By definition they are trying to reclaim a mine, and that is not the same as digging a hole. The province doesn't know what they are dealing with, and you can be sure they aren't defaulting to the History Channel's fantasies. A boxed in wooden shaft was part of a previous mining operation. There...
OI is a place where nothing mundane ever occurred. Everything is related to the deepest mysteries known to man and oxen, and that is why it is guarded by the "mysterious energies" which happen to have an already developed fan base. There's no woo woo like pop culturally relevant woo woo...
I don't know about that. I have boxes of such copper slaw from when I was detecting heavily. It doesn't look terribly old. Industrial age is my guess since the copper plate is so thin and decoratively embossed. Older stuff tends to be more substantive. Those who claim a gorget or some other...
The MO is still to grow the bounds of the story, and it is never to scratch out or falsify any premises in any way that a scientific method would try to do. This was the core desire and the basis of the mystery cults of Antiquity too. You can recruit well with an enticing mystery. It was an...
They don't have to succeed at it to produce content. Irving is more than happy getting government money that is politically intended to go towards arts and culture in NS. They will suck as much water as will justify the expense. They certainly aren't going to oppose anything that is...
"A possible copper-wrapped scroll?" You can't make this stuff up. Everyone is a renowned expert on this show, except they are all a bunch of attention seeking volunteers giving opinions about things entirely out of their element in such a way that a sliver of anything they might potentially say...
It doesn't take someone who has at least a bit of an understanding of Masonic themes to deduce that the nature of the mystery is the same that has been represented in countless other stories in Western history. In all these mysteries we start off by not knowing the nature of what we are looking...
Sam Ball never needed a lot of money to acquire land. After American independence many Planter settlers to NS returned to the States, mainly because the influx of British Loyalists caused a acute escalation of tensions between those British colonials in NS who were patriots to the American...
Gilligan's Island meets Treasure Island, Season 10. Season finale: They discover Wrongway Feldman's plane in a clearing that Gary walks into while chasing a golf ball and the crew's dream of escaping the island starts to realize itself. Spoiler: The plane leaves without them and you are stuck...
I would probably argue that the point was to lease out land rights and tap investors. The circumstantial evidence shows that the original search group were rich relatives of Vaughn's young wife from the Truro area. It's pretty clear from reading the historical accounts from this period that the...
You can relate all the "special" surveying features on that island very well to the surveying of its lots in ca. 1762 by Charles Morris. This simple fact never gets mentioned. There was a survey that occurred there. It wasn't for a treasure burial; it was for 32 lots included in the Shoreham...
Can't we at least have a theory of why there are exactly 34 episodes? There has to be some sort of numerological significance to this, no? The magic square of 4x4 has a magic constant of 34. That can't just be a coincidence, can it? It is further strengthened by the fact that 17, 34 and 51 are...
The best evidence of that (a non-existent treasure) was written at the very beginning, in the 1840s. When the local historian and literary figure Thomas C. Haliburton wrote that there was indeed something to this mystery, but that it was not what people assumed it was, he was pretty much telling...
You need a place to sell merch. and to further condition the interested into accepting exactly what cherry-picked suggestions you would want them to unconditionally accept. Over the years this sort of approach has paid off, and the suggestion of a 200-year-old treasure search has largely been...
That's a picture of a cove. There's a quarried hole adjacent to the cove at the foot of lot 18. The alleged money pit hole is said to be on lot 18 which was purchased by John Smith in 1795 from Casper Wollenhaupt who had owned that end of the island and used it for commercial purposes. He was a...
I know of no local histories focusing on the OI area that have been written by Americans. Many of the 50+ plus fictions about OI, in which factual historical consideration is largely absent, have been written by Americans, though. The known factual history of the area is not a mystery, and it...
I disagree with how you characterize the discovery of nothing of interest. The wide range of tests that have been done at OI exploit good science to make awful conclusions that science itself would not support. The effort is mainly to try and transfer the confidence we ought to have in science...
The OI story is one that has changed with the times. In its most humble beginnings, it is exploiting a documented tale of a possible recuperated treasure (chest) in a sunken depression under a block and tackle hanging from a tree branch on an island in Mahone bay, ca 1830, called Hobson's Nose...
You believe what story? The "story" as you know it has been pieced together by bits of newspaper clippings and uncorroborated anecdotal claims made more than 50 years after the alleged fact in the 1860s.
There aren't any flood tunnels. Restall confirmed that for you on the ground. The original...
Consumer electronics are supposed to continually get better (innovation eventually plateaus) and cheaper (market forces accelerate) until everyone offers pretty much the same level of performance and the products are are dirt cheap and in oversupply. That's pretty much the story of the industry...