centimeter-wide wooden duct and covered with a board to protect it from moisture or other damage. At the appointed time, the miner ignited the powder in the ignition sausage with an ignition sponge and then retreated quickly before the sponge burned to the powder."
Once the fuse was lit and about to discharge the Miners began to seal the 10 foot distance from the Water Tunnel to the 90 Foot level with Logs, Clay, Dirt, Coir Fiber, and Tar.
The Explosions opened each tunnel to the Ocean's water, but the air lock in the main tunnel prevented the water from coming and flooding the Money Pit Shaft, until this air lock was broken in 1795 by the Original Discoverers.
Similar to how today's toilets function.
The 18th Century British used Roman Numerals to mark the ocean depth on the Bows of their Ships!
These are the same Markers on the Wood of these Beams!
We should be able to determine (with the help of Canada's Marine Ocean Records) what the Ocean Level was at each marking to verify when the Oak Island Money Pit Was Constructed!
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Maybe they built the dam in a horseshoe shape because that shape is stronger than a straight dam.
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