The Two Idiots at it Again!

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My feeling is I HATE the History Channel "reality" shows. They are about 15 minutes of content stretched into 40. The leading questions asked by the narrator fall between laughable and nauseating. I tire of the people on the show with their idiotic theories.

That being said... I've been intrigued by Oak Island since the 60s... and if someone is willing to spend millions to get to the bottom of what might be there... I'll hold my nose and watch and that was before I knew someone who started working for Prometheus. Sorry, s/he is very closed lipped about the show and won't divulge anything about future shows.
 

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That Game has changed allot .
Every time they Come up empty :coffee2:

Pit, Change, Swamp, Change, Beach, Change, Home site, Change, Italy, Change, Pit, Change In Town, Change, In their Shed, Change, Swamp, Change, Pit, Change,
Visit from old Lady, Change, Beach, Change etc. Etc.

Change... swamp again.
 

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Doesn’t anyone care about the poor island? It’s gonna be Swiss cheese when the buffoon’s show gets cancelled someday.Where are all the Canadian environmental bunnyhuggers ?
 

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Doesn’t anyone care about the poor island? It’s gonna be Swiss cheese when the buffoon’s show gets cancelled someday.Where are all the Canadian environmental bunnyhuggers ?
Given that they are only digging up stuff that has been dug up multiple times before I do not imagine their is much in the way of environmental concerns really. They are effectively just digging up an old landfill site....
 

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I don’t know why they can’t just have a “normal” person doing things like Treasure Hunting or Metal Detecting on those shows. It always seems like they try to have people with obnoxious personalities. How about a show where someone does metal detecting, no antics, just lots of good information and history and skill.
 

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I don’t know why they can’t just have a “normal” person doing things like Treasure Hunting or Metal Detecting on those shows. It always seems like they try to have people with obnoxious personalities. How about a show where someone does metal detecting, no antics, just lots of good information and history and skill.

I agree. The sad part of it is that there are people who think Drayton " deserves" his own show. All he wants to find is coins and jewelry , how many times do you see him pass over " just iron ". You can't piece together history if you don't collect the pieces !

I feel the show has become nothing more than a commercial for Marty's construction business as well as Billy's.

Now that being said , i do believe that treasure still hides in one of the islands of Mahone bay... just not this one. If you were a captain of a ship who was damaged , would you pass by several large islands like Big Tancook or Masons island just to get to the one the farthest away from the inlet ? If you were going to hide treasure would you pick an island right on the shore of the mainland instead of one more remote ? This is the Lagina's tenth year digging holes on the island , at what point do they decide that enough is enough ? Seems like they did with the hoax they tried with the " curse of great lakes gold " or whatever it was called.
 

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They had to stop on Oak Island. A storm blew them upon Oak Island. Had it not been for the other ships they would have been marooned for a very long time.
 

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I agree. The sad part of it is that there are people who think Drayton " deserves" his own show. All he wants to find is coins and jewelry , how many times do you see him pass over " just iron ". You can't piece together history if you don't collect the pieces !

I feel the show has become nothing more than a commercial for Marty's construction business as well as Billy's.

Now that being said , i do believe that treasure still hides in one of the islands of Mahone bay... just not this one. If you were a captain of a ship who was damaged , would you pass by several large islands like Big Tancook or Masons island just to get to the one the farthest away from the inlet ? If you were going to hide treasure would you pick an island right on the shore of the mainland instead of one more remote ? This is the Lagina's tenth year digging holes on the island , at what point do they decide that enough is enough ? Seems like they did with the hoax they tried with the " curse of great lakes gold " or whatever it was called.

Your way of thinking might just be why someone would go by the other islands to bury something.
 

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My feeling is I HATE the History Channel "reality" shows. They are about 15 minutes of content stretched into 40. The leading questions asked by the narrator fall between laughable and nauseating. I tire of the people on the show with their idiotic theories.

That being said... I've been intrigued by Oak Island since the 60s... and if someone is willing to spend millions to get to the bottom of what might be there... I'll hold my nose and watch and that was before I knew someone who started working for Prometheus. Sorry, s/he is very closed lipped about the show and won't divulge anything about future shows.

Have you discredited the notion that spending these millions in recent times could have been a folly? Spending millions on things is not proof of the validity of any ideas about what this mystery represents. This story never started with huge sums thrown at it. It started with nothing, followed by failure, followed 40 years of nothing, followed by a period when shares are sold to fund excavations that may have been backed with fake/embellished stories. Theories abounded in Victorian times that OI was a scam. I believe there was even litigation to that effect or threats of it. It should not surprise anyone that millions can be spent chasing the literal equivalents of symbols in allegories. Millions have been spent looking for all sorts of similar things, and it all constitutes folly.

We do happen to know what mythology the OI story is built upon, so why can we not concede that this is likely an allegory and that the search for tangible equivalents to story details is futile? You can spend a billion dollars looking for Glooscap's pillow in NS, and then you might reinterpret the old myth as something other than a factual account.
 

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2 buffoons and dynamite ? ooh sounds like recipe for disaster. i'm a little disconnected i never saw the show. but i'd certainly be interested in seeing that segment.
 

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Have you discredited the notion that spending these millions in recent times could have been a folly? Spending millions on things is not proof of the validity of any ideas about what this mystery represents. This story never started with huge sums thrown at it. It started with nothing, followed by failure, followed 40 years of nothing, followed by a period when shares are sold to fund excavations that may have been backed with fake/embellished stories. Theories abounded in Victorian times that OI was a scam. I believe there was even litigation to that effect or threats of it. It should not surprise anyone that millions can be spent chasing the literal equivalents of symbols in allegories. Million have been spent looking for all sorts of similar things, and it all constitutes folly.

We do happen to know what mythology the OI story is build upon, so why can we not concede that this is likely an allegory and that the search for tangible equivalents to story details is futile? You can spend a billion dollars looking for Glooscap's pillow in NS, and then you might reinterpret the old myth as something other than a factual account.

These guys are only one set of guys who are / have spent millions on this legend / island...

Including a president. heh
 

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I thought you meant Pelosi and Schumer..or Schiff and Nadler...or Schiff and Pelosi...or Schumer and Nadler....oh the endless combinations
 

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The point is that it feeds on itself if the previous guy somehow legitimizes it for the next guy by spending a lot, doesn't it? FDR wasn't president when he got sucked into it. He was just an impressionable young man. NS Freemasons had been regularly going to the US to promote the mystery with their brethren since at least the 1890s. This got on the radar of Freemasons because the enduring mythology attached to the early stories is Biblical/masonic. In the esoteric revival period of the 19th century there were many people to take aim at with stories of this type. It resonated loud and clear. I don't see any of the great mass interest in this story as proof of anything but the power of networking. Once a story goes viral it can reach pretty impressive heights. That's still true today.
 

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Personally, I think the worst part of the show is the announcer: "Sand? On the beach of Oak Island? Could this be proof that the Knights Templar tracked it on their shoes after retrieving the Holy Grail from the middle east?"

I know this is old, but that is hilarious! Thanks for making me chuckle :)
 

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Gee wiz I stopped watching the idiots show when I started this thread. Surely by now they must have discovered all kinds of treasure.
 

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Gee wiz I stopped watching the idiots show when I started this thread. Surely by now they must have discovered all kinds of treasure.
They are making millions from the search. Does that count?

Lets face it they are the first searchers to have got rich from their Oak island Treasure search.
 

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They are making millions from the search. Does that count?

Lets face it they are the first searchers to have got rich from their Oak island Treasure search.

No I’am waiting with baited breath for real treasure; you know like the kids found in the movie “ The Goonies”. One Eyed Willy’s treasure, a Knights Templar mummy ; heck i’ll even take a movie of a real Bigfoot.
 

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