So ECS and OneShotWonder think a group of people dug a tunnel 90ft down, with 300ft long flood tunnels, structures on the beach..... 400 years ago..... on an island for jokes?
1) Treasure existed
2) People decided to waste years building complicated structures/tunnels for no reason.
Common sense (and odds of probability) would suggest they were trying to hide something.
In actuality, ECS, et. alia, think NO ONE "dug a tunnel 90ft down, with 300ft long flood tunnels, structures on the beach..... 400 years ago..... " for a "joke". The most likely scenario (Occam's Razor) is that three guys in 1795 "spun a yarn" about finding a spot where there could be pirate treasure"...and everything snowballed from there.
The 90-foot "Money Pit" was originally dug by fools who believed there was something at the bottom.
There is no REAL evidence of "300 ft long flood tunnels", only conjectures, theories and "could be's". "French drains" (if indeed they are found to be present) are commonly used as part a sewage system - and were very common in colonial times.
As of yet, the fibers found are just that - they "appear to be" coconut fibers ("coir") but not genetically, positively identified as such.
Structures on the beach could be anything benign - most likely used for boat/ship maintenance and repair - as proof, the SAME structures can be found all over the world. It is absolutely asinine to theorize that a pier or platform could ONLY have been built to unload a ship full of treasure - just as it is asinine to categorically state that the presence of ox shoes indicates oxen were used to transport cartloads of treasure, or excavation materials needed to bury it.
I cannot, either, deny that their hypotheses *could* have happened. I could JUST AS LIKELY have been aliens...but it *could have*….
It is MORE likely that everything found has been MIS-interpreted and MIS-identified with the ultimate goal of fabricating support for a fantasy that exists only in the minds of wishful thinkers. Any large spike could only be a "ship's nail"...a single 17th-Century coin indicates there is a "hoard" of treasure nearby... a cast lead cross (almost Identical to one I made myself, in 8th Grade Art class in 1970) "proves" there were Templars on Oak Island in the 14th Century... The most telling examples of such things is that something tantalizing or unusual is discovered...then they go look at something else on the other side of the island.
The whole premise of the Oak Island TV show is based upon Agent Mulder's credo of "I WANT to believe", and is successful because of the same underlying need to formulate an explanation for real or imaginary "mysteries".
