Just a thought, no one does a lot of work for no reason, next, if you buried millions , would you put a note above it saying how deep and how much was there? Unless You have dementia I doubt it , my thought it’s a decoy.
If I'd buried a treasure, it would be logical for me not to leave signs around encouraging people to dig for buried treasures. This would include a buried stone saying how much deeper the treasure would be.
Protecting my treasure buried in Oak Island with a stone in the wrong place is one approach. Another approach would be to bury a stone stating in very clear English that the treasure is actually buried in New York, and to go look for it there. An even better approach would not be to bury any stone at all.
An excavation of the sort that would have been required at Oak Island would have involved a good amount of planning done by intelligent people - the kind of planning and intelligence that would preclude some of the ridiculous absences of judgement that are required for most of the Oak Island theories to work logically. This is actually my biggest problem with the legend...it makes very little sense, and there were better options available.
what if you were hiding it for someone else to find...what if it was not treasure at all...what if it was a ransom someone had to pay to keep a secret. I would make as difficult as possible to retrieve and leave clues to buy time .....
what if you were passing wealth on to your great grand children and wanted them to earn it....who is to say what went on in the minds of men that buried it. for all we know they were just mad with syphilis or mercury poisoning.
Is it time for another Petter Amundsen hidden ciphers in in Shakespeare and the KJV tutorial?lokiblossom, The 400 years was in reference to the 1611 KJV.
Think of it - this is the only treasure legend that doesn't start with a known or lost treasure. Some kids thought something might have been buried on an island.
Looks like they thought wrong.
Very similar to the FOWLERS BLUFF on the Suwanee River pirate treasure chest hole legend in Florida with the local restaurant at the site promoting the tale and "allowing" digs.A simpler solution is that the dozens of various searchers over the centuries have found all what was originally there . . . nothing.
Think of it - this is the only treasure legend that doesn't start with a known or lost treasure. Some kids thought something might have been buried on an island.
Looks like they thought wrong.
The rest is local restaurant and inn owners and the Nova Scotia tourist board keeping the dollars coming in.
A simpler solution is that the dozens of various searchers over the centuries have found all what was originally there . . . nothing.
Think of it - this is the only treasure legend that doesn't start with a known or lost treasure. Some kids thought something might have been buried on an island.
Looks like they thought wrong.
The rest is local restaurant and inn owners and the Nova Scotia tourist board keeping the dollars coming in.
LOL!Very similar to the FOWLERS BLUFF on the Suwanee River pirate treasure chest hole legend in Florida with the local restaurant at the site promoting the tale and "allowing" digs.
http://www.fowlersbluff.net/about-html
http://www.gainesville.com/news/201...eps-treasure-hunters-digging-at-fowlers-bluff
what if you were hiding it for someone else to find...what if it was not treasure at all...what if it was a ransom someone had to pay to keep a secret. I would make as difficult as possible to retrieve and leave clues to buy time .....
what if you were passing wealth on to your great grand children and wanted them to earn it....who is to say what went on in the minds of men that buried it. for all we know they were just mad with syphilis or mercury poisoning.
What if was proof of a possible church shattering secret? A secret that you knew had to be told but that the world was not ready for in the 13th/ 14th century. Something that a whole region and religion was destroyed for. You would hide it leaving clues as to its location that would perhaps be understood at a later date, like a time capsule but different of course.
A simpler solution is that the dozens of various searchers over the centuries have found all what was originally there . . . nothing.
I have always said that there was nothing hidden on Oak Island.
How do you time something like that? If I can put together a team of people to bury a treasure, you could conceivably put together a team of people to uncover it the very next day.
You are right Dave, you would need a select group of people (sort of a priory) who could determine when to produce clues. The members of this group, would of course, have to remain anonymous wouldn't they?
Cheers, Loki
Wouldn't it make more sense for this fictional 'priory' to simply reveal this 'treasure' when the time was right, instead of producing clues in dribs and drabs through the centuries?
Lore and speculation posted as fact is not fact and ruins positive legitimate discourse by infusing false information into the discussion.
A simpler solution is that the dozens of various searchers over the centuries have found all what was originally there . . . nothing.
Think of it - this is the only treasure legend that doesn't start with a known or lost treasure. Some kids thought something might have been buried on an island.
Looks like they thought wrong.
The rest is local restaurant and inn owners and the Nova Scotia tourist board keeping the dollars coming in.
Done. No credible link exists between the Italian Columbus (who sailed for Spain) and the Portuguese Order of Christ. Not in anything that I found, anyhow. Some people have claimed that his father in law was grand master of the order, but that has not been verified. If he were a member of the Order, I wonder why the Portuguese crown at the time rejected his proposals ...
Well Troy was thought to have been a myth until it was found.
I'm not sure why there is this need over and over again to dismiss lore as having no basis in fact.
I have used Troy as an example of the dangers of discounting "lore" outright, but there are numerous examples throughout the history of archaeology whereby so-called myth or lore that folks dismiss outright has been used as the base to discover ruins. That is fact.