I guarantee you will find some idiot to say those are natural
If you took all the photos you have of funny-looking rocks and showed them to a bunch of degreed geologists, would you then call them all idiots?
With all of the many many markers posted, the people who still deny the existence of man made markers, and continue to push the narrative that its all made by nature, do so for 2 reasons. Either they have some form of reverse pareidolia, and try to find so many reasons/explanations to Not see the patterns... Or they are deliberately denying their existence to deceive and/or dissuade any potential future pursuits or interest in the subject. IMO.
Personally, I don't deny that man-made markers exist, I just see remarkably few of them posted here. And with all those funny-looking rock pictures, sure, I see the shapes. What I don't see is evidence of being man-made, or of being a treasure marker. So for the vast majority of funny-looking rocks posted here there is, of course, at least a third option:
the skeptic is right. To determine whether this is true simply requires a look at the evidence.
First, funny-looking rocks are ubiquitous world-wide; you can find them on every continent, even Antarctica once the ice sheet melts. I've done a lot of hiking in Oregon, Washington, and even British Columbia and I see funny-looking rocks (even a couple of hearts) most everywhere I go. Did the Jesuits and Spanish bury treasure vaults all over the world? Or did nature make funny-looking rocks pert-near everywhere?
Second, all of the funny-looking rocks posted here has so far led to
zero treasure recoveries. As far as I can tell, the sum total is zero of anything at all, not even a decent relic. And everyone here seems to understand that's the nature of the game: find funny-looking rocks, do some exercises in geometry, take a bunch of photos until one shows a glitch, and then call it a day and go home. Post pictures on a forum that show you're a
treasure hunter. Heck, everyone's so convinced of the outcome it's hard to even get a photo of a hole that's been dug. (I give Cyzak big kudos for pics of a very impressive hole; now that's conviction!)
Finally, since natural funny-looking rocks are not hard to find, it would make a whole lot more sense to pick one as a marker and bury the treasure nearby rather than going to all the work of carving a rock (or, in some of the cases posted here, a
whole mountain). Plus, I've yet to see a chisel mark on these rocks.
So, am I trying to "dissuade any potential future pursuits or interest in the subject?" Not really, more so trying to inject some reality. The funny thing is, one of these funny-looking rocks
could be a treasure marker, but when
all funny-looking rocks become treasure markers the odds of figuring anything out become vanishingly small. On the bright side, you get some good exercise and, if you were to dig a bunch of holes, the blind squirrel analogy just might kick in. I will say that I would dissuade people from pursuing treasure auras -- that's just pure fiction. Show me the physics behind treasure auras, and explain why no major company is developing an aura detector. Or, show those treasure auras to a bunch of physicists, and then call them all idiots.