Enzo wrote:Legit in what sense? I looked up "oak Island" to find it is a real place with a history of people claiming treasure is buried there. But ark of the covenant??? Three seasons of digging around and finding nothing. I mean it is a real show, but they seems to shift around on what they are expecting to find. Pirates buried something 100 feet down 400 years ago? And we have reason to think it is right HERE, let's dig. Oh but we dug there last week, so let's go to Miami where someone offers an Atlantis connection and suggest we dig over at the other end, so we do. And so on.
Enzo wrote:Legit in what sense?
Enzo wrote:Do I believe their little back hoe is digging down 100 feet? No. Do I believe they are digging? Sure. When I see them dig up a little piece of rotted wood, and one guy says "AHA, this is PROOF of whatever" I think: No, it is a stick. FAking it? Hell, all they need is a digging machine poking around in the mud. That isn't expensive. They have a camera crew follow a few guys around.
Lance wrote:I do believe they believe. They often speak of the old Reader's Digest article: (1965) Treasure Hunt: The Mystery of Oak Island that inspired them. And I remember reading that same article as a kid too. I'd have been 8.
Clearly a lot of what they present is made up bullshit and hype. I don't believe the Knights Templar hid the Ark of the Covenant there 800 years ago, or that a band of swashbucklers hid all their booty there. But they have found enough to disprove the idea that everything on the island is natural. So there's a pretty hard "no" on the sink hole idea.
That leaves us two possibilities, as I see it:I am not blind to the possibility that it could very well be number 1, in that it's just a load of number 2. But there would have been at least some expense involved in faking everything with not too much return. The work going on there now is by far the greatest money ever put into it and I find it hard to believe the History Channel is covering all that.
- All the evidence is completey fabricated and bogus.
- There is a story there, the details of which still elude us.
Are there other possibilities I'm missing?
Lianachan wrote:Did you see the link about Oak Island I posted earlier in the thread?
Rational Wiki wrote:Oak Island is dotted with natural sinkholes; surface depressions surrounded by disturbed earth and sand. If one were to excavate one of these sinkholes, they'd find fallen trees preserved as log fragments as well as natural layers of clay and rock located at various depths. And they'd run into the island's many natural subsurface channels and caves, also located at various depths, that act as conduits for sea water from the bay.
Lance wrote:But regardless, apparently the season finale next week is the end of it, the end of the show completely.
g-one wrote:Lance wrote:But regardless, apparently the season finale next week is the end of it, the end of the show completely.
I'm surprised, but good with that.
Lance wrote:Lianachan wrote:Did you see the link about Oak Island I posted earlier in the thread?
Oh, apparently not. Looking now...
ETA: Okay, yes, I guess I do remember that. And I have to say, this paragraph also sounds suspiciously like the shoehorning of facts the article describes:Rational Wiki wrote:Oak Island is dotted with natural sinkholes; surface depressions surrounded by disturbed earth and sand. If one were to excavate one of these sinkholes, they'd find fallen trees preserved as log fragments as well as natural layers of clay and rock located at various depths. And they'd run into the island's many natural subsurface channels and caves, also located at various depths, that act as conduits for sea water from the bay.
But that said, I suppose any of the clearly man-made things they've dug up could also have just washed in there. That does seem to make sense.
I doubt they'll ever find anything but if they do I won't be completely surprised. Like I've said, I don't believe there is some vast buried treasure there. I just haven't completely dismissed it yet.
Lianachan wrote:There's a difference between shoehorning facts and shoehorning bullshit and wild conjecture, but yes.
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