After spending a lot of time reading various view points on this forum from the different members, the most important question is, "was anything there at all?" Let's please just debate the beginning of the story. Let's keep personal bias and pride out of this.
My position: I guess I would fall under "Believer with reservations"(I want to make sure you know where I stand).
The original story is similar to this:
Young Daniel Mcginnis in 1795, saw lights at night on Oak island in Nova Scotia. In the morning, he went to investigate and found a depression in the ground and a saw off tree branch above it. The next day, he and two other friends, John Smith and Anthony Vaughan, went to dig up what was buried. At the top, they found flag stones in a circular pattern. Then "laid" timbers, with coconut fiber and putty every ten feet. they got to 30 feet and quit.
If this story is false, how come these three return in 1804 to start digging again?<---THIS IS NOT A RHETORICAL QUESTION.
If it was a scam, then why are they(the original three) in the pit digging at that time, instead of supervising or advising?
The above story was listed from multiple sources(newspapers, magazines,eye witness accounts).
Would we all agree that the beginning story is true?
Let's at least put the beginning of the story to rest, once and for all, then we can all work from there. Let's ALL debate this or agree with this. Cool?
My position: I guess I would fall under "Believer with reservations"(I want to make sure you know where I stand).
The original story is similar to this:
Young Daniel Mcginnis in 1795, saw lights at night on Oak island in Nova Scotia. In the morning, he went to investigate and found a depression in the ground and a saw off tree branch above it. The next day, he and two other friends, John Smith and Anthony Vaughan, went to dig up what was buried. At the top, they found flag stones in a circular pattern. Then "laid" timbers, with coconut fiber and putty every ten feet. they got to 30 feet and quit.
If this story is false, how come these three return in 1804 to start digging again?<---THIS IS NOT A RHETORICAL QUESTION.
If it was a scam, then why are they(the original three) in the pit digging at that time, instead of supervising or advising?
The above story was listed from multiple sources(newspapers, magazines,eye witness accounts).
Would we all agree that the beginning story is true?
Let's at least put the beginning of the story to rest, once and for all, then we can all work from there. Let's ALL debate this or agree with this. Cool?