Oak Island, phoney chart 1972.

[cocos1821]

Article on Oak island, showing Skeleton island, Mountain peaks, desert & palm trees. Wow!
Best bit about this!. The stone rock compass.

 

[GravelTeeth]

Article on Oak island, showing Skeleton island, Mountain peaks, desert & palm trees. Wow!
Best bit about this!. The stone rock compass.

This is a great share cocos1821. I can't find it anywhere else, including the Sunday Times' archive site.

--GT

 

[cocos1821]

This is a great share cocos1821. I can't find it anywhere else, including the Sunday Times' archive site.

--GT

Thanks GT, the reason I posted the article, was to highlight the Kidd's Skeleton island chart.
Which has no likeness to Oak island.
The mountains & other geographical alignments are better suited, to Maio of the Cape Verde group.
Which I explored in 1996 & recently put some ideas up on TN this week.
Best Kevin.

 

[Cryptid1990]

The fictional treasure map was drawn by Harold T. Wilkins for his book Captain Kidd and His Skeleton Island (1935). Wilkins was denied permission to reproduce one of the four so-called Kidd-Palmer maps by Hubert Palmer but since the book publisher had demanded a drawing of one of these maps - Wilkins made up his own treasure map as a poor substitute. Despite Wilkins admitted his treasure map and the instructions on it were imaginary, Gilbert Hedden claimed the instructions at the bottom of the map were markers to real rocks and trees on Oak Island. Wilkins at first denied this but later became delusional and thought he was the reincarnation of a pirate (namely Captain Kidd) and hence believed he wrote the treasure map instructions subconsciously:

Hedden was convinced more than ever that the chart in Wilkins’ book was a genuine Oak Island treasure map. Determined to follow this new and exciting lead, he decided to travel to England and meet Harold Wilkins in person. When Hedden informed the writer of his intentions, Wilkins wrote back that he was willing to meet with the treasure hunter, but that such a journey would be a waste of time, as the map in his book was definitely not an Oak Island treasure map. Nevertheless, Hedden made the trip to England and met with Wilkins in December, 1937, in his London hotel room outside Green Park, Piccadilly. His experience was both strange and discouraging.

Upon meeting Hedden, the English author confessed that the map in his book was, in fact, a diagram of his own devising. His publisher had demanded that he include some sort of authentic-looking treasure map in his book. Hubert Palmer, the owner of the four Captain Kidd maps which Wilkins described in his book, would not allow him to publish photos of his charts, and so Wilkins had no choice but to draw his own treasure map based on his recollection of Palmer’s maps. When his publishers further stipulated that his map contain instructions on how to locate the treasure for added spice, Wilkins fabricated the three lines of directions using nothing more than his imagination. Baffled by the remarkable connection between Wilkins’ ad-libbed treasure hunting instructions and the landmarks on Oak Island, Hedden told the journalist all about the mysterious drilled stones, the stone triangle, the Cave-in Pit, and the oak tree believed to have once stood beside the Money Pit, and the uncanny relationship between these landmarks and the instructions on Wilkins’ map. As Hedden explained the extraordinary coincidence, Wilkins became convinced that he must be the reincarnation of a 17th Century pirate, perhaps even Captain Kidd himself, and that his subconscious mind had conjured up some long-forgotten memory of the map leading to Kidd’s lost treasure, buried on Oak Island. After Wilkins enthusiastically revealed his conviction to Hedden, the latter began to suspect that the journalist was, in his words, “every bit as crazy as his book would make him seem.”

Wilkins' map of course has nothing to do with Oak Island nor do the Kidd-Palmer maps.

 

[GravelTeeth]

The fictional treasure map was drawn by Harold T. Wilkins for his book Captain Kidd and His Skeleton Island (1935). Wilkins was denied permission to reproduce one of the four so-called Kidd-Palmer maps by Hubert Palmer but since the book publisher had demanded a drawing of one of these maps - Wilkins made up his own treasure map as a poor substitute. Despite Wilkins admitted his treasure map and the instructions on it were imaginary, Gilbert Hedden claimed the instructions at the bottom of the map were markers to real rocks and trees on Oak Island. Wilkins at first denied this but later became delusional and thought he was the reincarnation of a pirate (namely Captain Kidd) and hence believed he wrote the treasure map instructions subconsciously:


Wilkins' map of course has nothing to do with Oak Island nor do the Kidd-Palmer maps.

This is the more common version of the story, as relayed in more than one volume about Oak Island. Forum user gjb, however, has a whole different take on the matter of Wilkins' actions and motivation. Unfortunately he's quite defensive about the subject and not really given to elaborating much, at least in my limited interactions. See for example this post for some hints of the alternate scenario.

--GT

 

[Cryptid1990]

This is the more common version of the story, as relayed in more than one volume about Oak Island. Forum user gjb, however, has a whole different take on the matter of Wilkins' actions and motivation. Unfortunately he's quite defensive about the subject and not really given to elaborating much, at least in my limited interactions. See for example this post for some hints of the alternate scenario.

--GT

You can check my thread here to see many of Gjb's claims are unverifiable, improbable or have been disproven. In response to the post linked, the maps were not sold in 1956. Elizabeth Dick was quoted and interviewed in a dozen or more newspapers the following year as still offering the maps for sale and her own nephew believed the maps were sold in ~1964. Gjb's response is to ignore all these sources and cherry-picks one dubious source [the "Maurice" he mentions] aka confirmation bias:

People display this bias when they select information that supports their views, ignoring contrary information or when they interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing attitudes

In terms of the latter (interpreting ambiguous evidence as supporting existing attitudes) see an example here and my response here.

 

[GravelTeeth]

You can check my thread here to see many of Gjb's claims are unverifiable

Ah, I hadn't followed the trail outside the confines of the Oak Island sub. I should expand my horizons!

--GT